Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who’re currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let’s see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, Rhett Miller, Ronnie Dawson, and, as of 2009, The O’s. Probably forgetting some others. Anyway,…
Deep Ellum is about to get yet another addition to its growing list of restaurants and music venues. The Free Man, which will open as a Cajun style cafe in the space formerly occupied by Sol’s Taco Lounge, will serve as both a restaurant and a venue.The Free Man’s owner,…
One of the better bars in Dallas to feature live music came to a sudden close last night. Well-located in Oak Cliff, just between the Oak Lawn and Kessler Park neighborhoods, Jack’s Back Yard, a re-purposed complex of buildings that formerly housed an auto repair center on West Commerce, Jack’s…
Mike Shea, the founder and publisher of Alternative Press magazine, took to Twitter on Saturday to attempt some 140-character assassinating of this blog’s Warped Tour coverage. Specifically, he had a problem with Darryl Smyers’ “The Five Best and Five Worst Bands at The 2011 Vans Warped Tour” post.Which is fine…
Seattle indie-folk act Motopony just sent our way an interesting press release, in which they detail plans for a coast-to-coast US tour. The whole thing will take place in single day.With the help of the Love Field-based Southwest Airlines, which is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, the band will turn…
Hundreds of fans who purchased tickets to Adele’s June 15 show at the House of Blues were left disappointed when Adele canceled several tour dates, including the aforementioned Dallas date, due to laryngitis. Well, now we have good and better news on that front. The good news: She’s all better,…
I see what the Granada Theater is doing, and I like it. For the second time this month, after hosting a big draw on a Thursday night, the venue has decided to throw an unofficial after-party the way of DJ Sober and his weekly Big Bang! event at Beauty Bar…
Picked up your fresh-off-the-presses print issue of this week’s Observer yet? No? Well, go do so right now. We’ll wait.Got it? Good! Now, flip the issue open. Not far, just right there after the cover. Yeah, page 3. There, you’ll notice — it’s tough not to — a massive, full-page,…
At 64, Joe Ely is the elder statesman of Texas music. For over three decades, Ely has continuously released some of the most influential country-rock and folk albums around, inspiring and influencing bands as disparate as The Clash and Uncle Tupelo. Beginning his career in Lubbock while playing with Jimmie…
We here at DC9 have heard the joke about how the arts and culture center of Dallas is called Fort Worth. It’s a good one!But, much as we love Dallas, we’ve gotta admit: There’s an almost preternatural amount of good music coming out of Cowtown these days. Bands like Calhoun,…
Walking through the mall in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, Andrew Wetzel of the metal band Attack Attack! sounds a bit winded over the phone as he makes his way to a semi-quiet place to talk. After composing himself, though, the drummer was more than happy to discuss with us…
More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Haigis,…
Four days after 19-year-old Argyle native Andrew Graf died after attending Electric Daisy Festival at Fair Park, another family is stepping forward to share the story of 22-year-old Jesse Morales, who they say died due to similar circumstances in the wake of 2010’s inaugural event. Family members say Morales, a…
Yesterday, city officials announced that they had slapped Electric Daisy Carnival organizers Insomniac Events with seven citations for their event in Fair Park on Saturday night — two for overcrowding, two more for failure to obtain a count of occupants, and three for obstruction of justice.Today, after having released a…
In August, the Granada Theater, which has for four years in a row now earned the title of Best Live Music Venue in our annual, reader-voted Dallas Observer Music Awards, will celebrate its seventh year under the watch of owner Mike Schoder. And, considering that the people who run venues…
After the City of Irving’s drawn out and expensive mayoral election, the results are in, showing Beth Van Duyne the victor with 57 percent of the vote.Van Duyne ousted the incumbent Herbert Gears, whose largest talking point was the proposed Irving Entertainment Center, which will include 11 restaurants and a…
The numbers are in: Ticket sales place the number of people at Fair Park for the Electric Daisy Carnival on Saturday night at somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000. At 11 p.m., the last headcount taken estimated that some 21,000 had already passed through the gates.These numbers fall pretty much in…
By 1 a.m. this morning, at least one attendee at Saturday night’s Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park had been declared dead. At least another two dozen had been hospitalized.After a first year in Dallas that had been deemed a “phenomenal event” by city officials, the second Dallas installment of…
A Soulquarians reunion? Almost! Tomorrow night, after an affair last night that saw NBA champion/Mavericks guard JJ Barea and even Miss Universe stopping on by Rio Room for DJ Klever’s set (Mavs Championship Party Tour 2011 is the best!), the posh Uptown spot will host another pretty massive deal.Tomorrow night…
It was just a month ago when we started down a trail that lead to Preteen Zenith, Tim DeLaughter’s new act. The item that perked our ears up? Well, it was the announcement of a free Polyphonic Spree show that will take place tonight as Late Nights at the Dallas…
Sons of Hermann Hall is old. Really old. One hundred years old, to be exact. In a city famous for disposable architecture, Sons stands as one of the last reminders of a bygone era. It’s the last remaining wood structure in downtown Dallas, too. Attending a show there is like…
So pumped for the Electric Daisy Carnival this weekend, you guys. Already got my outfit picked out and everything. Fur boots? Check. Glowsticks marinating in the freezer? Of course. I’m no amateur.I mean, c’mon. Diplo? Paul Van Dyk? Skrillex? All in Fair Park of all places? And the City’s cool…
