Will Johnson…singing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”? (Brian Harkin) It comes in a piece the site posted last week (huh? we didn’t get the memo!) about Centro-matic’s Will Johnson and his devout baseball fanaticism. And it’s filled with surprise anecdotes like this one: Johnson is a folk artist who…
Death Vessel doesn’t sound a thing like you’d expect it to given the name. So, no, you won’t hear any thrash at this show. (E.B. Duet) Suffering from the Thursday blues? A couple of touring acts are hitting area stages tonight that are definitely worth checking out… Joel Thibodeau fronts…
The New Year…getting all sorts of Internet love. (Allison Smith) The New Year has been getting love all over the world wide interweb this week: We loved the local boys’s new disc, Pitchfork did, too, and now Stereogum is showing them the love. The New Year was spotlighted in the…
Los Bros. Kadane…and friends…The New Year. (Allison Smith) …and gives the band’s new disc (we reviewed it last week…and we gave you a free mp3…so there) a very respectable 7.5 rating while saying some very nice things, like, “what continues to set them apart is the way they put these…
By now, you may have heard that the folks over at The Edge (KDGE, 102.1-FM) are going to be throwing a second Edgefest in 2008–this one called Edgefest 18, and scheduled to take place on October 25, again at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. The last Edgefest took place back…
The kids in Kick Your Donkey will kick off the Ohlook Theater’s grand opening. Finally, some good news regarding punk-rock venues after a couple of distressing stories. Ohlook Theater in downtown Grapevine will have its grand opening Saturday, with performances by Kick Your Donkey, Straight Pepper Diet, Johnny Knuckles and…
Just finished listening to the new, self-titled EP from local alt-country outfit Somebody’s Darling and think it’s one of the best discs to come across my desk this year. Full of spit and fire, the band is led by Amber Farris, whose powerful set of pipes galvanize the entire group…
..comes courtesy of these guys. Check it out. And you can download the Slider Pines’ entire five song EP for free here. Haven’t listened to the whole thing yet but, so far, it sounds pretty good. [Also: Sorry for the slow blog day. Just not too much going on.] –Pete…
(John Cheng) Dallas’ own Carly Patterson, best remembered as a 2004 Olympic medalist gymnast, is attempting to reinvent herself as a musician, as Richie Whitt explained in 2006. So how has her career come along in the two years since she last talked to the Observer about her ambitions? Her…
The line up is set for the Chattahippie Music Festival, which takes place in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from September 18 through September 21. Loads of talent from Texas will be on display, but sadly, most of it comes from our neighbor to the south: The Derailers, Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros,…
And so it goes: Just got word that Erykah Badu and her “Honey” co-director Mr. Roboto (I think some domo arigatos are in order, yes?) took home the Best Direction award at this year’s MTV VMA “Professional Catergories” awards show for their collaboration on the “Honey” video, beating out Panic…
Soon to be seen above Dada’s entrance. Have to say I felt a little out of place at the Carter Albrecht memorial show at Club Dada last night. Don’t get me wrong; it was an affecting, cathartic evening–even for me, someone who just said he felt out of place at…
Nice lineup, but it ain’t happening. At least, not this weekend. Unpaid taxes forced Bar of Soap, Exposition Park’s venerable rock club/laundromat, to shut its doors last weekend, and owner Charlie Gilder is doubtful that he’ll be able to open this weekend either. That’s a tough break for the bar,…
Tonight, starting at nine o’clock at Club Dada, Salim Nourallah, Chris Holt and countless other prominent area (and returning) musicians who knew and loved Carter Albrecht (full line-up after the jump) will be hosting and performing at a special one-year anniversary memorial show for their fallen-but-hardly-forgotten friend. Albrecht, known around…
Wilonsky, ever the scourer of the Internet–seriously, I think the guy reads everything ever published to the web with the word “Dallas” in it–came across this little gem this morning, and we think it’s well worth passing along your way… Seems Express Night Out, which I believe is a faux-alt…
After a two year hiatus, Lisa Underwood has rejoined Lantana, the feisty country trio originally from Coppell. Consisting originally of Underwood, Karol Ann DeLong and Biz Haddock, Lantana released its debut, Life Is Good, back in 2004. After Underwood’s departure, the band recruited Darlene Dalene Richelle and released 2006’s Unbridled…
Some good news for the Arlington-based shoe company, Yums: Soulja Boy is keeping up his end of that shoe deal you signed him to a while back, talking about your company at every turn…like, for instance, in this interview with BallerStatus.com that got posted today. An excerpt: BallerStatus.com: You also…
Fortunately, the breakup of Tiger Moth the band didn’t leave as much wreckage as the airplane of the same name. Well, that didn’t last long. Just five months after Darryl Smyers hipped us to the band and four months after he raved about their eponymous EP, Dallas blooze-rock band Tiger…
Six days a week, the Denton-based members of Oso Closo pile into a van for a 50-minute commute to Dallas. Since being hired by the Dallas Theater Center to perform in a production of The Who’s Tommy, the band has spent the majority of its nights and days in Dallas…
This should be good news for those still on an Obama high after last night’s coronation acceptance speech. Obama Dallas will be registering voters at the Lizard Lounge tomorrow night. I can only imagine the thoughtful, well-informed political discourse the volunteers will have with the go-go dancers and graphic-tee enthusiasts…
Black Tie Dynasty’s drowning here! And you’re describing the water! We’re just under a month off from this year’s Austin City Limits Festival, and, sure, maybe you’re excited. But I’d guess that Black Tie Dynasty, The Orange and Gazelles are even more so. It was announced today that these three…
Two days ago, ye olde in-house former music editor, hipped me to a pretty amazing little gem he’d come across on the Internet while searching mp3 blogs (no doubt for more Kadane Brothers rarities). It’s a collection of three rare Rolling Stones blues takes–apparently from a session held right here…
