Last night’s a pretty hazy one for me at this point, I’ll be honest. I think it had something to do with the fact that there really weren’t any breaks in the action–mainstage performer into punk stage performer into awards and so on. Or maybe it’s the piles of drink tickets…
[jump] Best Group: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Blues Act: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Male Vocalist: Jonathan TylerBest Solo Act: Sarah JaffeBest Folk Act: Sarah JaffeBest Female Vocalist: Sarah JaffeBest Album: Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 by The Paper ChaseBest Song: “What Should We…
Tami Thomsen, general manager of last night’s Best Label winner Kirtland Records (and also the DJ at the Double-Wide Bar afterparty), filled us in yesterday on the label’s latest signing. Austin singer-songwriter and former Sandra Bullock boyfriend Bob Schneider will release his next album, tentatively titled Lovely Creatures, September 29…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 22, 2009… The rehearsal footage of Michael Jackson is closer to being made into a theatrical release. I guess someone is going to make a dollar off of him no matter what. John Oates mustache gets it’s own animated web series…
Ha! Like you didn’t already know.Alas, I’ll tell you anyway: Tonight, we make the Big Reveals and announce the winners to your 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards, bringing yet another wildly success awards season to a close. Fun fact: More than 1,700 people stopped through the six venues we ran…
According to Dada co-owner Ben Tapia, last Friday, the day after we posted this item saying that Dada was going to be closed for two months, his venue was visited by a Dallas Health Department official. And, upon checking out the venue’s work to clean its behind-the-bar scene, the offical…
All over the Internet this week, people are freaking out about the new demos Tim DeLaughter has posted to his Polyphonic Spree blog, The Fragile Army. So far, we’ve seen two of these, written by DeLaughter while holing himself up in an NYC apartment. The first? A track called “Blurry,”…
Yesterday, Gerard Dirkx, leader of the legendary Dallas new wave band The Telefones, sounded a bit unsure if the rumored reunion of his band was going to take place.But today things seemed to have changed for the better. Turns out there’s great news in my inbox this morning from Dirkx…
Why, yes, that is the Dallas-born, Thomas Jefferson High School-educated Marvin Lee Aday (aka Meat Loaf) in the above clip, singing out his love for A1 steak sauce. It’s part of a new ad campaign where, no joke, A1 is asking people sing their favorite love songs to their, uh,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 21, 2009… Looks like all those years of Zen, snowboarding and clean livin’ didn’t do Adam Yauch any good–he’s been diagnosed with cancer. The band;s tour has been canceled, and its album has been put on hold. Chris Brown wants us…
Since The Nervebreakers reformed and played a gig this past April, it seems fitting that Dallas’ other great new wave/punk band of the late ’70s/early ’80s, The Telefones, do the same.Via email, one-time Telefones frontman Gerard Dirkx says he has been asked by the fine folks at the Lakewood Theater…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 20, 2009… One hit wonder, Harvey Danger, has called it a day. I guess the demand for “Flag Pole Sitta” isn’t what it used to be… Even former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassists get the swine flu: Melissa Auf der Maur will document…
There’ve been a few changes to tomorrow night’s DOMA Showcase lineup since we last spoke. Basically, two bands had to back out of the showcase. No big deal, though. We’ve replaced them with two more.Because of scheduling conflicts, you won’t see Blood of the Sun or The Gritz (the latter…
His 2006 ass-whipping at the hands of Rick Perry, in which Kinky Friedman took less than 13 percent of the vote, hasn’t stopped the Friedman’s gubernatorial aspirations. He’s already got his eye on the 2010 election. Then again, maybe this is all just a ploy to sell cigars.Either way, to…
Who needs a corner, window office? Former Dallas resident and musician Darius Holbert proves you don’t need a 9-to-5 to keep up with the mortgage. Just a little creativity is all.That’s how Holbert says two of his tracks ended up in the upcoming films World’s Greatest Dad (starring Robin Williams)…
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…
