[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 2 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

In case you were wondering, no, this poster isn’t three-dimensional. Not on a computer screen at least. Seriously. We just busted out a pair of 3-D glasses to check. No dice.But it’s still a cool visual…

Regular DC9 readers should know the name Datahowler. Or, if not Datahowler, then Objektiv One. As you might recall, they’re the same person — one Ross Edman. Edman used to go by the name of Objektiv One, back when he was making waves around the Internet as a mashup artist…

As you may have noticed, much of the music section in this week’s Observer is dedicated to the cause of counting down the 20 best local releases of 2010. Next week’s issue, meanwhile, will heavily focus on the most anticipated releases of 2011.And few bands pop up on both lists,…

In this week’s paper, my fellow music editor from the Houston Press, Chris Gray, checks in to let Observer readers know a little something something about Woodlands native Hayes Carll, who stops through Dallas tonight with Cary Ann Hearst and Bobby Bare Jr. for a gig at the Granada Theater…

If roots-rock is your thing, well, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better triple-bill—on New Year’s Eve or otherwise—than this Kessler Theater offering of Centro-matic, Slobberbone and RTB2. Individually, all of these acts are forces to be reckoned with, each more than capable of offering up a soul-cleansing performance that…

The Old 97’s closed out 2009 in fairly spectacular fashion, performing for four straight nights at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum and recording those sessions for release at a later date. Unfortunately, the band has thus far only released three of the tracks from those performances via a…

This was bound to be a big year in local music. After an impressive 2009 that mostly saw notable debut or breakthrough releases from previously unheralded area performers (see: Telegraph Canyon, Teenage Cool Kids, Neon Indian, The O’s and Air Review), we knew, heading into this year, that the big…

[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 3 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

If you’ve got, oh, 13 minutes or so to spare this morning, then, please, do yourself a solid and check out the pair of clips we’ve got posted for you after the jump. They come courtesy of CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors coverage, aired last night, where Oprah Winfrey, Bill T…

Big news out of 35 Conferette camp this morning — literally and figuratively, actually — as the Denton-hosted, pre-SXSW festival has announced that iconic Atlanta rapper Big Boi will join an already crowded and impressive group of performers at this year’s third annual go in March.The rapper, half of the…

[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 4 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 5 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

[Over these last few days of 2010, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 6 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after…

Because the season’s about more than the birth of your lord and savior…..

[Over the next few weeks, we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 7 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…

He may not have earned himself an award nomination from the Blues Foundation like fellow Dallas native Steve Miller for his work this year, but, hey, the Dallas-born Jimmie Vaughan had other things fall his way in 2010 — like, say, a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album for…

More than a decade has passed since Hagfish released what would turn out to be their final record (1999’s self-titled affair). Tack on another five years to that total and you’ll arrive at 1995, the year the band released its opus, …Rocks Your Lame Ass. But the band’s legacy shouldn’t…

As a whole, 2010 sure felt like a good year for music, at least as it was happening. There was no shortage of events to attend, new bands to hear or trends to keep watch over. As it happened, though, it felt more like a blur than anything else. So,…

The thing that makes writing about music at once an exciting and frustrating endeavor is the fact that enjoyment of the art is subjective. One critic’s trash could be another critic’s treasure (see: easily the most debated album of the year, Sleigh Bells’ Treats), just as one critic’s treasure can…