Eagles of Death Metal, Klopek, Austin Brown Sounds, The Improv The Door Dallas December 12, 2008 Better Than: Just the plain old Eagles. Cory Graves Variety was the unifying theme of last night’s seemingly random assortment of warm-up acts for the Eagles of Death Metal show…
Deerhunter, Times New Viking, Nite JewelThe LoftDecember 1, 2008Better than: Going to Vietnam, only to return with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Get it, movie buffs?) Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, with bells on. (Mikey Harris)With the bitter cold, little advertising and a post-holiday Monday for a booking date, the odds were stacked…
Little Joy, The Dead Trees, Cocky Americans The Lounge on Elm Street November 26, 2008Better than: Brown gravy on mashed potatoes. (We’ve also got a little video from the show after the jump)The first thing that comes to mind about The Lounge on Elm Street is intimacy. The small, boxy…
Roger McGuinnMcDavid StudioNovember 22, 2008Better than: Watching one of those Time Life infomercials about reliving the ’60s though a 10 CD compilation featuring the likes of Hermann’s Hermits and Ten Years After.Starting promptly at 8:00, Roger McGuinn treated the packed house in Ft. Worth’s McDavid Studio to a musical history…
Nada Surf, Other Lives, The Jealous GirlfriendsHailey’sNovember 21, 2008 Better than: Sitting in a jail like the singer of Delta Groove First off, it was damn cold waiting in line out front of Hailey’s last night. Seems the “doors open at nine o’clock” line from the club’s website was a…
Mount Righteous, Cryptacize, and Danielson Granada Theater November 20, 2008 Better than: Watching the Dallas Stars lose yet again. On most occasions, the biggest compliment an opening act receives is “at least their set didn’t last too long.” But for a band like Grapevine’s own Mount Righteous at the Granada…
Q-Tip, The Cool Kids, The Knux House of Blues November 19, 2008 Better Than: Sitting at home remembering when hip-hop was still good. As far as opening bands go, The Knux was a decent, average opening act. The reaction from the crowd was tepid and it was obvious the audience…
Method Man and Redman House of Blues November 16, 2008 Better than: Smoking out at home and watching How High–not that I’ve done that or anything… The return of Method Man and Redman to Dallas came at a bittersweet cost for some concertgoers. In particular, my entourage, who sent me…
of Montreal House of Blues November 14, 2008 Better Than: Damn near every other concert that comes to my mind that didn’t involve eating a handful of mushrooms while watching Tripping Daisy at Starplex. With sequins, glitter, confetti, feathers and body paint, the glam was heavy in the air last…
They wheeled David “Honeyboy” Edwards, 93, to the edge of the stage. People in the shadows helped him to stand, and he crossed into the spotlight, taking slow deliberate steps, carefully placing each foot until he reached the plain wooden chair placed in the stage’s center. The crowd, full of…
Atmosphere’s Paint the Nation Tour House of Blues November 9, 2008 Better Than: Getting drunk, going into a trailer park and picking a fight. Last time I checked, Atmosphere was a hip-hop duo. And when I listen to them in my headphones, I hear introspective rap with distinctive beats that…
Calexico, The Acorn November 8, 2008 Granada Theater Better than: Eating some peyote, playing with a couple of rattlesnakes and doing other desert-related leisure pursuits. More photos are up in our slideshow here. After spending most of a beautiful fall afternoon cutting down trees in my backyard, what better respite…
Deerhoof, Experimental Dental School, Flying, Hawnay Troof Granada Theater Novermber 7, 2008 Better Than: Being accused of hitting on a 14-year-old by his mother. Seriously, this happened. I had heard that Deerhoof had a lot of underage fans (this might explain the 8 o’clock show start time). But there were…
Kings of Leon, We Are Scientists, The Stills Palladium Ballroom October 29, 2008 Better Than: Trying to make a 7 p.m. start time to see the first band. It was an early show last night–the doors were open at 6 o’clock–so I was expecting everyone to be running as late…
Jackson Browne Nokia Theatre October 29, 2008 Better than: Attending (with wife and kids in tow) the various fall festivals at churches in my neighborhood. At 7:30 p.m. sharp, while many folks were still trying to find their seats, Jackson Browne hit the stage at Nokia last night and opened…
TV On The Radio, The Dirtbombs Lakewood Theater October 29, 2008 Better Than: Trying to find some parking around the theater. Talk a bout a beating. Download: UPDATE: We now have a slideshow for your perusing pleasures, with Dylan Hollingsworth’s excllent work behind the lens. TVOTR’s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp…
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…
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…
Weezer, Angels & Airwaves Nokia Theatre October 21, 2008 Better than: Trying to pretend I’m not a nerd and attending the Girl Talk show, I guess. Sure, it was a little goofy. But, when Weezer came out on stage last night to launch into its hour-and-a-half-long set at Nokia Theatre…
Uh Huh Her The Loft October 21, 2008 Better Than: Hanging out with the 15 year-olds at the Girl Talk show downstairs. Apparently the Sue Ellen’s crowd heard that the girl from The L Word was in town with her band and that they were playing at The Loft last…
Girl Talk Palladium Ballroom October 21, 2008 Better than: The time you were 15 years old and your best friend’s parents went out of town and left a 12-pack of Molson Canadian in the fridge. It’s the Tuesday night of midterm week, but that didn’t stop revelry-craving college students from…
New Kids on the Block American Airlines Center October 19, 2008 Better Than: I remembered them to be. “New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits…” (Brittan Dunham) When I was five years old, my mom took me to see New Kids on the Block, sparking a never-ending…
