Music

Bono is sad. And no, it’s not because he hasn’t found a new cause to get behind. He’s sad because people aren’t giving money to one of his favorite causes…

Pretty sparse musical pickings this Tuesday evening, but at least the couple of things going on tonight are pretty decent…

[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. 24 on the list–and, please, feel free to click after the jump for a…

This weekend, Erykah Badu performed at the 2010 Soul Train Awards, which aired on BET this weekend and pulled in a cool 3.9 million viewers, not too shabby. And, as if we need more reason to praise Erykah Badu, her live takes on “Out My Mind, Just In Time” and…

Greenville’s Own Ben Kweller has had his fair share of collaborators over the years — and, in this coming week’s paper, we’ll meet one of them, John David Kent, his former Radish bandmate, who is starting to make waves on his own thanks to his new outfit, John David Kent…

We spent a good chunk of time this summer talking up Dallas’ own Symbolyc One and his production credits on Kanye West’s song “Power” off the rapper’s so-good-it’s-sickening My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. For good reason, too: The song was everywhere — all over the Internet, on Saturday Night…

With all the leftover turkey finally gone, I guess it’s about that time for some local musicians to get around to releasing their latest stabs at creating Christmas classics.And it seems that longtime DC9 favorite GalleryCat is the first this year to think that he’s up to the task –…

New York’s Blonde Redhead is fresh off the release of their eighth studio album, Penny Sparkle, which sees the band forging ahead into new musical territory, and passing through Dallas at the Granada Theater tonight. And while the new album has been compared to Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and…

There are a lot of things you can rely on the Wall Street Journal for, world news, stock market reports, political news and any kind of news with a liberal bend your little bleeding heart could desire. But, one thing they may want to stay away from is studying dance…

Not a bad selection of shows for the Monday after Turkey Day. But, OK, maybe not the best, either…

[At the end of each of the last two years, we spent the final few weeks of the year counting down the best music that the local scene has had to offer. This year’s no different — well, except that, this year, our original list of songs to be included…

In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, writer Amanda Traphagan introduces Observer readers to Macavity, a band who was just coming into their own when this article was published in 2001.You might recognize two of the youngsters in the above photo as current local music veterans Beau…

Seems Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond have finally given up on the idea of releasing their Old 97’s side project efforts as the Ranchero Brothers in album form. Today, the original two 97’s gave way to anticipation and posted seven studio-recorded Ranchero Brothers tracks as free downloads on the Old…

W e’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.Joshua Radin…

At 77 years old, Willie Nelson is too old to care or to take shit from anyone — including Border Patrol…

If you’ve already picked up a copy of this weeks Dallas Observer, you might have noticed our music feature on Tyler band Eisley, who will be in town at The Loft on Saturday night with Ives The Band, and Christie DuPree. The story sheds light on the ups and downs…

It seems that Duke’s new mascot has a new single out, begging you not to go. The last we heard of Mike was his angsty single “Cooler Than Me.” We learned from the track that he thinks no one deserves to be cooler than him… or something like that. The…