Here’s the thing about Akron/Family: I’d never really even listened to the band before last year’s SXSW, when I caught the very performance posted above. Here’s what I wrote at the time: I’d never seen Akron/Family live before. Now I think I want to see them live every day for…
Seems John Pedigo and Chad Stockslager’s comedy variety show The JC Experience isn’t the only act to have made good use of La Grange’s gorgeous, bigger-than-I-can-count TV screen backdrop of late. Over the weekend, acoustic shoegaze act Menkena took to the new Deep Ellum venue to play a show, and…
Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Trey SongzAmerican Airlines CenterFebruary 23, 2010Better than: Any other show you’ve seen in 2010. And maybe better than any other show you will… Come on, now.Thankfully, as the night continues, the rapper proves that he’s got more up his sleeve. And, live, it’s the technicality of his…
In the upcoming issue of the Observer, I spend some time with Grapevine native Bryce Avary, better known to most as the guy behind The Rocket Summer. And, as you’ll see in the piece, it’s a slightly different Avary we’re seeing this time around: He’s older, wiser, and, maybe most…
Hailing from the same town myself, I may be a biased, but, man, do I love Boston’s The Lemonheads. Have ever since the first time I heard the band’s fifth release, 1992’s It’s A Shame About Ray, actually–which, OK, probably made me a late adopter, but, sue me, it was…
Last we checked in with Picnityme, the former PPT member and current Cannabinoid the hip-hop producer was a busy man, wrapping up collaborations with Headkrack, Astronautalis and Johnny Polygon, among others. He’s still pretty busy these days, too, having finally posted last week that Kid Cudi collaboration he promised then,…
Midlake fans still curious about why The Courage of Others took so long to finish receive a partial answer in a press release that arrived this morning, promoting a new album from John Grant, formerly of The Czars. The new album from the Midlake’s Bella Union labelmate is being touted…
A couple quick NX35notes to pass along. First and foremost, on Friday, the conferette’s blog announced its show schedule for Sunday, the final night of the Denton-centric deal. The big show to circle that night? The Hailey’s-hosted bill of The Walkmen, Pomegranates and Jookabox. Earlier today, meanwhile, the site passed…
Our sister paper out in Los Angeles checked in with Arlington’s own Vincent Paul Abbott over the weekend as the Pantera/Hellyeah drummer stopped off in the City of Angels as part of Revolver magazine’s Golden Gods Awards nomination party.And, just as Jesse Hughey and I learned last time we stopped…
2010’s been the year of Ishi so far in Dallas, with the local electro-sleaze favorite picking things up just where it left 2009 off and continuing to draw big crowds to its dance-inducing affairs. The band’s Saturday night show at Trees proved to offer much of the same on that…
It’s Friday night and the weekend’s here, which means it’s time to unwind, et al. Got plans? Nah? We’ve got your hookup right here. First up, as always, the shows we’ve already discussed. Kind of a slow weekend, though: A bunch of the bigger shows we’ve talked up are coming…
Last night, I finally got around to starting Ozzy Osbourne’s just-released autobiography, I Am Ozzy, which, no surprise here, is already a New York Times best-seller. And, this morning, the Barnes & Noble here in Dallas on the Northwest Highway has confirmed some big news on that front: The Ozz-man…
This past weekend, sometime blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s other band, Angels & Airwaves, released its third studio full-length, an album called LOVE. Which is fitting, of course, since that was Valentine’s Day weekend and all. But the band also took an interesting route with this release, offering it up as…
…and for those of you still stuck on the YouTubes, here’s your link.Looks like we finally took care of those technical difficulties–and good thing, too, as we’ve been itching to post the above video, featuring longtime DC9 favorite galleryCat playing our weekly video series for a couple days now. And,…
Last night, The Cavern’s free Wednesday night affair, Detour, hosted the live debut of local experimental electro outfit Museum Creatures. And it was a pretty entertaining display offered up by the latest project from Dallas’ once-upon-a-time piano-pop musician Tommy Hernandez, most recently of sleaze dance outfit Boytap: Hernandez went to…
At 9:30 on Monday—p.m., mind you—Juan Salinas finally awoke from his recuperative slumber. It was a well-deserved rest. For the previous four days, the man who goes by the stage name of Play and serves as half of the Dallas-based, Grammy-winning production duo of Play-N-Skillz with his brother Oscar (stage…
OK, some good news and some bad news…The good news: After a few weeks off, our weekly video series, DC9 Live at El Sibil, is back. We filmed the most recent segment with longtime DC9 favorite galleryCat last week, in fact. It was a grand ole time–par for course, y’know.The…
Attentive readers will no doubt recognize Waaga Records’ name. The more “experimental” Sacramento-based offshoot of Lesfe Records (Neon Indian) has already signed a couple young Denton acts to its growing roster in DC9 favorites Florene and FUR. It’s an impressive enough start to the point where, in the past, we…
MTV just posted the above interview with Jerry Jones, captured outside a downtown Dallas NBA All-Star party this past weekend. It’s a fun/unintentionally hilarious clip, centered around the fact that on December 13, when the Cowboys played (and lost) to the San Diego Chargers, Eminem was in town, wandering about…
Between Midlake’s having Sarah Jaffe open for its show on a recent string of shows in the southeast and that same band’s taking Matthew Arrogant Sea on the road come March, there’s been a whole lot of Denton-on-Denton touring love of late. And ain’t it sweet to see that city’s…
We’ve expressed our approval of the vocal stylings of Sore Losers before–kinda gushed, actually–and, yeah, we’ve mentioned Brown and Blue’s new mixtape before too. But it all bears repeating–especially after we stumbled across the above video for “The Deadly Intro,” the introduction and first song on the Dallas duo’s Free…
There won’t be an outdoor concert after this year’s Observer-sponsored (what, what?) Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Not a hundred percent why–the promotions people say something about the pigs, oink oink. Instead, this year’s after-party concert will take place at the Granada Theater–mostly on the main stage, but with…
