D Magazine kicked a shout out to us in their most recent issue, the 2008 Best of Big D. Our staff was awarded the "Best Watchdog" award, and they even gave props to our anonymous commenters. Sweet. Read it here.

In a very busy 24 hours of press love for Fight Bite, the Denton group has been featured on XLR8R, Stereogum, and the Fort Worth Star Telegram (this is all in addition to their second appearance on Gorilla Vs. Bear on Monday.) Preston Jones' piece in the Star Telegram is actually wonderfully written and highly complimentary, but the Stereogum piece provides the highest praise for the group, referring to their debut full length, Emerald Eyes, as "possibly the year's finest debut LP." Quite a statement, and quite the exciting news for a very new Denton band. Both of the blog posts feature different MP3s for download, and you can pre-order their LP, as well as a new 7 inch, on their Myspace page.

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The following list of Dallas Observer Music Award winners kinda slams home the point that making fun of the Observer and its amazing readers is sort of like picking on a retarded kid for being stupid. DJ Burlap? Fair to Midland's pussy asses winning best metal? 1100 Springs winning everything else? Maybe I SHOULD move to Austin:

Eleven Hundred Springs – Best Band

Sarah Jaffe – Best Solo Act

Eleven Hundred Springs - Best Album

Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights - Best Blues Act

Eleven Hundred Springs - Best Country/Roots Act

Mom – Best Electronic/Experimental Act

Fair to Midland - Best Metal Act

Sarah Jaffe - Best Folk/Acoustic Act

Erykah Badu - Best Funk/R&B Act

Astronautalis - Best Rap/Hip-Hop Act

Snarky Puppy - Best Jazz Act

Sarah Jaffe - Best Female Vocalist

Good Records - Best Label

Salim Nourallah - Best Producer

Granada Theater - Best Venue

Good Records - Best Record Store

Kris Youmans - Best Booking Agent

Chelsea Callahan - Best Music Advocate

DJ Burlap - Best DJ

Sean Kirkpatrick - Best Instrumentalist

Boys Named Sue - Best Cover/Tribute Act

Matt Hillyer - Best Male Vocalist

Dove Hunter – Best Indie Act

THe BAcksliders - Best Hard Rock Act

"Slow Southern Home" - Doug Burr - Best Song

Whiskey Folk Ramblers & Tejas Brothers (tie)- Best New Act

Apparently people in Phoenix, that's who. I personally hate the Cowboys, so I could give two shits. Ban em all!

Ft. Worth's Tame... Tame and Quiet have an entire set of new tracks posted on their Myspace page... you can click on the link above and go over there and listen to them and stuff.

July 24th: Wolf Parade (Palladium)
August 2nd: Big Daddy Kane (Granada)
August 8th: Ariel Pink (Hailey's)
August 22nd: Miss Kitten (Palladium)
August 23rd: My Morning Jacket (Palladium)
September 4th: Weedeater (Rubber Gloves)
September 5th: Mudhoney (Granada)
September 9th: Why/Mount Eerie (Granada)
September 16th: Ratatat (Granada)
September 2oth: Silver Jews (Hailey's)
September 23rd: Juan MacLean (The Loft)
September 25th: Spiritualized (Lakewood Theater)
September 25th: Hot Chip (Palladium)
October 2nd: Jonathan Richman (Rubber Gloves)
October 13th: Magnetic Fields (Majestic Theater)
October 15th: Robert Pollard (The Loft)

Check Swiss House photos of Fight Bite, MVSCLZ, Tommy Boy, and Hard Place here.

Magnetic Fields will make a rare appearance in Dallas on October 13th at the Majestic Theater. Tickets go on sale at 10am this Friday via Ticketmaster. Can't wait for this. The rest of the tour info is here.