St. Vincent Returns to Texas For New Nowness Documentary

She may have been born in Oklahoma and be based out of Brooklyn these days, but Annie Clark still calls Dallas home. So it’s fascinating to see the singer and master shredder, who recently got her own Ernie Ball guitar and popped up onstage at a Taylor Swift concert, come…

Stevie Ray Vaughan Was More Than a Great Guitarist to Dallas Blues

Alpine Valley is tucked away off the interstate in southeast Wisconsin. Most of the state, flattened out by glaciers during the last ice age, is plains and farm fields, but around East Troy — near where Alpine Valley is, at the edge of Kettle Moraine region — are green, rolling…

Reliving Spector 45’s Wild Reunion Show at Three Links

The last time Spector 45 took to the stage to play music, it was under the most tragic of circumstances. Shortly after the turn of the new year in 2011, the beloved Dallas punk band played their last show at Club Dada — as a tribute to their fallen leader,…

Dallas Observer Music Is Looking for Writers

When’s the last time you left your house? Was it for a beer run? (If so, c’mon, you can get that shit delivered.) Or maybe it was for a concert (because, nope, you still can’t do that from home). If the latter, we may have just the thing to get…

Index Festival Gets Delayed Until Spring 2016

Been wondering when Index Festival is going to announce its 2015 lineup? For last year’s festival, which took place in September, organizers Spune held a big to-do at Trees in the springtime to reveal the first round of bands. Here we are in August but still there’s been no word…