Last week I wrote an column pointing out how Deep Ellum, while not exactly in the midst of a comeback, is still supported by a number of strong pillars—Kettle Art, Club Dada, Darkside, Double Wide, etc. Look, Deep Ellum is gonna be different, I think most rational people know that…
Ben Harper at the Majestic Theater? It’s an incredible venue for the Nutcracker, but what would it be like for a crowd accustomed to rocking out at general admission shows and festivals? As it turned out, the inability to move freely was indeed a pain in the ass during rockin’…
M.I.A November 4th, 2007 House of Blues Better than: Staying at home to watch the Cowboys Vs. Eagles (HoB was decorated with flat screens flashing the game. Fat beats and football, booya!) Review: Last night, when I partied down to the Cool Kids and M.I.A. at House of Blues, I…
That’s right, you missed out on Day-Glo paint at Rock the Dead.It felt like we were all over the place this weekend. We hit up a tattoo festival, a celebration of dead rock musicians, a gay and lesbian film festival and some concerts. Chances are you couldn’t hit all the…
Last night, OUT TAKES Dallas opened up with a fairly decent bang. The ninth annual gay and lesbian film festival began its 10 day run on Friday at the Magnolia Theater opening with the anticipated, Naked Boys Singing, a musical revue that celebrates “the splendors of male nudity in comedy,…
Hey, you! Yeah, you, the person who stupidly thought tonight’s Spoon show wasn’t gonna sell out. What were you thinking? Tickets are gone, daddy gone. (At least you can read our interview with Spoon drummer Jim Eno.) But don’t worry; there’s plenty more party to be had music-wise in the…
Kettle Art’s Frank Campagna was kind enough to forward me the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project MySpace blog that updates the status of the Specific Use Permit requests under review for many Deep Ellum clubs and bars. I have some more to say about this, kids, but it requires some reporting,…
The Laughcast this weekend looks fairly calm and breezy up toward Addison, while spotty weather prevails in Tarrant County. Dallas should see some heavy comedy cloud cover Friday and Saturday night. First, in breaking comedy climate news: Dallas’ own Raj Sharma would surely appreciate a tornado of voting activity for…
As Austin boys Spoon tour our fair country, I got a chance to chat with the band’s drummer and studio mastermind Jim Eno. The soft-spoken percussionist was upbeat and at ease discussing topics from knob twirling to latest release Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga to performing on Saturday Night Live…
Lu Mitchell, Emilie Aronson, Bill Nash, Julie McClain and Sam Swank 7 p.m., Friday, November 2. Uncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse (9555 North Central Expressway). $2 (25th Anniversary prices all month). The musical version of Molly Ivins, Lu Mitchell looks like someone’s crazy-ass grandma, replete with a gray bowl haircut enormous, out…
OK, if you were getting all excited about seeing Billy Corgan and Co. stage again this Saturday, we have some bad news. DC-9 just got word the Smashing Pumpkins show scheduled for Saturday, November 3, has been rescheduled. The concert has been moved to Sunday, November 18, at Nokia Theatre…
Q: What does it take to get Dallas hipsters to do the hokey-pokey? A: A large bald man with a Santa Claus beard and earrings with a string of fake diamonds cascading off his earlobes. John “Beard” Brewer, the large bald man with the beard in question, almost died a…
Hovering from an atmospheric blend of sensual goth-pop, orchestrated dance-rock, and analog keyboard noise, Baltimore band Celebration manage to blast out some unusual sounds. Fronted by spellbinding vocalist Katrina Ford, with backing keyboardist/guitarist Sean Antanaitis and drummer David Bergander, they’re quite serious about creating music with raw energy and sensuality…
Until recently, when discussing Austin’s favorite sons, Spoon, you typically came across fans who either loved them dearly or were indifferent. What you didn’t often encounter was impassioned hatred, perhaps because the band makes the kind of slinky but meticulous pop that can just as easily breeze inoffensively past the…
I’m an old-school fool who’ll steal a 45 (that’s a record, son) over a compact disc any night of the week, but when labels push lushly packaged CD compilations encompassing dope, hard-to-find original albums, I can only say, “Um, pretty please?” Such is the case with a long-overdue duo of…
Much to the dismay of metroplex hipster emos and grunge rock zealots, indie popsters The Hourly Radio may just be the next big band out of Dallas. They are making all the right moves with videos on the MTV-U channel and gracing American Eagle Outfitters’ Web site with free music…
Near the conclusion of Austin Powers (the first one), Dr. Evil taunts our hero, “There is nothing worse than an aging hipster.” Veteran femme rock icon Grace Slick has said “old people” look, uh, foolish playing rock ‘n’ roll. It is a nice trick if one can manage it—that is,…
“Tonight I Have to Leave It,” the opening track on the Shout Out Louds’ latest release, Our Ill Wills, sounds like it could have been a B-side from the Cure’s 1985 album The Head on the Door. The buoyant tune bears a striking resemblance to Robert Smith and company’s “In…
He ain’t hard. His clothes fit. He makes declarations such as “Kids, if you really want to annoy your parents, show an interest in the arts.” And his real name is Regan Farquhar. But don’t give Busdriver no guff. This Los Angeles rapper keeps an arc welder in his mouth…
While every kid in the Montreal and Toronto indie-gentsia eye-rolled their way through the extended jerk-off that les Américains had over the Arcade Fire, other (and weirder) acts from the sticky web of Canada’s music scene were being groomed to fulfill the U.S. appetite for fresh cultural offerings. Among them,…
There is no doubt that all future reviews and articles will somehow incorporate the “clever” remark “people will fall in love with Lovie.” The thing is, it’s true. This all-girl, oops, all-female band harkens to the day of the Go-Go’s and Veruca Salt, with aggressive guitars, head-bopping beats and vintage…
Two pillars—one an old stalwart, one a new roustabout—of Deep Ellum were Q&A’d on local Web sites last week. The stalwart was Frank Campagna—the feisty proprietor of Kettle Art, the rebellious art space in the heart of the neighborhood—who was featured on Pegasusnews.com, and the roustabout was Chelsea Callahan—a local…
