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Kowabunga, dudes! Fun Fun Fun Fest featured beautiful weather and lots of crowd surfing in 2014
Music festivals are a tough business. It's hard to make them stick. Organizers don't usually expect to break even for the first five years, often longe...
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Gary Louris of the Jawyhawks posted up at Aw Shucks for our 20th busking episode
For those of you keeping count at home, this morning's installment of our busking series marks a bit of a milestone. Since the folks at Globe Trek Productions started...
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Donny Young has been DJing around Dallas for nearly two decades
Donny Young has been an active part of the Dallas DJ community since the early '90s heyday of rave -- first as a fan, and then as a DJ since 1996. Young is mostly associated with th...
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Mystery Skulls' Luis Dubac has his sights set on the future
Alejandro Jodorowsky's art-house masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, is about many things. Capitalism, religion, greed, immorality and materialism are all critiqued by the filmmaker througho...
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Is anyone home? Pizza Underground cuts straight to the punchline
Pizza Underground
With Har Mar Superstar and Candy Boys
Trees, Dallas
Monday, November 10, 2014
New York's underground art scene put on an unofficial art installation in Dallas Mon...
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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 nomin...
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Garrett Gravley (left) and Albert Louis are the duo behind Who Loves the Sun
In the dull roar of a post-homecoming crowd at Crooked Crust in Denton, Garrett Gravley has his dining choices mocked. The perpetrator, Albert Louis, scoffs: "Dessert b...
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Sky Ferreira was undeterred by a host of problems at The Belmont in Austin on Sunday
Fun Fun Fun Fest
With Sky Ferreira
The Belmont, Austin
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Sometimes being bad at something isn't the worst thing in the world. Take Sky Fe...
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Eli Young Band brought their House Party to the Rangers ballpark for the second year running
Eli Young Band's House Party
With Pat Green, Gary Allan, Cody Johnson and Maddie and Tae
Globe Life Park, Arlington
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Before Sa...
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Becca Sosa and Chad Barton got married by Wizards of Gore at Double Wide on Halloween
It doesn't get much more metal than a costume party for a metal show at the Double Wide on Halloween night, does it? Well, how about if that metal band is Wizar...
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King Diamond had a homecoming of sorts in Austin over the weekend
Fun Fun Fun Fest
With King Diamond
Auditorium Shores, Austin
Saturday, November 8, 2014
King Diamond was not messing around with his stage setup at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. The...
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Dallas music fans, you are in your prime this week. Before we hit a late fall lull, there's a smattering of great live music coming through our glorious city. The Pizza Underground, Macaulay Culkin's pseudo-cover band that turns the Velvet Undergroun...
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Power Trip (pictured playing Dallas) played alongside hardcore legends Forward at Fun Fun Fun Saturday
Fun Fun Fun Fest
With Forward, Long Knife, World to Burn, Power Trip and Wiccans
The North Door, Austin
Saturday, November 8, 2014
On Saturday ...
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People were not having fun, fun, or fun.
As we approached the festival from the east at 2pm, we could see there was a problem. A barely moving line of people snaked half a mile from the will call entrance, across the bridge over the river, and a...
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Slaid Cleaves gives a Texas-sized performance in the latest busking episode
If anyone there anyone especially well suited to our ongoing busking video series, it's Slaid Cleaves. A native of Austin, Cleaves is the archetypal troubadour: A roving s...
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They may act hard, but deep down Run the Jewels are a couple of big old softies
Run the Jewels
Trees, Dallas
Thursday, November 6, 2014
The blood red tour bus bearing Run The Jewels' name and signature iconography - two mummified hands, one surre...
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Where's the best place to find fun at Fun Fun Fun Fest? Well, everywhere.
In 2011 I got to work Fun Fun Fun Fest as security. I got the job through a friend of mine who had worked the fest in years past. As we walked through the various backstage ...
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John Dwyer and Thee Oh Sees visit Denton for a show at Hailey's this weekend
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...
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Denton's Bad Sports lead off out selections for the Best Punk Bands in North Texas
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 lookin...
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No Thanks Fest attendees brave the great outdoors for the festival in 2013
Man's connection to nature, his desire to simultaneously embrace, tame and succumb to the siren song of the wild, has been expressed through art for centuries. And there's...
