With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we’re looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists…
Look, if we’re being real about the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations, there’s probably no one more deserving than Chic, if for no other reason than that this is the disco superstars’ 10th nomination. Of course there are many other reasons — chart data, importance to a…
A project to bring some color to the streets of Deep Ellum has created murals of a dozen elephants, jacks and rubber balls, iconic scenes that are representative of contemporary Dallas, a mural based on a 1938 picture of downtown Dallas, what looks like the child of Andy Warhol and…
Bryan Gonzalez DJs under the moniker B3. B3 is part of a small number of musicians in the area who play in bands in addition to DJing. He plays in the Dallas-based and Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated band Mayta. Gonzalez’s DJ game is a whole other ball of wax. His…
On Monday morning, superstar Kendrick Lamar teasingly posted a photo on Instagram of a flier for the 1st Annual Kunta’s Groove Sessions tour. It was accompanied with a caption that read, “8 cities. 8 nights. 8 intimate shows.” Speculation swirled as to which eight lucky cities would be treated to…
We’ve all had those nights in college that get a little out of hand, but in Denton recently, a seemingly minor drama during a show at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio got real-world serious pretty quick. Like, with lawyers and everything. A disagreement between the venue owner and Denton creative group the…
It’s hard to say where St. Vincent is going to pop up next these days. Chances are, it’ll be somewhere that makes us jealous if it’s not Dallas. Last we heard from the artist otherwise known as Annie Clark, she jumping onstage with Taylor Swift in Los Angeles to do…
Here we go again, Dallas. For the 27th year running, the Dallas Observer Music Awards are on their way. Each year, the Observer throws a big-ass party to help celebrate all the hard-working musicians of the Dallas music scene. Two of them, in fact. And we even hand out a…
Cymatic has been a regular face among the The Guild DJ crew over the past year or so, utilizing his deep knowledge of the more experimental side of dance music and integrating it with something more digestible for the dance floor without losing the edge. Despite his youth he has…
There are 85 million Taylor Swift cover videos on YouTube. We counted, so don’t bother. Some of them are good, some are bad, and some are just downright amazing. Maybe we are a little biased and our hometown pride is blinding us, but Todrick Hall from Arlington put together a…
Maxwell Carritt is part of a new wave of techno and tech house talent popping up in the shadows of Dallas club music. Most often associated with the burner DJ crew know as The Guild, he consistently sets a high bar for floor-thumping techno. Hypnotic patterns of persistent repetition, but…
Back in February we told you about John Rody, a Texas Radio Hall of Famer who secured one of the FCC’s new community radio licenses enabling him to go on the air with a low-wattage FM radio station, known as The Pirate. The station, which has existed in Internet streaming…
When you’re out bar hopping in Deep Ellum, the bathrooms aren’t usually places you want to spend too much time. And no, we’re not just talking about the death trap bathrooms at Club Dada. You get in, you get out, and you probably spend way more time waiting to do…
Post Malone has had a pretty good run of things in 2015. The Grapevine-bred rapper (and, in a past life, Bob Dylan fan) came out of nowhere during the winter to score a viral hit with his song “White Iverson.” A trip back home and a major-label record deal later,…
Problem Dogg are not to be trusted. Besides their red flag of a name with its suspicious-ass backwards letter “R,” the Denton noise band are the musical equivalent of a train wreck waiting to happen. Last year they put out a 49-song album, because why the hell not? Basically every…
Whatever you think about country music, there’s no disputing that it’s taken its fair share of heat. But as much as we criticize, we only do it because we love it, and just don’t like seeing it in the state that it’s in. Fortunately, the newly announced 2015 Country Music…
She may have been born in Oklahoma and be based out of Brooklyn these days, but Annie Clark still calls Dallas home. So it’s fascinating to see the singer and master shredder, who recently got her own Ernie Ball guitar and popped up onstage at a Taylor Swift concert, come…
When Heather Lowe came to Dallas a little over a year ago to work at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, she realized she was sitting on a gold mine. While the Dallas Public Library system had taken on a series of budget cuts over the years, one thing had…
Wanz Dover is a veteran of the Dallas music scene. He’s been a part of it for over 20 years and is one of the best live performers in the cit. (If you don’t believe it, just catch his band Black Dotz live.) Dover does regular DJ sets all over…
It has been a rotten — and downright scary — week for Motörhead front man Lemmy Kilmister and his fans around the world. The English speed-metal ace, whose band was due to visit Dallas on Friday night for a show at The Bomb Factory, in the midst of a worrisome…
Stephen Ketner has heard this talk before. On Monday morning, Steve Brown at the Dallas Morning News reported plans that Westdale Properties and StreetLights Residential are teaming up to bring a 17-story high-rise to the outskirts of Deep Ellum, and the hand-wringing was almost immediate. This must be the death knell for Deep…
North Texas country music fans are very, very sad right now. On Wednesday, Rolling Stone Country announced that Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard would join forces for a month-long tour across the Midwest and Southeast to promote their new joint album, Django & Jimmie. In true Nelson and Haggard fashion,…
