The Six Most Interesting Bands on the Fun Fun Fun Fest Lineup

Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend. You know about Slayer and M.I.A. You’re ready to bump into some strangers to FLAG and stand awestruck before Television and doze off during MGMT. But one of the delights of this particular festival is the oddity of the undercard. That’s where you’ll…

Fun Fun Fun Fest: How to Find the Secret Shows

Fun Fun Fun Fest have released a very nice app. It’s sparkly and it makes nice noises and it shows you where everything is, especially tacos (there is a whole map of local area tacos). It will cost you precisely zero dollars, and it’s so hip and, dare I say…

The Eight Best Concert in Dallas This Week, November 7-13

We here at DC9 at Night have just now shaken our hangovers from this past week’s 25th Annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. Now, we’re refreshed, excited, and full of warm fuzzies from celebrating some of our most loved local musicians. The timing is ideal because we’ve got a full week…

25 Ways Fun Fun Fun Fest is Better than SXSW

Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend in Austin. Now in its eighth year, the thing has grown at a remarkable pace: From Spoon to Slayer at the top of the bill in just a few years. Through that expansion, however, FFF has lost none of its charm. If there…

Music Picks: John Legend, Chromatics and More

Our top shows this week include one of indie rock’s greatest elder statesmen in Johnny Marr (The Smiths, The Pretenders, Modest Mouse, etc.). We’ve also got up-and-comers (Chromatics), and the start of the winter arena season here in Dallas with John Legend’s Verizon Theater stop. John Legend Thursday, November 7,…

The Rise of the Living-room Concert

Road-weary and cash poor, Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell just needed a comfortable place to play — and stay — in St. Louis in July 2005. Or at least that’s how Cary remembers it. “I’m pretty sure something either got canceled or we were really broke and didn’t want to…

Kanye West Yeezus Tour Postponed Indefinitely [Update: It’s Back!]

Update: Kanye’s LED pyramid has been righted. He’s just announced the modified tour route. Several cities have been rescheduled, a few have been cancelled altogether, but Dallas is right where it was before: December 6 with Kendrick Lamar as support. Original post follows… Shortly after Kanye West cancelled the Yeezus…

Miley Cyrus is Coming to Dallas

No one is safe from Miley Cyrus. Sure, you could blow up your computer and find your way in the world with nothing but a compass and a flip phone, but she’ll just come to you. Miley has announced a 2014 tour that includes a Dallas show at American Airlines…

The 2013 Dallas Observer Music Award Winners

As we have every year for the last quarter-century, we present the Dallas Observer Music Awards. This year, our panel of music experts and industry veterans nominated 200 artists, venues and organizations. Over 4,000 people voted on those nominees, and their selections are the 40 winners listed here. They’re a…

A Night at Ships’ Jukebox with Dallas’ Best DJs

There is no better music snob than the DJ. I have said it before: Keep your lead singers and your emotional bass players, stick me at a table with the DJs and I am in eavesdropping heaven. That’s where I was a few days ago, when some of our Best…

The 2013 DOMA Showcase Through Your Instagrams

“Daniel Folmer is playing to a packed rooftop at Reno’s.” There’s always something going on in Dallas, so we thought it’d be fun to live vicariously through your adventures. Each week look for our #Dallas Instagram recap of people, places, events, food, and more. Usually, this post can be found…

Highlights from the 2013 DOMA Showcase

The 2013 Dallas Observer Music Showcase came and went this weekend in eight hours of North Texas’ most interesting music. The unique thrill of this thing is walking from a delicate show by a singer-songwriter to the thrash of a punk band to the beats of an electronic act, on…

Five Dallas Legends Who Never Won Their DOMA

For 25 years we here at the Dallas Observer have celebrated local music by offering an award that not only highlights are awesome local talent but also allows you, our readers, to decide the winners. It’s a nerve-racking month as we prepare for the award show, write the articles and…