In an interview posted earlier this week to Billboard’s Web site, Brandon Curtis, frontman for former Dallas act Secret Machines, discusses his band’s new record label (World’s Fair instead of Reprise), new record (currently set for an October release) and new “hard to describe” sound. He also discusses continuing on…
On Saturday, July 19, we’re gonna be taking over a large chunk of Lowest Greenville to bring you 31 of the best acts in town–all of which are nominated somewhere in our ballot for this year’s 20th anniversary awards. This isn’t our awards show; that’s happening three days later at…
The “Argh”.I.A.A. strikes again! This NBC 5 report says the yesterday’s bust on a CD and DVD pirating operation not too far from TCU in Fort Worth is apparently “the largest such pirating operation ever taken down in the U.S.” Which, turns out, is fairly surprising… mostly ’cause the FWPD…
I think it’s safe to say that Observer photographer Brian Harkin hit this assignment out of the park. Amazing stuff. –Pete Freedman…
Looks like Picnic’s gonna be just fine in this post-PPT world. He’s sure as hell staying busy enough: He came in third place at the Red Bull Big Tune Beat Battle in Houston; he and the rest of The Cannabinoids are working on something super top-secret and, if I may…
“This is probably the last Eagles album that we’ll ever make,” Don Henley told CNN of the band’s 2007 steaming shit platter Long Road Out of Eden. Yeah, but he made similar promises about the chances of an Eagles reunion right up until their 1994 Hell Freezes Over tour, so…
Shit’s about to get really real in here. (Gabriel Hernandez) Like, OMG, guys! This is big! Not quite Forever the Sickest Kids getting played on The Hills, but still… Anyway, on this week’s season finale to MTV’s The Real World: Hollywood (which, between you and me, is easily the worst…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Dada is confrimed. (Tessa Angus) Ran into Dada co-owner Ben Tapia last night when I stopped by to see Burning Brides after catching David Banner. He offered this update: The BRMC show we talked about yesterday? It’s been confirmed. –Pete Freedman…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Country/Roots Act Eleven Hundred Springs 100 Damned Guns Doug Burr Tejas Brothers The King Bucks Quebe Sisters Band Burr’s up for six other awards; Eleven…
BET’s “Rap City” comes on at 4 in the afternoon in this here time zone, which means that in, oh, about five minutes or so, you can flip on your cable box and see Dallas’ own Play-N-Skillz appearing on the show. (Sorry for the late notice, but we just heard.)…
Models and clothes like this will be on display at The Door tomorrow. (Nice.) Tomorrow night, The Door in Deep Ellum will be filled with skinny, pretty, intricately styled people, and on this occasion it won’t just be emo boys. The Pin Show is a showcase of local fashion talent,…
The Bravo Combo-scored As The Wrench Turns, which, as we told you about last month, is PBS’ first primetime animated series and focuses on the lives of NPR radio personalities Click and Clack from Car Talk, premieres tonight at 7 o’clock on KERA, channel 13. As a reminder, this Brave…
Oops! Not only did I report last month that the U.S. Air Guitar Championship was skipping Dallas, I praised Allah that this assemblage of freaks and geeks weren’t coming to our area. Well, now Shelley Wright of the U.S. Air Guitar Corporation (!) tells me that the regional finals of…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…at Dada? (Tessa Angus) Looks like Dada’s keeping up on its promise to “create an A-plus venue, a kickass place for live music”–at least on the booking side of things. If you head on over to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Myspace page, you’ll see something of interest…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Label Idol Records Kirtland Records Good Records Gutterth Records TXMF Records An interesting competition, as one seems on here just because of name recognition and…
…so says this here somewhat-NSFW video: And since I clearly wasn’t around when Red Jacket and its Ruby Room were still rocking the shit, hosting secret shows and generally being awesome (or so I’m told), I’ll just let the press release do the talking for me. Check it after the…
We’ve been keeping you up to date on Fat Pimp, the Warner Bros.-signed local hip-hop product who’s been scorching the airwaves of K104 (104.5 KKDA-FM) all summer long with his song “Rack Daddy,” which implores you to dance along with him and, well, “do the Rack Daddy.” Sure, but how?…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Record Store CD World Recycled Books Strawberry Fields Bill’s Records Good Records The good news: No Best Buys, Walmarts, iTunes or Amazons here, thank God…
‘Cause Tom Petty’s a good boy, loves his mama, loves Jesus, and America, too, he and the rest o’ the Heartbreakers are launching a ticket auction for the front row seats at shows in their upcoming tour (which includes a stop at Superpages.com Center on August 27). And the proceeds…
[Finally, an excuse to post a clip from Boogie Nights…] Earlier this summer we had Boston/Styx. The Journey/Cheap Trick/Heart trio is coming in a few weeks. And squeezed in between is Night Ranger, a band that tortured me so much in the early ’80s that I think the song “Sister…
And, uh, they sure look happy to be there, eh guys? Um… The seven-and-2/3-page piece is basically a primer of the Old 97’s’ history leading up to this point in its career, with Blame It On Gravity, which also happens to be the band’s best-charting release (its currently sitting at…
Better than fireworks? Maybe. (N. Zinner) Kids, barbecue and fireworks displays kept me at home this Independence Day, but if I hadn’t been such a dedicated homebody, I would have gotten my ass up to Denton and checked out Imaad Wasif at Hailey’s. Wasif is a Canadian singer/guitarist/songwriter best known…
