An interesting collection of shows highlights this first Monday evening in December. Wear a coat and check out one of these offerings…
[Over the next few weeks, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 20 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…
Welcome to a new joint venture between DC9 at Night and the folks at We Denton Do It, aimed at introducing local audiences to up-and-coming acts they may have missed during recent stops through town. They’re the kind of acts we think you’re gonna want to know — and right…
Once upon a time, way back when VEGA was the Alan Palomo project garnering the most interest, Neon Indian was introduced as an experimental side project from the creative pop songsmith. But it wasn’t just a sonic experiment, this new project; Neon Indian, you may or may not recall, was…
In this edition on This Week In Dallas Music History, we look back to 1998, when former Observer music editor Zac Crain wrote about Robert Brooks, a Dixie Chicks superfan. The Chicks had just gone double-platinum from their major-label-debut Wide Open Spaces, but Brooks had been a fan for far…
Over the weekend, on his Facebook page, Big Bucks Burnett debuted the new logo for his Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum — that’s it at right. And on Wednesday come even more details — as in, where, exactly, that sucker’s being planted. But until then, let’s revisit Burnett’s record…
Norway’s Dimmu Borgir is named after a volcano in Iceland and specializes in a symphonic form of black metal that is as fun as it is pretentious. Hugely popular in Eastern Europe, the band has been around for nearly two decades but has yet to make major inroads in the…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Shawn Mullins…
Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Seryn, Monahans, Birds & Batteries, Glen FarrisHailey’s Club, DentonDecember 4, 2010Better than: paying for your own wassail. The folks at Spune have not only established themselves as a leading local label and promotion company. They’ve also become quite the hosts. Every few months, the company puts…
Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose, The O’sGranada TheaterDecember 3, 2010Better than: seeing a washed up, crappy honky tonk wannabe band in some two-bit bar. There’s a concept in the Orthodox Church that says, when you enter a worship service, you step outside of time into an eternal “now.” There’s no…
It doesn’t feel like the holiday season yet, but Spune Productions is ushering in the holiday spirit with its sixth annual Christmas Party tomorrow night at Hailey’s Club in Denton. The festivities will include free (Christmas?) tacos, free wassail, and, of course, music. Telegraph Canyon is headlining the shindig, which…
[Over the next few weeks, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 21 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…
Christian Dean Ward, perhaps better known around town as Dean Dillinger, got his start spinning records way back when, as a producer/board operator at WERQ-92.3 92Q Jams in Baltimore. “I used to play records for Reggie Reg and K-Swift (Rest In Power) when they went to the bathroom, or were…
There was a time in our younger days when there simply was no bigger band than Smashing Pumpkins. Depending on who you ask, double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness is either one of the greatest triumphs of the mid-’90s alt-rock boom or one of the most self-indulgent, overrated albums…
San Fransisco-based indie pop act Bird’s & Batteries is not just your average band following the times and trying to make some bland electro-rock. No, this band’s indie pop-rock finds a home in the in the wild and mixes in the kind of electronic synths that can be heard in…
Earlier this week, we passed along the word that, along with a few other local outfits, The Secret Handshake had been picked as one of the acts to make SXSW’s early-announced performers list. And, while that much remains true, Luis Dubuc, the man behind the Secret Handshake moniker says that…
Chiddy Bang, Vonnegutt TreesDecember 2, 2010Better than: going to an actual SMU party. Lest there remained any question as to whom the music of Chiddy Bang is meant for, the Philadelphia-based, indie rock-sampling hip-hop duo provided the answer at Trees last night.Or maybe it’s more appropriate to say that their…
El DeBarge, Eric Benét, FantasiaVerizon TheatreDecember 2, 2010Better than: being bilked out of one’s hard-earned cash by fraudulent Christian faith healer Jonas Nightengale during one of his big tent revival meetings… A few times a year, I find it both incredibly enlightening and immensely entertaining to pick a show to attend…
It’s that time of year again, when you forget that Christmas was once a celebration of a possible son of an invisible man in the sky and only care about whatever is wrapped up for you under the tree. And, of course, there’s the Christmas songs, too…
Quite the nice and busy Thursday evening of music going on in our area tonight — one highlighted by a very nice collection of local acts…
[Over the next few weeks, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 22 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…
A couple weeks ago, Jesse Hughey reviewed the debut release from Fort Worth’s supergroup of sorts, Epic Ruins, quite positively, while salivating at the idea of the album getting the vinyl treatment. As the above poster implies, Hughey gets his wish on Saturday night at Lola’s Saloon in Fort Worth…
