Ward Richmond toured the country with rockabilly/Americana band Slick 57, which also includes The O’s John Pedigo. The band has opened for Wilco and Frank Black. In 2002, DallasMusic.com named Richmond Instrumentalist of the Year. Richmond has just sent me a text message from a rehearsal for the first show…
As the people who watched the 2013 MTV VMA’s this year know (and that was a lot of people), pop star Katy Perry closed the award show with a debut performance of her newest single, “Roar.” The single, which was officially released on August 12, has already topped the charts…
In just two short years, Australia’s Gold Fields have gone from a relatively obscure new-wave influenced dance pop band to the precipice of something much bigger. When the band’s full length debut, Black Sun, hit the racks this past February, Gold Fields hit the States for a whirlwind four month…
Update, 9/10, 3:50 p.m.: Josh Donnell happened to be passing by during last night’s couch fire at Good Records. He sent a few photos, including the one above, and two more below. Original post follows. When Jacob Douglas arrived for work at Good Records this morning, he hadn’t heard the…
Fort Worth’s fanciest metal band Pinkish Black has a new album coming out, and Pitchfork still loves them. Still loves them so much, in fact, that they’re offering a free stream of that album, called Razed to the Ground right now, a week ahead of its official release. You can…
This summer saw a bit of a kerfuffle around abortion in Texas. Emotions may run high on both sides, but we can all agree that Governor Rick Perry has taken a heavy-handed interest in the goings-on of Texas vaginas. It even caught the attention of noted gentleman-scholar Blowfly. The usually…
When the late Rozz Williams formed Christian Death way back in the early 80’s, the band was more of a campy, death-obsessed punk outfit than the gothic beast they would become under the guidance of one Valor Kand. Kand took charge of the band and brand name that would become…
The word “hippie” has been used to describe the sound and style of the indie music phenomenon Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros so often in reviews and profiles that it’s now a suggested search term on Google. Of course, it’s too narrow a description for the freewheeling folk rock…
R.L. Griffin is standing outside his Blues Palace, a squat beige building a few tattered blocks from Fair Park. A sign in the parking lot touts “Blues Palace II: Live Entertainment,” and without it there would be no way to tell from the street what you might find inside, unless…
Spanning fifty years, the musical career of John Mayall has been as fascinating and influential as just about anyone in the history of rock. In late 1963, Mayall formed the first incarnation of the Bluesbreakers, a legendary outfit that featured a revolving cast of players that included the likes of…
Better Than Ezra hits town on Friday at the House of Blues. Sure, they’ll play a usual set, but beforehand, they’re hosting a casino night in the venue’s Cambridge Room. There, you’ll find an open table and buffet, casino games and an acoustic set by the band. It’s a charity…
As Nevada Hill paints a large mural on the eastern wall of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, a giant heart in the middle whose many arteries extend all around it and each connect to its own building, he is coated in sunscreen and flecks of paint, and he is wearing a…
Who the hell is Danko Jones? “We’re just a hard rock band from Toronto,” he says. Yet, something in his radio friendly voice hints at a deeper meaning behind a man who shares a name with Danko Reproductions, a custom body shop; Emile Danko, a fictional Homeland security agent; and…
Twenty years ago, The Backstreet Boys were unleashed on an unsuspecting American public and the “boy band” phenomenon was officially under way. Inspired partly by the great doo-wop groups of the ’50s and partly by the R&B of the ’90s, Nick Carter and the rest of the boys were quickly…
Blazing through guitar riffs on stages across Texas isn’t something an average 15-year-old does. But Tyler Tallant of Keller/Fort Worth area isn’t your average teenager. He’s someone whose passion for music causes him to spend most of his waking hours mastering the craft of guitar playing. And his constant practicing…
Imagine a time in Dallas when Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, the Cars and Elvis Costello could all be found without sneaking past a team of security guards or purchasing a $200 VIP pass. It’s a time when every major record label in Dallas not only pushed records like drug dealers,…
Lance Lopez is a blues talent unlike any other working today. He spent much of his childhood here in Dallas before moving to New Orleans, where he launched a career that includes mentorship from Billy Gibbons. You can read more about Lopez in this week’s music feature, but we didn’t…
Dallas’s own locally-run ticketing company, Prekindle, is movin’ on up to the Deep Ellum side. The four-year-old company has officially opened their new headquarters at 2528 Elm St., in arts-and-venue-packed Deep Ellum. Since Prekindle’s founding by co-owners and former band mates Dave Howard and Pete Swulius, the company has started…
No other family of music artists like the forebears of this legendary name – Hank Williams – have captured the heart of what it means to be a country outlaw, a Southern rebel, a despicable bastard in the eyes of our more uppity brothers and sisters. Three generations of this…
It wasn’t long ago that live music shots were, while certainly appreciated by the bands, just a nice nuance for local musicians to get. With online socializing skyrocketing, photography as well as video have become crucial tools for a band at any level. We’re lucky to have a pretty good…
Today marks one month since I took over as your Dallas Observer Clubs Editor. Among other things, I maintain our extensive concert calendar, and I’ve learned very quickly what a big job it is. With so much amazing live music going on in this city every week, it can be…
Dallas is home to one of the richest religious music scenes in the country. Over the summer, we’ll be attending services, both big and small, of many denominations, as well talking to musicians , directors and pastors. Here at DC9 at Night, we’ve covered many churches this summer, but none…
