James Khubiar

With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we will spend the next several weeks highlighting some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists are the “Best,” don’t just...

With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we will spend the next several weeks highlighting some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists are the “Best,” don’t just...

While SXSW rages on to the south of us in Austin, another festival has set up shop in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area to cater to a niche of it own. Imagine the Warped Tour crowd: your 15-year-old mall metal kid; your aspiring 19-year-old Instagram model; your "bandana wrapped around the...

Dallas is now a major event town in the U.S.A. This is a point that is not an opinion so much as it is the fact. We have become the destination for all kinds of major events. We've had a Super Bowl here. We have hosted the Final Four. We're...

2014 has been a pretty good year for Dallas music. It's a bit of a cliche for the members of any music community to say their scene is "on the rise," but around here it's pretty hard to argue with. Bands have signed to labels, venues have opened, festivals have...