The fact that the biggest song spawned by Dallas’ homegrown D-Town Boogie movement isn’t from Dallas at all, but rather from a group of performers out of Inglewood, California, has been an obvious point of contention in Dallas hip-hop over the past year or so. But it’s a truth: Cali…
For the past couple of years, local shredders Free Reign have been making their case as being the “heaviest” metal band around. And, with a lineup that boasts the 6-foot-8, 315-pound Dallas Cowboys tackle Marc Colombo on rhythm guitar and vocals, 6-foot-6, 355-pound Cowboys guard Leonard Davis on bass, and…
This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform “Gamelan D’Drum,” a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensemble D’Drum. And though the piece…
Aside from a few tweets and a Show Announcement post that came before this show was moved from Saturday, April 9, to Thursday, April 7, we kind of glossed over the announcement that Band of Horses would be coming through the region for a stop at the Verizon Theatre as…
It’s not often that, when you call up a band for an interview, the conversation gets kicked off by the interview subject asking the interviewer what to do with a vegetable that “looks like an old lady’s finger.” And yet, when I recently caught up with Tokyo Police Club drummer…
Denton/Fort Worth band Eaton Lake Tonics sent out a press release this morning announcing that, “after 1,240+ beers, 20 some-odd hissy fits, 6 years, 4 LPs, 2 EPs, 0 deaths and 200+ live performances,” they’ll be calling it quits.The band, whose members most recently included Tony Ferraro (Fate Lions, Matthew…
Yesterday, the final chip fell in place, as the NFL announced that Lea Michele, who plays the powerfully voiced and annoyingly chipper Rachel Berry on the FOX series Glee, has been confirmed to open the inside-Cowboys Stadium Super Bowl performances with a rendition of “America the Beautiful,” before Christina Aguilera…
In his 73 years, Peter Max has watched the inter-generational shift of modern music begin as a segment of counterculture and eventually become a staple of mainstream consciousness. And, this past weekend, at the Wisby-Smith Fine Art Gallery, Max brought some of his work to Dallas for the nostalgic enjoyment…
We’re just a few days off from The Flaming Lips’ and Neon Indian’s shared Thursday night bill at the Palladium Ballroom, but, turns out, each of the acts’ frontmen are already paired up, working on their anticipated collaboration.Per his Twitter feed, lead lip Wayne Coyne arrived in New York last…
After a three-year hiatus, the Toadies will return to headline the annual Observer-hosted St. Patrick’s Day Concert on Greenville Avenue, which this year will take place on Saturday, March 12. As in previous years, with last year’s festivities serving as a rare exception, this year’s concert will again be hosted…
What with all this puppet-, 35 Conferette-, Wilco-, Starplex- and KXT-related excitement of late, we’ve let a few other noteworthy news items slip through the cracks. After the jump, we remedy that — bullet-point style!…
Quite the to-do yesterday evening on ye olde Twitter, as some advantageous Wilco fan started blasting out the news they’d seen on the band’s web site announcing a handful of southeast shows from the band in early May — a handful that includes a Saturday, May 7, stop in Denton…
After three years of existing under the name of Superpages.com Center, the Live Nation-owned and -operated concert amphitheater located in Fair Park announced today a new corporate sponsor for its facilities — and with it, yet another name in a long line of names.Since opening in 1988 as the Coca-Cola…
Yesterday morning, on the way in to work, I flipped the dial, as usual, to KKXT-91.7 FM, otherwise known around town as KXT, the just-over-a-year-old music-only NPR affiliate. What happened next was deeply unsettling: I was mentally transported back to Glen Lake Methodist Camp, circa 1996 — transported to a…
PM Lounge, one of the only venues in Dallas of late with the motivation, knowledge and budget to routinely bring big-name electronic artists from around the US and abroad into town, will be hosting DJ Tim Sweeney for this week’s installment of its no-cover Le Magnifique Thursdays.[Update: This show has…
If you’ve ever wondered about the difference between an Irish pub and an English pub, well, The Cavern will soon be able to set you straight, thanks to the face-lift it’s currently undergoing — a renovation that will, in the very near future, find the long-running Lower Greenville establishment start…
Yesterday, man-about-local-music Michael Briggs dropped me a line to give me the heads up on his latest venture — just another in a long line that already includes show booking and promotion, podcasting, running a record label and releasing awesome Denton-centric compilation albums, all under his Gutterth brand name. This…
Being stuck in traffic in Los Angeles, on a rainy day no less, would piss off most anyone, but, even in the face of this annoyance, Craig Mabbitt, frontman for the metal band Escape the Fate, remains the definition of congeniality. During the course of our conversation in anticipation of…
Fences is an indie pop outfit masterminded by Christopher Mansfield, an intense 27-year-old who now calls Seattle his home. Originally from Boston, Mansfield has the look of a scrawny punk, but the guy’s music is a fascinating amalgamation of emo and alt-country. His songs have drawn comparisons to everyone from…
Is there anyone in the world better suited to sing the National Anthem than Christina Aguilera? Probably, but the NFL and Fox obviously don’t think so, which is why they just confirmed that the Burlesque star will be tossing vocal runs into every nook and cranny of the song at…
At this point, Austin’s Bob Schneider is far more than the guy who dated Sandra Bullock, the guy who fronted the raunchy Scabs, or the guy who seems to play Dallas every other month. His 2009 album, Lovely Creatures, his first release for Dallas’ Kirtland Records was perhaps his most…
On Tuesday, Wayne Coyne posted a tweet indicating that a collaboration between his band The Flaming Lips and the similarly I-35-sprung Neon Indian was in the works — even going so far as to post to the social networking site a link to a 46-second clip of himself playing a…
