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November 24, 2011
Mo Robson and Nate Kipp Take Two Steps Forward ... and Back
Honky-tonk vets' albums make the past feel like the future.
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November 24, 2011
Big Sean, Now Really Big
Honky-tonk vets' albums make the past feel like the future.
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November 25, 2011
The Problem With ... Mac Miller's "Party on Fifth Ave"
When a new, hyped-up rapper appears on the charts, I play a game in which I compare a rapper with others on the charts and judge whether they positively contribute to the hip hop. I call that game "What's! Their! Niche!!!" Today's contestant is ... Mac Miller from Pittsburgh! Come on dooown! Mac ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Q&A: Nick Lowe Talks Songwriting, Being Covered by Costello and Finding Inspiration
At 62, singer/songwriter Nick Lowe can justifiably claim to have just about seen it all. From his days fronting the pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz in the '70s to his heralded production work for Elvis Costello to his fascinating, recent solo efforts, Lowe has always maintained a remarkable commitm ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
One Day Before Winspear Event, Jamie Foxx Cancels Due to Work on Tarantino Movie
Photo by Patrick MichelsDwaine Caraway will be disappointed, if nothing else.The AT&T Performing Arts Center is about to send out a formal release, but long story short: Jamie Foxx isn't coming to the Winspear Opera House tomorrow night after all. The Terrell native was supposed to take part ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Rockin' Christmas Party: Not Rockin', Not a Party, Not Christmas-y
WaterTower Theatre commits musical re-gifting.
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December 1, 2011
St. Marie Records Sends Up a Prayer for Labels
Founder Wyatt Parkins has an angel on his shoulder.
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December 1, 2011
Rachael Yamagata Gets By With a Little Help
Crowd funding from fans frees her to create Chesapeake.
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December 1, 2011
Marc Ribot Leads the Way
After nearly 40 years of professional playing, guitarist still finds revelations.
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December 1, 2011
Soledad Speaks
After nearly 40 years of professional playing, guitarist still finds revelations.
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December 9, 2011
You Can't Say This Is a Total Surprise: Dallas Summer Musicals Needs $5 Million Pronto
Via.Michael JenkinsOnly last week, following the Wilco-Nick Lowe two-fer, we asked: Why isn't the Music Hall at Fair Park, long ago a popular venue for pop music, used for more concerts? At which point we were told: That's certainly a possibility. Matter of fact, said Jayne Basse, who books the j ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Reflecting on 30 Years of AIDS
Via.Michael JenkinsOnly last week, following the Wilco-Nick Lowe two-fer, we asked: Why isn't the Music Hall at Fair Park, long ago a popular venue for pop music, used for more concerts? At which point we were told: That's certainly a possibility. Matter of fact, said Jayne Basse, who books the j ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Here Holy Spain remembers the Galaxy Club, among other first shows
With plans for a follow-up to this year's acclaimed Division, 2012 looks good for pop-punk trio Here Holy Spain. To tide you over, they have a song on this year's Idol Christmas compilation called "God-Damn This Christmas." As the band wraps up the year, all three recently shared with us t ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Staind's Aaron Lewis Talks Country Music, Ron Paul and the Constitution
Known as the bellowing frontman for alternative metal band Staind, Aaron Lewis shocked many when he released the Town Line EP earlier this year. Not only did it feature Lewis singing a collection of country-influenced songs, but the singer was insistent the project was not a one-shot endeavor. F ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Trampled by Turtles Make Up for a Terrible Name with a Killer Sound
Known as the bellowing frontman for alternative metal band Staind, Aaron Lewis shocked many when he released the Town Line EP earlier this year. Not only did it feature Lewis singing a collection of country-influenced songs, but the singer was insistent the project was not a one-shot endeavor. F ... More >>
Culture
December 15, 2011
Pegasus Theatre Returns in Glorious Black and White
Playwright Kurt Kleinmann's stays mum on how they drain color from the stage.
