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Dallas Observer Music is the music section of the Dallas Observer, a news and culture publication that covers the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The blog features news, reviews, and interviews related to local and national music scenes and aims to provide a comprehensive view of the music landscape in North Texas.
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2h ago
North Texas has its fair share of Grammy Award winners (and certainly of Dallas Observer Music Awards winners), but not every day does one of our own get a chance at going for the gold. Boy, do we love to be right: In 2023, we named Fort Worth-via-Greece musician Abraham Alexander the "best soon-to-be legend ..read more
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2h ago
Bill Frisell has fine-tuned the tension in his life. That’s not to suggest his existence is somehow fraught — far from it; his demeanor is contemplative, avuncular, searching — but rather the 73-year-old Grammy-winning jazz great understands the value of both motion and stillness ..read more
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1d ago
The bitter cold Tuesday night didn't stay for long at House of Blues, where a post-punk show was in full swing. Opener Sextile immediately set the tone, sending the crowd into a crazed dance party with its infectious post-punk synth rave tunes ..read more
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On Wednesday morning, Nine Inch Nails officially announced its “Peel It Back” world tour, with 37 dates across Europe and North America kicking off this summer. News of the tour leaked earlier this month when the band’s Facebook accidentally posted the event pages to specific nights on the tour, leading to speculation on which cities would be included and when ..read more
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2d ago
The band Sucia Muerte (dirty death) describe themselves as “a psychedelic mixture of blues, funk, Afrobeat and Latin vibes.” The aptly described four-piece is the primary songwriting outlet for singer and guitarist Gabriel Piñon. A veteran of the Dallas acoustic scene, Piñon has been playing guitar and writing since he was a child ..read more
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2d ago
“On the hospital bed, I literally just sat there with my baby in my hands, and I thought, ‘No,’” Alex Alicea recalls. “‘This is not how my life is gonna go ..read more
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3d ago
In 2012, an armed jihadist group known as Ansar Dine took control of northern regions of Mali, sparking a civil war. In areas it controlled, the group ordered a ban on cigarettes, alcohol and music ..read more
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6d ago
If your New Year's Eve wish list for this year includes finally learning to play the guitar, you can now pick up a few new tricks from a master guitarist. Grammy Award-winning musician Stephane Wrembel will host a workshop from 2 to 4 p.m. on Jan. 18 at Zounds Sounds B-Side ..read more
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1w ago
From the day Red Zeppelin Records opened its doors on the Downtown McKinney Square, it immediately felt like a town fixture. As the sister store to vintage boutique The Groovy Coop, the offbeat record store fit in perfectly with the affably artsy aesthetic that Downtown McKinney has long offered ..read more
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1w ago
Rapper BigXThaPlug is a true ambassador of North Texas hip-hop. In a new profile piece with Billboard’s Michael Saponara, The Big Stepper sat down with fellow DFW native and Billboard correspondent Catrise Johnson to explain the meaning behind popular phrases used in Dallas-Fort Worth ..read more