Corey Taylor is one busy dude. Not only does the guy front two metal bands, Slipknot and Stone Sour, but Taylor somehow founds time to write an autobiography and do a quick stint as a guest lecturer at Oxford. Seven Deadly Sins, Taylor’s unconventional memoir, came out this summer and…
Looks like Rolling Stone has a jump on Rhett Miller’s new live covers album The Interpreter: Live From Largo. The record is set to be released November 22, but you can listen to the entire thing on the Rolling Stone site.Just a word of warning, there are no original songs…
Guitarist/singer-songwriter Tab Benoit is Cajun to the bone. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but raised in the small town of Houma, Benoit was brought up on a steady diet of Hank Williams, George Jones, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. It’s no wonder that Benoit’s songs echo the influences of…
This news from former Lift To Experience frontman Josh T. Pearson comes as a bit of a shock. In our story about the painful release of his record Last Of The Country Gentlemen earlier this year, he told us, “I called it Last Of The Country Gentlemen because I didn’t…
Brooklyn-based electro-pop act Holy Ghost! had both an instant and gradual rise to fame. The electro-pop duo Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser began releasing remixes of acclaimed indie songs such as MGMT’s “Of Moons, Birds and Monsters” before debuting their first piece of original material in 2007. The song “Hold…
Hailing from Toronto, Zeds Dead is a hip dubstep duo who has been sampling and remixing singles under various guises since 2004. The band’s most recent EP, Rumble in the Jungle, came out last month on the seminal Mad Decent label and features a variety of electronic styles and bass-heavy,…
It was a rough weekend for former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, who along with his band, The 400 Unit, were victims of theft here in Dallas. It wasn’t petty either. They lost their van and trailer, which, according to the band’s publicist, was sitting outside the Holiday Inn Express by…
In various incarnations over the course of three decades, New Jersey’s The Misfits have made a mark in the history of punk rock. Starting way back in 1977, singer Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only had a vision of combining punk rock’s roar with imagery from horror movies. What they…
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveFor many who watched the interview with Brian Eno on the Colbert Report, there was interesting news about Eno’s current project. No, it’s not a reunion for Roxy Music, his band in the ’70s, or production on Coldplay’s…
Hailing from Los Angeles, Five Finger Death Punch is one of those in-your-face hard rock acts that revel in just about every foul rock cliché in the book. Profane, sexist, volatile and surprisingly hook-laden, the songs of Ivan Moody and the rest of this rather unwashed five-piece sound like early…
Alabama-raised Jason Isbell has pretty much met, if not exceeded, the expectations of just about any interested party following his departure from the beloved band of southern-rock story-tellers, The Drive By Truckers. Each of Isbell’s three albums since leaving his former band in 2007 has progressed in quality. His solo…
For the last few months, the Good Records Recordings website has been an ominous black screen with “11-11-11” displayed in white in the middle. In a way it’s served as the answer to the question we’ve been asking Tim DeLaughter, the label’s owner and leader of Tripping Daisy, Polyphonic Spree,…
Douglas “Clay” Cook is the secret weapon in the Zac Brown Band. Not only did Cook earn his country rock credentials with two stints in the Marshall Tucker Band, the guy also has proven songwriting chops care of several collaborations with John Mayer. Although Cook was enjoying a moderately successful…
Guitarist and songwriter Jimmie Vaughan was born and raised in Dallas. In the early 1960’s, Jimmie, along with his brother, Stevie Ray, helped usher in one of the best eras of music in North Texas. Although their father introduced the Vaughan brothers to country music, the two would soon find…
The duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter has been performing in upstate New York under a couple of monikers since 2007. Originally called Charlie Everywhere, Barthel and Carter decided a more serious name was needed once they actually started recording and attracting a few fans. Phantogram became the new…
Earlier today, when she formally accepted our offer to become the Observer’s next music editor, Audra Schroeder included in her email the above video, along with this message: “Feel free to blast this in the office to get people ready. I’ll work on somersaults/tear-away pants.” I wish that was all…
Hey, looks like Axl Rose hired some pretty nice guys to back him up on his most recent tour. The group was in town over the weekend for their performance at Gexa Energy Pavilion on Saturday night, and, as Blabbermouth reports, on Monday they made a surprise trip to Medical…
With the release of St. Vincent’s new album Strange Mercy, Annie Clark, the artist behind the moniker, is making the late night television rounds, performing what we’d presume would be a song from the new record. Except, last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, she didn’t.Instead, the Dallas native…
Through his work on Los Angeles-based public access television program Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show, actor/musician David Liebe Hart began working with cohort Adam Papagan as well as catching the eye of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of the Adult Swim program Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great…
With Erykah Badu, you almost always get more than you bargained for. Attendees at our most recent Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony at House Of Blues were treated to a seven-song-set of mostly brand new material from the local singer, when she was only obligated to play three songs. And,…
Sticking out in the busy musical environment of Los Angeles is not an easy endeavor. Just ask Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré, a hardworking post-punk outfit trying to make a mark for itself in the highly competitive City of Angels. By choosing an unusual name and by mixing the sounds…
John Dufilho is a busy man. Always has been. When he’s not playing in his band Deathray Davies, he’s drumming in Apples In Stereo and producing records, including local act Sealion’s next one.But, sometime early next year, he plans to release his most interesting project to date. Dufilho will put…
