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Tabula Rasa, the Chemistry Set, Sunward

Saturday, August 25 at Dada

By Daniel Rodrigue
Aug 23, 2012

After forming in 1992, Tabula Rasa took Dallas, Fort Worth and Denton by storm, tidily earning "Best New Act" from the Dallas Observer in 1993. And then, as quickly as Deep Ellum's Green Room dubbed its signature cheese pizza "The Tabula Rasa," they disbanded in 1994. Members Ezra Boggs, Stephen...
Rigor Mortis Printing Co. Screenprint Till They Drop

By Daniel Rodrigue
Aug 16, 2012

Four box fans buzz away inside Napkin Art Studios as Jonathon Kimbrell screenprints a batch of business cards for Rigor Mortis Printing Co., a new venture he launched with Richard Reed in May. The motto etched into the card's skull logo ("Print to the death!") seems fitting for a company...
Hal Samples Benefit

Friday, August 10, at Dada

By Daniel Rodrigue
Aug 9, 2012

Artist, photographer and videographer Hal Samples has helped document, promote, inspire and nurture up-and-coming talent in the community for nearly a decade. So, when he needed help, it was no surprise local bands and artists pulled together for a benefit show. Seems Samples has fallen on some hard times in...
Preview: Teenage Cool Kids at Rubber Gloves

Sunday, May 27, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

By Daniel Rodrigue
May 24, 2012

With lyricist and frontman Andrew Savage now in New York City, focusing his musical efforts on Fergus & Geronimo and Parquet Courts, Teenage Cool Kids return to Denton for what is being billed as the band's "last Denton show." For the unfamiliar, the act recorded two of the best local...
Preview: Psychic Ills Moon Duo at Dada

Thursday, April 26, at Dada

By Daniel Rodrigue
Apr 26, 2012

Parade of Flesh scored an impressive bill from the spillover of the fifth annual Austin Psych Fest, as area favorites True Widow and Eyes, Wings and Many Other Things open for New York's Psychic Ills and San Francisco's Moon Duo (Wooden Shjips frontman/guitarist Ripley Johnson and keyboardist Sanae Yamada). Psychic...
Baptist General Chris Flemmons on Learning to Let Go

By Daniel Rodrigue
Mar 8, 2012

The Baptist Generals return to the stage at 35 Denton after a three-year hiatus, and though the band has only released a handful of tracks since 2003's Sub Pop LP, No Silver/No Gold, for the first time since 2005 it really looks like a new Baptist Generals record may drop...
Our 34 picks for 35 Denton

By Catherine Downes, Kelly Dearmore, Audra Schroeder, Deb Doing Dallas, Daniel Rodrigue, Nic Hernandez and Brian Rash
Mar 8, 2012

Read more: 35 Denton Cleans Up Its Block and Rebrands Itself THURSDAY Bleached The Labb, 11:30 p.m. San Fernando Valley sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin formed California beach-punk band Bleached after their previous group, Mika Miko, dissolved in 2009. Bleached combine sun-soaked, carefree rock with a tinge of late-'70s punk...
Discipline Anniversary

Thursday, December 29, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

By Daniel Rodrigue
Dec 29, 2011

Few weeklies in the area boast more daring and obscure all-vinyl sets than Discipline at Rubber Gloves. Helmed by Andrew Haas (Lychgate), Shane English (Corporate Park and Mistress), Kate DePetris, Jonah Lange (Lychgate and Corporate Park) and Kathryn Falvo (Marriage Material), Discipline is fueled by the DJs' personal collections of...
And the Winners Are ... You

Our 23rd annual Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase a scene ready for the spotlight.

By Pete Freedman, Catherine Downes, Darryl Smyers, Eric Grubbs, Kelly Dearmore, Rodrigo Diaz, Daniel Rodrigue, Daniel Hopkins and Shahryar Rizvi
Oct 20, 2011

A few years ago, you'd hear the happy-go-lucky, impossibly supportive local music fans shout their rallying cries, and you'd smile because, much as you wanted to believe that what they were saying was true, you knew in your heart that it wasn't. Still, you listened to their rants: "There's just...
Scenes From R.L.'s Blues Palace #2

By Daniel Rodrigue
Aug 11, 2011

R.L.'s Blues Palace #2 occupies a lot at the corner of Grand Avenue and Meadow Street a few blocks southwest of Fair Park. For a quarter of a century, the revered South Dallas nightclub has survived zoning battles, crippling recessions and bouts of media and pop fascination with the blues...
Paul Collins' Beat, Bad Sports, Occult Detective Club

