Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 28, 2010…Gorillaz have announced their North American tour date, and guess what? They have a Dallas date.Rihanna is going to star in the movie Battleship… based on the board game.So, Wyclef Jean may run for president of Haiti?…
Gorilla vs. Bear has been a proponent of instant photography almost from the start. The recent Dallas Observer Music Award winner for Best Blog has Polaroid galleries full of the world’s most popular underground artists. With instant photography becoming increasingly more prevalent in the music community, it’s fair to say…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 27, 2010…I thought hip-hop guys had people in their posse to do everything from roll joints to fetch dry cleaning…you would think Dr. Dre has someone who can remember to pay his bills.Really, Jon Bon Jovi was pissed because he…
It turns out that while Neon Indian has been blowing up stateside, the folks in the UK haven’t heard a peep out of Alan Palomo. That won’t be the case much longer. Neon Indian just announced a massive UK release of their debut record, Psychic Chasms, scheduled for September 20…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 26, 2010…Other than winning Celebrity Apprentice, it hasn’t been Bret Michaels’ year. His tour bus was pulled over last week and was busted for pot.The only thing that can keep Kings of Leon from finishing a show is being pooped…
Celebrating seven years as a night to dance to mod, R&B, soul, and reggae from the ’60s, The Smoke is the closest thing to a Northern Soul all-nighter in Dallas. Once housed at Avenue Arts in Fair Park, its DJs have called Sons of Hermann Hall their home for the…
7-Eleven and its cold-blooded broham, the Slurpee, have been looking for America’s next great rock band with a nation-wide Battle of the Bands. The competition has been narrowed down to 12 finalists, one of which is Arlington’s News Team Assemble. The alt-rock foursome, which apparently has indeed seen Anchorman once…
In a presumed attempt to prove that they do, in fact, deserve the recent MOJO award for “Best Live Act,” and, uh, the even more recent Dallas Observer Music Award for Best Indie Rock Act, Midlake has announced yet another world tour. This time they’ll be visiting three continents (North…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 23, 2010…A former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent is suing Simon Cowell for what basically amounts to Cowell hurting his feelings.Original hipsters Pavement feud with Pitchfork.The Dixie Chicks are recording again! Oooooh, with Steve Martin…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 22, 2010…Most of the original Beach Boys are going to reunite for at least one show next year.Apparently Weezy loves that LeBron James is now part of the Miami Heat and old Charles Barkley commercials.Because all of America has been…
California’s The Henry Clay People have come a considerable way in just a few years. Currently out on tour with Silversun Pickups and Against Me! while supporting their ballsy new album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast, the quintet chose to go the route of compromise with not only the band’s…
Since The Scorpions didn’t reach great commercial success until the late ’70s and early ’80s, many people don’t realize that some form of the band has been around since 1965. 45 years later, and massive hits from the ’80s such as “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and “No One Like…
The collaboration we mentioned a few months back between our own Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and David Byrne appears to be moving along slowly but nicely. We just read this morning that one of the songs they’ve teamed up on (either called “The Movie” or “Two Ships”), will initially be…
Well, we made it through the madness. Many, many, many thank yous to everyone who attended last night’s awards ceremony and/or Saturday’s showcase. Both were shockingly well-attended, and both were, really, fun beyond our highest expectations.Also, real quick: A special shout-out to Observer marketing director Jennifer Robinson for all her…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 21, 2010…Tony Iommi and Ozzy have settle out of court over the rights to the name “Black Sabbath.”You would think Ice-T would get a break from New York cops since he plays one on TV. If you’re trying to decide…
Well, we’re about to close up shop here and head over to the Granada to take care of some last-minute preparations for tonight’s 22nd annual Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony. As we’ve told you before, tonight’s affair should be a pretty special one. In addition to handing out some 32…
National Public Radio has honored Sarah Jaffe twice in the past already, having named her songs “Clementine” and “Even Born Again” as songs of the day both this year and in 2008, respectively. Well, now comes even more of a spotlight from the nasally voiced set, with Jaffe having been…
Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough, the Dallas rapper known as Dorrough, who gracefully explained to us the allure of his national hit, “Ice Cream Paint Job,” in 2009, is set to drop his pretty highly anticipated sophomore album, Get Big, sometime this year. The title track and single from the new album,…
Darryl Smyers–as you can quite literally see–spoke with Vinnie Paul Abbott on Sunday night about the new HELLYEAH record and about next weekend’s Ride for Dime charity event, which is held in honor of Abbott’s brother, “Dimebag” Darrell.But what Vinnie Paul conveniently left out of that talk, it seems, is…
Andy Hummel, founding bassist of Big Star, longtime employee of Lockheed Martin and Weatherford resident, died yesterday at age 59. His death, after two years of cancer treatment, comes four months after the death of Big Star singer Alex Chilton turned a South By Southwest panel discussion and subsequent performance–it…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 20, 2010…Metallica now thinks that the movie that let us in on it’s completely dysfunctional life as a band was a big mistake. So was razzing Jason Newsted until he left the band, but, whatevs.Diplo doesn’t pull any punches when…
As Warbeast, Akkolyte and others had their way with Reno’s Chop Shop Saloon on Saturday night, those of us sardine-packed and sweating inside La Grange caught Glen Farris, The Naptime Shake, The O’s, Boys Named Sue, The Fox & The Bird and Seryn.For sheer boil-your-mercury heat, though, nothing compared to…
