Untapped Festival, the 5-year-old Texas beer and music festival, announced last week that it is rebranding as Index Fest. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Spune Productions, which founded and then sold Untapped, also founded a music festival called Index Festival in 2012. It made waves during…
Late last year, the Fort Worth venue 1919 Hemphill closed due to issues with its certificate of occupancy. Their CO used to allow for community gatherings, but that is no longer the case, so they have to file for a change of use certificate. It now looks like it may be another month…
One of the vendor’s at Lula B’s in Oak Cliff is a vintage clothing store called Space 137. When you enter the booth, you’ll see the slogan “Cool Stuff for Cool People” and racks filled with fur-trimmed leisure suits and letterman jackets. On the wall overheard are framed photos of…
The arrival of a new calendar month brings with it another exciting round of concert announcements for the DFW region. Quite a few industry legends will make their way to area stages, while a lively tribute gathering will honor the 40th anniversary of a rock ‘n’ roll signature event. And,…
Local favorites Josey Records and Spinster Records will expand in 2017, but not into locations in DFW. Josey has already opened its second location in Kansas City, Missouri. Later this year, they will open a third location in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Oak Cliff-based Spinster is joining them. “We’ve strategically chosen…
Troy Wodsworth has come a long way. Once a music nerd living in a small Texas town, he’s now running Seattle-based label Medical Records, one of the cornerstones of the modern synth and shoegaze music boom of the last decade. Alexander Robotnik, Seefeel, Rollerskate Skinny, Severed Heads, Laika, Gina X…
Siamese’s debut album The Mesmerist is inspired by late 1700s German physician Franz Anton Mesmer and his cult of mesmerism, and it addresses everything from sexual identity crises to colonialism. The four-person performance group will perform at the Texas Theatre on Saturday to celebrate the record’s release and give us…
DFW just gained one more place to see live music. The Star in Frisco, which hosts the Dallas Cowboys corporate offices, has a state-of-the-art indoor facility, Ford Center, which up until now has just been used for the Dallas Cowboys and Frisco ISD practices and some other non-music-related entertainment events…
Apparently pop singer Selena Gomez has a home in Fort Worth. And now it’s on sale. For a cool $3 million. Everyone seems to be pretty tight-lipped on the two-story mansion in the private residential area, Montserrat. The realtor selling the home, Todd Terry, directed us to another blog for…
Dallas is a vinyl town. Sales are continuing to surge, and Dallas’ numerous record shops, local printing plants and venue choices have made it a major market for those interested in both dealing and spinning wax. The latest evidence: the online music trading post and database Discogs chose Dallas as a…
In the 2003 City of Dallas bond program 8.8 million in taxpayer dollars was set aside to renovate and improve what was then known as the Annette Strauss Artist Square. Now the outdoor venue is simply known as the Annette Strauss Square and is adjacent to the Winspear Opera House…
Six Shooter is a recurring feature where we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. Pat Ron – “Psilocybin” Psilocybin is a psychedelic compound naturally found in certain species of mushrooms. From the opening strings of Pat Ron’s newest track off his upcoming album, This Time Last Year, it’s…
Sudie Abernathy’s sultry, cool girl style is the perfect complement to her brand of romantic electro-pop. The Dallas singer, often seen sporting her classic white K-Swiss kicks, even caught the attention of the sneaker company. They made her an ambassador, featured her on the K-Swiss website, and gift her with…
Fifteen years ago Rob Viktum began putting together Shoot The Messenger. “This record is the first time that everything has come together and felt perfect,” Viktum says. “My whole career I’ve been making music, but I’ve never really made a record that was 100 percent and totally me. I’ve either been pulled…
Erykah Badu isn’t known to play small when it comes to her birthday parties. “This year I’m putting more energy into it because I have the time, and it’s a very special year, and I want to treat it that way,” she tells the Observer. “I have time to appropriately give…
Matt Newman is one of the key players in the highly influential Dallas DJ crew Soundslike, but his roots in dance music go back to his days slinging records in Michigan. Newman’s career began in Chicago and Detroit, epicenters of techno and house, and those cities had a lasting impact…
As a member of pioneering hip-hop group Salt-n-Pepa, DJ Spinderella sold over 15 million albums and singles, and toured the world. In recent years she has thrown herself into the Spinderella DJ Academy, encouraging and promoting female artists and producers. Last Saturday, at the ceremony honoring her as the first female recipient of…
Tift Merritt will play at Three Links on Saturday, Feb. 25. Coming hard and fast on the heels of a divorce, Tift Merritt’s sixth album Stitch of the World could almost be considered a breakup album. Almost, except that seems a little too simple for the poetry Merritt spins, and…
On Jan. 23, four days after his son Jordan Daniel died of a drug overdose, Deep Ellum fixture Jon Daniel decided to make a statement. “The word started getting out,” Daniel says. “So it’s, ‘OK, I need to put something out there,’ because I don’t want people to start sending…
On Sunday evening at Club Dada, with more than four hours left in the silent auction, bids for a Stetson cowboy hat had already far surpassed its value. By 7 p.m. the $20 T-shirts were sold out in every size but extra large. The bar’s supply of Lone Star was…
Last week was a whirlwind of activity for R&B singer-songwriter Ladarrion Darnell, also known as Imaj. The 23-year-old visited radio stations across DFW including 89.3 KNON, 97.9 the Beat, K104 and 105.7 Smooth RnB to promote his new single “Something Real,” earning him spins on those stations. Then, on Valentine’s Day, he…
Ascension Coffee on Oak Lawn is a bustling place. Pay a visit any afternoon and you’ll find most of the tables full with people deeply engaged in conversation, whether it’s business types sizing each other up for a deal, or friends catching up over cappuccinos and croissants. The customers are…