Thursday, June 9, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

By Daniel Rodrigue
Jun 9, 2011

It's hard to imagine a better pairing of area bands with a touring headliner than this power-pop-punk bill, as Bad Sports and Occult Detective Club open for power-pop legend Paul Collins. History lesson for the young'uns: In 1974, Collins, Peter Case and Jack Lee founded legendary act The Nerves, a...
Mad World Records Hopes To Fill a Void in Denton

By Daniel Rodrigue
Mar 10, 2011

On a busy Friday night on Denton's Courthouse-on-the-Square, just two weeks before the kickoff of the four-day 35 Conferette, Mark Burke was holed up in his yet-to-open independent record shop, Mad World Records. "I know I have to open before [35 Conferette] starts," he says, pausing from a day spent...
Abe Vigoda, Wild Nothing, Soft Environmental Collapse

Saturday, February 5, at Sons of Hermann Hall

By Daniel Rodrigue
Feb 3, 2011

Abe Vigoda's fourth full-length effort, Crush, finds the Los Angeles-based band moving away from its "tropical punk" past and slipping toward a more electronic-studded, synth-soaked sound that's a little darker and a lot dancier than its past releases. It's one of those albums that reveals a major quantum shift in...
Small Black, Class Actress, Sextape

Saturday, October 30, at The Cavern

By Daniel Rodrigue
Oct 28, 2010

Had Brooklyn's Small Black been recording and releasing material back in the '80s, critics and journalists would've simply labeled the band's layered, dreamy lo-fi sound as synth-pop or, perhaps, electro-pop. File under: Rock/Pop. In interviews, though, band members have described Small Black's sound as "Casio dream noise pop" or "not...
of Montreal, Janelle Monae

Tuesday, November 2,at the Granada Theater

By Daniel Rodrigue
Oct 28, 2010

Following September's release of False Priest, of Montreal's tenth full-length album, the band is back with what's reported to be a more elaborate, glittery and flamboyant stage show after touring earlier this year with a setup considerably more reserved than it had for the tour supporting 2008's (mostly) critically acclaimed...
Florene

Homemade Extacy (Waaga)

By Daniel Rodrigue
Jun 17, 2010

Florene's Homemade Extacy may be a dark, dense listen filled with savage industrial beats, ominous icy synths and echoing primal-scream vocals, but the album is exactly the intense, mind-blowing debut one hopes to see from a experimental electronic band known for its raw, energetic live shows. And it's a full-length...
You Think It's Easy Being in of Montreal?

By Daniel Rodrigue
May 20, 2010

With of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes in Los Angeles, hard at work on False Priest, the band's follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2008 album Skeletal Lamping, and his band set to head out on tour in a week, the band's tour press responsibilities have fallen to founding member and Elephant...
FUR

Witches (Waaga)

By Daniel Rodrigue
Mar 25, 2010

Last month, FUR's Witches had the honor of becoming the first release on Sacramento's fledgling indie label Waaga Records, which, if you've been following at home, you'll remember is the new sister/subsidiary label of Lesfe Records and the PR gurus Banter Media (see: Neon Indian). And, yes, Witches deftly includes...
Our North Of The Dial Scribe Signs Off

By Daniel Rodrigue
Feb 4, 2010

He plopped down on one of the rickety chairs on the sidewalk in front of J & J's Pizza with a copy of the Dallas Observer, and after lighting his cigarette, he flipped through its pages. He stopped at North of the Dial. My ego could barely contain itself. Why?...
The Biggest Weekly Party In Denton Is At A Rodeo?

By Daniel Rodrigue
Jan 28, 2010

"It's a party at a Rodeo, man!" Big J shouted over Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." during last week's Back to School Bash at Rockin Rodeo. The crowd went wild. Wild. And, honestly, there's nothing quite like seeing a dance floor packed with a couple hundred folks dancing in...
North of the Dial

By Daniel Rodrigue
Jan 21, 2010

When an all-local bill leads to a sell-out crowd on a cold Saturday night, one usually expects to see a well-established act atop the bill. But that wasn't the case during Yeahdef's recent "Fresh Faces" event at Dan's Silverleaf. In fact, more than 225 people showed up to catch three...
Denton's The River Mouth Finds Its Voice

By Daniel Rodrigue
Jan 14, 2010

In the last year, The River Mouth has refined its sound to such a degree that even the experimental psychedelic rock outfit's fans, friends or family would be forgiven for not recognizing the band by sound alone. Leaving the jazzier stuff behind, The River Mouth has moved into a deeper,...