The Melvins With Le Butcherettes Trees, Dallas Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Teri Gender Bender, the lead singer, guitarist and keyboard player of Le Butcherettes, is the most punk person I can imagine. Now, I know there’s a lot of deeply tedious discussion about what is and what is not punk,…
Last year, Dead Flowers frontman Corey Howe had a pretty bold declaration about his band’s future: “I would die if we’re not on the road in the next six months.” Though the band bought a van and had plenty of shirts, LPs and CDs to sell, they didn’t hit the…
We can’t speak for everyone, but we here at DC9 at Night are getting pretty excited about this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards. Voting has been open for just shy of a month now, we’ve been busy booking the bands that will perform at the DOMA showcase, and the festivities…
On December 13, The Old 97’s will perform at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas. That combination alone is enough to make for a pretty cool night. One of Dallas’ most beloved bands in one of the greatest rooms our city has to offer will never be an ordinary scenario…
North Oak Cliff Music Festival With Edie Brickell, Seryn, South Dallas Funk Revue, Kat Edmonson, David Garza Trio, Fox and the Bird, Sarah Hickman, Meiko and Emily Elbert Lake Cliff Park, Dallas Saturday, October 25, 2014 Families are so uncool. So are old people, and so are people who listen…
Jason Aldean With Florida Georgia Line Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Saturday, October 25, 2014 Ebola causes you to leak fluids from your body’s orifices and bleed internally until your body starts to slowly shut down. Then you die from a combination of low blood-pressure and organ failure. If you have…
With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we’re looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say that these…
The hottest ticket this week is of course Halloween. There’s gonna be a shit ton of Halloween stuff for you to do this week and we know you started last week. Just couldn’t resist. So of course our music picks for this week include a few Halloween-based ones as well…
Change is in the air these days at Crown & Harp. It may get by the casual visitor of the Lower Greenville club, but the differences are easy enough to see nonetheless. Long-time Monday night DJ Tony Schwa, the man behind Cool Out, has shifted to the weekly dance night…
GWAR Gas Monkey Live, Dallas Thursday, October 23, 2014 In March this year Dave Brockie, better known as an intergalactic barbarian by the name of Oderus Urungus, was found dead of a heroin overdose. For a lot of bands, losing their lead singer and sole remaining original member would be…
The space is huge. And the clean black-and-whites, slick concrete floor, and pristine aesthetic make it seem even larger. For reference: It’s not inconceivable that a shout or frisbee might fail to bridge the room wall-to-wall. It smells like fresh woodwork and feels, only in the very best sense, like…
There’s a ton of great shows to check out this weekend. If you love Lynyrd Skynyrd enough to head north to Oklahoma that’s an option. If Oklahoma is way too much for you to handle right now Red Bull Sound Select is bringing Chevy Woods, Fat Tony, Sam Lao and…
The land of dead musical dreams, or shall we say karaoke night, which is known for its rivers of Fireball whiskey and secondhand smoke has been the wellspring for many an idea. Those ideas –say, bands — can often be short-lived or ill-advised, but there’s one cluster of loud, fuzzy,…
By H. Drew Blackburn, Jaime-Paul Falcon, and Matt Wood No matter what someone tells you, they generally tend to judge a book by its cover. This isn’t a good human trait, but we do it. Often we’re wrong about our first perceptions of people based on an extremely vainglorious surface…
Eight months ago, Chase Dugger was staring down the other side of graduation. The recent UNT graduate and long-time Denton dance scene fixture had already achieved much, including his own residency in the much beloved Andy’s Bar. Titled “Subsonic Indulgence,” the weekly featured Dugger and friends’ mixes of dance, EDM…
2014 has been a hell of a year for Party Static. They have played shows all over Dallas with local and national bands, even holding their own when sharing a stage with the Coathangers, for crying out loud. They’ve also been nominated in two categories for this year’s Dallas Observer…
Red Eye is the epitome of a Dallas DJ staple. Over the past few decades he has always been a constant in Dallas DJ scene with well regarded resdidencies at the legendary Club One to his current haunts at Beauty Bar and It’ll Do Club. Somehow he still finds time…
Mastodon South Side Music Hall, Dallas Tuesday, October 21, 2014 My wife does a thing with our son to get him to try new food. You remember what it was like being a kid and having a new food forced on you. What is this intruder on the side of…
It’s been nearly a decade since legendary Dallas band Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians played a show in their hometown. It’s taken years for them to work out all the logistics for a proper reunion, which is finally poised to take place at this weekend’s North Oak Cliff Music…
It’s good to be Blue these days. Blue, the Misfit, that is. Perhaps the hottest rapper in North Texas right now, the MC and producer otherwise known as Brandon Blue has been having a big year in 2014, starting with a buzzed-about Kendrick Lamar collaboration (“Drugs on the Schoolyard”) and…
With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we’re looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say that these…
Despite his advanced age at 78,Gean West continues to play shows with the same frenetic pace that made Peacock Records owner Don Robey compare a young West to James Brown. That’s not all he does, either. In addition to performing with the Relatives, West leads a congregation, performing duties as…
