Aaron Gonzalez

Unconscious Collective and Terminator 2

Thursday, January 10, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, January 10-13

B.B. King Saturday, January 12, at House of Blues, $65-$125 Blues legend B.B. King is on tour after celebrating the 50th anniversary of signing to ABC-Paramount Records. Fans and blues-lovers alike should not miss out on the rare opportunity to see the now 87-year-old mastermind musician live. He'll ... More >>

Looking Back on 15 of Our Favorite 2012 North Texas Releases

Tonight at Texas Theatre: Show Your Shorts Salutes Local Short Films, Including an Unconscious Collective Doc

Tonight at Texas Theatre, Oak Cliff Film Fest is presenting another "Show Your Shorts" night, featuring work from local filmmakers. The films must be shorter than 20 minutes, and they're taking numbers over on the Facebook event page. TT's Barak Epstein says they still have a couple slots open. On ... More >>

Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Best Metal Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Warbeast These old school thrash metalists - Bruc ... More >>

How I Quit Crack - Black Lodge - 8/24/12

How I Quit Crack, Deflowered Electric Flesh Bride, Habu Habu Black Lodge Friday, August 24 Black Lodge is tucked in a corner of Deep Ellum that seems annexed from the rest of the area, and perhaps that's what made Friday's show at the tiny gallery space feel extradimensional. The space has been dor ... More >>

Rubber Gloves 15th Anniversary Show - 5/19/12

Rubber Gloves 15th Anniversary Rubber Gloves Saturday, May 19 Ah, Rubber Gloves. I've been going to shows there since 2000, and it still has the most disgusting bathroom in all the land. But it's also home to some of my favorite memories, from the packed chaos of a Riverboat Gamblers show to the in ... More >>

Violent Squid Spray Their Ink One Last Time

Erykah Badu Is Sold Out, But There's Loretta Lynn, The Boom Boom Box and More

​Ah yes, it feels like we're finding our footing, 2012. You started off slow, but this weekend's concert list proves you're finally on track. Erykah Badu & The Cannabinoids at the Granada Theater tonight probably tops the list of shows to see, but we already talked about that show in this week ... More >>

Akkolyte CD Release

Tuesday, December 20,at Queen City Hall

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Ten Dudes With The Best Facial Hair In The Area Scene

​Seems like these days, hirsute hipsters are everywhere. At 35 Conferette, even, street vendors sold t-shirts sporting the phrase "Keep Denton Beard" beneath a photo that pretty much exactly resembles Good Records manager Chris Penn.We posted a gallery of beards after that event, but why stop ther ... More >>

Settling Old Scores at Spiral Diner's Third Annual Pancake Eating Contest

Photos by Patrick MichelsDenied in 2009, Mario Sanchez raises his vegan pancake eating trophy to the sky Sunday at Spiral Diner, as last year's champ, James Magruder, gathers his composure.​For most of the crowd gathered there Sunday afternoon, the birthday bash at Spiral Diner was about celebrati ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Blush and Swivel Don't Want to Change the World -- Just Dallas

The members os Swivel would rather create their own place to play than perform in Deep Ellum's clubs.​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we look back to the year 2000, when under-aged kids in Dallas bands performed at all ages venues like The Major, Galaxy Club, and The Orbit Ro ... More >>

Ariel Pink Collaborates With Local Jazz Family For New Recordings

As it turns out, there's more to Mesquite than going to the rodeo and spending your weekend cruising up and down Galloway Avenue. Back in February, super- and ever-buzzing freak folker Ariel Pink decided to visit the East Dallas suburb to record a handful of songs at Klearlight Studio with some help ... More >>

Good Friday: Nouvelle Vauge Postponed, Vic Chesnutt Tribute Canceled, But You've Still Got True Widow, Louis Moholo-Moholo, The J.C. Experience, American Werewolf Academy, Baruch The Scribe, Collin Herring and More

​Aside from the snow, the big story this weekend is, of course, the NBA All-Star Game and the musicians, celebrities, models, gold-diggers and hookers swarming the city. This week's cover story tells you why this is such an important weekend for Dallas' mainstream-leaning hip-hop artists, and the ... More >>

No Idea Festival To Be Held At Phoenix Project Next Sunday

​Last year's performances at Lola's Sixth in Fort Worth marked the first time the improv/experimental music No Idea Festival came to the North Texas area. This year the event will be held in Dallas at a far grittier venue, the home base of the non-profit art- and music DIY collective known as Phoe ... More >>

Good Friday: MFM, Jacob Wick, Yells At Eels, Matthew Gray, Slobberbone, Misfits And More

​If you're not too busy on this Black Friday weekend--collecting everything you're owed and striking all the big red words from your little black book--you ought to go catch some live music. First, the shows we've already mentioned. Tonight, Cursive plays at Hailey's in Denton and Ryan Bingham and ... More >>

Shits And Giggles

Trick or Treat (Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets)

Phoenix Project Lets You Listen To Improv Lottery Recordings, Then Walk Like A Zombie

Click to enlarge​The DIY space Phoenix Project has a busy weekend, with Saturday's lineup of Big Fiction, Muhammadali, Leg Sweeper and The Sleepies followed by Sunday's show with Dysrhythmia, Four Days To Burn, Waste Burai and Baring Teeth. But the capper is an early Halloween treat Sunday afterno ... More >>

Gig Alert: Elliott Levin Trio And The Tidbits At The Phoenix Project Tonight

​Philadelphia experimental sax man and poet Elliott Levin had to cancel his Annex House show last month, but the brothers Gonzalez aren't going to leave fans hanging. Tonight, the Elliott Levin Trio--consisting of Levin with Stefan Gonzalez on drums and Aaron Gonzalez on bass--will make up the can ... More >>

Good Friday: Calhoun, Hayes Carll, Red Headed Stranglers, Metal Rouge, Wildflower!, The Lash Outs, A Tribute To Stephen Bruton, Dem Southernfolkz, QCBS Benefit

There are so many options for music lovers this weekend that it's almost overwhelming. Remember, back in the days when you used to go to video stores to rent movies, how it felt to just stare at the cases with no idea what you wanted to watch, and there were so many choices that you got a headache b ... More >>

The Ideas Behind The No Idea Festival

Bonus MP3: Zanzibar Snails -- "Lengua"

Akkolyte To Record Pieces Of Tonight's Double-Wide Gig

The Good Sons, The Great Tyrant, The Undoing of David Wright

Saturday, October 21, at the Double Wide

Odds & Ends

If you thought you'd find safety and assurance at the Sanctuary, think again

Scene stealers

Blush and Swivel don't want to change the world -- just Dallas