Neon Indian, for all intents and purposes, has always been an Alan Palomo-helmed project — at least in the studio. In live settings, however, Palomo’s always relied on some help. Turns out, though, that he’s lost a big part of his backing team this week. Neon Indian’s flashy guitar player,…
From 1982 to 1991, there probably wasn’t a more interesting metal act than California’s Death Angel. Not only did the band consist of five Filipinos, but they didn’t stick to any standard metal blueprint either. Despite the serious moniker, Death Angel displayed a musical variety and sense of humor missing…
Quietly, around the time of the Super Bowl shenanigans, The Cavern changed its name to The Crown and Harp. The name change mostly flew below the radar, but, with the recent news of the Lower Greenville bar’s renovations, it wasn’t entirely unexpected. A few weeks ago, we stopped in to…
A little more than two years has passed since we openly wondered if Big Chief, long one of Dallas’ premiere underground street rappers, has what it takes to be the Next Big Thing out of the Dallas hip-hop scene. Now, though, it seems as if we’re closer to our answer…
The big winner at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night? That, surely, was The Arcade Fire, who, whether you’ve heard of them or not, walked with the coveted Album of the Year title at this year’s festivities. But, really, Texas as a whole didn’t do too bad as the Texas…
There’s a running joke that the space occupying 2810 Elm Street in Deep Ellum is cursed. The Nightmare, the last occupant of the space, didn’t last six months. And The Lounge On Elm Street before it didn’t fare much better. But, nonetheless, people keep opening the place for business. And…
It appears as if Parade of Flesh’s John Iskander has finished the lineup for his annual, formerly called South by South Flesh, post-SXSW bash, Bro Fest. Indeed: After starting to leak performer names as early as late December, Iskander earlier this week formally announced the lineup, which now boasts a…
It’s easy, sometimes, to forget who the greatest rapper Dallas ever spawned is — especially when considering that, for the past 20 years, he’s worked in a largely behind-the-scenes role, ghost-writing for other rappers and working closely as a mentor to genre luminaries Dr. Dre and Eminem.But, nonetheless, The D.O.C.,…
Still plenty of unanswered questions surrounding Prince’s no-show at the the InterContinental Hotel in Addison on Friday night. But now we have at least one answer: Prince was to be paid $1.5 million on top of other incentives to perform at this event. Or so says the unsigned copy of…
Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance has gone through something of a major transition of late — what with the band splitting from its major label home, Capitol Records, and then (successfully) asking for its fans to fund their future efforts. And, hey, in today’s turmoil-filled major label music world, the…
A few weeks back, you surely recall, we passed along word that the Toadies would serve as the headline performers at this year’s annual, Observer-hosted St. Patrick’s Day concert, which, this year, will take place at the Energy Square Parking Lot on Greenville on Saturday, March 12.Now we can pass…
In Dorrough’s words, his day yesterday “started off fucked up.” But that’s just how things tend to go when your home earns an unannounced visit from the Drug Enforcement Agency.Yesterday morning, a group of DEA agents raided the Dallas rapper’s home on suspicions of drug trafficking. The rapper, who has…
OK, so it isn’t quite like what Kanye West did with his “G.O.O.D. Fridays” series, where he released new music unto the public every week. No, the Old 97’s aren’t doing that. But they are, as they did a few times late in 2010 when they offered up some old…
Last we heard, Midlake was back at work, writing some material for a follow-up to 2010’s The Courage of Others, a disc that scored pretty much as highly as possible in Europe but gained little traction in the States. As intent as they may be on following up that release,…
There was a whirlwind of press releases in the past few weeks leading up to tonight’s scheduled benefit featuring Prince and Erykah Badu. First, it was happening in a tent at the old Reunion Arena location. Then, it had been moved to the InterContinental Hotel. And then, just this afternoon,…
Occult Detective Club may have started as the solo side-project of Secret Bangs’ Alexander Anguiano, but once Secret Bangs officially dissolved and Anguiano devoted more time and energy to crafting his catchy garage-punk songs, it quickly became apparent that this new project was going to eclipse his previous act.Especially when…
Lots going on today with tonight’s benefit concert for the Goss-Michael Foundation, featuring Prince and Erykah Badu. After initially being scheduled to take place in a tent that was to be erected at the old Reunion Arena location and moved to Addison’s InterContinental Hotel, a press release this morning announced…
Toward the beginning of last night’s show at the Palladium, as Daniel Huffman’s New Fumes project washed the slow-to-arrive Flaming Lips crowds over with his own, instrumental brand of psychedelic pop, Good Records, Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter was ambling about the floor, taking in all he…
The big news today about the Big Game’s halftime show, in case you haven’t yet heard, comes via an Associated Press story published early this morning by football writer Howard Fendrich, which quotes a “person familiar with the plans for Sunday’s halftime show” and claims that the Black Eyed Peas’…
The fact that the biggest song spawned by Dallas’ homegrown D-Town Boogie movement isn’t from Dallas at all, but rather from a group of performers out of Inglewood, California, has been an obvious point of contention in Dallas hip-hop over the past year or so. But it’s a truth: Cali…
For the past couple of years, local shredders Free Reign have been making their case as being the “heaviest” metal band around. And, with a lineup that boasts the 6-foot-8, 315-pound Dallas Cowboys tackle Marc Colombo on rhythm guitar and vocals, 6-foot-6, 355-pound Cowboys guard Leonard Davis on bass, and…
This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform “Gamelan D’Drum,” a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensemble D’Drum. And though the piece…
