A tip from an Uber driver about a property that was for sale along the Trinity River led Jay LaFrance to saving one of Dallas’ most historic musical landmarks. Built in 1950, the Longhorn Ballroom was once the home of Bob Wills and run by Jack Ruby, but when it came up…
Angus Wynne wasn’t sure what he’d gotten himself into as the crowds showed up to his club on opening night. It wasn’t quite 8 p.m., when doors were set to open, but already a line of people stretched around the block. The new Dallas club that Wynne and his partners…
Knox-Henderson looks poised to get a significant makeover in the not-too-distant future, and that could mean big changes for one of the neighborhood’s long-standing nightlife spots. Earlier this week, Dallas’ Open Realty Advisors revealed plans for a new multi-use development along Henderson Avenue, from Glencoe Street to McMillan Avenue. Those…
You might not always get what you want in this world, but Tuesday night at the Dallas Observer Music Awards the Dallas music community got a whole lot of what it needed. As the Observer honored local artists for the 28th year running at The Bomb Factory, handing out awards…
Preparations for the 2016 Dallas Observer Music Awards are getting into the home stretch. Voting for this year’s ballot wraps up at the end of the week, and the showcase takes place this Friday. Then, come Tuesday, it all comes to a grand finale with the awards ceremony. But what,…
Dallas is changing and the music scene in North Texas is changing with it. 2016 has been one of the most turbulent years in recent memory, with police killings, protests, an ugly presidential election and seemingly endless series of beloved musicians’ deaths. On the surface, Dallas’ music scene is the…
The 28th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards are less than a month away, and the real fun is just getting underway. Voting for the awards’ 40 categories has been open for more than a month, and the dates have been set for the showcase and the awards ceremony. Now it’s…
Where has all the time gone? It’s already a week into November, and that means the Dallas Observer Music Awards are less than a month away. With the showcase taking place on Dec. 3 and the awards ceremony three days after that, we’re nearing the home stretch. Which means it’s…
When Alec Jhangiani and Ramtin Nikzad set out to start Fortress Festival in DFW, they knew they needed help. The pair had spent nearly a decade working together with the Lone Star Film Festival and Lone Star Film Society and, as they looked to assemble their own music festival, sought…
Maren Morris has been working the Hero status for much of the past year. Her debut album of that name may have only come out over the summer, but the Arlington native has been marked out as a rising talent in the country world ever since she dropped “My Church”…
Dallas went nearly three years without a Kanye West sighting. Now, having finally gotten one last month, it will only have to wait about eight weeks to catch him again. That’s because West has added another leg to his acclaimed Saint Pablo Tour and will be returning to American Airlines…
Post Malone is doing his best to stay on script. He’s downstairs at the House of Blues in Dallas, where dozens of his fans have gathered one afternoon in late September. They’ve paid $150 to attend a VIP meet-and-greet with the Grapevine singer and rapper, who’s in town one week…
Dallas Observer Music Awards season is in full swing, and piece by piece the details of this year’s awards have been falling into place. First came news of the showcase, which takes place in Deep Ellum the first weekend of December, as it has the past two years. Then came…
Alejandro Escovedo is Mr. Austin. He may have been born in San Antonio, but after living in Austin since the early 1980s, Escovedo comes second only to Willie Nelson in being the favored son of the Live Music Capitol of the World. But that all changed last year when he…
Last week, we revealed the nominees for the 2016 Dallas Observer Music Awards. With five nominees each spread across 40 different categories, the ballot — which is open until midnight on Dec. 2, the night before the DOMA showcase — offers a pretty good overview of what the local music scene…
When Maren Morris walked out onto stage at Austin City Limits Festival last Friday, she did it in perfect fashion: with Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes-Benz” playing as her entrance music. That one song choice brought so many of the right pieces together for the up-and-coming Arlington native: a nod to a…
From rock ‘n’ roll music to country music to virtually every major professional sport, the United States houses a hall of fame for just about everything — even though, for most of the rest of the world, it’s literally a foreign concept. Americans just love picking favorites. Earlier this week,…
Last week the 2016 Dallas Observer Music Awards officially got a date, and now comes the important part: the ballot. For the 28th year running, the DOMAs are here to celebrate the artists, venues, promoters and everyone else who makes the Dallas music scene great. Voting is open as of…
The life of the music memorabilia collector can be a strange one. There are your more ordinary items, like gig posters or rare records. But from there you can go pretty far down the rabbit hole, through sweat-stained clothing to, say, locks of David Bowie’s hair — or, as is…
Now that it’s almost October, the weather is finally livable in Texas — which is perfect, because festival season is just getting started here. The biggest of them all, Austin City Limits, kicks off the first of its back-to-back weekends tomorrow at Zilker Park. With a lineup that boasts LCD…
From outlaw country to Western swing to chopped and crewed hip-hop, Texas has long played by its own rules, no matter the genre. But the Texas blues remains one of the Lone Star State’s most enduring contributions, and in many ways Dallas is the cradle of that history. In a past…
The 2016 Dallas Observer Best Of Dallas issue is barely off the presses, but already our sights are set on our next big special issue of the year: the Dallas Observer Music Awards. This year marks the 28th annual for the DOMAs. The DOMAs, of course, are much more than…
