Every Tuesday morning, Steve Jackson gets out of bed and conjures up some clever way of reminding performers of Opening Bell Coffee’s open mic night. “I think my best one was based on the soliloquy from Field of Dreams,” Jackson says. “People will come Ray. They’ll come to Southside on Lamar for…
In late October, Pitchfork senior editor Jeremy D. Larson unleashed a scathing and hilarious review of Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of the Peaceful Army. The band had gained popularity as a result of them sounding, well, a lot like Led Zeppelin. Larson pulled approximately zero punches, saying the group “sound like…
We will never see Mitski in a venue as small as Trees ever again. The New York-based indie sensation is on the road in support of her 2018 full-length album Be the Cowboy, and every date of the tour is sold out. This tour includes four consecutive dates at the…
The last 15 years have taken emo-pop trio Mae on quite a journey. The band’s name, which stands for “Multisensory Aesthetic Experience,” was inspired by drummer Jacob Marshall’s studies at Virginia’s Old Dominion University. He was interested in “the perception of beauty, awe and wonder … how the senses cross,”…
Whether you know her powerful voice and curly blonde hair from pop hits like “Should’ve Been Us” and “Dear No One” or her soulful duet with Ed Sheeran “I Was Made For Loving You,” or maybe as the voice of the shy elephant in the animated film Sing, Tori Kelly…
Say what you will about Good Charlotte, but damn, they know how to put on a fun show. The pop-punk giants have been around for more than 20 years, and their show Sunday night at House of Blues proved they’re not going anywhere. The Generation Rx Tour is promoting Good…
About halfway through Saturday night’s excellent set at The Granada Theater, Phosphorescent band leader Matthew Houck coughed one time too many. “I’m sorry, y’all. I’ve got quite the cold,” he announced to the surprise of few in the audience. After watching him power through a couple of false starts, rearrange…
Though greeted with commercial indifference at the time of its release, The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo has grown to be certifiable classic. It’s a sacred text of country-rock; the 11 tracks molded together pedal steel and traditional country arrangements with the jangly rock ‘n’ roll that had become a…
Lend your voice at singer-songwriter night at Fort Worth Live, catch Willie Nelson at Billy Bob’s Texas, or celebrate 20 years with Thrice at House of Blues this week. That’s not all. Keep reading for more concerts happening this week. Singer-Songwriter Night with Josh Fleming 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12…
Beth Wood has been making music professionally for more than 20 years now. Long nights on the road have taken her as far from her hometown of Lubbock than one could hope for. Yet the self-described modern-day troubadour says she still feels like an emerging artist. “I’ve always struggled, my…
The concert calendar is shaping up nicely for the year ahead as a bevy of new announcements are added to local venues. This week, we have a Pink Floyd original member, a country favorite, an arena powerhouse and many, many others coming to DFW. Read ahead for the details. Legendary…
A line full of young voters is wrapped around Black Market USA on Election Day in anticipation of free merchandise from R&B singer Frank Ocean. It’s Ocean’s incentive for people to go out and vote during the midterm elections. Ocean released a surprise episode Tuesday morning on his Beats 1…
Country music is one of Texas’ most significant cultural exports, enough to where the phrase “Texas country” is commonly used. (Have you ever heard anyone describe an artist as “Oklahoma country?” No? Exactly.) There is nothing wrong with seeing a country act in an arena named after a credit card,…
Chris Penn can’t stop talking about Alice Cooper, which is not meant as a slight. As the co-owner of Good Records, he’s still talking about the time the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper group reunited Oct. 6, 2015, at the store. A year after the show, a two-song…
Beauty Bar is typically closed on Monday, but not this week. It was shoulder-to-shoulder, maximum capacity to celebrate the birthday of a local boy done good. Eric Estornel, aka Maceo Plex, aka Mariel Ito, is Dallas’ most successful electronic music DJ and producer. Originally from Miami, the Cuban-American Estornel moved…
All Aaron Clowers wanted to do was enjoy the mosh pit near the Gas Monkey Live! stage. The New Orleans band Goatwhore planned to devastate it this past Friday night with death metal as part of the Metal Alliance Tour with The Casualties, Black Tusk, Great American Ghost, Morethereon, Bad…
We are less than a month away from the greatest night of your life. Forty-nine musical acts. Seven stages. One night. It’s the Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase. There is still time to say money on your tickets. General admission tickets are $15 now and they will increase to $25…
Billy Strings may be the most controversial name in bluegrass, playing blazing leads on acoustic and distorted electric guitar, an instrument frowned upon by the genre’s hardcore traditionalists. But the 25-year-old may just be following a family tradition. “I cut my teeth playing bluegrass with my dad at home (in…
On Saturday, Wichita, Kansas, native Josh Hamilton tweeted a photo of him and his wife outside Tuesday Morning with rapper Kanye West. The tweet from @tcolesdad now has more than 150 retweets and nearly a thousand likes. Hamilton, who was in Dallas to celebrate his one-year anniversary with his wife,…
Renowned Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Roy Hargrove died Friday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 49. According to his manager via a Facebook post, Hargrove’s death was due to cardiac arrest related to complications from his battle with kidney disease. He reportedly had been on dialysis…
From hip-hop to metal to Texas country, there’s a concert for everyone this week. Paul Slavens and Friends 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5 at Dan’s Silverleaf, 103 Industrial St., Denton, 940-320-2000, danssilverleaf.com, free Paul Slavens, frontman of the late ’80s and early ’90s band Ten Hands, is pretty well known…
The Dallas Observer Music Awards are about a month away and we cannot wait. We are planning around the clock, constantly trying to make it the best award show in the history of music. Tonight, the 18 DOMAs judges will vote on the 38 categories. The 18 judges have been…
