Now that 2015 is drawing to a close, Fort Worth phenom Leon Bridges is running out of time to pack more achievements into a year that’s already bursting with them. But there’s still time. On top of a rags-to-riches (or at least dishwasher-to-pop star) story that’s already the stuff of…
Go on ahead and say thank you, Dallas, because we’ve been praying hard for this good news for a long while now. Just as soon as the newly-reunited Dixie Chicks, fresh off a 10 year hiatus from touring in the United States, announced that they were heading back on the…
Thanks to the near-ubiquity of social media, it’s more difficult than ever for famous people get away with doing really stupid stuff. As Jason Aldean found out this week, the Internet will find out if you dress up in an offensive and racist Halloween costume even if you’re difficult to…
Brian Knolley had a calling to house music 25 years ago. Over that time he has witnessed the highs, lows and heavenly blows of Dallas house music culture, from the glory days of Starck Club to playing parties nowadays with his mates in the Our House crew — a crew…
And there goes a regular. On Tuesday, news spread that long-time Denton bar and music venue Hailey’s Club will be closing their doors on December 31, 2015, and that news has been confirmed by the venue. After an adventurous 12-year run, Hailey’s has seen an ebb and flow of national…
Being from Dallas, we’re always looking for any bit of cultural credibility we can get. We’re not Austin; we can’t claim to be the chopped and screwed OGs. Or so the logic goes. So whenever we get an opportunity to fly the Dallas flag — or even rub our pride…
Halloween is over, but so what? Pull those costumes back out and get ready to party again next month because the Dallas Observer Music Awards are coming to The Bomb Factory on Wednesday, December 9. You might want to leave your white lighters at home, though, because the theme for…
Another week, another bit of oddball Erykah Badu news for the world to ponder. The Dallas soul queen has been especially busy of late, dropping a remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” and performing a run of “one-human” (not to be mistaken for one-woman) shows at The Black Academy of Arts…
As music snobs well know, music awards shows generally don’t do the best at showcasing a genre’s most promising talent. If anything, they’re prone to rewarding the same boring, mainstream pap that makes record executives millions of dollars every single year. This year’s CMA Awards, though, looked particularly promising. Among…
White privilege has a central part of the rap music consciousness from the very beginning. At least as long as “The Message,” if not longer, depending on how far back you want to go. So, particularly in the politically charged days of 2015 when an album like Kendrick Lamar’s To…
It’s been a big month for pop music in Dallas. A lot of that has had to do with homegrown talent, thanks to no fewer than three artists with local ties all making it to the top of the Billboard Top 100 chart: In back-to-back weeks, Selena Gomez and Pentatonix…
Josey Records had a hell of a first year. The massive Farmers Branch record store opened with a DJ booth and art gallery; then they quickly added a stage with a state of the art sound system and a second location in Kansas City. But at the one-year mark they…
If there were ever a misleading headline, Things We Can Expect From Erykah Badu’s One-Human Show is it. We have no idea what to expect from Ms. Badu’s one-human show. Reason being? The artist herself isn’t sure of the show’s content just yet, as of a press conference she held a…
Performing under the name Left/Right, producer and DJ Chris Lund has established himself as one of the more prolific electronic artists in Dallas over the past decade. Lund recently added his own label BRØKEN to his list of musical responsibilities. Over the course of 19 releases (around 50 Tracks) Lund has…
Everyone’s favorite former-Disney-star-duo-turned-record-label-business-partners are going on tour together next year and we are pumped, you should be too. If you’re older than 17, there’s a good chance you aren’t aware who we are referring to, but Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato announced on Good Morning America on Monday that they…
Every season on The Voice, it always seems like there is plenty of talent from Dallas and the surrounding areas. We’d like to think that’s because people who live here are just better at singing than everyone else, but that’s probably not true. This season, as Guidelive notes, three of…
It’s been a long time since the Dixie Chicks have made headlines in country music, but maybe that’s because they got tired of all that attention. You might recall a teeny-tiny, pretty minor little incident where Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines criticized then-President George W. Bush while performing in London,…
As a member of the Our House Crew, Jason Ramirez is a major cog in the Dallas house machine. With two decades of experience behind the decks, he brings a depth of knowledge to his mixes. Ramirez has had a front seat to the highs and lows of Dallas DJ…
Once he starts singing, it doesn’t take long for Dallas-based country singer-songwriter Troy Cartwright to sink his artistic simplicity into the listener’s consciousness. In his excellently galloping country noir tune “Next Flight Home,” the Berklee College of Music grad offers a simple, heartfelt image of longing. When Cartwright sings “I’ll…
Before the original members of the Alice Cooper Group took the stage together earlier this month for a surprise reunion at Good Records, it had been 40 years since they played together. So when some high quality footage of the performance appeared on Rolling Stone’s website last week, the whole world was…
If you maxed out your credit card or sold your firstborn to buy tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour stop at AT&T Stadium, don’t feel too bad about it. It turns out you’re not alone. Apparently Dallasites are willing to do just about anything to see the reigning queen of…
David Bikowski produces and DJs under the name Hands Free and has caused quite a stir with his releases on labels like Audiophile Deep, Faceless and Motek. Part of a long tradition of punk rock ex-pats that find their way to dance music, Hands Free is a standout artist amongst…
