In a Dallas federal courthouse on Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed against Dallas-based concert promoter Gabe Reed, accusing Reed and his company, Gabe Reed Productions, of fraud, breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation as pertains to a handful of Motley Crue concerts that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina,…
A year ago, nine days before he was to turn 31, Dallas musician Ace McNeely tragically passed away after falling off a cliff following a performance in Austin.McNeely’s death hit the Dallas music community hard — so much so that House Of Blues soundman Brian Fiegelman, a close friend of…
In this week’s paper, you’ll find a heads up of sorts about what’s really going on in Dallas hip-hop these days — essentially it’s no longer the rappers making waves so much as it’s the producers. And that’s not just fluff. As noted in the article, in the past couple…
Further proof that Fun Fun Fun Fest is making a serious run at Austin City Limits as the go-to Austin-based music festival this fall: Today, rather unexpectedly, the three-day, Transmission Entertainment-promoted event has added a few more names to its bill, including Austin heroes and ACL vets Spoon.Also joining the…
Really, the City of Forney caught Bieber Fever, that’s all. They put up a street sign at the intersection of Main and Elm Streets, representing the temporary name change of Main to Justin Bieber Way — as decreed by 11-year-old “Mayor for the Day” Caroline Gonzalez — and then, they…
Los Angeles’ El Ten Eleven has an unusual name and an equally unusual sound. But the band is fairly prolific: In a little less than a decade, the duo of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty has produced four albums of nerdy, precise, new wave-influenced rock. Now, with a sizable, international fan…
Last week we posted the music video for the Dallas-born and raised actor/musician Miles Fisher’s new song “New Romance.” The video, a spoof on ’90s television hit Saved By The Bell, coincided with the release of Final Destination 5, a film in which Fisher stars.As such, he was able to…
As you’ll see and hear after the jump (courtesy of a video of the legendary sex symbol accepting the Star Award at the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival), Ann-Margret “loves Texas.” “Loves Dallas,” too. She’s even named one of her sons Dallas, go figure. Makes sense, maybe. For a time,…
Dallas has a serious case of Bieber Fever, y’all. In addition to the fact that we can expect a nude statue of Bieber and his Grand Prairie-raised girlfriend, Selena Gomez, to be housed inside of the city limits at the end of the month, today comes the news that the…
Good news and bad news on the Lance Yocom front today. The good news? After showing positive signs last week, Yocom, who has been suffering from severe pneumonia for going on three weeks now, is awake and responsive in his Arizona hospital bed, answering yes/no questions, and appearing to have…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, this is old news: Rio Room is kind of killing it these days. Forget the fact that Playboy named it one of the best clubs in the states last month; the Travis Street hotspot has played host to the likes of Erykah Badu…
We’ve spent much of the morning today trying to track down more information on what happened to Matthew Allen, the 19-year-old who died in an Irving hospital on Saturday morning after apparently using ecstasy while attending at Club Afterlife on Northwest Highway on late Friday night, but to very little…
Miles Fisher is becoming something of a renaissance man. The actor and musician, born and raised in Dallas, and the son of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Richard Fisher, stars in Final Destination 5, the latest in the long-lasting film series, which will be released in theaters nationwide today…
It’s been kind of a weird week for Selena Gomez. And, thing is, it started out so great, too. At Sunday night’s Teen Choice Awards, the Grand Prairie native took home five surf boards (used instead of trophies, naturally), second only to Taylor Swift, who won six. But Gomez, let’s…
In last week’s print edition, we ran a piece by noted hip-hop scribe/LA Weekly music editor/longtime Observer contributor Ben Westhoff that plays catch-up The D.O.C., perhaps Dallas’ greatest hip-hop export — and greatest hip-hop curio — of all-time. It was a great piece, one that offered great insight into the…
It’s been a weird, surprisingly musical week in Dallas sports, y’all. For starters, recent Hall of Fame inductee Willie Beamen Deion Sanders is back in action on the hip-hop front. Sanders, you may recall, released a Dallas Austin-produced hip-hop album called Prime Time in 1994 for Capitol Records. That disc,…
After having spent two weeks laid up in an Arizona hospital, heavily sedated and suffering from severe pneumonia, Lance Yocom’s family received some incredibly positive news today regarding the Spune Productions owner and North Texas music scene mainstay’s condition. This morning, after doctors removed from Yocom the IV drip he’s…
He’s just 30 years old, but alt-country singer-songwriter Javi Garcia has the world weary soul and voice of someone in their 50s. As such, even though the New Braunfels native has only been playing music professionally for a couple of years, his songs reek with the pathos and anger of…
Considering that this upcoming September 11th will serve as the ten-year anniversary of the day the Twin Towers fell, the fact The Atlantic is using its September issue to look back on 9/11 isn’t all that surprising. The fact that the highly regarded publication asked Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller…
The announcement yesterday from 46-year-old Connecticut-based sculptor Daniel Edwards — that he’d created a (mostly) nude sculpture of teenage music superstars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, and that it would soon be put on public display in an adult store right here in Dallas — might have been a surprising…
Mike Snider is sick of area musicians dying. Worse, he’s sick of seeing how the whole community comes together in the wake of a death — not because there’s anything wrong with that, he’s quick to say, but because he doesn’t understand why we can’t show up in the same…
Not sure whether this is creepy, amazing or both, but, alas, a “famed” sculptor named Daniel Edwards — responsible for such past classics as a nude Paris Hilton playing with her dog and a nude Britney Spears giving birth on her hands and knees — has gone and created a…
