Chelsea Callahan

The Queen of Excess: Kim Finch Rocks the Double and Single Wide

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. Who is Kim Finch? Hell if she knows. She'd pour you a nice shot if you could help her figure that out. Finch was once "Puncho Villa" in the Assassination City Derby, from 2005-2007, but f ... 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 >>

Deuces, D

After almost four years on the job, an outgoing music editor takes one last stab at making sense of it all.

Carissa Hughes Went From Local Music Fan to Label Rep to Her Current Gig at the AAC.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Carissa Hughes​At the moment, Carissa Hughes works for American Airlines ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Experimental/Avant Garde Act, Best Talent Buyer, Best Local Music Advocate

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant G ... More >>

Nico Martini Ditched Football For Theater and Somehow Worked His Way Into HD Radio

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Nico Martini​ Although we normally only see Nico Martini in his trademark short-bill painters' ... More >>

Chelsea Callahan Has More Local Music Jobs Than You Can Even Imagine

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Chelsea Callahan​In some ways, Chelsea Callahan is kind of like the mayor of our local music scene ... More >>

What happens when beloved local acts hit the road in search of success?

Tonight, Tonight: Levon Helm at Verizon Theatre, Dr. Dog at South Side Music Hall, Every Time I Die at The Loft, Bear Hands at The Nightmare, The Room Sounds at Doublewide, Salim Nourallah at Bar Belmont and Nadia Washington at The Kessler

It's another hopping musical Thursday evening around town with a show for just about everyone.

Video Premiere: Smile Smile -- "Truth on Tape"

Back in February, Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme, the duo that makes up local indie pop act Smile Smile, put their history as an engaged and then broken-up couple out for all to see--or, as the title of the album they released that month implies, placing their Truth on Tape, so to speak.A coupl ... More >>

Double Wide's Chelsea Callahan Co-Launches New Booking Agency, Manhandler Booking.

​It shouldn't come as too much of a shock that DFW has an ever-growing, ever-awesome, music scene; we've sort of been shouting that for a while now. From Denton to Arlington, it seems to be a region of Texas supersaturated with talented musicians, dedicated fans, and supportive venues. But why the ... More >>

Our 22nd annual music awards honor a thriving, collaborative scene that's finally getting its due.

After Warped Tour, It's Off To The Double Wide.

Riverboat Gamblers To Play Double Wide's Warped Tour After-Party on Saturday. Also: They're Running a Remix Contest. And They Played Daytrotter. And They Have An App.

G-A-M-B-L-E-R!​In this week's paper, which is almost out (but not quite), Eric Grubbs talks to the Double Wide's Chelsea Callahan and Kim Finch about their venue's annual post-Warped Tour party, which, this year, will celebrate its fourth year of existence and second as an open-to-the-public affai ... More >>

Come On, Get Happy! We've Found 50 Local Bars That Will Help You Do Just That.

DOMA XXII: And The Nominees Are...

​Well, we did it. Just minutes ago, we reached 300 followers on Twitter for our @DOMATweets account. Which means, as promised, it's time to reveal the ballots.After the jump, feel free to peruse the ballot for your 2010 Dallas Observer Music Awards. And, in the comments, go to town on your thought ... More >>

That's Not a Homeless Shelter Planned Near Expo Park. It's ... Um ... a Shelter for People Without Homes.

​Earlier today, Chelsea Callahan at the Double-Wide put out the call via Facebook, inviting friends and fans to a public hearing at 6 tonight in the downtown Central Library auditorium. Callahan wrote that the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs will be "voting to approve a location ... More >>

Bridges and Blinking Lights Gets Its Sound in Focus

The Double Wide Celebrates Six Years With A Bang

Dallas Observer Music Awards

Last Night's Carter Albrecht CD Release Show Filled the Granada with Fans and Friends

Hal SamplesTrey Carmichael of Sorta performs at the Granada Thursday night.Check out more photos by Hal Samples in our slideshow.Last night a steadily growing crowd kept the Granada staff on its hospitable feet as well-wishers, friends and music lovers in general (and yeah, a news crew or two) celeb ... More >>

