Vampire Weekend, Abe VigodaHouse of BluesApril 11, 2010Better than: That stomach virus that’s going around, that’s for sure. The curtain was already drawn and the floor already packed by the time the four members of Vampire Weekend nonchalantly sauntered onto the House of Blues’ stage last night, sheepishly waving to…
Holy crap, it’s a busy weekend. Let’s run it down again, shall we?Tonight’s jam-packed. There’s The Big Pink and A Place to Bury Strangers at the Granada. There’s the Old 97’s kicking off the MusInk Festival deal at Fair Park. Tomorrow night’s even busier: The Buck Pets reunite at Trees;…
Congratulations are in order (I guess) for Dallas Cowboy linemen Marc Colombo, Cory Proctor and Leonard Davis. When not working in the so-called trenches, those three make up three-fourths of area metal outfit Free Reign (guitarist Justin Chapman’s just some dude, really). And, last night, the group kind of earned…
Yesterday, The Apples in Stereo, which, these days, features Dallas’ own John Dufilho, leader of the Deathray Davies, on drums, released the video for “Dance Floor,” the first single off its soon-to-be-released newest album, Travellers in Space and Time. The fun, quirky video stars, as you’ll see, one Frodo Baggins…
In this week’s Observer, Catherine Downes talks Camera Obscura shop in advance of the band’s Denton stop on Saturday night at Hailey’s. Should be a good one, Downes writes, explaining that the band “was set for nothing less than indie splendor from the beginning.” She gets into specifics, too:Camera Obscura’s…
Right before his band’s taped, March 31 performance of “Pardon Me,” the title track off the band’s upcoming full-length major label debut, aired as part of Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights’ namesake and frontman updated his Twitter followers a bit on the emotions he…
Fort Worth’s The Cut*Off has some bad news, folks. In short? Come May 1, it’ll be no more. Writes the band in a note to DC9 HQ:”After many years of playing around town, touring, and recording, we have decided to make May 1st at The Moon the last show of…
In this week’s forest-killing version of DC9, one Cory Graves handles the task of catching us all up to speed on Austin’s Shearwater, which comes to town tomorrow night with Wye Oak and Hospital Ships in tow for maybe the best top-to-bottom bill we’ll see all weekend. Turns out Shearwater…
In this week’s paper version of DC9, I extol the virtues of this weekend’s MusInk tattoo-meets-music ‘splosion at Fair Park, which, in addition to featuring 110+ tattoo artists from around the country, also sees live performances from the Old 97’s, Lucero, Shooter Jennings, Stardeath & White Dwarfs, The Used and…
Just a little over a week after fellow Dallasite Erykah Badu went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and wowed the crowds with a beautiful rendition of “Window Seat,” another act from town will appear on show’s same stage. Only, this time, it will be the act’s first-ever national TV gig. Yep,…
Tomorrow night, The Big Pink, whose 2009 debut, A Brief History of Love, made it into my top 10 list of albums from last year, will stop by the Granada Theater for a gig that finds the bombastic duo playing alongside the equally loud A Place to Bury Strangers from…
Speaking of Sons of Hermann Hall, it looks like you’ve now got one more reason to be pissed at yourself if you missed King Khan & The Shrines’ show at that venue on Tuesday night, which, quite easily, actually, stands as one of best shows we’ve seen in 2010.In the…
Rhett Miller, if nothing else, should be commended for being quite the active reader. Dude does his homework, that’s all I’m saying. First time he and I ever spoke, just a few weeks into my gig here at the Dallas Observer, just how curious an information-seeker he was caught me…
Later this month, on the 29th, new-ish local electro-rock outfit Hoyotoho will release its debut album, Brutal Beauty. Check out the flashy, above Matthew Cooper-directed music video that’s been made for lead single, “Virgin Eyes.” It’s a good-looking clip, no doubt, and frontman Calvin Chynoweth and his band of merry…
Before your mind flashes back to thoughts of Denton’s North by 35 Conferette—or, worse, thoughts of Austin’s South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival—consider this about the impending MusInk Festival taking place at Fair Park this weekend: It isn’t really a music festival at all. Well, that’s not entirely true…
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we’ve been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to…
Twenty-three years after The Sound of Deep Ellum was released by Island Records as a sort of snapshot of the burgeoning scene happening just east of downtown Dallas at the time and just as one of the bands featured on that disc (The Buck Pets) prepares for a Saturday night…
Tomorrow night at the Granada Theater, the ever-buzzing Yeasayer will offer up a sure-to-be-well-attended headlining performance in support of its latest release, Odd Blood. The disc, however is a bit of a departure for the band–more poppy than its 2007 debut and breakthrough All Hour Cymbals, that’s for sure–and fans…
Another month, another Local Hang at The Libertine. Thanks to everyone who came out. It was great to see you. You all rock. I hope it was a good time. If not, well, at least I know I enjoyed it. So, y’know, there’s that.Anyway, I hope to see you all…
Alright, area Doug Burr fans: The wait is over. On Tuesday, May 4, the treasured area singer-songwriter will release his third full-length album (not counting The Shawl, apparently–his publicists aren’t) and the follow-up do his mind-blowingly affecting folk masterpiece, On Promenade. Called O Ye Devastator, this album, like Burr’s last…
In this week’s paper, you may have seen a preview interview for tonight’s Fresh & Onlys show at Sons of Hermann Hall. However, we’d be remiss to completely disregard the evening’s headlining act, King Khan & The Shrines.And, no, King Khan & The Shrines shouldn’t to be ignored–not that it…
A quick thank you to a source very close with Sarah Jaffe and Kirtland Records for passing along this bit of pertinent information for Jaffe fans: Though its official release is, oh, a little over a month away, and things won’t really start rolling for the full-length debut album, called…
