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Denton's All Stars Pay Tribute to Jason Molina: Preview

The passing of Jason Molina in March was met with much sadness amongst the musician community of Texas -- Molina had a wide influence on many in the state. Now a group of Texas based artist have teamed with curator Randy Reynolds to create Lone Star Horizons: A Texas Tribute to Jason Molina. See a ... More >>

Gutterth Productions Co-Founder Michael Briggs has the Coolest Living Room in Denton

At 16, Michael Briggs was a Deep Ellum kid hanging with the late-night, all-ages coffee crowd at old favorite Insomnia Café. Briggs has come a long way for the cause since then, running a great local music podcast called The Violitionist Sessions, which has spotlighted over 100 artists from our own ... More >>

Collect All 10: Some of Your Favorite Denton Musicians In Stat Form

They make our drinks, run our sound, teach our kids, ring us up for our takeout, serve our coffee and share bills with international rock stars. They are the face of the Denton music scene and the reason why our town gets written about. Here's a small sample of our many fine representatives and thei ... More >>

Korn, Boots Electric, Pure X, and This Week's Show Announcements

​It would be a stretch to say that this week's show announcements are all that strong. There are some notable ones -- though perhaps not for the right reasons. For instance: On Sunday, November 20, the Palladium Ballroom has Korn and a handful of opening acts with names that don't mean anythi ... More >>

Show Announcements: True Widow, 35 Conferette Schedule, The Hope Trust, Bill Frisell, KT Tunstall, Portugal. The Man, Black Label Society, Slobberbone & More!

Steve VisneauTrue Widow​It's been three years since local slow-grinding act True Widow released their self titled debut album to local acclaim. But their debut grabbed the attention of Kemodo Records, who signed the band just last year. And now they are poised to release their follow up, the ridic ... More >>

Gutterth Announces Plans To Release Third Free Compilation Double-Disc in Conjunction With 35 Conferette Showcase on March 10

​There are a few reasons why the folks behind Gutterth Productions are perennial nominees in the Best Music Advocate(s) category of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards -- the shows they put on, the records they put out, their general fandom of all things local music.But, surely, this too comes ... More >>

New Science Projects Is Aimless On Purpose.

35 Conferette Adds More Acts, Including New Sub Pop Supergroup Featuring Michael Cera

If nothing else, Michael Cera is cooler than Danny Masterson, right?​After announcing last week the addition of another 135 bands to its bill, you'd think the folks up at Denton's 35 Conferette might need a breather -- or, I dunno, maybe some time to focus on the actual logistics of the fest, sinc ... More >>

Gutterth Productions' Michael Briggs Launches New Venture For Intimate Recorded Sessions

​Yesterday, man-about-local-music Michael Briggs dropped me a line to give me the heads up on his latest venture -- just another in a long line that already includes show booking and promotion, podcasting, running a record label and releasing awesome Denton-centric compilation albums, all under hi ... More >>

35 Conferette Adds A Whopping 135 More Bands To Bill, Including A Whole Slew of Locals

Big things happening today in the world of 35 Conferette -- bigger news, even, than the fact that the-festival-formerly-known-as-North-by-35 now has an actual website to call its own (!). Bigger, too, than the really awesome web teaser/advertisement that the fest's organizers have created to promote ... More >>

Good Friday: Alter Bridge, The Gourds, Slow Burners, West End Motel, Novaak, The O's, Derailers, Styx, Dub Assembly and More!

This guitar solo, brought to you by Ed Hardy.​With the holidays behind us, we can welcome back our regularly scheduled touring bands. Not the best way to kick off the first weekend of the year, though, is tonight's performance by former Creed members, Alter Bridge, at Trees. Yes, turds will be sho ... More >>

Show Announcements: Prince, Menkena, Sarah Jaffe, Toro Y Moi, Victor Wooten, Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Hayes Carll, Underoath, New Science Projects & More!

​As Robert already mentioned a few days ago, Prince will be here soon, reliving his much blogged-about 1984 concert at Reunion Arena on Friday, February 4. One minor snag, though: Reunion Arena was demolished a few years back. No matter -- the show must go on. Prince will set up a huge tent on the ... More >>

Show Announcements: Sorta Reunion, Bitter End, Fair To Midland, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sarah Jaffe, Murder By Death, Ozomatli, Sevendust, Jeff Beck, Yanni and More.

Sorta​It's no secret that the folks over at AllGood Cafe have always loved the band Sorta, the now-defunct Dallas supergroup that called it quits shortly after the untimely and shocking death of Dallas music legend Carter Albrecht. Since that breakup, the band's members haven't disappeared from th ... More >>

Show Announcements: Wu-Tang Clan, Old 97's, Centro-matic, The Queers, Devil Wears Prada, Robert Earl Keen, The Goards, Hinder, Alien Ant Farm and More!

