If you weren’t watching last night’s episode of American Idol, you have officially missed your last opportunity to see the show whittle its competitors down to the final top 10 contestants. After 15 seasons, the FOX reality show will conclude this year, and the network is clearly hoping to go…
Three days after the Dallas Observer spoke to controversial Portland band Black Pussy and an organizer for the 35 Denton musical festival, which had booked them to play next month, the festival has announced that that it is removing the band from the lineup. A press release issued by 35…
Adam Pickrell is a producer-DJ-musician triple threat. He made waves with his live band house experience White Lotus Society and as a session musician, he has sat in with everyone from St.Vincent to Cas Haley to John Congleton’s Nighty Night. He recently became the musical director for Nellie Furtado. Pickrell’s…
After almost 10 years in downtown Dallas, the House of Blues’ Foundation Room is preparing for an overhaul. Opened in 2007, the chain establishment owned by LiveNation is undergoing a transformation into a themed lounge that will feature regular DJ appearances. Once a private room reserved for members and after-parties,…
Leave it to a Dallas celebrity to start some bad blood over a good deed. Over the weekend, Dallas native, former Disney Channel actor and rising pop star Demi Lovato took a stand against fellow singer and recent Grammy winner Taylor Swift — for the fact that Swift had donated…
Scott Augat is a transplant from New England who has been behind the decks for over two decades. He has a firm background playing variations of hip-hop, techno and house. Along with Aleah Axiom, he holds down the techno and house weekly residency at the recently opened Drugstore Cowboy in…
Don’t get us wrong: We’re never going to be disappointed about the opportunity to see a Ludacris show. Hell, the guy even played the Dallas Observer’s St. Patrick’s Day concert a couple years ago. But when news broke yesterday afternoon that the Dallas Mavericks will be hosting a Luda concert…
Leon Bridges’ fairytale year didn’t quite get the perfect ending that his fans would’ve hoped for on Monday night. After skyrocketing from life as a dishwasher to being an international phenomenon over the course of 2015, the Fort Worth native made the trek out to Los Angeles for the 58th…
As though we needed any more reasons to proud of St. Vincent, she threw us another one over the weekend. The Grammy winner and part-time taco slinger happens to be one of the best guitarists on the planet — for our money, probably the best (not that we have any…
Clinton Butler is a serious devotee of the techno and house arts going by the name P2P DJ. As an audience member, DJ and promoter, he has spent time in Denton, Dallas and Austin over the years and kept his ear to the ground of the Texas techno scene as…
You may not know hip-hop artist Eno $tripez or his music, but there is a pretty good chance you have seen his viral video, not even realizing it was shot in North Texas. Last Friday afternoon, he was pulled over by a police officer while driving in Mesquite. Riding shotgun…
It’s February, which in Texas means it’s just about festival season. Really. South By Southwest is only a month away, meaning so too are 35 Denton and Spillover. Hell, music and film fest Thin Line is next weekend. So it’s about time for some of Dallas’ bigger late spring and…
The location of the party is top secret. There are no fliers, no public advertisements, not even an address for those who have been invited. There is only a private group on Facebook, and a message: “WE ARE THE UNDERGROUND. WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER. IN THE SHADOWS WE ARE FREE.”…
From the moment Johnette Napolitano walked onstage at The Live Oak in Fort Worth on Friday night, it was clear there was a problem. The Concrete Blonde singer was in town for a solo acoustic performance, but from the very beginning she was visibly intoxicated. After fumbling through a handful…
Frank McCright has just shy of three decades in the DJ game as DJ Love. He has seen every facet of the DJ biz, from the production side in the studio to a front row seat for the infamous ’90s rave scene. Love has benefitted from a depth of experience…
North Texas may be losing one of its most profitable artists. Mike Murdock, a contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and televangelist, will auction off two lavish Dallas-Fort Worth estates on Saturday, February 20. You could actually attend both auctions if you feel so inclined. Murdock is a 69-year-old who dresses like someone’s…
If you’ve had the pleasure of receiving a hug from Kevin Howard, the current keyboard player for the Rich Girls, it was probably one of the best hugs you’ve ever received in your life. A lot of sincerity, as well as incredible strength, comes through his skinny body. On…
“River,” one of the standout tracks from Leon Bridges’ 2015 debut Coming Home, thrives on its understatement. A contrast to the R&B bounce of singles like the title track or “Better Man,” “River” is stripped down and bare, mostly Bridges with his guitar, his voice and his demons. In many…
Tom Strong comes to this week’s Mixtape with a banging electro mix. Electro as a term is often thrown around as an adjective to describe a wide variety of electronic music styles when it is very much a specific genre. It has evolved from its humble roots in hip-hop, from…
The last time Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were in Dallas, it was for a one-off performance at Reunion Tower during the NCAA March Madness festivities back in 2014. As usual, The Boss put on a killer show, although the novelty of having it at Reunion was dampened…
DJ EZ Eddie D has been a Dallas staple for just short of three decades. His vault of music is vast and wide beyond the hip hop he is most known for. Eddie can still be heard on the radio every week spreading the musical word on his Knowledge Dropped…
Looking for a music festival with plenty of hip hop? Apparently Denton is the place to be. While most Dallas fests, save for JMBLYA and Rageville, only intermittently tap into rappers for their lineups (if at all, in some cases), Denton has been doing it more and more. Oaktopia built…
