Pop shows are fundamentally a visual spectacle. If you go to an arena show for the flashing lights and zealous flare, you likely won’t leave disappointed. Categorizing it as anything but fun is difficult. Look too long at some, however, and the natural conclusion you will come to is a…
Joshua Caprice fits the archetype of the journeyman DJ, with his work doing A&R for labels, promoter for events, dancer on the floor and, most significantly, as a house music producer under his stage name, J Caprice. After a year on the road as a touring DJ and seeing the…
While it was pouring rain in Dallas, our friends at Globe Trek Productions caught up with singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka while he was in town on tour with Good Old War. With his backing band, Nozuka, who is the nephew of Kyra Sedgwick, played some songs from his album that is being…
The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that nearly half of American schools have zero full-time arts teachers, while1.3 million elementary school students don’t have access to music classes. But starting tonight, The Rustic in Uptown will recognize National Music in Our Schools Month with a series of concerts performed…
BackYard on Bell offers patrons the kind of live music experience Dallas wishes it could. With a huge beer garden, covered patio, pet waste stations, an oversized Connect Four game, food trucks, a great menu and a selection of 16 craft beers on tap, BackYard’s inviting atmosphere gives music fans…
Kevin Griffin has been coming around the Dallas area for a long time, but it’s usually been with his band Better Than Ezra. Thirty years after the band formed in Baton Rouge (and later based in New Orleans), Griffin will play a solo show in Dallas for the first time…
By now, most Texas Rangers fans know that if radio broadcaster Eric Nadel loves anything more than baseball, it’s music. Last summer, Nadel was eating at Cafe Momentum — a nonprofit restaurant that employs disadvantaged youth — where he talked about music with Chad Houser, founder, CEO and chef of…
St. Patrick’s Day comes a week early for us this week as Flogging Molly takes the stage as the Dallas Observer’s St. Patrick’s Day concert headliner on Saturday. Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher brings his High Flying Birds to the Majestic Tuesday; Demi Lovato plays her second gig in town…
DFW rapper Alsace Carcione flew into 2017 like a bat out of hell. The original winner of the Master of the Mic has already won multiple awards, written loads of new material and was gearing up to release several new projects. All of that was put on hold when her…
You would never guess that the same hard-looking punks who stood in line for an event famous for its showcasing of emo music would later be sweating off their eyeliner, dancing to rap music and singing along to “Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus. But this was the contradiction…
Is Blake Shelton good enough to put on a great show while recovering from the flu? When you’re arguably country music’s only A-lister and People’s Sexiest Man Alive and, well, just a solid performer, you can do just about anything. Shelton headlined the Country Music Freaks tour Saturday night at…
In most situations, a DJ is hired to provide a vibe for the room by way of music selections — a curatorial exercise that relies heavily on reading the room. In most cases, requests are unwelcome if you aren’t in a dance club environment, but if you catch the DJ in…
Dallas’ spring and summer concert calendars continue to grow. This week, a couple of legendary rock, pop and soul veteran acts wind their way into town. The Granada Theater offers some entertaining options, and one of music’s most charismatic voices brings a new project to The Kessler. Singer-songwriter Ray Lamontagne…
More artists have been announced as performers in SXSW’s official music showcases, and a handful of them come from North Texas. Plenty of bands and other musical acts are sure to be announced in the next couple of weeks leading up to this year’s film, interactive media and music festival,…
If you’ve been even remotely plugged into the Dallas music scene, you’ve probably encountered John Pedigo. The Dallas native has spent time playing grunge, rockabilly and punk rock for rowdy and inebriated audiences of 10 and massive festival and theater stages where the crowds swelled to thousands. Most recently, he’s…
Flogging Molly plays March 10 at the Southside Ballroom for our St. Patrick’s Day Concert. “Enjoy life,” Dave King says once. Then again. And again. He repeats the words at least three times during a 20-minute interview. Whether he’s talking about his mother (who died more than a year ago)…
Soccer and Imagine Dragons fans will want to mark their calendars for the weekend of Oct. 20-21. Several years after FC Dallas owners Clark and Dan Hunt launched a bid for the National Soccer Hall of Fame, it will open its doors in Frisco. Housed at the Toyota Stadium complex,…
Six Shooter is a recurring feature in which we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. Kacey Musgraves — “Space Cowboy” Musgraves tempered the usually present kitschy, retro aesthetic for this new single, but “Space Cowboy” features the good ol’ tongue-in-cheek, scathing lyrics we’ve come to love from the…
Editor’s note: Our writer was struck with a gas leak this weekend, so the review is a little late. You’ll live. For the past three years, Erykah Badu has invited friends, family and all of Dallas to the Bomb Factory for a celebration of her birth. This year’s affair, titled…
There’s a crowed driveway off Forest Lane near Texas Instruments where Aarón Mireles, bassist and lead singer of Sub-Sahara, lives. Getting to his home, where the band practices, means snaking through trucks decorated with collages of band and record label stickers and parallel parking behind a grey Pathfinder. When you…
Not all global DJ-producers leave a wake of trashed hotels rooms and one-night stands. It’s a little-known secret in the music industry that many artists are in fact (gasp) responsible. Ana Miranda, also known as ANNA, and some others even eat clean, exercise, drink in moderation, show up on time…
How does a single performer captivate a 4,000-seat venue? First off, she has to have a larger-than-life persona. Second, she has to have the music chops to carry a whole stage with no backing musicians. Three, it doesn’t hurt to look as good as Annie Clark, also known as St…
