Wesley Geiger Searches for Artistic Gold on Debut El Dorado

There is something almost magnetic about a good sad song. According to science, that irresistible attraction to songs that make us a little teary eyed comes from our brains’ penchant for nostalgia. When we hear sad songs, we think of better times, and in turn actually end up happier than…

Local Over Everything Flies the Flag for Dallas Music on the Radio

On Thursday night, the Deep Ellum on Air show Local Over Everything began its second season. The show’s hosts Rodney Blu, Mo the Bear and Simon Phoenix brought in Dallas rapper Blue, the Misfit to mark the occasion. The show has done well with its unconventional, but authentic program format…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with Seal Bass

Seal Bass is part of an extreme minority amongst Dallas DJs. He plays techno in its purest form. While he’s not so well known in the regional DJ circuit, Seal Bass has over 20 years’ experience behind the decks. He still plays vinyl and his breadth of knowledge of classic…

Which New Dallas Old-School Hip-Hop Station Should You Listen To?

Since early Saturday morning, the people of Dallas are momentarily retiring their auxiliary cables and tuning into not one, but two new radio stations, both specializing in a virtually untested format. As we reported Monday, both Boom 94.5 FM and Hot 93.3 FM made an unprovoked about-face early Saturday morning:…

Denton’s No Touching Find Inspiration in the Honest and the Strange

Inspiration is a strange beast. For Philip Gage, the leading track on No Touching’s EP came to him in response to a 7-Eleven clerk who he had a less-than-pleasant experience with. The track, “Big Mama,” started as a joking poem-rant from Gage to bandmate Elana Nelson, but eventually developed into…

The 2014 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Schedule

Now’s when the real fun begins. Voting has been open for the 2014 Dallas Observer Music Awards for just about six weeks, and we’re in the home stretch. (If you haven’t already voted, you’d better make your way over to musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com and make sure your voice is heard!) The awards…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with Donny Young

Donny Young has been an active part of the Dallas DJ community since the early ’90s heyday of rave — first as a fan, and then as a DJ since 1996. Young is mostly associated with the DJ crew Motif and their parties. He has been a constant face amongst…

Who Loves the Sun Books the Bands That Denton Deserves

In the dull roar of a post-homecoming crowd at Crooked Crust in Denton, Garrett Gravley has his dining choices mocked. The perpetrator, Albert Louis, scoffs: “Dessert bread sticks and beer?” To which Gravley explains, “He’s always making fun of how I eat.” This is the makeshift office space of Who…

Ronnie Fauss Mines the Demons of Everyday People on Built to Break

This week, Dallas-based songwriter Ronnie Fauss released Built to Break, his second full-length effort for the New West Records imprint Normaltown. Of course, that total doesn’t include the handful of killer alt-country EPs Fauss delivered before his 2012 Normaltown debut, I Am the Man You Know I’m Not. Since 2009,…

DC9 at Night Mixtape: Remembering Evan Chronister

Every Music scene has that guy who has seen it all. He’s the guy you always run into at influential shows, record stores and DJ nights from as long as you have been going to shows. Evan Chronister, known to many as Captain Groovy, was one of those guys in…