Matthew Martinez

Matt Martinez is a DFW-lifer who handles the Observer's editorial social media channels when he's not waxing cynical in our news, food and music verticals. Rest assured, he hates your favorite team. Matt studied journalism at the University of Texas and then again, for some reason, at UNT. He has written for the Austin Chronicle, the Denton Record-Chronicle and currently writes sports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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Old 97’s County Fair Lineup and Date Set

By Matthew Martinez
Jan 12, 2017

Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller set out to add a little more of a woman's touch to the the band's second annual County Fair, and he has delivered, beefing up the 2017 one-day festival's lineup with two ladies who have combined to win five Grammy Awards.
Liquid Lounge is Going Away, but Last Weekend's "Farewell Show" Was a Bit Premature

By Matthew Martinez
Nov 23, 2016

The side-stage venue inside the Curtain Club will be renovated and repurposed, then reopened under a new name sometime early next year.
Kanye West's Second Dallas Tour Stop Is Among 21 Tour Dates Canceled After the Rapper's Strange Rant

By Matthew Martinez
Nov 21, 2016

The show was originally scheduled for Saturday, November 26, but after his latest rant and shortened set in Sacramento, the rest of the Saint Pablo Tour has been called off.
The Lumineers Brought a Perfect Date-Night Singalong to The Bomb Factory

By Matthew Martinez
May 23, 2016

The Lumineers With Soak. and Sleepwalkers The Bomb Factory, Dallas Sunday, May 22, 2016 The Lumineers serenaded The Bomb Factory Sunday night in what has to be near the top of the list for date-night concert of the year. Lead singer Wesley Schultz and the gang led an accessible, folksy...
Florence + The Machine Finds Redemption at American Airlines Center

By Matthew Martinez
May 19, 2016

Florence + The Machine With Grimes American Airlines Center, Dallas Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Florence Welch was in a more joyous mood than when she and her Machine last played Dallas in 2012. "More drunk," Welch said the previous appearance to Wednesday's show at American Airlines Center. "Much more drunk." ...
The Cure Keeps Its Earnest Promises at Marathon American Airlines Center Show

By Matthew Martinez
May 16, 2016

The Cure American Airlines Center, Dallas Sunday, May 15, 2016 If anyone could make 19,000 people feel dejectedly jolly, it would be Robert Smith. The Sussex man synonymous with sadness gave Dallas four encores Sunday as the Cure firmly planted their feet in alternative roots during a nearly three hour...
Festival Season Kicks Off in Dallas This Year for Austin's Wild Child

By Matthew Martinez
May 12, 2016

Alexander Beggins loves festival season, but he loves this year's more than most. Six years after starting his band, Wild Child, the vocalist and baritone ukulele player is looking forward to the seven-piece's biggest festival year to date. "It seems like people care more in Dallas than they used to,"...
Post Malone Rocks the Dallas Swag on Kanye West's New Track "Fade"

By Matthew Martinez
Sep 17, 2015

Post Malone has had a pretty good run of things in 2015. The Grapevine-bred rapper (and, in a past life, Bob Dylan fan) came out of nowhere during the winter to score a viral hit with his song "White Iverson." A trip back home and a major-label record deal later,...
Cancer Jam Takes on New Purpose as Founder's Mother Gets Stage 4 Cancer

By Matthew Martinez
Sep 10, 2015

When Hand Drawn Records founder and co-owner Dustin Blocker was was in the middle of planning his second-annual Cancer Jam, a cause he'd first taken up in 2014, back in June, he was dealt a devastating blow: He found out that his mother Linda had stage four breast, lymphatic and bone cancer...
Lower G Wants to Be Lower Greenville's Stop for Liquor, Cigars and Live Rooftop Music

By Matthew Martinez
Aug 27, 2015

It happens all the time; one day you're looking into entering a float in Dallas' annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, and the next you end up with a liquor-store-slash-neighborhood-hangout on your hands instead. At least that's what the folks at Lower G Spirits & Cigars hope they've gotten themselves into...
Incubus and Deftones Packed Out Gexa for an Early 2000s Alt-Rock Revival

By Matthew Martinez
Aug 21, 2015

Incubus With the Deftones and Death From Above 1979 Gexa Energy Pavillon, Dallas Thursday, August 20 Thursday night Gexa Energy Pavilion hosted '90s alt gods Incubus and Deftones, just the sort of dual-headlining bill that it was built to host. A crowd near the 20,000 capacity stormed into Fair Park...
Alabama Shakes Put on a Jaw-Dropping Show at Verizon Theatre Tuesday Night

By Matthew Martinez
Aug 19, 2015

Alabama Shakes With Drive-By Truckers Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Tuesday, August 18 Brittney Howard is everything right now. On Tuesday night at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie, she led her Alabama Shakes in a chilling show that was more lounge than garage, more Nina Simone than Betty Davis and more...
Rubber Gloves Plans Major Overhaul, Return of Outdoor Shows to Stay Alive

By Matthew Martinez
Aug 11, 2015

Denton's Rubber Gloves is going through a badly-needed facelift. To hear owner Josh Baish tell it, it's actually more like reconstructive surgery following blunt trauma for the 19-year old venue, which makes it one of Denton's oldest. "Rubber Gloves is going through something of a rebirth at the moment," Baish...
Deep Purple Packed 30 Solos Into 17 Songs at Verizon Theatre Sunday

By Matthew Martinez
Aug 10, 2015

Shredding. Slapping. Fingering. Oh my. Three-fifths of the 'classic' Deep Purple team that wrote the famous Smoke on the Water descended upon Verizon Theatre Sunday and squeezed every possible solo into the evening. On a purely logistical level, you've got to give props to any band that can jam 30...
Dallas Dads Absolutely Loved Steve Miller Band at Verizon Theatre Last Night

By Matthew Martinez
Jun 2, 2015

Steve Miller Band With Jimmie Vaughan Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Monday, June 1, 2015 Dads from all over North Texas scooped up their wives Monday night and boogied down to Verizon Theatre to be a part of ta very special event: Seeing Steve Miller Band live in concert. What they...
George Clinton Left Dallas Fans Pining for Funkier Days at House of Blues

By Matthew Martinez
Jun 1, 2015

George Clinton With Parliament and Funkadelic House of Blues, Dallas Friday, May 29, 2015 We'll always remember the funkier times. The crowd at House of Blues Friday came to pay respect to a genre's elder statesman and to climb aboard a new spaceship. Most checked just one of those items...
Paul Wall Played Hailey's in Denton, and It Was Weird

By Matthew Martinez
May 22, 2015

Pro tip: Google searches beginning with the words 'Is Paul Wall' will get auto-filled to ask the inquisitive mind manning the keyboard, 'Is Paul Wall dead?' Hailey's received a firm answer in the negative Thursday when Wall — Da Iceman, The People's Champ the Po-Up Poet — descended upon Little...

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