Camille Cortinas

This Week's Best Concert Posters: The O's and a Shadowy Van Gogh

Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we'll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. This week's picks includes a Van Gogh-inspired portrait that underscores Mad About Music's ... More >>

Cha Cha's Rock and Roll Charity Gala, Adam Ant and the Rest of This Week's Show Announcements

​For the last eight years, local music advocate Chelsea Callahan has been celebrating her birthday with rock-and-roll and charity in mind. Every year, she books a solid bill of local bands and gives all the proceeds away to charity. This year, Cha Cha's Eighth Annual Rock & Roll Charity Gala o ... More >>

Good Friday: Vans Warped Tour Launches During A Busy Weekend of Shows

It's already started!​It's that time of the year again, when the heat has all of our teenage angst at an all-time high. The folks behind the Vans Warped Tour planned accordingly with this year's installment of the fest, which will be at Gexa Energy Pavilion today. So, if you're extremely pissed at ... More >>

Mission Of Burma, Smith Westerns and The Strongest List of Show Announcements All Year

Mission Of Burma​This week's show announcements are likely the strongest we've seen all year, and, to start it off, we have the legendary post-punk act Mission Of Burma. The band, which broke up in 1983, has been reunited since 2002, putting out what some say is their most impressive work yet. And ... More >>

Blink-182 & My Chemical Romance, Girl Talk & The Cool Kids, and Many Other Announcements

Blink 182 are back, and they're looking for corporate sponsorhips​This week's most notable show announcements come our way via huge corporate sponsorships -- one from Honda Civic, and the other from 7-Eleven. The former, which features the newly reunited pop-punk forefathers Blink-182 and their mi ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Deerhoof and Yann Tiersen at The Loft, Cradle of Filth at The South Side Music Hall, Doug Burr and Ryan Thomas Becker at Club Dada, and The Aces & Angels Salute to the Troops at Centennial Hall in Fair Park

Despite the terrible weather, there is still a bunch of shows to look out for on this hump day evening -- two of which are even taking place in the same building.

Show Announcements: Leg Sweeper, House Of Pain, Civil Wars, The Gourds, The Sword, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Steve Miller Band, Sister Hazel & Edwin McCain, Trashcan Sinatras & More!

​Secret shows are the stuff of legend. There was a certain Prince secret show at the Red Jacket in 2002, and the Old 97's occasionally perform under the name Rhomin' Hitchhikers. Now, it looks like  Leg Sweeper, with the help of Parade of Flesh and Gorilla Groove, is jumping on the secret sho ... More >>

Show Announcements: Dawes, The Soft Pack, Glen Campbell, Magic Kids, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, GWAR, Earl Harvin, Aaron Neville, Archeology, Gaslight Anthem and More!

The softer side of The Soft Pack​Just north of Dallas, in Frisco, something is brewing at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery. The bar's enlisted the help of Spune Productions to help diversify the music scene, who, so far, has done a bang-up job. More proof: On Thursday, October 14, garage rock ac ... More >>

Show Announcements: The xx, Slobberbone, Speedealer, Electric Six, Local Natives, Forever The Sickest Kids, Blue October and others

​When the British indie/new wave/minimalists, The xx released their debut album X last year, the ripple that formed in the blogosphere was somewhat polarizing. But, love 'em or hate 'em, they're bringing their turntables and Dieter's Dance Party haircuts to the Granada Theater on Friday, October 8 ... More >>

Show Announcements: Christina Aguilera, Sundress, Maxwell, Here We Go Magic, Pleasant Grove, Blues Traveler, and Creed

Frank MicelottaChristina Aguilera​As Lady Gaga proceeds to hog the female pop-star spotlight, our Britneys and our Jessicas are slowly fading into the background--but not without a fight. Christina Aguilera recently teamed up with electroclashers Le Tigre for the track "I Hate Boys" on her new rec ... More >>

Good Friday: Slobberbone, Shibboleth, Austin Brown Sounds, Cory Branan, PVC Street Gang, Chris Holt, Salim Nourallah, Mount Righteous, Teenage Cool Kids, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Oso Closo, Tesla, Gov't Mule and Slider Pines

Slobberbone plays two reunion shows this weekend.Let's do this. First, as always, the shows we've already discussed.The biggest show tonight's probably the first of Slobberbone's two nights of reunions (this one at Dan's Silverleaf). The O's open. But there's also the Don Cab show at RGRS, the Dr. J ... More >>

2007 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards

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Dallas Observer Music Awards 2005