Chris Penn can’t stop talking about Alice Cooper, which is not meant as a slight. As the co-owner of Good Records, he’s still talking about the time the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper group reunited Oct. 6, 2015, at the store. A year after the show, a two-song…
Beauty Bar is typically closed on Monday, but not this week. It was shoulder-to-shoulder, maximum capacity to celebrate the birthday of a local boy done good. Eric Estornel, aka Maceo Plex, aka Mariel Ito, is Dallas’ most successful electronic music DJ and producer. Originally from Miami, the Cuban-American Estornel moved…
All Aaron Clowers wanted to do was enjoy the mosh pit near the Gas Monkey Live! stage. The New Orleans band Goatwhore planned to devastate it this past Friday night with death metal as part of the Metal Alliance Tour with The Casualties, Black Tusk, Great American Ghost, Morethereon, Bad…
We are less than a month away from the greatest night of your life. Forty-nine musical acts. Seven stages. One night. It’s the Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase. There is still time to say money on your tickets. General admission tickets are $15 now and they will increase to $25…
Billy Strings may be the most controversial name in bluegrass, playing blazing leads on acoustic and distorted electric guitar, an instrument frowned upon by the genre’s hardcore traditionalists. But the 25-year-old may just be following a family tradition. “I cut my teeth playing bluegrass with my dad at home (in…
On Saturday, Wichita, Kansas, native Josh Hamilton tweeted a photo of him and his wife outside Tuesday Morning with rapper Kanye West. The tweet from @tcolesdad now has more than 150 retweets and nearly a thousand likes. Hamilton, who was in Dallas to celebrate his one-year anniversary with his wife,…
Renowned Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Roy Hargrove died Friday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 49. According to his manager via a Facebook post, Hargrove’s death was due to cardiac arrest related to complications from his battle with kidney disease. He reportedly had been on dialysis…
From hip-hop to metal to Texas country, there’s a concert for everyone this week. Paul Slavens and Friends 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5 at Dan’s Silverleaf, 103 Industrial St., Denton, 940-320-2000, danssilverleaf.com, free Paul Slavens, frontman of the late ’80s and early ’90s band Ten Hands, is pretty well known…
The Dallas Observer Music Awards are about a month away and we cannot wait. We are planning around the clock, constantly trying to make it the best award show in the history of music. Tonight, the 18 DOMAs judges will vote on the 38 categories. The 18 judges have been…
As the cast of Bohemian Rhapsody completes their media tour, Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee and Joseph Mazzello stopped by Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts to speak to more than 500 excited high schoolers about the film and music. Afterward, they made their way to Alamo Drafthouse Denton,…
Samuel L Waxin is a regular face at Tree House Collective’s Drum Djam every Wednesday, where he has nurtured his percussion and DJ decks approach to bass-driven tech house. With less than two decades behind the decks, Waxin has seen every side of the club music business, from video, lighting and…
A group of big names on big-ticket tours are heading this way on the latest batch of concert announcements. Fans of pop, classic rock and art rock will be pleased with what lies ahead. Ariana Grande is off and running with massive plans for her next tour. As she continues…
Johnny “Chops” Richardson has been throwing down bass lines for Texas music big boys The Randy Rogers Band since 2002. It continues to be a great gig and affords him the ability to pay the bills while honing his songwriting skills. His songs “Last Last Chance,” “Wicked Ways” and “10…
For the last two years, Too Fresh Productions has organized Kids Dig, an event that educates kids in how to properly use a record player, how to dig for records and more. The free music education event will return for its third year on Saturday, Nov. 10, at Josey Records…
Two decades on the road and nine studio albums in the bag, indie-rock band Lucero — consisting of Ben Nichols (lead vocals, guitar), Brian Venable (lead guitar), Roy Berry (drums), John C. Stubblefield (bass) and Rick Steff (keys) — have never been afraid to experiment with their sound. While at…
Nominated in the Best Live Act category of the Dallas Observer Music Awards, Sub-Sahara is known for their intense dance-punk shows that can quickly move from swaying hips to swinging fists on one of their signature explosive downbeats. On Infatuation, the band’s third EP in just as many years, Sub-Sahara…
Taylor Goldsmith has been going strong with his band, Dawes, for nearly a decade. The Los Angeles-based folk-rock quartet that features bassist Wylie Gelber, keyboardist Lee Pardini and Taylor’s brother Griffin on drums, have recorded six studio albums in this limited time, including the recently released Passwords. A large part…
Nashville band All Them Witches first debuted in 2012 with the album Our Mother Electricity, and they’ve since continued diving into experimental waters. Their newest album, ATW, premiered in September and it’s what the doctor, specifically Dr. Timothy Leary, ordered — by ranging between traditional hard rock and brain-bending psych…
Lights All Night, the North Texas destination music festival coming to Dallas on Dec. 28-29, released its full lineup this week. This year will be the ninth edition of LAN, which has grown to become an institution within the EDM community and attracts artists and fans from all over the…
Word quickly spread Thursday night that a major pop-up show at 2513 Deep Ellum (aka, The Door) will feature Underoath on Monday, Nov. 5. It’s serving as a benefit show for Lucas Starr, who is best known for his work in Fort Worth-founded Oh, Sleeper, as well as Terminal and…
Anyone who has achieved even an iota of mobility in the music industry will attest to its corrosive tendency to strip aspiring artists of their innocence. Dahlia Knowles is certainly no exception to this, but she continues to remain steadfast and determined to pay her dues. “I came from the…
The first round of details for the third annual Fortress Festival were released this week. 2019’s installment will be Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which has hosted the festival each year of its existence. Headlining the festival will be Forth Worth native…
