There’s a swath of great show to hit this weekend and that is in large part due to a little spillover from Fun Fun Fun Fest. So, go ahead and thank Austin before we go on. Cool, that was nice of you; it is good to express gratitude. This weekend…
With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we’re looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say that these…
This week, Dallas-based songwriter Ronnie Fauss released Built to Break, his second full-length effort for the New West Records imprint Normaltown. Of course, that total doesn’t include the handful of killer alt-country EPs Fauss delivered before his 2012 Normaltown debut, I Am the Man You Know I’m Not. Since 2009,…
Tonight was supposed to witness Connecticut band the World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die visiting Dallas for a show at the Prophet Bar. But as of last night, that is no longer the case. Show cancellations are commonplace — Ms. Lauryn Hill’s scheduled…
Fun Fun Fun Fest hits Austin hits this weekend, and for many of Texas’ most devout music heads, it’s the music festival of the year. That’s because, unlike many of the nation’s biggest fests that cannibalize lineups from one another and rarely deviate from the norm, Fun Fun Fun rewards…
Daniel Markham is in the midst of a pretty serious addiction. Now 33 years old, the Denton-based singer-songwriter has managed to live an exceptionally lengthy time without tumbling into the otherworldliness of one of the most popular escapes of the past three quarters of a century. The drug he can’t…
Every Music scene has that guy who has seen it all. He’s the guy you always run into at influential shows, record stores and DJ nights from as long as you have been going to shows. Evan Chronister, known to many as Captain Groovy, was one of those guys in…
Though he hasn’t officially released music in five years, for many of us in North Texas Jack Ingram hasn’t gone away. For starters, he performs around here a lot; he’s hit Plano, Dallas and Fort Worth in the past two months alone. And more importantly, he’s built up an impressive…
It’s that time of the year again when artists and creatives of the Dallas-Fort Worth area vie for honors in the annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. The polls are open and votes are being cast everyday for the city’s most celebrated acts. To prepare you for the festivities — the…
Slipknot With KoRn Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, October 31, 2014 Music is weird. It has a way of sticking around in your life, or coming back when you thought you’d left if behind. I first heard KoRn when I was nine years old when my little brother got a…
Chive Fest Southfork Ranch, Parker Saturday, November 1, 2014 On the battleground of providing viral content to users on the internet one website has risen above all others when it comes to repeatedly scraping the bottom of the barrel to get eyes on the digital prize. The Chive, aka Buzzfeed…
Prism Cloud, like innumerable bands, started in a garage. But instead of plunking around on guitars haphazardly and figuring it out themselves, they pulled from experience with a different genre: classical music. With this approach, Collin Pollitt and David Sanchez use their broadened perspective to manipulate a seemingly straightforward subset…
This week is pretty stacked with some great shows. One of the best we’ve had in Dallas in a while. Lionel Richie does the whole casino in Oklahoma thing, the English Beat plays Trees, as does Run the Jewels and Ratking. Death from Above 1979 is set to play a…
Imagine what your labor of love was in college. It could have been a band or a blog or anything really. Just something that was your creative outlet. Now imagine college ending and putting that project to bed because it was time to move on and grow up. That’s the…
Almost everyone, at one time or another, has a story about a haunted house or some other sort of paranormal activity. Maybe it’s a benign spirit, some former tenant of a home or apartment that continues to inhabit its former residence. Maybe it’s the ghost of a tormented soul who…
It’s Halloween weekend, which is most likely your favorite time of the year to party if you’re under 30. If you’re over 30, relax, New Year’s Eve isn’t too far off. For now, there’s just a bunch of shows you should check out this weekend, Halloween-themed and otherwise. Slipknot and…
The Arctic Monkeys With Mini Mansions Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Tuesday, October 29, 2014 Earlier this year, the up-and-coming punk and garage rock band the Orwells spilled the beans on their experience opening for the Arctic Monkeys. They weren’t impressed. Guitarist Matt O’Keefe called the band a “hip Backstreet Boys,”…
There’s nothing quite like getting the shit scared out of you, is there? It’s why we love watching horror movies. It’s why we do things like jumping out of airplanes for fun. Nothing else really gets the endorphins going the same way, you know? It’s also why we love Halloween…
This past March, Fort Worth hosted the spring edition of the Untapped Indie Music and Beer Festival. The weather absolutely sucked, but in a weird way, that made the day and evening a fun one, because the beer lines were shorter and the crowds in front of the stages for…
Tyrel Choat’s fingertips surged with power when he first pulled a riff out of an electric guitar. His older brother taught him the monstrous riff from Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf,” and when he figured it out himself, he acquired a scorching propensity for riff writing that never burnt out. When…
Evan Chronister’s name might not sound familiar to the average participant in the DFW music scene. He didn’t play in a band. He didn’t put on shows or put out records. He occasionally manned the turntables for the Lollipop Shoppe DJ night and would always create a stack of free…
Jamie Seltzer, known to most around Dallas as JWHO, has been making the rounds around area DJ nights for the past few years as well as doing time with the Love Rich crew. Know for bass-heavy sets that pay homage to house and techno without fully subscribing to their dogma,…
