Greenville native Ben Kweller’s come out and set a date for his upcoming release, Changing Horses, which we last heard about in August. Anyway, according to Stereogum, which posts a “Progress Report” item today on the status of the album, the disc will be released during the first week of…
Dallas guitarist Chris Manning’s music is mentioned in the December issue of Guitar Player magazine. The mention comes in a section called “The Editor’s Big Eight”, where the mag’s editor picks a song he’s been digging from eight different artists and writes about them. About Manning’s instrumental song “Journey to…
So, as the header here implies, yeah, Paste done gone and uploaded the rest of Dave Sims’ piece onto its site today, name-checking more and more area bands, as promised. Read it here. But, since I’ve brought it up, let me rant, for just a second. To the guy who…
A while back I wrote a fairly glowing review of Somebody’s Darling debut EP, finding bliss in the local band’s fine mix of alt-country and southern soul. And, in that review, I wrote that the music on the EP was so good that a full-length CD was immediately called for…
Kii Arens Another impressive show to add to the growing list of jaw-droppers the Door’s been booking to its stage lately: The Eagles of Death Metal. No, seriously. On Friday, December 12. Add that to the list that already includes Ice Cube, Fishbone, King’s X, Plain White T’s, Job for…
Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop…
The three parts of Nada Surf. (Peter Ellenby) Matthew Caws formed Nada Surf way back in 1993 and the band found success two years later when the song “Popular” became just that. Yet after a successful tour with alt/pop kindred spirit Superdrag, various snafus led to the band being dropped…
Denton duo Fight Bite–you know, the blog darlings and (blatant plug alert!) the lead-in story subjects of last week’s Observer music section–has recorded and released a video for the first single (and, well, best song) on the band’s debut record, Emerald Eyes, “Swissex Lover”. Stereogum’s got the feed on the…
Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance, not to be confused with Mark Arm and Stone Gossard’s recently reunited Sub Pop band, will release its major label debut early next year on EMI/Virgin, according to a press release from EMI music. Out Of My Hands, the follow-up to the band’s independent 2006…
For reals. –Pete Freedman…
Take this with a grain of salt, Denton, as the magazine also lists She & Him’s Volume One as the album of the year (sure, Zooey Deschanel’s a looker, but is the album really that good?), but congratulations are in order: Paste magazine’s December issue hit the stands this week…
Rick Nielsen and his quintuple-neck guitar, which is perhaps one of the reasons writer Darryl Smyers refers to him as “uber-nerd.” Last week, Sony Legacy released a 30th anniversary edition box set of At Budokan, Cheap Trick’s remarkable entrance into popular culture. Sure, the Illinois quartet had released three previous…
The new Dimebag Darrell Abbott book/DVD He Came To Rock earns its release today with the claim that it’s the first book about the legendary Pantera guitarist’s life (a fact that certainly can’t sit too well with a certain other Dimebag biographer…), and, unlike the other upcoming book about the…
Here’s great news for anyone who wants to trip their balls off Thursday night, or who can appreciate what the Angelika web site calls “a mind-blowing, almost indescribable mix of fantasy, religious symbolism, horror and humor” without chemicals: The Dallas Angelika Theater will screen a remastered 35-mm print of Alejandro…
The Denton-bred, Austin-refined Riverboat Gamblers, just a few weeks removed from a return to DdFW for a couple of shows, have officially announced the details surrounding the band’s upcoming 2009 disc, Underneath The Owl–which is basically to say that the band has officially set the release date for March 10…
Oh my, they are already beginning to trickle in… Those pesky, quickly made Christmas-themed–sorry, I mean holiday-themed [Jewish Editor’s Note: Damn right you did!]–musical products are already hitting shelves everywhere. Hell, I got a Christmas CD by Christian/pop singer Amy Grant in May! But, sadly and predictably, most of the…
Dear rare Dallas music fan who wouldn’t mind being seen in Uptown this weekend, According to this blog post I just stumbled across, there’s gonna be some sort of Wii Music demonstration thing with street performers and stuff tomorrow and Sunday at West Village. Might be cool. Dunno. But it…
Tonight at the Double Wide, in honor of the great Chelsea Callahan’s birthday, the venue is throwing Cha-Cha’s 5th Annual Rock-And-Roll for Charity. And it’s a pretty busy event, starting tonight at 8 and running until the bar closes at 2 in the morn’. There’s free bbq from Sonny Bryan’s…
OMFG: Maybe you saw Gossip Girl this week and you were, like, totally captivated by the storylines: Where will Jenny live now? Why does Dan always have to have such a conscience? What’s up with Serena’s new boy-toy? Also: Blair got totally out-smarted, WTF?!?! Not that I’ve ever seen the…
No one’s gonna mistake Lower Greenville’s The Libertine for a live music venue–DJ nights and Scaraoke aside–but anyone who’s ever spent a few minutes in this phenomenal establishment knows two things: a) As Lower Greenville bars go, The Libertine’s over-PA playlist is tops, and b) the people who put the…
Sean Kirkpatrick tickling away. (Kris Youmans) So, it’s kind of a slow blog day, and this is kinda old news, but what the hell… We’re always down for a little Sean Kirkpatrick around these parts. And on that note, we present this: a free four-track EP download of Kirkpatrick covering…
They’re the men in the box. Ugly Mus-tard, the unnecessarily hyphenated industrial-metalheads who were featured in the Dallas Observer back in 1995 and earned the “Best Industrial/Dance” Dallas Observer Music Award in ’96, is back. To put it mildly, their sound has not aged well. Their minor radio hit “High”…
