Gavin Cleaver: Who wants to pay twice for a thing? No one, that’s who. So when Deep Ellum venues come together for a night like this weekend’s Sailor Jerry/Oliver Peck/Reverend Horton Heat Elm Street Tattoo and Music Festival, and you can see several bands by simply walking around Elm Street…
Of all the different live show scenarios, all the varying combinations of performer and setting, there’s nothing quite like seeing a band in their hometown. The sixth annual Dia De Los Toadies Festival, a Texas institution, was the perfect hometown hero live music experience. This year, the fest took place…
It is not every day that an email lands in my mailbox from my editor with confirmation that I’ll be seeing Vanilla Ice at a restaurant/venue in Frisco. The Farmers Branch native’s music may not be on top of most people’s Spotify playlists these days, but there are clearly more…
Seriously though, how excited are you Mumford & Sons fans? After canceling their show earlier in the summer due to health reasons, the boys are back in town. It’s always nice to see a band make it up to the fans, and that’s exactly what the indie folk/bluegrass darlings will…
Gimmicks and insipid meme-generating fare can rockets a video into viral heaven, but it can also pigeonhole the video’s creator. Austin’s The Possum Posse are a crack band of roots musicians that, thanks to an ingenious mix of comedy, musicianship and pure silliness, have millions upon millions of YouTube views…
George Strait, he of the black cowboy hat and the 70 million album sales, is going on a Jay-Z style farewell tour of the country (meaning it’s not goodbye by any standard definition). Yesterday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, he announced several things, including that this tour will finish right…
This weekend, a breezy early September night on the Lower Greenville strip hummed and glowed with Dallas’ end of summer relief. It’s finally getting to the point where the temperature is actually dropping, if just a few degrees, after dark. The idea of stepping out for a patio drink and…
GC:: You’d better get used to Untapped. The Spune/Paste Magazine baby is beginning to spread out of Texas around the country, and the second Dallas incarnation (after a successful Fort Worth version earlier in the year) had shifted and expanded into the parking lot outside the Gilley’s complex, complete with…
Yeezus has risen! This morning, Kanye West took to Twitter to announce his first solo tour in five years. The 23 city run starts on October 19th in Seattle, and will hit Dallas’ American Airlines Center on December 6th, before wrapping up in Houston. As if that wasn’t enough to…
You’re more than likely familiar with Record Store Day. It’s the holiest of high holidays here at DC9 At Night, in which we all face east and pray toward Good Records. What you might not know, is that vinyl’s plastic, two-reeled cousin has a dedicated spot on the calendar too…
Do you like potentially life-altering scavenger hunts? Do you like Slayer, M.I.A., and the great capital of the state of Texas? If the answer to both of these things is yes, you may be interested in the Dallas leg of the Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt, in which people…
Summer is coming to an end, but not without one more festival to tie the season up with a bow. Paste Untapped is touting about 200 craft beers on deck, so that ought to help you battle out the heat outside Gilley’s. Hopefully they won’t make the same mistake as…
Every week more and more shows are added to the Dallas Observer live music calendar — here’s how to make sure your show is included. And you can always peruse every upcoming concert on our calendar. Below are the this month’s best new additions, to date…
Editor: We sent two writers to this weekend’s Mad Decent Block Party. Vanessa Quilantan was mostly worried about the kids asking her for drugs and pissed about Action Bronson canceling. Carmina Tiscareno is a college student and therefore much more a member of the Block Party’s target demographic. She had…
There’s something kind of romantic about walking through an empty theater, up a few service steps, and into a small black box of a room behind the other side of a projection screen to watch a punk show. The Texas Theatre and promoters Spune spread the word about Friday’s No…
Daniel Johnston will play in Dallas on September 28 at the Kessler Theater. The announcement came over the weekend, alongside several other good ones at Oak Cliff’s finest music venue. But let’s focus on Daniel Johnston, because it’s going to be wonderful…
As I walked out of the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie late Saturday night, I commented that Steely Dan sure featured some good musicians. “Great musicians, you mean,” said my father-in-law. “Those guys were great.” And so they were. Some four decades after Walter Becker and Donald Fagen first decided…
On Saturday, cool-kid record label Mad Decent will throw a welcome-back-to-school, summer’s-not-quite-over party at Club Zouk. Head honcho Diplo will play with Major Lazer, alongside heavyweights like Dillon Francis, Baauer, Action Bronson and Flosstradamus. Many things will bounce. Including you, possibly! We have a couple pairs of tickets to give…
In some ways, getting backstage at Gexa Energy Pavilion is a letdown. Semi-trucks that carry the bands’ stage lighting and equipment hummed a familiar chorus, and several tour buses formed a barricade that left an opened area in the center where a small group of people conversed and smoked cigarettes…
Steely Dan and Backstreet Boys are both in town this week, two bands your friends can’t tell if you like sincerely or ironically. Looks like they’re about to find out. If you answered neither, fret not! You’ve got plenty of options. Looking for something a little hard, fast, and intimate?…
This Friday, Dallas-based music blog Gorilla Vs. Bear hosted their third annual festival at Granada Theater. Local music fans flocked to the historic venue to watch Booty Fade, Empress Of, HAERTS, Blue Hawaii, and Danny Brown share the stage. We talked to the crowd to see how the night’s festivities…
Legendary Americana songwriter Patty Griffin is going on tour this fall, and the October 26 date at the Kessler Theater is already almost sold out, less than a day after it went on sale. As of right now, only suites and standing room spots remain. So get going now…
