On Tuesday, July 7, we invited all of this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees to a photo shoot/house party that turned out to be a heckuva time, thanks in no small part to the performances The O’s, Damaged Good$ and RTB2 gave their fellow nominees at the event. We…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 17, 2009… A man was killed by Madonna’s stage set as it collapsed during set up in Marseille, France. Ne-Yo broke down into tears on a stage in Manchester, England. I guess he just needed a hug?…
In North of the Dial a few weeks back, we brought your attention to the newly formed Denton-based Play Pinball! Records. Founders Chris Engberg and Trent Ostvig have been busy, and, though they are still readying the vinyl label’s dual debut releases for a late-August/early-September drop date, today they’ve uploaded…
Well, that didn’t last long. Shortly after re-opening its doors this week, Club Dada is now closed again–and this time, says co-owner Ben Tapia, the place looks like it will be out of business for at least two months.”We are closing,” says Tapia. “This just happened. The health inspector came…
A quick look around Club Dada last night, and you wouldn’t necessarily know that anything crazy had been going on at the venue in recent weeks. Indeed, there were bands on stage, patrons listening to the music and bartenders whipping up drinks as fast as they could.”We’re open,” Club Dada…
It was back in January when we learned that Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter had written the theme music for the Diablo Cody-penned Showtime series United States of Tara. Well, six months later, more on that front: DeLaughter’s been nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the theme song in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Leave it to Us Weekly to unearth the video of Michael Jackson’s infamous Pepsi ad from 1984. Ice Cube has partnered with TBS to produce his family friendly Are We There Yet? as a series. Leave it to Cube…
In the coming days, we’ll be flooding DC9 with more and more exciting news surrounding this year’s DOMA Showcase on Saturday and the Awards Ceremony, which will take place starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Granada Theater.For now, though, let’s just get this exciting news out of the…
On Tuesday, August 18, Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon will release its highly anticipated sophomore release, the Will Johnson-produced The Tide and The Current–a disc I can, having heard it, say is definitely worth the hype and the wait since 2007’s excellent debut, All The Good News. Oh, and speaking of…
Apparently, every week on the new Web Soup show on G4, host Chris Hardwick shows his viewers a clip called “Things You Can’t Unsee” and follows it up with another, cutesy animal clip called the “Palate Cleanser.” Well, we’re a little late to the game on this one, but it…
The O’s are helping a friend shoot a pilot for a potential travel show in which bands show host Vydra around town, and will be filming and hanging out at The Libertine Bar (2101 Greenville Ave.) today at 4 p.m. And, because bars typically aren’t exactly at capacity at that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Kip Malone of TV on The Radio has described his solo record as Beyonce pop fused with biblical analysis. Or something like that. Katy Perry had to refer to deviled eggs as “angelic eggs” as a kid? And I…
Later this week, we’ll have a slideshow of photos taken from inside the building as renovations are being completed, but in the meantime, we can pass along the below info in reference to the goings-on at Trees, as it plans for its Friday, August 14, re-opening..First and foremost: There will…
…and it’s another nationally recognized band from the DFW region: Bowling for Soup. The band joins the already stacked, nine-hour event bill featuring the Toadies, The Secret Machines, Ben Kweller, Eleven Hundred Springs and The Boom Boom Box. Tickets to the event, which will be held Saturday, August 29, at…
If, like me, you’ve been an admirer of the album artwork Teenage Cool Kids’ Andrew Savage provided for his band’s excellent new album, Foreign Lands, or for the band’s 7-inch singles “Poison Sermons” and “Speaking in Tongues,” then you’re in for a treat today. Savage has announced that he’s selling…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 14, 2009… Ozzy Osbourne has decided to drop Zakk Wylde from his band. But, he may want to tell Zakk… According to a new study, the percentage of teens who illegally download music has dropped by almost half in the…
Florida folk-punk act Fake Problems has canceled its Thursday, July 30, performance at Rubber Gloves. The fiery, upbeat quintet had already been playing short-handed for a few days; guitarist Casey Lee’s taken leave of the band to be with his family after his father died suddenly last week when he…
Seems Pitchfork is picking up on something locals already knew: Fergus & Geronimo is on to something pretty cool. Over on that tastemaking site today, the band is offering up a free download of the title track from its new 7″, Harder Than It’s Even Been.Catch the Best New Act…
St. Vincent, whose music gets compared to Andrew Bird’s far too often in reviews (perhaps because both incorporate elements of twee?), will tour with the Bird man this fall, starting on Tuesday, September 29, in Indianapolis.Unfortunately, the tour won’t bring Annie Clark back home through Dallas. But it will take…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 13, 2009… Leonard Cohen has asked that musicians stop covering his song “Hallelujah” for a while. Thank you, sir. Michael Jackson’s death could turn into a homicide case. The music world may really be coming to an end: Perez Hilton’s label might…
Aspiring hip-hop producers looking for their big break might find it tomorrow at Las Colinas Studios in Irving (6301 Riverside Drive) in the form of a reality TV hosted by Houston rapper Lil’ Flip that promises, Lord knows why, to be the perfect mixture of The Apprentice and The Real…
Over on the NX35 Web site, there’s good news for anyone who enjoyed Denton’s first, succesful foray into a pre-SXSW festival: The four-day music showcase will return in 2010, running from March 11 through March 14, and again falling right before the annual SXSW festivites in Austin.Well, maybe, it turns…
