If known only for being a member of The Buggles, keyboardist Geoff Downes would still have a place in rock history. “Video Killed The Radio Star” was the first video played on MTV way back in 1981. But Downes’ greater commercial success came as a member of Asia and Yes…
As we sit in our cubicles, school chairs or desks today, the Texas sky is relentless with its 73-degree beauty, tempting all of us to turn on some tunes, throw up our hands and have recess. Texas has just reached the perfect time of year when all of the alchemy…
Last night, Eric Clapton and Dallas-born guitarist Doyle Bramhall II set fire to their Stratocasters’ fretboards. Their fingers slid across the neck, bending strings until they bled the blues. Feeding off a musical energy straight from the Crossroads, the talented guitarists empowered some of Clapton’s greatest hits with a musical…
Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we’ll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. Whiskey Girl Saloon’s benefit event is in the running for this week’s best concert posters. The event…
This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we’ll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top…
Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company died after years of alcohol addiction at the age of 39 on Saturday, March 16, 2013. He was born in a factory town in Ohio. Industry was in his blood; it was in his songs. When some of us were in…
Greg Richling, bassist for The Wallflowers, was pretty happy when Jacob Dylan called him and decided to get The Wallflowers back together in 2011. It had been over six years since the band had recorded and Dylan’s solo career had brought him some of the best accolades of his career…
Photo by Jacob KatelWelcome to Ravetopia Society got the best of ya? Go to Ultra Music Festival and leave the normal world behind. Here, you can feel free to get half naked, customize your brain, and put some neon in your life. Deep inside the endless well of bass, you…
Spooky Folk, Babar, New Science Projects, Peopleodeon, Cool Womb Wednesday, March 20, at J&J’s Pizza, Free They should rename this show “Musical Chairs of Denton.” In celebrating his 20-somethingth birthday, Chris Bryan of Peopleodeon has put together a hefty bill of bands, considering the mere three hours the five groups…
You did St. Patrick’s day. Now you feel rough. If only, you think to yourself, there was some sort of beach where I could relax with a cheap cocktail on the sand and maybe listen to some music. But you’re in Dallas, and you’re at least five hours drive from…
This was my first time braving Greenville for St. Patrick’s. I was expecting it to be bad. What I was not expecting was the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah. As I, the only sober person on the entirety of Greenville, struggled through a crowd roughly comparable to the population…
This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you dispatches from the SXSW madness. Here are the nine worst things we saw. See also: -There’s an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don’t Need…
This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you only the greatest moments from last week’s SXSW madness. Here are the 12 best shows and moments we saw. See also: -There’s an App to Get You Laid at…
Pick up a copy of Official Truth 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera at any local bookstore or online at Amazon. Rex will be signing copies of the book at Barnes & Noble on Northwest Highway in Dallas on Tuesday night, March 19, at 7:00 p.m. Back in the…
Photo by Liz TracyOn day one of Ultra Music Festival 2013, the main-stage DJ surprisingly played Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “By the Way.” It’s not one of the Cali crew’s early songs, but it’s a hit that came out when about 60 percent of the crowd (now dancing in tutus,…
The Pixies’ first reunion produced one song–Kim Deal’s “Bam Thwok”–and a bunch of chances for people who were born between Surfer Rosa and Tromp le Monde to see them live for the first time, and was thus low-risk-enough to be almost universally popular. Now a possible Pixies re-reunion is on…
Snoop Dogg delivered an hour-plus of his finest yesterday on Greenville Avenue for the Observer St. Patrick’s Day Concert. We had a fine contingent of writers there, but I, your highly addled editor, was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-35 on the Megabus headed back from Austin. Throughout the afternoon,…
Photo by Liz TracyThey danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013’s three-day shit fest — they were the ones…
“All the single dudes put up your phone. Now all the single ladies put up your phone. Turn to the nearest person with a phone up. Now type in your phone number. Now you have something to do after this.” That was Chuck D, talking from the Doritos Main Stage…
Photos by Marco TorresSwag is rampant again at SXSW this year.For every insightful conversation I have heard or had at SXSW over the years, whether it was talking to Matt Pinfield while walking the streets of Austin talking about David Bowie, or telling The Clash’s Mick Jones that he was…
Photo By Craig HlavatyWith more work, maybe Dave Grohl (seated on drums) can finally find success in the music business. Being a successful musician really has to be a slice of heaven. And of course the chicks are great. It’s why from the beginning of time men (and women) have…
The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards were handed out on Thursday, March 13, and though it was happening right in Austin I’ll forgive you for not noticing. In any case I’m not sure how you can have an awards show at SXSW without handing out a prize for Least Essential Social…
