One of the best talent buyers in North Texas, Moody Fuqua, took over at RBC just four months ago. Everything seemed to be going as planned with the rebranding of the club venue behind Twisted Root. Fuqua brought weekly shows that focused on local music and also worked with promoters…
“I’m not going to blow sunshine up your ass,” says C.J. Ortiz. “I’m going to show you how you can maximize your resources. But I don’t know if you can, and I don’t think you should lie to yourself either. If you suck, you suck. Improve it. Don’t take it…
Chad Lovell will never forget the night he partied with Layne Staley in Dallas. Every April, though, the memory comes back particularly strong: Last week marked the 14th anniversary of Staley, the former singer of Alice in Chains, dying of a heroin overdose. But for Lovell, he’ll always remember Staley,…
Dalton Rapattoni, freshly famous from his strong showing during the final season of American Idol, isn’t turning his back on North Texas. “Dude, I will work wherever people need me to be, but North Texas is my home,” he told the Observer during a media call today. “I can’t relax anywhere else. This…
Hunter Vaughn has been a fixture in Dallas DJ culture over the past decade with stints at clubs like Zubar, Lizard Lounge and Crown & Harp. Vaughn shows a level of genre flexibility that has played in his favor, while also proving to be an active producer. He even has a new…
When Disturbed front man David Draiman decided to single a fan out for using her cellphone during the band’s March 23 appearance at House of Blues in Dallas, he probably didn’t expect it to trigger the backlash that followed from his own fan base. So last Friday Draiman spoke with…
We’ve already known it was coming, but the when and the where were still up in the air. Until now. Guns N’ Roses are coming back to North Texas — and by Gun N’ Roses we mean the real Guns N’ Roses, with Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan —…
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Post Malone is from Dallas. Earlier this week there was some confusion on that front, thanks to XXL Magazine claiming the Grapevine-bred rapper is “reppin’ Syracuse, NY.” Dallas hip-hop fans were none too happy about the perceived slight, but Post Malone’s…
Brian Bishop goes by the stage name of Vectorvision. Bishop has been a modest but vital part of Dallas electronic music for well over two decades. He’s amassed a vinyl collection that make even the most experienced DJ vets blush with jealousy, an arsenal of modular systems and rare synths, and…
Let’s be clear about one thing: Post Malone is from Dallas. Okay, Grapevine. That’s basically Dallas, though. Of course, he wasn’t born here. He was born in Syracuse, New York. But still: Dallas. Got it? Well, you can imagine the pandemonium that was caused on Monday when XXL Magazine announced…
Attending a metal show usually allows many older fans to forget their daily worries and fall into the music from their past. But for one local metal fan, last Wednesday’s Disturbed show at the House of Blues turned into one of the worst nights of her life when the band’s…
Mike Wiebe still sounds out of breath. It’s been more than a week since the Riverboat Gamblers singer fell off the bar in a crowd surfing accident at South By Southwest, and most of those intervening days were spent in the hospital with a tube stuck in his chest. Wiebe…
In the middle of heavy metal Disturbed’s show at House of Blues last Wednesday, Shannon Pardue had other things on her mind. With a thunderstorm rolling through North Texas dropping golf ball-sized hail that damaged roofs, mangled blinds and shattered car windows, Pardue’s 14-year-old daughter was home alone “freaking out” at…
What took Index Festival so long? The indie music fest, originally scheduled to take place in September 2015, got postponed until this spring and this week officially announced its cancellation. Officials at Spune, the company who runs Index, say they just didn’t want to let it go. “We really love…
Jim Heath was the only one awake in the back of his tour bus when he first smelled the smoke. He and his band, Dallas vets Reverend Horton Heat, were passing through Oceanside, California early Wednesday morning on their way from a show in Hollywood to another one that night…
One of Dallas music’s worst-kept secrets has finally become official. After delaying last year’s event for several months, Spune, the organizers behind indie music festival Index, have decided to pull the plug this year. Originally slated to take place last September, Index was originally postponed until an unspecified date this…
S.O.U.L.Jah has been an ever-present force in Dallas DJ culture over the past decade, holding down a string of residencies in a variety of genres at some of Dallas’ most beloved DJ haunts. S.O.U.L.Jah has deep roots in Dallas drum and bass, but has never been one to play it…
Arthur Peña, founder and director of Vice Palace, will close out the roving venue’s second year with a two-day show at RBC in Deep Ellum featuring a lineup of local talent. The event is both a retrospective and a hint of what to expect from year three. Peña’s cassette label,…
The fierce Chicago quintet the Orwells ended their set early on Saturday night at the Spillover Fest with a fight when Trees staff tried to boot them off the stage. It’s unclear at this point what led to the ass kicking or even who received it. The Orwells’ lead singer…
Omar Mustafa is part of the younger class of DJs that have come up in Dallas in recent years. Mustafa has made the rounds as an audience member and as a DJ, playing at many of the key spots for the city’s key promoters. Mustafe is always able to adapt…
We hate to say we told you so, but in this case, we definitely did. Last December, we spoke with up-and-coming country singer-songwriter Maren Morris, who was then just on the cusp of becoming a star. At that time, Morris had only just released My Church, her first EP. Now,…
Today’s the big day for KISS fans of North Texas: Nearly eight months after plans were first unveiled, Rock & Brews, the restaurant franchise owned by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, opens the doors on its newest location in The Colony. The newest addition to the quickly growing Grandscape development,…
