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How To Start a Record Collection, Part III (Record Store Day Edition)

I thought it would be a private relationship between me and my record player. Music collections, no matter what they are made of, can be so intimate they border on embarrassing. Not sure what to buy, I clicked on review after review, talking myself into and out of nearly every purchase. But the thin ... More >>

30 Of the Most Kick-Ass DJ Residencies In DFW in Every Genre

It's nearly impossible to list them all, but what you will find below is a list of more than 15 awesome DFW-area DJs and musicians with 30 collectively kick-ass DJ residencies in your city. These residencies span almost every single day of the week and feature damn near every type of music imaginabl ... More >>

Dallas DJ John Walker is in A Coma: Here's How You Can Help

At 2:15 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27, local DJ, longtime musician and father of three John Walker had just left his job at Rockit Lab Studios and was traveling on Lemmon Avenue, near the intersection at Oak Grove Avenue. He collided with a taxi cab. Exact details of the accident are still unclear, ev ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In DFW This Week, January 28-31

Lady Gaga Tuesday, January 29, at American Airlines Center, $65-$200 Jan 29th sees the Dallas leg of Lady Gaga's latest attempt to put some relevant words in front of the word "Ball" and successfully market it as an event. To be fair to Lady G, she's one of those rare pop phenomenons who managed, at ... More >>

The Six Best Concerts In DFW This Weekend, December 27-30

The Marked Men Thursday, December 27, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, $5 One of Denton's all-time best punk bands, the Marked Men, are playing at Rubber Gloves with the equally formidable Bad Sports, who are in the process of recording a new album. Since their conception in the early aughts, the ... More >>

Here's The Lineup For The 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

In the past few weeks, we've been getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, and nudging you to vote daily, all leading up to our November 10 showcase, which is currently packing 60 acts across eight stages in Deep Ellum. We've got the lineups, venues and times b ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Madonna Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21, at American Airlines Center, $48.50-$358.50 Get your outfits ready, Madonna is upon us. When she kicked off her world tour back in May, thus began her gigantic seven-month, 89-date trek through Europe before hitting North America, and she'll event ... More >>

Bryan Street Tavern's Big Fucking Anniversary Party - 10/6/12

Bryan Street Tavern's Big Fucking Anniversary Party Bryan Street Tavern Saturday, October 6 For what was billed the "big fucking anniversary party" at Bryan Street Tavern on Saturday, a host of local acts, mixed in with a handful of bands from Tennessee and Brooklyn, had the attention of plenty as ... More >>

And The Nominees For The 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards Are...

Welcome to Thunderdome. The 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards poll is now live, and you can go right here and do what America does best: vote on their computer. Or you could go "old school" and find a paper ballot, like the one in this week's issue, then bring it to our November 10 showcase in Deep ... More >>

Ten Of This Weekend's Best Shows: Lindsey Buckingham, Deep Shade, The Old 97's and More

Every Thursday, we bring you the ten best shows to see this weekend. Of course, you can find many more via our handy concert calendar. Lindsey BuckinghamFriday, August 24, at Cendera CenterThe Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer will be playing at Fort Worth's newly opened Cendera Center. This shoul ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 42: DJ Gabe

Gabriel Mendoza, aka DJ Gabe, has been spinning (literally, he uses turntables) since 2004. His DJ career took off when his friend, Patricia Rodriguez, pitched him on doing a psych/mod night. Gabe's response was, "Hells yes." He now spins all over town, and folks looking to unwind to some funky t ... More >>

Ronald Shannon Jackson - The Kessler Theater - 7/7/12

Ronald Shannon Jackson The Kessler Theater Saturday, July 7 Wish fulfillment at a concert? I've experienced it a few times: Captain Beefheart in 1976, Muddy Waters in 1977, Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton in 2001. It happened again this past Saturday night, when Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decodin ... More >>

13 Shows To See This Weekend: The Beach Boys, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Olivia Tremor Control & More

Beach BoysThursday, April 26, at Verizon TheatreIt's the first time the Beach Boys will feature Brian Wilson on tour in decades. Their voices aren't as pure as they were on their near-perfect album Pet Sounds, but even at half strength the performance should be good.Steve EarleThursday, April 2 ... More >>

Dancing in the Dark: Blixaboy's Intro to Futro at Bryan Street Tavern

Blixaboy, Convextion, Betdat Bryan Street Tavern Saturday, January 14 Less than a quarter of the people packed into Bryan Street Tavern on Saturday night were there to support one of the most significant local album releases of 2012. People interested in the show had to swim through the crowds in ... More >>

The Black Dotz Are a Band, Dammit

Good Friday Thursday: Christmas Weekend Edition

​Hey, remember that best local hip-hop post we ran the other day? The one that mentioned A.Dd ? Well, the aforementioned duo, along with the help of DJ Sober, put out a special WADD Radio Holiday Podcast, featuring classic holiday hits, hilarious between-song banter, and they even took phone calls ... More >>

DOMAXXIII: Announcing Your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Winners...

