Audio and Video Devices

If Your Sludge Metal Bass Amp Might Not Electrocute You, You're Doing it Wrong: A Guide

So, you want to be in a band, right? The thing is, you have little to no ability or skill with a guitar. Me too! There is, however, one easy way to go about this that doesn't really require learning to actually play your instrument properly. All you have to do is check a few boxes up front, and then ... More >>

So, What's On Mitt Romney's iPod?

Over the last two nights of the Republican National Convention, both Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney have taken the time to mention the music on Romney's iPod, with Ryan, a noted Rage Against the Machine fan, saying, "There are the songs on his iPod whic ... More >>

Dallas Police Chief Announces Policy Shifts After Fallout from James Harper Shooting

On the Dallas Police Department's Facebook page this afternoon, Chief David Brown announced in a lengthy post measures to "positively impact officer safety and improve public trust and confidence." The announcement comes in the wake of the July 24 shooting death of James Harper and a spate of other ... More >>

How I Learned To Stop Worrying About the Vibrator in My Mailbox and Love Myself

Nancy Drew and the Mysterious Case of the Vibrating Mailbox​When a vibrator mysteriously ended up in my mailbox recently, I got scared. I checked my apartment for video cameras and recording devices. I asked friends if they were pulling a prank on me. Had I "accidentally" ordered one in the ea ... More >>

Cityplace Trolley Turntable Takes Its First Spin. It's Adorable. Even With Lasers.

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe Green Dragon takes its inaugural spin.​Back in June, the plot of land near the Cityplace DART station at Haskell and N. Central Expressway was a vacant lot with a big hole and a big plan. It would be the future site of a trolley turntable, a novelty attraction to be ... More >>

Searching for Consistency and a Better Playlist at Craft, The Subject of This Week's Review

​I've been alluding for a while now to a restaurant whose play list rubbed me the wrong way. Turns out the mystery restaurant with the incongruous soundtrack is Craft Dallas, whose music selection is completely uncomplimentary to the scene it's trying to set. The restaurant's manager would do ... More >>

Brian Fiegelman Runs Sound For The O's on the Road, and House Of Blues at Home

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but the people who make the scene move.Brian Fiegelman​Brian Fiegelman came to DFW from the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. His friend Scotty Tee ... More >>

Trolley Trestle Lowered into Cityplace Turntable, Positioned For Influx of More Charming Vehicles (People Too)

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe construction team lowers the turntable trestle at Cityplace Station.​For 14 years, a salvaged portion of a Southern Pacific Railroad bridge from 1909 gathered dust, waiting to be recycled as main support of the trolley turntable now under construction at Cityplace Statio ... More >>

Last Night: A-Trak, Kid Sister and The Gaslamp Killer at Trees

A-Trak, Kid Sister, The Gaslamp KillerTreesApril 19, 2011Better than: a rousing game of DJ Hero.Pete FreedmanA-Trak at Trees last night.​ There weren't any grand entrances at Trees last night. Mostly, there were just transitions.And, in many regards, that was fitting. This show, after all, was cur ... More >>

Rangers Announce "Significant" Upgrades to Sound Vision at Ballpark in Arlington

​On the other side is the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, in which the Texas Rangers detail " a series of significant improvements in the video, technology, and audio systems at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for the 2011 season." (None of which involve Cliff Lee.) The comp ... More >>

Q&A: Gareth Campesinos Talks About Life on the Road and Creative Giveaway Ideas

Los Campesinos​The members of Los Campesinos, a spastic indie-punk band from Wales, are in the middle of their final US tour of the year. With two full-length records and a handful of EPs under their belts, this fun eight-piece band is quickly gaining fans all over the world.The band is at the hal ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Rusko and Dub Assembly at Trees

Rusko, Dub AssemblyTreesApril 30, 2010 Better than: anything that has been at Trees since its re-opening.Rusko​This was the Trees of old. By 9:30 p.m., the room was already buzzing and already a quarter full; the line outside already wrapped to the parking lot between the venue and Franzini's ... More >>

Eyedea & Abilities

Friday, November 20,at Hailey's Club in Denton

KTVT's Got Itself a New UHF Signal

​Last week came word that KTVT-Channel 11 had gone to the Federal Communications Commission to get a new frequency following the digital transition. And why was such an emergency petition necessary? Because, according to KTVT docs on file with the FCC, the local CBS affiliate "has received thousan ... More >>

Kind of Blu-Ray: Blockbuster Teams Up with Samsung for Yet More OnDemand Delivery

Late last year, Blockbuster introduced its first on-demand delivery system: the 2Wire MediaPoint Digital Media Player, about which critics weren't wild but oh well better than nothing and well at least the company's trying. Then came the TiVo deal in March, which did nothing to stop the company's s ... More >>

Party...For A Change

Today, the words "political party" have double meaning. And, forget partying like its 1999. Ten years later, America is celebrating the here and now, and a few local restaurants are joining the fun. Lakewood's Café Lago hosts an Obama Bash from 6 to 9 p.m., tonight with a buffet, live jazz, TV co ... More >>

Could Cell Phones Topple iPods?

Could your cellphone's ability to stream music render the iPod obsolete? Quite possibly.

New Candidate Joins Race To Replace Mitchell Rasansky on Council

As we mentioned here a couple months ago, Ann Margolin seemed like a tough candidate to beat in May for Mitchell Rasansky's open city council seat. However, comments she made to us about a certain $520 million boondoggle may have sparked Mayor Tom and others to find someone who will fall in line an ... More >>

Noise Abatement, or: Solving the Ruckus Over Annette Strauss Artist Square

Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA buildin ... More >>

Matt Kadane Hits Shuffle For AV Club

Terrible Reception: Dallas Man Makes a Federal Case Over His TV Set

Lewis Black Is Angry About EVERYTHING, DAMN IT!

Looking For Funds, John Freeman Puts Sloppyworld PA System Up For Sale

Good Records Decides Records (and CDs... and DVDs) Aren't So Good

Remembering DJ Frantic

The turntablist's friends and collaborators will remember him for his love of the craft

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Mini-Spinners

Tweeners the Goldfish Girls can werk it

Getting a Charge from Local Airports

Super Size Your Super Bowl

Open Letter To The Jerks Who Broke Into My Car Last Night

Cruisin' with Cuban

Norah Jones is "Thinking About You"

RAKE Me

Dallas DJs drop two needles on the record and change turntablism forever

Selling Jesus

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about.

iPeep

With the season's biggest video player, music lovers can watch good videos again

Burning the Faithful

New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left

How Grand It Will Be

The grossly underutilized Granada Theater gets a makeover

Advance Screening

Pssst, wanna see a movie that isn't out yet...legally?

Best Alternative Club

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

Best Free Kids Outing

Founder's Plaza at DFW Airport

Best Bet to (Shockingly) Still be in Business by Next Year's Best of Dallas Issue

Blue

Product Placement

Volkswagen + Apple = Good news for Polyphonic Spree

Beat the Rap

Suburban cops to kids: Turn that rap stuff down

Men From g.o.d.

Why are these Dallas high-tech hotshots chucking the action, gore and riches of the computer gaming world to hawk a genteel digital magazine?

Best CD store (used)

CD World

Invisibl touch

The Invisibl Skratch Piklz are so good, they had to retire -- sort of

I don't want my MP3

Or: How the Internet could kill the album

CDs on steroids

See your world on a small screen at the 11th Annual Dallas Video Festival