Hopefully your Memorial Day weekend hangover has subsided by now…but if you’re still racking your brains to recall how you spent your long weekend, well, Observer intern Spencer Campbell’s here for the jogging. Check out his weekend video round-up after the jump…
We mentioned a bunch of weekend shows in the paper Observer this week. Tonight, there’s Charlie Sexton, Alejandro Escovedo, Utah Saints and Knowledge. Tomorrow, there’s Ladyhawk. Here are a few other ones worth looking into… The Nicotine Fits, The Kansas City Faggots 10 p.m. on Friday, May 23, at Bar…
What you might have missed this week as you worried about Ted Kennedy’s tumor (which, as Jesse Hughey just pointed out, is a great band name ripe for the taking)… – We geeked the eff out over Radiohead’s live show. – We followed Mount Righteous’ journey westward. – We pondered…
Guy Forsyth (Deana Mason) At the Granada Theater tonight, Austin singer-songwriter and founding Asylum Street Spanker Guy Forsyth will perform songs from his latest album, which is either ten years old or brand new, depending on how you look at it. Forsyth’s Calico Girl, released Tuesday, consists of rerecorded versions…
More proof that the Dallas hip-hop scene could be on the verge of a blow-up: Fat Pimp just got a record deal with Warner Bros. The 24-year-old Fat Pimp, born Christopher Murdaugh, who made news a few months ago when his song “I’m Gettin’ Money” made the Billboard charts, is…
After regrouping in Los Angeles in the morning, the band and our good friend Mike Shapiro of Lemon Sun got in the van and headed south to Irvine, California, where we were scheduled to play in the middle of the UC Irvine campus. As is typical of the roads in…
…and, I say, “Get Live” is a good ‘un from the Waco crew. –Pete Freedman…
Ain’t nothing wrong with Carrie, Darryl. Next weekend’s three day-Country Thunder USA Festival in Waxahachie has been abruptly cancelled. Planned to take place May 30 though June 1, the event was to feature such acts as Pat Green, Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood, along with dozens of other local and…
On The Huffington Post today, hip-hop producer Jermaine Dupri discusses the question of the Youtube phenomenon as it pertains to musical talents. Specifally, he wonders how it pertains to a Dallas artist named Dondria (nicknamed “Phatfffat”), who Dupri found on the Internet (and later signed) after having been told of…
If you’ve got some spare time on your hands and you really enjoy watching 400 pixel by 330 pixel videos, well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. First up, over on Unfair Park, Robert bends the rules a bit and posts this music item: a trailer for the…
Doesn’t this look like the patch Mr. Miyaga gave Daniel-san to wear on his gi at the All-Valley Karate Championship? (Nevada Hill) 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…
Charlie Sexton. Charlie Sexton once served as the poster boy for what could have been. Way back in 1985, when he was only 15 years old, Sexton was the guitarist de jour, an Austin wunderkind who parlayed his striking good looks and impressive chops into a quick ascension towards stardom…
You are now free to move about the country. (Jason Upshaw) Almost three months after its early March release, Airline’s Farewell Republica is starting to get some love on the college radio circuit. According to a Myspace bulletin just sent out, the band’s been receiving airplay of late on the…
The band somehow achieved our goal of leaving Tucson by 10 a.m., and we headed back through Phoenix and west on I-10 for Los Angeles. The drive took us through the extreme desolation of the Arizona and California desert, finally relenting as we began to approach L.A. Though, as it…
White Rock Lake after midnight will be the ideal environment to contract a virus this weekend. Aaron Gonzalez, bassist for grindcore duo Akkolyte and his father’s free-jazz combo Yells At Eels, will direct Midnight Madness tomorrow night. The project is an ensemble of experimental musicians that include Jon Teague (Great…
Last week, when the official word finally came out of Osbourne camp that this year’s Ozzfest would be a one-day, one-off festival to be held in, of all places, here—or, near here, rather—in Frisco, no one was all that surprised. Anyone who, in the weeks leading up to the announcement,…
Bedford’s Chris Rivers has just released his second effort, New Meaning to Lonesome, a CD that thankfully continues the singer’s old-school devotion to hardcore honky-tonk of the Haggard/Jennings variety. Eschewing mullet and trenchcoat, Rivers makes country music the old-fashioned way: with more fiddle and less bombast. For going on two…
Denton’s Fishboy is playing a free show tonight at J&J’s Pizza. But, please, hold the anchovy jokes (although, J&J’s does have a fresh supply for tonight’s show though…we phoned to check.) Fishboy, just off a recent East Coast tour promoting the new album Albatross: How We Failed To Save The…
Looks like DC9 commenter Gaby was spot-on about the exchange between Thom Yorke and his heckler on Sunday night. Here it is: (Thanks, Gaby.) –Pete Freedman…
Note: Technical difficulties meant we never got Mount Righteous’ Dispatch yesterday. We’ll make that up now, posting the last two days of Mount Righteous updates in one post. The morning after our show in Santa Fe was spent at a music shop browsing through trombones. With the hopes that the…
Baboon strikes at the jugular. Here’s some make-your-day news: Baboon just sent out a Myspace bulletin alerting fans to the fact that it has digitized the cassette recordings of its first-ever release, 1992’s ed Lobster. And, even better, the band’s giving the raw, punk-influenced 8-track cassette-recorded album (on which Centro-matic’s…
…minus the second guy from the right. Summertime is nearly upon us and that can mean only one thing: The annual parade of rock and roll has-beens coming through our area. What’s worse is that most of these bands are missing key members, so fans are paying big bucks to…
