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…
This weekend’s biggest show will give local music fans a good reason to get outside: On Saturday, Homegrown Music & Art Festival will feature performances from Neon Indian, School of Seven Bells and a handful of other bands with local ties at Main Street Garden Park in downtown Dallas. Before…
I received a press release yesterday about which I have enormously mixed emotions. Because on the one hand, The Who is my Favorite Rock and Roll Band of All Time, precariously perched just one rung above The Clash. I’ve experienced The Who in myriad iterations — at Reunion in the…
Well, things sure are getting down to the nitty-gritty for Fair To Midland, who are now just about a month off from the release of their long-awaited, fourth full-length album release, Arrows and Anchors. And, as we approach that date, it’s no surprise that more and more information is leaking…
Seryn just keeps getting more and more and more and more love from the national media these days. Last week, it came once again courtesy of the folks at Paste, whose editor-in-chief and co-founder, Josh Jackson, just can’t get enough of those inspiring kids from Denton. After already naming the…
So. This month, the thirteenth day of the month has fallen on a Friday. Dun, dun, dun! Here in Dallas, that’s not necessarily a bad thing: Since midnight last night, folks have been flocking to Elm Street Tattoo for their $13 Friday the 13th tattoo as part of Oliver Peck’s…
We’ve known for about a month at this point that Erykah Badu and fellow funk space cadet Flying Lotus were up to something together. And not just a music video, either — although the two do already have two such shared projects under their collective caps. This one, we’ve been…
Tomorrow night may be Friday the 13th, but there’s nothing altogether frightening about this design from Dallas-based graphic designer Antonio F. Mondragon-Becker aimed at promoting a Kessler Theater bill featuring Zoe Keating and Tiger Darrow…
OK, that’s a lie. We don’t really know who broke Adele’s heart and propelled her to write the already-gone-platinum break-up album that is her 21. But we do know that the disc is pretty phenomenal. And, as such, yeah, we got a smirk or two watching the above clip from…
The folks at Good Records sure are having some fun with all the news breaking out of their camp over the past couple of days. But, rest assured, most of it is just that: Fun.That cryptic tweet and Facebook post the store made today? The one about being “a part…
Ah, music festivals. You just know that summer is truly here when musicians begin crawling out of their usual habitat of dark clubs and windowless bars, and emerge into the sunlight to spend an afternoon playing live music in the great outdoors. The Homegrown Music and Art Festival, held at…
Not a bad early start to the weekend tonight, as both local and national talent serve up some tasty music this evening…
He’s the chipper one in the band, the one who wears the iconic coke-bottle glasses and the one who can’t get through an entire set without smiling ear to ear and greeting the crowd with a hearty, “Hey, everybody!” But, let’s face it, when it comes to the Old 97’s,…
In the last quarter, we’ve seen a handful of British artists arrive at the top of American charts. We’ve had Adele, with her soul sound that draws in people over 30. Ellie Goulding, too, with her hipster-approved Swedish bicycle. Rapper Tinie Tempah, meanwhile, has doled out some Yeezy-tier productions. Now…
Fleet Foxes, Cave SingersPalladium BallroomMay 11, 2011Better Than: Seeing a bad band in a good venue. Based on the release of the Fleet Foxes’ brilliant, self-titled 2008 debut — along with their new record Helplessness Blues, which was released last week — it wouldn’t be hard for one to predict…
In 2008, the DIY space in Denton called House of Tinnitus reached its peak. With growing interest across the whole metroplex, the house, owned and booked by Rob Buttrum, was even becoming one of the national hotspots for touring noise bands. “People were traveling way out of their way to…
The Verizon Theatre welcomes this week two artists who’ve managed to be widely underappreciated, despite residing squarely in the pop spotlight. Bruno Mars, the baby-faced doo-wop reinterpreter, gets fangirls for his sugary ballad “Just the Way You Are,” but he goes largely unheralded for cowriting B.O.B.’s “Nothin’ on You” and…
American audiences were first given a taste of Aussie pop pin-up Kylie Minogue with 1987’s hit cover of Little Eva’s Goffin/King-penned “The Loco-Motion,” and since then she has managed to stay relevant both here and abroad while aging like a fine wine, acting and recording more music. Eliciting the same…
With his thick Scottish accent and humorous remarks, Stuart Braithwaite, leader of the post-rock instrumental band Mogwai, comes across as a likeable rogue. Considering that his band’s stock and trade is music that features dense and distorted waves of noise and feedback, Braithwaite’s easygoing candor is unexpected. But a quick…
Ray Wylie Hubbard’s making up for lost time. After frittering away his youth chasing women and a never-ending buzz, Hubbard got sober (with Stevie Ray Vaughan’s help), then got to work. Over the last 17 years he’s released eight uniformly terrific studio albums traversing the Texas country landscape from parched…
