The death of Michael Jackson in 2009 seemed to prompt a lot of artists to rediscover the art of music videos in 2010. Some, like Lady Gaga and Kanye West, took the artistic merit behind mainstream music videos from acts like Michael Jackson and Prince, and made those aesthetics all…
The sometimes-area-based wordsmith known as Astronautalis is celebrating his birthday today, and is doing so with the release of a brand-spanking-new music video for the song “The Wondersmith and His Sons,” off of his still-great 2008-released album, Pomegranate. It’s kind of a chilling watch, this new video, too, as SMU…
With apologies to Robert Earl Keen, Devin the Dude, Cake, Hayes Carll and the multitude of also-rans filling up the regional concert calendar in these final weeks of 2010, it’s safe to say, I think, that, with Friday night’s Wu-Tang show at the Granada Theater, the year in live music…
Or if YouTube is more your flavor, click here… This week, we traveled to West Village to see how people there felt about Turbo Fruits, the Tennessee-based indie rock outfit.The folks we stumbled across in West Village compared Turbo Fruits’ “Where The Stars Don’t Shine” to the likes of the…
They’re an indie rock band that just about every music fan in western civilization has heard of. But 10 years ago, The Polyphonic Spree had only played three shows.In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, music writer Jessica Parker introduces Dallas Observer readers to the new brainchild…
A couple of weeks ago on Unfair Park, Robert mentioned that the former Starck Club was set to reopen as Zouk. (It has a Facebook page and everything!) Sure enough, this weekend marked Zouk’s Grand Opening with — as you can see from the above photo — Diddy and his…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Various ArtistsImus Ranch…
Wu-Tang Clan; La the Darkman; A.Dd+ with Picnictyme, DJ Sober and Sore Losers; Rob Viktum and Jay ClippGranada TheaterFriday, December 10, 2010Better Than: Even the most optimistic fan could expect a hip-hop clusterfuck with AWOL members and a late start to be. To say there was reason to be skeptical…
The biggest concert this weekend is undoubtedly the already sold-out Wu-Tang Clan show at Granada Theater tonight. With the obvious exception for Old Dirty Bastard, every member of the Wu will be at the performance except for RZA. But even without the drum machine genius, this is one of the…
[Over the next few weeks, 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. 16 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…
This morning, over on Unfair Park, Robert unveiled the final details surrounding Bucks Burnett’s Eight-Track Museum opening in Deep Ellum, which, sure enough, as this post’s headline implies, will come on Christmas Day at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum. Most will recognize the building the museum will call…
Speaking of records we’ve been waiting on, seems there’s finally news out of Menkena camp on the release of its debut album, With You I’ll Travel, which has been finished since, oh, about February and stuck on our personal most-anticipated local releases list ever since. Blame the delay on the…
Albums get delayed all the time. (Cue Chinese Democracy joke). Sometimes it’s because of the close relation of creativity and procrastination. Other times, business overtakes art. More often than not, though, it’s just a sheer mystery. So, in looking back at the year, we decided to think about albums that…
If you look around your place long and hard enough, chances are, considering that you do in fact read this blog, you’ve got a whole bunch of local albums somewhere. And, in this digital age of mp3s (or, worse, download cards!), you’ve probably also toyed with the idea of simply…
For over 22 years, Mike Williams has led the New Orleans metal band Eyehategod. And, in that time, the singer has endured numerous protestors at shows, a constantly revolving situation with bass players and even some time in jail in 2005 on a narcotics charge. Through it all, Williams has…
There’s no denying that we’ve done a whole lot of talking about Eisley lately. In a recent story in the print edition, we went back–way back–to the exciting beginnings of the Tyler-based family band, and tracked the ups and downs that have led them to where they are now. After…
Ever since Fergus & Geronimo won the Dallas Observer Music Award for “Best Funk/R&B Act,” there’s been plenty going on in their camp. First, they announced their signing with the Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art. But when they sent us word of the January 18, 2011, release date of their…
A fairly busy Thursday night with some fine local acts showing their stuff all over the area…
C’mon, now. That’s just awesome…
[Over the next few weeks, 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. 17 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…
If there’s one record coming out in 2011 that we already might be in danger of over-hyping, it’s True Widow’s upcoming sophomore effort, which, yes, will be released by Kemado Records in March after all. And though March is still some time away, the band’s currently hard at work, prepping…
Speaking of Crushed Stars, mastermind Todd Gautreau will be bringing his project to La Grange tonight to showcase his latest material, which, mind you, is mostly the product of his own mind and playing. Aside from some assistance from drummer Jeff Ryan (Sarah Jaffe, Pleasant Grove) and production work from…
