Slipknot With KoRn Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, October 31, 2014 Music is weird. It has a way of sticking around in your life, or coming back when you thought you’d left if behind. I first heard KoRn when I was nine years old when my little brother got a…
Imagine what your labor of love was in college. It could have been a band or a blog or anything really. Just something that was your creative outlet. Now imagine college ending and putting that project to bed because it was time to move on and grow up. That’s the…
There’s nothing quite like getting the shit scared out of you, is there? It’s why we love watching horror movies. It’s why we do things like jumping out of airplanes for fun. Nothing else really gets the endorphins going the same way, you know? It’s also why we love Halloween…
With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we’re looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say that these…
Change is in the air these days at Crown & Harp. It may get by the casual visitor of the Lower Greenville club, but the differences are easy enough to see nonetheless. Long-time Monday night DJ Tony Schwa, the man behind Cool Out, has shifted to the weekly dance night…
Despite his advanced age at 78,Gean West continues to play shows with the same frenetic pace that made Peacock Records owner Don Robey compare a young West to James Brown. That’s not all he does, either. In addition to performing with the Relatives, West leads a congregation, performing duties as…
We’ve seen the story about young and poor people trying desperately, and often violently, to make something out of nothing. We saw it in New York with Paid In Full and Belly. We saw it in Atlanta with Snow On Tha Bluff. The task for first-time director Juan Salas and…
