Watch: Norah Jones — “Young Blood”

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…

Good Friday: Actual Good Friday Edition

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…

Watch: Erykah Badu Keeps Clothes On, Wows With “Window Seat” on Kimmel

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…

Erykah Badu’s Again Proving Herself Smarter Than The Rest Of Us

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…

Mount Righteous

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…

Spooky Folk

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…

The Beaten Sea

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…

Watch: Baruch The Scribe — “For My Friends”

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…

Check It Out, A New Dixie Chicks Court Yard Hounds Track!

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…

Good Friday: The Phuss, Florene, Fear Factory, Hats & Statues, Musem Creatures, ODYSSEY, Bridges & Blinking Lights, Salim Nourallah, Exit 380, The Rocketboys, Odis, Plumbrella, Automorrow, The Cut*Off, Darktown Strutters and Grassfight

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…

Bonus MP3: Katie Carroll — “Paper Girl”

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…

Watch: NX35 2010… In Pictures And Sounds.

…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…