There may be no more difficult question to answer in modern music than the tricky “What does Portugal. The Man sound like?” You could try by pointing to the alt-country twang on radio hit “People Say” or the experimental fuzz and toy pianos heard on Waiter: You Vultures!, or even…
In this week’s paper, something of a special treat: an exclusive interview with Wayne Coyne, frontman for noted Oklahoma’s psych-pop heroes The Flaming Lips. Coyne, as you may know, has been spending a whole lot of time in Dallas lately. And not just for his fairly standard trips to the…
So. The end of the world: It may or may not becoming this weekend. We’re still not really sure.This much we’re quite certain about, though: Nice timing on Cocky Americans’ part, releasing today the music video for their end-of-the-world-themed song, “2012.” Woo! Just in time for the apocalypse! It’s the…
There are a lot of different things one could say about of Montreal — like, say, for starters, that the band isn’t from Montreal at all, but from Athenes, Georgia. Furthermore, trying to pin a genre on them is a challenge; they’ve flip-flopped between a multitude of different sounds over…
Everybody’s going to be doing a brand new dance at one of tonight’s shows…..
Truly one of the seminal bands in Dallas history, The Nervebreakers’ heyday came way back in 1977 when the band got the chance to open up for a Dallas date with Ramones. Then, in 1978, they did the same for the Sex Pistols — and even got a mention in…
Since the mid-’70s, Willie Nelson has been doing three things: smoking pot, playing music and throwing a Fourth of July picnic. They’ve always been huge ordeals, attracting A-list celebrities, top country music artists and, of course, country music fans. Nelson even held the festival in the Fort Worth Stockyards for…
Three dudes who were once local but aren’t any longer — Will Johnson (Austin), Josh T. Pearson (Paris) and Robert Gomez (Seattle) — are up to some cool things of late. One just released a new EP. Another gets some lingering post-SXSW exposure. And the third needs your help in…
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended — no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Even though they play cover songs, you’d be remiss to think of The Mumbles as a bunch of guys…
Quite the diverse trio of shows in our area this evening as a fine local act and a couple of touring combos make things awfully interesting…
The saga surrounding the Irving Entertainment Center looks like it’s only going to continue for the next couple of weeks, as the Irving mayoral race will now go to a runoff election, set to take place on June 18. This time, though, the center isn’t being challenged by former Irving…
Astronautalis may actually call Jacksonville, Florida, his home base, but, as he told the crowds before during his Homegrown Festival performance on Saturday, he’s always considered Dallas a home, too. And, hey, we’re proud to call him our own, as well — especially after he dropped an insane seven and…
Last week, you may recall, we passed along word that our friends over at Gorilla Vs. Bear are going all legit and everything and throwing an honest-to-goodness music festival at the Granada Theater on Saturday, July 23. We knew, at the time, that Tim DeLaughter’s new band, Preteen Zenith, would…
We had some fun yesterday trying to guess the bill for the 2011 Austin City Limits Musical Festival — and, hey, we were right about Kanye West, if nothing else. Early this morning, the folks behind the festival announced for full lineup for their end-of-summer offering. And, as expected, the…
There’s a lot to enjoy about the above video bio for Sarah Jaffe, which the folks at Kirtland Records had been sneakily keeping under wraps until they released it on Friday as part of a little love sent Jaffe’s way from the folks at Teen Vogue. For starters: The line,…
It’s been a couple months since the DEA conducted an early morning raid on the Dallas home of Lancaster native Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough, only to come up empty in their search and to leave the premises without arresting anyone.At the time, a spokesperson for the platinum-selling rapper — known simply…
Tomorrow, we’ve been promised, the folks behind the Austin City Limits Music Festival will unveil the lineup of bands playing their 2011 offering, which, this year, for its 10th anniversary, will take place in Austin’s Zilker Park on the third weekend of September.And credit where it’s due: The organizers are…
Hey, remember back in April when we debuted our new, free, monthly concert series called Locals Only? Of course you do.That first run was a damn good time, too, with pretty stellar performances courtesy of Whiskey Folk Ramblers and Kirby Brown.Now it’s time to do it all over again: On…
Not a bad Monday night of music as a cool Americana goddess and a quartet of ungodly metal acts hit our area this evening. And, yes, Josh Groban, too…
In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we point you in the direction of a piece penned by former Observer music editor Zac Crain that ended up as the cover story back in 2001. The subject of Crain’s lengthy story: The pop-rockin’ Chomsky, which appeared poised to…
Sad news today, as the word has spread that Cali Swag Disctrict member M-Bone was killed in a drive-by shooting this morning in Inglewood, California. The 22-year-old rapper was one-fourth of the group behind last year’s massive hit single, “Teach Me How To Dougie,” in which the California-based crew shouted…
In this week’s print edition of the Observer, we’ll have more — much, much more — on this past weekend’s Homegrown Music and Art Festival in downtown Dallas’ Main Street Garden Park. But, for now, some brief notes…
