Every season on The Voice, it always seems like there is plenty of talent from Dallas and the surrounding areas. We’d like to think that’s because people who live here are just better at singing than everyone else, but that’s probably not true. This season, as Guidelive notes, three of…
It’s been a long time since the Dixie Chicks have made headlines in country music, but maybe that’s because they got tired of all that attention. You might recall a teeny-tiny, pretty minor little incident where Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines criticized then-President George W. Bush while performing in London,…
As a member of the Our House Crew, Jason Ramirez is a major cog in the Dallas house machine. With two decades of experience behind the decks, he brings a depth of knowledge to his mixes. Ramirez has had a front seat to the highs and lows of Dallas DJ…
Once he starts singing, it doesn’t take long for Dallas-based country singer-songwriter Troy Cartwright to sink his artistic simplicity into the listener’s consciousness. In his excellently galloping country noir tune “Next Flight Home,” the Berklee College of Music grad offers a simple, heartfelt image of longing. When Cartwright sings “I’ll…
Before the original members of the Alice Cooper Group took the stage together earlier this month for a surprise reunion at Good Records, it had been 40 years since they played together. So when some high quality footage of the performance appeared on Rolling Stone’s website last week, the whole world was…
If you maxed out your credit card or sold your firstborn to buy tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour stop at AT&T Stadium, don’t feel too bad about it. It turns out you’re not alone. Apparently Dallasites are willing to do just about anything to see the reigning queen of…
David Bikowski produces and DJs under the name Hands Free and has caused quite a stir with his releases on labels like Audiophile Deep, Faceless and Motek. Part of a long tradition of punk rock ex-pats that find their way to dance music, Hands Free is a standout artist amongst…
With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we’re looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists…
Look, if we’re being real about the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations, there’s probably no one more deserving than Chic, if for no other reason than that this is the disco superstars’ 10th nomination. Of course there are many other reasons — chart data, importance to a…
A project to bring some color to the streets of Deep Ellum has created murals of a dozen elephants, jacks and rubber balls, iconic scenes that are representative of contemporary Dallas, a mural based on a 1938 picture of downtown Dallas, what looks like the child of Andy Warhol and…
Bryan Gonzalez DJs under the moniker B3. B3 is part of a small number of musicians in the area who play in bands in addition to DJing. He plays in the Dallas-based and Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated band Mayta. Gonzalez’s DJ game is a whole other ball of wax. His…
On Monday morning, superstar Kendrick Lamar teasingly posted a photo on Instagram of a flier for the 1st Annual Kunta’s Groove Sessions tour. It was accompanied with a caption that read, “8 cities. 8 nights. 8 intimate shows.” Speculation swirled as to which eight lucky cities would be treated to…
We’ve all had those nights in college that get a little out of hand, but in Denton recently, a seemingly minor drama during a show at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio got real-world serious pretty quick. Like, with lawyers and everything. A disagreement between the venue owner and Denton creative group the…
It’s hard to say where St. Vincent is going to pop up next these days. Chances are, it’ll be somewhere that makes us jealous if it’s not Dallas. Last we heard from the artist otherwise known as Annie Clark, she jumping onstage with Taylor Swift in Los Angeles to do…
Here we go again, Dallas. For the 27th year running, the Dallas Observer Music Awards are on their way. Each year, the Observer throws a big-ass party to help celebrate all the hard-working musicians of the Dallas music scene. Two of them, in fact. And we even hand out a…
Cymatic has been a regular face among the The Guild DJ crew over the past year or so, utilizing his deep knowledge of the more experimental side of dance music and integrating it with something more digestible for the dance floor without losing the edge. Despite his youth he has…
There are 85 million Taylor Swift cover videos on YouTube. We counted, so don’t bother. Some of them are good, some are bad, and some are just downright amazing. Maybe we are a little biased and our hometown pride is blinding us, but Todrick Hall from Arlington put together a…
Maxwell Carritt is part of a new wave of techno and tech house talent popping up in the shadows of Dallas club music. Most often associated with the burner DJ crew know as The Guild, he consistently sets a high bar for floor-thumping techno. Hypnotic patterns of persistent repetition, but…
Back in February we told you about John Rody, a Texas Radio Hall of Famer who secured one of the FCC’s new community radio licenses enabling him to go on the air with a low-wattage FM radio station, known as The Pirate. The station, which has existed in Internet streaming…
When you’re out bar hopping in Deep Ellum, the bathrooms aren’t usually places you want to spend too much time. And no, we’re not just talking about the death trap bathrooms at Club Dada. You get in, you get out, and you probably spend way more time waiting to do…
Post Malone has had a pretty good run of things in 2015. The Grapevine-bred rapper (and, in a past life, Bob Dylan fan) came out of nowhere during the winter to score a viral hit with his song “White Iverson.” A trip back home and a major-label record deal later,…
Problem Dogg are not to be trusted. Besides their red flag of a name with its suspicious-ass backwards letter “R,” the Denton noise band are the musical equivalent of a train wreck waiting to happen. Last year they put out a 49-song album, because why the hell not? Basically every…
