Picture Show: Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. at House of Blues

Skate rap icon Lupe Fiasco, who, if nothing else, might boast the coolest name ever, rolled through the House of Blues last night. And with him? Atlanta rapper B.o.B., who, last week, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with his song “Nothin’ On You”–just as predicted by…

Bonus MP3: The Burning Hotels — “To Whom It May Concern”

On Friday night, with a gig at The Moon in Fort Worth, The Burning Hotels will celebrate the release of its sophomore album Novels, an album we reviewed in last week’s print edition. Also last week, we offered you a free mp3 of the new album’s lead single, “Austin’s Birthday.”But…

Bonus MP3: The Happy Bullets — “People In Charge”

In this week’s paper, Darryl Smyers gave The Happy Bullets’ preview EP for its Hydroponic at the Natatorium LP a spin–and dug what he heard. Seriously. Writes Smyers:The effort is good enough to bring some much-deserved attention to The Happy Bullets once again. Continue reading…Like the days when the band…

Watch: FUR — “Clears Throat”

Bryce Isbell’s kind of an unassuming guy when you meet him. So maybe that’s why he’s donning a mask (of what, though, we couldn’t tell you) in FUR’s debut music video for “Clears Throat,” the lead single off his recently released (and well received by us and Pitchfork) Waaga Records…

Picture Show: Local Natives and Suckers at Sons of Hermann Hall

As promised, LA’s Local Natives rolled through town last night and offered up a display well worthy of its critical acclaim. But we expected that much, really: Just like the band’s powerful SXSW showcases, last night’s set found the band revelling in all of its Yeasayer-meets-Fleet Foxes hype–and then some…

Picture Show: Yann Tiersen at the Granada Theater

In previewing last night’s Yann Tiersen performance at the Granada Theater, Observer contributor Doug Davis promised a rare treat–and from the looks of Andrew Shepherd’s slideshow of Tiersen’s, Sleep Whale’s abd Doug Burr’s performances last evening, it looks like that’s just what the crowds at the venue received. Check the…

Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights Readies Its Major Label Debut

Two dudes walk into a bathroom. They look a little partied out, if also a little victorious, smiling as they stumble toward the urinals. “Dude,” one of the pair says. “That was the best 16 dollars I ever spent.” His partner-in-pee-break concurs: “Seriously.” The first, pleased with his choir—and now…

Saturday Night Live Remembers Deep Blue Something

It was close to midnight and Toby Pipes’ cell phone was blowing up with people trying to get hold of him. Just another Saturday night? Not really. “I got a lot of phone calls,” he says. It was overwhelming. So Pipes didn’t answer any of them—not until later on in…

Giveaway: Three $20 Gift Cards and Pairs of Tickets To See FC Dallas Play Tomorrow Night Before Checking Baruch The Scribe and The Fox & The Bird at Lochrann’s in Frisco.

Listen: We probably won’t be doing giveaways to the free, Thursday concert series at Lochrann’s in Frisco forever. After all, the shows are free. But so long as Spune Productions, the coordinators behind the event, keeps making it worthwhile for us to send our readers to head up there and…