35 Denton has just announced this year’s schedule. It was a daunting lineup when viewed as a straight list — in scrollable, chronological breakdown form its magnitude hits home. The two main stages alone comprise 15 commendable bands, and they aren’t even operating on the festival’s first night…
Wilco has just announced the lineup for their Solid Sound Festival, to be held June 21 to 23 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and amidst the Yo La Tengo’s and Neko Case’s is West Dallas’ own funk and gospel heroes The Residents. See also: -Watch: Long-Lost Dallas Funkers…
Morrissey, scheduled to play the Palladium on February 18, has just announced that he’s rescheduling due to continued struggles with a bleeding ulcer and Barrett’s esophagus. Medical issues already sidelined the songwriting legend in late January for six shows; he’s expected to resume touring in Denver on February 21. The…
Snoop Dogg will headline this year’s Dallas Observer St. Patrick’s Day Concert at Energy Square on Greenville Avenue. We’ll announce the rest of the lineup soon, but you can buy your tickets right now. They’re $15 for general admission ($20 day-of), or there is a VIP option that costs $65…
Mumford and Sons have just announced a second Gentlemen of the Road tour, and one of the three U.S. Stopovers is in Guthrie, Oklahoma, a small town 3 hours and 45 minutes north of Dallas. Here’s how these things work: Towns apply to be selected for the show, and it’s…
Austin Psych Fest has long been a breeding ground for weird guitar sounds from up and comers and legends alike. This year’s fest, already possessed of a fairly impressive lineup, has a few fairly major developments for us today: There will be camping for the first time at Carson Creek…
As you may have heard, his Doggyness will grace the stage at this year’s Dallas Observer St. Patrick’s Day concert. The general on-sale is this Friday, but subscribers to our newsletter can buy them starting at 10 a.m. today. You can subscribe to the newsletter here, but you may miss…
You all saw Beyonce singlehandedly blow half the power in the Super Dome with the sheer wattage of her presence last night, right? Well, heads up, Atmos: The Mrs. Carter Show is coming to the American Airlines Center on Saturday, July 6. Tickets are $48 or $253 before fees and…
The city of Dallas wants this year’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities to be a little more “family friendly.” It’s in that spirit that we make this important announcement: We’re bringing Snoop Dogg to the party. The Doggfather will headline the annual Dallas Observer St. Patrick’s Day concert on the afternoon…
George Ducas has a regional country hit with “Cowtown.” But it is, by his own admission, far from his best work. In this week’s music feature, Kelly Dearmore explains how he called out Ducas on Twitter for what he viewed as a bottom-feeding song and how an online back-and-forth with…
On Tuesday afternoon, the Round-Up Saloon posted a confirmation that Lady Gaga would be making an appearance after her show at the American Airlines Center. It was to be her fourth stop at the bar in Oak Lawn. She never showed up. The bar’s management offered no explanation on Facebook…
The Lady Gaga show at American Airlines Center offers a narrative, as these sorts of productions often do: We are somewhere in space. There is a procession. An evil authority figure rides a horse made of humans in costume. Sexy men wield flags saying, “G.O.A.T.” which we will later learn…
Jack’s Throwback, the self-described “largest and loudest tribute band festival” in North America, has just announced its 2013 lineup. It’s presented by 100.3 Jack FM and will take place Saturday, May 11, at Gexa Energy Pavilion. The full list is below, including the band’s name and the canonical group they’re…
Do you want to know if Chan Marshall imploded last night at South Side Music Hall? The line to get in the place spills out of the long alley in front of the door and into the industrial blacktop that surrounds the complex. The crowd is whoever: pretty people and…
The 2013 Coachella Lineup is here! In case this is your only source of music information (what else could you possibly need, really?), the headliners are The Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Why yes, we do live in a world where New Order gets out-billed…
The Appleseed Cast — spacious, noisy post-rock mainstays from Lawrence, Kansas — have just announced a house tour of the area, and it includes a stop at Macaroni Island in Denton. Tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance. Capacity is 65, so hop to it. See also: -“No…
Update: Presale tickets for KXT’s Summer Cut go on sale today, January 23, at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Tickets range from $30 to $55 (plus fees). Use the code “kxtradio.” The general onsale is Friday at 10 a.m. Original post follows… Summer Cut: The Happy Funtime Festival presented by KXT…
35 Denton fast approaches, and today our friends to the north just added a whopping 111 more bands to the bill. This batch is heavy on area bands, including big names like AD.d+ and The O’s and some of our recent favorites such as Pinkish Black. Though there’s a little…
Lucinda Williams has always sounded wise and weary, but never has she seemed as comfortable with that role as on last year’s Blessed. Williams achieved an alt-country masterwork early in her career with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and wound up a household name somewhere around the considerably less-acclaimed…
Hello from your new music editor. I have now managed to get a bed into an apartment and sleep on it for one night, so the next step is finding ways to not spend time on it. I think I’m going to like this town — I already spent a…
This weekend, the NFC and AFC divisional rounds will pit such heavyweights as the Baltimore Ravens against the Peyton Mannings, The Green Bay Packers against the San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Blinding Highlights against the Atlanta Falcons and a game I won’t mention for obvious reasons. We’re here to offer…
Ray Wylie Hubbard is a storyteller without equal, who inspired a flock of country and blues poets. The Dallas native made a stop this week on Letterman, in promotion of last year’s The Grifter’s Hymnal. He and his excellent band played a track from that album, “Mother Blues,” which remembers…
