After a three-year hiatus, the Toadies will return to headline the annual Observer-hosted St. Patrick’s Day Concert on Greenville Avenue, which this year will take place on Saturday, March 12. As in previous years, with last year’s festivities serving as a rare exception, this year’s concert will again be hosted…
What with all this puppet-, 35 Conferette-, Wilco-, Starplex- and KXT-related excitement of late, we’ve let a few other noteworthy news items slip through the cracks. After the jump, we remedy that — bullet-point style!…
Quite the to-do yesterday evening on ye olde Twitter, as some advantageous Wilco fan started blasting out the news they’d seen on the band’s web site announcing a handful of southeast shows from the band in early May — a handful that includes a Saturday, May 7, stop in Denton…
After three years of existing under the name of Superpages.com Center, the Live Nation-owned and -operated concert amphitheater located in Fair Park announced today a new corporate sponsor for its facilities — and with it, yet another name in a long line of names.Since opening in 1988 as the Coca-Cola…
Yesterday morning, on the way in to work, I flipped the dial, as usual, to KKXT-91.7 FM, otherwise known around town as KXT, the just-over-a-year-old music-only NPR affiliate. What happened next was deeply unsettling: I was mentally transported back to Glen Lake Methodist Camp, circa 1996 — transported to a…
PM Lounge, one of the only venues in Dallas of late with the motivation, knowledge and budget to routinely bring big-name electronic artists from around the US and abroad into town, will be hosting DJ Tim Sweeney for this week’s installment of its no-cover Le Magnifique Thursdays.[Update: This show has…
If you’ve ever wondered about the difference between an Irish pub and an English pub, well, The Cavern will soon be able to set you straight, thanks to the face-lift it’s currently undergoing — a renovation that will, in the very near future, find the long-running Lower Greenville establishment start…
Yesterday, man-about-local-music Michael Briggs dropped me a line to give me the heads up on his latest venture — just another in a long line that already includes show booking and promotion, podcasting, running a record label and releasing awesome Denton-centric compilation albums, all under his Gutterth brand name. This…
Being stuck in traffic in Los Angeles, on a rainy day no less, would piss off most anyone, but, even in the face of this annoyance, Craig Mabbitt, frontman for the metal band Escape the Fate, remains the definition of congeniality. During the course of our conversation in anticipation of…
Fences is an indie pop outfit masterminded by Christopher Mansfield, an intense 27-year-old who now calls Seattle his home. Originally from Boston, Mansfield has the look of a scrawny punk, but the guy’s music is a fascinating amalgamation of emo and alt-country. His songs have drawn comparisons to everyone from…
Is there anyone in the world better suited to sing the National Anthem than Christina Aguilera? Probably, but the NFL and Fox obviously don’t think so, which is why they just confirmed that the Burlesque star will be tossing vocal runs into every nook and cranny of the song at…
At this point, Austin’s Bob Schneider is far more than the guy who dated Sandra Bullock, the guy who fronted the raunchy Scabs, or the guy who seems to play Dallas every other month. His 2009 album, Lovely Creatures, his first release for Dallas’ Kirtland Records was perhaps his most…
On Tuesday, Wayne Coyne posted a tweet indicating that a collaboration between his band The Flaming Lips and the similarly I-35-sprung Neon Indian was in the works — even going so far as to post to the social networking site a link to a 46-second clip of himself playing a…
A little over a week ago now, we passed along the early-announced list of performers scheduled to play the 2011 version of Parade of Flesh’s now-annual post-South by Southwest bash, Bro Fest, which this year will take place at Club Dada on Sunday, March 20. And, hell, that lineup looked…
Turns out the Christmas Day opening of Bucks Burnett’s Eight-Track Museum at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum was just a soft one. The grand opening, we now know, will take place on another holiday — Valentine’s Day, which, in case you’ve somehow forgotten, takes place on Monday, February…
Eric Estornel, best known as Maetrik, is a formerly Dallas- and now Valencia, Spain-based producer who left the US for the northern Spanish beach city in 2009. After years of the same very legitimate complaints that many Dallas techno producers had about not being understood or appreciated in their own…
Joe Satriani is considered by many to be one of the best guitar players in the world. Although excluded from Rolling Stone’s list of the top 100 guitar players of all time, Satriani has taught such legendary string benders as Steve Vai and Mettalica’s Kirk Hammett. And, besides doing the…
Yesterday, we spoke with Daniel Huffman, the man behind New Fumes, who landed himself an opening slot for The Flaming Lips and Neon Indian during the Jack Daniel’s Kick-off Party at Palladium Ballroom on Thursday, February 3. While perusing the New Fumes blog, though, we stumbled across a curious statement…
Charlotte Kemp Muhl hasn’t always been a musician. She’s pretty new to it, in fact. For most of her career she’s modeled, appearing on the cover of Harper’s, and worked for Tommy Hilfiger, D&G, Maybelline and others. Until recently, the extent of her musical endeavors has been strumming a guitar…
Dallas-raised and SMU-educated country star Jack Ingram is still a relatively new name on the national stage for fans that live outside of the Lone Star State. But, for those of us who have lived around these parts for years and have scribbled all sorts of illegible items on the…
The mainstream media has a long history of placing the blame on music when it comes to finding motives behind maniacal acts of violence. So why should this past weekend’s massacre in Tuscon, Arizona, be any different?It isn’t, turns out: On Monday, the Washington Post ran a piece raising questions…
Just a little more than a year after its head-scratching launch, KKXT-91.7 FM KXT, the music-centric offshoot of local National Public Radio affiliate KERA-90.1 FM, remains something of a beguiling beast.In theory, it’s great. In practice, it sometimes is, too. Just having a station that will play local music, and…
