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Erykah Badu to headline Spotify's RNB X festival in Irving (opens the original)
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Erykah Badu is playing (at least) one more hometown show before the world blows. On Tuesday, Spotify announced the Queen of Neo-Soul will headline the streaming service’s one-day RNB X festival slated for Nov. 1 at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving. Badu will be joined by Grammy-winning R&B artist H.E.R., as well as rising artists in the genre, like Kwn, Destin Conrad, Jai’Len Josey and Badu’s fellow Dallasite, Rjtheweirdo. Spotify bills RNB X as its flagship R&B-centered live conce
Before the World Blows, Erykah Badu spends a night at home (opens the original)
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Photo by Alec Spicer for Dallas Observer It’s well documented by now that Erykah Badu’s presence, both in person and in music, is tectonic. On Wednesday night at Shyboy Hifi in downtown, the plates rumbled underneath downtown as the Queen of Dallas prepared to wake them up again with “Before the World Blows,” her new collaborative album with hip-hop titan The Alchemist, marking her first LP since 2010’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh). After a year of delays, we finally caught up to B
North Texas mourns Dolly Parton as the philanthropist, country music icon dies at 80 (opens the original)
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On Tuesday, Aug. 25, the family of beloved country pioneer and humanitarian Dolly Parton announced she had died at 80 years old. Remembered for her unmatched wit, hair as close to God as a Southern woman can get and her unyielding positivity, the music world lost one of its greatest treasures. Parton was a pioneer for women in music and had just as many hits as she did rhinestone-emblazoned dresses. A national treasure, and the Queen of Country Music, modern music couldn’t exist if Parton hadn’t
BigXthaPlug arrested in Allen, faces several charges (opens the original)
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UPDATE, 8/25/2026: After being arrested early Friday night, BigXthaPlug performed at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, Aug. 22, taking the stage by 9 p.m., according to a report from the Iowa City Press-Citizen. “When I was in Collin County, I was praying hard. I was like ‘Please let me make it to Des Moines, Iowa,’” he reportedly told the audience. Court records indicate the rapper appeared before.a judge on Aug. 22., and received bond conditions, but a bond amount is not listed. On Friday night
Queued up: The North Texas artists you need to keep an eye on (opens the original)
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Our city has a long musical pedigree, spawning luminaries like Erykah Badu, St. Vincent, Leon Bridges and Marc Rebillet, but none of that was built overnight. It was amplified by gigs at scrappy Deep Ellum venues, coffee shop open mics and local audiences who understood the vision long before the rest of the world caught up. But it seems that the rest of the world is finally catching up once again to the contemporary North Texas music scene. What, with the likes of skyrocketing artists like BigX
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