Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we’ll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we’ve done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. This piece originally appeared on June…
This past Saturday, a brick house tucked away in a tree-lined neighborhood just north of Texas Woman’s University was transformed into a conduit of light and sound, serving as the 189th secret location for Sofar Sounds’ living-room shows, and the second show witnessed by Denton invitees. A cloudy day served…
I didn’t have a band schedule at ACL, and I also don’t have the elbow strength or intimidating enough boobs to work my way through thousands of thousands of hippies and people to get to the front row of any of the concerts I saw this weekend. So, here is…
Photos by Marco TorresGary Clark Jr.The rains came early on Sunday morning, but by the time the ACL opened up for business before noon, there was hardly a cloud in the sky, making for an extremely warm and muddy day. The biggest acts of the day — Red Hot Chili…
New Order, Ishi Palladium Ballroom Friday, October 12 The lead-up to Friday night’s sold-out New Order show was dense with social media’s critical musings, especially that this was not the real New Order, due to the absence of bassist Peter Hook. There were claims it would never be as good…
Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we’ll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we’ve done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Multi-instrumentalists Max Townsley and Drew Erickson…
Sleigh Bells, AraabMuzik Tuesday, October 16, at House of Blues, $23 Still riding out the buzz from their second studio album, Reign of Terror, Sleigh Bells finish their U.S. tour with a stop at House of Blues, with hip-hop opener AraabMuzik. Both of Sleigh Bells’ albums combined are only about…
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Photos by Marco TorresRufus WainwrightThe return of terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad rain made Saturday a muddy but fun mess. Thankfully, the downpours didn’t dampen the spirits of the crowd on day two of ACL, but it did seem to thin out the herds. Aside from remembering how to walk…
Photos by Marco Torres In the interest of being tidy and not boring you with minute details of the three-day exercise in sweaty and human endurance underway in Zilker Park this weekend, Rocks Off is giving you a break. Our team on the ground at the Austin City Limits Music…
Rufus Wainwright’s music is hard to categorize. It’s not really pop music because too often it lacks the kind of simple catchy hooks that make for great radio fodder. He composed an opera and has set Shakespearian sonnets to music, but you can’t really define him as a classical composer…
Karine Fleurima spins under the name DJ Wikkid Beat, and draws inspiration from international funk, soul and rock from the ’60s and the ’70s, as well as Brazilian music. She got her start making mixtapes for some of the restaurants she worked at in New York City, and after receiving…
Update, 1:15p.m.: Congrats to Seth Bohlman, who snagged tickets to Sunday’s show! In my preview of Afghan Whigs’ Sunday show at Granada, I perhaps remembered them a little too starkly. And though they were sort of a stark band, they had some genuine moments where they cleaved open greatness on…
In March of 2010, Sam Bush was granted the title “Father of Newgrass” by the Kentucky state government. That’s kind of a big deal. Bush is as revered and accomplished a player as can be found in music where “grass” is in its title. Whether it’s traditional bluegrass, newgrass or…
Tegan and Sara AT&T Performing Arts Center Thursday, October 11 Perched in the tangle of highways near downtown Dallas sits a grassy hill inside the AT&T Performing Arts Center. It slopes no more severely than a handicapped ramp; it is surrounded by vine-covered concrete, and open to the overlooking financial…
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Granada Theater Thursday, October 11 It was one of those rarest of nights in a Dallas music venue. Godspeed You! Black Emperor returned to North Texas after a decade absence to perform music new and old in a way that held the crowd completely spellbound. Shortly…
Since 1976, John “Eddie” Edwards has been playing drums for The Vibrators, one of England’s original punk acts. Nearly four decades later, he finds himself the sole original member, as the band continues to release albums and tour steadily. From a van driving through Ohio and in anticipation of Saturday…
Our friends at Riverfront Times reported today that rapper Nelly’s tour bus was pulled over in the West Texas town of Sierra Blanca last night, the same checkpoint town Fiona Apple, Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg were pulled over in. Only this time, besides weed, Nelly had a loaded .45…
Metroplex resident and country singer-songwriter Mike Ryan has been hitting the bars and college towns of Texas for the past couple of years really hard. Now, he has a shiny new gem to add to his merch table, as his gigs are attracting more people than ever before. Night Comes…
Check out more of this weekend’s shows via our shiny new concert calendar Afghan Whigs, Centro-matic Sunday, October 14, at the Granada Theater Within the bowels of the ’90s reunion machine, Ohio’s Afghan Whigs are one of those bands you never really expected to be spat out again. Their 1993…
As torrential thunderstorms spanned North Texas one day last August, a petite woman stood clutching a clipboard on the large wrap-around porch of a colonial-style home in Munger Place. The two-story house was the seventh setting for one of Sofar Sounds’ perpetually secret locations in DFW. Musicians hurriedly lugged gear…
Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we’ll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we’ve done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. The way in which Dallas singer-songwriter…
