They’re doing it again. Live Nation is offering $24.99 (and, in a couple cases, $19.99) lawn tickets for select Starplex (I still refuse to call it Superpages.com Center) shows today only during this week’s installment of No Service Charge Wednesday. Until 11:59:59 tonight, lawn tickets purchased at Live Nation’s Web…
It’s been almost five months now since Black Tie Dynasty first announced its breakup, leaving its fans confused and its haters feeling validated (an unfortunate, but everpresent part of the band’s history). But one person in particular was especially miffed: Picnictyme, the local producer/MC (formerly of PPT), who, in the…
Pitchfork’s take on the new Rhett Miller disc is in–went up yesterday, in fact–and, despite the low score of 5.9 given to the self-titled album, the review reads mostly positively. Which speaks to a larger trend within the reactions this disc is garnering.Like most takes on Miller’s solo works (including…
Camera Obscura, Anni RossiThe LoftJune 16, 2009 Better Than: Staying at home and building your own camera obscura. Radio has long lost its hold on the music-seeking masses, having essentially been replaced by music blogs, the seeming medium of choice for fans looking for bands that are new and different than what they are…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 17, 2009… Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of The Ventures has died at 75. His band was best known as the band who played the Hawaii Five-0 theme song. In what is either a stroke of genius or the…
Doug Davis had the last word on last night’s Grizzly Bear show at the Granada… until now. Because Hal Samples was there to document the show from the front row–maybe even closer, from the looks of it–and we’ll close out the day on DC9 with his look at the show.You…
In this week’s print product, Observer contributor Elliott Johnston tackled tonight’s Camera Obscura and Anni Rossi show at The Loft tonight–and he did so in a pretty interesting way, finding common ground between Camera Obscura and John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity. Check it:Camera Obscura’s take on pop music is…
Barcadia celebrated its one-year anniversary last Friday night, with sailor hats, pin-up girls and the tribute band Queen For A Day onstage, and on Saturday, our nightlife crew hit up the Lizard Lounge for their annual “Meltdown: Summer Edition” party. Filo and Peri spun in the main room, while DJ…
Grizzly Bear, Here We Go MagicGranada TheaterJune 15, 2009 Better than: pretending I wanted room to dance anyway… There’s nothing like a false start to a song to gauge an audience’s mood at a concert. Take what happened seven songs into Grizzly Bear’s set at the Granada Theater last night, for instance. …
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009… Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking the young ‘uns…
Per our Monday tradition, a few clips of some shows you may have missed this weekend…Peaches on Friday, June 12, at the Granada TheaterRaunchy dance icon Peaches rolled through town on Friday night–and it was quit the show, says reviewer Catherine Downes. Need more proof? Check this nice, clean video…
La Di Da Di, Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg like to party……at Bonnaroo……I got nothing. Cool video, though!…
Viva Voce, Cut Off Your Hands, and Robert GomezHailey’s ClubJune 12th, 2009Better Than: imagining Clap Your Hands Say Yeah covering Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends in its entirety.Hailey’s hosted another fine show on Friday night, but only a couple dozen people came out to see it…
Fans of the E! Network might recognize the above clip as the introduction and theme song to the new Girls Next Door spin-off, Kendra. Featuring Too $hort on vocals, the song was produced by Dallas’ own Play-N-Skillz. Let’s hope they at least got paid for this one…
They may have been in attendance, but, no, Bonnaroo isn’t just for the stars of He’s Just Not That Into You. Bands played too, y’know. Laymen walked about as well.And we have empirical proof of all that, thanks to a trio of slideshows patched together by a gaggle of staff…
So there’s a pretty embarrassing mistake in this week’s paper, albeit one with somewhat of an understandable cause: Through my fault, and no one else’s, we ran a story on Jenny Lewis in this week’s paper, in which the copy stated that Lewis plays the Granada Theater tonight.Thing is, Lewis…
Music aside, one big part of the fun at Bonnaroo is just experiencing the interaction of strangers who would never have anything to do with each other outside of such a frenzied environment. This is true everywhere, from the open-air drug markets along “Shakedown Street” to the campgrounds to the…
David ByrneJune 14, 2009Majestic TheaterBetter than: just about anything else happening on a Sunday night. Dressed in all white, like some kind of angelic delivery boy, legendary indie rock icon David Byrne thrilled a packed house at the Majestic Theatre with two hours of angular pop/funk that was downright inflammable…
Peaches, Drums of DeathGranada TheaterJune 12, 2009Better than: the last show I was supposed to review for DC9. It’s fitting that the most climactic moment of Peaches’ nearly two-hour set at the Granada came before her two encores, as she finished her main set by launching into her breakthrough electro-clash…
Friday, 3 p.m.”Yeah! Brooklyn!” someone yelled during a lull after “The Party” during St. Vincent’s Friday afternoon set. Now, I’m not the kind of guy who needs to shout his affirmations of civic pride, but I was tempted to clarify where St. Vincent got her start by offering a counter-shout…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 15, 2009… Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknhold used to be an illegal music downloader. But he thinks it helped him make the music he and other bands are making today, so it’s cool. The New Orleans Voodoo Festival has added touring monsters…
This particular weekend offers an interesting mix of local and national talents, many of which are playing unheralded venues scattered about the Metroplex. The mix of genres represented in our area in the coming days is quite remarkable.First off the shows that were already covered in print or online. Tonight’s…
