Congratulations, Hayes. Although he won’t be playing our area until November, Houston singer/songwriter Hayes Carll deserves some Texas-sized kudos for recently winning the Americana Music Award for Song of the Year with his satirical “She Left Me For Jesus.” Carll was also nominated for Artist of The Year at The…
It was just last spring that legendary indie rockers Yo La Tengo graced our area with a sublime acoustic concert at the Dallas Museum of Art. Fans might also recall the ear-shredding performance the band gave at the Granada Theater on Easter in 2007. Well, now Yo La Tengo frontman…
That’s a really nice couch, huh? (Peter Marince) Local singer/songwriter Liz Williams, ever the fan of contests we’ve never heard of, has apparently reached a milestone in yet another competition. This time, she’s reached the Top 15 in something called the Boru Bar Band Contest. Sponsered by Boru Vodka, the…
Shara Worden’s gonna ride this buzz like Seabiscuit. (Sarah Small) Methinks someone over at Stereogum has a little crush on Dallas artists, ’cause, today, on the heels of plenty of other coverage the national music blog’s tossed the D’s way, comes a ‘Gum Drop feature on former UNT student Shara…
Might want to keep an eye on this space tomorrow, as we’ll have tickets galore to give away all day–so much so that we may, in fact, dub the day “Free Ticket Wednesday.” Probably not, though. Anyway, we’ll have tickets to send your way from shows featuring bands with names…
Really can’t say I’d ever heard of Dallas hip-hop artist Big Gemini before coming across the above video this afternoon. Don’t really apologize for it either–kind tough to keep up with the Dallas hip-hop scene these days. So much so that I’ll say this quite confidently: Either something’s definitely, definitely…
The folks at Idolator point out a couple interesting little bits about the upcoming Janet Jackson/LL Cool J show coming to the American Airlines Center on October 22–a show which Observer contributor Quia Querisma quite hilariously dubbed “The Botox Tour” earlier this week. Seems both LL Cool J and Miss…
The Bright will be there, male members be damned. A couple of months back, I told you about Mary Hestand from Merry & the Mood Swings organizing a series of concerts at the Dallas Women’s Museum. As you may recall, the museum told Hestand that all acts had to be…
Don’t know if he’s going to be keeping this up all season long, but thus far into the NFL season, Fort Worth resident Daniel Hunter (aka PlayRadioPlay) has been keeping up a pretty cool tradition, offering his Myspace friends a new, free download on his page as a mini-celebration each…
You won’t see Dallas rapper Pikahsso on the poster for this year’s ACL Fest, but, still you can rest assured that he’ll be there, on stage, performing alongside fellow Texas hip-hop mainstay Bavu Blakes as the two perform their collaborative song “Smiley Faces” on stage on Saturday. And that’s good…
We’ve already given you loads of information about Oso Closo’s gig at the Dallas Theater Center. Then, of course, there was Pete’s glowing review of the production. But, tonight, the Denton-based rock outfit is taking a break from its insanely busy schedule performing in The Who’s Tommy for a free…
Looks like Astronautalis has converted another fan. If you watched the Season 4 premiere of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia last night, you may have noticed a minor bit of redecorating to Charlie’s shithole apartment. Seems Charlie is fan of Dallas Observer Music Award-winning rapper Astronautalis. That, or he just…
A Friend o’ DC9 passed along a link to the above video this morning. And, yes, that’s the Toadies covering The Cure. “A Forest”, in fact. And, yep, it’s available for download via iTunes. In case ya dig it. –Pete Freedman…
Wail on, wailer. In order to get primed for her appearance at House of Blues this weekend, I just got through listening to Sing You Sinners, Erin McKeown’s lively collection of jazz standards from the 1930s and ’50s. That set came out last year, but I haven’t had a chance…
Three ladies supporting lady parts. Tomorrow night at Opening Bell Coffee, three local musicians and community activists–Annie Benjamin, Lara Lenhoff and Tania Rivas–will each perform a set in memory of comedienne Gilda Radner as part of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Proceeds of the show go directly to Gilda’s Club of…
The year was 1982. The place was Studio D, a warehouse on Main Street. This is one of the only known photos of The Holy, taken sometime in October of ‘82 when the band was opening for Social Unrest. Ahhhh, those punk rock days of youth. Actually, various members of…
Not too long after discovering (OK, with some help) that Matthew JC and the Allstars, was the new favorite band of all CBS 11 employees comes this: Oak Cliff-based blues band Bona Fide Blues is a finalist in Advertising Week’s “Battle of the Ad Bands.” The band, made up of…
Normally, I’d gloss over a cancellation like this, but c’mon, that joke was too easy to pass up. Per the press release: “Live Nation has announced that due to complications from Hurricane Ike, this Saturday’s 3 Doors Down concert featuring Hinder, Finger Eleven and American Bang at The Superpages.com Center…
So, New Monsoon hits the Granada tonight…is it too soon for an Ike joke? Actually, don’t answer that. (Jim Anderson) Spoke with the publicist for San Francisco-based jam band New Monsoon about two weeks ago, and she was kind enough to let us know that the band would be taping…
Cool video, right? That’s from These Are Powers, the Brooklyn-based band headlining the Parade of Flesh show at the Lounge tonight that Daniel Rodrigue wrote about for this past week’s paper. And, if you’re not headed to the Ratatat show at the Granada tonight, really, you could do much, much…
Many thanks to the folk’s over at Marc Ecko’s somewhat new magazine, Complex, for cluing us into the sure-to-be most embarrassing act to come out of the DFW area in some time. In all sincerity. Let’s meet him, shall we?…
Ain’t a stain on Big Tuck. Or the girls either, for that matter. This time, as a few other area blogs have already pointed out, it’s The Fader who checks in on the topic, giving ’bout 2,000 words or so to the cause. For the most part, it’s just a…