The Wu-Tang Bunch​The biggest show announcement we've had in a while--no, not you, Aaron Neville--is the Wu-Tang Clan's just-announced show at the Granada Theater on Friday, December 10. Although billed as an all-original line-up, there is a certain issue with one Old Dirty Bastard, who passed awa ... More >>

Free Week Welcomes Students Back to Denton

Show Announcements: Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Free Week at Rubber Gloves, Joanna Newsom, Los Campesinos!, Hanson, Futureheads, We Are Scientists, White Denim, Trail Of Dead and More!

Bush reunites, forgets to floss.​It looks like this week's edition of Show Announcements could have been written in 1995 thanks to two big shows coming to town. On Friday, October 22, a newly reformed Bush will be passing through town at the Palladium Ballroom. And I'm sure everyone over at Kirtla ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Delmore Pilcrow -- "Unsigned Letter"

Delmore Pilcrow's Chris Garver​Earlier this month, in a review of Delmore Pilcrow's sophomore release, Keep An Eye, Kelly Dearmore got to the heart of the band's sound right at the start of his take:If The Strokes are considered a garage-rock band, and Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears are re ... More >>

Good Friday: Centro-Matic, Sir Silky, Ben Folds, El Gato, Sundress, Eluvium, Sleep Whale and others

Centro-matic​If you're even vaguely familiar with music in Dallas, the word "Centro-matic" has almost certainly worked its way into your vocabulary. You are probably familiar, too, with the fun affairs their concerts tend to be.But if the number of times you've seen them is somewhere in the double ... More >>

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Keep an Eye (Self-released)

Show Announcements: Summer Series, Wildflower Festival

Patrick MichelsThe King Bucks at last year's Barefoot At The Belmont Series​We are standing on the brink of the summer season, and with the unbearable heat comes the obligatory summer outdoor live music series. The heat is inevitable, but the Belmont Hotel and the AT&T Performing Arts Center a ... More >>

NX35 Releases Preliminary List of Performers

​There's a nice little write-up in this morning's Denton Record-Chronicle about last week's NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan's Silverleaf. But, if we're being completely honest, it's not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that's got our attention. Why's that? Ah: The piece inc ... More >>

Good Friday: MFM, Jacob Wick, Yells At Eels, Matthew Gray, Slobberbone, Misfits And More

​If you're not too busy on this Black Friday weekend--collecting everything you're owed and striking all the big red words from your little black book--you ought to go catch some live music. First, the shows we've already mentioned. Tonight, Cursive plays at Hailey's in Denton and Ryan Bingham and ... More >>

Jenn Gooch Warbles Her Way Into Denton's Heart

Shiny Around the Edges Heads From Little D to Big D

Good Friday: VEGA, Til We're Blue Or Destroy, Pinebox Serenade, Record Hop, Ella Minnow, Matthew Gray Delves..., ST 37

​This is one of the biggest music weekends in recent memory, and it seems like there's something for everyone regardless of budget or musical taste. First up is the Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cougar show at Quiktrip Park in Grand Prairie. There are still tickets available, according to the Air ... More >>

Good Friday: The Independence Day Edition

So, first and foremost: Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everyone! Now, let's talk about the weekend in music, per protocol. As always, the stuff we already discussed up first.Tonight's pretty busy, actually: Asylum Street Spankers, Porterdavis and The O's play the Granada; The Edge gets the 20th Ann ... More >>

Yesterday At NX35: Night Two? Blame It On The Rain.

Blame the rain. Blame the cold. Blame a competing Denton house show. Blame the traffic accidents on Interstate 35 that pushed the commute from Dallas to nearly two hours. Blame whatever you want, but, in the early evening hours Friday night, the venues participating in NX35 were noticeably, ja ... More >>

NX35's Most Exciting Bands, Chosen by Organizer Chris Flemmons

Sounds Are Active Releases Denton Band Compilation Mixtape

A few weeks back, we told you about a soon-to-be-released digital compilation album of (mostly) Denton-based acts that Shiny Around The Edges' Michael and Jennifer Seman had assembled for the indie label Sounds Are Active. Well, 20 Bands/74.4 Minutes! is now up for download right here. In the accomp ... More >>

BreakThruRadio Features Denton In Its "Spotlight On The City"

Over on BreakThruRadio.com, there's oh, about 80 minutes of pure bliss for Denton music fans.The web site has decided to feature good ol' Denton, TX, this week in its "Spotlight On The City" feature, which you can stream at BTR's site. Or, since its basically just a podcast, you can get it and down ... More >>

Hydrant Cafe is Denton's Latest Great Venue

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