Spillover Fest to Expand to Two Days in 2016

Can you have too much of a good thing? If the good thing is “fun,” then to the most part, no. (Until someone puts an eye out or whatever.) In the case of Dallas music festival Spillover (formerly known as Bro Fest), avoiding going overboard has always been an important…

Leon Bridges to Perform on Saturday Night Live on December 5

Now that 2015 is drawing to a close, Fort Worth phenom Leon Bridges is running out of time to pack more achievements into a year that’s already bursting with them. But there’s still time. On top of a rags-to-riches (or at least dishwasher-to-pop star) story that’s already the stuff of…

The Cure to Play Dallas at an Undisclosed Location in May 2016

If you were beginning to worry that you’d never have the chance to break out your extra sad black mascara again, fret not, Dallas: The Cure are coming back to Dallas in the spring of 2016. Back in October, the goth legends announced their first run of North American dates…

Blitzen Trapper Cover Townes Van Zandt While Busking at Off the Record

While we’ve talked plenty in recent months about how on-point Deep Ellum has been of late, there’s one thing that we haven’t necessarily seen that much of: Impromptu live music inside bars. Okay, there’s plenty of live music in neighborhood bars, but the busking keeps mostly to the streets. Not…

Watch the Coathangers Double-Dip in Dallas on Halloween

What did you do for Halloween this year? If your answer is anything other than, “Partied with the Coathangers,” then you probably Halloweened wrong. Unless, of course, your answer is, “Partied twice in with the Coathangers,” or maybe, “Partied in Uptown.” (Okay, just kidding on that last one.) The Atlanta…

The Travoltas Go Busking at The Foundry With a Woman in a Bear Mask

What’s a guy to do when he’s not recording award-winning albums or producing ones for other artists at his own recording studio? Why, start up a side project, that’s what. For anyone familiar with Salim Nourallah’s body of work, which most recently includes manning the knobs on the Old 97’s…

Voting for the 2015 Dallas Observer Music Awards is Now Open

Here we go again, Dallas. For the 27th year running, the Dallas Observer Music Awards are on their way. Each year, the Observer throws a big-ass party to help celebrate all the hard-working musicians of the Dallas music scene. Two of them, in fact. And we even hand out a…