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Dooney da Priest's Fight Against Sagging Won't Worknew
Commissioned by Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, Dooney's "Pull Your Pants Up" is a four-minute plea to "urban" youths, who favor the long-popular style of dropped drawers, to get some jeans that fit, for chrissakes.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
11-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Funky Big J Rocks the Partynew
The Clever Monkeys' Big J brings a new spin to hip-hop in Dallas.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
10-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Big J
Ghosthustler Resurrects '80s Synth Beatsnew
Ghosthustler does not have a publicist, a website, a label or even a record. What they do have is attitude, luck, the internet, one hell of a video and one hell of a song.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
10-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghosthustler
The Hard Choices at Austin City Limitsnew
The organizers of this year's festival generally did an excellent job, dealing with headliner cancellations, fires and dehydrated sorority girls, but they really gave us a doozy of a decision to make on Friday afternoon: M.I.A. or LCD Soundsystem?
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
09-25-2007 |
Concerts
Dallas Struggles with the Bizarre Death of Carter Albrechtnew
Member of Texas-based Sorta, Albrecht's death was sudden, and it wasn't pretty.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
09-10-2007 |
Music
Tags: Carter Albrecht
The Polyphonic Spree: Armed and Readynew
Tim DeLaughter and company do battle at the Granada in their hometown.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
07-02-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: The Polyphonic Spree, concerts
On Rock Reunions & Nostalgia Concertsnew
Somehow the Police's reunion has coincided with rock reunions of all types, and this is not a good thing.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
06-04-2007 |
Music
White Drugs Makes Iggy Pop Seem Like a Folk Singernew
Listening to Harlem, it's easy to envision an intense live show, the stage covered in beer and saliva and maybe blood.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
05-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Harlem, White Drugs
It's a Badu World ... the Rest of Us Just Live In Itnew
Erykah Badu's new project, the Cannabinoids, is a collection of 10 other musicians intended to "put some fire up under the ass of hip-hop in Dallas."
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
05-08-2007 |
Music
Laptops Change the Way We View Music. Duh.new
In an environment where even audience response is calculated by a computer and the music -- and don't get me wrong, it is music -- is made solely of ones and zeroes, what does the visual matter?
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
04-24-2007 |
Music
Two Peas in an Experimental Podnew
With Explosions in the Sky and the Paper Chase, the song doesn't remain the same.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
04-09-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Doing the Interview Dance with Sandra Bernhardnew
It's tough to crack the Bernhard mystique in 15 minutes.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
03-13-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
The Song Remains the Samenew
Yesterday's concept is today's nu-metal (with endnotes).
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
02-06-2007 |
Music
Unclear on the Conceptnew
Prog rock lives on -- like a zombie.
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
01-23-2007 |
Music
The King and Inew
Grown men dressed in spandex: What does it all mean?
Dallas Observer |
Jonanna Widner |
01-17-2007 |
Music
