Speaking of Sons of Hermann Hall, it looks like you’ve now got one more reason to be pissed at yourself if you missed King Khan & The Shrines’ show at that venue on Tuesday night, which, quite easily, actually, stands as one of best shows we’ve seen in 2010.In the…
Rhett Miller, if nothing else, should be commended for being quite the active reader. Dude does his homework, that’s all I’m saying. First time he and I ever spoke, just a few weeks into my gig here at the Dallas Observer, just how curious an information-seeker he was caught me…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 8, 2010…How is it that Drake has his own headlining arena tour and all he has to his name is a mixtape and cameos?M.I.A. basically thinks Lady Gaga a fraud.Weezy: Suicide Preventionist…
Twenty-three years after The Sound of Deep Ellum was released by Island Records as a sort of snapshot of the burgeoning scene happening just east of downtown Dallas at the time and just as one of the bands featured on that disc (The Buck Pets) prepares for a Saturday night…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 7, 2010…The full Lollapalooza line-up is out and it’s pretty impressive.Looks like Dr. Dre and Kanye West are set to release albums this year. But, if Kanye’s album really is gonna be called Good Ass Job, his title wins hands…
Another month, another Local Hang at The Libertine. Thanks to everyone who came out. It was great to see you. You all rock. I hope it was a good time. If not, well, at least I know I enjoyed it. So, y’know, there’s that.Anyway, I hope to see you all…
A quick thank you to a source very close with Sarah Jaffe and Kirtland Records for passing along this bit of pertinent information for Jaffe fans: Though its official release is, oh, a little over a month away, and things won’t really start rolling for the full-length debut album, called…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 6, 2010…Dr. Dre picks the oddest places to announce his new songs…Further proof that actress/dancers don’t need to become “singers.”If God isn’t a fan of auto-tune, he/she/it better hurry up and become one… fast…
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…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 5, 2010…If you’re constructing a stage in ancient Mayan ruins and it collapses… should you really keep the show scheduled?Peter Hook plans on performing the seminal Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures in it’s entirety on the anniversary of Ian Curtis’…
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…..
This year, the Old Settler’s Music Festival takes place, as it always does, at Salt Lick Pavilion & Camp Ben McCulloch, just south of Austin, from Thursday, April 15, through Sunday, April 18. It’s an event that’s always heavily tilted towards acts that land securely in the alt-country and/or Americana…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 2, 2010…Can’t wait for the new Band of Horses album? Check out their first offering “Compliments.”Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken join forces in the ultimate “Hey, Remember Us?!” tour…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 1, 2010…The 8-Bit revolution has now it your parent’s classic albums…Jeff Lynne rules out a Travelling Wilbury’s reunion… which is good since two of the members are dead. Jazz guitarist Ray Brown passes away…
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…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 31, 2010…Since Jane’s Addiction can’t keep Eric Avery around, I guess Duff is the next best thing. Plus he can give the boys some sound financial advice.Liam Gallagher best British frontman ever? Ever? Ludacris: U.S. Census taker…
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…
It looks like hosting shows and giving away mp3s is no longer enough for two highly influential Dallas-based music blogs, as Gorilla Vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck have joined forces to create Forest Family Records. But while both blogs are Dallas-based, and will have Dallas’s A&R Record Manufacturing press…
Yesterday, Bucks Burnett was this close to signing a lease for a space in Deep Ellum to house his eight-track museum. But, despite an NX35 tweet Friday announcing that he was in the final stages of securing a venue, Burnett had a last-minute change of heart about the location and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 30, 2010…Ricky Martin coming out of the closet is like Lost finally revealing their secrets in it’s final season: I’m glad I finally know, but, I’m also disappointed because I already pretty much knew it.Did Cleveland police really need 50…
