Tame Impala at Granada Theater: Review

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…

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, February 28-March 3

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…

Top Show Annoucements: Metric, Rodriguez, The Walkmen and More

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.”…

Nicholas Altobelli is Betting Everything on His New Album

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…

The Dallas Observer Has a New App

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…