Token “band in wooded area” shot! (David Belisle) Maybe you read Darryl Smyer’s piece on Grand Archives in this week’s print edition of DC9. Maybe you enjoyed it. Maybe you thought to yourself, “Heck yeah, I wanna go see this band.” Or maybe you’re still on the fence. Maybe the…
Kelly Christian can sing, we think. Although local electro lounge band Shock of Pleasure’s new album doesn’t hit the streets until mid-September, folks can get a (pricey) taste of the band tomorrow night when it performs at The Mansion on Turtle Creek. The band will be playing the bar of…
It’s one thing for Jakob Dylan to skip Dallas, and I know we get Tom Waits soon and Steely Dan in the near future, but this sucks: Legendary roots rock act Los Lobos has just released its upcoming tour itinerary, and the closest the band will come to the Metroplex…
You may remember about a month back when we mentioned Jermaine Dupri’s interest in a Dallas singer nicknamed Phatfffat, who, oddly enough, he found online. Well, I’ll have Sachse resident Dondria Nicole’s full Youtube-to-major label success story in my column next week, so keep an eye out for that. And…
The venue’s off. The concept’s not. (Jen Marlow) We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don’t want to overlook the smaller ways…
Dove Hunter, sponsored by Scion. Not really. (Brandon Thibodeaux) This week, in the paper version of DC9, you’ll see a feature on Dove Hunter, the roots- and alt-country-based rock act that will be celebrating the release of its debut disc, The Southern Unknown, on Saturday night at the Double-Wide. As…
Eric Landrum’s a bit of an anomaly these days—he actually listens to commercial radio. And now he’s making a push to get Dallas’ most discerning listening audiences to do the same. Landrum, who works as promotions and marketing director for the rhythm-based adult contemporary KVMK-FM Movin’ 107.5, has recently undertaken…
Austin-based roots rock act The Gourds has a sound that falls squarely between the jammier efforts of the Wakarusa set and the more Americana fare of, say, the Bend Studio set. And while that certainly endears The Gourds’ sound to both crowds, it also places it just outside of each…
This week, Dove Hunter’s debut release, The Southern Unknown, will finally see the light of day. And it’s about time, ain’t it? It’d be one thing if Dove Hunter were an act we’d never heard of before, an act that was still testing its mettle on small stages in the…
Y’know, it really is true: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. And, boy, has that old adage been rearing its ugly head at Red Blood Club recently. Well, with a twist. Seems this much is true too: You only appreciate what you’ve got when you know it’s…
Dallas singer/songwriter Lisa Mickelsen’s playing the Tipperary Inn tomorrow night, cramming another live set into her fairly busy daily schedule, which consists of homeschooling her daughters and volunteering at the Unitarian Church. And, actually, that’s a pretty odd chore list, considering that Mickelsen writes dark and intriguing blues/folk numbers–stuff that’s…
In celebration of Black Music Month (proclaimed by someone who doesn’t care about black people, if you ask Kanye) and Juneteenth, Black Cinematheque presents a free screening of Stephanie Black’s award-winning film Africa Unite on Friday night. Africa Unite follows family members of the late reggae legend Bob Marley as…
We’re so into metal right now. Have to be–Ozzfest is only, what, like seven weeks away or something? Right! So that’s why we’re pointing this out: Somewhat frequent Observer contributor D.X. Ferris just penned himself a book on Slayer’s Reign In Blood. It’s the 57th book in Continuum’s lauded 33…
There’s something quite Freudian about this shot. (Steve Thornton) Dallas-based country artist Zane Lewis, who has been the subject of a heated debate in our comments section since we discussed his sound back in April, has been nominated for the Independent Artist Of The Year award in the 6th Annual…
Death Cab for Cutie, Rogue Wave Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie June 17, 2008 Better Than: getting stuck in traffic on I-35E on the way home. There were two bad accidents, so it took 45 minutes to get to Nokia, but one hour and 45 minutes to get home… Is that…
Idolator heps us to the fact that Dallas’ own Norah Jones’ “Sunrise” (see above video) has been included on the March of Dimes benefit CD, Stork Tunes, a disc that aims to relax soon-to-mothers as they go through labor. Awesome! No, it’s not as cool as, say, Rockabye Baby!: Lullaby…
Power to Badu’s people. Yeah, when Erykah Badu released New Amerykah: Part One a few months back, we were pretty high on the music. But we also dropped our jaws pretty hard for the artwork (designed by Emek), too–if not more. And that’s why we’re pretty stocked about this news:…
A video of the bratty emo pop-punk act has been put up on this national Web site, where it currently resides on the front page as the featured item… VIMBY – A Bird A Sparrow I think it makes sense to compare these bands to Gremlins. They keep multiplying, and…
On Sunday night, Memphis in Addison will host a benefit concert for the three surviving children of Eric and Deborah Stuer, who died earlier this month in a car crash. The event starts at 7 p.m. and boasts a whole slew of scene vets: Stuer’s former band, the Buster Brown…
One pair. First person to email me with “I Will Possess Your Death Cab Tickets” in the subject gets ’em. Have at it Update: Contest is over. Congrats to our winner. Update: Nevermind! Contest back on! Update: Contest is over–this time for reals, yo. Congrats to our winners.–Pete Freedman…
Eef Barzelay hits Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton this Thursday and one could do much worse than check out the former leader of Clem Snide. Lose Big, Barzelay’s second solo effort, comes out tomorrow and it’s a conflicted/confessional mess of a record that should come across well at a cozy venue…
We just received the sad news that the Dallas drumming community lost one of its spiritual leaders on June 6, when Eric “Stu” Stuer and his wife died in a single-vehicle wreck on I-49 south of Shreveport on their way home from RhythmWeb drum circle engagements in Mississippi. Stuer, 55,…
