We told you about the Gritznic Backyard Jam back in June, but if you drank to forget every Dallas news item of the last few months, we got you. Now that the weekend is coming up and you’re trying to make impressive plans, here’s your reminder of w...

It’s a Monday night at The Rustic, and Frankie Leonie is waiting to get onstage. A schedule mix-up has resulted in the venue having no sound engineer for the night, and Leonie can’t perform until one of them drives in. Unfazed, she sits and eats w...

John Jay Myers has owned The Free Man Cajun Café in Deep Ellum since 2011. Despite its proximity to concert venue The Bomb Factory, the small but booming café is in a block protected from the gentrification affecting its rowdy neighbors on Ma...

"In Bed With" is a Dallas Observer series in which we delve into the homes and personal lives of Dallas music industry professionals.  Kenneth Pritchard just cut his hair short after six years of whipping it back and forth onstage. On paper, ...

Everything about Sam Damask’s solo project is DYI, but as he's an established musician and engineer, the term might not apply to him. Damask is a longtime bassist who first started playing blues jams escorted by his father at age 13. On Friday, he...

"In Bed With" is a Dallas Observer series in which we delve into the homes and personal lives of Dallas music industry professionals.  “I have a theory that all of our neighbors are swingers,“ says musician Jacob Metcalf as he walks up the st...