Hey, look! There’s a big festival in Austin this weekend! Hey! Look at this too! Dallas is getting a nice little runoff from that action! Hmm… Sounds a little familiar, huh? Well, it should, dammit. Seems we run this same goddamn article twice a year. There are minor tweaks to…
Iggy Pop at the Agora Ballroom in the late ’70s. (Vern Evans) Check It Out: We’ve posted a slideshow of Vern Evans’ photography. The late ’70s will forever be remembered as a remarkable paradigm shift for rock music in Dallas. Mark Lee, the owner of tiny bar just off Maple…
The video above for the song “The Rat” comes from Athens, Georgia, rock outfit Dead Confederate, a band that, along with The Whigs, is helping reaffirm the assumption that Athens, indeed, is quite the little southeastern hotbed of musical talent. The band, stopping through Dallas on the way back from…
As impressive debuts in 2008 go, you’ve got to figure that Seattle Sub Pop darlings Fleet Foxes fits quite nicely at the top of the heap, right up alongside acts like MGMT and Vampire Weekend who’ve more than had their fair share of positive press over the course of the…
Yesterday evening, at a fairly crowded Maximedia Studios–which is way the eff out by Farmer’s Branch–recent Atlantic Records signees Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights performed an hour-and-a-half set that, in the coming months, should be released as a live EP release to help preview the band’s major label debut–just…
Even in photos, Colour Revolt fights color. (Daniel Sprague) Friday’s show at Hailey’s in Denton might not offer the most rocking bill in the world–shared headliners Colour Revolt and Neva Dinova trend toward the much more understated end of the spectrum–but there’s still enough songwriting prowess here to create a…
Shara Worden’s gonna ride this buzz like Seabiscuit. (Sarah Small) Methinks someone over at Stereogum has a little crush on Dallas artists, ’cause, today, on the heels of plenty of other coverage the national music blog’s tossed the D’s way, comes a ‘Gum Drop feature on former UNT student Shara…
We’re on the cusp of a very big weekend of shows around the region (thanks, in large part to ACL routing), and one of the more interesting shows on the docket comes to the Lakewood Theater tomorrow night… With the release of Songs in A&E earlier this year, Spiritualized’s first…
Might want to keep an eye on this space tomorrow, as we’ll have tickets galore to give away all day–so much so that we may, in fact, dub the day “Free Ticket Wednesday.” Probably not, though. Anyway, we’ll have tickets to send your way from shows featuring bands with names…
Really can’t say I’d ever heard of Dallas hip-hop artist Big Gemini before coming across the above video this afternoon. Don’t really apologize for it either–kind tough to keep up with the Dallas hip-hop scene these days. So much so that I’ll say this quite confidently: Either something’s definitely, definitely…
The folks at Idolator point out a couple interesting little bits about the upcoming Janet Jackson/LL Cool J show coming to the American Airlines Center on October 22–a show which Observer contributor Quia Querisma quite hilariously dubbed “The Botox Tour” earlier this week. Seems both LL Cool J and Miss…
The Bright will be there, male members be damned. A couple of months back, I told you about Mary Hestand from Merry & the Mood Swings organizing a series of concerts at the Dallas Women’s Museum. As you may recall, the museum told Hestand that all acts had to be…
Don’t know if he’s going to be keeping this up all season long, but thus far into the NFL season, Fort Worth resident Daniel Hunter (aka PlayRadioPlay) has been keeping up a pretty cool tradition, offering his Myspace friends a new, free download on his page as a mini-celebration each…
You won’t see Dallas rapper Pikahsso on the poster for this year’s ACL Fest, but, still you can rest assured that he’ll be there, on stage, performing alongside fellow Texas hip-hop mainstay Bavu Blakes as the two perform their collaborative song “Smiley Faces” on stage on Saturday. And that’s good…
We’ve already given you loads of information about Oso Closo’s gig at the Dallas Theater Center. Then, of course, there was Pete’s glowing review of the production. But, tonight, the Denton-based rock outfit is taking a break from its insanely busy schedule performing in The Who’s Tommy for a free…
It was a good weekend for music in Dallas–if only because Pinback and The Silver Jews came through and were both pretty amazing (though not so amazing as to have their Dallas performances posted on Youtube just yet…) So, no, we won’t be seeing them here. But you will see…
Silver Jews Hailey’s Club September 20, 2008 Better Than: Robert Wilonsky’s “Till 2” show on The Ticket…if only for a night. David Berman got a warm reception at Hailey’s. (Noah W. Bailey) Local Silver Jews fans had been waiting some 14 years by the time the band took the stage…
Hey, it’s weekend time, friends. And it looks like we’ve already told you about a couple of shows going on this weekend. Like tonight’s Rhett Miller and Sarah Jaffe gig at House of Blues and Gilda Radner benefit at Opening Bell; Saturday’s Silver Jews show at Hailey’s, Theater Fire CD…
Looks like Astronautalis has converted another fan. If you watched the Season 4 premiere of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia last night, you may have noticed a minor bit of redecorating to Charlie’s shithole apartment. Seems Charlie is fan of Dallas Observer Music Award-winning rapper Astronautalis. That, or he just…
There’s nothing like your venue losing its lease to piss all over your parade. According to Dru Don, the manager for teenage rap group, Wide Up Boyz, the act’s gig originally scheduled for tomorrow night is now officially hosed, since Fat Daddy’s has officially gone out of business. That sucks–for…
A Friend o’ DC9 passed along a link to the above video this morning. And, yes, that’s the Toadies covering The Cure. “A Forest”, in fact. And, yep, it’s available for download via iTunes. In case ya dig it. –Pete Freedman…
Pinback…sits. (Drew Reynolds) Pinback, Kylesa, The Loft Septermber 18, 2008 Better than: Standing behind a guy with a huge head who sways from side to side so that you can’t see the band. My foot was drawn back to kick him (ill-advisedly) in the back of the knee, when the…
