Speaking of Dallas bands with 20 years of history, Old 97’s announced today that they’ll release Most Messed Up. It’s roughly the band’s 11th full-length, depending on how you count a few greatest hits, serialized releases and other oddities. The alt-country pioneers announced the news just now on their blog,…
In the late spring of 2011, Gilmer, Texas-raised Curtis Grimes competed in the first season of the NBC’s ratings-bonanza The Voice. While the show has remained a phenomenon, Grimes made his mark on that trail-blazing season by showing off his smooth, confident baritone vocals. He also showed his competitive-edge by…
On January 25, Yung Nation tweeted that one of the duo, Brandon Reed, aka B. Reed, was shot. Luckily, the Duncanville native is in good condition now, and even performed at a show at the Frisco Arts Center less than 24 hours after being shot…
Hailing from the autonomous Basque region of Spain and named for the featured vehicle in Back to the Future, Delorean are a dance-friendly foursome with an ever-growing fan base. The band’s good fortune began a few years back when the members agreed to move in a more electronic direction. Since…
The fact that Darkside’s Dave Harrington didn’t spend his life crafting beats or sampling music in his parent’s basement as a young child is a bit of a shocker, given the level of excellence he and Darkside’s leader, Nicolas (Nico) Jarr have achieved in only a couple of years. What’s…
Naughty farmers, contagious dance routines, hyper real costumed comedy, and lots of stretchy pants all come to mind when thinking of part-time viral sensation and full-time musical group Turquoise Jeep. And on their January 26 stop in Dallas for the Turquoise Dreams Tour, both the group and fans expressed why…
Before 2014, the Thin Line Film Festival was Texas’ only documentary film festival fest that prided itself on conceptually blurring the ever-thinning line between fact and fiction. But after six progressive years as the internationally known 10-day short film party, Thin Line will blur even more lines as five-day film…
Incredibly, it has been 35 years since on Joey “Shithead” Keithley got together with a few other Canadian punk rockers and formed D.O.A. Playing a mixture of the Sex Pistols and The Ramones, Shithead and his revolving array of sidemen became a fixture on the West Coast American punk scene…
Dallas is in for a techie treat with upcoming concerts by two of hip-hop’s most promising internet by-products: Childish Gambino (March 7 at South Side Ballroom) and Vic Mensa (February 1 at House of Blues). With Gambino’s release of Because the Internet and Mensa’s full-length solo debut, Innanetape, 2013 introduced…
Country singer/songwriter Jason Eady is one fascinating guy. Not only did Eady perform secret missions for the Air Force, he did so after spending two years learning Arabic. After leaving the military, Eady picked up a guitar and started making some seriously fine Americana music. From his home in Granbury…
One of the must-see shows this week is happening tonight at the Kessler. Pleasant Grove will headline and Crushed Stars will debut material from their excellent new record, Farewell Young Lovers. We caught up with PG members Jeff Ryan and Marcus Striplin on the band’s history, their best and worst…
Besides Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, no other band is as synonymous with the glory days of Deep Ellum as Ten Hands. Beginning in 1986, the group quickly garnered a solid local following that has not diminished in three decades. Although Ten Hands formally stopped playing in the mid ’90s,…
If you were to listen the intro to “The Ceiling,” the song that’s garnered some serious praise for Los Angeles-based The Wild Feathers, you might quickly – and prematurely – assume that the fresh-faced five-piece act is yet another entry into the Mumford-fueled folk-rock revival. Of course, after listening to…
Metal has always had a natural fit with fantastical landscapes that look like they were crafted by the hand of Frank Frazetta. The Fort Worth metal group The Hack and Slashers, however, don’t live in a world that looks perfectly suited for a custom painted van in the ’80s or…
Sort of, kind of a local band, This Will Destroy You tour so incessantly that it’s hard to determine where these guys are from. Two band members live in Austin, one is in Waxahachie and one hails from Dallas. Wherever they are from, This Will Destroy You has never had…
Fresh off the January 14 release of their awaited sophomore album, Darkest Hours, Dallas’ premier folk rock collective, Fox & the Bird, opened their melodic minds to the Dallas Observer about the band’s collaborative Texas sound, juggling life as part-time musicians, and how shadowy realities can still shine with harmonious…
Todd Gautreau of Crushed Stars wouldn’t be a natural choice to star in an indie-rock reimagining of the sentimental 1989 Kevin Costner hit film, Field of Dreams. As Ray Kinsella, a failing farmer with daddy issues, Costner’s character blindly followed a random, ghostly voice telling him that “If you build…
Whether fronting Bravo, Max! or going solo, local singer/songwriter Johnny Beauford has a lot to say and a very pretty way of saying it. Over the course of six years, this Winspear Opera House bartender has made his way into three different local acts while still finding time to release…
It’s less than an hour’s drive from Palestine, Texas to the World’s Rose Capital, Tyler, Texas. Both are considered to be the “Big City,” for the folks living outside of their borders. Though that Dogwood-scented pocket of East Texas isn’t a Metropolis by most standards, there’s a great deal of…
St. Vincent marches on towards the February release date of her self-titled fourth album. “Digital Witness,” the second release from the album ahead of its release, came out last week and the more we listen to it the more we need to play it again. Annie Clark, St. Vincent herself,…
The definitive music critic poll, Pazz & Jop, has just released its 2013 rankings. Started in 1971 by The Village Voice, the poll collects year-end rankings from hundreds of writers — this year there were 457 voters. Kanye West won the album category for the fourth time, while Daft Punk’s…
Since the early 1980s, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages have been pummeling audiences across the globe with a fiery mix of R&B, soul, funk and rock. Known for his over the top stage presence, Whitfield enjoys turning concerts into physical therapy sessions. The recently issued Dig Thy Savage Soul is…
