Mastodon performing in Los Angeles earlier this year Mastodon South Side Music Hall, Dallas Tuesday, October 21, 2014 My wife does a thing with our son to get him to try new food. You remember what it was like being a kid and having a new food f...
The New Bohemians in a previously unpublished photo from 1986 It's been nearly a decade since legendary Dallas band Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians played a show in their hometown. It's taken years for them to work out all the logistics for a...
Don't call it a peace offering: Blue, the Misfit has a brand-new track, "Wild," with Sam Lao It's good to be Blue these days. Blue, the Misfit, that is. Perhaps the hottest rapper in North Texas right now, the MC and producer otherwise known as B...
Stefan Gonzlez contributes to drumming talents to bands like Unconscious Collective and Orgullo Primitivo With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner -- in fact, voting is open right now at musicawardspoll.dallasobse...
Rev. Gean West (second from right) with the Relatives Despite his advanced age at 78,Gean West continues to play shows with the same frenetic pace that made Peacock Records owner Don Robey compare a young West to James Brown. That's not all he do...
This Will Destroy You comes to the Kessler Theater tonight On this Sunday afternoon, Alex Bhore is just packing and doing laundry in preparation for This Will Destroy You's upcoming East Coast tour. The band just returned from a European tour, whe...
Industrial music is relevant all over again. Amidst the music industry's infatuation with retro sounds, revivals and the general rehashing of old ideas, industrial is once again positioned as a music that matters -- an older strand that has taken on ...
Charli XCX brought pop-star power to Trees on Saturday night Charli XCX Trees, Dallas Saturday, October 18, 2014 Charli XCX's tour trucks are humming outside of Trees. The trucks are heavy duty and pack enough artillery for a pop star, or at l...
Sharon Van Etten put on a warm and engaging performance at the Kessler last Friday Sharon Van Etten With Tiny Ruins Kessler Theater, Dallas Friday, October 17, 2014 There are shows that are a joy because they celebrate the music; the recent War o...
Sorry that the beautiful, beautiful weekend left you. It's sad, but the weekend will be back in a few days, so chill. You've got some serious clinginess issues. To tide you over, we've got a few shows to keep you company: Ne-Yo is stopping by the Hou...
Blue, the Misifit explores his most adventurous production with his beats project War Club When it comes to genres that have been allowed to flourish in the age of the online music cloud, few have risen to greater prominence than future sounds, ...
Little Beards Over the past year, access to safe and legal abortion has taken some serious hits from the Texas Legislature. After the passage and implementation of HB2, one of the country's most restrictive abortion laws, the majority of the state...
Halloween is just around the corner. Have you planned out costume yet? Halloween is great when you're a kid, but let's face it: It's at its best when you're an adult. Everybody relishes dressing up as a provocative cat or as a zombie. Also, we esp...
The weekend is here and as per usual there's a few suggestions for concerts around Dallas that we'd like to throw your way. No pressure. The choice is yours. But, just know that Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias are gonna hold it down at American Airlines...
John Bullard is the benficiary of a new fundraiser called Have a Heart John Bullard is 25 years old and a big fan of Dallas music. You've probably seen him around at a number of shows at not even known it. That's because Bullard has an aggressive...
Looks like you can't win 'em all, Erykah. Back in the summertime, local R&B star Erykah Badu went viral when crashed a local TV news telecast in New York City, playfully trying to steal a kiss from a reporter who had no one idea what kind of celebrit...
"The Triple D" draws on local rappers to help tell the story of life in Dallas We've seen the story about young and poor people trying desperately, and often violently, to make something out of nothing. We saw it in New York with Paid In Full an...
Denton's Felt & Fur, by ascending height. Left to right, Alizsha Pennington, Randall Minick, Jarrod Estes, Brandon Dupre Felt & Fur's practice space plays home to a myriad of peculiarities. It's in an upstairs nook at Denton's premiere combinati...
Last month, Dallas-based songbird Lily Taylor released her debut album, The Ride, for local indie label Pour Le Corps. The album explores a haunting and dramatic mood within the parameters of a minimalistic and bare bones sound world. This is not one...
We're not telling you to grow up. We're just saying. By H. Drew Blackburn, Jaime-Paul Falcon and James Rambin There ain't much to do in Denton, Texas except party. We're talking about the quintessential college town, a place where the highest pe...
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