In honor of the Texas hero’s 80th Birthday celebration and legendary 4th of July Picnic, we’re celebrating Willie Nelson Week here on DC9 at Night. Check back for interviews, retrospectives and more. Texas’s greatest treasure, Willie Nelson, has been popping up in films since 1979, playing everything from a no-scruples…
It’s not every state that can claim a musical history as rich in innovators and legends as Texas, from Buddy Holly to UGK to Pantera. But Willie Nelson stands without equal as a folk hero: A man of humble, high-school-football-playing beginnings and a long resume of odd jobs and blue-collar…
You might remember how much some of our writers, myself included, enjoyed the wrestling which was a feature of this year’s 35 Denton. Taking place in proximity to the main stage, Friday and Sunday saw local wrestling promotion XCW setting up a ring just outside Dan’s and trading blows for…
Dallas is home to one of the richest religious music scenes in the country. Over the summer, we’ll be attending services, both big and small, of many denominations, as well talking to musicians, directors and pastors. Inside and outside, Downtown Dallas’ Fellowship Church campus is very modern. It has almost…
Have you ever been to a gig in Deep Ellum on a weeknight that started in the daylight? It’s a very disconcerting experience. The sunlight spilling in through the high windows illuminates even the furthest dusty corner of this venerable venue, simultaneously casting attractive evening shadows and lighting up things…
A week after its initial lineup announcement (and the immediate sellout of early bird tickets), Fun Fun Fun Fest has announced its second batch of artists. Along with lo-fi hero Daniel Johnston, the other incarnation of Black Flag (just Flag) and Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. is Star Slinger, Deerhunter and…
While Dallas-Ft. Worth is a massive media market, and we certainly have our share of beloved faces and voices that we’ve welcomed for many years. For fans of Texas Country / Red Dirt Music, there might not be a personality in North Texas more revered than Justin Frazell. What makes…
There’s a lot happening in music around here — a lot has happened this week, in fact. In this sprawling metropolitan music scene, with a kaleidoscopic framework of ever-changing people and bands and venues and ideas, a lot happens at once. The only thing we know for sure is that…
The father was a self-taught fiddler from South Carolina, who moved to Austin with the influential Uncle Walt’s Band in the 1970s. The son studied violin and was selected as a guest soloist of the Austin Symphony while still in high school. Warren Hood, born in 1983, would come home…
If one of North Texas’ biggest music festivals happens again, it will do so without its creative director, programming director and chief financial backer. 35 Denton started in Austin as a SXSW day party in 2005 and by 2013 featured in the vicinity of 200 acts from around the globe…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. Look for the Dallas Observer People Issue on newsstands this week. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Gene and Tommie West belong to…
Update, 6/27: Oil Boom has just announced that one of the songs on the new seven-inch will be featured in an episode of the TNT show Franklin and Bash. DFW’s own Oil Boom will be releasing a seven-inch on August 13. It follows last year’s impressive EP Gold Yeller. The…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Jennifer Seman was driving to class one day last summer. She stopped for coffee. She sat in…
OK, one of two things must have happened while I was on vacation this past weekend: Either all music promoters in the world decided to have an official Fire Under Ass Conference, or there’s something in the pop star Kool-Aid, because we just got shipped over a mountain of show…
Twin Shadow | Elliphant Granada Theater June 24, 2013 When Ellinor Olovsdotter took the stage on Monday night, she looked like anything except her stage name, Elliphant. Opening for Twin Shadow at the Granada, I was skeptical that she’d fulfill her simple role in the event: To move the crowd…
Mac Miller will show off his newly-released Watching Movies with the Sound Off this summer on his Space Migration Tour. His sophomore album continues the musical evolution that he began with his Macadelic mixtape, providing a much more introspective and thoughtful sound than his Blue Slide Park debut. Despite only…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. You don’t love drums like Tex Bosley loves drums. He loves the shells, the way the wood…
In the past decade, the Randy Rogers Band has rocketed from the smallest stages in Texas to headlining the biggest festivals and causing the biggest lines at Will Call than pretty much any other band currently performing under the massive Texas Country umbrella. Sure, Rogers’ superb songwriting and signature rasp…
Rock summed it up the most concisely from the stage at the Texas Theater on Friday night. Joking about critical reactions to The Uncluded’s debut album, a project completed with long-time pal and collaborator Kimya Dawson, “Everyone is all – why do you all even know each other?” Hokey Fright,…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Amanda Newton fidgets with her hands on the stage of Denton’s Banter Bistro, trying to explain why…
Josh “CuriousJosh” Reiss If there is any lingering question about the mass popularity of electronic music, one need look no further than Electric Daisy Carnival. We’d be remiss to call EDC the “Woodstock of EDM,” because even one of rock’s most iconic festivals doesn’t hold a candle to the production,…
If you ever see Ice Eater, pay attention. Partly because the futuristic rock band puts on an incredibly dynamic live show – their relatively early show at Sunday’s Fort Worth Weekly Music Showcase was the most well-received I saw all day. A Weekly staffer got onstage afterward and called it…
