It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas. DOMAs! Twenty judges met at a secret location last week to vote on the winners for this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards, and just a few weeks from now on Saturday, Dec. 2, you can hear nearly 60…
Dallas native Daniel Huffman is preparing to release his second album as New Fumes, and we’ve gotten our first taste — a collaborative track with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. “Rioter’s Milk” will be the sixth of 10 tracks on Teeming 2, due Nov. 24 via Red Cult Records…
More house show music festivals have popped up in Denton in the last few years, taking the place of traditional venues that have closed. While two of them, Broketopia and Free Underage Cool Kids Fest, haven’t announced any plans for this year, there’s news on the second iteration of Band…
This week brought a barrage of concert announcements: Demi Lovato, Blake Shelton and Maroon 5 are all playing arena shows, and some ’90s favorites hit Starplex next summer. A guitar great will also appear at the soon-to-be opened Canton Hall, and House of Blues added some killer shows. All that…
Victory Park’s latest public art addition, a steel pipe sculpture that is 15 feet tall and 34 feet wide, is a vibrant throwback to Dallas’ musical roots. Las Vegas-based artist Tim Bavington, originally from England, is known for his musically themed creations laden with brightly colored automotive paint. While he’s…
Herman Glaspie has never chased the spotlight, but as DJ Junkyard he’s a constant presence in the Dallas DJ scene. He’s had his hands on the decks since he was a preteen in the ’80s, playing on his father’s rig. Glaspie often plays old-school, Detroit-influenced techno. For this week’s mixtape,…
B.R. Lively plays Prophet Bar on Saturday, Nov. 11, with Tow’rs and Zach Winters. B.R. Lively says it all started with a breakup. It shook the indie folk singer-songwriter to his core, drawing him away from the security of his Austin home and out onto the road. Lively sold most of…
Last week, Southwest Airlines announced its plan to have in-flight concerts on about 20 flights per year. The airline partnered with Warner Music Nashville for this concert series, meaning most acts will be country music. Flying is torturous enough, but when you add to the equation a live performance of country…
They say that those who can’t do, teach. But former Type O Negative and current Danzig drummer Johnny Kelly, who recently moved to Frisco, can do both. He’s charging $50 per hour for drummers of all experience levels. “We just moved here, and if anyone is interested in doing it,…
Deep Ellum music venue Canton Hall was set to open its doors for the first time tonight with a show by Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman, but the show has been postponed. The second coming of the space that once housed Deep Ellum Live, shuttered in 2004, has…
Deep Ellum Art Co. has been focusing on low-key local shows since it opened two months ago, but it hosted one of its first touring shows, Lee “Scratch” Perry on Sunday night. Along with King Tubby, Perry pioneered the amorphous reggae subgenre, “dub,” which rose to prominence in Jamaica in…
When California pop-punk pioneers the Descendents play Dallas this weekend, it will be an occasion to celebrate for local fans of the genre — and none more so than Dallas-based filmmakers Deedle LaCour and James Rayburn, who made a documentary about the band in 2013. Sitting in the downtown offices…
Rolling Stone published an interview last week with one of R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriends, Kitti Jones, a former Dallas DJ for radio station 97.9 The Beat. The interview follows BuzzFeed’s July article detailing R. Kelly’s alleged sex cult of women. Jones says Kelly forbade her from leaving her room, going to…
Are we concert-ed out yet, Dallas? This fall has shown no signs of slowing down. There are so many shows filling the calendar pages for the remainder of 2017, and the upcoming months continue to look promising. Keep up the energy and keep putting a little cash aside because this…
The unofficial mother of Deep Ellum died of liver disease Oct. 2, leaving orphaned musicians and artists behind to mourn. Jeanne Blanton, 60, was a self-made millionaire who married into Don Blanton’s real estate empire. The Blantons’ holdings stretched across Deep Ellum; he was one of the original four investors who…
Aaron Hensley got his start in the mid-’90s rave culture, and two decades later, he still has a special connection to the dance floor. Hensley’s deep roots in house music have informed his deejaying, which is always evolving. He recently branched into deep house and started learning to produce. For…
There are two types of musicians: those who were born for the stage and those who are forced onto the stage to share their songs. Dallas’ Ronnie Fauss is the latter. He toyed with songwriting for most of his life before working up the gumption to perform at an open…
A cool breeze ran over the Continental Avenue pedestrian bridge Sunday afternoon while dozens of guitar-wielding musicians strummed, picked and plucked their favorite six-stringed instruments in harmony. The fourth annual Open Carry Guitar Rally invited hippies and rockers to free-jam rock, blues and folk classics such as Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe”…
Denton musicians Clayton Norris and Dylan Rice have been making music together since 2013, primarily trafficking in electronic instrumental soundscapes. As Vogue Machine, they’ve turned heads in North Texas, where there simply aren’t as many synth purveyors. The duo works with Fort Worth label Dreamy Life Records, which has helped…
Police in Mangham, Louisiana, pulled over actor-turned-singer Corey Feldman for speeding Saturday night. He was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana, speeding and driving with a suspended license. At his show in Dallas on Thursday, Feldman prophetically told Dallas Observer writer Eva Raggio that he was nervous to drive through Louisiana. “They…
During the early years, it seemed that rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists were on a rising trajectory. Their first tours stopped at Rubber Gloves in Denton. Later, they played Dallas establishments, like the Gypsy Tea Room and the House of Blues. But DFW hasn’t seen much of Ted Leo…
When we shared the ballot for the 2017 Dallas Observer Music Awards last month, we told you we’re doing things a bit differently this year. In the past, DOMA winners have been determined by a monthlong public vote. This go-around, we’ve curated a group of 20 judges who live and breathe local…
