Following recent success with his Zooey Deschanel partnership in She & Him, M. Ward continues his path down the AM Gold aesthetic with Hold Time, his sixth proper record. A hallmark of Ward’s sound is a very timeless feel that, production-wise, could be from the early to mid-1900s and, arrangement-wise,…
Morrissey’s ninth solo album sounds right at home on his new label, Nashville’s Lost Highway. Sure, the singer who once famously clutched Oscar Wilde to his chest might seem misplaced among the roster of distinctly American artists like Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams, but the blunt honesty in his lyrics,…
Pop in Jack With One Eye’s debut full-length The Bad Sleep Well, and you might forget that it comes from a Dallas band. In fact, the album sounds like it would be much more suited to sport the name 4AD down the spine—and I don’t mean the current incarnation of…
Two weeks ago, when the news first broke that area new wave powerhouse Black Tie Dynasty was calling it quits, local music fans immediately found themselves choosing sides in the clash of two very opposing sentiments. One contingent quite courteously lamented the band’s breakup, thanked its members for their time…
Shelton Hank Williams III has made a career of not doing what is expected of him. Born in the bloodlines of two bona fide country music legends, Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr., he opted to play in punk rock bands instead of capitalizing on his family name and going…
Just in case you happened to be flipping ‘cross the radio dial yesterday or today and you stopped on Movin’ 107.5 (because you were on your way to your pilates class) but, instead of “Hot N Cold”, you heard a strange foreign language coming out of your speakers (it’s called…
As if Saturday nights around Dallas clubs weren’t already romantic enough, a few spots around town turned up the mojo up to 11 in observance of Valentine’s Day. The Cavern and the Loft each hosted Valentine’s parties, and folks were wearing a little more red than usual out at Zubar’s…
Ah, but one has nothing to do with the other.Hot on the heels of the announcement that the legendary Dallas-based pro wrestling family, the Von Ehrics, will be inducted into the WWE’s Hall of Fame this year comes word that the Dallas-based cow-punk band of the same name has a…
In this week’s just-circulated dead tree version of DC9, Jesse Hughey pretty much goes ga-ga over the latest release from Austin’s …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, calling the just-released The Century of Self, “a powerful return to form, with several moments of greatness.” Hughey also…
OK, so maybe this is kinda old news at this point, but, yes, it’s been confirmed: After weeks and weeks of truly heated speculation, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced at a press conference yesterday that country music icons George Strait and Reba McEntire would be joining forces to perform at…
As mentioned in this week’s North of the Dial, Nana & Popo are scheduled to perform at The Bee’s Fifth Collective’s first official event, which will be held at J & J’s Pizza. But, March 20 is still a ways off, so, we contacted Nana & Popo to see if…
M. Ward, high off the success of his She & Him collaboration with Zooey Deschanel, his performance on Letterman last night and his just-released new album, will be stopping through town on Sunday, March 15, to play the 300-or-so-capacity Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. Tickets go on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 18, 2009… It’s starting to look like the recently announced Jane’s Addiction reunion tour will turn out to be a full-on reunion: Founding bassist Eric Avery hasn’t played with the band since 1991, nixing all “reunion” tours, and only recently…
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 four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. East…
Pull out your funkiest pair of dancing shoes, ’cause George Clinton’s landing the P Funk mothership in Dallas this May. More of the latest show announcements come after the jump…
Arlington-based singer/songwriter Jessie Frye has been seeing all these lists of Dallas area bands who are playing this year’s South by Southwest Festival and she wants folks to know she’s heading south as well. “I think I am the only artist that is invited who is from Arlington,” says Frye…
As Observer contributor Aaron Jentzen mentioned in this week’s paper (and as Noah Bailey and I discussed in last week’s podcast), the latest Swedish dance-pop sensation, Lykke Li, will be bringing her funky, subdued beats and her delicate, subdued vocals to the Granada Theater tomorrow night to perform what many…
Partying at Zubar is scary enough on any given Friday, but last weekend it happened to be Friday the 13th — all the excuse partiers needed to dust off those old Halloween costumes, grab a fake horror-movie weapon or two, and make a spooky night of it.Ray and Peter Lek…
Must be good to be Pitchfork Media. Reviewing records whenever you want, writing overblown reviews that go over most readers’ heads, applying arbitrary numbers to your reviews (even if they don’t seem to match up well with the actual written words of said reviews), not really reviewing an album at…
The Wedding, The Fold and Ocean Is TheoryThe MaxFebruary 16, 2009 Better than: Any other rock show you went to last night, promise. Two weeks ago, BrokeNCYDE got real raunchy for a crowd of 15-year-olds at the Max. With choruses like, “Let’s get freaky now, let’s get fucking freaky…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2009… Metallica is now embracing digital music… as long as “digital music” doesn’t mean “illegal downloads”. The band is releasing its entire music catalogue digitally via iTunes on March 31 and then everywhere else on April 28. Trent Reznor may be pulling…
Surely, I wasn’t the only one who watched the NBA All-Star game festivities this past weekend. But did anyone else notice how often the Dougie and the Stanky Legg dances popped up over the course of the coverage? So much for waiting till next year’s game for legitimacy, I guess…Check…
