Run-D.M.C. Reunite For Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012

Fun Fun Fun Fest announced this morning that NYC hip-hop pioneers Run-D.M.C. will reunite for the November fest for the first time in a decade, with surviving members Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels. The join a lineup including Rakim, Danny Brown, David Cross, Bob Mould and Against Me!,…

Rittz, League of Extraordinary Gz at Trees

Atlanta worsdmith Rittz raps like he’s either a lost member of Three 6 Mafia or Yelawolf’s psychic twin, and he owes a bit to both his Southern counterparts. He dropped his White Jesus mixtape last year, and followed it up with White Jesus: Revival this year, pairing his rapid-fire flow…

Satans of Soft Rock, Ryan Thomas Becker at Common Table

Free shows at The Common Table are one good reason to hang out in Uptown, and this lineup of Denton regulars is another. Ryan Thomas Becker seems to play Dallas pretty frequently, but you don’t get to see Tony Ferraro’s impeccably named Denton “supergroup” Satans of Soft Rock that often…

DC9 at Night’s Favorite Summer Songs

The summer I bought The Breeders’ Last Splash on cassette at the mall was the summer I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid, and woke up with ants on my pillow. It was the summer I lost my grandfather, though my mother swears that was him making our lights flicker every…

Snow Tha Product: The Human Alarm Clock

In this week’s Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Claudia Feliciano has lived in Fort Worth for the past three years, but she’s flown under the…

Brooke Humphries: The Party Starter

In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Brooke Humphries is standing outside the entrance of It’ll Do Club on Elm Street a few weeks…

Univision Turns Recuerdo 107.9FM Into H20

See also: Scenes from the H20 Music Festival As an extension of the inaugural H20 Music Festival at the Cotton Bowl earlier this month, which featured regional favorites like Paulina Rubio and Bobby Pulido, as well as national acts like Weezer, Spanish-language station Recuerdo 107.9 was changed to Radio H20…

16 of the Best Local Releases of 2012 1/2

As we wind down the month of June and find ourselves square in the middle of 2012, there’s that old familiar nudge to gather, quantify, qualify and categorize the local music we’ve enjoyed so far this year. Here are some of of favorites…

Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic at Billy Bob’s

Willie Nelson’s 39th annual Fourth of July picnic returns to Fort Worth, with some of his closest friends in tow: Ray Wylie Hubbard, Stoney LaRue, Billy Joe Shaver, Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Asleep at the Wheel, Deadman, Jamey Johnson and more. If you’ve never seen Nelson (it’s OK, we won’t…

Akkolyte and Pinkish Black at Rubber Gloves

This night unfolds sort of like a local map of heaviness. Headlining the night is Oak Cliff duo Akkolyte, who just returned from a short U.S. tour and will no doubt lay down a spring-loaded set of charred, primal thrash. Fort Worth duo Pinkish Black, on the other hand, slow…

Save the Lakewood Theater Marquee

A few weeks ago, a freak hailstorm hit the East Dallas neighborhood I live in, taking out nearly every windshield on my street, including my own. It was one of those events that makes you snap out of whatever haze you’re in and go, “OK, nature, I get it. It’s…

Six Unlikely Covers of “Summertime”

George Gershwin’s “Summertime” has racked up thousands of covers since it appeared on the soundtrack to Porgy & Bess is 1935, and while several jazz and blues artists covered it in the 20th century – Billy Stewart’s version being perhaps the most goosebump-inducing, next to Janis Joplin’s – its appeal…