Erykah Badu stood, clad in what seemed like a Day-Glo bodysuit adorned with a tangle of various accoutrements, with her back to the audience. Above her, multi-colored lights pulsed, and a projection screen displayed a riot of eye-popping images, cycling and spinning and melting into one another. Before her, seven…
Last year, rapper Post Malone was one of 15 people on board a private Gulfstream IV jet that was forced to make an emergency landing after the tires blew out on Aug. 21, 2018. According to the Federal Aviation Administration report, the flight crew ignored several safety procedures. Reportedly, the…
Let these shows guide you through the week. Cap your Monday night off with some angryheadbanging with Jawbreaker at The Bomb Factory. Dance the night away at Deep Ellum Art Company this Wednesday because you’re at the halfway mark. On Thursday, go check out Jack Barksdale and realize that if…
It’s a big week for concert announcements from The Granada Theater, as a bevy of performers will be making their way to Lower Greenville over the next couple of months. Elsewhere, we’ve got some metal legends, a celebrated emo outfit and a country star coming to town. Chicago rapper Vic…
Multi-platinum, diamond and gold selling artist Rob Thomas has been at the top of his game for over 20 years now. With his latest album, Chip Tooth Smile, once again getting the artist into the Billboard Top 200 chart, one has to wonder how exactly he’s able to stay so…
The inaugural Freebase Festival will take place Saturday at Backyard On Bell in Denton. Doors will open at 11 a.m., and performances will run until midnight. Over 20 artists are appearing on the bill, including Cameron McCloud from Cure for Paranoia — who’ll be debuting new solo material — Jahn Dough, B…
Whether it’s hosting a songwriter showcase in Fort Worth or trailing across the country collecting cowboy songs, it’s all just part of the job for a ballad hunter. After narrowing the focus of his weekly songwriter’s showcase specifically to cowboy ballads, Jeff Posey’s search for authentic cowboy music has led…
When emo was propelled to mainstream success in the early ‘00s, it consisted of two camps: one that was saccharine and congruent with upbeat, and one that was darker and more abrasive. The Used became one of the most commercially successful and culturally significant acts to sprout from the latter,…
When he’s not cranking out Texas gothabilly music with Ghoultown, “Count” Lyle Blackburn can usually be found writing about monsters, or chasing them. Fans can catch up with Ghoultown and the band’s founder, Blackburn, at their live performance Friday at the Curtain Club in Dallas, but this past weekend, the…
The first time Frisco native Maelyn Jarmon stepped on the shined obsidian floor of NBC’s reality singing show The Voice, she faced the backs of four chairs, where four of the music industry’s most famous faces and voices waited to hear what she could do with her vocal chords. Jarmon…
Over the decades, cocaine has been a recurring star in song lyrics for outlaw country singers, maybe just as much as whiskey. And make no mistake about it, that proud tradition continues thanks to the likes of insurgent new generational stars such as Tyler Childers and Dallas’ own Paul Cauthen…
Before the takeover of digital media, most successful independent music entrepreneurs would proudly tell you they’ve had some experience selling vinyl, cassettes or CDs out of the trunk of their car. Pat Ron, 24, a rapper from Dallas by way of New Orleans, has replaced the trunk with his Instagram…
Rachel Gollay’s music is deceptive. What seems at first blush to be deliberate, exacting and polished (which, make no mistake, the Fort Worth singer-songwriter’s songs are very much all of those), actually contains a riot of human feeling, messy and complicated emotions roiling beneath that considered surface. It’s tempting to…
Alexander Lewis is an EDM and hip-hop producer based in Los Angeles, who’s created beats for notable artists, including Yogi, Krane, Juice WRLD and Chief Keef. In 2017, he performed at Coachella, and last year he went on a multidate tour in Australia. Over the last couple of years, his…
The word alone makes them laugh. O. Deletron, a Fort Worth-based band comprised of seven music veterans, has heard the word “supergroup” thrown around, but the musicians are not too keen on that descriptor. “I find it a little humorous,” pianist Thomas Horton says. “If you go to our shows,…
The word “therapy” is defined as the “medical treatment of impairment, injury, disease, or disorder.” Of those four, it would seem injury — primarily of a reputational sort — was being most thoroughly addressed Saturday night at Dos Equis Pavilion, as Hootie and the Blowfish brought its Group Therapy tour…
On Friday night, Paul McCartney played Arlington Globe Life Park’s first rock show. The stadium’s staff seemed unprepared to manage such a regal occasion, directing people to the wrong seats in the floor section, where rickety folding chairs were zip-tied together so closely that there was no wiggle room to…
Some things never change. Although the Observer has a new Clubs Editor, and things are certainly changing for him, these posts will still be here every Monday because there’s no end in sight to good live music in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There are plenty of local acts to choose…
Gather ’round and observe this week’s collection of local concert announcements. As the summer is finally settling in to rest, the announcements become a little fewer and further between. There are still some interesting things to behold, however, so check forth and see what strikes an interest. Despite being a ubiquitous…
You may have seen her name dropped a few times over the last year thanks to her tireless efforts creating visuals for shows, photographing bands and putting together music videos for Rosegarden Funeral Party’s “Ill and Getting Worse” or just a few days later, Upsetting’s new video for “Form/Foul.” Who…
For nearly a decade, Fort Worth duo Pinkish Black’s music has been hard to categorize. Some have called it “doom rock.” (We labeled it heavy metal.) Kerrang! referred to it as “sci-fi synth doom,” like a collaboration between John Carpenter and Rush. Their latest album, Concept Unification, sounds like a…
In his own words, Anderson .Paak “demands respect, is signed to Dr. Dre, plays drums and sings, has no face tattoos, and got a nice smile.” There’s a lot to unpack there but it’s a pretty succinct, self-aware summation of one of the more dynamic artists of the moment. .Paak’s…
