Are you so over SXSW? Don’t wanna make the drive? Have to work? Go to school? Well, you might be in luck, if there’s a certain band you want to see. Every year when the festival pops up in Austin, a few smart musicians pop over to Dallas. The not-so-smart…
Onika Tanya Maraj, more commonly known as Nicki Minaj, is opening the U.S. leg of her Pinkprint tour in Dallas. All of the Barbz (pop stars have god awful nicknames for their fans, and this is her’s) should be excited. Even if you aren’t prepubescent/insane enough to call yourself a…
35 Denton Music Festival Denton Friday, March 13 to Sunday, March 15, 2015 When the organizers at 35 Denton revived the festival from a one-year hiatus and announced a lineup heavy little-known and local bands, there was some reason to be skeptical. The festival had appeared to be gaining momentum…
Charlie Wilson With Joe and KEM Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, March 13, 2015 By Devin Papillion All I could see was red. Horns were honking, fists were shaking out of windows, and bumpers were inching their way into uneven lanes in a sea of taillights making the trek to…
This week a small niche festival that you’ve most likely never heard of before is taking place in Austin. It’s called South By South West. There’s also a ton of great stuff taking place at home here in Dallas. Guitar god Carlos Santana and the Beach Boys (separately) stop by…
Miranda Lambert With Justin Moore and Sunny Sweeney American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, March 12, 2015 There’s nothing more electrifying than seeing a hometown girl come back to the city that built her. Miranda Lambert, who got her start playing in honky-tonks and festivals across Texas, spent plenty of time…
It feels like the first weekend with nice weather since Zach Morris had the brick phone. That’s because it has been roughly two decades since our weekends weren’t a polar vortex. Enjoy yourself with these concerts. The Josh Abbot Band is even playing outside for St. Patty’s Day. Charlie Wilson…
Chris Brown With Trey Songz and Tyga American Airlines Center, Dallas Wednesday, March 11, 2015 “Well, that was awkward.” Those were the words running through a lot of minds at Chris Brown’s “Between the Sheets” show at American Airlines Center last night. Brown’s stop in Dallas — with Tyga and…
Mavis Staples With James Hall The Kessler Theater, Dallas Sunday, March 8, 2015 Mavis Staples could make you believe in anything. It may be God, or it may be your fellow man. It may be something radical, like the notion that God is really a woman, or even that we…
John Mellencamp With Carlene Carter McFarlin Auditorium, Dallas Saturday, March 7, 2015 By Brian Peterson To untrained ears, and particularly to those below the age of 40, John Mellencamp may as well be the poor man’s Bruce Springsteen. Both can come across as heartland rock dudes, and on the surface…
The weekend is over and we are just as sad about it as you are, especially now that it’s raining again. However, there’s a slew of great shows worthy of your attention this week. Charlie Wilson, of the Gap Band and G.O.O.D. Music, takes on Grand Prairie. Upstanding American citizens…
Ryan Bingham With Lucero South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, March 6, 2015 For all its shortcomings in terms of some other genres, Dallas has an incredibly strong taste for rootsy, country-infused rock music. Maybe it’s the bucolic settings that exist just a short drive outside the city, but people in…
Waka Flocka Flame With AV the Great, #Baconomics, Elijah Heap and Ace Young’n Rockin’ Rodeo, Denton Thursday, March 5, 2015 Rockin Rodeo is just about the last place you would expect to see Waka Flocka Flame. Known for being Denton’s shit-kickin’, honky-tonk swag bar, it doesn’t exactly conjure thoughts of…
Well, the second great storm of 2015 in Dallas has passed and while we’re complaining about the frigidness of the weather, we should remember that we’ll also be cry babies when it’s 7,000 degrees outside in three months. It’s a valid complaint is since we are in Texas, tand he…
Hoo boy, talk about a country music lineup. Dallas is lucky in that it’s often able to attract country music’s biggest and brightest stars, and that’s going to be especially true in the coming months: Miranda Lambert plays the American Airlines Center next week, Shania Twain just announced a stop…
For anyone with even a minor amount of tact, much less a grasp of what it means to be a respectable human being in 2015, an “N-Bomb” is something to be avoided. Needless to say, it can cause an explosion of sorts in certain social settings. Now it seems as…
A Place to Bury Strangers With the Orange and Creepoid Club Dada, Dallas Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Fool us once, winter, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on you. Fortunately, when it came to New York shoegaze band A Place to Bury Strangers’ gig at Club Dada, the second…
For people of a certain age — namely millennials — MTV’s Total Request Live was a fixture of their after-school routine. The Carson Daly-hosted video countdown show was the biggest musical tastemaker for teens and twentysomethings of the era, helping build the careers of the 2000s biggest pop stars, like…
Okay, we’ve kept you waiting long enough here. St. Patrick’s Day is less than two weeks away, which means the Dallas Observer’s annual luck o’ the Irish party is right around the corner as well. But so far we’ve only announced the headliner, which is of course Texas native Josh…
In case you’ve missed it, the hype behind Southlake rapper Post Malone is totally justified. On Friday night, in spite of the atrocious winter weather, he bookended an off-the-radar hip hop show in Dallas for Atlanta rapper Key! It was, in his own words, just his second performance of his…
Meghan Trainor Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, February 27, 2015 Meghan Trainor’s sold-out appearance at Granada Theater on Friday night had every opportunity to be a disaster. Freezing temperatures, ice-covered roads and falling snow threatened to run the whole thing off the rails. There was also a Facebook campaign that promised…
Welcome to the good month of March, which will bombard you with music festivals. There’s 35 Denton, Spillover and in Austin there’s the big one, South By South West. But before you let the hives of festival fever settle in, take a gander at all the shows happening this week…
