You’re more than likely familiar with Record Store Day. It’s the holiest of high holidays here at DC9 At Night, in which we all face east and pray toward Good Records. What you might not know, is that vinyl’s plastic, two-reeled cousin has a dedicated spot on the calendar too…
Do you like potentially life-altering scavenger hunts? Do you like Slayer, M.I.A., and the great capital of the state of Texas? If the answer to both of these things is yes, you may be interested in the Dallas leg of the Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt, in which people…
Summer is coming to an end, but not without one more festival to tie the season up with a bow. Paste Untapped is touting about 200 craft beers on deck, so that ought to help you battle out the heat outside Gilley’s. Hopefully they won’t make the same mistake as…
This summer saw a bit of a kerfuffle around abortion in Texas. Emotions may run high on both sides, but we can all agree that Governor Rick Perry has taken a heavy-handed interest in the goings-on of Texas vaginas. It even caught the attention of noted gentleman-scholar Blowfly. The usually…
When the late Rozz Williams formed Christian Death way back in the early 80’s, the band was more of a campy, death-obsessed punk outfit than the gothic beast they would become under the guidance of one Valor Kand. Kand took charge of the band and brand name that would become…
The word “hippie” has been used to describe the sound and style of the indie music phenomenon Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros so often in reviews and profiles that it’s now a suggested search term on Google. Of course, it’s too narrow a description for the freewheeling folk rock…
R.L. Griffin is standing outside his Blues Palace, a squat beige building a few tattered blocks from Fair Park. A sign in the parking lot touts “Blues Palace II: Live Entertainment,” and without it there would be no way to tell from the street what you might find inside, unless…
Dallas is stuck between summer tour season and fall festival season, but there are still plenty of worthy concerts this week. Guitar ripper Joe Satriani plays out in Grand Prairie, former members of Royal Trux play Dada and Untapped Dallas brings together good music and better beer. Joe Satriani Friday,…
At bars in Texas, only one person stands between you and taps of the local pub – the door person, better known as the “whiskey keeper” in rural places like Bowie and Archer City. He’s or she’s the one person you most want on your side as the night progresses…
Every week more and more shows are added to the Dallas Observer live music calendar — here’s how to make sure your show is included. And you can always peruse every upcoming concert on our calendar. Below are the this month’s best new additions, to date…
Editor: We sent two writers to this weekend’s Mad Decent Block Party. Vanessa Quilantan was mostly worried about the kids asking her for drugs and pissed about Action Bronson canceling. Carmina Tiscareno is a college student and therefore much more a member of the Block Party’s target demographic. She had…
There’s something kind of romantic about walking through an empty theater, up a few service steps, and into a small black box of a room behind the other side of a projection screen to watch a punk show. The Texas Theatre and promoters Spune spread the word about Friday’s No…
Daniel Johnston will play in Dallas on September 28 at the Kessler Theater. The announcement came over the weekend, alongside several other good ones at Oak Cliff’s finest music venue. But let’s focus on Daniel Johnston, because it’s going to be wonderful…
As I walked out of the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie late Saturday night, I commented that Steely Dan sure featured some good musicians. “Great musicians, you mean,” said my father-in-law. “Those guys were great.” And so they were. Some four decades after Walter Becker and Donald Fagen first decided…
On Saturday, cool-kid record label Mad Decent will throw a welcome-back-to-school, summer’s-not-quite-over party at Club Zouk. Head honcho Diplo will play with Major Lazer, alongside heavyweights like Dillon Francis, Baauer, Action Bronson and Flosstradamus. Many things will bounce. Including you, possibly! We have a couple pairs of tickets to give…
The rawkfist is a beloved go-to for people being asked to pose at rock shows (thanks for that, by the way). But what seems like a simple gesture of appreciation for loud sounds is in fact a minefield of potential misuse. This week’s Uproar Festival, featuring Alice in Chains and…
Our series of live performance videos, produced by Globe Trek Productions, continues with a clip of Air Review playing “Young,” from this year’s Low Wishes, while walking down the Elm Street and into Wit’s End. It’s a song of ambitious scope (most songs with “Wow-ooh” choruses are), and the acoustic…
In some ways, getting backstage at Gexa Energy Pavilion is a letdown. Semi-trucks that carry the bands’ stage lighting and equipment hummed a familiar chorus, and several tour buses formed a barricade that left an opened area in the center where a small group of people conversed and smoked cigarettes…
Steely Dan and Backstreet Boys are both in town this week, two bands your friends can’t tell if you like sincerely or ironically. Looks like they’re about to find out. If you answered neither, fret not! You’ve got plenty of options. Looking for something a little hard, fast, and intimate?…
Spanning fifty years, the musical career of John Mayall has been as fascinating and influential as just about anyone in the history of rock. In late 1963, Mayall formed the first incarnation of the Bluesbreakers, a legendary outfit that featured a revolving cast of players that included the likes of…
Although Joe King Carrasco has lived in Mexico for almost a decade, he will be forever linked with the Texas music scene of the ’70s and ’80s. This December, Carrasco (born Joseph Teutsch) turns 60, yet his remarkable mixture of Tex-Mex and new wave still sounds as fresh as it…
Index Fest, which takes place in Deep Ellum on October 18 and 19, already announced three waves of bands, including Andrew Bird, Run the Jewels, Jason Isbell, Titus Andronicus and a ton of great North Texas bands. Today, they’ve sweetened the pot further with another batch of bands. This one…
