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30 Of the Most Kick-Ass DJ Residencies In DFW in Every Genre

It's nearly impossible to list them all, but what you will find below is a list of more than 15 awesome DFW-area DJs and musicians with 30 collectively kick-ass DJ residencies in your city. These residencies span almost every single day of the week and feature damn near every type of music imaginabl ... More >>

The Best Ways for Musicians to Get Health Insurance

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

In Berlin, Greatness Emerges from the Year's First Major Film Festival

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

Calexico at Granada Theater: Review

Last night, Calexico delivered a performance as expansive and dramatic as the Southwestern landscape and people from which the band draws so much of its inspiration. In turn the audience -- and the Granada itself -- gave back to the band all required to make the evening a memorable one for the perfo ... More >>

Los Lobos at the Kessler Theater: Review

Los Lobos is one of a handful of American bands that have sustained a notable and distinguished presence on the American music scene for over 30 years. A crossover band before the term was coined, they write music that has been a bridge between Mexican and American cultures ever since they emerged f ... More >>

The Ten Best Nick Cave Songs

People of Dallas! One of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation is coming to our fair city in March, and the tickets haven't sold out yet. I know they're $80, but come on. He's very unlikely to come back again, and for some reason that no one can explain he's not only started his entire U ... More >>

Doctor With Borders

The Cold War drama Barbara is one for the ages

A Sneak Peek into Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery

I have a bread baker on my holiday list, which means I've had a solid excuse for spending time researching various cookbooks the past few days. First, I landed on Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. It seemed a perfect fit for the baker who was not quite novice, but ... More >>

Reggie Watts Gives Hair Care Tips, Loves America (The Band)

Reggie Watts brings his bag of tricks, which includes beatboxing, loops and and songs about the interminable depths of a woman's purse, to Denton on Saturday, as part of the Hot Wet Mess. It's a rare chance to catch him in North Texas, and an even rarer chance to see him play next to a water slide. ... More >>

The Curious Case Of The Underrated British Psych Band: A Short Conversation With The Telescopes' Stephen Lawrie

A few weeks ago, Will Kapinos, formerly of Jetscreamer and currently of Dim Locator, sent out an email explaining two shows The Telescopes are playing in DFW tonight and tomorrow, and how they came to be: "Our friends in the Cush played in the UK last year and met those guys.They asked the Cush if ... More >>

Ronan Harris of VNV Nation Talks Living in Germany and Hating on David Guetta

Even after more than 20 years in the music business, Ronan Harris of VNV Nation still rambles on like a kid half his age. Enthusiastic and confident in the extreme, Harris believes (correctly) that the music he and partner Mark Jackson create is as important now as when it first came back in 1990. ... More >>

Cheers Meets the Cotton Club: Sandaga 813 Bridges the Old and New in Expo Park

The doors just opened on January 3 and the paint is barely dry, but Sandaga 813 has a long history leading up to their current revival of the former Minc space in Exposition Park. Co-owner Darryl "Sandaga" Thomas has been in Dallas 26 years and spent a portion of that time hosting an underground j ... More >>

Texas Theatre Announces the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Which Will Hit Big Screens June 2012

​About six months ago, says Eric Steele, one of the partners in the Texas Theatre on Jefferson, he and his comrades decided that in a city full of film festivals, it was time for one more. But this one, they vowed, would be different. This one would have "a fringe flavor," its roster full of title ... More >>

News and Notes: Seryn Gets More Paste Love, Will Johnson Gets NPR'd and Much, Much More

Stand up and take a bow, Seryn.​Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year's best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton's Own Seryn's album, This Is Where We Are. The baroque ... More >>

Kuby's Sausage House at 8 a.m.: It's Never Too Early for Encased Meat

Photos by Jonas Luster​It's 8 a.m., and it smells deliciously of cooked meats, fresh bread, and sausages. It wasn't my nose alone that brought me here at this hour, though; Kuby's was first and most-often mentioned when I asked around for places to purchase sausages in Dallas. Inside the stor ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center steams up the Wyly with Cabaret

Live Girly Show?

Hanna: Virtuoso Filmmaking, Retro Politics in a Crisp Thriller.

Rob Allyn Used to Run Local Politics. Now He's Making Movies in Indonesia.

Rob Allyn​Longtime observers of the local political landscape probably hear the name Rob Allyn and think of the Trinity River Corridor Project (Schutze insists it was Allyn who came up with those solar-powered water taxis), myriad mayoral campaigns, those Dubya ads attacking John McCain's environm ... More >>

Josh T. Pearson and His Painful Masterpiece.

Unknown: Liam Neeson, Aging Brutishly, Can't Save a Tepid Thriller.

Q&A: Formerly Dallas-Based Electro Artist Maceo Plex Tells Us Why He Moved To Spain, And How The Euro Scene Compares To Ours.

