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…
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…
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…
Being from Dallas, we’re always looking for any bit of cultural credibility we can get. We’re not Austin; we can’t claim to be the chopped and screwed OGs. Or so the logic goes. So whenever we get an opportunity to fly the Dallas flag — or even rub our pride…
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…
Halloween is over, but so what? Pull those costumes back out and get ready to party again next month because the Dallas Observer Music Awards are coming to The Bomb Factory on Wednesday, December 9. You might want to leave your white lighters at home, though, because the theme for…
Another week, another bit of oddball Erykah Badu news for the world to ponder. The Dallas soul queen has been especially busy of late, dropping a remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” and performing a run of “one-human” (not to be mistaken for one-woman) shows at The Black Academy of Arts…
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…
Kendrick Lamar and the Wesley Theory With Jay Rock South Side Ballroom, Dallas Thursday, October 29, 2015 Kendrick Lamar wasn’t even on stage last night for the most memorable part of his visit to South Side Ballroom — and that’s saying something. As the Compton rapper and his backing band,…
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…
Taylor Swift With Vance Joy and Shawn Mendes AT&T Stadium, Arlington Saturday, October 17, 2015 Who is Taylor Swift? A lot of people. She’s a millionaire. The biggest pop star in the world. The girl next door. A singer. A songwriter. A goofball. And, as she made clear with a…
Everything’s bigger in Texas, and when it comes to the State Fair that’s doubly true. Whether it’s the fried cholesterol on a stick, the cattle and pig pageants, the Ferris wheel or Big Tex himself, the fair’s motto might as well be “Go Big or Go Home.” Except in one…
It’s October in Texas, which means only one thing: festival season. With it comes the eternal question for Dallas music fans: Will I go to Austin, and if so, for which festival? Today kicks off the first of back-to-back weekends for Austin City Limits, with Fun Fun Fun Fest set to…
It’s hard to say where St. Vincent is going to pop up next these days. Chances are, it’ll be somewhere that makes us jealous if it’s not Dallas. Last we heard from the artist otherwise known as Annie Clark, she jumping onstage with Taylor Swift in Los Angeles to do…
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…
Fall festival season is getting into full swing in Texas, but while Denton’s Oaktopia Fest has just come and gone the biggest, most obvious one this week (and the week after) is down in Austin. Of course, we can think of plenty of reasons to not feel the need to…
If you made it out to the Van Halen show on Wednesday, chances are you had a pretty bizarre night. You may still be recovering. David Lee Roth has that kind of effect on people. But for all of the bizarre things that happened on stage at Gexa Energy Pavilion,…
Van Halen With Kenny Wayne Shepherd Wednesday, September 23, 2015 In the middle of a 10-minute-long “How to Dance Like David Lee Roth” monologue Wednesday night at Gexa Energy Pavilion, David Lee Roth got serious for a minute. Sort of. Having walked the crowd through his James Brown and stair…
The Dallas Observer’s 2015 Best Of Dallas issue hits newsstands today and it really couldn’t come at a better time. We’ve done a lot of talking lately about how things are looking up in Dallas nightlife, especially with the influx of bars (and people) in Deep Ellum. But as a…
When Trang Nguyen throws a Spice Girls party, she doesn’t mess around. None of that dancing in your living room with a few girlfriends business. Karaoke at a dive bar won’t do. No, Nguyen holds a screening of Spice World at the Granada Theater and invites all of Dallas to join her…
Garth Brooks has been having a hell of a busy week. Over the course of the past four nights, the Oklahoma native has played six concerts here in Dallas. (Simple math indicates that, yes, six is more than four, which means a lot.) And he’s not done yet: While he…
Dezi 5 is a unique animal in the Dallas music scene. As far as performers go, few pack the charisma and energy that this pop singer delivers at almost every one of his shows. Singing and dancing and dressing up in the most provocative (and outlandish) outfits he can come…
