Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance has gone through something of a major transition of late — what with the band splitting from its major label home, Capitol Records, and then (successfully) asking for its fans to fund their future efforts. And, hey, in today’s turmoil-filled major label music world, the…
A few weeks back, you surely recall, we passed along word that the Toadies would serve as the headline performers at this year’s annual, Observer-hosted St. Patrick’s Day concert, which, this year, will take place at the Energy Square Parking Lot on Greenville on Saturday, March 12.Now we can pass…
In Dorrough’s words, his day yesterday “started off fucked up.” But that’s just how things tend to go when your home earns an unannounced visit from the Drug Enforcement Agency.Yesterday morning, a group of DEA agents raided the Dallas rapper’s home on suspicions of drug trafficking. The rapper, who has…
OK, so it isn’t quite like what Kanye West did with his “G.O.O.D. Fridays” series, where he released new music unto the public every week. No, the Old 97’s aren’t doing that. But they are, as they did a few times late in 2010 when they offered up some old…
Last we heard, Midlake was back at work, writing some material for a follow-up to 2010’s The Courage of Others, a disc that scored pretty much as highly as possible in Europe but gained little traction in the States. As intent as they may be on following up that release,…
There was a whirlwind of press releases in the past few weeks leading up to tonight’s scheduled benefit featuring Prince and Erykah Badu. First, it was happening in a tent at the old Reunion Arena location. Then, it had been moved to the InterContinental Hotel. And then, just this afternoon,…
Occult Detective Club may have started as the solo side-project of Secret Bangs’ Alexander Anguiano, but once Secret Bangs officially dissolved and Anguiano devoted more time and energy to crafting his catchy garage-punk songs, it quickly became apparent that this new project was going to eclipse his previous act.Especially when…
Lots going on today with tonight’s benefit concert for the Goss-Michael Foundation, featuring Prince and Erykah Badu. After initially being scheduled to take place in a tent that was to be erected at the old Reunion Arena location and moved to Addison’s InterContinental Hotel, a press release this morning announced…
Toward the beginning of last night’s show at the Palladium, as Daniel Huffman’s New Fumes project washed the slow-to-arrive Flaming Lips crowds over with his own, instrumental brand of psychedelic pop, Good Records, Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter was ambling about the floor, taking in all he…
The big news today about the Big Game’s halftime show, in case you haven’t yet heard, comes via an Associated Press story published early this morning by football writer Howard Fendrich, which quotes a “person familiar with the plans for Sunday’s halftime show” and claims that the Black Eyed Peas’…
The fact that the biggest song spawned by Dallas’ homegrown D-Town Boogie movement isn’t from Dallas at all, but rather from a group of performers out of Inglewood, California, has been an obvious point of contention in Dallas hip-hop over the past year or so. But it’s a truth: Cali…
For the past couple of years, local shredders Free Reign have been making their case as being the “heaviest” metal band around. And, with a lineup that boasts the 6-foot-8, 315-pound Dallas Cowboys tackle Marc Colombo on rhythm guitar and vocals, 6-foot-6, 355-pound Cowboys guard Leonard Davis on bass, and…
This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform “Gamelan D’Drum,” a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensemble D’Drum. And though the piece…
Aside from a few tweets and a Show Announcement post that came before this show was moved from Saturday, April 9, to Thursday, April 7, we kind of glossed over the announcement that Band of Horses would be coming through the region for a stop at the Verizon Theatre as…
It’s not often that, when you call up a band for an interview, the conversation gets kicked off by the interview subject asking the interviewer what to do with a vegetable that “looks like an old lady’s finger.” And yet, when I recently caught up with Tokyo Police Club drummer…
Denton/Fort Worth band Eaton Lake Tonics sent out a press release this morning announcing that, “after 1,240+ beers, 20 some-odd hissy fits, 6 years, 4 LPs, 2 EPs, 0 deaths and 200+ live performances,” they’ll be calling it quits.The band, whose members most recently included Tony Ferraro (Fate Lions, Matthew…
Yesterday, the final chip fell in place, as the NFL announced that Lea Michele, who plays the powerfully voiced and annoyingly chipper Rachel Berry on the FOX series Glee, has been confirmed to open the inside-Cowboys Stadium Super Bowl performances with a rendition of “America the Beautiful,” before Christina Aguilera…
In his 73 years, Peter Max has watched the inter-generational shift of modern music begin as a segment of counterculture and eventually become a staple of mainstream consciousness. And, this past weekend, at the Wisby-Smith Fine Art Gallery, Max brought some of his work to Dallas for the nostalgic enjoyment…
We’re just a few days off from The Flaming Lips’ and Neon Indian’s shared Thursday night bill at the Palladium Ballroom, but, turns out, each of the acts’ frontmen are already paired up, working on their anticipated collaboration.Per his Twitter feed, lead lip Wayne Coyne arrived in New York last…
After a three-year hiatus, the Toadies will return to headline the annual Observer-hosted St. Patrick’s Day Concert on Greenville Avenue, which this year will take place on Saturday, March 12. As in previous years, with last year’s festivities serving as a rare exception, this year’s concert will again be hosted…
What with all this puppet-, 35 Conferette-, Wilco-, Starplex- and KXT-related excitement of late, we’ve let a few other noteworthy news items slip through the cracks. After the jump, we remedy that — bullet-point style!…
Quite the to-do yesterday evening on ye olde Twitter, as some advantageous Wilco fan started blasting out the news they’d seen on the band’s web site announcing a handful of southeast shows from the band in early May — a handful that includes a Saturday, May 7, stop in Denton…
