Catch one, or both, of Nine Inch Nails’ shows this week with Jesus and Mary Chain. Get into the holiday spirit with KIIS-FM’s Jingle Ball featuring Kesha. Or check out the 30th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase with several local bands in various Deep Ellum venues. The Funky Knuckles…
Joy Williams has spent many years on the road, so she’s used to the controlled chaos that accompanies tours. For her latest venture, though, the mother of two has some traveling partners alongside that are making things just a bit different. “It feels like a totally new chapter for me…
There’s hardly any corner of the local music scene that’s not connected to the Grays. Almost literally. Pull on any cable on any random stage in town and at its end is likely to be one of the three Gray siblings: singer Kierra, who’s 27, 25-year-old bass player KJ and…
Hello. Today is Cyber Monday, which for everyone older than 98, that means the websites on the worldwide web typically offer discounts for online shoppers. We want to be cool and hip like Amazon and Target.com and other websites, so we are offering a super special deal for DOMAs tickets…
As you work your way through Thanksgiving leftovers, take a look at this week’s new batch of concert announcements and see what catches your interest. Lots of new things on the local front. House & Rouse are coming to The Kessler Theater. Singer-songwriters Josh Rouse and Griffin House are joining…
Four-piece rock band Broncho continues to embrace a strong psychedelic style with their latest record, Bad Behavior, which came out Oct. 12 via Park the Van Records. Each song holds a mellow, poppy feeling that contrasts the lyrical content full of themes branched off the album title. This, as frontman…
Scotty McCreery was humbled from the first moment he won Season 10 of American Idol. The 17-year-old at the time had to fly back home to North Carolina right after the show’s season finale for an AP English test the next morning. “I guess that kind of grounded me pretty…
Celebration: “the action of marking one’s pleasure at an important event or occasion by engaging in enjoyable, typically social, activity.” That’s what just popped up when we Googled “celebration definition.” Celebration: a time of celebrating. Pleasure: feeling good. Important event: DOMAs. Enjoyable, social activity: drinking and listening to music. Cellllllebraaaate…
Lights fading from purple to pink illuminated the walls behind LO and her band at the woman-owned WAAS Gallery in Dallas. A hard-hitting drum track and deep, rumbling lines on the synthesizer accompany her soulful voice. The performance marked the release of LO’s new self-titled EP. Though her parents’ background…
People still recognize Jeff Timmons at the grocery store all these years later. “A lot of people come up to me and say, ‘Hey, where do I know you from?’” Timmons tells us over the phone. “I’ve got like a 98 Degree tattoo on my arm, so it’s pretty obvious.”…
This week’s concert lineup boasts plenty of local acts. Catch KXT-FM 91.7 radio host Paul Slavens on Monday night at Dan’s Silver Leaf as he plays a comedic night of improv, or see country acts The Texas Gentlemen and Eleven Hundred Springs or The Vandoliers’ Holiday Hoedown at Three Links on…
In recent years, concert promoter Lorenzo Zenteno, owner of Premier Live, has played a major role in organizing large scale hip-hop and R&B concerts throughout DFW, Austin, San Antonio and Houston. Three weeks ago, Zenteno announced he was taking his promotion of music to the next level with the launch…
Three-quarters into the sold-out Dallas stop of his Astroworld — Wish You Were Here Tour, Travis Scott rides a snaking roller coaster over the heads of his overjoyed youthful fans while performing “5% Tint.” That right there tells you all you need to know about Scott. He doesn’t settle for…
Though we’re still a few days out from Thanksgiving, the concert announcements are pouring in for the upcoming summer and are even stretching into next fall. For the ambitious types, plan ahead or be ready to snag tickets to some of these shows as holiday presents. Off The Rails Country…
Controversial rapper Daniel Hernandez, better known as his stage name, Tekashi 6ix9ine, was set to perform Saturday at the Mesquite Rodeo, but the show was canceled. The Mesquite Rodeo owners had no comment to the Observer regarding their reasons for canceling the show. However, Bruce Archer, a Mesquite council member,…
Yes, you read that correctly. Eighteen more days until Dec. 4, which is when the DOMAs ceremony is (at Canton Hall) and 15 more days until the showcase Dec. 1 (all throughout Deep Ellum). This is exciting. We are excited. Are you excited? (Say yes.) Because its our 30th DOMAs,…
Seconds after her relationship imploded, singer-songwriter Becky Middleton escaped to the top of the nearest building. The guy she was dating — a long-term boyfriend she thought she would ultimately marry — was also dating someone else, and Middleton was devastated. But out of that devastation and heartbreak came something…
There is a myth that a handful of industry executives in Nashville are the sole arbiters and gatekeepers of country music. That is not said to diminish Nashville’s importance, or even the influence music industry bigwigs in Nashville have over country music, but rather, it is to point out that…
Every Tuesday morning, Steve Jackson gets out of bed and conjures up some clever way of reminding performers of Opening Bell Coffee’s open mic night. “I think my best one was based on the soliloquy from Field of Dreams,” Jackson says. “People will come Ray. They’ll come to Southside on Lamar for…
In late October, Pitchfork senior editor Jeremy D. Larson unleashed a scathing and hilarious review of Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of the Peaceful Army. The band had gained popularity as a result of them sounding, well, a lot like Led Zeppelin. Larson pulled approximately zero punches, saying the group “sound like…
We will never see Mitski in a venue as small as Trees ever again. The New York-based indie sensation is on the road in support of her 2018 full-length album Be the Cowboy, and every date of the tour is sold out. This tour includes four consecutive dates at the…
The last 15 years have taken emo-pop trio Mae on quite a journey. The band’s name, which stands for “Multisensory Aesthetic Experience,” was inspired by drummer Jacob Marshall’s studies at Virginia’s Old Dominion University. He was interested in “the perception of beauty, awe and wonder … how the senses cross,”…
