Compared with last week’s bevy of concert announcements, this Friday’s collection is a bit lighter. However, there are still things to get excited about, like the legendary Bob Dylan, a boy band holiday extravaganza and a Texas-style birthday bash. The one and only Bob Dylan continues his never-ending tour. Out…
The Mammoths are an Austin band with Dallas roots, and they are ready to show off their fusion of blues-rock and psych-soul to the city where it all came together. The band started when David Kapsner (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Michael Jekot (lead guitar, vocals) and Tyler Rush (bass, vocals)…
Blade Runner, Terminator, Alien, 12 Monkeys and The Fifth Element will come to life when five local supergroups present their 25-minute original scores at 8 p.m. Saturday on the Ruins stage for Sci-Fi Fest. If you missed the announcement two months ago, King Camel’s Jeff Brown put together a lineup of…
Although he’s not the first athlete to make a rap album — Shaquille O’ Neal’s early ’90s foray into the genre, for example, was celebrated for its attempt more than the results — Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Cole Beasley might be the most unlikely to make a go at free-styling…
North Texans like to kick Plano around. To its detractors, it’s an area apparently devoid of culture or anything worth venturing north of LBJ Freeway for. But the Collin County town saved Ron Bultongez’s life. Bultongez, a singer-songwriter, was on the ABC reboot of American Idol. When he initially tried…
It isn’t too often that you’ll find a Hollywood A-lister spending about 40 nights per year on the road, hard at work as a touring musician. Then again, Kevin Bacon has always marched to his own beat. Since beginning his acting career in the late ’70s, he has consistently followed…
Pop music has gotten sadder in the last 30 years, according to a study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal. Researchers used more than 500,000 songs released in the United Kingdom from 1985 to 2015 to analyze what makes a song successful, as in reaching the top charts…
Most people’s recent memories of Kanye West probably include him wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat or talking about how slavery was a choice. Some, however, still like to remember West for his earlier influences on music with his soulful and culturally forward lyrics. The Live Playlist will host…
For Spencer Wharton, a local singer-songwriter and talent buyer, the closing of Crown and Harp, a 20-year-old Lower Greenville bar and music venue, was a story of love lost, emptiness and significant life changes. The end of the Dallas venue led Wharton to write the title track of his upcoming…
Veteran Dallas hip-hop artist Dorrough is off to a strong start in the second quarter of 2018. On May 16, Mayor Mike Rawlings and Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway presented Dorrough with a key to the city of Dallas. The ceremony also announced that July 28 will officially be known…
Chris Cutler has led Fat By the Gallon through various permutations since 2002, things appear to have really come together for the pop-punk band in the past three years. Whether it’s opening locally for the Descendents or Bad Religion, or getting in a van and touring the country, the band…
The guys of New Found Glory are about to embark on a monthlong tour promoting their latest release, Makes Me Sick. The Sick Tour was announced just months after the close of the band’s worldwide headlining tour 20 Years of Pop Punk, which came through Dallas last spring. New Found…
Spring’s in full bloom and so is the music this week. Catch Tom Jones’s rescheduled concert Monday night; hear from Okkervil River’s latest album at the Kessler Theater Thursday night; or catch pop darling Justin Timberlake at either of his American Airlines Center concerts Sunday and Monday night. Funky Knuckles9…
Singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe serenaded a crowd of craft beer-sipping food hall patrons under violet hues and an LED screen flashing static visual art Friday night in Plano. Denton’s soulful indie-rock icon was the centerpiece for Legacy Hall’s four-day grand opening for the Lexus Box Garden, the establishment’s new multi-entertainment venue…
Top Dawg Entertainment is in a league of its own. On top of curating a phenomenal soundtrack for the box-office-shattering Black Panther film, the West Coast label’s most prized artist, Kendrick Lamar, is redefining what it means to be a superstar rapper in 2018 and is piling up achievements some…
Big things ahead on the Dallas area concert calendar. We’ve got large-scale tours, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and a couple of folks making some rare area appearances. Check out all the details. Drake is teaming up with Migos for the Aubrey & The Three Amigos tour. The 41-date…
The last time the Dallas Observer profiled Madison King was in 2014, just before King released her second country record, Onward & Upward. In March, King released her third record, the EP Livin’ Right. In the intervening years, King says, she has drifted further from music and closer to another…
The University of Utah health care system gathered evidence using MRI scans that showed that listening to familiar music increases connectivity in the brain region known as the salience network. This part of the brain selects which stimuli a person chooses to focus on and remains unaffected in people with…
A handful of third-party booking and promotion agencies in the Dallas area raise red flags for local musicians, but just as many concert and event promoters put music before money and base their businesses on trust and community in the local music scene. Spencer Wharton of Wharbaby Entertainment, a Dallas-Fort…
The deep, cavernous sounds of the cello are perfect for heavy metal. They can be dark and brooding. They provide a nice, long bass sound that provides a perfect backup to songs about sadness and destruction. They can also give a band that extra foundation underneath the sounds of guitars…
It seems like Nada Surf always hits Dallas whenever it tours, which is not a bad thing. With every album it puts out, the band comes here, but Thursday’s show at the Granada Theater is a slightly different affair. For the first time in its career, it’s doing an anniversary…
The music career of The Black Cassettes is best described as nascent. All three members reached legal drinking age within the last five months, so they’re cloaked in enviable youth. They formed three years ago but have yet to record a full body of music or go on an extensive…
