Balmorhea, Doug Burr, Bosque Brown

Who says concerts need to rock? Low-key acoustic shows can be just as moving as big-time rock extravaganzas, and the Granada Theater will prove it at this show, when it plays host to Balmorhea, Doug Burr and Bosque Brown. Local folk songsters Bosque Brown and Doug Burr shouldn’t need introduction…

Mind Spiders Mess With Your Head

Shortly after the breakup of Marked Men, Mark Ryan began working on a solo project. He started multi-tracking guitar and vocal parts and assembling them into songs over which he would then get either Greg Rutherford of High Tension Wires or Mike Thorneberry, formerly of Marked Men, to lay down…

Drag The River Knows No Convention

Artists—or musicians, to be more specific—have never been ones to worry themselves too much over the rules and preferred guidelines of corporate America. Sure, the thought of being able to pay one’s bills by practicing the craft that brings the artist joy is a reasonable and enviable goal. But in…

Club Dada Re-Joins A Suddenly Crowded Deep Ellum

Blah blah blah, Deep Ellum’s back, blah blah blah blah blah. Blah. Listen: We know you’ve heard it before. We know we’ve said it before. No apologies, though. Because—look out—we’re about to say it again. And maybe this time it’ll register. Consider this: Just over a year ago, back in…

Show Announcements: Bad Brains, Christmas Day at Trees With Hagfish, Robert Gomez, The Cult, All Time Low, Marc Ribot, Semi Precious Weapons, Harlem, Soft Pack, Rufio, The Riverboat Gamblers, Ugly Mus-tard, Chayanne, and more

Just because we’re barely on the other side of the triple digit heatwave doesn’t mean that it’s too early to start thinking about Christmas, right? The folks over at Trees don’t think so, at least. They’ve gone ahead and announced the first Christmas show of the year: A performance from…

Night Moves: Best of August 2010

August was a real scorcher–which meant that some of the best parties and concerts in Dallas happened after-hours and were occasionally NSFW. (Science tells us that it’s cooler without clothes on.) So, on that note, after the jump, we’ve provided links to all those night moves slideshows–with photos by Roderick…

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Oysterfest

We’ve already had a lot of things to say about Frisco’s inaugural Oysterfest on Saturday, September 25. The bill, an impressive mixture of 15 touring and local bands on two outdoor stages at Lochrann’s Irish Pub & Eatery, includes Rhett Miller Bowerbirds, Efterklang, Telegraph Canyon–you get the picture. This thing…

Bonus MP3: The Secret Handshake — “Every Single Time”

Two weeks ago, in the print edition of the Observer, I caught up with The Secret Handshake’s Luis Dubuc in anticipation of his fourth full-length release–and by far his most ambitious. The album, called Night & Day, finds Dubuc trying to shed his mall-punk tag. And it does so in…