The past few weeks have been pretty good to Texas music festival goers. The last two weekends of September saw North Texas welcome in two of its most promising events, with Oaktopia landing in Denton the first week and Index Fest taking over Deep Ellum on the next. While still…
And at long last, the will-it-close-or-won’t-it saga of July Alley has reached its end. The Deep Ellum bar had been plagued by rumors of its demise for a years, culminating in a temporary shutdown over the Fourth of July weekend this past summer. Yesterday afternoon, the speculation was finally confirmed…
Well, that was a hell of a weekend, wasn’t it? In its third go-around, Index Festival spread out to three days of music with nearly 100 bands, all situated on its new, larger festival grounds between Cesar Chavez and Elm St., directly across from Epocha and The Prophet Bar. There…
Hold onto your butts, Dallas; it’s that time of year again. Dallas Observer Music Awards time. DOMA time has moved back to its latest time of year ever, but we couldn’t be more excited about it. This year, our annual music awards showcase — Chevy Music Showcase North Texas Presents…
And now we have the whole picture. Lights All Night Fest has been slowly rolling out the details of its fifth-annual, year-end dance music bash to be held at Dallas Convention Center on December 26 and 27. Last month it unveiled the headliners, which were no slouches as far as…
Want to contribute to a good cause while also getting a sweet hookup on some concert tickets? Sure you do. For the third year running, the folks at Fun Fun Fun Fest are hosting a scavenger hunt in Deep Ellum as a way to preview the upcoming festival (it takes…
“Hello, we’re the Toadies.” So says Vaden Todd Lewis in one of his few between-songs remarks in the latest installment of Globe Trek Productions’ Busking series. Appropriately, it comes after he and the boys have finished playing a cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” — just in case there was…
You could probably refer to Danny Rush with just about whatever surname you want to at this point. That’s pretty well what he’s started doing. Many know him through his musical exploits in Denton as Danny Folmer, some as Danny Rush, and nowadays he calls himself Danny Diamonds. We just,…
This one might’ve gotten by you last night. It nearly got by us. Thursday night at Twilite Lounge is normally the territory for Good Luck Karaoke, but last night the routine got put on hold and singer-songwriter Madison King played a show instead. Oh, and it was also Rhett Miller’s…
Record stores all the rage this season. Normally the fall is the time for bands and labels to roll out new albums and promotional tours, but in Dallas it’s the record stores making the moves. Off the Record, which opened a couple weeks ago in Deep Ellum, is a bar…
Face it: You still love the Toadies. Try as you might, you just can’t help getting all the feels any time you hear that opening riff to “Possum Kingdom.” It might as well always be 1993. In fact, more so than you think: This weekend marks the seventh-annual Dia De…
It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point: How many people can fit in my apartment for a party? Better yet, how many people can fit in my apartment for a party while my band plays live music and we film all of it? Well Josh Fleming, the…
Jeff Liles, the talent buyer at the Kessler Theater and resident local music aficionado, has been promising a big headliner for the third-annual North Oak Cliff Music Festival. Well, this is a big one, and has plenty of significance for Oak Cliff, too. Edie Brickell, who was born and raised…
A couple weeks back, we had the pleasure of announcing that local avant-pop purveyors Bethan will be releasing a new album this fall, Time Gone By. Not just a new album, in fact, but their first. It drops on California imprint Velvet Blue in a little over a month on…
Watch out, Deep Ellum; there’s a new gang in the neighborhood. Well, sort of. The folks behind Club Dada rolled out a brand-new venture Tuesday night with the soft opening of Off the Record, a unique combination bar and record store in the space adjoining the Elm St. music venue…
For once, going back to work on a Monday comes with a pay-off in sight: This week we’ll get a three-day weekend, courtesy of Labor Day falling a week from today. So that, at least, is something to take comfort in. What else is there to be excited about? Why,…
This one’s been a long time coming. Really. (No pun intended.) Bethan’s debut album, Time Gone By, could be traced back about four years, to when husband and wife Daniel and Jessi Hall (then Jessi James) first started a recording project together. There have been some recordings released along the…
Back on Monday, we brought you a brand-new video of Sarah Jaffe busking for Globe Trek Productions from inside the Majestic Theatre. (She’ll be playing there on Saturday to celebrate the release of her new album, Don’t Disconnect.) Yesterday, we had a profile of Jaffe, which is on the cover…
This time last year, Sarah Jaffe decided to get away from it all. She had released two albums and toured around the world, and she knew that in order to be inspired she needed to get out of her comfort zone. Staying at home wouldn’t do. So she rented a…
The folks at Globe Trek Productions are back with another installment of the busking series, and they’ve picked a fine time to come back. This time around they managed to catch Sarah Jaffe in the middle of a busy schedule that includes a recently wrapped-up tour with the Polyphonic Spree…
It seem hard to believe, but it’s already that time again: school is just around the corner. (Granted, if you’re reading this there’s a good chance that school isn’t really at the forefront of your mind, but whatever.) That means that there are only so many more summer nights left…
Okay, then. Not bad, guys. A few months back, the folks at Lights All Night Fest, the Dallas dance and electronic music extravaganza that caps off the year at the end of December, teased us with the dates and ticketing information for this year’s festival. They made us wait, however,…
