This weekend, days before Maya Piata’s EP release show at Independent Bar & Kitchen, the artist escaped to the Oklahoma woods to get her mind right. She places a high premium on emotional intelligence and spiritual alignment. Nothing could stop her from being the best Maya she could be for…
The great thing about the streaming video platform YouTube is the accessibility and chances it continues to give people with talent who may never get seen by the Hollywood machine. The bad thing about YouTube is that it made people like Jake Paul famous. The Vine maker turned YouTube vlogger…
Everything was sexier Sunday night. The moms were excited to be out of the house on a school night. You could hear every man in the city alone at home, happy they escaped a night at American Airlines Center watching the man who brought sexy back perform. Sunday night as…
Just outside of Joplin, Missouri, Mitchell Ferguson, a local singer-songwriter, and his band all sat on the side of the road. Smoke billowed out of a newly purchased 1992 Chevrolet G20 Van as the cellphones of Ferguson; drummer Michael Ferguson, his brother; and bassist Dawson Slaby began to die in…
Dallas venue The Dirty 30 had a break-in May 7 for the sixth time in a year and a half. Someone used a crowbar to open the door, broke the windows and took about $850 worth of alcohol. Although the club’s security alarms have sounded for all of the break-ins,…
This week, we see what is slated to be legendary folk singer-songwriter Paul Simon’s last concert in Dallas as he brings his farewell tour to American Airlines Center on Friday. If you missed Justin Timberlake last week, catch his second show Monday night. Poison plays Toyota Music Factory on Saturday…
“In Bed With” is a Dallas Observer series in which we delve into the homes and personal lives of Dallas music industry professionals. “I have a theory that all of our neighbors are swingers,“ says musician Jacob Metcalf as he walks up the stairs to the apartment he shares with…
Craig Wayne Boyd won The Voice Season 7, the show’s highest rated season, singing a song that hit No. 1 on Billboard’s American country music charts. The Dallas-bred country singer, who won the singing competition with Blake Shelton as his coach, is returning to his hometown Sunday for a benefit…
Compared with last week’s bevy of concert announcements, this Friday’s collection is a bit lighter. However, there are still things to get excited about, like the legendary Bob Dylan, a boy band holiday extravaganza and a Texas-style birthday bash. The one and only Bob Dylan continues his never-ending tour. Out…
The Mammoths are an Austin band with Dallas roots, and they are ready to show off their fusion of blues-rock and psych-soul to the city where it all came together. The band started when David Kapsner (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Michael Jekot (lead guitar, vocals) and Tyler Rush (bass, vocals)…
Blade Runner, Terminator, Alien, 12 Monkeys and The Fifth Element will come to life when five local supergroups present their 25-minute original scores at 8 p.m. Saturday on the Ruins stage for Sci-Fi Fest. If you missed the announcement two months ago, King Camel’s Jeff Brown put together a lineup of…
Although he’s not the first athlete to make a rap album — Shaquille O’ Neal’s early ’90s foray into the genre, for example, was celebrated for its attempt more than the results — Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Cole Beasley might be the most unlikely to make a go at free-styling…
North Texans like to kick Plano around. To its detractors, it’s an area apparently devoid of culture or anything worth venturing north of LBJ Freeway for. But the Collin County town saved Ron Bultongez’s life. Bultongez, a singer-songwriter, was on the ABC reboot of American Idol. When he initially tried…
It isn’t too often that you’ll find a Hollywood A-lister spending about 40 nights per year on the road, hard at work as a touring musician. Then again, Kevin Bacon has always marched to his own beat. Since beginning his acting career in the late ’70s, he has consistently followed…
Pop music has gotten sadder in the last 30 years, according to a study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal. Researchers used more than 500,000 songs released in the United Kingdom from 1985 to 2015 to analyze what makes a song successful, as in reaching the top charts…
Most people’s recent memories of Kanye West probably include him wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat or talking about how slavery was a choice. Some, however, still like to remember West for his earlier influences on music with his soulful and culturally forward lyrics. The Live Playlist will host…
For Spencer Wharton, a local singer-songwriter and talent buyer, the closing of Crown and Harp, a 20-year-old Lower Greenville bar and music venue, was a story of love lost, emptiness and significant life changes. The end of the Dallas venue led Wharton to write the title track of his upcoming…
Veteran Dallas hip-hop artist Dorrough is off to a strong start in the second quarter of 2018. On May 16, Mayor Mike Rawlings and Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway presented Dorrough with a key to the city of Dallas. The ceremony also announced that July 28 will officially be known…
Chris Cutler has led Fat By the Gallon through various permutations since 2002, things appear to have really come together for the pop-punk band in the past three years. Whether it’s opening locally for the Descendents or Bad Religion, or getting in a van and touring the country, the band…
The guys of New Found Glory are about to embark on a monthlong tour promoting their latest release, Makes Me Sick. The Sick Tour was announced just months after the close of the band’s worldwide headlining tour 20 Years of Pop Punk, which came through Dallas last spring. New Found…
Spring’s in full bloom and so is the music this week. Catch Tom Jones’s rescheduled concert Monday night; hear from Okkervil River’s latest album at the Kessler Theater Thursday night; or catch pop darling Justin Timberlake at either of his American Airlines Center concerts Sunday and Monday night. Funky Knuckles9…
Singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe serenaded a crowd of craft beer-sipping food hall patrons under violet hues and an LED screen flashing static visual art Friday night in Plano. Denton’s soulful indie-rock icon was the centerpiece for Legacy Hall’s four-day grand opening for the Lexus Box Garden, the establishment’s new multi-entertainment venue…
