A unique thing happened in Deep Ellum last night: People crowded into a bar, filling it wall-to-wall, and looking on in attentive silence at person in the front of the room. But that person wasn’t playing music; they were giving a lecture. The person was Jeffrey Liles, the artistic director…
In March of 2011, the Flaming Lips released a limited edition collaborative 12″ EP with Neon Indian that lit up the internet. It was a fascinating alliance, but the pictures of the actual vinyl records were just as exciting. No one had ever seen vinyl like this before. Every copy…
When frequenters of K-Soul 94.5 FM tuned to its position on the dial this weekend, it was to only quickly discover that without warning, their destination for “the best old school and R&B” had been replaced by something a little bolder and less conventional by radio standards. The silent makeover…
Inspiration is a strange beast. For Philip Gage, the leading track on No Touching’s EP came to him in response to a 7-Eleven clerk who he had a less-than-pleasant experience with. The track, “Big Mama,” started as a joking poem-rant from Gage to bandmate Elana Nelson, but eventually developed into…
Now’s when the real fun begins. Voting has been open for the 2014 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 musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com and make sure your voice is heard!) The awards…
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 the DJ crew Motif and their parties. He has been a constant face amongst…
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 bread sticks and beer?” To which Gravley explains, “He’s always making fun of how I eat.” This is the makeshift office space of Who…
This week, Dallas-based songwriter Ronnie Fauss released Built to Break, his second full-length effort for the New West Records imprint Normaltown. Of course, that total doesn’t include the handful of killer alt-country EPs Fauss delivered before his 2012 Normaltown debut, I Am the Man You Know I’m Not. Since 2009,…
Tonight was supposed to witness Connecticut band the World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die visiting Dallas for a show at the Prophet Bar. But as of last night, that is no longer the case. Show cancellations are commonplace — Ms. Lauryn Hill’s scheduled…
Every Music scene has that guy who has seen it all. He’s the guy you always run into at influential shows, record stores and DJ nights from as long as you have been going to shows. Evan Chronister, known to many as Captain Groovy, was one of those guys in…
Though he hasn’t officially released music in five years, for many of us in North Texas Jack Ingram hasn’t gone away. For starters, he performs around here a lot; he’s hit Plano, Dallas and Fort Worth in the past two months alone. And more importantly, he’s built up an impressive…
Prism Cloud, like innumerable bands, started in a garage. But instead of plunking around on guitars haphazardly and figuring it out themselves, they pulled from experience with a different genre: classical music. With this approach, Collin Pollitt and David Sanchez use their broadened perspective to manipulate a seemingly straightforward subset…
Imagine what your labor of love was in college. It could have been a band or a blog or anything really. Just something that was your creative outlet. Now imagine college ending and putting that project to bed because it was time to move on and grow up. That’s the…
Tyrel Choat’s fingertips surged with power when he first pulled a riff out of an electric guitar. His older brother taught him the monstrous riff from Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf,” and when he figured it out himself, he acquired a scorching propensity for riff writing that never burnt out. When…
Jamie Seltzer, known to most around Dallas as JWHO, has been making the rounds around area DJ nights for the past few years as well as doing time with the Love Rich crew. Know for bass-heavy sets that pay homage to house and techno without fully subscribing to their dogma,…
We can’t speak for everyone, but we here at DC9 at Night are getting pretty excited about this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards. Voting has been open for just shy of a month now, we’ve been busy booking the bands that will perform at the DOMA showcase, and the festivities…
On December 13, The Old 97’s will perform at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas. That combination alone is enough to make for a pretty cool night. One of Dallas’ most beloved bands in one of the greatest rooms our city has to offer will never be an ordinary scenario…
Change is in the air these days at Crown & Harp. It may get by the casual visitor of the Lower Greenville club, but the differences are easy enough to see nonetheless. Long-time Monday night DJ Tony Schwa, the man behind Cool Out, has shifted to the weekly dance night…
The space is huge. And the clean black-and-whites, slick concrete floor, and pristine aesthetic make it seem even larger. For reference: It’s not inconceivable that a shout or frisbee might fail to bridge the room wall-to-wall. It smells like fresh woodwork and feels, only in the very best sense, like…
The land of dead musical dreams, or shall we say karaoke night, which is known for its rivers of Fireball whiskey and secondhand smoke has been the wellspring for many an idea. Those ideas –say, bands — can often be short-lived or ill-advised, but there’s one cluster of loud, fuzzy,…
Eight months ago, Chase Dugger was staring down the other side of graduation. The recent UNT graduate and long-time Denton dance scene fixture had already achieved much, including his own residency in the much beloved Andy’s Bar. Titled “Subsonic Indulgence,” the weekly featured Dugger and friends’ mixes of dance, EDM…
2014 has been a hell of a year for Party Static. They have played shows all over Dallas with local and national bands, even holding their own when sharing a stage with the Coathangers, for crying out loud. They’ve also been nominated in two categories for this year’s Dallas Observer…
