We’ve been high on Dallas rapper Trai’D and his fast-paced but unique flow for a little while now — about two years, to be specific. And, after posting the awesome Tyga-featuring music video for his conscious track “Popular” a few weeks back, we weren’t really sure we could be all…
Yesterday, in our 35 Conferette locals-to-watch preview, fresh-faced Denton duo Novaak was among our picks of local performers that attendees should be sure not to forget about while attending this weekend’s festivities. (Today’s your last day to score on the last-minute discount tickets, by the way.) Convenient, then, that just…
In a few week’s time, we’ll have a piece in the print edition in which we discuss with Tim DeLaughter all that he has in store — not only with the Polyphonic Spree or with his solo and new band recordings, but also with his new business model at Good…
Dallas punk outfit Missile only kind of takes itself seriously — something Jesse Hughey discovered upon reviewing the band’s debut EP back in October, and something only re-affirmed by this mockumentary the band has posted that looks into its “storied” past.But that tongue-in-cheek attitude is clearly part of the appeal…
Exciting news out of RTB2 camp this week, as Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Don Sandlin, the Best Group in town according to the voters in our 2010 Dallas Observer Music Awards, pass along word that, come late this summer or early this fall, they’ll have a new album to…
Pretty much any idea for a Tumblr page is a good one. Case in point: The person who simply posts every Alan Palomo image they can find. But, OK, this one is really is a great one. Called Fuck Yeah Rock GIFs, the site, created by local music fan and…
Some quick hits on the album release front to pass along this afternoon…..
In the coming weeks, you can expect a piece in the dead tree version of DC9 in which we’ll catch up with Josh T. Pearson and find out what the hell he’s exactly been up to since the days when he kept a permanent residence in North Texas, back when…
Well, here we are, just days away from the launch of the third annual 35 Conferette (nee the North by 35 Conferette) in Denton, and get this: The prices for wristbands, despite speculation (at least on our part, and mostly in our heads), haven’t increased. Quite the opposite, in fact…
Less than two weeks after the premiere of their debut music video (for their lead When Pigs Fly single “Likeamug”), Dallas-based hip-hop duo A.Dd+ once again has the Internet on fire today, with various hip-hop-focused sites posting download links for the just-leaked second single from the group’s debut album, a…
This morning, it was announced that The Walkmen’s highly anticipated show at the Granada Theater this weekend has finally sold out. Not all that surprising, really, considering the amount of acclaim their latest album, Lisbon, has received. And deservedly so: Lisbon’s quiet take on classic American rock ‘n’ roll is…
Perhaps, back on Monday, you caught my recap of last Saturday night’s Wanda Jackson show at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff? Yeah, y’know, the one I referred to as “a once-in-a-lifetime offering”? Uh-huh. That one.Well, now, courtesy of the folks over at KTCK-1310 AM The Ticket, and the lads…
Well, it’s about time we gave some love to the Dallas-based music blog Gorilla vs. Bear’s visual aesthetic…
In this week’s paper, I take a close look at the new release from Arlington death metal quartet The Famine, called The Architects of Guilt, an album that, as early looks and listens revealed, is as technically proficient as it is brutal. In other words? It’s kind of what you’d…
This past summer, when Denton art-rock outfit Shiny Around The Edges released their most recent effort Denton’s Dreaming, we shared with you all a free download of their song “Socially Awkward,” from which the album culls its title. And we bring all this up again now because, this week, the…
Arlington death metal quartet The Famine can certainly talk the talk: Early last year, as the band set up to start recording its new, sophomore album, its members released a statement announcing a move toward a heavier sound, one that would “set a standard for metal that will stand the…
Yesterday, we passed along some information about this summer’s upcoming, fourth annual Dia de Los Toadies Festival — one that looks to be as big, if not bigger, than past offerings from the band, thanks to the first bands announced to perform at this year’s ordeal. But let’s not discount…
EisleyMarch 1, 2011Good RecordsBetter than: paying full-price to see the same set in a more traditional venue. After four years of struggles both personal and professional for the Tyler-based DuPree family and their musical entity Eisley, yesterday indeed proved a cathartic one for the group. And why not? It was…
Speaking of free music, Fort Worth favorites The Orbans reached out to our inboxes this week with a little treat: Seems there was some leftover material from the band’s super-awesome 2010 release, When We Were Wild, and the band couldn’t figure out what to do with it. So they passed…
There are a few reasons why the folks behind Gutterth Productions are perennial nominees in the Best Music Advocate(s) category of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards — the shows they put on, the records they put out, their general fandom of all things local music.But, surely, this too comes…
Back in January, the Toadies announced that, for the fourth year in a row now, they will be hosting another Dia de Los Toadies affair this summer on August 26 and 27. Then, in February, the band announced the location: This year’s event will be taking place this year at…
If only from a commercial standpoint, today figures to be one of the bigger local release dates of the years, thanks to new albums from Eisley and Forever the Sickest Kids, both of which have formally released new LPs today. And, well, that much you should already know, as we’ve…