Stephen MaskerErykah Badu headlined last night's DOMAXXIII. More photos in our slideshow: Scenes from the 2011 Music Awards ​Another year, another Dallas Observer Music Awards season down the drain. Gotta say, though, this year's season felt especially epic. Many thanks to the Toadies, the Old 97' ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Album, Best Electronic Act, Best Punk Act

​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 Album, Best Electron ... More >>

DOMAXXIII: 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Tickets Now Up For Sale

​ It's coming up on two weeks now since we dropped the above bomb on you and announced that we'd somehow cobbled together the above four bold-faced names -- Toadies, Old 97's, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe -- to headline our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase on Saturday, October 15, in Dee ... More >>

Jason Lytle, Midlake, Sarah Jaffe and True Widow Among Acts Playing Good Records' National Record Store Day Party on April 16

Sara KerensA scene from last year's affair. Get nostalgic and check out our slideshow of the event.​Maybe the best free event you'll attend all year, the annual joint celebration that Good Records throws for both Record Store Day and the store's birthday always makes for quite the happening shindi ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 24: DJ Redsean

​His popular weekly dance party known as Disqo Disco may be dead now, but Sean Humphrey, who also serves as the frontman of local electro act Sydney Confirm, still spins lively sets around town under his stage name of Redsean.In both his band and in his DJ sets, Humphrey draws a great deal of infl ... More >>

Q&A: WeShotJR's Stoned Ranger and Defensive Listening Talk Anonymity, The Importance of Outside Perspectives and Their Reasons For Saying Goodbye.

Stoned Ranger, as photographed for the Observer in 2006.​For the past five years, WeShotJR, for better or worse, has been a fairly prominent player in the local music scene, be it for its authors' secret identities, for its even-more anonymous commenters' rantings or for its honest, if oftentimes ... More >>

Good Friday - Double Wide Parking Lot Pool Party, Boys Named Sue, Trey Johnson, James Hall and the Futura Bold, Ludacris, Dorrough, Blixaboy, Akkolyte, and more

Caity ColvardGet in the pool with this guy at Double Wide.​The folks over at Double Wide had so much fun with their July Fourth pool party that they're blowing up the above-ground pool again Sunday, and this time Boys Named Sue will provide the soundtrack. It's the perfect weekend for it, too--wit ... More >>

Dallas-based Techno Artist Convextion Gets Named To Fact Magazine 's Best Albums of the '00s List

​British-based Fact Magazine recently released it's best albums of the decade list (everyone's doing it!) and here's an interesting inclusion of note: Coming in at No. 21 on the taste-making mag's list is Dallas-based electro artist Gerard Hanson, who scores with the 2006, self-titled album he rel ... More >>

Lars Larsen Switches From Audio To Video

DJ G Kisses The '80s Goodbye

Weekend Roundup: Animal Collective, Red, Brutal Juice, Chameleon Chamber Group, Blixaboy, Blake Shelton, George Strait, DJ's/Devices Reunion, Girl In A Coma

Another weekend's come and gone, which means, yup, it's time again to reminisce on your fuzzy memories with some help from Youtube.Animal Collective on Thursday, June 4, at the House of BluesDaniel Rodrigue already reviewed this show for us, which, sure, didn't happen over the weekend, but came clos ... More >>

DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

Runners Up

Sure, the DOMAs spawned happiness and joy for the winners—but what of those who missed the cut?

2007 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

Missing from the Dallas Scene: You

Ghost Rock

From costumes to cover bands, your best bets for Halloween shows

The Earlies, The Theater Fire, Mazinga Phaser II

Hailey's

Letters

Ask the Golf Bum Little Bro Checks In Death to Cream Puffs

OK Karaoke

XPO Gold! gives its vocalists a chance to shine

When East Meets West

Ghetto Fame-Us set to release new record

"A Good Guy"

Dallas says goodbye to another local musician

Transcendental Blues

Remembering Yeti and Ohm's Doug Ferguson

Scene, Heard

A few more area musicians make appearances on the Cartoon Network

Across the Bar

[DARYL]'s Communication; Centro-matic is almost automatic; Captain Audio has The Cure; And more

Across the Bar

Raise the Curtain; Experience Lift to Experience; Mazinga's Dissatisfied Customers ...

Out Here

Stumptone

Built it, and they will indie-rock

Josh Baish and Denton fit together like a band and Rubber Gloves

Out Here

The 1997 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Cruising the neon glories

The Vas Deferens Organization searches for the timeless

Cut to the chase

B

In search of the perfect melody

The outer-space roots of Transona Five

Whose Young Turks?

Little Jack recruits some new blood and resurrects the ghost of e.e. cummings