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December 16, 2011
Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Best Local Hip-Hop of 2011
A.Dd When we heard Paris Pershun and Slim Gravy teamed up with super producer PicnicTyme and DJ Sober for When Pigs Fly, we couldn't help but be excited for A.Dd 's 2011. They confidently took the city by storm, and When Pigs Fly achieved local legend status thanks to a Kickstarter campaign. Add t ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Worst Musical Trends of 2011
C'mon, guysIt's been quite a year enduring the Top 40 in "The Problem With....". Looking back at the year and my reviews, I've noticed three things about music that I loathe and think need to change. Too many collaborations (feat. Rihanna, Lil' Wayne, Pitbull, Jay-Z...) The less we talk abou ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Dallas Lands One Spot on Travel Leisure Readers' Poll: The Winspear Opera House
Photo by Patrick MichelsSeveral Friends of Unfair Park have chimed in with the results of Travel Leisure's Top New Landmarks readers' poll. And while we're no doubt just one year away from making the Top New Bridges list ... sorry, Schutze is saying, "No." Anyway. Like I was saying, while we're ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Dallas Theater in 2011: Give it a Standing O
What a year it has been. What a fine theater town we're in.
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December 15, 2011
Highway to Ireland
What a year it has been. What a fine theater town we're in.
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December 15, 2011
Dancing in Exile
What a year it has been. What a fine theater town we're in.
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December 28, 2011
10 Albums To Not Overlook In 2012
In case you're already blinded by the golden aura of 2012's major releases -- The Shins, T.I., Soundgarden, Nicki Minaj, Mumford & Sons, Muse, Sigur Ros -- we want to make sure you don't forget about some other sure-to-be-top-notch albums that will see release next year. They may not shine on the ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
After Years of Foreclosures and Frustration, North Oak Cliff Apartments Back on Track
Good, Fulton & Farrell's renderings for the Alta West Davis complexAs conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood A ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Lenny Kravitz, Gigantour With Megadeth and Motorhead and This Week's Show Announcements
Lenny KravitzThe last time we heard from Lenny Kravitz, he was creating his own home video of an impromptu performance with a youth band from First Baptist Church of Lewisville on the streets of New Orleans. The people loved it, which is more than can be said of his 2011 funk album, Black and Whi ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
Be On the Look Out for Large Groups of Hungry Librarians Lurking in Dallas Restaurants
The Magazine of the American Library Association has been compiling information for prospective attendees to its Midwinter Meeting, hosted here in Dallas at the end of January. The most interesting tidbit the head librarians have offered on their blog? A dining list for librarians, by librari ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Daring Young Men — and Women
The Magazine of the American Library Association has been compiling information for prospective attendees to its Midwinter Meeting, hosted here in Dallas at the end of January. The most interesting tidbit the head librarians have offered on their blog? A dining list for librarians, by librari ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Ask Indie Grandpa: The Coachella Lineup
RadioheadWith the release of Coachella's lineup yesterday, we decided to ask our resident curmudgeon and "good old days" music expert, Indie Grandpa, what he thought of the annual desert festival, which has now expanded to two weekends. What do you think about Coachella's lineup? First of a ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
The Problem With... Will.i.am's "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)"
After a merciful summer and fall without The Black Eyed Peas, the group announced they would take a hiatus. My first reaction was relief. However, my second reaction was wordless dread. This means Fergie and Will.i.am's egos are no longer contained by editorial buffers Apl.de.ap and Taboo. Will ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Q&A: Wanz Dover Talks About (Real) Dubstep and His Own Genre, Futro
Check out this week's issue for a feature on The Black Dotz, but multitasker that he is, Dallas DJ/producer/musician Wanz Dover has another project to talk about as well. Blixaboy is Dover's long-running techno/electronic moniker, and he celebrates the release of a new EP, Intro to Futro, on ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Chuck Panozzo of Styx: "I Never Imagined We Would Become Part of Popular Culture"
Formed by twin brothers John and Chuck Panozzo way back in 1961, The Trade Winds were just another bar band from Chicago. Changing the name to Styx helped their fortunes somewhat, but it wasn't until Tommy Shaw joined in 1975 that things really started to happen. After that, Styx started experimen ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
From the Ladies, For the Ladies
Formed by twin brothers John and Chuck Panozzo way back in 1961, The Trade Winds were just another bar band from Chicago. Changing the name to Styx helped their fortunes somewhat, but it wasn't until Tommy Shaw joined in 1975 that things really started to happen. After that, Styx started experimen ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Wu-Tang Clan Fog Out House of Blues
