She couldn’t be the reason…right? With Van Halen scheduled to return to town for the second time in three months a week from today, we figured we’d pass along this juicy tidbit: The two legs just before the March 3 performance at American Airlines Center (in Charlottesville, Va., and Duluth,…
Reunion’s the name of the game of late in the Dallas music scene. A couple bands got back together for the Melodica festival this weekend and, well, we already know about Chomsky’s return. Next up: Macavity, whose reunion show will take place on March 8 at the Double-Wide. In anticipation,…
More from Badu camp. (Marc Baptiste) We’re all excited about the new Erykah Badu release New Amerykah: Part One ’round these parts (Wilonsky’s gone especially batshit), so we’ve been updating you like woah on all things Badu. Well, here’s some more news: -Erykah will host a CD release party at…
Another weekend, another slew of good shows here in the D. I only managed to hit the Melodica Festival (for about 20 exhausting hours of the course of the weekend), which you can read all about in the next Observer. In the meantime, there was a whole bunch of other…
Bob Dylan rocks the HOB this weekend. Another fine-looking weekend here in the Metroplex. Lots to see and plenty to keep yourself busy, whether your flavor skews locally or nationally. Not many places to go wrong this weekend, so just head out there and support your local scene, I guess…
…and you can read said mention here. Snobbish hipster types around Dallas jump for joy! All together now: “Validation! Validation! Validation!” Meh. We give Pitchfork’s coverage here a 6.3 rating. But if you’re itching for more–and I know that you are–Rich Lopez broke this ish down for ya in this…
Tonight at Lift Lounge …and Rich Lopez and I will be in attendance at Lift Lounge helping a panel of judges choose the best of the five competing local DJs. The winner of this little competition will be repping Dallas at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami on March 28…
This is just stupid. So I posted this little entry on Tuesday night. Little did I know it’d be all over the Interwebs by this afternoon. First this blog picked up on the item. Then Nashville’s daily paper, The Tennessean picked up on it. Now, CMT is reporting it. The…
Black Joe Lewis campaigns for Obama (Photo by Keith Gaddis) Every once in a while, a quaint little band will get a phone call from a frantic local booker looking to fill a short-notice role in a TV show or a celebrity event. We’ve seen local bands dive into slots…
Here’s what we do know: Aiden’s a decent draw with the teenage crowds, and we’ve never heard of Ivoryline (although their CD did just come into the office…), Farewell to Freeway or Me Vs. The Sea. Here’s what we don’t know: How Schoolyard Heroes ended up on this bill—because, sight…
Atlanta garage rockers The Black Lips are no strangers to praise. Last year’s Good Bad Not Evil was a fairly well-regarded release in critics’ circles, only helping add stock to this fuzzed-up retro act’s reputation as one of the best and craziest live shows currently touring the States. It’s tough…
Spend enough time with creative types—especially musicians—and you start to get a sense of how important outside feedback, either positive or negative, is to these folks. It’s a simple matter of pride and self-doubt. These people are filled with both. Guess that comes with the territory when you’re putting your…
Erv Karwelis of Idol Records tells us that he’s going to try and take The Crash That Took Me beyond the Dallas market y getting the song “Julianne” onto those call-in-and-vote-if-you-like-this-track shows in various radio market around the country. Should be an interesting effort–while we certainly wish the Crash and…
Brooks & Dunn ain’t nothin’ to f*ck with. There’s an argument to be made that Dallas should have been the country music capital of the world ahead of Nashville–hell, the in-place economic infrastructure is alone enough of a compelling case. But, alas, things happened and Nashville got Dallas’ number there…
Pleasant Grove The alt-country/indie rockers in Pleasant Grove have posted (from the looks of it…) four new tracks on their MySpace page for your listening pleasure. Each track (including our favorite of the bunch, “Luzern”) is hinted to be on an album called Release The River that’s set to come…
Somebody posted a couple o’ Youtube clips from the Chomsky reunion on Saturday night at the Double-Wide. Here’s the better of the two: “15 Minutes to Rock” by Chomsky (How does one punctuate “rock-thirty”? Is it that way? Or “rock:30”? Does anyone know?) It was, indeed, quite a fun show…
Jim Clark, an animator out of England, has done some phenomenal work here, taking the few existing photos of Robert Johnson and distorting them in time with his recorded tracks, making it appear as if the legendary bluesman is, indeed, performing the track on video (or close enough to it)…
Evan Callis, aka Rawdog, was a member of Criminal Habits We just got news that Evan Callis, who went by the name “Rawdog” when he performed with his hip-hop group Criminal Habits, died in the early morning hours of Saturday, February 9, in a manner eerily similar to DJ Frantic’s…
Someone posted a YouTube clip of Ashlee Simpson’s performance of “L.O.V.E.” at Purgatory from last Thursday. Tough to tell if she’s learned her lip-syncing lesson given the phenomenal camera work/angle here. (Yes, this was a blatant attempt on our part to get Google hits. Suckers!) — Pete Freedman…
So many shows, so little time. It’s weekends like this one that make the job of being a music editor such a pain–how do you choose where you’ll be during a given night? Well, in my case this weekend, you try to run back and forth between venues, hoping to…
After the passing of Freewill and DJ Frantic, there has been yet another death in the DFW hip-hop world, according to a post from Money Waters local female emcee Money420 over at DFWHipHop.com. Money420 posted the news that EZ Eddie D lost his son. Eddie has been a long-time supporter…
Jay Johnson Cindy Chaffin of FineLineLive’s got a pretty interesting offer for all you agoraphobes out there: Stay at home this weekend, she’ll bring the music to you. She’ll be streaming live video of Jay Johnson (four downloads after the link), straight from Johnson’s living room as a sort of…
