Last night around 6pm, Dallas rap duo A.Dd+ dropped a brand new music video on their YouTube channel, for their fan favorite single, “Can’t Come Down”. Slim Gravy’s art-of-storytelling weed saga produced by X The Misfit first hit Soundcloud almost two and a half years ago, but the new Jeff…
In recent years, the Top 40 Country Music charts have been littered with an increasing amount of songs that now fit easily into an even more specific, sickening realm of modern country music – “Bro-Country.” With frat-boy bravado and an even greater emphasis on sophmoric, ignorant cliches than usual, the…
Last year, Dallas-based filmmaker Shaun Colón had a vision of creating a documentary on one of his favorite record labels, San Francisco-based Fat Wreck Chords. Originally planned to be a short film, it soon become much longer and expansive. On Tuesday, an Indiegogo campaign launched, hoping to cover the costs…
This weekend marks the end of an era in Dallas nightlife. Come Monday, Henderson Avenue staple, The Slip Inn, will close its doors after fifteen years at the 1806 McMillan Avenue location. But fret not, the local favorite does plan to reopen at a new location within the next three…
Although raised in Arizona, Charlie Brand, leader of the indie pop band, Miniature Tigers, is a wondering spirit. Brand moved the band to Brooklyn, got tired of that scene and moved to Fort Worth. Last month, Brand ended up in Austin to be close to his girlfriend. Brand’s music reflects…
After falling in and out of various New York City punk bands, Kassia Conway started expanding her musical horizons. The first thing was a move to Los Angeles and the next was a revitalization of her songwriting process. Bringing to fore her love of hip hop and electronica, Conway formed…
Like all niche stores, record shops are keeling over left and right. Only one or two record stores among each hundred have survived the evolution of the music industry. In turn, a priceless cultural gathering place has been all but lost. A cornerstone that ignores occupational, national, and social boundaries,…
In the DFW metalplex we’ve seen legendary guitarists meet an untimely end to their careers. Ten years ago, Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Pantera and Damage Plan was murdered by a deranged killer while playing a show in Ohio, and recently, Mike Scaccia of Ministry and Rigor Mortis died of heart…
In a surprising turn, JB Patterson, lead-singer for Tyler-based country band JB and the Moonshine Band, is wide awake and ready to chat when the phone rings at 9:30 a.m. on a recent weekday morning. Such early hours aren’t usually kept by rising music stars. But as with so many…
For a band that formed way back in 1985, England’s Carcass still pack a punch that should put newer metal bands in awe. The band’s 2013 effort, Surgical Steel, was one of the best albums of last year, metal or otherwise. Filled with monstrous riffs and intricate lyrics, songs like…
Love him or hate him, Scott Stapp has one of those over-the-top personas that seem part and parcel of being a rock star. Best known as the leader of Creed, Stapp’s deep, bellowing vocals helped that band reach massive popular heights in the late ’90s and early 2000s. During that…
Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden are coming our way this summer. Make no mistake, this is big news, and not a mere nostalgia trip for for those of us who were in high school or entering college 20 years ago. The announcement of a tour featuring a co-headlining double bill…
Ronnie Sterling isn’t your typical high school assistant principal. He’s also a guitarist in Protest, a local band known for its “unrelenting, no bullshit metal onslaught on stage.” It often comes as shock to students when they find out he plays in a metal band. “Wow, there’s no way,” they…
From February 26 to March 8, your 2013 Dallas Observer Music Award winners for Best Folk Act hit the road touring across the Midwest. In two weeks and eleven shows, The Fox and The Bird shared the experience of a lifetime together. From driving through the polar vortex to make…
Hailing from Australia, Thy Art is Murder is a deathcore band that has managed to garner significant fan bases in Germany, the UK and here in the States. Hate, the band’s sophomore effort from 2012, is considered by many a hallmark deathcore release and the album actually charted in Australia…
Last night I reluctantly headed to Deep Ellum’s Club Dada to see Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band perform. Now, if you’re anything like me, then that sentence takes some serious digesting before it can be completely understood. Former child star Macaulay Culkin is in a Velvet Underground cover…
Jerry Warden is a conduit for promoting heavy metal in the North Texas area. The former lead singer of Warlock, one of the first heavy metal bands in DFW, started in the early ’80s hosting live shows in the middle of a pasture christened “Heavy Meadows.” He continued with several…
Can you hear that? It might be somewhat foreign by now, but it’s the sound of the Dallas Cowboys scoring a touchdown. You know, thousands of fans cheering in Cowboys AT&T Stadium and that one song blares through the speakers. Well that song is California-based band The Burning of Rome’s…
Sadly, many people may only know Gary Numan for “Cars,” his surprising, off-the-wall hit from 1979. Yet Numan’s four decade long career belies any classification as a one-hit wonder. Indeed, some of Numan’s best music came immediately before and after he made “Cars.” Taken together, Numan’s catalogue makes him one…
You can’t have a true St. Patrick’s Day concert without a few staples: a mega-ton of beer, a sea of green-covered people who may or may not look that way because they’ve had more than their fair share of said beer, and a long list of bands and performers. We’ve…
Even with the cold wind, Texas country music fans still headed out to enjoy the 18th annual Texas Music Revolution. This festival, featuring more than a dozen acts on the bill, was to take place at the famous Southfork Ranch in Parker. My friend and I picked up our tickets…
Bryan “Infidelix” Rodecker runs through the streets of Ireland trying to find some place to hide. He knows his assailant is getting closer. The clapping of the little man’s heels echoes through the streets of Dublin like the chiming of church bells. He doesn’t know what he’d done to piss…