Eric Estornel, best known as Maetrik, is a formerly Dallas- and now Valencia, Spain-based producer who left the US for the northern Spanish beach city in 2009. After years of the same very legitimate complaints that many Dallas techno producers had about not being understood or appreciated in their ... More >>

Somewhere: There's a Downside to Celebrity Living.

Video: Josh T. Pearson Performs "Country Dumb" From His Upcoming Solo Debut

Scott HartzlerJosh T. Pearson​A few weeks ago, our ears perked up when we first heard that former Lift To Experience frontman Josh T. Pearson is planning to release his long awaited solo debut Last Of The Country Gentlemen on Mute Records in March of 2011.Sure, it's been years since Pearson lived ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Blind Guardian at Trees, Jay Brannan at The Loft and Mini Mansions at The Cavern

Tuesday evening brings a couple of decent triple-bills and a tandem of sensitive singer-songwriters to our area for your musical enjoyment. Which is as good an excuse as any to leave the house tonight.

Josh Pearson Announces Spring Release For Solo Debut, Last Of The Country Gentlemen

Steve GullickJosh T. Pearson​It's been years since Josh T. Pearson's so-called heyday, when Lift To Experience's blistering guitar assault overwhelmed the eardrums of concert-goers and his scarecrow-like frame stood nearly as tall as the ceilings of area clubs.There are many tall tales of what he' ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Bonjay at Rubber Gloves, Never Shout Never at the House of Blues and Redstone Hall at The Aardvark

A rather low key collection of shows highlight this hump day evening. Choose wisely.

A Retreat From the Screech of Dissonant Days, or: My Rabbi Says To Knock Off the Blogging

Rabbi David Stern​Ran into my rabbi last Sunday -- David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear -- and asked him: "You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I'd like to post to Unfair Park." He grinned and said sure -- grinned, I'm sure, because it w ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See The Mike Dillon & Earl Harvin Show at The Kessler Theater on Saturday

Earl Harvin​Two of the top percussionists to ever come out of North Texas, Mike Dillon and Earl Harvin, have been teaming up for years to do their one-of-a-kind jazz performances. But the performances in the region have been few and far between of late--ever since Harvin moved to Berlin.But the tw ... More >>

Good Friday: Mike Dillon & Earl Harvin, Grassfight, The Phuss, Tera Melos, Black Tie Dynasty, Ishi, Bassnectar, Eisley, Sorta Dylan, Clint Black, Dignan & more

Earl Harvin​This weekend has some pretty interesting shows. One of the most exciting is Jazz at The Kessler with The Mike Dillon & Earl Harvin Show at The Kessler Theater. Dallas drumming legend Earl Harvin makes his return to town after several years of living in Los Angeles and Berlin, with ... More >>

Lebanon: A Claustrophobic Look at War's Horrors.

Good Friday: The Labor Day Long Weekend Edition

"Yazz Flute!" At Amsterdam Bar​It's Labor Day weekend, and the parties will be happening all over town. One of the most interesting is the Expo Park Jazz Festival's "The Many Faces of Jazz." This two-day jazz festival will happen at Amsterdam Bar on Sunday and Monday and will feature 14 local and ... More >>

Farmers Shocked (And Kinda Happy) to Hear City's Considering Privatizing Farmers Market

Flickr user: Judson Weinsheimer​Last night we told you that City Manager Mary Suhm's considering letting someone else manage Dallas Farmers Market. And, well, news of the market going private, just maybe, is news to the farmers. "Are you serious?" said J.T. Lemley when we asked him how he felt ab ... More >>

Summer Brew Smackdown With Karma Ale, Foret Saison And Schneider Hefe-Weizen

Jesse HugheyForet Organic Saison​As if it weren't hot enough already, summer officially began Monday. Temperatures are already steadily hitting the upper 90s and triple-digits mark. Delicious as a thick, dark, high-ABV Russian Imperial Stout or barleywine served just shy of room temperature may be ... More >>

Art Raid

Mother, Can You Spare A Recliner?

THE CRAZY IVANS

Dive! (Self-released)

The Hunchback of PDNB

See the work of Igor Malijevsky

Booka Shade |Henrik Schwartz |Ricardo Villalobos

DJ Kicks (!K7)|Live (!K7)|Fabric 36 (Fabric)

Diva Alert!

Ross and her fab 'fro grace Nokia

This Other Winner

The Modern examines secret lives on-screen

Picture Pages

Wake Up

David LaChapelle's work Rizes in the Goss Gallery

Baby, I'm-A Want You

The Modern knows what Pretty looks like

Crying for Clooney

Babies ogle George at the Angelika

Pac Rim Rumba

Fusion weds Asian and Tex-Mex and creates a happy marriage

Hip Hop

Naan wants to bring "edgy" to Plano

Men-O-Pause

Can women meet a decent guy in a bar?