Eli Young Band have made it a long way from their UNT origins. Darius Rucker just announced them as support for his upcoming tour, their latest single is in the top ten on the US Country Chart and tomorrow they’ll kick off what they hope will be an annual show…
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 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…
George Fuller and Maylee Thomas said their new concert space The Sanctuary is the result of a dream the two have had long before they first opened their music store in McKinney. They didn’t just want to build a stage where musicians could play. They wanted to create a place…
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…
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…
Someone mentioned the idea of a Dallas sound to me the other day. I don’t know if any city ever winds up with one sonic thumbprint that truly captures everything about the place, and if they ever did they certainly don’t know. The population shifts faster than ever and musicians…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
We recommend lots of shows here. Every week we tell you about the ten or so concerts worth your hard-earned money and limited time. So I understand that we’ve kind of diluted our ability to be adamant. But let’s try anyway: Lee Fields & the Expressions will play Sons of…
Incredibly, Japan’s Melt-Banana has been making a hell of a noise since 1992. The band’s experimental take on punk rock is made even more bizarre by the vocal antics of Yasuko Onuki. Shrieking in a maniacal sing-song manner, Onuki yelps out her English lyrics like a banshee randomly choosing words…
Our Busking series with Globe Trek Productions had a banner day on Saturday at the Dallas Observer Music Showcase. Globe Trek set up shop on the rooftop bar at the Green Room and shot several acoustic performance videos with bands playing the festival. We’ll bring you those clips over the…
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…
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…
For anyone paying attention, the term “prodigy” has been linked to Sarah Jarosz for years now. Such easy labeling is perhaps fair when you’re an insanely talented teen or a college student with a fantastic album under your belt. But Jarosz, who grew up in Wimberley, Texas and now makes…
“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…
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…
The good folks over at Dream Work Conquer Films have dropped a little hotness on your Monday morning with this behind the scenes look into the making of Eminem’s new The Dividends-produced track, “Bad Guy”. The Jeff Adair-directed clip gives us a look into the creative process of newly formed…
It’s the 25th Anniversary of the DOMA. And while it’s true that bands and venues come and go, many of the people behind them have been here all along. We asked a few of these long standing music veterans — now behind the scenes at DOMA nominated venues The Kessler,…
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…
