Homegrown Fest X With Toadies, Seryn, Tripping Daisy, Ben Kweller and more Main Street Garden Park and The Kessler, Dallas April 13 and 14, 2019 It was all rescheduled so suddenly, but you never would have known it. On Friday, fans and media outlets received notice that the 10th anniversary…
He’s an avant-garde music legend and creator of the electric rake, but Eugene Chadbourne’s music may not attract more than a so-called cult following of true music fanatics. Just don’t say that around the musician himself. “I have always thought the use of this word (cult) in reference to people…
It’s been 20 years since Lucinda Williams released her critically acclaimed album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Tonight at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, fans will see a VH1 Storytellers-style live performance of the full album accompanied by photos and video clips, as well as a second set…
Music has always been a central experience for patrons of the Deep Ellum Arts Festival. Twenty-five years ago, when the festival was just a one-block street party, it showcased the finest music Deep Ellum had to offer, which became part of the annual tradition. Celebrating its silver anniversary this year,…
For any band, the prospect of doing 100 shows in 100 days would be a daunting prospect, but for the boys in Houston and the Dirty Rats, it’s about proving their skills, merit and dedication to the spirit of punk rock. “One of the big motivations behind doing it,” says…
Monoculture has a new music video out for their song “Eyesore” off last year’s album Blueprint for Dysfunction, and the video draws its inspiration from Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” and the TV series Black Mirror. “We wanted to create our own reality-bending visual story that explores gentrification, artistic exploitation,…
The Coathangers have been creating their special blend of garage punk for 13 years, and now after a long break in their breakneck recording and touring schedule, they will come back to Dallas with a matured sound and a fresh new album, The Devil You Know. “There’s a big significance,”…
Festival season is upon us, and the draw of Austin’s South X Southwest is pulling on you hard. There’s a problem, though. Either you can’t make it to Austin, or you don’t have the money, or you think that the whole thing has just become too corporate, man. Well, don’t…
Thyroids’ new EP, Gelatinous Happiness, is what you need in your life when you’re on your way to work in the morning. The band has been around since 2014. Along with their two previous releases, Gnarlands and Oh Well, this third EP brings their total recorded output just over the…
Rosegarden Funeral Party is back with a new video, and this time they’re out to conquer darkness and save the world. The song “Once in a While” is their latest single, and though the band has not yet decided on a home for the track on any particular release, they…
Michael Zamora’s project Posival has been keeping him busy since he was 18. Now six years later, he and the band are just now releasing their first single, “Songbird,” from their sprawling, 16-track unnamed album. For him, the single and forthcoming album are the culmination of many years of thought…
Tonight, the Texas Theatre will show its last viewing of Lords of Chaos, a biopic about the dark origins of the black metal genre in Norway directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Åkerlund, the one-time drummer for extreme metal band Bathory, also co-created the screenplay for the film from the 1998 book…
After nearly five years, Fort Worth party metal band Duell has finally delivered a new 10-track album filled with bangers and anthems. Futureless shows more concern for the listening experience than the band’s raw, booze-fueled 2014 release Back to Drunk. And this approach works well to create depth and range…
The Prof. Fuzz 63 is a family band born out of Mike Farmer’s love of playing music heavy on the fuzz pedal. But it didn’t start out with the intention of being a family band. What began in 2013 as a band consisting of Farmer, who is an associate professor…
“Unattractive” by Toadies in The Cable GuyWhen The Cable Guy was released in 1996, it made headlines for two key reasons: star Jim Carrey’s $20 million price tag for the film, and the movie’s less-than-glowing reviews. But local music fans back then were likely thrilled regardless of what critics were…
The last year and a half have been busy for Americana recording artist Amanda Shires since she released her fourth album, My Piece of Land. She has recorded and toured with husband Jason Isbell as a member of the 400 Unit, finished her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing…
The time has come again for another five supergroups to deliver 25-minute sets based on different characters from the classic series Twin Peaks. Yes, it’s Damn Fine Music Fest II. If you’re not familiar with the concept, DOMA-winning talent buyer Jeff Brown of King Camel Productions has created an annual celebration…
What is there to say about Taylor Swift that hasn’t been said before? She’s the princess of pop, the queen of open letters to streaming services, the goddess of breakup and beef songs. There’s nothing she can’t or won’t do at this point. But even with all she’s accomplished, it…
The 30th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards marks three decades of celebrating incredible local music. Some hometown heroes have gone on to play arena shows, some pack up their bags and head to Nashville or L.A. or New York, and some find that DFW is the perfect home for creating…
Nominated in the Best Live Act category of the Dallas Observer Music Awards, Sub-Sahara is known for their intense dance-punk shows that can quickly move from swaying hips to swinging fists on one of their signature explosive downbeats. On Infatuation, the band’s third EP in just as many years, Sub-Sahara…
After returning from their tour of the West Coast and Midwest and racking up four Dallas Observer Music Award nominations, those post-punk darlings, Rosegarden Funeral Party, are back with a new song, demonstrating their commitment to developing their craft and expanding their sound. This time they’re adding just a dash…
It’s a weekday just after work and Lon Rivers is sitting at a table at Cold Beer Company as the sun sets behind The Case Building, blocking out the last bit of heat as we enter the final stretch of election season. A white Dodge Journey passes by with a…
