Erykah Badu has been mighty busy lately. So busy, she’s almost given Leon Bridges a run for. Mostly the news has revolved around her new mixtape, BUT YOU CAIN’T USE MY PHONE — which dropped on Apple Music back on Black Friday — including her remix of “Hotline Bling.” But…
For the past eight years, Keith P was best known for his goth and dark wave nights, but before that stint in the dark realm Keith was one of the most cutting edge bass DJ’s in the city. He used to be a regular at Dub Assembly where he was…
Two for the price of one. Well, maybe not for the price of, but in the space of, one. Two weeks ago, we reported that one of Denton’s most beloved music venues, Hailey’s Club, will be closing its doors on December 31. “But to become what?” was the unanswered question…
We know what you’re thinking: “A 27 Club-themed party? Damn, that’s dark.” And well, okay, maybe it is, but just a little bit. After all, rock ‘n’ roll has always had a fascination with death and, well, who wants to go to another boring-ass Spring Break or Ugly Sweater party?…
In Fort Worth, Lola’s Saloon is live music. Just off the 7th St. corridor, the bar has been hosting live music week in and week out for the last decade. Some of the city’s most memorable music events have happened in this joint, and just about every live music freak…
Fresh off his triumphant North Texas homecoming, the earnest Leon Bridges released a new original song this morning called “So Long” for the Will Smith-starring film Concussion, which opens December 25. Bridges teased the track on Instagram last month with a 15-second clip and as Variety reported at the time,…
Last week the news broke that Denton’s Hailey’s Club would be closing its doors on December 31, much to the dismay of the clubs most loyal patrons, and, well, the rest of us. The uproar from artists and fans alike was hard to miss while scrolling through social media, with…
Now’s when the real fun begins. Voting has been open for the 2015 Dallas Observer Music Awards for just about six weeks, and we’re in the home stretch. (If you haven’t already voted, you’d better make your way over to 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com and make sure your voice is heard!) The awards…
Can you have too much of a good thing? If the good thing is “fun,” then to the most part, no. (Until someone puts an eye out or whatever.) In the case of Dallas music festival Spillover (formerly known as Bro Fest), avoiding going overboard has always been an important…
Boston Kassidy is notable for his contributions to the Dallas bass scene, but he also stretches into a variety of techno and house-related styles — a fact which is reflected in this week’s Dallas Observer Mixtape. As a member of The Guild, Kassidy can often be found playing their Thursday events…
Now that 2015 is drawing to a close, Fort Worth phenom Leon Bridges is running out of time to pack more achievements into a year that’s already bursting with them. But there’s still time. On top of a rags-to-riches (or at least dishwasher-to-pop star) story that’s already the stuff of…
Go on ahead and say thank you, Dallas, because we’ve been praying hard for this good news for a long while now. Just as soon as the newly-reunited Dixie Chicks, fresh off a 10 year hiatus from touring in the United States, announced that they were heading back on the…
Thanks to the near-ubiquity of social media, it’s more difficult than ever for famous people get away with doing really stupid stuff. As Jason Aldean found out this week, the Internet will find out if you dress up in an offensive and racist Halloween costume even if you’re difficult to…
Brian Knolley had a calling to house music 25 years ago. Over that time he has witnessed the highs, lows and heavenly blows of Dallas house music culture, from the glory days of Starck Club to playing parties nowadays with his mates in the Our House crew — a crew…
And there goes a regular. On Tuesday, news spread that long-time Denton bar and music venue Hailey’s Club will be closing their doors on December 31, 2015, and that news has been confirmed by the venue. After an adventurous 12-year run, Hailey’s has seen an ebb and flow of national…
Being from Dallas, we’re always looking for any bit of cultural credibility we can get. We’re not Austin; we can’t claim to be the chopped and screwed OGs. Or so the logic goes. So whenever we get an opportunity to fly the Dallas flag — or even rub our pride…
Halloween is over, but so what? Pull those costumes back out and get ready to party again next month because the Dallas Observer Music Awards are coming to The Bomb Factory on Wednesday, December 9. You might want to leave your white lighters at home, though, because the theme for…
Another week, another bit of oddball Erykah Badu news for the world to ponder. The Dallas soul queen has been especially busy of late, dropping a remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” and performing a run of “one-human” (not to be mistaken for one-woman) shows at The Black Academy of Arts…
As music snobs well know, music awards shows generally don’t do the best at showcasing a genre’s most promising talent. If anything, they’re prone to rewarding the same boring, mainstream pap that makes record executives millions of dollars every single year. This year’s CMA Awards, though, looked particularly promising. Among…
White privilege has a central part of the rap music consciousness from the very beginning. At least as long as “The Message,” if not longer, depending on how far back you want to go. So, particularly in the politically charged days of 2015 when an album like Kendrick Lamar’s To…
It’s been a big month for pop music in Dallas. A lot of that has had to do with homegrown talent, thanks to no fewer than three artists with local ties all making it to the top of the Billboard Top 100 chart: In back-to-back weeks, Selena Gomez and Pentatonix…
Josey Records had a hell of a first year. The massive Farmers Branch record store opened with a DJ booth and art gallery; then they quickly added a stage with a state of the art sound system and a second location in Kansas City. But at the one-year mark they…
