In August, the Granada Theater, which has for four years in a row now earned the title of Best Live Music Venue in our annual, reader-voted Dallas Observer Music Awards, will celebrate its seventh year under the watch of owner Mike Schoder. And, considering that the people who run venues…
The numbers are in: Ticket sales place the number of people at Fair Park for the Electric Daisy Carnival on Saturday night at somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000. At 11 p.m., the last headcount taken estimated that some 21,000 had already passed through the gates.These numbers fall pretty much in…
Still waiting on a lot of news this early afternoon in regards to Saturday night’s Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park. All morning long city officials — including Fire-Rescue folk, Medical Emergency Services folk, etc. — have been tied up in meetings about the event, which saw dozens hospitalized and…
Speaking of both Play-N-Skillz and Dirk, we’d heard on Friday that the hip-hop production duo was working on a track about the Mavericks and their NBA Finals victory. This morning, the brother Salinas formally released the track, called “Victory,” no doubt a reference to both the championship and the part…
The Polyphonic Spree played a free show at the Dallas Museum of Art on Friday night, and, as expected given all that the band and their related entities have going on these days, the band debuted some new material. Clad in white robes, the band performed a new song called…
Yes, it’s true: Dirk Nowitzki celebrated turning 33 years old yesterday by hitting the town on Saturday night — stopping off, even, at Rio Room to catch DJ sets from Questlove and Erykah Badu. There, as the clock struck midnight, the Mavericks fans in attendance serenaded the NBA Finals MVP…
By 1 a.m. this morning, at least one attendee at Saturday night’s Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park had been declared dead. At least another two dozen had been hospitalized.After a first year in Dallas that had been deemed a “phenomenal event” by city officials, the second Dallas installment of…
A Soulquarians reunion? Almost! Tomorrow night, after an affair last night that saw NBA champion/Mavericks guard JJ Barea and even Miss Universe stopping on by Rio Room for DJ Klever’s set (Mavs Championship Party Tour 2011 is the best!), the posh Uptown spot will host another pretty massive deal.Tomorrow night…
Back on Monday night, Norah Jones performed as part of the 2011 Webby Awards Gala in New York City. Why? Well, we’re not so sure. But, hey, a nice performance nonetheless — she covered Johnny Cash’s “Ain’t No Grave” with the help of a backing band and some superbly art…
Quite the time at the Jack Daniel’s Saloon last night at the third installment of our monthly Locals Only! series. Best one yet, even.No, there was no mechanical bull this time around (our bad), but such added excitement was unnecessary. After all, there was plenty to be found in the…
Those guys in Sundress are pretty talented dudes, ain’t they? They really are — and not just on the music front. Guitarist Kennon Talley, who also plays in Western Giants, is the man behind the above image that promotes his band’s show on the all-Denton bill of Sam Robertson, The…
So pumped for the Electric Daisy Carnival this weekend, you guys. Already got my outfit picked out and everything. Fur boots? Check. Glowsticks marinating in the freezer? Of course. I’m no amateur.I mean, c’mon. Diplo? Paul Van Dyk? Skrillex? All in Fair Park of all places? And the City’s cool…
Speaking of albums produced by Matt Pence: The Denton dreamscapers in Sundress have a new album on the way — their “debut” EP, if you’re pretending that their 2010 EP, Fever, never happened, which the band apparently is doing. The six-track self-titled affair won’t be out until August, though. But…
Centro-matic has long been a jewel of the local music scene — and emphasis on long, as the band’s been around since 1996.That year was when main man Will Johnson — fresh out of Funland — released Centro-matic’s debut album, Redo the Stacks, recording each and every instrument on his…
After going on Letterman last night to talk about their win, their potential new Kardashian boos and their very dirty habit of licking the Larry O’Brien Trophy, the Mavericks paraded around Dallas today like the champs they are and ended up at the American Airlines Center. There, they hosted their…
Today would have been iconic rap artist Tupac Shakur’s 40th birthday. He was just 25 years old when he was shot and killed in Las Vegas in September of 1996. To celebrate the rapper — a fixture of the early ’90s and one of the most talented emcees to ever…
Make no mistake: Dallas is very much an EDM-heavy town. Credit the folks behind the Electric Daisy Carnival for noticing. Last year, the electronic music festival, launched 15 years ago in Southern California, expanded to include Dallas as a home for one of its handful of annual parties held across…
Oh, how fast we forget. Just the other, night, I was hanging out at a bar on Henderson when I ran into a local musician and, as things tend to do when I run into local musicians, we started talking about local music. Him being from Denton and all, we…
John Congleton knows his new band, The Nighty Nite, sounds very much like his old band The Paper Chase. He’s OK with that. Mostly because, far as he’s concerned, it should sound similar. Nothing has changed in his songwriting process. Aside from the name, the only difference between his old…
Speaking of takes on other artists’ songs, it seems as if there’s been a recent uptick in remixes around town lately. The best kinds of remixes, too — the local-on-local variety. And, this week in particular, we’ve come across two pretty killer examples of such.Hit the jump for the details…
Three days removed from Your Dallas Mavericks beating The Evil Miami Heat on their home court to clinch the NBA title, and it’s still not a great time to be Lebron James, despite what he may go around telling people in press conferences.A new song written for The Chosen One…
Speaking of Billboard, local darling Sarah Jaffe has herself received a little love from the folks behind the trade magazine’s website this week. The nod comes courtesy of the site’s recurring “Marshup Mondays” feature, for which Jaffe visited the Billboard offices to play a cover of Robyn’s “Hang With Me.”…
