To anyone who has witnessed trumpeter Dennis González and his sons Aaron (bass) and Stefan (drums) play in Dallas as new-jazz trio Yells at Eels, the name of this album will come off as a bit audacious—and yet completely appropriate. Scant crowds at local house or club performances generally fall…
This limited-edition 180-gram vinyl pressing is the first release on avant-garde label Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets and the first release from Shits and Giggles, an experimental collaborative between Los Angeles weirdo Ariel Pink and the Vas Deferens Organization, and featuring prominent guest appearances by Dallas free-jazz trumpeter…
This week’s Observer includes a piece by Chris Gray describing Jason Isbell as an old soul, and describing the Stones influence on Isbell’s latest album, apropos of his show with his band The 400 Unit and openers Macon Greyson tonight at the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth. Writes Gray, “Exhausted…
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down come to Fort Worth tonight, as you may have read in the print supplement to DC9. Writes Dallas Observer contributor Ray Cummings, “[Thao] Nguyen groks the cardinal rule of transmuting bad, mad and saddened moods into swinging song: Leaven emotional pain with bright…
A Pyramid PR representative recently sent a press release announcing the Gold Medal awarded to the brewery’s Haywire Hefewiezen at the Great American Beer Festival, and offered to send over sample bottle or two. As if she needed to ask.Ben E. Keith beer distributors did her one better and delivered…
I know, I know. You’ve had it with daily St. Vincent and Neon Indian updates. All that has to happen now is for St. Vincent to cover “Ice Cream Paint Job” and have Alan Palomo remix it, at which point DC9 would be thrown into a Boolean loop from which…
Big Star, one of the most influential, yet unheard, bands in rock history, will play a rare reunion show in Brooklyn on Wednesday, November 18. But the band will do so without one of its three surviving founders. Rather, original bassist Andy Hummel, now living in Weatherford and working as…
The Jigga Man is going to put Dallas in an Empire State of Mind when he comes to the American Airlines Center February 23 with no less than Young Jeezy in tow, and tickets go on sale Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Then to co-sign the street cred that Jay-Z…
Three days after getting back from Austin, I’ve still got a good post-festival buzz. With all apologies to NX35, it was by far the most fun I’ve had at a Texas music festival. Oddly, the rain didn’t bother me all that much. It made things messy and uncomfortable, but it…
Sorry about the weak blogging day, but illness, vacations and deadline day for the print version of Dallas’ Only Alt-Weekly has slowed us down a bit today. Hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow.But we’re not too busy to pass this along: The Strange Boys PR folks sent word…
Joe’s Pizza, Pasta & Subs4300 Matlock Road, ArlingtonDude Factor: 8, or Joe Pesci, on a scale of 1 (Joe Jonas) to 10 (Joe DiMaggio)Located in a strip center next to an acupuncture office promising “Pain $55,” Joe’s was the only non-chain restaurant we could find last night in an otherwise…
Some people attribute weather changes, fortunate or otherwise, to God. The Riverboat Gamblers’ Mike Wiebe thought someone else was responsible for the all-day drizzle and showers that turned Waterloo Park into Mudderloo Park. “Someone said, ‘It was sunny yesterday, I’m surprised it’s rainy now,'” he said during his band’s set…
This is a good week to be a Dallas fan of California wines, as two restaurants will feature the products of Cali vineyards in wine dinners beginning tonight. Bolsa has a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. today featuring California wines selected by Abigail Adams Wines. The four-course meal, including cocktail…
Choosing Fun Fun Fun over the Austin City Limits festival this year was a no-brainer decision, and I have not regretted the decision to pass on Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam and Ben Harper for a nanosecond. Sitting on the soft grass and turning away from the Orange Stage before Death’s…
The Barley House has long been a hangout for local musicians. Beginning this weekend, it will be a hangout for their CDs as well. At 8 p.m. Sunday, the SMU-area beer joint and venue will unveil the Home Grown Jukebox, which is the bar’s original jukebox, except now featuring only…
San Diego’s Stone Brewery is known for creating some monstrously, even arrogantly hoppy brews. So it was somewhat of a surprise when I sat down to try a pint of the recent 09-09-09 Vertical Epic Belgian-style imperial porter, and the first adjective that came to mind was “subtle.” Expectations are…
The Lounge on Elm Street finally–FINALLY–got back its liquor license this morning, just in time for tomorrow night’s Parade of Flesh-billed Fun Fun Fun warmup HEALTH/Times New Viking show and Saturday’s Sierra Bravo Productions-billed Off With Their Heads/Smalltown punk party. “Oh yeah, it’s been a long time coming,” said co-owner…
For such a white-bread (or more specifically, as he describes himself, “fake Italian–like Olive Garden”) comedian, Mike Birbiglia makes some pretty funny observations about hip-hop. “I love Jay-Z. He’s so good at rapping that sometimes he doesn’t even rhyme–he’ll just end a line in ‘-izzah.’ I ain’t playing Scrabble with…
Whenever my mother ticked me off when I was a kid, I would pantomime pulling an electrical cord from a wall socket. It was part of an ongoing family joke that I would eagerly pull the plug on her life-support system if she were hospitalized for so much as a…
Bad news for local fans of Bradford Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound and the dreamy pop of U.K. electronic outfit Broadcast, as the two bands have canceled their Saturday appearance at Hailey’s in Denton. The cancellation is due to “scheduling/travel problems that are absolutely impossible to change,” states a press…
Damaged Good$ performs at Fallout Lounge Thursday, November 5, with Billingham’s Defense System and DJs Schwa and Genova, and you can get in free as long as you bring donations in the form of canned goods. A single food item will get you in, but the more you bring, the…
The Libertine Bar may have the Best Bar Food in Dallas, along with a great selection of beer and wine–and, of course, the monthly Playlister P local-music DJ nights. But beginning at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the bar’s brain cancer awareness event gives yet another reason to love the Lower…
