Pleasant GroveKessler TheatreAugust 7, 2010Better than: Ignoring the past.The trend of bands booking a show for the purpose of playing a seminal album in entirety hit home this past weekend, as the revered, but, for the most part, dormant, local heroes in Pleasant Grove took to the Kessler Theatre on…
With Feeler, the Toadies’ new (but not really) record in tow, the local hard rock icons stopped by the Palladium Ballroom for a set of material spanning the band’s almost 20-year career. Danny Hurley was there, in the pit, taking in the festivities. See his collection of photos from the…
Saturday night’s kind of crazy-filled with shows from locals-done-good: There’s the Toadies (with support from The House Harkonnen and The Burning Hotels) celebrating Feeler at the Palladium; there’s Pleasant Grove (with support from Mike Graff and Derek Rogers) at the Kessler; and then there’s a little show going on at…
The above 102-second clip from Kanye West, touting the sometimes-controversial, but generally all-kinds-of-awesome rapper’s new Symbolyc One-produced single made its debut on MTV last night–to massive results, blowing up all over the Internet within moments of its airing and spilling over quite nicely into conversational pieces this morning.It’s a “moving…
Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes, Fungi GirlsThe NightmareAugust 5, 2010Better than: giving in to the heat and staying at home in your air conditioning. No one, it seemed, was in a rush for things to get started last night at The Nightmare, where a powerful triple-bill of the Sub Pop-signed Happy…
Is it a cop out to pick a winning poster that a) isn’t for a local show, and b) won’t be taking place for another three months? On both counts: Probably. But, folks, it was a weak week for submissions. And the above design met our biggest criteria when judging…
Last month, we pointed you in the direction of Cali Swag District’s big hit “Teach Me How To Dougie,” a song that references the D-Town Boogie movement and, specifically, Lil Wil’s “My Dougie.” Seemed a rather innocuous song to us. If anything, we figured, it seemed a nice little shout-out…
Speaking of new music videos, the Dallas contingent of Young Money Entertainment, Lil Twist, has a mew one for his Bow Wow-featuring song called “Lil’ Secret,” which pretty much follows the same formats as most of the old Bob Wow video’s before he dropped the “Lil” from his name. Which…
School of Seven Bells’ sophomore effort, Disconnect from Desire, earned its release last month after the early leaking of two singles from the disc, “Babelonia” and “Windstorm.” It’s the latter of those two early leaks that’s earned the official single release treatment from band management, though, with the release of…
We’ve made no secret of our approval of either Cleburne’s Fungi Girls or Vermont’s Sub Pop-approved Happy Birthday here at DC9. So, yeah, of course we’re looking forward to tomorrow night’s show at The Nightmare, which finds the two bands sharing what we’re thinking is the best-looking bill in an…
The folks who run Austin”s Fun Fun Fun Fest have made it clear: Heading into their fifth year of operation, they aren’t planning on slowing down their ever-growing momentum. Quite the opposite, actually: The fest is ramping up to seriously challenge ACL as Austin’s premiere fall fest.Seriously: Just a few…
Lest there still remained any doubt about the cool factor backing up Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights and, specifically, it’s icy-cool, blues jam freak-out “Devil’s Basement,” some pretty solid arbiters of cool–among them HBO, Martin Scorsese and, uh, Al Capone–have given the band and song a fairly impressive stamp…
Seems Dorrough doesn’t think you have enough money–which is to say that you definitely don’t have as much as he has. Or, for that matter, as much as Mark Cuban has. The Dallas Mavericks owner–who just may soon own Your Texas Rangers, too–makes a quick appearance in an alternate take…
The Chicago-based techno jocks in Jump Smokers rolled on through to the Lizard Lounge on Friday night to celebrate the release of their modestly titled new album, Kings of the Dancefloor. I guess that’s what a collaboration with Pitbull gets you.Nonetheless, the so-called Kings’ court danced the night away in…
Had another good time at The Libertine last night for the first-Monday-of-the-month “DJ” night/party/bad decision called The Local Hang, where your ears get stuffed with nothing but local music, because those are the rules. At least, I hope it was a good time. This throbbing sensation between my ears deserves…
Well, folks, it’s that self-serving time of the month again–y’know, the time when I remind you that, tonight, at The Libertine, as I do every first Monday of the month, I’ll be taking over the Lower Greenville establishment’s PA system and filling your ears with the best that local music…
Lots of great shows coming up in the coming months–but you already knew that. Most likely, you already knew about the third annual Dia de Los Toadies fest on August 27 and 28 in New Braunfels, too.Did you know the complete lineup, though? It’s got the Toadies (duh). But the…
Deep Ellum was on fire on Saturday. And, no, that’s not some sort of lame-ass reference to the heat (which, let’s be honest, was fairly oppressive). Rather, it’s a lame-ass reference to the incendiary performances offered up by the 46 acts that played our fourth annual Dallas Observer Music Awards…
Well, we made it through the madness. Many, many, many thank yous to everyone who attended last night’s awards ceremony and/or Saturday’s showcase. Both were shockingly well-attended, and both were, really, fun beyond our highest expectations.Also, real quick: A special shout-out to Observer marketing director Jennifer Robinson for all her…
Well, we’re about to close up shop here and head over to the Granada to take care of some last-minute preparations for tonight’s 22nd annual Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony. As we’ve told you before, tonight’s affair should be a pretty special one. In addition to handing out some 32…
National Public Radio has honored Sarah Jaffe twice in the past already, having named her songs “Clementine” and “Even Born Again” as songs of the day both this year and in 2008, respectively. Well, now comes even more of a spotlight from the nasally voiced set, with Jaffe having been…
Darryl Smyers–as you can quite literally see–spoke with Vinnie Paul Abbott on Sunday night about the new HELLYEAH record and about next weekend’s Ride for Dime charity event, which is held in honor of Abbott’s brother, “Dimebag” Darrell.But what Vinnie Paul conveniently left out of that talk, it seems, is…