Gig Alert: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Dove Hunter and Airline at Refactory 1

Tonight, a few blocks south of I-30, in a warehouse at 1800 Lear St., a couple heavy hitters of the local indie and roots rock scene will take to the stage at an event called Refactory 1 that aims to bring together creative types in the area music, fashion and visual arts scenes.All in all, a pretty ... More >>

M2S2 Prepares For Its Second Annual Offering

The folks at Life In Deep Ellum are pretty deep into the throes of preparing its second annual Mokah Music Summit and Showcase--or M2S2 for short. This year's free event, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, will feature 12 local acts, a performance from the students of Zound Sounds, and an art ... More >>

Bonus MP3: The King Bucks -- "Autumn Leaves"

Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks, never too far from a Shiner. Last week, Ms. Merritt Martin reviewed the debut disc from the greatest (and only) band currently holding down Adair's on Monday nights. And, in it, Merritt had this much to say:It's not quite as gritty as the Bucks' live show, but, in th ... More >>

Good Friday: Les Americains, Black Joe Lewis, Sarah Jaffe, RTB2, Jack With One Eye, Hayes Carll, Joe Ely, Gary Allan,Justin Nozuka, Automorrow, The Golden Boys, Daniel Francis Doyle, The Steps, Salim Nourallah, 100 Damned Guns, Loretta Lynn, Starhead

As national tours go, there's really only so much going on this weekend--as evidenced by the fact that, unless I'm forgetting some, we only previously spread word on three weekend shows already: the Lola's Stockyard show tonight with AA Bondy, Doug Burr and Telegraph Canyon, the Longhorn Saloon show ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets For MC Frontalot Saturday At The Double-Wide

The popularity of nerdcore, a subgenre of hip-hop so steeped in irony that you can practically see the air quotes framing the stage, is a phenomenon I'll never understand. But for those who are into white dudes rapping about video games or whatever, Saturday night at the Double-Wide is practically W ... More >>

So. See You At The Double Wide Tonight, Yeah?

Tonight at the Double Wide, in honor of the great Chelsea Callahan's birthday, the venue is throwing Cha-Cha's 5th Annual Rock-And-Roll for Charity. And it's a pretty busy event, starting tonight at 8 and running until the bar closes at 2 in the morn'. There's free bbq from Sonny Bryan's from t ... More >>

Crystal Clear Shuts Down Distribution Department

Our 20th Music Awards

1988-2008: Two Decades of DOMA

DOMA: The Winners! Announced! (Yay!)

North of the Dial

DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

The Tomorrowpeople, The Angelus, Sparklepussy Barbie

Saturday, May 17, at The Double Wide

Rich Lopez Gracefully Bows Out From The Observer Offices

Reliving Last Weekend's Local Music Explosion

Between Good Records' birthday celebration and the Mokah Music showcase we were a little overwhelmed—but in a good way.

Advice for the New Observer Music Editor

A lot of music editors enter the Thunderdome. None gets out alive.

If They Showed Boobs During Council Meetings More Often, We'd Totally Go

First Recount of Cha Cha's Birthday Show

Birthday Is Good Excuse for Double Wide Show

Deep Ellum Still Keeps It Real

Roky Erickson Will Not Be at the Double Wide. But There Will Be Roky Erickson Music. Got That?

Jingle Bell Jock

The Ticket rocks and other notable news

She's Got the Book

Dallas' music scene is showing life again, and women are manning the behind-the-scenes respirator

Slow Signal Fade

Where should you aim your local radio antenna? At the Meat, of course.

Double Wide Alive

Why, Wide, Why?

Celebrated indie-rock dive the Double Wide announced its closure on Monday. Or did it?

Double Wide Died

Odds & Ends

We hope Radiant wins after filming their national television debut this week

Odds & Ends

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Odds & Ends

Rock Lottery, rock for charity and rock GoGirls-style