When early-’90s grunge hit the market, it sounded the death knell for the good-time party that was hair metal. L.A. hairspray act Faster Pussycat saw this much firsthand: “One minute you’re on top of the world, and the next thing you know, you’re on the lame train,” the Pussycats waxed…
It was well before midnight when the police scanners first started heating up with chatter about a need for assistance at Fair Park. It wasn’t a riot happening at Electric Daisy Carnival, the 10-hour electronic music festival taking place there Saturday; these were just medical calls. But, for a couple…
Perhaps it’s ironic that the man who first placed the spotlight on a then-unknown Emmylou Harris hasn’t been around for decades, whereas Harris now stands resplendently as the goddess of the cosmic-American brand of music served up by her former duet partner, the mythologized Gram Parsons. Looking back to the…
If there’s one thing that Twitter has very clearly accomplished since its 2006 creation, it’s that the social networking site has created a growing number of people very comfortable with sharing their every move and thought. Musicians in particular use the tool to regurgitate reminders about upcoming performances and to…
Boy bands. If you’re not a fan, you can blame it all on a capella barbershop quartets. Those groups were popular in the late 1800s and through the early 1900s, and they’re really the ones who laid the groundwork for the vocal groups we now love, hate and love to…
Talking to Tom Gabel feels like the polar opposite of seeing Tom Gabel perform with his band, Against Me! Rather than look at his ink-filled arms flail away or watch him sing himself hoarse behind a microphone, Gabel comes across as incredibly polite and friendly on this particular day off…
Each year, the Warped Tour drags dozens upon dozens of bands around the country as a part of its annual tour. This year is no different, as 66 bands in total are scheduled to perform in and around Gexa Energy Pavilion to what will surely be hordes of fans. So…
More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Haigis,…
Four days after 19-year-old Argyle native Andrew Graf died after attending Electric Daisy Festival at Fair Park, another family is stepping forward to share the story of 22-year-old Jesse Morales, who they say died due to similar circumstances in the wake of 2010’s inaugural event. Family members say Morales, a…
Splitting time between Tulsa, San Francisco, Denton and New York City, OK Sweetheart is grounded by the seductively soulful voice of Erin Austin. Sounding quite a bit like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Austin has an evocative set of pipes that suits the band’s dreamy vibe perfectly.Although the band’s name might…
Mashup artist Girl Talk is known for putting on one heck of a show. So, yeah, the lucky few who managed to score tickets his sold-out show tomorrow night at the Granada Theater — all tickets for the event were scooped up less than an hour after going on sale…
It’s a risky career move, holing up in a cabin in the woods to create a debut album, but for Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, it seems to have paid off in spades. Between nods from Kanye West and the success of his R&B side project Gayngs, his highly anticipated self-titled…
Juan and Oscar Salinas, the Grammy-winning production duo and brothers behind the Play-N-Skillz moniker, have a lot going on these days: a lawsuit against Lil Wayne; a recently released mixtape and single (with Bun B) to promote; a new mixtape on the way; a celebratory Mavericks song to tout; even…
Sarah Jaffe is a lot of things — a local darling, a rising star, an endearing songwriter, a quirky personality, a Texan. The list goes on and on and on. But there is one thing she is decidedly not: Australian.Curious, then, to find out that Jaffe’s song “Perfect Plan,” off…
Yesterday, city officials announced that they had slapped Electric Daisy Carnival organizers Insomniac Events with seven citations for their event in Fair Park on Saturday night — two for overcrowding, two more for failure to obtain a count of occupants, and three for obstruction of justice.Today, after having released a…
In August, the Granada Theater, which has for four years in a row now earned the title of Best Live Music Venue in our annual, reader-voted Dallas Observer Music Awards, will celebrate its seventh year under the watch of owner Mike Schoder. And, considering that the people who run venues…
The Warped Tour has always had a lot of bands and a lot of different bands. Sure, you’re not going to see these bands end up on any Pitchfork best-of, but the tour doesn’t exactly play to people who decree most things in life as “meh,” either.Even in its first…
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended — no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Lucero has played Dallas a few times in recent memory (including our DOMA showcase last year). But they’ve never…
After the City of Irving’s drawn out and expensive mayoral election, the results are in, showing Beth Van Duyne the victor with 57 percent of the vote.Van Duyne ousted the incumbent Herbert Gears, whose largest talking point was the proposed Irving Entertainment Center, which will include 11 restaurants and a…
The numbers are in: Ticket sales place the number of people at Fair Park for the Electric Daisy Carnival on Saturday night at somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000. At 11 p.m., the last headcount taken estimated that some 21,000 had already passed through the gates.These numbers fall pretty much in…
Still waiting on a lot of news this early afternoon in regards to Saturday night’s Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park. All morning long city officials — including Fire-Rescue folk, Medical Emergency Services folk, etc. — have been tied up in meetings about the event, which saw dozens hospitalized and…
[Editor’s Note: We originally sent city columnist and noted curmudgeon Jim Schutze out to Fair Park on Saturday night on something of a lark. We knew he’d be a fish out of water, sure. But we also knew that, in some ways, covering the event would be right up his…
