Last night, I finally got around to starting Ozzy Osbourne’s just-released autobiography, I Am Ozzy, which, no surprise here, is already a New York Times best-seller. And, this morning, the Barnes & Noble here in Dallas on the Northwest Highway has confirmed some big news on that front: The Ozz-man…
Ebbot Lundberg, the rotund and intense front man for Sweden’s The Soundtrack to Our Lives, had just landed in D.C. a couple of hours before giving me a few minutes of his time. Perhaps suffering from a bit of jet lag, but Lundberg sounded like a guy happy to be…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 19, 2010…New Found Glory has been added to the Slam Dunk Festival line-up. Conspicuously missing… Dikembe Mutumbo.Legendary London nightclub Ministry of Sound may have to close it’s doors. So, if you’re “best friend” doesn’t know your not actually dead, is…
Besides being ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, Warren Haynes is also one bad mother on stage.But, off stage, the Allman Brothers/Gov’t Mule guitarist turned out to be a pretty affable guy who spoke quite eloquently about a number of subjects–beginning with what he thinks…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 18, 2010…Peaches one-woman reimagining of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Peaches Christ Superstar,” has been halted by the Germans. I’m sure it would go over well here in the bible belt too.Adam Lambert got a little pissed and yelled at a fan…
Attentive readers will no doubt recognize Waaga Records’ name. The more “experimental” Sacramento-based offshoot of Lesfe Records (Neon Indian) has already signed a couple young Denton acts to its growing roster in DC9 favorites Florene and FUR. It’s an impressive enough start to the point where, in the past, we…
MTV just posted the above interview with Jerry Jones, captured outside a downtown Dallas NBA All-Star party this past weekend. It’s a fun/unintentionally hilarious clip, centered around the fact that on December 13, when the Cowboys played (and lost) to the San Diego Chargers, Eminem was in town, wandering about…
Between Midlake’s having Sarah Jaffe open for its show on a recent string of shows in the southeast and that same band’s taking Matthew Arrogant Sea on the road come March, there’s been a whole lot of Denton-on-Denton touring love of late. And ain’t it sweet to see that city’s…
There won’t be an outdoor concert after this year’s Observer-sponsored (what, what?) Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Not a hundred percent why–the promotions people say something about the pigs, oink oink. Instead, this year’s after-party concert will take place at the Granada Theater–mostly on the main stage, but with…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 17, 2010…Rock Band is coming out with a Jimi Hendrix edition. Sweet, more white dudes tryin’ to play like Jimi…She & Him is heading across the pond for their first ever headlining show in England. Here’s a novel idea, how…
…or so this here press release we just received from Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis says. We’d watch and see for ourselves but we generally try to avoid shows like 16 and Pregnant, which seem to imply the impending apocalypse and/or inspire things like teenage pregnancy pacts. If you can handle…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 16, 2010…Aerosmith is slated to headline the Download Festival in England this summer… if the band has a singer by then.Franz Ferdinand is working on its fourth album.Peter Gabriel may reunite with Genesis for their Rock and Roll Hall Of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 15, 2010… Courtney Love missed her first show with a new Hole due to a “squat riot.”German girl-group members sure know how to make an impression.Knack frontman Doug Fieger has passed away…
Even three decades after the fact, the music of The English Beat still retains the fresh edge that distinguished it back in 1978. Beginning with the “Mirror in the Bathroom” and “Save it For Later” singles, The Beat (as it was then called and is still referred to in its…
…or so some press release from Chipotle reminds us today. Just don’t tell that to the folks at the McKinney Avenue spot in Uptown, where the burrito–named for Oso Closo after it won a Chipotle-sponsored contest–was being advertised for sale as early as Tuesday this week. Was when I popped…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 12, 2010…Axl Rose sure has a way with words when he’s flippin’ pissed.Fred Durst says Limp Bizkit’s new album has a “Daft Punk vibe to it.” An overly aggressive, juvenile Daft Punk vibe.UNKLE team up with The Black Angels on…
In this week’s Observer cover story, we take a look at the upcoming NBA All-Star Weekend coming through town and what it could mean for Dallas’ hip-hop future. In short: If nothing else, it should add some eyes to the burgeoning D-Town Boogie movement and help the scene get some…
Two years back, Kris Youmans took home a Dallas Observer Music Award that named him the best booking agent in town thanks to his work bringing in some of the bigger indie acts around to the Granada Theater. As of yesterday, though, Youmans is out at the Granada, having accepted…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 11, 2010…John Mayer claims his penis is a “white supremacist” and used the N-word all in one interview. Oh that crazy John Mayer. What a goof ball!Warner Music will stop licensing music to streaming internet services because it’s bad for…
A major tip of the cap to Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who always does a beyond-admirable job of reporting all things Fort Worth- and music-related for his paper’s music blog, for turning our eyes toward this mind-spinning note: A new Fort Worth “surpergroup” of sorts has formed,…
All day yesterday, (via Twitter) Bonnaroo went ahead and announced its lineup for this year ordeal, which will take place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee, and it’s a pretty impressive lineup featuring the likes of Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Dave Matthew Band, Kings of Leon and the Flaming Lips, who, with…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 10, 2010…This year’s Bonnaroo line-up has been announced. Remember kids, it’s never too early to stock up on your patchouli!The Gaslight Anthem have announced their new album, American Slang.Looks like nothing in Weezy’s life happens when it’s scheduled, even his…
