Austin City Limits is still over two months off, but you’d never know that based on the ACL Fest-based Myspace pleas flying around the Web these days. At least four local acts by my count–did I miss any?–have been shooting out Myspace spam, angling for fans to vote for them…
Tomorrow night, you can turn on VH1 and catch VH1 Rock Honors: The Who, a star-studded tribute to Daltrey, Townshend and Co. But if live performance is more your thing, you might prefer this note: On August 27, Dallas Theater Center will open a month-long run of The Who’s Tommy…
Like a bat outta hell. At a concert in the United Kingdom last night, Meat Loaf apparently…well…OK, according to this report, he really sucked. Like really sucked. Like streams of cars were seen leaving the show only minutes after it started. Read this: “Responding to previous stories and taking advantage…
There Greggo is again! As we told you Monday, the Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony will feature huge celebrity presenters like Burton “We don’t care how you git here, folks, just git here!” Gilliam, who we surely chose because of his extensive knowledge and support of the Dallas-Fort Worth music…
Will Johnson, at the Granada a few weeks back. (Brian Harkin) Speaking of Dan’s Silverleaf, the Captain’s Dead music blog–which, really, is about as close as there is to a Centro-matic-specific blog out there–has a nice little live recording from Centro-matic’s performance at Dan’s that took place a few weeks…
Is Brian Lane back in town for an impromptu Slobberbone reunion? 6’ 7” Slobberbone bassist Brian Lane was sighted last weekend taking in an American Werewolf Academy show at the Barley House. Kind of hard to miss him, really. And while it’s not surprising that the current Florida resident would…
Lucero’s Ben Nichols growled his way through an hour-and-a-half set for a packed house at Dada last night (Gloria R. Levario) Ben Tapia, the new co-owner at Club Dada, caught a little flak in our comments section when, in the piece I wrote about him trying to revamp the club’s…
People in office jobs find ways to make cubicle dwelling tolerable. Humble three-wall enclosures often feature weird toys, movie/music posters and photos of good times had elsewhere. Lulls in activity often result in the sending of YouTube videos, cute photos of animals that are photoshopped and links…like this one I…
Someone asked about this earlier today…so, sure, why the hell not? Let’s announce the lineup for our Tuesday, July 22, awards show ceremony at the Granada Theater right now! Well, OK, how about after the jump? Yeah? Cool. LET’S DO THIS!…
It’s not really that difficult a question when you think about it. C’mon, I know you can do it… Yep: The Old 97’s’ “Dance With Me” video, as directed by Keven McAlester. If you, like I, were awake at, oh, 2:11 last night/early this morning, you woulda seen it, too…
You might recall a while back when I reviewed I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On My Way, Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond’s fine solo debut. I, like a lot of other folks, went ga ga over the album’s potent mix of old school religion and psychedelic folk/pop…
In an interview posted earlier this week to Billboard’s Web site, Brandon Curtis, frontman for former Dallas act Secret Machines, discusses his band’s new record label (World’s Fair instead of Reprise), new record (currently set for an October release) and new “hard to describe” sound. He also discusses continuing on…
On Saturday, July 19, we’re gonna be taking over a large chunk of Lowest Greenville to bring you 31 of the best acts in town–all of which are nominated somewhere in our ballot for this year’s 20th anniversary awards. This isn’t our awards show; that’s happening three days later at…
The “Argh”.I.A.A. strikes again! This NBC 5 report says the yesterday’s bust on a CD and DVD pirating operation not too far from TCU in Fort Worth is apparently “the largest such pirating operation ever taken down in the U.S.” Which, turns out, is fairly surprising… mostly ’cause the FWPD…
I think it’s safe to say that Observer photographer Brian Harkin hit this assignment out of the park. Amazing stuff. –Pete Freedman…
Looks like Picnic’s gonna be just fine in this post-PPT world. He’s sure as hell staying busy enough: He came in third place at the Red Bull Big Tune Beat Battle in Houston; he and the rest of The Cannabinoids are working on something super top-secret and, if I may…
“This is probably the last Eagles album that we’ll ever make,” Don Henley told CNN of the band’s 2007 steaming shit platter Long Road Out of Eden. Yeah, but he made similar promises about the chances of an Eagles reunion right up until their 1994 Hell Freezes Over tour, so…
Shit’s about to get really real in here. (Gabriel Hernandez) Like, OMG, guys! This is big! Not quite Forever the Sickest Kids getting played on The Hills, but still… Anyway, on this week’s season finale to MTV’s The Real World: Hollywood (which, between you and me, is easily the worst…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Dada is confrimed. (Tessa Angus) Ran into Dada co-owner Ben Tapia last night when I stopped by to see Burning Brides after catching David Banner. He offered this update: The BRMC show we talked about yesterday? It’s been confirmed. –Pete Freedman…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Country/Roots Act Eleven Hundred Springs 100 Damned Guns Doug Burr Tejas Brothers The King Bucks Quebe Sisters Band Burr’s up for six other awards; Eleven…
BET’s “Rap City” comes on at 4 in the afternoon in this here time zone, which means that in, oh, about five minutes or so, you can flip on your cable box and see Dallas’ own Play-N-Skillz appearing on the show. (Sorry for the late notice, but we just heard.)…
Models and clothes like this will be on display at The Door tomorrow. (Nice.) Tomorrow night, The Door in Deep Ellum will be filled with skinny, pretty, intricately styled people, and on this occasion it won’t just be emo boys. The Pin Show is a showcase of local fashion talent,…
