At 57 years old, Top Ten Records in Oak Cliff is Dallas’ oldest record store. It’s also steeped in local history: It was at Top Ten, on November 22, 1963, that police officer J.D. Tippit was last seen before Lee Harvey Oswald murdered him. He left his car parked right…
It might’ve been hard to take your eyes off Teen Wolf last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but our attention was fixed firmly on someone else: Kaela Sinclair, who made her late night TV debut last night with Teen Wolf and his band M83. And she killed it, thank you…
Yesterday, the world turned purple. Despite a health scare last week that put his millions of fans on edge, the news of Prince’s death, at the all-too-young age of 57, came as a shock on Thursday morning. In his hometown of Minneapolis, legendary club First Avenue, known locally as “The…
DJ Titan has been a cornerstone in Dallas drum and bass for the past 15 years. He’s been a musical pilot behind the decks and producer in the studio. For this week’s mixtape, Titan digs deep for an upbeat, vocal-driven mini-mix of drum and bass featuring a few tunes from regional producers…
For longtime fans of Dallas radio host Chris Jagger, their morning routine has been turned on its ear. On Friday afternoon, 102.1 FM The Edge, the station where Jagger and his various ensembles of the Jagger Mafia has hosted a morning radio show on and off since 1998, announced that…
Late last week, some pretty big news dropped about 102.1 The Edge’s morning show: Chris Jagger, who was on his second stint with the station, had been let go. Replacing Jagger will be The Atom Smasher Show from the Houston radio market, which takes to the airwaves on May 2…
Before this week, it had been weeks — literally weeks — since we’d had a reason to write about Erykah Badu. Frankly, we were getting a little worried. The singer of a thousand names had been relatively quiet since throwing her 45th birthday bash at The Bomb Factory in February,…
Mr. Daishiki Jones is pretty much the definition of of a proper house head. The amount of passion that exudes from this man through his mixes and declarations of his profound love of house are truly inspiring. He spent his early years soaking in the culture of Chicago house music…
One of the best talent buyers in North Texas, Moody Fuqua, took over at RBC just four months ago. Everything seemed to be going as planned with the rebranding of the club venue behind Twisted Root. Fuqua brought weekly shows that focused on local music and also worked with promoters…
“I’m not going to blow sunshine up your ass,” says C.J. Ortiz. “I’m going to show you how you can maximize your resources. But I don’t know if you can, and I don’t think you should lie to yourself either. If you suck, you suck. Improve it. Don’t take it…
Chad Lovell will never forget the night he partied with Layne Staley in Dallas. Every April, though, the memory comes back particularly strong: Last week marked the 14th anniversary of Staley, the former singer of Alice in Chains, dying of a heroin overdose. But for Lovell, he’ll always remember Staley,…
Dalton Rapattoni, freshly famous from his strong showing during the final season of American Idol, isn’t turning his back on North Texas. “Dude, I will work wherever people need me to be, but North Texas is my home,” he told the Observer during a media call today. “I can’t relax anywhere else. This…
Hunter Vaughn has been a fixture in Dallas DJ culture over the past decade with stints at clubs like Zubar, Lizard Lounge and Crown & Harp. Vaughn shows a level of genre flexibility that has played in his favor, while also proving to be an active producer. He even has a new…
When Disturbed front man David Draiman decided to single a fan out for using her cellphone during the band’s March 23 appearance at House of Blues in Dallas, he probably didn’t expect it to trigger the backlash that followed from his own fan base. So last Friday Draiman spoke with…
We’ve already known it was coming, but the when and the where were still up in the air. Until now. Guns N’ Roses are coming back to North Texas — and by Gun N’ Roses we mean the real Guns N’ Roses, with Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan —…
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Post Malone is from Dallas. Earlier this week there was some confusion on that front, thanks to XXL Magazine claiming the Grapevine-bred rapper is “reppin’ Syracuse, NY.” Dallas hip-hop fans were none too happy about the perceived slight, but Post Malone’s…
Brian Bishop goes by the stage name of Vectorvision. Bishop has been a modest but vital part of Dallas electronic music for well over two decades. He’s amassed a vinyl collection that make even the most experienced DJ vets blush with jealousy, an arsenal of modular systems and rare synths, and…
Let’s be clear about one thing: Post Malone is from Dallas. Okay, Grapevine. That’s basically Dallas, though. Of course, he wasn’t born here. He was born in Syracuse, New York. But still: Dallas. Got it? Well, you can imagine the pandemonium that was caused on Monday when XXL Magazine announced…
Attending a metal show usually allows many older fans to forget their daily worries and fall into the music from their past. But for one local metal fan, last Wednesday’s Disturbed show at the House of Blues turned into one of the worst nights of her life when the band’s…
Mike Wiebe still sounds out of breath. It’s been more than a week since the Riverboat Gamblers singer fell off the bar in a crowd surfing accident at South By Southwest, and most of those intervening days were spent in the hospital with a tube stuck in his chest. Wiebe…
In the middle of heavy metal Disturbed’s show at House of Blues last Wednesday, Shannon Pardue had other things on her mind. With a thunderstorm rolling through North Texas dropping golf ball-sized hail that damaged roofs, mangled blinds and shattered car windows, Pardue’s 14-year-old daughter was home alone “freaking out” at…
What took Index Festival so long? The indie music fest, originally scheduled to take place in September 2015, got postponed until this spring and this week officially announced its cancellation. Officials at Spune, the company who runs Index, say they just didn’t want to let it go. “We really love…
