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Poster Of The Week: Johnny Lloyd Rollins At The Double-Wide

Thu Jan 8, 4:41 PM

This poster, promoting Friday's Johnny Lloyd Rollins/Bridges and Blinking Lights/RTB2 show at The Double-Wide, looks a lot like is the work of two-time Poster of the Week recipient Dave Perry of Method Entertainment. Which would make sense, as... More >>

The End Of The End Of Year Lists: Jesse Hughey's Favorite Albums Of 2008

Thu Jan 8, 3:42 PM

Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues... This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer's music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, which compiles the lists of... More >>

Video: The New Year -- "Seven Days And Seven Nights (Airport)"

Thu Jan 8, 3:01 PM

Did the Kadanes not get the memo? 2008 was supposed to be their year, not 2009...Oh well. Either way, the hits just keep on coming for The New Year, whose above video for "Seven Days and Seven Nights (Airport)"... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To See Jon Dee Graham At AllGood Cafe Tonight

Thu Jan 8, 2:41 PM

Mike Snider's got a nice little treat for music fans this evening at AllGood Cafe: A night with Jon Dee Graham, the Austin music legend who has played with just about every musician in Texas, was once a member of... More >>

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Features

Fair To Midland's Still Getting Defined
Audiences ate up Fair to Midland's newest material on Saturday, even as the band remains uncertain about it

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, January 08

A good five hours before his band was set to perform for the first time in four months, Fair to Midland frontman Darroh Sudderth awkwardly ambled... More >>
Marcia Ball
Friday, January 9, at the Granada Theater

By Roy Kasten

Thursday, January 08

Geography partly explains the power and appeal of blues belter and boogie-woogie piano banger Marcia Ball—but, again, only partly. Raised... More >>
Nickelback
Dark Horse (Road Runner)

By Garrett Kamps

Thursday, January 08

Even by Nickelback standards, Dark Horse is ridiculously brazen, comically outsized and defiantly Bruckheimer-esque. The songs not explicitly... More >>
Our annual Death Pool: Which artists will croak in '09?
Who should fear the reaper this year?

By Jesse Hughey

Thursday, January 08

It's January, which means it's that time of year again. No, we don't mean it's time to honor your New Year's resolution to have more empathy for... More >>
A Very Hipster New Year

By Daniel Rodrigue

Thursday, January 08

New Year's Eve at Hailey's got off to a slow start. Doors opened at 7 p.m., but naturally, people had to look their best and be fashionably late.... More >>
Dale Watson
Friday, January 9, at Pearl Dancehall and Saloon, Fort Worth

By Michael Roberts

Thursday, January 08

No one can accuse Dale Watson of not being country enough. The Austin-based singer-songwriter has a bottomless bar-room voice, a wonderfully... More >>
Akon
Freedom (Universal)

By Ben Westhoff

Thursday, January 08

The Smoking Gun Web site exposed Akon earlier this year, unearthing police documents showing he's greatly exaggerated his arrest record and... More >>
Lou Gramm's Still a Jukebox Hero
For ex-Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm, it still feels like the very first time, every time

By Chad Garrison

Thursday, January 08

There existed only one band from the late '70s through the early '80s: Foreigner. The group gave us immortal rock tunes such as "Cold as Ice,"... More >>
2008 Should've Been The New Year's Year
One thing you can't expect every new year? Another record from Dallas' own The New Year—which is just part of why The New Year is such a crowning achievement.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, January 01

As the end-of-the-year best-of lists finish dropping off the assembly lines, they are, again as always, compendiums of the familiar, the... More >>
The Biggest Stories in North Texas Music, Circa 2008
In a year that saw Ozzy, the Jonases and The New York Times storm through North Texas, which area music stories will go down as the most important of 2008?

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, January 01

Now that we've officially kissed goodbye to 2008 and all, let's get all cutesy and name the eight biggest area music stories of 2008—the... More >>
Marc Brousssard
Wednesday, January 7, at House of Blues

By Roy Kasten

Thursday, January 01

In 2002, Marc Broussard gave up on the Christian-rock circuit for a solo career that sizzles like a bayou barbecue, where sinners jam and the... More >>
Ludacris
Theater of the Mind (DTP/Def Jam)

By Shea Serrano

Thursday, January 01

Ludacris' strength as a rapper has been—and always will be—an unfortunate irony: He's a schizophrenic mess of disputatious bravado... More >>
Lil Wil and Play (of Play-N-Skillz) Share Their Favorites of 2008

By Jesse Hughey

Thursday, January 01

This past year put the spotlight on several Dallas-area hip-hop artists, including Lil Wil (of "My Dougie" fame) and rapper/producer brothers... More >>
Vega Rises From Ghosthustler's Ashes

By Daniel Rodrigue

Thursday, January 01

Alan Palomo's DJ set at Hailey's last weekend was a homecoming of sorts. Together with Jason Faries (aka Females), Palomo used to have a weekly... More >>
Fair to Midland, The Timeline Post, The House Harkonnen, Dragna
Saturday, January 3, at Curtain Club

By Arielle Castillo

Thursday, January 01

Fair to Midland holds the platypus-rare distinction of sounding like pretty much no one else in rock music today. Consider a track such as the... More >>
Plies
Da REAList (Slip-n-Slide/Atlantic)

By Ben Westhoff

Thursday, January 01

Da REAList is not Plies' meditation on Platonic realism; it's mostly just demonstrably false braggadocio and sentimental hooey. (He could have... More >>
Taylor Swift, Butch Walker and Others Offer Up Their 2008 Favorites
...Oh, and we got a few well-known out-of-towners to share some of their favorites too

By Cole Haddon

Thursday, January 01

Tom Gabel, Against Me!: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "More News from Nowhere" "The closing track off of Cave's Dig Lazarus, Dig!!!, a record... More >>
The Top 20 Dallas Releases of 2008
Ranking the best albums Dallas, Denton and Fort Worth had to offer this past year

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, January 01

It's been a year, hasn't it? Maybe not the greatest year in DFWd music history—but not certainly a bad one, either. At the very least, this... More >>
Pop Quiz, Music Snobs!
What the hell happened with music in 2008? Well, let's see if you know.

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, December 25

OK, hotshot. Think you know your music? Think you followed the national headlines fairly diligently these past 12 months? Think you know the... More >>
Bleu Edmondson
Friday, December 26, at Gilley's

By Laurie James

Thursday, December 25

The story behind Dallas native Edmondson's first recording is something of a do-it-yourself legend. At age 21, Edmondson says he "looked on the... More >>