I doubt anyone will mistake the straight-to-DVD release Jack and Jill vs. the World as a great movie (the above trailer certainly doesn’t imply as much), but that’s not why I bring it up. This is: You’ll find Dallas indie pop act Smile Smile’s sweet little ditty “Anymore” (a choice…
Let’s say a) you’re lazy and haven’t run out to your nearest Observer pickup spot yet, or b) you live in one of the more outlying areas of our circulation and you won’t get your copy of this week’s paper until later today (or early tomorrow)–and yet, despite this, you…
Sneed’s taking off. (Wade Griffith) Local folk singer/songwriter Dylan Sneed says he’s had enough of Dallas. So, at the end of August, he plans on relocating to South Carolina. After spending most of the past year touring with Kristy Kruger, Sneed was getting set to record the follow-up to 2007’s…
The Disney Channel musical Camp Rock (as seen in the above trailer)–which features tween sensations the Jonas Brothers and potential Disney star-in-the-making Demi Lovato and focuses on the happenings at a music-centric summer camp–raked in a whopping 8.9 million viewers on its Friday night debut, making it the second-highest Disney…
…and, in turn, the album draws a 6.9 rating. Which is…OK by Pitchfork standards, and far more than a sentence like “Dual Hawks is, for lack of a better word, a double album” (as seen in the review) would itself merit, considering that, even in the writer’s usage, “double album”…
I imagine Future Audio’s equipment is more advanced than this. Just guessing. A Friend of DC9 clued us into this Craigslist ad this afternoon, which promises “one of Dallas’s [sic] top” and “first rate” recording studios in exchange for a cool two hundred grand. And, yeah, it made us curious,…
Make sure you grab your hard copy of the Observer tomorrow, folks. It’s kind of a big issue. Inside it, you’ll find our 2008 Dallas Observer Music Awards ballot. That’s right: We’re fast-approaching our 20th annual DOMAs. So grab your copy and send in your votes. Or follow the instructions…
Keven, with some dude name Roky. ‘member when we posted the new Old 97’s video for “Dance With Me” a few weeks back? Well, at the time, Robert promised us a Q&A with the video’s director Keven McAlester. And now he’s got it up on Unfair Park. Check it out…
So this may seem slightly promotional right now, but it’s for a bloody good cause. (Get it? Bloody! It’s a blood drive! Damn, we’re good.) Anyway, KZPS-FM Lone Star 92.5’s 34th Annual Blood Drive is in full swing. (And yeah, we know what you’re thinking: 34th annual?! Well, think back…
Literally, just last week, Noah Bailey and I were whining to one another about the lack of in-store performances at Good Records of late. Basically, it meant our weekend days had become really boring. Now, I can’t speak for Noah, but my weekend days had basically devolved into a weird…
The local pop rockers in Roy Bennett have just issued a new single and accompanying video–and both show a surprising amount of sophistication for a trio of slackers from Lake Highlands. Actually, Ben Templeton, D. Hayes Smith, and Collyer Spreen all work at area music studios as engineers, so it…
Denton gothic folk-rock collective Pinebox Serenade has finally completed Let The River Take Them Home, the follow-up to the band’s 2005 self-titled LP, and the band has a little incentive for you to get your order in now. The album won’t be officially released until next month, with a July…
The Morning News and this Shreveport TV station seem to have things fairly well covered on this front, so we’re not gonna add any more to the story, really, other than to point it out, in case you missed it. Here’s the bare-bones basics behind the Garland’s Zion Gate recording…
That sea…so arrogant right now…that sea… (Melanie Gomez) If you can’t wait until the October release of Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian on Nova Posta Vinyl, you can hear Matthew and the Arrogant Sea tomorrow night at Sons of Hermann Hall, where they headline SEED, an Art Conspiracy…
Fans who made it down to Hayden’s recent performance on the June 14 might have noticed that the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room, the spot that housed Hayden’s performance, is now called the Pontiac Garage…
Kelly Christian can sing, we think. Although local electro lounge band Shock of Pleasure’s new album doesn’t hit the streets until mid-September, folks can get a (pricey) taste of the band tomorrow night when it performs at The Mansion on Turtle Creek. The band will be playing the bar of…
It’s one thing for Jakob Dylan to skip Dallas, and I know we get Tom Waits soon and Steely Dan in the near future, but this sucks: Legendary roots rock act Los Lobos has just released its upcoming tour itinerary, and the closest the band will come to the Metroplex…
You may remember about a month back when we mentioned Jermaine Dupri’s interest in a Dallas singer nicknamed Phatfffat, who, oddly enough, he found online. Well, I’ll have Sachse resident Dondria Nicole’s full Youtube-to-major label success story in my column next week, so keep an eye out for that. And…
In celebration of Black Music Month (proclaimed by someone who doesn’t care about black people, if you ask Kanye) and Juneteenth, Black Cinematheque presents a free screening of Stephanie Black’s award-winning film Africa Unite on Friday night. Africa Unite follows family members of the late reggae legend Bob Marley as…
We’re so into metal right now. Have to be–Ozzfest is only, what, like seven weeks away or something? Right! So that’s why we’re pointing this out: Somewhat frequent Observer contributor D.X. Ferris just penned himself a book on Slayer’s Reign In Blood. It’s the 57th book in Continuum’s lauded 33…
There’s something quite Freudian about this shot. (Steve Thornton) Dallas-based country artist Zane Lewis, who has been the subject of a heated debate in our comments section since we discussed his sound back in April, has been nominated for the Independent Artist Of The Year award in the 6th Annual…
Idolator heps us to the fact that Dallas’ own Norah Jones’ “Sunrise” (see above video) has been included on the March of Dimes benefit CD, Stork Tunes, a disc that aims to relax soon-to-mothers as they go through labor. Awesome! No, it’s not as cool as, say, Rockabye Baby!: Lullaby…
