Life will imitate art imitating life on Nov 12 at Nokia Theatre. Me? I’d prefer it better if, say, this game toured: Quick, grab the umbrella! –Pete Freedman…
(Annie Ray) Well, speak of the devil. Just a week after we wrote about former SMU student Astronautalis in our DOMA feature, the Best Rap/Hip Hop winner announced some juicy details about his upcoming album. Even better, he posted a track you can stream from his MySpace page. And while…
Thanks to the guys at Gutterth, who apparently filmed the whole Best Instrumentalists set at last week’s DOMA Ceremony, you can now relive that pretty awesome showcase of talent–at no cost! Also, thanks to the folks at the Granada, you can also catch individual song performances from the most of…
John Freeman, the mastermind behind The Dooms U.K., Telethon, Sloppyworld and too many other contributions to Dallas’ music and art history to list, is bidding adieu to the Big D at the end of August. His Dutch Treats, however, will say goodbye to the city about a month before then…
We’ve had plenty of Play-N-Skillz talk around this blog and in the paper lately. So, you should be familiar with the half-Venezuelan, half-Argentinean sibling duo behind the burgeoning South Irving hip-hop production team by now. And, if you want to further familiarize yourself with their work, check out this new…
Our favorite local Pixies-influenced garage rock band, The Cut*Off, are coming home after a few tour stops along the east coast opening up for Old 97’s. “The crowd response was great,” says guitarist Jayson Hamilton, which is kind of surprising considering that the bands are so stylistically dissimilar. Good to…
Raunch-rap pioneer Luther “Luke” Campbell of 2 Live Crew, and also the subject of a new reality show on VH1 called Luke’s Parental Advisory, was in town last weekend to marry Kristin Thompson, a 27-year-old native of DeSoto. Thompson holds a law degree, works for LEG as general counsel and…
Not to belabor the point, but this Demi Lovato girl from Colleyville sure is blowing up pretty big… Case in point: The infallible barometer of all things underground and credible–MTV News, of course–ran this feature (video embedded to the right) on the former Observer cover girl yesterday, asking if she…
Over on our home page, we’ve got two slideshows of photos by the great Hal Samples from last night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony at the Best Venue-winning Granada Theater. Part I contains 20 color images, while Part II has a dozen black and white shots. I’ll echo music editor…
Thanks to everyone who came out to tonight’s Dallas Observer Music Awards! I, for one, had a grand ol’ time. How couldn’t you have? The performances were amazing: Doug Burr and Sarah Jaffe stunned; The Whiskey Folk Ramblers riled; Lil Wil repped hard; the Best Instrumentalists killed; THe BAcksliders rocked;…
Sorry things have been slow over here all week. We’ve been kinda busy–you know, putting together a little awards show thingy. Kicks of at 8 p.m. at the Granada tonight, and, uh-huh, it’s free to attend. Show up, preferably en masse, then, oh, just enjoy it. Me? I’ll be running…
Gutterth’s Compilation One will finally be available tomorrow, July 23. You can take a peek at the artists and songs included on the two-CD compilation at this page on Gutterth’s site. It’s packed with great bands and solo acts–Emil Rapstine, The Great Tyrant and MOM, to name a few—along with…
So, we’ve told you about a bunch of shows this weekend. There are some great ones tonight (the Hieroglyphics show at the Granada, the London Nights party at minc ), Saturday (Portugal. The Man and Facing New York at House of Blues) and Sunday (Republic Tigers at Hailey’s, Todd Rundgren…
Shiny Around The Edges has a great new track up on its MySpace page: a live version of “I Hover Above You”, recorded at Sons of Hermann Hall back in February. But even better than the live version is the news that you’ll soon be able to hear the studio…
100 Damned Guns ain’t playing tomorrow. Sorry. (Vishal Malhotra) Some bad news, gang: Due to a personal matter that just came up with one of 100 Damned Guns’ members, the band will not be playing our showcase tomorrow. As a result, there will be no 7 p.m. set at Sugar…
Well, she does have some sweet furniture. (Peter Marince) Local pop singer/songwriter Liz Williams is busy writing and fine-tuning songs for her sophomore album due in the fall. In the meantime, “Nothing and Everything,” a song from her debut is a finalist in a Song of the Year contest. “Nothing…
So I just got word that there’s a new book coming out called A Tale of Two Brothers: Jim Morrison & Michael Hutchence from author Jacqueline Murrary. In the book, Murrary enlists the aid of some of the nation’s most “well known and credible psychics” to help tell the stories…
So, by now, you should know all about Saturday night’s DOMA showcase lineup. And you should also know that, ahem, despite what a certain free daily pick-up around town wrote in its paper today, wristbands (available at the doors to all five venues) will only run you $5. You can…
Metal Mind Music, a Polish record label, is set to reissue Rigor Mortis vs. The Earth, the vaunted sophomore effort from Dallas’ own Rigor Mortis. Originally released in 1991, the record was the last studio effort from the band, as founding member Mike Scaccia left to join Ministry. Now comes…
So I meant to post this earlier in the day but, alas, we were facing server problems all morning long. Hence the fact that all of our posts today came after three o’clock this afternoon. Sorry about that. Anyway… Looks like the new Sorta disc–the posthumous Carter Albrecht release and…
Austin City Limits is still over two months off, but you’d never know that based on the ACL Fest-based Myspace pleas flying around the Web these days. At least four local acts by my count–did I miss any?–have been shooting out Myspace spam, angling for fans to vote for them…
Tomorrow night, you can turn on VH1 and catch VH1 Rock Honors: The Who, a star-studded tribute to Daltrey, Townshend and Co. But if live performance is more your thing, you might prefer this note: On August 27, Dallas Theater Center will open a month-long run of The Who’s Tommy…
