More interesting venue news to pass along this week: The Granada Theater this afternoon has announced that it will be taking over the adjacent-to-the-theater 3520 Greenville Avenue address, most recently the home of M Street Bar, to launch a new neighborhood beer garden and restaurant and bar called “Sunset at…
Since I just stumbled across the above video of Erykah Badu and The Cannabinoids just owning the stage at our awards ceremony at the House of Blues on Tuesday night, here’s one last post about the 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards — and then, promise, we’re done. In case you…
As if Ryan Thomas Becker needed more outlets for his musical creativity, the prolific Dentonite has now added another entity to a stable that already includes his cherished solo eforts and his electrifying work in RTB2. Well, kind of. Becker’s latest project, called Ryan Thomas Becker & Last Joke, has…
A few years ago, you’d hear the happy-go-lucky, impossibly supportive local music fans shout their rallying cries, and you’d smile because, much as you wanted to believe that what they were saying was true, you knew in your heart that it wasn’t. Still, you listened to their rants: “There’s just…
We won’t blame you if you didn’t make it out to the Double Wide last night to check out the official after-party for our Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony, held earlier in the night at the House of Blues. It’s been a long week of partying and rocking out, y’all.But,…
Another year, another Dallas Observer Music Awards season down the drain. Gotta say, though, this year’s season felt especially epic. Many thanks to the Toadies, the Old 97’s, Erykah Badu, Centro-matic, The Cannabinoids, Sarah Jaffe, A.Dd+, Burning Hotels and RTB2 for their highlighted roles in this year’s festivities. Thanks, as…
Alright, y’all. It’s almost time. In just a few hours, over at the House of Blues, we’ll be announcing the winners for your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards (refresh your memory of the nominees here). The event opens to the public at 8 p.m. and will kick off immediately with…
In case you were wondering, the above tweet from Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller on Saturday afternoon was not a joke. Honestly, we thought it was at first, too. Then we ran into Miller in the backstage area for Saturday’s main stage.”No,” he told us, “it’s totally true.”…
Turns out the announcement last month that Deep Ellum venue La Grange was going up for sale isn’t the new only development at the bar/venue/restaurant: Today, the owners of the room, Rob and Stephanie Schumacher, have announced that they’ve officially brought area promoter and talent buyer Scott Beggs in to…
It’s tough to look back on an event like Saturday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and try to come up with a conclusive best-moments list. With 52 bands playing 10 stages over the course of a ten-hour period all throughout Deep Ellum, there was just too much going on;…
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we’ll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best New Act, Best DJ, and Best…
Gotta give Erykah Badu credit. When the Dallas-based neo-soul icon does something, she rarely does what’s expected of her. Today, somewhat out of the blue, Badu released a new music video clip for an unreleased track, “Out My Mind, Just in Time (Movement II),” which serves as a continuation of…
Dawes, Blitzen TrapperDadaOctober 13, 2011Better than: another Dawes show. Oh wait! So: Another Dawes show. “We’ve been looking forward to this one for a while,” Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith revealed to his sold-out crowd of 600-plus on the outdoor, back patio stage at Dada last night, shortly after his band…
C’mon, y’all. What’d you think we’d pick? Designed by our own art director, Alexander Flores, with an assist from local graphic novel illustrator, Kristian Donaldson, who drew for us this fictitious band we’ve calling The She-Devils behind the scenes, the poster has all the pertinent info (bands, date, time, location,…
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we’ll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Song, Best Metal Act, and Best…
That two-year-old listening to KKDA-104.5 FM K104 in Dallas (local tie!) in the clip above is cooler than all of us. But we’ve got some cool news to share about some artists with local ties — among them Erykah Badu, ZZ Top, Kelly Clarkson, [Daryl], Teenage Cool Kids and Big…
Got some Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase details to pass along to you this morning.For starters, the updated schedule of performers can be found here, and you can read up on all 52 acts playing this deal on Saturday right here. Might as well check out an oral history of…
For years, Deep Ellum sat vacant. By the late ’70s, the neighborhood that had once served as the playground for blues icons of the early 20th century — Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lead Belly, T-Bone Walker and even Robert Johnson — was a collection of vacant warehouses and storefronts. The only…
Eventually, mash-up artists grow up. They tire of seeking out familiar samples, chopping them up and laying other singers’ and rappers’ vocals on top of them. There are other reasons, too, of course. “Well,” admits Manchester, England’s Darren Williams, the 25-year-old behind the Star Slinger moniker, “obviously I don’t want…
The old-timers about town would have you believe that Deep Ellum was maybe the single greatest place in the world some 15 years ago, right at the height of the neighborhood and the area music scene’s tandem peaks. And, hey, maybe it was. But, y’know, some of us weren’t of…
Over the course of the past few years, The Blurries may have been the best-kept secret in town. Proficient in driving, catchy power-pop anthems — and among the tightest performers around, if not the flat-out tops in that category — the band has existed mostly under the radar. For a…
It’s all about the voice, stupid. Always is. Here, too: Jason Corcoran’s baritone is the first thing that jumps out on Peel, his debut release as Gaston Light. Deservedly so: It’s vulnerable, compelling. But it sounds, well, a little Red Dirt. Blame Corcoran’s Texas twang for that. Considering that his…
