Last night’s a pretty hazy one for me at this point, I’ll be honest. I think it had something to do with the fact that there really weren’t any breaks in the action–mainstage performer into punk stage performer into awards and so on. Or maybe it’s the piles of drink tickets…
No DC9 in SPACE this week. Actually, that’s not true. We filmed one last week with Chameleon Chamber Group, yeah. We just haven’t quite, uh, finished it yet. (For what it’s worth, we’re filming one tonight at 8:30 p.m. at 2814 Main St., if you wanna stop by.) Anyway, here’s what I’m…
[jump] Best Group: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Blues Act: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Male Vocalist: Jonathan TylerBest Solo Act: Sarah JaffeBest Folk Act: Sarah JaffeBest Female Vocalist: Sarah JaffeBest Album: Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 by The Paper ChaseBest Song: “What Should We…
Ha! Like you didn’t already know.Alas, I’ll tell you anyway: Tonight, we make the Big Reveals and announce the winners to your 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards, bringing yet another wildly success awards season to a close. Fun fact: More than 1,700 people stopped through the six venues we ran…
According to Dada co-owner Ben Tapia, last Friday, the day after we posted this item saying that Dada was going to be closed for two months, his venue was visited by a Dallas Health Department official. And, upon checking out the venue’s work to clean its behind-the-bar scene, the offical…
All over the Internet this week, people are freaking out about the new demos Tim DeLaughter has posted to his Polyphonic Spree blog, The Fragile Army. So far, we’ve seen two of these, written by DeLaughter while holing himself up in an NYC apartment. The first? A track called “Blurry,”…
Why, yes, that is the Dallas-born, Thomas Jefferson High School-educated Marvin Lee Aday (aka Meat Loaf) in the above clip, singing out his love for A1 steak sauce. It’s part of a new ad campaign where, no joke, A1 is asking people sing their favorite love songs to their, uh,…
Pardon me if this is a little short this week. I’m pretty busy right now with DOMAXXI stuff, as I’m sure you know. But, alas, the show must go on. So, on that note, let’s just right in. Here are the shows we’ve already hyped…Tonight, there’s New Kids on The…
Whereas Club Dada’s future is changing by the day, things right across Elm Street are looking pretty stable. Over at Trees, where a crew of about 15 or so workers are sweating out project after project in anticipation of the room’s scheduled August 14 re-opening, things are looking, well, pretty…
There’ve been a few changes to tomorrow night’s DOMA Showcase lineup since we last spoke. Basically, two bands had to back out of the showcase. No big deal, though. We’ve replaced them with two more.Because of scheduling conflicts, you won’t see Blood of the Sun or The Gritz (the latter…
On Tuesday, July 7, we invited all of this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees to a photo shoot/house party that turned out to be a heckuva time, thanks in no small part to the performances The O’s, Damaged Good$ and RTB2 gave their fellow nominees at the event. We…
Daniel Rodrigue already offered up his take on last night’s enjoyable show from seminal rock act Sonic Youth at the House of Blues. But maybe you’re more of the visual type?That’s cool: We’ve just uploaded Gloria Levario’s slideshow from the concert. Check out her photos right here…
Well, that didn’t last long. Shortly after re-opening its doors this week, Club Dada is now closed again–and this time, says co-owner Ben Tapia, the place looks like it will be out of business for at least two months.”We are closing,” says Tapia. “This just happened. The health inspector came…
A quick look around Club Dada last night, and you wouldn’t necessarily know that anything crazy had been going on at the venue in recent weeks. Indeed, there were bands on stage, patrons listening to the music and bartenders whipping up drinks as fast as they could.”We’re open,” Club Dada…
It was back in January when we learned that Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter had written the theme music for the Diablo Cody-penned Showtime series United States of Tara. Well, six months later, more on that front: DeLaughter’s been nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the theme song in…
Last week, a certain local music blog—one which will remain anonymous here so long as its proprietors insist on being anonymous themselves (however pointlessly)—took issue with the house party theme surrounding this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards, implying that it’s a calculated move on our part. No worries, though, ’cause…
In the coming days, we’ll be flooding DC9 with more and more exciting news surrounding this year’s DOMA Showcase on Saturday and the Awards Ceremony, which will take place starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Granada Theater.For now, though, let’s just get this exciting news out of the…
On Tuesday, August 18, Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon will release its highly anticipated sophomore release, the Will Johnson-produced The Tide and The Current–a disc I can, having heard it, say is definitely worth the hype and the wait since 2007’s excellent debut, All The Good News. Oh, and speaking of…
Apparently, every week on the new Web Soup show on G4, host Chris Hardwick shows his viewers a clip called “Things You Can’t Unsee” and follows it up with another, cutesy animal clip called the “Palate Cleanser.” Well, we’re a little late to the game on this one, but it…
…and for ye of the Youtube generation, here’s your link.Last week, Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme, better known ’round these parts as the indie pop duo Smile Smile, stopped by SPACE Studio for the latest installment of our ongoing DC9 in SPACE–or episode No. 11, for those of you keeping…
Later this week, we’ll have a slideshow of photos taken from inside the building as renovations are being completed, but in the meantime, we can pass along the below info in reference to the goings-on at Trees, as it plans for its Friday, August 14, re-opening..First and foremost: There will…
…and it’s another nationally recognized band from the DFW region: Bowling for Soup. The band joins the already stacked, nine-hour event bill featuring the Toadies, The Secret Machines, Ben Kweller, Eleven Hundred Springs and The Boom Boom Box. Tickets to the event, which will be held Saturday, August 29, at…
