5 Things You Need To Know About The Reopening of RBC

If I close my eyes tight enough, I can almost still picture it, even though it’s almost been a decade. I am fifteen years old and feeling very close to heat stroke, so I lean against the wall. Even that feels labored, because I’m standing on such a sharp incline…

St. Patrick’s Day Ludacris Tickets are On Sale Today!

We’re bringing Ludacris to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day proceedings. Now, Ludacris is one of those people whose personality has loomed so large as to occasionally obscure his actual music, so by way of reminding you what it actually means to go to a Ludacris show, allow us to list…

What Would the World Be Like Without College Dropout?

This week 10 years ago, an anxious producer from Chiraq (Chicago), Illinois had just released his debut into the rap arena, College Dropout. Heavily manipulating the hip-hop scene musically, stylistically, and socially even at the time, a far more subconscious Kanye West went on to gain international acclaim, travel through…

The Dallas Observer Needs a New Music Editor

At the end of February, I’m leaving the Dallas Observer to take over as the music editor for Denver’s Westword. The move brings me and my partner back where we came from and where we hope to stay, and it’s really as simple as that. Working at the Observer has…

Help Crown & Harp Fill its Jukebox with North Texas Artists

If you arrived in Dallas from Mars and wanted to pick one place to learn about local music, a smart tour guide might send you to the Crown and Harp on Lower Greenville. There, you’d find an increasingly dense schedule in the pub’s two unassuming rooms of North Texas artists…

Ekhi Lopetegi from Delorean on Basque and Texas Barbecue

Hailing from the autonomous Basque region of Spain and named for the featured vehicle in Back to the Future, Delorean are a dance-friendly foursome with an ever-growing fan base. The band’s good fortune began a few years back when the members agreed to move in a more electronic direction. Since…

Childish Gambino vs. Vic Mensa: Who Owns the Internet?

Dallas is in for a techie treat with upcoming concerts by two of hip-hop’s most promising internet by-products: Childish Gambino (March 7 at South Side Ballroom) and Vic Mensa (February 1 at House of Blues). With Gambino’s release of Because the Internet and Mensa’s full-length solo debut, Innanetape, 2013 introduced…