There’s no doubt that many contributions made to musical projects outside of the North Texas region by artists living in this area often go unnoticed. From playing with acts such as GWAR (Casey Orr) to Ben Harper (Jordan Richardson and Justin Pate) to Murder by Death (Matt Armstrong), current and…
Unsatisfied with simply recording in a top-notch studio in Copenhagen, the members of Efterklang decided to head to the Arctic island of Piramida to create their album of the same name. Using the desolate climate as inspiration, the band used field recordings as the basis for each track. These dudes…
Last week, with no apparent malice intended, the Stone Temple Pilots forced us to confront the fact that there was more than one Stone Temple Pilot out there, firing Scott Weiland for–I’m just speculating here–being Scott Weiland, or writing something called “Sex Type Thing,” or (and this is just Scott…
Chicago-based Russian Circles have been hammering their brand of groove-heavy post-metal across the globe for seven years now. For most of their touring life, the three-piece outfit, consisting of Mike Sullivan, Brian Cook and Dave Turncratz have done so as club-show headliners. Since the release of their stellar, 2011 album,…
It’s hard being an American Idol contestant. It’s hard enough to perform for judges, with an audience behind them, and an even bigger one unseen that’s analyzing every gesture and head nod. It’s hard knowing you’re performing on a show that’s almost old enough to be a teenager, which is…
Like most Smiths fans under 30, I think I heard about Morrissey being pissed off for some reason or another before I’d heard him croon over a single perfect Johnny Marr riff. He’s a self-consciously difficult figure to ignore once he’s wedged himself into the news, a stout British guy…
Claudio Sanchez is incredibly pressed for time, but he has ten minutes to spare for an interview. Afterwards, he has to rush off for Coheed and Cambria’s soundcheck. The band is in the midst of a long headlining tour with rocket scientist metallers Between the Buried and Me. Thankfully, Sanchez…
The Hive is a gaping 12,000-square-foot warehouse at the edge of the 35 Denton umbrella, situated a few feet from the train tracks on the corner of Bell and Sycamore Streets. Next weekend, it will become the largest indoor music venue in Denton — maybe for four days, and maybe…
It was symbolic in more ways than one. The sweet and skunky smell of high quality weed that hit you upon entering the Granada last night provided a kind of bridge back to the ’60s and early ’70s. The music of that era has provided the DNA for the woozy…
Home by Hovercraft, Datahowler, Bethan Saturday, March 2, at Dada, $10-$15 Five-piece classical-meets-pop band Home by Hovercraft are finally releasing Are We Chameleons? this week, an album we’ve been waiting for since the unique operatic group popped up on our radar after announcing they were creating a quirky Marie Antoinette-inspired…
Metric Sunday, April 28, at House of Blues, $28-$38 It took them a little while (since the late ’90s) but Metric has made it. Big. The group’s 2009 release, Fantasies can take most of the credit for that when they unleashed the addicting, head-bobbing and shoulder-swaying hit “Gold Guns Girls.”…
With his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt and well-worn tweed jacket, Nicholas Altobelli looks like a man without a style. Perhaps that’s just the way he wants it. Sitting in Opening Bell Coffee on a sunny afternoon, Altobelli muses about what he does and why he does it. And like…
Editor: Erykah Badu played a birthday show last night at the Granada. Two of those in the sold-out crowd were DC9 at Night writers Vanessa Quilantan and Deb Doing Dallas, who set up camp on the balcony. Here is their report. Deb Doing Dallas: Going to an Erykah Badu show…
As you already know, Snoop Dogg will headline this year’s Dallas Observer St. Patrick’s Day Concert on Greenville Avenue. But he won’t be alone, and today we’re announcing two of the bands who will also grace the stage on March 16: Hi-diving hip-hop group A.Dd+ and local staples Ishi. See…
If you’ve found yourself at Beauty Bar on a Thursday night anytime within the last few months, you are already well aware that there is no one in the city of Dallas who can turn a party up like DJ Sober and Picnictyme can. Though Will Rhoten (aka DJ Sober)…
Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: – Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre – Restaurant listings searchable by cuisine…
Generation Y’s teenage favorites Nine Inch Nails announced their reformation on Monday after four years apart. I say “reformation” and “apart”, but really it’s just Trent Reznor and whoever plays with him, so that should actually read “Trent reformed with himself after four years of not being Nine Inch Nails”…
This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we’ll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. “Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds rightfully take the top three spots this week with their…
Spillover (formerly Bro Fest) has announced its 2013 lineup. The annual March festival, presented by Parade of Flesh, will feature some of the best shit-kicking rock and roll available in DFW and around the country on March 17, at Sandbar Cantina. Tickets are $19.99 including tax and fees…
In what has become a yearly tradition, the Dropkick Murphys make their way through town just before St. Patrick’s Day. Their date in town is usually near to the dates of the Flogging Molly Dallas stop and to the North Texas Irish Festival. No one can ever claim that Metroplex…
Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we’ll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. One of our top picks this week is a poster promoting the Help Rescue Princess Addy benefit…
You might not recognize Jeff Ryan’s name, but you’ve probably heard his drumming on a number of acclaimed releases in the past few years. Playing on albums by Sarah Jaffe, St. Vincent, Pleasant Grove and Crushed Stars, he’s also had time to do an ambient side project called Myopic. Myopic’s…
