Good news for those who missed last weekend’s “Fantastical Film Freakout” at the Inwood Theater: Good Records will screen the Flaming Lips’ years-in-the-making Christmas On Mars tonight at 9 p.m. But if you really love those fearless freaks from Oklahoma–or if you just like free beer–get there early. The store…
My Brightest Diamond. (Julien Bourgeois) So long as we’re still under the guise that Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, is a kinda local product, given her roots in Dallas and at UNT, well, we might as well link to her latest video since its Gorillaz-meets-cut-out animation style and gloomy…
Chicago’s interestingly titled, progressive pop trio, Oh My God, hits Hailey’s in Denton tonight for a show that also features Denton garage rockers We Are Villains. But it’s something of a miracle that Billy O’Neill and the rest of Oh My God are even making it to Texas. The act…
Fresh off the release of their pretty stellar EP, a message in the ol’ inbox this morning let’s us know that Taylor Young and John Pedigo’s The O’s have already earned themselves a record deal. Not that any of this is that surprising given the positive buzz the band’s been…
You can get away with calling TV on the Radio lots of things — post-punk, art rock, whatever you like. The amateur music critics we found at Mockingbird Station Monday afternoon tried all those and then some — even hinting that the track “Golden Age” off the New York set’s…
This week, we brought you a review of Blackbird Harmony’s second record, Hardwood Exits, a collection of dark country noir from local songwriter Evan Birdsong, recorded by Eleven Hundred Springs’ Steve Berg in Garland. (Before you scoff, just remember: Red Headed Stranger was also recorded in Garland, which bests just…
Someday dinosaurs will roam the earth again, but until they do, we’ve got aging rock stars to appreciate. Don’t get me wrong — some newer groups came through the city this weekend, but the main YouTube postings belong to some of the more junior dinosaurs. They’re easily identified by the…
If this show still happens, it won’t be at Ohlook Theater. Well, that was fast. It took less than two months for Ohlook Theater, Jon Curlee’s DIY punk-rock venue in downtown Grapevine, to get shut down. It seems the building owners didn’t take kindly to some vandalism and subsequently put…
Sometimes–especially after listening to “A Hard Day’s Night”, we long for the ’60s pop days of old: catchy hooks, vocal harmonies and hand clapping sequences. Locksley is the latest modern-day act to attempt to fill that musical void. The songs on their first album, Don’t Make Me Wait, reissued September…
MSTRKRFT House of Blues October 25, 2008 Better than: The Girl Talk show. It’s Friday night and the Dallas air has bite. I check my oversized digital watch for the time. The face glows green and reads 11:24 p.m.–they’re finally about to open the doors at the House of Blues…
This is the third time I’ve tried to write Good Friday today. First time, the power went out and took all my hard work with it. Second time, my Firefox window crashed and took all my hard work with it. No joke, Good Friday is a total bitch to write…
Last night’s Sorta show was kinda something special. First off, the band sounded great–like really, really good. Seems the few rehearsals the band in recent weeks had paid off. Best Sorta show I’ve ever seen, in fact. Which, I guess, isn’t really saying that much, as this was the first…
The latest game-changer in Dallas’ obsession with hip-hop dance crazes is area rapper Brandon Hampton, aka B-Hamp, whose ridiculously popular song, “Do the Ricky Bobby,” has been burning up the airwaves in recent weeks on 97.9 The Beat, K104 and even Kiss FM, and is currently listed at No. 78…
If’n you’ve got the urge to check out Stone Temple Pilots (pictured above), The Offspring and the other bands scheduled to play tomorrow’s Edgefest 18 show, well, you’ve come to the right place, I guess. The folks over at AEG Live, who are helping the people behind 102.1 The Edge…
With a supercharged EP just hitting the streets last week, Dallas’ own Mad Mexicans would appear on the precipice of bigger things. The Mexicans’ brand of politicized punk funk has just the right amount of Latino influence to appeal to fans across genre, and “United” is definitely the most powerful…
Rush’s Neal Peart: Not a fan of pot. Or Jeff Liles. (Vernon Evans) During the late ’80s and early ’90s, I was a frequent contributor to Your Flesh, a seminal Minneapolis-based art and music fanzine. One of the myriad perks of this gig was that it led to actual paying…
While the rest of us were taking in the Sorta show at House of Blues (more on that later), Observer Web editor Patrick Michels hit up the Palladium to geek out at Ben Folds’ concert. And, lookie here, he took some pictures (including the one above) and turned them into…
If you were wondering what is on Matt Kadane’s iPod, you’re in luck, as he’s the current Random Ruler for The AV Club. In case you’re unfamiliar with The AV Club, The Onion’s entertainment section, Random Rules is a feature wherein a musician puts his or her iPod on Shuffle…
This week’s Poster of the Week promotes the Matthew and the Arrogant Sea album release show Saturday night at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, with Robert Gomez and History At Our Disposal. The flyer is basically a reproduction of the Sarah Wilson-designed cover art for Family Family Family Meets The Magic…
Sorta’s Ward Williams, Trey Johnson and Danny Balis, a few years back. To be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t want to write the piece in this week’s paper about Sorta and the band’s self-titled, upcoming and final release–and for all the same reasons I didn’t want to recap the…
It’s been a couple months now since 32-year-old Dallas native and Jesuit grad Wyatt Cenac launched into The Daily Show’s cast by proclaiming that “George Bush doesn’t care about Wyatt people”–and about the same amount of time has passed since Unfair Park talked to Cenac about his new(ish) gig. But,…
The Butthole Surfers, The Golden Boys, Nervous Curtains Granada Theater October 22, 2008 Better than: Fighting the flu while listening to Psychic….Powerless…Another Man’s Sac. Download: (UPDATE) Check out our slide show from the show with photography by Hal Samples. Gibby Haynes, the son of Mr. Peppermint. (Hal Samples) Halloween is…
