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The 5 Best New Music Venues in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2015

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Nov 24, 2015

With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.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 these artists...
The 5 Best Music Festivals in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2015

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Nov 3, 2015

With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we will spend the next several weeks highlighting some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists are the “Best,” don’t just...
A Selena Tribute Act Plays Dallas Tonight and It Will Be Bidi Bidi Badass

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Oct 21, 2015

Tonight is going to be a big night in Dallas. For the first time ever, there's a Selena tribute band out of Austin called Bidi Bidi Banda coming to town to play Annette Strauss Square at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and it’s the best thing happening in Dallas this week...
The 10 Songs We Want to See Erykah Badu Remix After Drake's "Hotline Bling"

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Oct 7, 2015

Late last week Erykah Badu dropped a remix of Drake’s club banger “Hotline Bling,” and it was every bit as bonkers as we could've hoped it to be. Cover song aren't usually Badu's thing, but c'mon, her son Seven Benjamin (of Andre 3000 lineage) even had a co-writing credit ...
The 5 Best New Acts in Dallas of 2015

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Oct 6, 2015

With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.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...
Selena's Family Needs to Stop Tarnishing Her Legacy

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Sep 21, 2015

Selena fandom is serious business. Ever since the beloved Latino singer's tragic death 20 years ago, the devotion of her fans has reached the level of cult status and then some. From homemade art to full-on festivals and even lookalike contests, there are no tributes that are too good or...
Spooky Folk's Christopher Brown Set to Open an Aquaponics Autism Center in Denton

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Sep 16, 2015

When he graduated from the University of North Texas with degree in psychology and philosophy, Christopher Brown found himself $30,000 in debt and short on job prospects. The Spooky Folk drummer took what work he could get, taking two jobs to cover his loan payments, and to pay the rent...
Screw Austin, Stay Home: Your Guide to the Must-See Concerts in Dallas This Fall

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Sep 11, 2015

Do you hear that? It’s music — music coming from Austin and heading here to North Texas, meaning we don't have to go to Austin. We’re about to be in the midst of festival season in Texas, which means Dallas will be the fall bounty known as festival spillover acts...
The 10 People You Meet in the New Deep Ellum

By Amy McCarthy and Jaime-Paul Falcon
Sep 8, 2015

You have probably heard at least a thousand times in the last six months that DEEP ELLUM IS BACK, BABY! You might have heard this from, well, us and everyone else in Dallas. Deep Ellum is officially reinvigorated and revitalized, which means that we’re starting to see an influx of...
Classic Cult Game the Dallas Hype Machine With Some Social Media Savvy

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Sep 3, 2015

The first sound anyone heard from Classic Cult was a persistent buzz that grew ever louder. It wasn't played by any of the band members on any stage, but by their manager Tyler Rougeux of Whiskey Folk Ramblers, who strummed Facebook like a Stratocaster, generating excitement and “likes” for the...
KXT's Summer Cut Showed Signs of Life With Belle & Sebastian and a New Venue

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Aug 31, 2015

KXT Summer Cut With Belle & Sebastian, Sarah Jaffe, Calhoun and more Gilley's Dallas, Dallas Saturday, August 29, 2015 KXT 91.7's annual Summer Cut festival hit the reset button this weekend and, with a little help from Belle & Sebastian, it looked like a change for the better. On a...
Lone Star Texas Heritage Fest Was Dallas' Latest First-Time Festival Dud on Saturday

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Aug 24, 2015

Lone Star Texas Heritage Festival With Old 97's, Black Angels, Grupo Fantasma, Dale Watson, LaTasha Lee and the Blackties and the Deathray Davies Gilley's Dallas Saturday, August 22, 2015 If a festival is thrown, but nobody goes is it still a festival? The answer is, “Yes...but,” and that “but” is...
The 10 Best Dallas-Fort Worth Bars to Beat the Heat

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Aug 20, 2015

It’s mid-August in Texas, which means we’ve entered the waning days of summer, which also means we’ve entered the last stretch of truly hot days. Let’s all be honest: It sucks to be outside. Okay, so the heat has broken a bit this week, but don't be the fool who...
It's Free Week at Rubber Gloves and Good Lord, Riverboat Gamblers Are Playing

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Aug 18, 2015

Oh, college. How we yearn for those carefree days of mooching off our parents and drinking unhealthy amounts of alcohol. Well okay, maybe not a lot has changed, but sometimes that lack of change is a good thing. Take Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios' Free Week: Each year for the past...
Brent Best Comes Out the Other Side After Having His Life Turned Upside Down

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Aug 5, 2015

Five years is a long time. When Brent Best set out to record a new album — his first one as a solo artist — five years ago, the former Slobberbone leader singer had no idea just how long it could be, or how many struggles he would endure. Along...
Leon Bridges Made a Surprise Busking Appearance in Deep Ellum Wednesday

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 31, 2015

Very early yesterday morning word started to leak out that Fort Worth’s favorite son, newly minted next big thing, and apple of Dallas’ eye Leon Bridges was making his way around Deep Ellum after a brief appearance at the Bomb Factory earlier in the night. The way the story goes...
Miguel Adorned South Side Music Hall With the Wild Heart of a Superstar

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 27, 2015

Miguel With Dorothy South Side Music Hall, Dallas Saturday, July 25, 2015 There’s a weird dichotomy being a person of mixed race in modern America. Too often we’re pushed to identify as one race or another, looked at as a foreigner by whichever group we’re currently associating with. We never...
Kid Rock Flew His Rebel Flag (But Not That Rebel Flag) At Gexa Last Night

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 24, 2015

Kid Rock With Foreigner Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Thursday, July 23, 2015 Kid Rock, the scraggly haired, bad facial hair having owner of a smattering of No. 1 hits we’d all rather forget about, managed to sell out the Gexa Energy Pavilion last night thanks to an unabashed love of...
The 10 Best Bars in the Dallas-Fort Worth Suburbs

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 21, 2015

It's far too easy to get stuck in the bubble of Dallas' hippest bars, to never leave the comfort of Deep Ellum, the Square in Denton or a bar named after a bird in Fort Worth. By doing so, we neglect the sheer number of unique locations that we're afforded...
Imagine Dragons Inspired the Masses to Give Them Their Money Friday in Dallas

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 20, 2015

Imagine Dragons With Metric American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, July 17, 2015 Judging by the crowd who showed up at American Airlines Center on Friday night, Imagine Dragons have done more for sales of Cialis than any ad campaign run with any sporting event ever. The number of aging members...
Mayta Relive Their War-Torn Youth in Peru on "Mujer Villa"

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 17, 2015

Renato Rimach can still remember what it was like to grow up in a civil war. "Car bombs were going off everywhere," he says. "One was so close to our home that it blew all the window glasses in our house." It was the late 1980s, and his family was...
The 10 Best Dallas-Fort Worth Patios That Host Live Music

By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jul 14, 2015

Thank god for El Nino. Every now again it shows up like Superman to save us from Lex Luthor's evil summer heat death ray, and thanks to it we've had a pretty mild one so far. We're still in Texas, though, so peak heat or not it's of the utmost...