Ryan Bingham With Lucero South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, March 6, 2015 For all its shortcomings in terms of some other genres, Dallas has an incredibly strong taste for rootsy, country-infused rock music. Maybe it’s the bucolic settings that exist just a short drive outside the city, but people in…
We knew this day was coming, we just didn’t know when. After almost 21 years in business, CD Source, one of Dallas’ most beloved record stores, will be turning off the lights for good on March 22. Owner Lance Price had announced all the way back in September that his…
It was 1 a.m. on a chilly September day in Marfa and the headliner, Deer Tick, had just completed their set at El Cosmico’s Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love, bringing an end to the weekend’s festivities — or so I thought. A man wearing an elaborate robe and a headdress…
Waka Flocka Flame With AV the Great, #Baconomics, Elijah Heap and Ace Young’n Rockin’ Rodeo, Denton Thursday, March 5, 2015 Rockin Rodeo is just about the last place you would expect to see Waka Flocka Flame. Known for being Denton’s shit-kickin’, honky-tonk swag bar, it doesn’t exactly conjure thoughts of…
Well, the second great storm of 2015 in Dallas has passed and while we’re complaining about the frigidness of the weather, we should remember that we’ll also be cry babies when it’s 7,000 degrees outside in three months. It’s a valid complaint is since we are in Texas, tand he…
Hoo boy, talk about a country music lineup. Dallas is lucky in that it’s often able to attract country music’s biggest and brightest stars, and that’s going to be especially true in the coming months: Miranda Lambert plays the American Airlines Center next week, Shania Twain just announced a stop…
By Brian Peterson If you ever find yourself craving a little whiskey while getting a fresh hairdo, some people won’t understand it. Hell, they might worry about you. But rest assured, local rock ‘n’ rollers Josh Fleming and Adrian Brackens are right there with you, garbed in their matching denim…
For George Gimarc, music memorabilia has become a way of life. Preserving the memorabilia is tantamount to preserving the history of the music itself, and for someone like himself, who’s built a staggering collection of memorabilia, it’s nothing short of an art form. Records, photos, clothing, instruments, scraps of paper…
Did someone say something about striking while the iron is hot? Back in November, the term “classic hip hop” was all the rage here in Dallas when two local radio stations abruptly (and simultaneously) switched to old-school rap formats. Gradually the buzz trickled away, and one of the stations, HOT…
For anyone with even a minor amount of tact, much less a grasp of what it means to be a respectable human being in 2015, an “N-Bomb” is something to be avoided. Needless to say, it can cause an explosion of sorts in certain social settings. Now it seems as…
A Place to Bury Strangers With the Orange and Creepoid Club Dada, Dallas Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Fool us once, winter, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on you. Fortunately, when it came to New York shoegaze band A Place to Bury Strangers’ gig at Club Dada, the second…
For people of a certain age — namely millennials — MTV’s Total Request Live was a fixture of their after-school routine. The Carson Daly-hosted video countdown show was the biggest musical tastemaker for teens and twentysomethings of the era, helping build the careers of the 2000s biggest pop stars, like…
For this week’s DC9 at Night Mixtape we get to feature a youthful spin on house music. It comes courtesy of Aidin Hafezamini and Johnee Fenimore, who are better known as the DJ duo the PM. Although both are still fairly new to the game, they have been busy the…
Riding a bus to your own concert is a sacrifice most musicians wouldn’t even think of. Besides, this is Dallas, so who doesn’t just drive their car everywhere anyway? But for 20-year-old rapper $kaduf, there are no such luxuries. It’s a matter of routine for him to make the three-hour…
It’s March, and in Texas that means one thing: festival season is here. North Texas has already dipped its toes in the festival waters with Thin Line Fest up in Denton, but in the next couple weeks everything will go haywire with 35 Denton, Spillover Fest and, of course, SXSW…
Okay, we’ve kept you waiting long enough here. St. Patrick’s Day is less than two weeks away, which means the Dallas Observer’s annual luck o’ the Irish party is right around the corner as well. But so far we’ve only announced the headliner, which is of course Texas native Josh…
After 19 years of serving the sauce to Dallasites, Amsterdam Bar in Exposition Park is shutting its doors. Owner Mike Scheel says he’s venturing off to try his hand making cider. The Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission has three types of licenses it issues: manufacturers, wholesaler/distributors, and retailers. You’re only allowed…
Our prayers have been answered, Dallas. Back in January, we took it upon ourselves to light a fire under the folks at Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket to do what the station should’ve done a long time ago: start up an all-local music show. The response from readers and Ticket P1’s…
In case you’ve missed it, the hype behind Southlake rapper Post Malone is totally justified. On Friday night, in spite of the atrocious winter weather, he bookended an off-the-radar hip hop show in Dallas for Atlanta rapper Key! It was, in his own words, just his second performance of his…
It’s an unspoken tradition among metal bands to pay homage to Dimebag Darrell any time they pass through North Texas. The legendary Pantera guitarist’s grave is located at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Arlington. Some bands etch their names into the gold-plated memorial honoring Dime’s life. Black markers are also sometimes…
Meghan Trainor Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, February 27, 2015 Meghan Trainor’s sold-out appearance at Granada Theater on Friday night had every opportunity to be a disaster. Freezing temperatures, ice-covered roads and falling snow threatened to run the whole thing off the rails. There was also a Facebook campaign that promised…
Welcome to the good month of March, which will bombard you with music festivals. There’s 35 Denton, Spillover and in Austin there’s the big one, South By South West. But before you let the hives of festival fever settle in, take a gander at all the shows happening this week…
