Social Distortion With Stone Foxes and Jonny Two Bags Gas Monkey Live, Dallas Saturday, October 11, 2014 With Gas Monkey Bar N Grill now entering its second year of business, the owners opened the doors to their second venue, Gas Monkey Live on Saturday for a grand unveiling with Social…
It’s Monday and time to get back into the swing of things, but dearest DC9 reader, the swing of things for you is music. We’ve got a few shows we think would bode well with you this week. The one and only Sir Paul McCartney is playing at the American…
You may not know the the name Transmission Events, but you sure know the work that they do. Based in Austin, Transmission are the folks behind Fun Fun Fun Fest, the music festival held each fall at Auditorium Shores in the capitol city. They also do all the booking for…
It’s been a little over a week now since voting opened, so we’re just going to go ahead and ask: Have you filled out your Dallas Observer Music Awards ballot yet? If yes, congratulations. You’re a champ. If not, it’s okay; we understand what it’s like to play the long…
In the wee small hours of the morning on Tuesday, September 30, Bryan “DJ Red X” Walker headed home after a routine night of DJing at KUSH Mediterranean Bar & Grill, where he held a residency. While in bed with his fiance, Melissa Pruitt, he began having convulsions. After DJ…
As a child growing up in the tiny town of Niceville, Florida, McKinney transplant and country singer-songwriter Crystal Yates couldn’t avoid the twangy sounds of country music even if she had wanted to. “My mom says I could sing ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’ by Hank Williams before I could…
Another weekend is upon us in Dallas, which means more shows to partake in to take your mind off of the utter terror that is Ebola, but mostly because you love music. Ringo Starr, who used to be in this little band called The Beatles (is that spelled correctly? are…
The combination of motorheads, good food and great live music probably is probably, well, music to some peoples’ ears, and it’s one that has worked really well for the brains behind Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill. Outside of serving some really stellar brisket and other delicious food, Gas Monkey has…
Punk venues are a little like snowflakes: Each one is different and they’re all uniquely special. Well, okay, maybe that comparison will be lost in this part of the country, but the point remains the same. Which is to say, as far as music venues go punk venues are a…
Some songs pop out of a writer’s mind and onto tape in mere minutes. Other songs, however, require a journey with several stops in order to develop into the fully formed statement they need to be. Almost three years ago, during the Christmas season of 2011, popular sports-talk radio host…
“Super group” is a term that’s prone to overuse. Hyperbole is often too tempting to resist. But in the case of Bethan, a band whose music thrives on an appropriate degree of restraint, it’s hard to think of another band in North Texas with a better claim to such accolades…
Perfectionism, particularly in a musician, is most often viewed as a liability. Rather than focusing on the life-affirming qualities inherent in the struggle for perfection, many attribute negative personal characteristics — difficult, hardheaded, intractable — towards those with a desire for self-improvement. But there exists a rare breed that uses…
ill76 has been floating around the DFW DJ scene since the ’90s. In a town where actual techno DJs are a rare breed, ill76 is a cut above the rest. He used to run the beloved local DJ shop Illmatic Records, a store that was a cornerstone of the local…
Luke Wade isn’t the only North Texas contestant on the new season of NBC’s The Voice. No, competing alongside him is Taylor Phelan, who hails from Dallas. And the two have more in common than just geography: They’ve both chosen to work Pharrell Williams on the show. But for Phelan,…
This past weekend, a young Dallas impresario played a major role in the second annual National Cassette Store Day. It might have slipped by you, as it did me. But Evan Henry, founder of Dallas Distortion Music, was totally dialed in In fact, Henry’s DDM label was one of a…
It is a frigid Sunday morning, and Jordan Richardson is checking out of his hotel in Harrison, Ohio. Today marks day five of his band Son of Stan’s two-week tour, and it is too early, even though it is noon. With a new EP set to drop on Tuesday, October…
Benjamin Booker Three Links, Dallas Friday, October 3, 2014 There’s a man scalping tickets outside of the venue. A sold-out show can bring out that type of “entrepreneurial spirit.” Yes, of course, scalpers pacing about, hollering about tickets with their deep voice ain’t anything special. Nor is it a particularly…
Double Wide 11th Anniversary With High on Fire, Roky Erikson, the Derailers and Riverboat Gamblers Double Wide, Dallas Saturday, October 4, 2014 After 11 years of being the Double Wide, it’s surely time for the beloved edge-of-Deep Ellum dive to kick back, stretch those weary limbs, and pour out a…
Welcome to the working week, folks. There’s more than a few shows you should keep on your docket in the days ahead. Brit rockers Temples are taking their talents to where Big Things Happen, one half of the surviving Beatles is in town (Ringo, yes, but, a Beatle no less),…
And at long last, the will-it-close-or-won’t-it saga of July Alley has reached its end. The Deep Ellum bar had been plagued by rumors of its demise for a years, culminating in a temporary shutdown over the Fourth of July weekend this past summer. Yesterday afternoon, the speculation was finally confirmed…
Lecrae is what we call a Christian rapper. His album, Anomaly, reached the top spot on the Billboard charts. That’s right, the same Billboard 200 chart that Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Rihanna eviscerate every time they release an album. And he did so by selling more copies, 88,000, in…
What’s in a name? Well, if you ask the three founders of the new local music series, An LBJ Experience, a lot of things. Take the name of their new organization: For starters, it’s the acronym of their first names, Lee, Billy and Jesse. But its also, more obviously, the…
