Over on BreakThruRadio.com, there’s oh, about 80 minutes of pure bliss for Denton music fans.The web site has decided to feature good ol’ Denton, TX, this week in its “Spotlight On The City” feature, which you can stream at BTR’s site. Or, since its basically just a podcast, you can…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 13, 2009…Current +44 member and former Blink-182 member, Mark Hoppus, speaks about the possibility of a Blink reunion. Yay! More songs based on dick and fart jokes!Amy Winehouse’s soon-to-be ex-husband has filed divorce papers. It seems the constant drug use…
When Dallas singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger’s older brother died in Iraq in 2006, her response was to hold a benefit concert for her brother’s family. (Darryl Smyers wrote about her experience in “The War At Home.” ) Tonight, on what would have been the 43rd birthday of Dallas soldier Lt. Col…
508 Park Avenue, the building in which legendary blues man Robert Johnson recorded 13 tracks in June of 1937, could be on the verge of getting demolished. Glazer’s Distributors, owners of the property, have filed a permit to tear the building down. At this very moment, though, preservationists, who say…
Eleven Hundred Springs took to the Double Wide Saturday night, playing to a drunken audience (don’t worry–it was the happy kind) and recording the efforts for potential use on a future live album. Photographer Matt Nager was there to take some shots, er, photographs, for us. Check them out in…
In a lengthy Q&A posted today at Chronicmagazine.com, Play, one half of Dallas-based production duo Play-N-Skillz, has announced the next hip-hop/R&B superstar to take up the team’s services: Everyone;s favorite Senegalese-American fan-tosser, Akon:”I am going to break some news for you. I think we’re going to go over and do…
Some great news we’re contractually obligated to pass along because of our blog’s name: The Flatlanders, the band that wrote the song “Dallas” (which included the line that would, many years later, inspire the name of this here blog) have a new disc, Hills and Valleys, on the way (due…
About a month back now, we first caught wind of the defamation lawsuit Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys killed 15 years ago in West Memphis, Arkansas, was filing against the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines after the group’s volatile lead singer posted a note to the…
Saturday night’s Hopelessly Devoted To You II at Kettle Art Gallery proved to be a fun, laid-back evening of free entertainment, food and drink, all aimed at proving Deep Ellum’s cultural significance, past, present and, hopefully, future. Not that anyone on hand at the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project event needed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 12, 2009…When Lil’ Wayne was sporting a guitar on SNL a few months back, it left a lot of people (me) wondering, “Why?” Well, now we (I) know. It seems Weezy is intent on releasing a full-on rock album.In “Yeah,…
Weekend time!First, the shows we already hipped you to…Tonight, there’s Marcia Ball at the Granada, Dale Watson at the Pearl Dancehall and Saloon in Fort Worth, Lou Gramm at the House of Blues, and, finally, at the Double Wide, there’s a nice bill with Johnny Lloyd Rollins, Bridges & Blinking…
As noted earlier today on City of Ate, yesterday marked 74 years since Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss., and to mark the occasion, Chuy’s locations around Texas paid him the honor of hiring impersonators, handing out cake and inviting diners to dress like him.Elvis impersonator Michael Wroughton,…
Perhaps lost amongst the abundance of year-end lists made by just about everyone in recent weeks are, well, the lists of albums people didn’t listen to in 2008.Hipster Runoff took this idea and ran with it earlier this week, and, yep, the results are pretty golden. For instance: No, the…
Drummer and vocalist Cedric Burnside, grandson of the late, great blues guitarist R.L. Burnside, brings his brand of funk-infused delta blues to the House of Blues tomorrow night for a free 9 o’clock show in the venue’s restaurant. The 30-year-old Burnside, who grew up playing in juke joints and started…
Melanie Gomez Find our slideshow of our favorite concert photos of 2008 right here.I didn’t get to Dallas until February, so apologies to any great shows that took place in January–I missed them. But over the past eleven months, I saw plenty of live music–both with touring bands and locals…
Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues… This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer’s music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one massive, hopefully…
Next Saturday at the Lakewood Theater, two German electronic acts, Seabound (pictured, right) and De/Vision, bring their piles of synths and boogie friendly tunes to our area. And for those who don’t want to shell out the $17 for a ticket can get one–for free–tonight’s Panoptikon event at Excuses Extreme…
The folks in attendance last night at “Scaraoke”, the weekly Thursday night karaoke event hosted at the Libertine, got to bear witness to something of a treat: Rhett Miller joining in on the festivities.Or so the reputable Simon McDonald, the bar’s owner, tells DC9 via an email: “The very gracious…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 9, 2009… If you have a lot of bandwidth and extra time on your hands you can download HD footage for Nine Inch Nails shows and make your own concert video! I should’ve joined the high school A.V. Club when I…
This poster, promoting Friday’s Johnny Lloyd Rollins/Bridges and Blinking Lights/RTB2 show at The Double-Wide, looks a lot like is the work of two-time Poster of the Week recipient Dave Perry of Method Entertainment. Which would make sense, as Method’s John Solis is used to be Rollins’ drummer. Somehow the fact…
Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues… This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer’s music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one massive, hopefully…
Did the Kadanes not get the memo? 2008 was supposed to be their year, not 2009…Oh well. Either way, the hits just keep on coming for The New Year, whose above video for “Seven Days and Seven Nights (Airport)” is posted all over the web today, everywhere from Pitchfork to…