Sara Kerens Wu-Tang Clan House of Blues Friday, January 13 Contrary to popular belief, a majority of Wu-Tang Clan crowded the House of Blues stage Friday night, opening with "Clan in da Front." While most rappers I review these days present their speech in fragments, groups like Wu-Tang Clan ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Tom May of The Menzingers Talks Joe Biden, Being Irish and Playing Pure Punk Rock
On the Impossible Past, Philadelphia quartet The Menzingers' new third effort, is a wail of an album. Angry, passionate and, best of all, literate, the songs resonate with the kind of pure punk spirit that made bands like Black Flag and The Misfits so important to the American indie scene. S ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Glacial Pace of Dallas Library's Top Job Head Hunt Is One Reason the Interim's Out of Here
Corinne HillDallas Public Library system interim head Corinne Hill says she wasn't pushed out. The decision to quit Texas for Tennessee and helm Chattanooga's Public Library system was hers alone. But the city's leisurely search for a new director -- and a blown Thanksgiving deadline -- sure ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Comedy and the Beast
Corinne HillDallas Public Library system interim head Corinne Hill says she wasn't pushed out. The decision to quit Texas for Tennessee and helm Chattanooga's Public Library system was hers alone. But the city's leisurely search for a new director -- and a blown Thanksgiving deadline -- sure ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
A.Dd Plans a Texas Takeover With the Red Bull Skooled Tour
Local rap duo A.Dd continue their ascent, this time enlisting corporate support from Red Bull, who's sponsoring an early February tour that will see them hit six Texas cities in the span of seven days. This will be a coming-out party of sorts, with A.Dd playing shows with some of Texas' mo ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
In Defense Of... Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe"
After a year of being the single most popular woman in hip-hop, Nicki Minaj is getting some competition from all sides in 2012. On her right are jealous industry perennials like Lil' Kim. On her left are blog-buzzed upstarts like Azealia Banks. This might actually turn out good. Competition breeds ... More >>
Culture
January 26, 2012
Gooey Love for Toxic Avenger
From Houston to Broadway on a trail of slime.
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January 26, 2012
Knon's Bluesfest
Saturday, January 28, and Sunday, January 29, at Poor David's Pub
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January 19, 2012
ABT Dances into Dallas
Saturday, January 28, and Sunday, January 29, at Poor David's Pub
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January 19, 2012
Get Animated with Anime
Saturday, January 28, and Sunday, January 29, at Poor David's Pub
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January 27, 2012
"The Guy In the Kitchen at Olive Garden Does Not Care If You Like His Linguine": Henry Rollins Comes to UNT in March
As if there wasn't enough going on that first week of March, Henry Rollins will roll into UNT's Murchison Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 3. And as he often does so well, Rollins will be speaking about music, art and beyond. Check out the video for his thoughts on the current state of mu ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
City Hall's Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, VERY Early Look at Next Fiscal Year's Budget Gap
For those who forgot the phrase "Meet and Confer," you may want to reintroduce yourself to the city's agreement with Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue that saved the city $22 million during the "painful, painful, painful" dog days of 2010, when Mary Suhm had to gut $131 million from ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Matt Pryor of Where's the Band? Talks About Drinking a Lot of Coffee and How Touring Is Like Fight Club
Matt PryorMatt Pryor's main gig is fronting The Get Up Kids, but every year or so, he decides to go the sensitive singer/songwriter route and bring a few friends along, including Bayside's Anthony Raneri and Chris Conley from Saves the Day. They all play under the banner of Where's the Band? ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Comerica Donates $15,000 Worth of E-Books and Readers, Setting a Trend, Rawlings Hopes
Photo by Leslie MinoraMayor Rawlings holds one of 30 new e-book readers donated by Comerica Bank. With its budget shrinking and shrinking over the past several years, the Dallas library system has an acute need for a Daddy Warbucks. Several, actually. More specifically, branches need deep-poc ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Andy Lester on Bad Religion, PJ Harvey and Playing "Jazz" with the Blurries
Dallas five-piece The Blurries are riding high from the accolades of last year's Paper Cuts. With upcoming appearances at Dada and 35 Denton, bassist Andy Lester took some time out to talk about the first shows he saw and played, including when PJ Harvey scared him. What was the first show ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Preview: Machine Head, Monday, February 13, at House of Blues
Dallas five-piece The Blurries are riding high from the accolades of last year's Paper Cuts. With upcoming appearances at Dada and 35 Denton, bassist Andy Lester took some time out to talk about the first shows he saw and played, including when PJ Harvey scared him. What was the first show ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Matt Hillyer of Eleven Hundred Springs Talks About the Evolution of Deep Ellum and Writing Bumper Sticker Songs
In the early '90s, Matt Hillyer and his band, Lone Star Trio, were packing venues with a rootsy sound about the same time that Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond were forming the Old 97's. Since 1998, Hillyer's fronted Eleven Hundred Springs, an old-school honky-tonk band that's released several top-n ... More >>
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