Editor’s Note: Last Friday’s JMBLYA Music Festival took place in conjunction with a daylong student summit, organized by Support Our Students and featuring students from throughout the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). As part of the program, two students — Rebecca Woo and Arianna Trejo, both sophomores at Adamson –…
As David Guetta closed out the first-ever Suburbia Music Festival in Plano during the early-evening hours of Sunday, the level of chaos was directly dependent on your proximity to the stage. Directly underneath the stage lights, the shoulder-to-shoulder energy of the dancing festival-goers could have been straight out of a…
Reptilian croaks — guitars distended through echo effects — tickle the ear; I’ve been offered a pharmacy’s worth of chemicals and pot smoke is a potpourri that clots the air. I’ve arrived at Austin Psych Fest 2014. There’s every shade of weird here, and every shape of fascination. Each person…
Ghost B.C. With King Dude House of Blues, Dallas Saturday, May 3, 2014 What do you get if you combine Scandinavian metal, Satanic chanting, 1970s shock-rock pageantry and exhibitionism, the best parts of an American classic rock radio station, and some of the tightest funk-rock licks to emerge from a…
Gavin DeGraw With Parachute and Nick Gardner House of Blues, Dallas Friday, May 2, 2014 Worlds collided Friday night in downtown as the Mavericks’ game six was underway and pop-rock musician Gavin DeGraw was in town, playing a sold-out show at the House of Blues. Parking, to say the least,…
It’s finally May and — surprise, surprise — the music festivals are getting into full swing. There two noteworthy ones this weekend alone, and both are new kids on the block (or relatively so): tonight’s JMBLYA Festival and tomorrow and Sunday’s Suburbia Fest. And that’s just the tip of the…
By Mwanza Dover Over the month of May, Detroit’s world-famous Movement Electronic Music Festival is holding pre-parties building up to their annual Memorial Day weekend blowout. Local promoter Source 20/20 is behind the Dallas edition of official pre-parties at The Green Elephant this coming Saturday. Featured on the bill is…
Dillinger Escape Plan With Tera Melos, Vattnet Viskar, and Baring Teeth Trees, Dallas Thursday, May 1, 2014 Last time I saw the Dillinger Escape Plan, I informed you of their status as the best live band in the world. I took ten months, searching up and down, over hill and…
Big time festival season is in full bloom. Most weekends this time of year there’s someplace in Dallas with a major festival. This month alone there’s Psych Fest, Homegrown, and the Houston Free Press Summer Fest, and each on different weekends. But this weekend, arguably the most unlikely township in…
The beaut above is a 1983 Eagle that gets an eco-friendly seven miles per gallon when the generator is running. It’s got crushed velvet curtains, and — just a guess here — a few dozen places to hide your weed. Because, oh yeah, it’s Willie Nelson’s old tour bus, and…
It’s been an awfully strange week in Graceland. (Well, not Elvis’s Graceland. But then when isn’t that strange?) Dallas-reared New Bohemians’ vet Edie Brickell hit headlines earlier this week for a bizarre domestic dispute with her long-time husband, good ol’ “Rhymin’ Simon” himself, Paul Simon. Then they showed up to…
JMBLYA, Dallas’ growing gumbo pot of a music festival, is returning this weekend for a second year with an amplified purpose. Marked for last year’s appearances by Grammy rivals Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore, this year’s lineup boasts a slew of highlights with the likes of Chance the Rapper, RiFF RaFF,…
The Hold Steady With Oil Boom Granada Theater, Dallas Wednesday, April 30, 2014 As Craig Finn and his four bandmates in the Hold Steady walked out on the stage to the sounds of Lou Reed’s “Real Good Time Together” Wednesday night, there was a change that rippled through the Granada…
So, it’s the day before Austin Psych Fest and you’re still not ready. Especially if you plan to make a weekend of it (maybe camp out?), then man, it’s high time you start prepping. There’s plenty of I’s to dot and T’s to cross, and maybe a few hard-to-come-by party…
The Dillinger Escape Plan With Tera Melos, Vattnet Viskar and Baring Teeth, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at Trees, 2709 Elm St., 214-741-1122 or treesdallas.com When they came to town last year, Dillinger Escape Plan played a venue that wasn’t equipped for their controlled chaos. Issues with the barrier and…
The Observer is looking for a part-time Clubs Editor. The job includes: – Data entry to keep our clubs listings current. – Managing the Dallas Observer concert calendar. – Visiting and writing about new bars and clubs, and re-visiting old standbys when their listing needs a refresh. The ideal candidate…
Miss Marcy is a powerhouse. She may not look like it as she relaxes in a Whole Foods Market in old East Dallas, reflecting on her oeuvre, but she’s every bit as brash and confident as the blues diva she inhabits onstage. A throwback as a performer with her vintage…
Foster the People With St. Lucia South Side Ballroom, Dallas Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Foster the People may owe their fame to one thing and one thing only — “Pumped Up Kicks” — but that doesn’t mean they can’t still sell tickets. With their wave of one-hit-wonderdom still yet to…
We all know it, but it’s time to show it. Urban Outfitters is a creative wasteland, a shortsighted cul-de-sac of trends and trash-culture bent for capital gain — one large, unthinking slab of cultural masturbation. But, by and large, it’s a beast we ourselves feed. Like creepers to a drug…
You might remember the Dallas-based filmmaker who wanted to raise $7,500 for a documentary on Fat Wreck Chords. Well, Shaun Colón wound up raising all of that in 24 hours and he had 35 days to go after that with his Indiegogo campaign. When we spoke to him at the…
Courtesy Martin House Brewing CompanyLast Thursday, the Toadies played Irving Plaza in Manhattan with Battleme and Supersuckers. Friday, they were off to famed Asbury Park venue Stone Pony before playing a few more east coast dates and heading back home to Dallas, where they’ll appear next week as headliners for…
Last December, the tours Carter and Knowles just missed intersecting each other in Dallas by a couple weeks. At the time, Jay Z played it low-key and Bey went big time. Then this happened. And now, at last, the worlds of “Magna Carter” and “Mrs. Carter” will collide in DFW…
