For 17 years now, Richard Buckner has been one of the most unique singer-songwriters going. Eschewing choruses, Buckner writes in a stream of consciousness matter that resembles free verse poetry set to a fascinating musical backing. Although Buckner was erroneously marketed as a hunky country good old boy in the…
Last week we ran a quick item about American Idol contestant, Tim Halperin, and his publicity stunt leading up to the release of his new record, Rise & Fall. He was to sit in a mock jail cell at Plano’s Shops At Legacy for 28 hours leading up the expiration…
Sure, you already know all about the Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase on Saturday, October 15, at venues and stages all throughout Deep Ellum. Some big names lined up for that sucker, for sure: Toadies, Old 97’s, Centro-matic, Sarah Jaffe. 51 others, too.But what of the actual awards ceremony set…
Tomorrow night at Gexa Energy Pavilion, things will come full circle for Blink-182: The San Diego-sprung outfit will celebrate the release of their new album, Neighborhoods, their first release in eight years and their first since their ugly split in 2005, which saw the band publicly airing their grievances and…
The Music Business program at Dallas Baptist University is growing — and fast. Last year, the program boasted just over a hundred students, This year, enrollment has ballooned to 175. There’s good reason for the uptick, too: Next week, DBU will formally introduce its latest entity, Joan and Andy Horner…
Quite the deal going on for, oh, the next 57 hours or so: Our sister entity, Voice Daily Deals, is offering a steal on tickets to the 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase on October 15, selling the passes for just $7. The event, as you already know, will feature…
Right this very moment, as I type this, Sarah Jaffe and her band are over in Oak Cliff at John Congleton’s Elmwood Recording Studio, working on recording their full-length follow-up to Jaffe’s 2010 breakthrough, debut LP, Suburban Nature. Not sure when we can expect it — early 2012 perhaps? Regardless:…
Hello Lover, Jim Suhler, The Mike Haskins Experience, The Marfalites, Dog Company, Here Holy Spain, The Assassins, The Phuss and Houston’s The Sellouts are the first nine bands confirmed for the first annual 45 Fest, which will honor late Spector 45 members Frankie Campagna and Adam Carter, on Friday, October…
A video clip from Erasure’s 1992 performance at the Apollo in Manchester, UK Andy Bell and Vince Clarke have been writing pop songs together as Erasure since 1985, and they remain, to this day, one of the most successful British pop acts of all time thanks to their highly positive…
Remember the Band in a Bubble promotion a few years back? When that one band with that one song got a reality show backed by MTV and Dr Pepper and were tasked with staying in a bubble and spend 20 days writing and recording a new album? Fort Worth native…
The five members of Midlake are revered recording artists, MOJO award-winners for best live act and, now, bar owners.Less than a month from now — sometime in early October — the Midlake boys will open up shop on the third floor of the building that currently houses Andy’s Bar in Denton…
For nearly two decades, cinematic Manchester act Elbow have been fairly silent in the U.S., despite drawing comparisons to Coldplay, Doves, and Radiohead. Meanwhile, their five records have earned critical acclaim back in the U.K. Their last two — Build A Rocket Boys! and The Seldom Seen Kid, were both…
New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers has been around for nearly a decade, and, in that time, the band has garnered a solid fan base for its unrelentingly loud slabs of noise. The band’s sophomore record, 2009’s Exploding Head, which the band is still touring behind, found APTBS exploring…
The band, you may recall, did something similar last year, releasing for one night only a film combining footage taken at the band’s 1972 stops in Fort Worth and Houston. This one, however, is all Fort Worth. And there’s a reason for the film’s release beyond simple nostalgia: It’s arriving in…
Stephanie Schumacher balks a little when admitting that, yes, she is putting La Grange up for sale less than two years after opening her Deep Ellum music venue, restaurant and bar.”Well,” she says with a sigh, “it’s kind of been for sale since Day One. That’s what I like to…
If it seems like we’ve been waiting forever for the new Sarah Jaffe release, it’s because we kind of have been. Or, at least, we’ve sure been reporting on it for a while — dating back to July 2010, when Jaffe told us that the new disc was likely going…
There are at least two notable local music connections to noted pop experimentalist Todd Rundgren. The first is the fact that Neon Indian’s chillwaves rode not one, but two Rundgren samples on their debut album Psychic Chasms, with “Deadbeat Summer” using some of Rundgren’s “Izzat Love?” track and “Local Joke”…
For over 25 years, Roger Miret has been the rough-hewed mouthpiece for New York’s Agnostic Front. In that time, his band has become one of the landmark hardcore/metal outfits, releasing hyper-aggressive slabs of animosity that just seem to keep getting better with time. My Life My Way, Agnostic Front’s tenth…
Earlier this week, the Granada Theater announced a new show coming to its room on Saturday, October 8. The show will feature touring headliners Portugal. The Man, plus an opening set from Dallas locals Air Review. Specifically, the inclusion of Air Review is where things get interesting: Back in August, the…
The 35 Denton crew is at it again. As the end of the year approaches, this festival team is busy revamping their image, scoping out bands and getting the word out. Yes, the four-day event called 35 Conferette and North By 35 and held every year the weekend before South…
Another show not mentioned here, but that’s worth noting nonetheless, is happening tonight. Happens every Wednesday night, actually — the weekly jam session at the Prophet Bar hosted by Erykah Badu musical director R.C. Williams.I’ve written about it a lot — last week, when Badu, Mos Def and Talib Kweli…
Earlier this afternoon, the Denton-sprung Neon Indian posted a note to its Facebook page teasing their return performance tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: “I think Fallon is joining the band…” the note read. Considering how geeked out on the band Fallon was the last time the band performed…
