DC9 at Night Mixtape With Josh Kynd

This week’s mixtape brings the focus onto scene vet Josh Kynd. As a DJ, producer, promoter, label owner and vinyl retailer, he has been a cornerstone of the Dallas scene for two decades. Along with his partners Jason Ramirez and Johnny Leake, he runs the Our House Collective, which has…

Remembering Dimebag Darrell, 10 Years Later

Some say he was larger than life, a legend who always stood up for the underdog. He was the type of legend who’d walk into a club in some random city, join a local band on stage and play for 15 minutes as if he were just another member. With…

Busking with The Voice Star Melanie Martinez

Oftentimes when we feature an artist on the ongoing Globe Trek Productions busking series, it’s someone who’s local or whom at least has ties to Texas. That could mean local rapper Blue, the Misfit, or it could mean Austin-based singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves. But sometimes, as with our most recent episode…

Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love Coming to Dallas in May 2015

Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love go way back. All the way back, in fact, to that time that LDR did her cover of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” and Love tweeted, “You know the song is about my Vagina, right?” Well, apparently such are the things that lasting friendships are…

The Best North Texas Live Acts

With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, the band showcase happens this Saturday night all around Deep Ellum — we’ve been spending the past several weeks highlighting some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say that these artists…

The Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, 12/1-12/7

We hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Now it’s time to usher in the Christmas season, which will certainty be shoved down your throat for the next four weeks. This can be annoying, but let it be known: If you don’t like Christmas music you’re just fighting things…

The Best Concerts in Dallas This Weekend, 11/28-11/30

Wait a minute, what are you doing on the Internet today? Shouldn’t you still be staying as far away from rest of the world as possible? Oh, right, it’s Black Friday. So the whole family thing is kind of already out the window again, isn’t it. In that case, there…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with JV

Jason Vasilas has been mixing it up on the decks under the alias JV for almost a decade and a half. With over 20 releases, all on vinyl, JV is another local vet with a significant body of work, but who is known and played mostly far outside of the…

The Best Concerts in Dallas This Thanksgiving

This week is all about family. It’s great, really. Sure, there are always pitfalls to getting together with all the relatives, be it the in-laws or even just the immediate family. There’s always those nightmarish “debates” about sex and politics, and if not then there’s a lot of awkward silence…

Street Arabs Unleash Some Sick Moves on Ill Form

Street Arabs can seem like a deceptively simple band at first glance. If they are onstage and you just watch them long enough to buy a drink and go back out to the patio, their music could strike you as loud and raw, played by five scruffy looking guys who…

Wesley Geiger Searches for Artistic Gold on Debut El Dorado

There is something almost magnetic about a good sad song. According to science, that irresistible attraction to songs that make us a little teary eyed comes from our brains’ penchant for nostalgia. When we hear sad songs, we think of better times, and in turn actually end up happier than…