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Kelly Clarkson’s New Anthem For the Dallas Cowboys Sounds Like Something You’d Hear at Forever 21
See also: Kelly Clarkson endorses Ron Paul, shit hits fan Texas singer Kelly Clarkson has penned the new Dallas Cowboys anthem, “Get Up (A Cowboys Anthem),” in conjunction with Pepsi. It’s, uh, caffeinated. And as far as “anthems” go, I suppose it’s serviceable enough, but interchangeable with half the songs…
On the Death of SXSW’s Brent Grulke
Much has already been shared on the death of SXSW creative director Brent Grulke, who passed away yesterday after a heart attack, at age 52. It’s our modern way to try to console each other via links, texts, emails. Amassing and distributing information to make sense of death. I was…
Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands: San Francisco Gets Life Lessons From the School of Wonder
Christopher VictorioStevie Wonder at Outside Lands.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He’s more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he’s our Dickens or Dalí: a figure of impassable recognition,…
Afghan Whigs Coming to Granada Theater October 14
After a tour last year with The Twilight Singers, singer Greg Dulli has reunited the band that launched his career, Afghan Whigs. The band’s signature blend of rock and soul separated them from other popular acts of the grunge era, yet the band still found commercial and critical success. It’s…
Ormonde’s Robert Gomez and Anna-Lynne Williams Are The Sum Of Their Parts On Machine
For Denton’s Robert Gomez, the hardest part of recording Ormonde’s debut album, Machine, out last week on Hometapes, was living with another person. “It wasn’t just working with someone,” he says of his latest musical partner, Anna-Lynne Williams of Seattle’s Lotte Kestner and Trespassers William. “We’re cooking dinner, or going…
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The Five Best DFW Honky-Tonks
To call a place a honky-tonk is almost as nebulous as labeling a place a dive bar. Ask five different people what one is, and you’re more than likely to get six different answers. Of course, North Texas has dozens of places that complement any of them. The earliest published…
Six Photos Of People Losing Their Shit At Identity Festival
Identity Festival happened this weekend, and we were there snapping away into the neon abyss. Here are some especially illuminating photos of fans’ reactions, in what we’d like to call The Sickest Drop: A Journey In Six Jpegs…
Identity Festival – Gexa Energy Pavilion – 8/10/12
Identity Festival Gexa Energy Pavilion Friday, August 10 See also: The fans of Identity Festival, parts one and two See also: Eric Prydz on Swedish techno, the future of dance music I think the Observer sent me to this in hopes I would feel as out of my element as…
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Metallica at Outside Lands: The Five Best Parts of the Band’s Fiery San Francisco Show
Christopher VictorioMetallica at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival.METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/11/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just about…
Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival – 8/10/12
Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and…
Rick Ross – Zouk – 8/9/12
Rick Ross Zouk Thursday, August 9 Celebrating the release of his God Forgives, I Don’t album Thursday night, the big boss Ricky Ross made his way to mega-club Zouk in style, putting on a performance that rumbled the outermost walls of the venue as loud as his signature grunts rattle…
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Phil York, Legendary Dallas Producer, Dead At Age 70
Yesterday, I got the sad news that Dallas sound engineer and Texas music hero Phil York had passed away last Saturday. I met York while researching the liner notes for the 2009 Heavy Light release of The Relatives’ Don’t Let Me Fall. He had engineered the original Relatives sessions and…
The Smoker’s Club Tour/Aesop Rock – Trees/The Granada Theater – 8/9/12
The Smoker’s Club Tour/Aesop Rock Trees/The Granada Theater Thursday, August 9 Last night was a hard night for a hip-hop fan in Dallas. The Smoker’s Club Tour had favorites like Juicy J and next big things Smoke DZA and Joey Bada$$ at Trees. Aesop Rock was bringing his flavor back…
Clint Niosi Shouldered The Pain To Make For Pleasure and Spite
Clint Niosi’s 2008 LP, The Sound of Dead Horses Beaten Against Cold Shoulders, was a fine album built around his voice and acoustic guitar, but its spareness made it feel like a bookend on something bigger. Even the artist himself admits that: “I felt in hindsight that perhaps it could…
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The Five Best Slobberbone Songs
See also: The top 100 Texas songs We’ve decided it was time to make a list of the five best from Brent Best and crew. Please feel free to chime in with your own selections. 1. “Barrel Chested” Hell, if the song was good enough to be included in the…
Earl Dibbles Jr. (a.k.a Granger Smith) Knows What Country Really Is, and You Don’t
The modern landscape of Top 40 country music is littered — and for the most part, litter is an apt term — with fresh-faced fellas that boast an attitude that aims for bad-ass, but typically ends up closer to lame-ass. Current hit-makers and stadium fillers such as Brantley Gilbert, Jason…
The 10 Best Concerts in Dallas This Weekend, Starring Aesop Rock, Identity Fest and More
Every Thursday we bring you our 10 favorite concert options for the coming weekend. Find every concert for this weekend and beyond at dallasobserver.com/concerts. Identity Festival Friday, August 10, at Gexa Energy Pavilion Identity Festival pretty much marks the greatest day of the year for EDM fans, as almost 20…
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Warren Jackson Hearne Keeps On Dancing With Death
Around one in the afternoon on a Thursday in July, young ladies and gentlemen walk into Dan’s Silverleaf dressed elegantly in black suits and formal dresses. All of the windows and doors are covered by dark blankets and sheets. Avoiding the dancers, Warren Jackson Hearne walks into the bar fresh…
Fort Worth’s Lo-Life Recordings Confess: “We’re No Good At Sitting Still”
See also: Four Fort Worth bands to watch Fort Worth’s Lo-Life Recordings have punctuated the seasons of 2012 with splits by Doom Ghost and War Party, two bands that mirror each other’s three-chord mindset. Then they put out two really great videos: One in which Doom Ghost is profiled takedown-ad-style…
Eric Prydz on Swedish Techno, The Future of Dance Music and The Identity Festival
Identity Festival sets up shop at Gexa Energy Pavilion tomorrow, August 10. The touring electronic dance music festival sprang to life last year, with the help of celebrity DJs Kaskade and Steve Aoki, and just hit the road on its second North American tour. This year includes sets by Wolfgang…
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Smoke DZA on The Smoker’s Club Tour, George Kush and His Presidential Ambitions
The Smoker’s Club first formed in March of 2010 as a SXSW showcase at The Firehouse Lounge, which hosted Devin the Dude and a supporting cast of emerging hip-hop artists who all had reefer in common, including Jayrock, Big K.R.I.T, Curren$y and Smoke DZA. It wasn’t yet the club it…