Missouri’s Domino Kings don’t add a lot to the traditional honky-tonk and rockabilly that are the band’s inspirations, but they don’t have to. Produced by Lou Whitney (The Skeletons), Some Kind of Sign, the Kings’ impressively earnest fourth release, is as solid a collection of roots rock as anyone could…
Twenty-one-year-old Beirut frontman Zach Condon is too young to have any stories of his own, so he imagines other folks’—usually folks living on other continents in other centuries. On “The Penalty,” he speaks from the perspective of a worker caught in a time of plague: “Yesterday fever, tomorrow St. Peter,…
God, it’s good to have Siouxsie back. Not that she really went anywhere; since dissolving the Banshees after 1995’s Rapture, the Goth goddess has recorded and toured with former side project Creatures, re-formed the Banshees for a spell and now—peek-a-boo!—released her first proper solo album. Sassy, sophisticated pop, Mantaray slinks…
I just got word about the Granada’s 2007 Halloween bash/costume contest, which takes place at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31 (duh!). It used to be called the Goth Ball, but this year the name has changed to Haunted Halloween Ball 2007, which is good because goth is so 1997. The…
The Hourly Radio is being quite generous with its latest EP, “Gun in Hand,” which was released yesterday. On the band’s Web site you can download both the EP’s new song and the Dance Robots Dance! remix of “Crime Does Pay” for free. What’s more, Hourly Radio will be unlocking…
…Does that mean Idolator is punching itself? I normally don’t read Idolator because I think they are snotty jerks. But tomorrow my cover feature on Interweb phenoms Ghosthustler comes out (ah, yes, I can already hear the swelling collective groan from little d music obsessives), and much of the story…
We just got a heads up that Cool Hand Luke had to cancel its Texas tour last-minute because of financial issues. So, anyone who was planning on hitting up the Cavern Saturday, Oct. 13, to see the band, may want to find something else to do. However, if the Cavern…
Ladies and gents, this is a touch navel-gazing, but we have a celebrity here in the office, (in our midst, folks!). We just can’t figure out which one. That’s where you come in. See, our Night & Day man (and frontman of the Naptime Shake), Noah W. Bailey resembles about…
Last night’s 10th Anniversary installment of Rock Lottery was one of those rare local music events we’ll always remember, not only because we saw Matt Barnhart with his shirt off, but also because it was easily the best installment of the event we’ve ever seen. (Though, admittedly, we missed the…
Check out this interview with local-boy-made-good Ben Kweller (this time, sans tampon) at the 2007 ACL fest a couple weeks back (wait…a month back? Three weeks? Jesus, what day is it?). It’s cool and everything, especially the shoutout he gives to Club Dada, except looks like word never made it…
Another news quickie: New Club Dada co-owner Amanda Newman has confirmed that Sondre Lerche will be headlining a show there on November 15. Ticket info after the jump…
Not one but two DFW artists made the ol’ Pitchfork media Forkcast today. Check out Midlake performing “Roscoe” at Spune Productions’ Wall of Sound Fest, and then scroll down a bit to catch Ms. Annie Clark—St. Vincent, to the rest of the world—giving up a trio of fine video pieces…
So we go to lunch today at the venerable Cosmic Café, craving hummus and nan and other noshables, but we got a bonus we never expected. Seated at the front of the restaurant, near the water and tea pitchers, was accordion player Matt Tolentino. The baby-faced and witty guy serenaded…
Here’s your best bets for the weekend, kids, according to our crack team of music snobs. We didn’t put Rock Lottery on the list, by the way, since we assume you already know about it. (If not, check Wilonsky’s excellent piece on it here .) Beat the Devil Good Records…
Damn, y’all, Dallas has got me running around like a yardbird sans cabeza. I pounded the pavement last night, trying to catch bits of several shows in an attempt to expand my musical horizons. I figured I’d fill you in with a little rundown of the evening instead of reviews;…
Midlake performing on the BBC in April. (Bella Union) At least around DC-9 HQ, a mere mention of the word “Midlake” can spawn a fairly heated debate: On one side are those who dig the Denton band’s lush brand of soft-rock; on the other are thems who think the band…
I’m a little reluctant to say how new this video is since we got reamed for local band Radiant ending up on our Best New Artist ballot at this past summer’s music awards. We got it. They weren’t new. But seriously, how many of you knew them before the whole…
You’d be grinning, too, if you were were a doctor of music and artistic director of a chorale at 33. Maybe you’re slacking. We are. (Shawn Northcutt)New kid on the block Jonathan Palant is making his debut this Sunday, Oct. 7, as the artistic director of the Turtle Creek Chorale…
Hey kids, we saw this Midlake item awhile ago, but just now gettin’ around to el posto. Suffice to say: Midlake succumbs to MTV’s evil powers and give the TV crew a tour of Denton. (I saw this on Pegasus News, but I think Denton Rock City posted it first,…
Shitfuckfart! In all the koo-koo madness here at the funky Office Space-style digs we have here at the Observer (Yep, Wilonsky’s been Xeroxing his ass again. And then comparing it to the picture of Mark Cuban’s ass he keeps posting on Unfair Park. But that’s another story.), I lamely forgot…
Mike Relm—a bespectacled Asian DJ who wears a suit and tie while he spins—is single-handedly introducing turntablism to parts of middle America. The San Franciscan is on his second stint traveling across the country with the Blue Man Group. He opens their current production, “The Rock Concert Instruction Manual,” with…
We here at the Dallas Observer have been reading a lot about the days of disco. We’re not sure why. In any case, we’ve become kind of obsessed with Andy Warhol’s place in the ’70s culture, specifically his magazine Interview, in which musicians and celebrities interviewed other musicians and celebrities…
