The Orwells play Club Dada on Saturday, April 8. The last time the Orwells played Dallas, their set at Trees ended with an on-stage altercation between a sound man and vocalist Mario Cuomo. After Cuomo spiked the mike a few times during their set at last year’s Spillover Fest, he and…
Singer-songwriter Paul Howeth is an unknown. He’s lived in obscurity for most of his adult life — he has no job, and before recently becoming homeless, was surviving off disability payments in a cramped apartment with his longtime companion Diane and their three pets. The musician, who’s probably in his…
88 Killa is the Don of Dallas in the new music video for his latest single “The Code,” directed by longtime friend and confidant Jeremy Biggers. The 29-year-old rapper explores his inner mob boss in the ’70s gangster film-inspired video. Biggers even used the same iconic font that Francis Ford Coppola…
21 Savage With Tee Grizzley and Young M.A. House of Blues, Dallas Sunday, April 2, 2017 21 Savage has described his style of rap as “murder music,” and he carried this idea through his entrance to House of Blues last night. The rapper, né Shayaa Abraham-Joseph, emerged from what looked…
Dallas Startup Week works to educate budding entrepreneurs every year through a weeklong series of speaker-led discussions. This year’s event, running today through April 7 and free to attend, has a new emphasis on the local music scene. “[Artists] are always looking at, ‘Who’s going to sign me?’ or ‘How…
A few spring showers can’t stop Dallas music. In fact, you could say this week’s lineup matches wits with the energy and stamina of last week’s storms. I mean, what’s more rock ‘n’ roll than 70 mph winds uprooting giant trees, downed power lines and raging flood waters gushing into…
Robyn Hitchcock Opened for the Psychedelic Furs Granada Theater, Dallas Thursday, March 30, 2017 The first track on English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock’s new, self-titled LP — his 21st full-length, out April 21st — is called “I Want to Tell You About What I Want,” though Hitchcock says the song’s original…
This week we got details about the unveiling of a shiny new music and entertainment complex, the initial revelation of Live Nation’s music lineup, and concert announcements that will appeal to fans of R&B, early-2000s rock, and European industrial. Read on for the details. Regular readers of the Dallas Observer…
Six Shooter is a recurring feature where we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. Kaela Sinclair – “Golden” Yesterday Gorilla Vs. Bear premiered this new single from singer Kaela Sinclair’s upcoming album. As mentioned in the blog post, Sinclair’s solo career has been on hold the past year…
There’s a lot of overlap between fans of indie music and fans of dance music, and Fropsi thrives in that space. As a member of DJ crew The Guild, he has a weekly residency dedicated to electronic music at the Nines, where he’s known to bring in other upcoming talent…
This Friday at Poor David’s Pub, Denton’s Grammy Award-winning polka band Brave Combo will play music introduced to America by immigrants and refugees. Mayor Mike Rawlings will be there. Band member Carl Finch claims the band isn’t making a political statement — “It is just about acknowledging where a bunch…
In the ’80s, rock lovers in Dallas tuned into KZEW “The Zoo” as they cruised down Central Expressway. Now, more than three decades since that iconic call sign graced the airwaves, a key figure in the history of the Zoo is returning to “extend the continuum” of a radio station. “The…
Terrence Morris is glowing after an evening workout. He’s a far cry from the boyish, happy-go-lucky rapper who appeared in the music video for “Blu Summer,” a single from his 2014 breakthrough mixtape NuDallas. That year, the hip-hop radio station Live From the Underground declared Morris, who raps under the…
For those who treat Record Store Say like a national holiday, there is a lot of planning involved. It’s huge business for stores across the country, which can do two months’ worth of business in a single day. This year, the day falls on April 22. The official list of special…
Earlier this month, we delved into the changing landscape of music festivals in Denton when Oaktopia may be making a move from the city after it lost its main investor. That bad news came on the heels of a February announcement that 35 Denton would not be returning in 2017. Now the…
The lead singer of Dallas’ newest pop band, Starfruit — who asks to be identified only as Bubbles and uses gender-neutral pronouns — says they hear a lot of music by queer artists that’s sad. They hope Starfruit can fill that void and be something bright that gets people dancing…
Justin Rhodes was filled with excitement as he made the drive from Dallas to Austin a couple weeks ago with his girlfriend Adriel Sims. The occasion for the trip was SXSW; for the first time, Rhodes, an award-winning producer, had been invited as an official festival panelist. But what he…
Sunday night, Ultra Music Festival let downtown know that its three-day party was over with a fireworks display at the end of DJ Snake’s set on the main stage. Condo dwellers breathed a sigh of relief knowing they would finally be free once again to roam the city.
Maren Morris With Devin Dawson House of Blues, Dallas Thursday, March 23, 2017 Gruene Hall, New Braunfels Saturday, March 25, 2017 Maren Morris had a pretty good homecoming last week in Texas. The Arlington-born singer, who won her first Grammy last month, made a brief run through the Lone Star…
The Sonics play April 7 at Gas Monkey Bar and Grill Most rock ’n’ rollers have called it quits by the time they’ve reached their 60s, preferring to play at small gatherings or for personal enjoyment. Garage rock legends the Sonics are not only completing world tours fifty years after their original…
This week may offer up some tricks in celebration of April Fools’ Day, but we can assure you there are no jokes here. It’s a great week for concertgoers. Dallas will hear an array of genres echoing from the streets of Deep Ellum through the arena aisles of Verizon Theatre…
American Football play Granada Theater on Saturday, April 1. American Football’s self-titled, nine-track debut album has far more fans now than when it was released in ’99. The band belongs to a class of emo and post-hardcore music that also counted Jimmy Eat World, At the Drive-In, Sunny Day Real…
