Oh New Year’s Eve. The alcoholic in us all thinks of you as “amateur’s night,” all gaudy drunkenness and desperation. Why does it always happen like this? Well, New Year’s is inevitably a microcosm of our year past: We always head out with very high expectations and have them crushed…
Lights All Night Dallas Convention Center Friday and Saturday, December 26 and 27, 2014 “The thing that has been most notable in the past two or three years is the decline of EDM” –DJ Earworm discussing his year end Year of Pop mix with Billboard And we watched with bemused…
Well, what is your resolution? You don’t know yet? Get your house in order sirs and madams, it’s time to get ready for the New Year. Fortunately, even if you haven’t decided how to better yourself in 2015, there are at least plenty of ways to party this week. Spoon,…
The Christmas season is over. As is Hannakuh and Kwanzaa is just starting up. Shout out to all the people who are celebrating and celebrated their respective winter season holidays. The perennial party evening, New Years Eve is right around the corner, but before you hit that move, there’s a…
And so it ended. Last night almost two decades of brotherhood came to a close at sold-out Dan’s Silverleaf amidst cheers, tears, smiles and hugs. It’s hard to sum up the importance of Centro-matic to Denton (and to North Texas as a whole), but I think the clearest indication is…
Happy holidays from DC9. The Christmas is this week, but if you don’t celebrate the holiday, that’s chill. We wish you well. There’s a lull in shows this week and you can thank Jesus and Santa for that mess, but lull doesn’t mean nothing. There’s still plenty of activities with…
Red Bull Sound Select Yearender With Anamanaguchi, Mystery Skulls and Wrestlers Trees, Dallas Thursday, December 18, 2014 It was damn cold Thursday night, but an intensely spirited crowd still came out and filled Trees for the second night of Red Bull Sound Select’s massive Yearender blowout. After hosting the first…
Big Bang With Erykah Badu and DJ Sober Beauty Bar, Dallas Thursday, December 18, 2014 Sometimes it seems as if everyone in Dallas is playing an endless game of “Six degrees of separation” from Erykah Badu. It’s more like two degrees, since it appears everybody has a friend’s cousin who…
On the docket this weekend is a trio of Centro-matic’s last shows at Dan’s Silverleaf. The final show is on Sunday with Daniel Markham and Patterson Hood opening. If you have some way too get tickets to these coveted and long sold-out shows, we suggest that night because it’s the…
Fleetwood Mac American Airlines Center, Dallas Sunday, December 14, 2014 They say that as you get older, your passions get a little less intense. You gain perspective, and the emotions that make each of life’s ups and downs feel like the beginning or the end of the world smooth out…
This week, it’s time to say farewell to one of the most beloved bands in North Texas, Centro-Matic. They’ll play three sold out shows at Dan’s Silver Leaf, the last of which will be their final show, on Sunday. Red Bull Sound Select is closing out the year with two…
FACT: Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing. These are very true words from none other than Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. You can see them this weekend at the American Airlines Center. there are a few other cool shows in Dallas this weekend…
Ms. Lauryn Hill South Side Ballroom, Dallas Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Going into last night’s show at South Side Ballroom, no one had any clue what to expect from Ms. Lauryn Hill. There’s no denying HIll’s place as one of the most formative female R&B and hip-hop artists in history,…
Hoo boy, do our heads ever hurt. Well, they hurt yesterday, at any rate. Today’s a little bit better. But we’re still not totally sure where all these bruises came from. Which means, yep, it was a pretty successful Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase. (We had fun anyway. We hope…
Tons of shows to get jiggy with this week. Fleetwood Mac makes lovin’ fun at the American Airlines Center. Yung Lean hits Trees, which will be a haven for pale teens in bucket hats. KXT turns five with Brandi Carlile, Tennis and Somebody’s Darling at the Verizon Theatre. Ms. Lauryn…
This weekend we’re doing our Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and you should definitely do that. Otherwise there are a slew of great things to catch. Ryan Adams plays at SMU, which makes tons of sense. Caspa does the dubstep at Trees. Blackalicious does it for real hip-hop at the…
Austin has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to music festivals. In the past two months alone, the capitol city has hosted Austin City Limits and Fun Fun Fun Fest, and lest we forget, they also boast SXSW. But the festival that shouldn’t be overlooked (and which arguably has…
Crown & Harp 18th Anniversary Party Lower Greenville, Dallas Sunday, November 30, 2014 In Dallas, catching shows with stacked bills is normally confined to the few hallowed blocks of Deep Ellum. Rich in history and deep with its repertoire of club venues, Deep Ellum is the cornerstone of live music…
Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love go way back. All the way back, in fact, to that time that LDR did her cover of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” and Love tweeted, “You know the song is about my Vagina, right?” Well, apparently such are the things that lasting friendships are…
FKA twigs With Boots Trees, Dallas Friday, November 28, 2014 Some see FKA twigs as the savior of R&B. At the very least, some kind of futurist shape of the genre. Others see her as simply a revamp of trip hop, an anachronistic innovation come full circle. And at least…
We hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Now it’s time to usher in the Christmas season, which will certainty be shoved down your throat for the next four weeks. This can be annoying, but let it be known: If you don’t like Christmas music you’re just fighting things…
Wait a minute, what are you doing on the Internet today? Shouldn’t you still be staying as far away from rest of the world as possible? Oh, right, it’s Black Friday. So the whole family thing is kind of already out the window again, isn’t it. In that case, there…
