Brave Combo have been local music legends for years. The Denton polka punks have been mainstays of North Texas music for nearly four decades, picking up two Grammy awards and even making an appearance on The Simpsons. But now it’s really, truly official, with news that the band will be…
Dean Terry and Patrick Murphy thought their event was rock solid. In March, the city awarded the pair a $5,000 grant as part of the Cultural Projects Program of the Office of Cultural Affairs. They called the proposal Acoustic Nerves, a three-day nonprofit event that would combine installation, performance art…
The local music community has banded together to host even more benefit shows for the 30-year-old Rustin Luther, a local musician who has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. Trees recently joined the rooster of several other Dallas and Fort Worth Clubs hosting benefit shows, hosting “Fight Rustin Fight” on Saturday,…
Matthew Medlock, owner of Legacy Music Group, began shocked but is now exhausted. But he is, ultimately, unfazed. Wednesday morning, just before 6:00 A.M., one of his clients, a producer, was shot at his recording studio in Deep Ellum. Medlock has no idea who the shooter was or what his…
Josh Baish is still in shock about having to close Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. The Denton music venue, which he’s owned and operated since 1997 — virtually all of his adult life — has been his life’s work. But with his divorce from his ex-wife finalized on Monday, Gloves unexpectedly…
Not that long ago, techno music was a dirty secret in Dallas. It was genre banned from peak-time status and banished to the wee-hour slots — if it was booked at all. But, in the form of their production duo Cache Money, Andrew Glebhoff and Adam Jilek are a perfect examples…
After 20 years as a Denton punk institution, and one of the most revered punk venues in North Texas, Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio announced this morning that it will be closing its doors come June 5. “No easy way to say this, so we’re just gonna come right out and…
Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams didn’t live a life in music, but for the world at large it will be the thing he’ll always be remembered for. Adams, a longtime professor at SMU, was a brilliant scholar who dedicate his life to education and writing. But in 1968, he became a part…
The Observer needs a part-time clubs editor. The job is 12 hours a week and duties include: — Data entry to keep our clubs listings current and managing the Dallas Observer concert calendar. — Processing reader-submitted calendar items. — Writing brief descriptions for notable concerts. — Slackers need not apply…
The Dixie Chicks’ return to touring was bound to produce some pretty incredible music, both new and old. Hell, that was even bound to include some great covers. But dropping a Lemonade cover just a week after Beyoncé had dropped her burn-it-down visual album? Now that’s what we’ve been missing…
If you were planning on making the trek to Austin this weekend for Levitation, you’d better stop packing those bags. And if you’ve already hit the road, for god’s sake, turn around before you get to I-35. Just in time for those early birds looking to make the drive ahead…
| Gavin Guthrie has a gift for the follow through. Just a few years into his career as a dance music producer under the name TX Connect, Guthrie has more vinyl releases than most of his veteran peers in Dallas. In the past year alone, he dropped releases on European…
Think about what makes a honky tonk, and a few images are likely to come to mind: Cowboys and girls drinking beers, doing some two-stepping, shooting some pool and smoking. Lots of smoking. No honky tonk in North Texas is more iconic than Billy Bob’s. But the Fort Worth venue…
Erykah Badu is so fucking special. That was Dave Chappelle’s message to Badu in February at her 45th birthday party at The Bomb Factory as he sang Radiohead’s “Creep” with the help of the Cannabinoids. Now, thanks to Reddit, video of the performance has surfaced. You can trust that Chappelle…
At 57 years old, Top Ten Records in Oak Cliff is Dallas’ oldest record store. It’s also steeped in local history: It was at Top Ten, on November 22, 1963, that police officer J.D. Tippit was last seen before Lee Harvey Oswald murdered him. He left his car parked right…
It might’ve been hard to take your eyes off Teen Wolf last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but our attention was fixed firmly on someone else: Kaela Sinclair, who made her late night TV debut last night with Teen Wolf and his band M83. And she killed it, thank you…
Yesterday, the world turned purple. Despite a health scare last week that put his millions of fans on edge, the news of Prince’s death, at the all-too-young age of 57, came as a shock on Thursday morning. In his hometown of Minneapolis, legendary club First Avenue, known locally as “The…
DJ Titan has been a cornerstone in Dallas drum and bass for the past 15 years. He’s been a musical pilot behind the decks and producer in the studio. For this week’s mixtape, Titan digs deep for an upbeat, vocal-driven mini-mix of drum and bass featuring a few tunes from regional producers…
For longtime fans of Dallas radio host Chris Jagger, their morning routine has been turned on its ear. On Friday afternoon, 102.1 FM The Edge, the station where Jagger and his various ensembles of the Jagger Mafia has hosted a morning radio show on and off since 1998, announced that…
Late last week, some pretty big news dropped about 102.1 The Edge’s morning show: Chris Jagger, who was on his second stint with the station, had been let go. Replacing Jagger will be The Atom Smasher Show from the Houston radio market, which takes to the airwaves on May 2…
Before this week, it had been weeks — literally weeks — since we’d had a reason to write about Erykah Badu. Frankly, we were getting a little worried. The singer of a thousand names had been relatively quiet since throwing her 45th birthday bash at The Bomb Factory in February,…
Mr. Daishiki Jones is pretty much the definition of of a proper house head. The amount of passion that exudes from this man through his mixes and declarations of his profound love of house are truly inspiring. He spent his early years soaking in the culture of Chicago house music…
