Music

Quite the hopping Thursday evening we have here. Enough to make a lowly music critic like myself wish he could be in two — maybe even three — places at once…

[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 2 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

In case you were wondering, no, this poster isn’t three-dimensional. Not on a computer screen at least. Seriously. We just busted out a pair of 3-D glasses to check. No dice.But it’s still a cool visual…

Regular DC9 readers should know the name Datahowler. Or, if not Datahowler, then Objektiv One. As you might recall, they’re the same person — one Ross Edman. Edman used to go by the name of Objektiv One, back when he was making waves around the Internet as a mashup artist…

As you may have noticed, much of the music section in this week’s Observer is dedicated to the cause of counting down the 20 best local releases of 2010. Next week’s issue, meanwhile, will heavily focus on the most anticipated releases of 2011.And few bands pop up on both lists,…

In this week’s paper, my fellow music editor from the Houston Press, Chris Gray, checks in to let Observer readers know a little something something about Woodlands native Hayes Carll, who stops through Dallas tonight with Cary Ann Hearst and Bobby Bare Jr. for a gig at the Granada Theater…

Diddy had a pretty busy year in 2010, what with a starring role in Get Him To the Greek and keeping up with his brands. Oh, and he also released an album called Last Train to Paris with his new group, Diddy-Dirty Money. The latest single from the group is…

This was bound to be a big year in local music. After an impressive 2009 that mostly saw notable debut or breakthrough releases from previously unheralded area performers (see: Telegraph Canyon, Teenage Cool Kids, Neon Indian, The O’s and Air Review), we knew, heading into this year, that the big…

Hayes Carll is probably the pre-eminent thinking-man’s Texas musician of his generation. He’s rowdy and rockin’ enough to impress the ballcap-clad yee-hawers, but thoughtful and witty enough to impress mentors (and now co-writers) Guy Clark and Ray Wylie Hubbard. On this trip through town, the singer-songwriter from The Woodlands comes…

Sometimes, there’s nothing more apt than a cliché, and so it is for Cake, a band best defined by the old chestnut, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” While there are of course some progressions to be found on the band’s soon-to-be-released sixth full-length release—like the fact that this…

Formed in Austin in 2004, Ghostland Observatory has evolved its sound from the raw, noisy electro-funk of its earlier releases into something more danceable. Equal parts electro, psychedelia and glam-rock, the group’s songs pivot on Aaron Behrens’ signature vocals, which resemble Freddie Mercury’s voice fused with Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s, and the…

The Old 97’s closed out 2009 in fairly spectacular fashion, performing for four straight nights at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum and recording those sessions for release at a later date. Unfortunately, the band has thus far only released three of the tracks from those performances via a…

2010 started off strong in Denton. In March, the North by 35 Music Conferette (recently re-branded for 2011 as the 35 Conferette) brought a flurry of activity in the city’s music community, both within the festival and in its satellite shows. For a few days, bands and solo artists from…

If roots-rock is your thing, well, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better triple-bill—on New Year’s Eve or otherwise—than this Kessler Theater offering of Centro-matic, Slobberbone and RTB2. Individually, all of these acts are forces to be reckoned with, each more than capable of offering up a soul-cleansing performance that…

I guess things are ramping up for New Year’s Eve, ’cause tonight’s pretty stacked for a Wednesday, y’all…..

[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 3 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

After years of extensive research, we finally feel as if we’ve cracked the code of how to make a successful southern hip-hop track.So, with that, we present to you, after the jump, a major breakthrough — a blueprint teaching people how to make a southern hip-hop song, no matter whether…

If you’ve got, oh, 13 minutes or so to spare this morning, then, please, do yourself a solid and check out the pair of clips we’ve got posted for you after the jump. They come courtesy of CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors coverage, aired last night, where Oprah Winfrey, Bill T…