Blink-182, My Chemical Romance, Matt & KimGexa Energy PavilionSeptember 27, 2011Better than: seeing SR-71 right now. They’re a little older and wiser at this point, but make no mistake: On the night in which their new album, Neighborhoods, earned its release, Blink-182 proved themselves still crass as ever. Never mind…
Over on Unfair Park today, Robert’s got quite the treat — an exclusive chat with freshly announced Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony performer Erykah Badu on the subject of the late, great Jerry Haynes on the subject of how the man behind the Mr. Peppermint moniker helped inspire her as…
No, that’s not a new Astronautalis music video in the clip above. That’s just a snippet of the rapper’s oh-so-impressive performance at the Homegrown Music and Arts Festival back in May. But the clip does feature the SMU grad born Andy Bothwell debuting to Dallas audiences his song “Contrails,” which…
Sure, you already know all about the Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase on Saturday, October 15, at venues and stages all throughout Deep Ellum. Some big names lined up for that sucker, for sure: Toadies, Old 97’s, Centro-matic, Sarah Jaffe. 51 others, too.But what of the actual awards ceremony set…
Tomorrow night at Gexa Energy Pavilion, things will come full circle for Blink-182: The San Diego-sprung outfit will celebrate the release of their new album, Neighborhoods, their first release in eight years and their first since their ugly split in 2005, which saw the band publicly airing their grievances and…
Daniel Hunter doesn’t yet have a name or a release date planned for his next Analog Rebellion release, the formal follow-up (not counting various B-Sides collections and EPs) to his 2010 full-length debut under that moniker, the great Ancient Electrons. But he does have his first single — a guitar-heavy…
The Music Business program at Dallas Baptist University is growing — and fast. Last year, the program boasted just over a hundred students, This year, enrollment has ballooned to 175. There’s good reason for the uptick, too: Next week, DBU will formally introduce its latest entity, Joan and Andy Horner…
Quite the deal going on for, oh, the next 57 hours or so: Our sister entity, Voice Daily Deals, is offering a steal on tickets to the 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase on October 15, selling the passes for just $7. The event, as you already know, will feature…
Right this very moment, as I type this, Sarah Jaffe and her band are over in Oak Cliff at John Congleton’s Elmwood Recording Studio, working on recording their full-length follow-up to Jaffe’s 2010 breakthrough, debut LP, Suburban Nature. Not sure when we can expect it — early 2012 perhaps? Regardless:…
Hello Lover, Jim Suhler, The Mike Haskins Experience, The Marfalites, Dog Company, Here Holy Spain, The Assassins, The Phuss and Houston’s The Sellouts are the first nine bands confirmed for the first annual 45 Fest, which will honor late Spector 45 members Frankie Campagna and Adam Carter, on Friday, October…
When most people think of Neon Indian, a few things probably come to mind — a nostalgia-filled sound, chillwave, missed opportunities to drop acid with a friend, bizarre infomercials and so on. Fitting, then, that this week’s top poster combines a few of those ideas…
Just got off the phone with Will Johnson a few minutes ago for an upcoming story related to the upcoming, pretty epic-looking Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase. He’s a good dude — you may recall his, Centro-matic and South San Gabriel’s efforts a few weeks back to do what they…
Awkward timing on this one, given what it’s like outside at this very moment, but, alas, Ross Edman, the man once known as Objektiv One but now known as Datahowler, passes along a new mixtape today called Melt. It’s an homage, he says, to this summer’s record-breaking temperatures, drought and…
Remember the Band in a Bubble promotion a few years back? When that one band with that one song got a reality show backed by MTV and Dr Pepper and were tasked with staying in a bubble and spend 20 days writing and recording a new album? Fort Worth native…
A few lessons learned at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival this past weekend, just a three-hour dive south on Interstate 35: Kanye West still loves himself; crowds close enough to hear him still love Stevie Wonder; and despite an entire Grammy-winning album (The Suburbs) seemingly dedicated to arguing…
On their second full-length and first for the North Texas punk-adoring, Portland-based Dirtnap Records, the three-piece behind Denton’s Bad Sports moniker once again prove themselves as garage, power pop and punk rock purveyors clearly born three decades too late. And, dammit, now they’re angry about it. Whereas the band’s self-titled…
Gotta admit it: We just thought he was being confident and awesome when he said it. Turns out, though, there may have been something of merit behind Kanye West’s out-of-nowhere banter about the Black Eyed Peas from Friday night at the 2011 Austin City Limits festival.”Rest in peace to the Black…
The band, you may recall, did something similar last year, releasing for one night only a film combining footage taken at the band’s 1972 stops in Fort Worth and Houston. This one, however, is all Fort Worth. And there’s a reason for the film’s release beyond simple nostalgia: It’s arriving in…
Stephanie Schumacher balks a little when admitting that, yes, she is putting La Grange up for sale less than two years after opening her Deep Ellum music venue, restaurant and bar.”Well,” she says with a sigh, “it’s kind of been for sale since Day One. That’s what I like to…
The hot sun from the morning of Day Three at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival persisted well into the afternoon and evening at Zilker Park. But with the festival end looming and plenty of anticipated sets remaining, no one seemed to mind. In fact, most of the stage…
After a lackluster Saturday, things are already heating up on Sunday afternoon at Zilker Park. Actually, they were plenty hot in the morning, too: Temperatures soared into the ’90s, but, more important, the sun has returned from its gray Saturday slumber .And it started its beating early: By the time…
Kind of an awkward second night at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music last night. The worst part: It could’ve been great. Alas, in the end, not so much. But, sure enough, it started pretty well: Exciting offerings from Cee-Lo Green and Cut Copy bled into anticipated performances from Chromeo,…
