The plethora of beatmakers, producers and DJs in Dallas are bussin’ the local music scene wide open. We here at the Observer wanted to showcase that talent through bi-weekly mix’s made by the best in the business. So stream, download and share the mix with your friends. Relive the weekend…
In this week’s feature, Kelly Dearmore tells the story of Home By Hovercraft, a band inspired by The Polyphonic Spree and its members’ own theater backgrounds. That tells you a lot about what kind of sound they’re headed for; they do it well. You can listen to “Zoo Lion” below…
Glen Reynolds certainly has a lot of momentum behind him these days. He recently released his second solo album, Breakbeat Ice Beneath Me, but this time, he’s using the moniker of Grey. While the album is a departure from the Weezer-meets-XTC vibe of his earlier material, it certainly represents where…
The Baptist Generals’ long-awaited Jackleg Devotional To The Heart is here. You can buy it on a number of media including colorful vinyl. Mine’s translucent pink — not sure if that’s how they all are or not. Either way, we strongly advise you to track it down. It’s really good…
Some of the founding members of longtime local rap stalwart Poor Vida Productions, have teamed up with Media 13 for a major project: This summer, they’ll screen the feature-length documentary We From Dallas. The film will tell an oral history of the Dallas hip-hop scene through a series of comprehensive,…
On Wednesday night, 16 tornadoes devastated much of Cleburne and Granbury, south of Fort Worth, leaving six people dead and millions of dollars worth of damage to the two normally sleepy towns. As Wednesday night rolled into Thursday morning, it took but only a few text messages between a couple…
A few months ago, Christopher Telles, who works with the TNT series Dallas announced plans for a scripted TV show called Goodrecords: The Series. There are big ambitions for the show, which would use the shop on Greenville as a central setting…
Were you hoping for some time travel this afternoon? Well, aren’t you in luck. Dallas booty shaker and party maker DJ Sober is on tour right now gracing the East Coast with his presence and those smooth fades. Sober assures me we won’t lose him to those New York cool…
Under a circular blue awning in Lewisville lies a fairly unmarked store with generic white letters reading, “DFW Vintage Toys.” The change of worlds stepping inside is jarring — it’s like walking back 30 years and into your childhood. The mastermind behind DFW Vintage Toys, Jayden Frost, is serious about…
Earlier this week, Kelly Dearmore showed you a video of Austin up-and-comers Sons of Fathers playing an acoustic song outside the Granada Theater. The Frisco-based video company, Globe Trek Productions, responsible for the video actually produced three in conjunction with Homegrown Music and Arts Festival last weekend. The other two…
In this week’s music feature, Gavin Cleaver gets up to speed with Whiskey Folk Ramblers. They just released an excellent sophomore album, The Lonesome Underground, which you can buy on their website. It’s been a long time coming for the band, which has lost members and engineers and still, as…
It was an emotional night for more than a hundred who gathered for Denton’s folk-pop quintet Spooky Folk’s farewell show at Dan’s Silverleaf on Monday night. The beloved five are putting their live shows on hiatus so that singer Kaleo Kaualoku can marry and move to Denver at the end…
We here at DC9 at Night talk about music pretty much constantly. We talk about it every weekday on the blog you’re reading and once a week in the pages of the Dallas Observer. If you enjoy talking about music as much as we do, and can also express those…
Homegrown Festival brought a solid crowd to Main Street Garden Park on a perfect Saturday. That crowd was unlike your typical concert-going group. Even for a music festival, there were a disproportionate number of kids in attendance. That’s by design: Those under 10 got in for free and the day…
The beatmakers, producers and DJs in Dallas are busting the local music scene wide open. We here at the Observer wanted to showcase that talent through mixes made by the best in the business, especially for DC9 at Night. So stream, download and share the mix with your friends. Relive…
When speaking of North Texas country music collective Chapter 11, we’re not using the term “collective” lightly. The project, dreamed-up by Sherman-based producer and engineer Dustin Hendricks, who’s worked with such greats as Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and even metal giants Hellyeah, isn’t a traditional band by any means. It’s…
Every community has its movers and shakers. Some are more outwardly apparent and get the social accolades, while some go unmarked by much of the community that they impact. Musician, college professor, sound engineer, poet and Denton resident Chris Hughes is of the latter category — motivated by making good…
The passing of Jason Molina in March was met with much sadness amongst the musician community of Texas — Molina had a wide influence on many in the state. Now a group of Texas based artist have teamed with curator Randy Reynolds to create Lone Star Horizons: A Texas Tribute…
Electro-dance outfit Ishi, celebrated the release of their sophomore LP, Digital Wounds, this weekend at the Granada Theater. Frontman John Mudd (One of two remaining original members, along with producer Brad Dale) says they wanted to make a new record that captured the energy from the dance-floor numbers of the…
Biographies came into the Denton scene in the middle part of last year with a seemingly built in audience. Though they are neophytes, both as a band and as individuals (their oldest member is 23), they have a certain experimental bravery informed by their pre-emo idols; those certain David Bazans…
“Vintage Silvertone Acoustic guitar,” “1977 Dobro Duolian,” “Martin 00X1 Auditorium Acoustic Guitar (14 Fret)” are just some of the headlines advertising guitars on Craigslist, but how are you supposed to play them, hear them, feel them? When you order a guitar online, you’re missing an important part of the musical…
For quite some time Dallas has maintained no-smoking laws in its bars, restaurants and music venues, forcing smokers into the elements during concerts or comedy shows; but just 40 miles away, Denton has long remained the go-to city for tabacco users because of its lenience towards smoking in bars and…
