Guy Clark, one of the great country music’s great songwriting talents, has died. Author of such classics as “L.A. Freeway” and “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” Clark was born and raised in west Texas before eventually settling in as a Nashville staple. Clark was 74 years old. No cause of…
Yesterday morning, ZZ Top fans got some bad news: The Texas blues rock legends have been forced to drop out of their upcoming gig in Frisco with Jimmy Buffet. The culprit? Bassist Dusty Hill’s fractured shoulder. But if you happened to be at the right birthday party last Saturday, you’ve…
Springtime in North Texas means perpetually wondering when (and not if) Mother Nature is about to stop playing nice. Last weekend, the weather cooperated and didn’t throw out any unpleasant surprises, much to the benefit of Homegrown Fest and JMBLYA. This week? Well, we’ll see. One thing’s for sure, though:…
Paul Slavens has made a lot of music over the years. And no, that doesn’t just mean the songs he makes up off the top of his head every Monday at Dan’s Silverleaf for Pau Slavens and Friends. That doesn’t even mean his decades of material released as the front…
Erykah Badu’s no stranger to the silver screen. Going back to 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000, Dallas’ Queen of Neo-Soul has periodically made time to squeeze in films — when she isn’t crashing high school cafeterias or conducting sociological Twitter debates, of course. This year, Badu has a new project, and…
The news of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ pending closure is still sinking in for Denton music fans. Barely a week ago, the news that owner, Josh Baish, would have to close the place down following his recent divorce left the city to face a future without a venue that’s been…
Paul Simon Winspear Opera House, Dallas Sunday, May 8, 2016 Paul Simon knows there’s no real trick to getting old. It just sort of happens. You keep doing what you do, and maybe you do it with grace. At Winspear Opera House on Sunday night, Simon didn’t do anything too…
Were you planning on going to Addison tonight? If you were planning on celebrating Cinco De Mayo, there’s a good chance you might’ve been. In which case, you probably already know all about the Lil Flip show happening there tonight. But just in case: Lil Flip is playing a show…
Josh Baish is still in shock about having to close Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. The Denton music venue, which he’s owned and operated since 1997 — virtually all of his adult life — has been his life’s work. But with his divorce from his ex-wife finalized on Monday, Gloves unexpectedly…
Talk all you want about being “over” Austin and its festivals, but every once in a while you just have to swallow your pride. Austin City Limits’ lineup for its 15th annual festival, announced overnight, is definitely one of those occasions. The fact that Radiohead will be headlining this year’s…
After 20 years as a Denton punk institution, and one of the most revered punk venues in North Texas, Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio announced this morning that it will be closing its doors come June 5. “No easy way to say this, so we’re just gonna come right out and…
The Observer needs a part-time clubs editor. The job is 12 hours a week and duties include: — Data entry to keep our clubs listings current and managing the Dallas Observer concert calendar. — Processing reader-submitted calendar items. — Writing brief descriptions for notable concerts. — Slackers need not apply…
If you were planning on making the trek to Austin this weekend for Levitation, you’d better stop packing those bags. And if you’ve already hit the road, for god’s sake, turn around before you get to I-35. Just in time for those early birds looking to make the drive ahead…
Think about what makes a honky tonk, and a few images are likely to come to mind: Cowboys and girls drinking beers, doing some two-stepping, shooting some pool and smoking. Lots of smoking. No honky tonk in North Texas is more iconic than Billy Bob’s. But the Fort Worth venue…
Erykah Badu is so fucking special. That was Dave Chappelle’s message to Badu in February at her 45th birthday party at The Bomb Factory as he sang Radiohead’s “Creep” with the help of the Cannabinoids. Now, thanks to Reddit, video of the performance has surfaced. You can trust that Chappelle…
Drake used to call us on his cellphone, but now what? Well, every few years, he lets us know he hasn’t forgotten about us and books a stadium show in Dallas. Just thank the high heavens that this time, with his Sweet Sixteen Tour hitting town in July, Drake will…
Want a sign that Dallas is becoming an increasingly hot property as a concert city? Kraftwerk is coming to Dallas. Freaking Kraftwerk. How rare of an opportunity is this, exactly? Last fall, the German krautrock and electronic music pioneers played a pair of shows in Austin — where these sorts…
Jeff Ryan doesn’t have much reason to get starstruck these days. Besides his gigs as drummer for the Baptist Generals and Pleasant Grove, he’s played with St. Vincent, the War on Drugs, Daniel Johnston and Sarah Jaffe. But one show in particular still gives Ryan goosebumps, more than 30 years…
It might’ve been hard to take your eyes off Teen Wolf last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but our attention was fixed firmly on someone else: Kaela Sinclair, who made her late night TV debut last night with Teen Wolf and his band M83. And she killed it, thank you…
Yesterday, the world turned purple. Despite a health scare last week that put his millions of fans on edge, the news of Prince’s death, at the all-too-young age of 57, came as a shock on Thursday morning. In his hometown of Minneapolis, legendary club First Avenue, known locally as “The…
It’s 3 o’clock in the afternoon and Post Malone has just woken up. The Southlake rapper is on his tour bus on the way from St. Louis to Louisville, and he has no idea where he is. He gives the tight, gasping cough of someone with smoke in his lungs…
Before this week, it had been weeks — literally weeks — since we’d had a reason to write about Erykah Badu. Frankly, we were getting a little worried. The singer of a thousand names had been relatively quiet since throwing her 45th birthday bash at The Bomb Factory in February,…
