Another year, another Dallas Observer Music Awards season down the drain. Gotta say, though, this year’s season felt especially epic. Many thanks to the Toadies, the Old 97’s, Erykah Badu, Centro-matic, The Cannabinoids, Sarah Jaffe, A.Dd+, Burning Hotels and RTB2 for their highlighted roles in this year’s festivities. Thanks, as…
Alright, y’all. It’s almost time. In just a few hours, over at the House of Blues, we’ll be announcing the winners for your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards (refresh your memory of the nominees here). The event opens to the public at 8 p.m. and will kick off immediately with…
We’re still five months away from the newly named 35 Denton music festival, which will take place in Denton on March 8 through March 12, and the festival is gearing up for another big year.You might remember our coverage of the festival’s previous three years in which DC9 at Night…
Regular readers of DC9 and regular drinkers at just about any North Texas honky-tonk are likely familiar with Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos by now. Between celebrating a great victory in the 2009 Shiner Rising Star Contest (where they won a recording contract) and suffering unimaginable loss when…
Love ’em or hate ’em, 3 Doors Down have been around since the mid-’90s, with five albums in their canon. They’re currently touring on last year’s mega-selling Time of My Life, but you can still hear songs on the radio from their debut album. Led by vocalist (and the band’s…
With the huge choice of groups performing at the DOMA Showcase this past weekend, it was nearly impossible to see every performer on your preferred list. The zombies and turtle-lovers trying to be zombies along Deep Ellum probably made things harder. Fortunately, as a witness to wit, yours truly was…
B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray was one of my favorite albums last year. The album’s thematic diversity, B.o.B’s keen verses and the ensemble of guest vocalists provided a lot of personality. Hell, Bobby Ray would have been my favorite hip-hop album of 2010 if Kanye didn’t swipe the…
Casey Hess of the Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated Descender (Best Hard Rock Act) is — perhaps too quietly these days — one of Dallas’ great rock heroes. Since his stints in a few influential and popular area bands going back to the 1990s glory days of Elm, Main and Commerce,…
In case you were wondering, the above tweet from Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller on Saturday afternoon was not a joke. Honestly, we thought it was at first, too. Then we ran into Miller in the backstage area for Saturday’s main stage.”No,” he told us, “it’s totally true.”…
Turns out the announcement last month that Deep Ellum venue La Grange was going up for sale isn’t the new only development at the bar/venue/restaurant: Today, the owners of the room, Rob and Stephanie Schumacher, have announced that they’ve officially brought area promoter and talent buyer Scott Beggs in to…
It’s tough to look back on an event like Saturday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and try to come up with a conclusive best-moments list. With 52 bands playing 10 stages over the course of a ten-hour period all throughout Deep Ellum, there was just too much going on;…
It’s hard to imagine how a one-hit-wonder like Vanilla Ice has managed to stay in the limelight for so many years after his hit “Ice Ice Baby” grew tired on the top of the charts. Alas, in 1998, the troubled rapper had a small resurgence thanks to a change in…
It was a good weekend. Zombies, Sarah Jaffe’s badass new haircut, the Toadies and much, more. Yeah, we’re gonna mark down this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase as a success. Oh, and we got plenty of photos. So, before we head to tomorrow night’s free-to-attend Dallas Observer Music Awards…
Judas Priest, Black Label Society and Thin Lizzy Allen Event Center Sunday, October 16, 2011 Better than: getting all decked out in studs and leather and going to Oak Lawn. Back in the ’80s, when Allen, Texas, was nothing more than a speed trap between Dallas and Oklahoma City, folks…
The Toadies, the Old 97’s, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Main Stage Saturday, October 15, 2011 On Saturday afternoon, Deep Ellum boasted a buzz the area hadn’t felt in years, as the Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase brought together four acts that have defined the…
UPDATE (Sunday, 10/16): We got your photos from the main stage, and the night in Deep Ellum in our slide shows. Much more to come. What a night. OK, here we go, here we go. So, the Rangers game is in full swing, which can you follow over on Unfair Park,…
UPDATE (Sunday, 10/16): We got your photos from the main stage, and the night in Deep Ellum in our slide shows. Much more to come. What a night. OK, here we go, here we go. Right now, Sarah Jaffe’s on the main stage over here at Elm and Good Latimer–kicking off…
This is one of our favorite weekends of the year, where a good handful of acts nominated for the Dallas Observer Music Awards perform all over Deep Ellum on Saturday night. The much-anticipated headliners, Toadies, Old 97’s, Centro-Matic and Sarah Jaffe will perform on Elm Street in the lot across…
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we’ll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best New Act, Best DJ, and Best…
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we’ll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Instrumentalist, Best Radio Show, and Best…
Gotta give Erykah Badu credit. When the Dallas-based neo-soul icon does something, she rarely does what’s expected of her. Today, somewhat out of the blue, Badu released a new music video clip for an unreleased track, “Out My Mind, Just in Time (Movement II),” which serves as a continuation of…
Dawes, Blitzen TrapperDadaOctober 13, 2011Better than: another Dawes show. Oh wait! So: Another Dawes show. “We’ve been looking forward to this one for a while,” Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith revealed to his sold-out crowd of 600-plus on the outdoor, back patio stage at Dada last night, shortly after his band…
