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Kaia Bellanca Beggs: "I've Always Been Fascinated by Strong and Wild Front Women."

If you recognize Kaia Bellanca Beggs, it's most likely been from walking through the door at recent Deep Ellum casualty La Grange. Handling the door, and other La Grange duties, was just one of her jobs. Kaia is quite immersed in the local music community and has her own small business doing makeup ... More >>

Oz: Still Trippy After All These Years

Don't Vomit While An Iconic Song Is Playing, And Other Helpful College Tips

The first week of college is here, so the Observer staff is providing you with some tips to get your through the first week/month/year. See also: Six albums to torture your roommate with See also: The Overserved, back to school edition Don't fall in love with someone just because he or she wors ... More >>

Jammin' at Jamaica Gates

Did you know there's a reggae remix of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"? Neither did I, until I went to Arlington's Jamaica Gates to eat jerk chicken. The skanked-up Titanic anthem poured out of crackling speakers as I sipped my Jamaican lemonade -- thirst-quenching and not too sweet, it's made ... More >>

Top Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance Music

by Andy Hermann Electronic dance music (you know, EDM) is the hottest thing going right now. But to you, it still all sounds like "oontz, oontz, oontz" -- except Skrillex, who sounds like "wom, wom, wom." Right? Fear not. You don't have to be a kid yourself to know what the kids are into nowadays ... More >>

Flogging Molly - House of Blues - 3/4/12

Flogging Molly House of Blues Sunday, March 4 Sunday night's Flogging Molly show more or less served as the triumphant closing ceremony for what might have been the most Irish-intensive week in recent Metroplex history. Last Monday, Boston shamrockers Dropkick Murphys kicked things off, while the N ... More >>

Juicy the Emissary's latest plays "guess that sample"

Cultural Refugee( Self-released)

Preview of Saturday's Beat Factory, Plus Juicy the Emissary Gives a Beat Class

This Saturday night at 2826 Arnetic, The Beat Factory takes five hip-hop producers/electronic artists out of the studio and lets them work their magic live. It's a stacked lineup, featuring Denton's Juicy the Emissary, Dallas' Datahowler, Remode and Slago, and Austin's Boom Baptist, with turntable w ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Busiest Wednesday Ever?

Holy crap! We have a shitload of killer shows in our area tonight!

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets (And Posters!) To Tonight's Wailers Show at the Granada Theater

Win this poster!​The Wailers, about whom you are no doubt familiar even if your Bob Marley knowledge is minimal, will be stopping by the Granada Theater this evening to do their whole reggae thing. But, it should be noted, there are actually two different Wailers bands floating about the country a ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Wailers at the Granada, Camila at House of Blues and The Books at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

It's a weird and wonderful variety of shows happening in our area this evening. Fans of classic reggae and neo-classical avant-garde will be especially pleased...

Poster of the Week: The Wailers at the Granada Theater on April 6

​Poster designer Brian Cvejanovich is no stranger to our winner's circle here at Poster of the Week. He won our honor back in October for a design he made to promote a performance by The Thermals at the Granada Theater.But this poster? Man, it kind of takes the cake.

Tonight, Tonight: Devotchka at the Granada, The Supervillians at The Loft, O'Brother at Hailey's, Fleshtones at Dada, and Apollo 18 at Double-Wide

Good golly Miss Molly! SXSW frontwash is flooding into seemingly every venue in town. Enjoy it while it lasts...

Nicola Calamari: A Few Words from La Fiorentina's Executive Chef

Kevin MarpleNicola Calamari​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Nicola Calamari, executive chef at La Fiorentina. Today, we asked Calamari to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. (Calamari's words are after the ellipses.) I was raised in...Florence. My ... More >>

Listomania: The Songs That Give Thanks, a Field Guide

Not a song, but we sure are thankful for this.​It's hard to argue with Charlie Brown: Thanksgiving is here, man (paraphrased). Over on our on food blog, City of Ate, the writers are counting down to Thanksgiving with odes to their favorite T-Day foods. DC9's thinking: why can't we join in on t ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Wolf Parade at The Granada, The Supervillians at The Loft, The Gaslamp Killer at Trees, Miss May I at The Prophet Bar and Jessie Frye at Dan's Silverleaf

We have ourselves a busy little evening of music on our hands tonight. If you can't find something cool listed here, you don't deserve to go out.

