Cameron Ray, a Dallas-born singer-songwriter, left North Texas to pursue his music career in Knoxville, Tennessee, just this January. He still comes back from time to time, like last week when he played The Kessler Theater for Bill’s Records’ Birthday Bash. Thanks to the advent of music streaming services, no…
To this day, John Lennon’s 1971 song “Imagine” remains an anthem for peace that’s revered around the world. The song, which became the best-selling single of Lennon’s solo career, was composed as a political rallying cry, a call for a world without hatred or divisions of any kind. Decades after…
Odd fellows, vagabonds, rabble-rousers and revelers all came together to bring a taste of New Orleans to the Bishop Arts District in Dallas. That is how district business owners Amy Wallace Cowan, Jason Roberts and Corey McCombs would describe themselves. In a short walk between their other creations, Odd Fellows…
At age 15, stylist Jonathan Wright discovered his love of fashion and launched his career as a wardrobe consultant in Dallas. Although mostly famed for hair design, Wright didn’t discover his passion for hair until about four years ago, when a client, singer Just Brittany, was getting ready for the…
The Polyphonic Spree members walk everywhere among us. Most are unrecognizable at a glance, but one could sense a jubilant energy just waiting to jump out. They’re behind you in the checkout line, teaching yoga class, inventing new technology in a Dallas garage, writing your favorite fashion blog or operating…
Coming out is a landmark moment for many, one that replays on an endless loop for those who’ve done it and for those preparing themselves to get to it. For Dallas native Cameron Hawthorn, a country singer-songwriter now based in Los Angeles, that moment will be immortalized in a music…
Musician, Artist and Art Curator Scott Tucker is the singer/songwriter of Dallas-based bands The Orange and Aztec Milk Temple.
Last year Dallas prog rock band Great Heart released their first EP, The Sunrise Machine, an album which took listeners on a journey of self-reflection, heartbreak and personal salvation. Today, the band is releasing its first video for the song, “Mr. Monocle”—one of the album’s most introspective moments. A kind…
ManifestiV is a tough band to categorize. Consisting of an electronic vibraphone played by Eve Walding (aka EvE) and guitar player Paragraph Taylor, this experimental industrial couple trades vocal duties while making music that sounds synth-backed and filled with crushed beats and fuzzy guitars. ManifestiV released their second album, God…
Denton singer-songwriter Claire Morales often mines dark territory in her music — if not always lyrically, then often in mood and tone. In her new music for “Sibylle,” debuting today with the Dallas Observer, Morales brings those haunting qualities to life with a psychological cliffhanger. Directed by Ana Dria and…
Josh Florence breathed a sigh of relief on the morning of this year’s Homegrown Music and Arts Festival. The annual event he organizes had been scheduled to host its 10th installment the day before, Saturday, April 13, at Dallas’ Main Street Garden Park, but was postponed less then 48 hours…
War Party are not a band content to go quietly in that good night. The Fort Worth turf rock outfit has been awfully busy by most bands’ standards — especially one getting ready to say goodbye. Tuesday saw the release of a new video for their song “No Exit” from…
More than five years ago, Stefan González embarked on a new project that subconsciously continued a tradition his family has held on to for generations. Through his weekly showcase of avant-garde music from Texas and beyond, Stefan has espoused the virtues and beauty of music that defies definitions and common…
What had started as a laid-back appearance at a Dallas festival last weekend has turned into a weeklong ordeal for Houston R&B act The Suffers, who had their band’s trailer and, with it, thousands of dollars of equipment stolen during their visit to North Texas. The Suffers had played a midday…
Yesterday, the DFW music scene got just a little bit trippier. Denton psych-rockers Acid Carousel shared the first two singles from their upcoming double album, Another Everything, Acts 1 & 2, the Rock Opera, the band’s third album. The album is said to be influenced by the life of the…
Amid the rapid urbanization of Deep Ellum, the need for a dance club is high. As quirky, Instagrammable food spots seem to be pushing out the culturally significant bars and clubs, Beauty Bar’s new Deep Ellum location aims to create a space where people can have fun, be themselves and,…
Homegrown Festival is set to extend its 10th annual celebrations into two days this weekend with news of a last-minute schedule change due to weather. Saturday’s forecast of thunderstorms has prompted organizers to split the outdoor event between two venues, with a handful of artists performing that day at The…
A new batch of shows are on the horizon for the upcoming months in North Texas. We’ve got Grammy nominees, nostalgic reunions, indie rockers on the comeback and even a hologram headed this way. Sara Bareilles will spend much of the remainder of 2019 out on tour behind her recently…
Admit it, you love playing online quizzes, the kind where you pick your favorite potato and find out which kind of ocean plankton you should be rinsing your colon with. We have something much better: a fun quiz that will also teach you something of value. Also, it’s the shortest…
Do you like quizzes? Knew it. Do you like quizzes where you take a stab at stereotyping people? Also knew it. We put together a quiz for you — our readers, whom we love so dearly — to guess which concert people are attending based solely on a photograph. Sometimes…
In 2005 Chris McIuan began recording local bands in his home, just east of downtown Fort Worth. He called the space Buzz Studios and it was relatively cheap, equipped with Pro Tools and a 16-channel digital interface. Now working for Spectrum, McIuan says he has not recorded anyone’s music in…
Monoculture has a new music video out for their song “Eyesore” off last year’s album Blueprint for Dysfunction, and the video draws its inspiration from Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” and the TV series Black Mirror. “We wanted to create our own reality-bending visual story that explores gentrification, artistic exploitation,…
