More great concert announcements have flooded Dallas this week. The upcoming months are shaping up to be a particularly busy time for shows at House of Blues and the Granada Theater. Elsewhere, there will be appearances from a Texas icon, an L.A.-based buzz band and a legendary knight. Pop piano…
Steve Gunn plays Sons of Hermann Hall with Lee Ranaldo on Tuesday, June 20. Singer-guitarist Steve Gunn and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo make sense as a pair. Both artists, who will be playing at Sons of Hermann Hall next week, push the boundaries of six strings. Gunn is still riding…
Tyler Bryant has come a long way from his humble Northeast Texas beginnings. At 26 years old, he is widely considered to be a guitar prodigy. “I always knew this is what I wanted to do,” says Bryant, who grew up in the tiny town of Honey Grove. In 2006,…
John Walker has been a consistent presence in Dallas DJ culture for two decades. He’s best known in house music circles, but he also deals in minimal house, tech house and, more recently, straight-up techno. For this week’s mixtape, Walker meets in the middle of his many musical interests and…
Lost Balloons’ Hey Summer comes out Friday, June 16, via Dirtnap Records. Jeff Burke is a prolific songwriter, but he doesn’t sit down to write much. Songs tend to come to him when he’s watching TV or just messing around on his guitar, he says. “When I try to write…
Michael McDonald plays Winstar with Boz Scaggs on Friday, June 16 In the course of his 40-plus years in music, Michael McDonald has collaborated with some of the industry’s biggest names. From stints in the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan to writing songs for Van Halen and singing with Ray…
IQmuzic aspires to be in regular rotation on the radio, but he’s not the typical person who tops the Billboard charts today. The Dallas resident and El Paso native, whose real name is Joe Garcia, wears a suit and tie when he performs, voraciously reads science fiction and creates infographics…
Veteran Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie actor Edwin Neal resurrects hitchhiker role for Warbeast’s final music video.
For the fifth time this month, Southern Methodist University celebrates the life and work of cellist and Holocaust survivor Lev Aronson, who made Dallas and SMU his home after escaping a concentration camp in Latvia. The annual Lev Aronson Legacy Festival, which began last Friday, features free master classes from…
Steve Earle plays in Dallas on Monday, June 19, at Good Records and Thursday, July 6, at House of Blues Steve Earle tips his hat to his Texas roots and to Waylon Jennings in his new album So You Wanna Be an Outlaw, which hits stores this Friday, June 16…
“Every time I wanted to commit suicide, I didn’t do it because of the ba-rump-bump-bum,” says musician Tyler Harris. “When the beat changes up, you start to feel that hope. It’s when you’re illuminated to the music and you still want to be here.” Harris makes music as T.Y.E., an acronym for…
The State Fair of Texas has announced its first round of musical events, but that’s not all this week’s concert news revealed. Several big alternative and indie rock acts will pay visits to Dallas, and the Kessler is drawing out a slew of ace songwriters and a top-notch jazz act…
Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike play Stereo Live on Friday, June 9 Dimitri Thivaios, half of the brother duo Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, is packing for a 6 a.m. flight to Dallas when he breaks to speak with the Observer. At home in his native Belgium, he’s also planning…
Chase Dugger is a core member of the Disco Initiative and The Guild and creative director for Deep Ellum venue The Nines. In these positions, Dugger has helped to keep dance music alive in the neighborhood. Dugger deejays under the alias Space Chase. You can hear him every month at…
Most festivals leave you broke before you get to the gate. Not so at the Reunion Lawn Party, which is free. On the last Saturday of every month this summer, the five-acre spread in front of Reunion Tower will host a party. There’s live music, dancing, a beer garden, food…
We hate to upset you this early in the morning, but you no longer have the opportunity to buy Selena Gomez’s Fort Worth home. In March, Grand Prairie native Gomez put up the five-bedroom mansion for $3 million and gave everyone hope they could bathe in the same bathtub Gomez once…
Chilldren of Indigo’s new album is a mélange of balmy, funky textures. On Indigo Soul, which comes out Thursday June 15, the hip-hop quartet fronted by rapper/singer Jo Indigo and guitarist/producer Jay Varela flirts with rather than commits to any genre. It fits in equally well with silky soul acts and amp-shattering…
At the Drive-In plays South Side Ballroom on Monday, June 12. Many people are excited about the return of El Paso-based punk band At the Drive-In, which released in*ter a*li*a last month. Yet frontman and co-founder Cedric Bixler-Zavala says he’s fielding just as many questions from fans and reporters about…
When Rikki Blu walks into Griff’s Hamburgers, he immediately sticks out. He stands 6 feet, 7 inches tall, and long, tightly braided dreadlocks, dyed gray in spots, drape over his tattered and patched denim jacket. It’s a lot of style to take in at a decades-old burger joint. After ordering,…
In Texas, Willie Nelson’s outlaw country persona looms large. The Granada Theater is bringing some of his influence to town next week with a recently announced “secret” mini-festival. In other news, two big-ticket tours make their way onto the American Airlines Center calendar. Two soulful crooners reunite for a collaborative…
Six Shooter is a recurring feature where we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. Lord Byron – We Kill Cowboys So Death Rides a Horse On his second album, We Kill Cowboys So Death Rides a Horse, East Dallas rapper Lord Byron goes beyond the norms of hip-hop…
Despite the name, the band Teenage Sexx is mature beyond its years. Founding member and lead guitarist Caleb Lewis is only 19, co-frontman and bassist Kevin Adkins is 23 and newly added drummer Charlie DeBolt is 25. Teenage Sexx formed in Lewis’ bedroom in 2014 in a trailer park in…
