Well, sugars. The summer is just slipping away. Soon it will be fall and time to shed these summer skins, which have been so ready for night swims, debauchery and general trouble-making. We know you are doing your best to make the nights endless, but sometimes you need a little…
Local booking octopus Parade of Flesh is looking for a new logo, but not just any safe, sterile font that makes your eyelids heavy. They’re crowdsourcing this mess, and asking fans to come up with one. If you’ve got time to lean, and knowledge of what fonts are completely off…
About eight months ago, the Deep Ellum Community Association asked for submissions for a new community logo. Looks like they settled on one yesterday, as well as a collection of logos directed at different aspects of Deep Ellum life: Music, art, food, etc. The above submission by Belmont Icehouse won…
See also: Old records are outselling new ones for the first time Remember Lana Del Rey? It’s OK if you don’t, but 10 years from now, we might remember her for a different reason: the death of the debut. I know, technically Born to Die wasn’t a “debut.” But her…
Roky Erickson The Kessler Theater Friday, July 13 Sam was in a tattoo shop Savannah, Georgia when he heard Roky Erickson and decided he needed a two-headed dog tattoo. I spotted him at the Kessler Theater bar, and noted Sam looked very young, probably not much past his late 20s…
If loud noises and capricious amounts of alcohol could scare off the evil spirit of Friday the 13th, then the stage at LaGrange was a safe place. The Von Ehrics and Sleepin’ Rattlers took the floor with Les Pauls popping like firecrackers, and a crowd that was more than willing…
See also: Q&A with Kendall Schmidt of Big Time Rush See also: Photos from Big Time Rush Big Time Rush, Cody Simpson and Rachel Crow Gexa Energy Pavilion Saturday, July 14 Being a parent takes a lot of patience, especially when it comes to your child’s musical taste. Saturday night…
The saga of Andy Dick’s balls, at least in relation to a 2010 incident at Trees, in which he forced them upon the face of audience member Robert Tucker, now looks to be getting even longer. Last summer, Trees responded to the lawsuit filed by Mr. Tucker, saying it should…
See also: The DC9er Mixtape, Resurrected: DJ Sissy Ross Gabriel Mendoza, aka DJ Gabe, has been spinning (literally, he uses turntables) since 2004. His DJ career took off when his friend, Patricia Rodriguez, pitched him on doing a psych/mod night. Gabe’s response was, “Hells yes.” He now spins all over…
See also: Wade Hampton partners with It’ll Do We received word on Tuesday that Ghostbar, the ultra lounge perched on the 33rd floor of the W Hotel, is closing. We also learned the club’s Director of Marketing and Music, Wade Randolph Hampton, is joining forces with party purveyor Brooke Humphries,…
by Aaron Hillis Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there’s something wilder–or at least, more directly stimulating and pure–about Jonathan Demme’s live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking Heads show (and David Byrne’s oversized suit…
Last night I attended a new improvisational night at the Nasher Sculpture Center, led by SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts Dean and pianist José Bowen. He and his band, Jampact, played for close to an hour, dipping in and out of free jazz, funk and electronic pockets. In addition,…
Being in a successful boy band and having a hit TV show is hard work. Just ask Kendall Schmidt of Big Time Rush. Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Schmidt was singing by the age of three and acting by the time he was ten. In 2009, Schmidt was cast…
Roky Erickson, James Hall & The Futura BoldFriday, July 13, at The Kessler TheaterPsychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erickson will be at the Kessler tomorrow night with opening act James Hall, who is legendary in his own right, and one of the greatest front men I’ve ever seen. Easily the top…
See also: Run-D.M.C. reunite for Fun Fun Fun Fest Fun Fun Fun Fest announced their full lineup last night, and as usual, they knocked it out of the park with the additions. Public Image Ltd. should be a trip to see, and they’ve stepped up their hip-hop selection (Danny Brown,…
See also: The Tattoos of Dallas Nightlife Slideshow Photographer Roderick Pullum has been out chronicling nightlife for the Observer for a while now. For the purposes of this post, however, we got him to capture the tattoos imbued in Dallas’ nightlife scene, and the stories that go with them. Jeff…
Saturday at Valley View Center, there’s a singing competition, in conjunction with the upcoming film Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, which stars former American Idol contestant Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston and comes out August 17. Here’s the plot synopsis, via the…
A heavy but measured affair that balanced singer Casey Hess’ pained invocations with a rougher, guitar-driven edge, 2011’s Dark Water set the metronome for Dallas four-piece Descender. Doesn’t hurt that the band is made up of members of Dallas bands like Doosu and Slow Roosevelt — people do love nostalgia…
The trajectory of Dallas’ own Roky Erickson has been quite riveting. From his time in Houston psychedelic pioneers the 13th Floor Elevators to being committed to a mental institution to his strange solo career in the ’80s, his story has all the makings of a Greek myth. (The 2007 documentary…
Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen and Boz Scaggs will join forces and play as one big band. Pretty cool concept, especially since Fagen will get to play “Peg” with McDonald, the original backing vocalist. Scaggs, who spent time growing up in suburban Dallas, will certainly be welcomed with open arms. With…
If you’ve ever seen Irving’s own John Wesley Coleman with the Golden Boys or solo or with whomever he manages to snag as a backing band, you know his live show always holds the promise of going off the rails. Coleman’s output is sort of staggering, and he just released…
The New Orleans duo returns to town after their New Year’s Eve show at Zubar, in a much more fitting venue. Hopefully this time Miss Pussycat will do her acid-trip puppet show, as it’s always the perfect psychedelic appetizer to Quintron’s organ-grinding swamp-tech. Dallas’ Darktown Strutters play one of their…
