Erykah Badu To Appear At Yo Gabba Gabba! Live In Frisco Saturday

Paul Levatino just sent word that Dallas hip-hop goddess Erykah Badu will make a special appearance Saturday at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco.”I love this show,” Badu said via press release, “especially because it uses 808 drums sounds to teach kids the alphabet and numbers…

Show Announcements: Dropkick Murphys, More

Start stocking up on Guinness now, because it’s going to be pretty hard to find come March. Flogging Molly and the band’s fans will probably put a pretty good dent in the supply when the L.A. Celtic-influenced punk band comes to the House of Blues Tuesday, February 9. The city’s…

Picture Show: The Flatlanders at the Wyly Theatre

Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock christened the Wyly Theatre’s concert stage Tuesday night (they’re the first non-Shakespearean act to play the new theater, at least), wrapping up the Flatlanders’ latest tour with Ryan Bingham and a slate of other friends helping out. “Dallas,” of course, was the…

Gig Alert: Raphael Saadiq Tonight at House of Blues

Sure, it’s the day before the day before Thanksgiving and most folks are either packing up for a trip or thawing out the big bird, but there are still some musical happenings worth looking out for. Case in point is old school soul/R&B singer Raphael Saadiq who makes a stop…

Last Night: Neko Case at the Granada Theater

Neko CaseGranada TheaterNovember 23, 2009Better Than: Sitting at home playing with your dogs. It wasn’t hard to see that it was Neko Case’s show last night at the Granada. With the singer’s penchant for songs filled with animals and nature, the tree-adorned banners that hung on the side of the…

Night Moves: Meltdown at the Palladium

If you’re into club music, Meltdown was the place to be in Dallas last weekend, with a Saturday night lineup at the Palladium that included David Guetta, Kid Sister, A-Trak and more.As Pete wrote in this week’s Observer, it’s been a good year for a mixed bag of electronic acts…

Gig Alert: Jonny Craig Tonight at The Prophet Bar

Those looking for something other than the NPR approved alt-country of Neko Case can make their way to Deep Ellum this evening and catch a pretty cool bill of alternative rock. Headlining the evening is Jonny Craig, a Canadian who’s become something of a renaissance man of the Emo genre…

Bonus MP3: Collin Herring – “Trazodone”

Ft. Worth native Collin Herring’s newest album, Ocho, may well be the singer/songwriter’s best effort. And that’s saying a lot considering Herring’s past couple of releases, The Other Side of Kindness and Past Life Crashing, were stellar in their own right. If you caught my review of Herring’s newest effort…

Bonus MP3: Ishi — “Pastel Lights”

It was back in early September when we first posted the above unofficial video for Dallas-based electronic outfit Ishi’s “Pastel Lights,” set to the ’80s not-quite-classic movie Solarbabies, and called the song “the best darn thing the band’s released yet.” And I still wholeheartedly stand by that claim–which explains my…

Dorrough Expands Himself As An Artist, Pens Song About Ice Cream.

You’d think that, in most instances, after scoring a major, nationwide hit with a song called “Ice Cream Paint Job,” a rapper might consider avoiding the subject of frozen treats for a little while.But oh how presumptuous of you that would be…This past week, Dorrough’s collaborator, the FADER-approved Fat B,…