He’s played music in front of 25,000 people, opening for Styx, and cooked for folks like Johnny Winter, Butthole Surfers (we don’t even wanna know what they ordered), ZZ Top and more recently, as part of his sweet new gig as the head cuisine honcho at Sundown at Granada, actor…
We’re fewer than five songs into the Dwarves’ set, Friday night at Three Links, and the music has stopped, the drums have been kicked over, and the band has left the stage. No one seems immediately clear on what happened at that moment. No one, that is, except the guy…
Friday night’s lineup at Deep Ellum’s newest audible invader, Three Links, is a bit of a dream for those of us who love our punk raw and possibly infected. Now, seeing The Dwarves live, standalone, is a crucial experience at least once in the life of all from the rebellion…
There it is. Nestled in South Dallas, rescued by caring souls of our local arts. The beacon that is The Kessler. A majestic Texas juke joint, pampered with TLC and vision that only a handful of true music fans could bring. The Kessler (or rather, “The Kessler X+” as our…
We’ve looked in on Brooke Humphries before, and we’ll probably do it again, but we wanted to check in with her from an angle of local support this time. Humphries, in addition to owning stakes in both Barcadia locations, Beauty Bar, It’ll Do Dance Club and new coffee joint Mudsmith,…
Around Deep Ellum, Alan Keys is best known as “Alan from Reno’s”…the guy who threw a hell of a party for many years at Reno’s Chop Shop, bringing a pretty raucous and heathy-sized rock crowd in. Keys networked hard to get a lot of national touring acts to stop by…
Winston Edmondson has had his hands in local politics (he ran for Mayor of Lewisville a couple years ago), AM talk radio (on a couple different outlets) and, fortunately for us, is a big fan of unharvested local music talent. He’s a big fan of Salim Nourallah, Chris Holt and…
Local Music ‘Mericans has been running almost two and a half years now on DC9, and one disappointing shortcoming in writing this column has been the lack of “war stories” from live local stages: odd, unforgettable things seen. Not sure what the problem is! Sure, there’s been a few interesting…
The amount of new band names they can spin at you is dizzying…and endearing. And most of all, uplifting. They’re possibly the biggest fans of modern, often-as-yet-uncategorizable new music this side of the Rio Grande. It’s fun to watch to Dallas Distortion Music, aka Matt Vickers and Evan Henry, grow…
Photo by Allan Hayslip Known for his sophistication as a DJ, Reid Robinson (a.k.a. Woodtronic) gets groovy, laid back gigs spinning at spots like the Perot Museum and outdoor shows in Dallas Arts District. Not to say he can’t pump (and punk) it up if needed…you can also see him…
Showing up to see a starving local rock band from the neighborhood is a nice gesture within itself, but to show up ready to work…for free…well, that’s support worth noting here. The DFW rock scene, specifically, has been pretty lucky to have James Villa showing up the last 12 years…
In our ongoing quest to shine some light on some of the kindest, most supportive people hiding in the shadows, and behind the scenes, in DFW’s music community, there’s never a shortage when it comes to the people who bend over backwards for the 35 Denton festival, which is on…
Meet Wes McIntyre. Yeah, he works at Granada…for years now. You’ve probably seen him. He’s been gaining a reputation around the venue as being a pretty awesome human being in general. Exemplified in his nice-guy style of security work, and cornerstoned by his recent role as Santa at a Libertine-organized…
The Film: Denton rock experimenteers Trebuchet have a recording idea, and it sounds a little cockamamie. ‘Course, the way they write music isn’t exactly some safe-bet formula either, but we’ll get to that. Four Nights in December, their new making-of documentary (initially meant to be only music video footage), is…
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…
This isn’t the first time the Observer has reached out to “VideoBob” Moseley. If memory serves, he popped up in the City of Ate blog when he took over Reno’s Grill for a spell, with a pretty visionary menu of barfood taste sensations, lots of self-designed movie props (Moseley does…
As you’ve recently read in DC9, Amber Campagna’s family is practically the subject of a new documentary on fallen Dallas musician Frankie Campagna Jr.’s local punk assembly, Spector 45. We got a chance to know Frankie Jr. pretty well here at DC9 over the years, as well as his father,…
Nathan Adamson owns and operates a small recording facility and label: FourReelz Records, and Ferralog Studios in Deep Ellum. What caught our attention was the spotlight feature he does for new artists: “Catch & Release”, where they record a band in one day, on all-analog gear, then have a release…
Jordan Buford has been checking out local bands in DFW for about 8 straight years now, for a group called Rya Entertainment, and for a podcast he hosts called “The Real Music Enthusiast” which airs as part of the Whiskeyboy Radio Network. The great thing about Buford, apart from his…
At 16, Michael Briggs was a Deep Ellum kid hanging with the late-night, all-ages coffee crowd at old favorite Insomnia Café. Briggs has come a long way for the cause since then, running a great local music podcast called The Violitionist Sessions, which has spotlighted over 100 artists from our…
For roughly 25 years, Arthur Stephens has been running Dallas’ ASA Audio. Historically, he’s a familiar face amongst Deep Ellum’s gifted sound-crafters: He mixed at Club Clearview until 2007, then it was on to the sorely-missed Deep Ellum Live, formerly located just a block behind The Dancing Marlin and Angry…
For three years now, Annette Marin’s been a mover and shaker at Spune Productions, alongside Lance Yocom, and had a hand in this year’s Index Fest and Untapped Festival. In 2013, she’s helping ready new releases from Air Review and Datahowler. As a student, Marin set out to pursue a…
