Grab Your Copy Of Fight Bite’s Emerald Eyes On Saturday At Good Records

Denton’s Fight Bite keeps getting all sorts of Internet love–last week alone, the band found itself, again, with mentions on Stereogum and Gorilla vs Bear, among other blogs and local publications–despite the fact that the band’s disc won’t see an official national release until October (well, as is currently planned;…

How The Toadies Fit Into Dallas Music: A Flowchart

To end the day today, I give you the above image, a hand-drawn flowchart given to the music editor at our sister paper in St. Louis (ye good ole RFT) after she openly asked (and I’m paraphrasing) “So why, again, do so many people still give a shit about the…

Astronautalis Posts Update on New Album, Including Sample Track

(Annie Ray) Well, speak of the devil. Just a week after we wrote about former SMU student Astronautalis in our DOMA feature, the Best Rap/Hip Hop winner announced some juicy details about his upcoming album. Even better, he posted a track you can stream from his MySpace page. And while…

Probably The Last DOMA Post Of The Year. Also: Videos!

Thanks to the guys at Gutterth, who apparently filmed the whole Best Instrumentalists set at last week’s DOMA Ceremony, you can now relive that pretty awesome showcase of talent–at no cost! Also, thanks to the folks at the Granada, you can also catch individual song performances from the most of…

Lil Wayne’s New Video: The Play-N-Skillz-Produced “Got Money”

We’ve had plenty of Play-N-Skillz talk around this blog and in the paper lately. So, you should be familiar with the half-Venezuelan, half-Argentinean sibling duo behind the burgeoning South Irving hip-hop production team by now. And, if you want to further familiarize yourself with their work, check out this new…

The Cut*Off Come Home After East Coast Shows With Old 97’s

Our favorite local Pixies-influenced garage rock band, The Cut*Off, are coming home after a few tour stops along the east coast opening up for Old 97’s. “The crowd response was great,” says guitarist Jayson Hamilton, which is kind of surprising considering that the bands are so stylistically dissimilar. Good to…

Sample Hal Samples’ Photos From Last Night’s Awards Ceremony

Over on our home page, we’ve got two slideshows of photos by the great Hal Samples from last night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony at the Best Venue-winning Granada Theater. Part I contains 20 color images, while Part II has a dozen black and white shots. I’ll echo music editor…

DOMA: The Winners! Announced! (Yay!)

Thanks to everyone who came out to tonight’s Dallas Observer Music Awards! I, for one, had a grand ol’ time. How couldn’t you have? The performances were amazing: Doug Burr and Sarah Jaffe stunned; The Whiskey Folk Ramblers riled; Lil Wil repped hard; the Best Instrumentalists killed; THe BAcksliders rocked;…

Get Your Mind In The Gutterth

Gutterth’s Compilation One will finally be available tomorrow, July 23. You can take a peek at the artists and songs included on the two-CD compilation at this page on Gutterth’s site. It’s packed with great bands and solo acts–Emil Rapstine, The Great Tyrant and MOM, to name a few—along with…

Good Friday: DOMA Showcase Weekend Edition

So, we’ve told you about a bunch of shows this weekend. There are some great ones tonight (the Hieroglyphics show at the Granada, the London Nights party at minc ), Saturday (Portugal. The Man and Facing New York at House of Blues) and Sunday (Republic Tigers at Hailey’s, Todd Rundgren…

Shiny Happy News From Around The Edges

Shiny Around The Edges has a great new track up on its MySpace page: a live version of “I Hover Above You”, recorded at Sons of Hermann Hall back in February. But even better than the live version is the news that you’ll soon be able to hear the studio…

DOMA XX: Showcase Merchandise Infomation

So, by now, you should know all about Saturday night’s DOMA showcase lineup. And you should also know that, ahem, despite what a certain free daily pick-up around town wrote in its paper today, wristbands (available at the doors to all five venues) will only run you $5. You can…