Music
Mack the Knife
HearsayLast week, we were the first to report that the Dallas Observer and music editor Sam Machkovech had parted ways. Turns out, the DO was doing all the parting.
Right on Time
CAROLINE COLLIERNestled between the College of Emotional Engineering and the Bureau of Synthetic Voice and Music, The Hourly Radio broadcasts propaganda across Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. More than 70 years after the novel’s publicati...
The Byrds
Listen UpArguably one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and early 1970s, The Byrds were also occasionally mediocre and derivative as they wandered through folk, psychedelia, light rock, and country toward spirituals, the blues,...
Randy Rogers Band
Listen UpEvery decade or so, a new regional renegade comes along to symbolize Texas Music’s swaggering side, a la Jerry Jeff Walker in the 1970s, Robert Earl Keen in the ’80s, and Pat Green in the ’90s. Who will we look back on an...
Sufjan Stevens
Listen UpWriting a definitive Sufjan Stevens review is almost as ambitious as Stevens’ intent to write, record, and release 50 albums themed after each U.S. state. So far, with Michigan and Illinois, the singer-songwriter and multi-in...
Ghetto Fabulous
HearsayIn my column last week about PPT’s new full-length, Tres Monos in Love, I (ever the diligent reporter) failed to mention that along with the 12 tracks, the album also comes with a DVD. What’s on it, you ask? Music videos, n...
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Listen UpAnybody who’s ever seen old black-and-white cartoons and paid any attention to the background music understands the joyous appeal of jazz swing, especially its fun, frenetic vibe. Made in the sophisticated American cities whe...
Valient Thorr
Listen UpRemember nü metal, that genre of suck-ass Jock Jam bands like Korn and Godsmack? When they weren’t busy making huge, multi-zippered, idiot-pants fashionable, they were supposedly breathing life into the tired, leathery lungs...
Red Dirt Roundup
The ShowSundays can be mighty painful after some hardcore bingeing on Friday and Saturday, but Texas Music fans are a strong-livered bunch. It takes more than a lethal hangover to slow down these party dogs, and so Labor Day weekend is...
The Tribe Has Spoken
HearsayAfter recording off and on since spring, Spoonfed Tribe has an e.p. all pressed and ready to bust out at upcoming shows. The three songs on the disc will appear on the band’s forthcoming full-length, tentatively titled Pu...