Maybe I’m getting old and lame. Dunno. But here I was just a minute ago, enjoying the new video from Norah Jones, the second such release from her November-released album, The Fall, kinda digging on the down-tempo “Young Blood,” thinking that a lesser talent would’ve turned this into an unnecessarily…
From 10 p.m. until close tonight, I’ll be back at my monthly perch at The Libertine, spinning all the local hits for your listening pleasure. It’s the seventh installment of what we’re still somehow calling The Local Hang with Playlister P.And with plenty of new local music on my hands …
April 17 marks the annual celebration of Record Store Day, your chance to give thanks to your local brick-and-mortar, or, as has been the case for the past few years in Dallas, your chance to catch some pretty solid live bands on the store’s dime. And while many area stores…
When the powers of Dallas native Annie Clark (St. Vincent, duh), Beck, and members of Liars and Os Mutantes combine, they form Record Club, which, for the past few weeks, has been slowly leaking out videos of its efforts to cover INXS’ Kick. The most recent video installment finds the…
Given recent goings-on (which, I hope, also helps to explain the tardiness of this posting) the top pick of place for you to be this weekend is pretty obvious: Stop on by Good Records on Saturday at 3:33 p.m., when Erykah Badu stops by the Lower Greenville record store to…
At some point in the next few days, Erykah Badu will be sent a letter from the Dallas Police Department. Inside that piece of mail, she’ll find a ticket charging her for a Class C misdemeanor, which could cost her $500 in fines. “The City Attorney’s Office and the Dallas…
The story’s developing as we speak. I’m off to DPD HQ right now to catch it. Check Unfair Park for more details until we follow it up. And follow @DC9atNight on Twitter for live updates…..
On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired the above clip of Erykah Badu performing “Window Seat” (fully clothed this time) alongside her exquisite live backing band–including band director and host of the always awesome Wednesday night jam sessions at the Prophet Bar, keyboard player RC Williams, whose left shoulder gets…
Before the early Saturday morning Internet release of the music video for “Window Seat,” the first single off her new album, New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh, and before news outlets had created an almost laughable controversy over the clip that features her nude at John F. Kennedy’s…
With its 2008 debut, When the Music Starts, Mount Righteous made a delightful mark on the local scene, usurping The Polyphonic Spree’s grandiosity, cheerfulness and uplifting nature and appropriating it into an 11-piece, acoustic, faux-marching band that recalled the cutest darn piece of musical theater you’ve never seen. But, as…
The joke about Spooky Folk is that the band’s not exactly spooky—and that its music isn’t exactly folk, either. And while that remains true enough to a degree on Spooky Folk’s self-titled, full-length debut, it’s easy to understand how people so often mistake the band for a folk outfit: Frontman…
There’s quite the folk scene brewing in Dallas these days, and much of the credit for the genre’s rebirth can be given to the so-called Dallas Family Band, which, among its rotating players, counts Jacob Metcalf, The Fox and The Bird, Something in the Wheel, Lalagray and The Beaten Sea…
Smile Smile, which performs tonight at City Tavern, and its song “Beg You To Stay” get a nice little push from the Marc Cuban-owned, Dallas-based HDNet in the above house ad which is currently airing on the high definition cable station, promoting its in-rotation film catalog. Hardly the first time…
Can’t say I know too much about the new-to-the-Internet site WeDentonDoIt.com–well, other than that it promises readers that they’re “basically going to find videos of things we find interesting that happen in our little pocket of the world called Denton, TX,” and that the lone entry on the site beyond…
Last time Erykah Badu stopped by Good Records for a public appearance, the cops showed. If that’s the case on Saturday afternoon, when Badu offers local fans a chance to get a signed copy of her new album, New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh, the end result might…
In this upcoming week’s print issue of the Observer, you’ll find my takes on three new discs from area outfits well worth your attention–Spooky Folk, Mount Righteous and The Beaten Sea, the first two of which we already provided early tastes of in the form of bonus mp3s. Seems natural…
Surely, that toothsome twosome to the right looks familiar to most Dallasites. They are after all, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, formerly Dallas’ own Emily and Martie Erwin–or, at least, that was the case back when the Dixie Chicks called Dallas home. To this day, they still make up two-thirds…
If Ms. Badu’s Twitter account is to be believed–and, really, when isn’t it?–then she’s gonna be on your television screens today even earlier than her scheduled appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight, stopping by B.E.T.’s 106 & Park to discuss (what else?) New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh…
At 3:33 a.m. on Saturday morning (Eastern Time), Erykah Badu debuted the above Matt & Kim-inspired video for her new single, “Window Seat,” on her Web site. The single is the first off her New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh album, which will be released for purchase tomorrow.And,…
Raise your hands if you’re glad you don’t have to drive north or south on I-35 this week to catch a festival? Great! Too bad there’s still plenty to see around the Metroplex this weekend, suckers.No more histrionics–let’s just dive right into your show-going options for the weekend. Starting, as…
It was about a month ago now when I first came across Katie Carroll’s “Paper Girl” via my pal Mark Schectman, host of KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge’s “The Local Edge” (not to mention an Observer music section contributor, hey hey). He was playing the song on pretty much constant rotation…
…and for the YouTube inclined, here’s your link.Surely, you already clicked through some of Danny Fulgencio’s pictures from the NX35 Conferette a few weeks back? Well, our man was all over the place, covering everything having to do with the festival–before it, during it, and after it, even–and doing it…