Tonight, Tonight: Michael Franti & Spearhead at House of Blues, Tribal Seeds at The Granada, Field Music at The Loft, Ty Segall at The Cavern, Riverboat Gamblers at RGRS and Radiant at Lochrann's Irish Pub

Another work week edges slowly towards its conclusion, setting up what should be a great time to visit the State Fair, if nothing else.And to help folks get an early start to the weekend, several intriguing musical selections are playing around our area this Thursday evening.

Today In Music News: Manson Summons His Inner Kenny Powers, Lou Reed Makes Boyle Cry And Marley's Daughter Gets Busted

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 10, 2010...The fact that Marilyn Manson likes to play dress up isn't a surprise. But the fact that he like to dress up like Kenny Powers from HBO's Eastbound & Down, well, that is. Wouldn't have figured him for a fake sports guy.Aw ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 19: Lucy Wrubel

​Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. "I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music." Wrubel says, "After spen ... More >>

Rock 'n' Taco Can't Quite Hit the Power Chords

​What do tacos, LED light installations, and douchebags wearing graphic T-shirst all have in common? They were all present Thursday night when we visited the latest addition to the taco joint trend, Rock 'n' Taco. Occupying the space that was once Rocco's Pizza, Rock 'n' Taco is the first res ... More >>

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

Katsuk

Skeleton Key (Self-released)

The Wailers Band

Sunday, January 10, at House of Blues

Listomania: A Sountrack for Your Swine Flu Sickness

So, lately, pretty much the only thing on the minds of, well, everyone seems to be ways of refraining from getting any small strain of any sort of sickness--especially the infamous H1N1. Those who haven't been infected, pat yourself on the back and keep soaking up the Purell. Those who weren't so lu ... More >>

Last Night: Thievery Corporation at the House of Blues

Thievery CorporationHouse of BluesOctober 5, 2009Better than: Staying at home and watching Mad Men.​Fresh off back-to-back appearances at Austin City Limits and Stubbs, Thievery Corporation was still bright-eyed for its third show in as many days late Sunday night at House of Blues in Dallas.Insid ... More >>

Sugar, Sugar

Amadou and Mariam Break Out Of World Music

World Music Must Die

AMADOU AND MARIAM BREAK OUT OF A FLABBY, GENERIC GENRE

Girl Drink Drunk: Chili's

Monday night, a group of six girls settled into a cozy booth at a chain restaurant to um, "pepper in some refreshment." Seems strange to go with Chili's, perhaps, but the place has a spiral-bound menu of specialty drinks. It's cute, it's colorfully illustrated and it's totally effective marketing, s ... More >>

Nickelback

Dark Horse (Road Runner)

Weekend Roundup: Monster Mosh, Black Achilles, Cheech and Chong and STS9

Black Cinematheque Dallas Offers Free Admission to Bob Marley Documentary

Jammin'

The HOB hosts a faux Marley

Rasta Spawn

Another Marley visits the Granada

Musica Fresca

Thursday, September 21, Escapade 2009

Still Burning

The Other Farmers Market

Local marijuana growers cash inon well-heeled tokers' love of fine weed

Rock Star Olympics

Snoop Dogg vs. Bob Marley? Ike vs. Courtney? Let the games begin.

The Rapture

Echoes (Strummer/Universal)

Various Artists

The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC Video)

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Lost in Space

Meet the new radio, XM. It's big. It's bad. It's nationwide.

Hits and Grins

The greatest-hits format has fallen out of favor, but sometimes the results are pure gold

High Times

Once dismissed as novelty, G. Love & Special Sauce find a serious niche with Electric Mile

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

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