Stream Midlake’s The Courage of Others On NPR’s First Listen

When this next week’s Observer is distributed around the Metroplex, our stand on the new disc from the Denton-based Midlake, The Courage of Others, which is due out statesdide on February 2,  will be made known. But plenty of others have already made their positions on the new, darker disc…

Syndey Confirm Returns With Plans For New Music, A Label, And Maybe A Festival. But Definitely A New Remix EP For You To Download For Free.

Earlier this week, Sydney Confirm’s Redsean (aka Sean Humphrey) announced the release of a free-to-download remix EP called Sounds of Old. Only, turns out, the remix EP, which is pretty stellar collection of slightly vampy electro-dance cuts featuring Redsean’s track revisions from the past two years (listen to, download and…

Show Announcements: Buck Pets To Rock Trees Once Again, More

Yet another reunion show recalling Deep Ellum’s glory days is in the works as The Buck Pets, whose history Jeff Liles tackled in Echoes and Reverberations last year, will play Trees Saturday, April 10. We haven’t heard any kind of formal announcement yet, but the calendar on the Trees MySpace…

More Fair to Midland Benefit Shows Scheduled

Just got news that a couple more Fair to Midland benefit shows have been added to the two that were already announced in the wake of the band’s pretty gnarly crash out in the Arizona desert. The new shows include a second night in Dallas at the Curtain Club (on…

Download: Giggle Party — “Big Bang”

Looks like the often out-of-control Giggle Party has started to to throw a little more organization onto its plate: Today, the band debuted its new song “Big Bang” on its new site, partytodeath.com. It’s all part of a plan the group is calling the “Party to Death Project,” in which,…

The Used Added To Dallas MusInk Bill

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago when Lucero and Telegraph Canyon were added to the bill, the lineup for the MusInk Tattoo & Music Festival April 9 through 11 looked like it would stick with the roots-, folk- and country-influenced rock favored in these parts. But today’s announcement…

T Bone Burnett Wins Golden Globe, Meryl Streep’s Admiration

Sorry if you missed last night’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth native T Bone Burnett walked with the Hollywood Foreign Press’…

NX35 Releases Preliminary List of Performers

There’s a nice little write-up in this morning’s Denton Record-Chronicle about last week’s NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan’s Silverleaf. But, if we’re being completely honest, it’s not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that’s got our attention. Why’s that? Ah: The piece includes a list of…