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Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To See The Black Crowes On Friday

Wed Nov 19, 4:22 PM

The Ex-Mr. Kate Hudson and company are rolling through town on Friday night with a gig at the Palladium on the heels of the band's recently released (and fairly well-received) Warpaint disc. Writes Observer contributor Bob Ruggiero in this... More >>

Q&A: Nada Surf's Matthew Caws Wishes His Band Was Spinal Tap. Also: Another Giveaway!

Wed Nov 19, 3:51 PM

The three parts of Nada Surf. (Peter Ellenby) Matthew Caws formed Nada Surf way back in 1993 and the band found success two years later when the song “Popular? became just that. Yet after a successful tour with alt/pop... More >>

Fight Bite's "Swissex Lover" Video Debuts On Stereogum

Wed Nov 19, 3:20 PM

Denton duo Fight Bite--you know, the blog darlings and (blatant plug alert!) the lead-in story subjects of last week's Observer music section--has recorded and released a video for the first single (and, well, best song) on the band's debut... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To Tomorrow Friday Night's Torche Show

Wed Nov 19, 3:03 PM

Torche is gonna burn this mother to the ground. (Ryan Russel) It's a pretty heavy night at the Lounge tomorrow Friday night as Torche, Clouds and Black Cobra take to the stage for some serious face-melting. And it's a... More >>

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Features

The Vampire Lounge, Back in Business, Hopes Not to Suck
Also: Rhett Miller returns to Dallas to champion a good cause

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, November 20

Between this weekend's expected big opening for Twilight in movie theaters and the first-season finale of HBO's phenomenal True Blood set to take... More >>
It's Not Americana; It's Dress-Up
Don't be fooled by the faded denim and snap-button cowboy shirts

By JUSTIN F. FARRAR

Thursday, November 20

Vintage rural rock, country folk and stoner bluegrass are some of the more beautiful things our screwed-up country has given the world. My Sansa... More >>
Gang Gang Dance, Rainbow Arabia, Sydney Confirm
Thursday, November 20, at Lola's Saloon, Fort Worth

By Ray Cummings

Thursday, November 20

Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance isn't beholden to any particular style or scene; this foursome brews its own inimitable sonic pilsner. And into its... More >>
Deerhunter
Microcastle (Kranky)

By Ben Westhoff

Thursday, November 20

Bradford Cox's oversized persona threatens to overwhelm almost anything his band does. In concert, the singer-songwriter—who has Marfan... More >>
Torche Tries a Slow Burn
The Florida metal act takes the generic element out of its metal

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Thursday, November 20

Listening to the colossal wallop of the Florida underground metal outfit Torche is a pleasure. And making that colossal wallop is equally... More >>
Chaos Control Draws Punks of All Ages to Downtown Denton
But can the new venue weather business without liquor sales?

By Daniel Rodrigue

Thursday, November 20

With a scuffed wood floor, black ceiling tiles and strands of Christmas lights hanging on the sparsely decorated walls, Chaos Control looks like... More >>
The Black Crowes
Friday, November 21, at the Palladium Ballroom

By Bob Ruggiero

Thursday, November 20

On Warpaint, the band's first studio release since re-forming in 2005, the Black Crowes show how a little time off can work wonders. The album... More >>
Bloc Party
Intimacy (Atlantic)

By Michael Roberts

Thursday, November 20

Transitioning from overhyped buzz generator to perpetual powerhouse ain't easy, even for figures as charismatic as the Bloc Party men, and the... More >>
Supersuckers Stick With What Works
Twenty years into his career Eddie Spaghetti has no intention to change his band's sound—for better or worse

By Jesse Hughey

Thursday, November 20

In an interview before The Supersuckers' Thursday, November 13, show at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton, singer/bassist Eddie Spaghetti sounded... More >>
Heartless Bastards, Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears, Les Americains
Friday, November 21, at Club Dada

By Falling James

Thursday, November 20

For the recording of Heartless Bastards' third album, The Mountain (to be released on Fat Possum Records in January), Erika Wennerstrom had to... More >>
Q-Tip
The Renaissance (Universal Motown)

By Shea Serrano

Thursday, November 20

Unfortunately for Q-Tip, he did not die. If he had, the decade or so that's passed since A Tribe Called Quest's unfortunate implosion (and his... More >>
Blind Boys of Alabama
Friday, November 21, at McFarlin Auditorium

By Glenn Burnsilver

Thursday, November 20

Divine inspiration brought the Blind Boys of Alabama together in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, a school that taught blind... More >>
The Double Wide's Anniversary Party With Lions, Baboon, Dove Hunter, Record Hop and Pikahsso & Tahiti
Saturday, November 22, at the Double Wide

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, November 20

Another year, another opportunity to celebrate the existence of Dallas' finest rock 'n' roll dive. And this year's celebration looks to be... More >>
Little Joy, Dead Trees, Cocky Americans
Wednesday, November 26, at The Lounge on Elm Street

By Ben Palosaari

Thursday, November 20

What do you do after your rock band has conquered the musical world and is on a break before producing another album? If you're The Strokes'... More >>
Dir En Grey
Wednesday, November 26, at Palladium Ballroom

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Thursday, November 20

Tokyo rock quintet Dir En Grey has been through a number of musical incarnations over its decade-long history, but none of them resemble the kind... More >>
After a Dramatic Rise, Fight Bite Tries to Stand on its Own
The blogosphere darlings learn on the job as they cope with the immediate praise for their debut release

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, November 13

Earlier this year, when the first song Fight Bite ever recorded—the lush, heartbreakingly beautiful ballad "Swissex Lover"—ended up... More >>
Will studios go down with the rest of the industry?

By Erza Gale

Thursday, November 13

Making albums used to be pretty simple in the "golden age" of the music biz—at least in theory. Get your record label to pony up at least a... More >>
Method Man, Redman
Sunday, November 16, at the House of Blues

By Quia Querisma

Thursday, November 13

In the days before they jumped the shark with Speedstick commercials and their God-awful acting skills, Red and Meth were rappers. Real rhyme... More >>
The Boom Boom Box
The Boom Boom Box (Self-released)

By Pete Freedman

Thursday, November 13

It's difficult to consider this album from The Boom Boom Box as the five-piece's debut—although, well, it is just that. Still, this... More >>
Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes Runs Up Against Polite Indie Rock, Outback Steakhouse and Norway

By Kevin O'Donnell

Thursday, November 13

Kevin Barnes has contemplated suicide. Two years ago, the frontman for indie-pop institution Of Montreal moved to Norway with his wife to raise... More >>