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Chris Hughes is an Engineer Who Knows the Difference Between Correct and True

Every community has its movers and shakers. Some are more outwardly apparent and get the social accolades, while some go unmarked by much of the community that they impact. Musician, college professor, sound engineer, poet and Denton resident Chris Hughes is of the latter category -- motivated by ma ... More >>

Denton's Biographies Are Having More Fun Than You

Biographies came into the Denton scene in the middle part of last year with a seemingly built in audience. Though they are neophytes, both as a band and as individuals (their oldest member is 23), they have a certain experimental bravery informed by their pre-emo idols; those certain David Bazans an ... More >>

It's Pretty Simple: Show Up and Give a Crap. Just Ask Dallas Distortion Music

The amount of new band names they can spin at you is dizzying...and endearing. And most of all, uplifting. They're possibly the biggest fans of modern, often-as-yet-uncategorizable new music this side of the Rio Grande. It's fun to watch to Dallas Distortion Music, aka Matt Vickers and Evan Henry, g ... More >>

The Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: March 21 to 27

We're changing it up here a bit, guys. For the past several months you've seen two blog posts outta me each week, breaking up the area's best concerts into two separate blog posts: Freakin' Weekday and Freakin' Weekend. Starting today, you'll get just one: Freakin' Week; which is a go-to guide for w ... More >>

The Street Styles of 35 Denton

When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. We call it Street Style. See also: The Street Styles of 2012 Name: Stephanie Cabazos Age: 23 At 35 Denton to see: Shannon and the Clams Style influences: Fashion blogs.

Five Ways to Solve the Energy Crisis Preventing Us from Tweeting Photos of Dogs in Shirts at Music Festivals like 35 Denton

The new currency of big festivals is electricity. You, might, if you wanted to make a terrible pun, say it is the current-cy. No, keep reading. It gets better, I promise. A few years back, we all had cell phones that could seemingly hold a charge forever. The trade off for this, of course, is that t ... More >>

The Best of 35 Denton Night Four: Herb, Jameson and Finding Our Limits

Yes, we were there for the music, but if you weren't a local, you were also had a town to explore. The Denton trip is a short one, but for a Dallas lady like me it's generally just for a show. Maybe from the window at Paschall's I can sit and day dream about an afternoon spent roaming the charming D ... More >>

The Best Thing About Denton: Interviews with Vendors, Bands, Policemen and Fans

It's no accident that the name 35 Denton finally settled on features its hometown's name so prominently. The organizers of the festival want nothing so much as to champion Denton, and to that end they have created a gathering place for not just musicians, but fans and businesses from around DFW. We ... More >>

35 Denton Outdoor Stages Being Evacuated Because of Severe Winds and Hail: Live Blog and Schedule Updates

Update: Killer Mike will also be performing at The Hive, at 8 p.m. There is a severe thunderstorm warning in effect in Denton right now, possibly bringing with it high winds and a risk of hail. A.Dd is performing in their scheduled, 5 p.m. slot at one of the outdoor stages, but the Cannabinoids ha ... More >>

The Ten Funniest 35 Denton Band Descriptions

When you go on the 35 Denton website, it becomes clear that most of the bands sent in their own descriptions. Some are standard musical lexicon-run-of-the-mill "Such and such band emerged from the Bumville scene in 19-dickety-two and have been playing since blah blah blah..." type of stuff. Some are ... More >>

The Best from 35 Denton Night One: The Dancing, The Technological Advances and The Artisanal Jello Shots

Work is miles away; the real world is even further. It is festival season. We begin at Hailey's in Denton. Terminator 2 kicks off the official portion of 35 Denton with a flexing of enormous sound. My everything shakes involuntarily, and it is perfect. --Kiernan Maletsky Before there was a note fro ... More >>

The Bands Who Have Played Every 35 Denton Talk About the Festival

The festival now known as 35 Denton first set up its permanent residence in the city five years ago. More than 20 musicians from the area have played all four previous incarnations and will be back again this year. We asked a few of them to share their thoughts on the festival and its growth. See a ... More >>

Your 35 Denton Survival Kit

The Class of 35

Conversations with the bands that have been with 35 Denton from the beginning.

The Hive Minds Behind 35 Denton

North Texas' biggest music festival has a new venue -- and the same old commitment to sonic weirdness.

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, March 4-7

Eels Thursday, March 7, at Granada Theater, $30 Last time Eels came through town to support their third album in a trilogy of concept albums, Tomorrow Morning, they delivered. It appears Mark Oliver Everett has cranked out another one, Wonderful, Glorious, released on Feb. 5. The best thing about Ee ... More >>

Charlie Hunter Gives Us a Glance Behind the Scenes of 35 Denton

In our ongoing quest to shine some light on some of the kindest, most supportive people hiding in the shadows, and behind the scenes, in DFW's music community, there's never a shortage when it comes to the people who bend over backwards for the 35 Denton festival, which is on the horizon next Thursd ... More >>

Armadillo Ale Works First Official Beer Launch at Oak St. Drafthouse This Friday

Local craft brewers Armadillo Ale Works will pour their first official beer at Oak Street Drafthouse in Denton this Friday. See also: - Armadillo Ale Works to Brew at DEBC, Despite No Good Armadillo Stories Founders Yianna Arestis and Bobby Mullins have been brewing under the tutelage of the sta ... More >>

The Rock Royalty Behind Denton's Bars

Trebuchet Exposes their Unusual Process in a Documentary and After-Party Performance

The Film: Denton rock experimenteers Trebuchet have a recording idea, and it sounds a little cockamamie. 'Course, the way they write music isn't exactly some safe-bet formula either, but we'll get to that. Four Nights in December, their new making-of documentary (initially meant to be only music vi ... More >>

The Appleseed Cast are Doing a House Tour and Stopping in Denton

The Appleseed Cast -- spacious, noisy post-rock mainstays from Lawrence, Kansas -- have just announced a house tour of the area, and it includes a stop at Macaroni Island in Denton. Tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance. Capacity is 65, so hop to it. See also: -"No Jerks" At Macaroni Isl ... More >>

Armadillo Ale Works to Brew at DEBC, Despite No Good Armadillo Stories

Yiannis "Yanni" Arestis and Bobby Mullins of Armadillo Ale Works in Denton have been trying to pull this thing together for quite some time. But, building a brewery isn't necessarily easy. Well, backtrack. Building a brewery might actually be the easy part. Building a sustainable and successful beer ... More >>

35 Denton 2013: 111 More Bands Added to the Lineup

35 Denton fast approaches, and today our friends to the north just added a whopping 111 more bands to the bill. This batch is heavy on area bands, including big names like AD.d and The O's and some of our recent favorites such as Pinkish Black. Though there's a little bit of everything. Tickets are ... More >>

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, January 10-13

B.B. King Saturday, January 12, at House of Blues, $65-$125 Blues legend B.B. King is on tour after celebrating the 50th anniversary of signing to ABC-Paramount Records. Fans and blues-lovers alike should not miss out on the rare opportunity to see the now 87-year-old mastermind musician live. He'll ... 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 >>

The Six Best Concerts In DFW This Weekend, December 27-30

The Marked Men Thursday, December 27, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, $5 One of Denton's all-time best punk bands, the Marked Men, are playing at Rubber Gloves with the equally formidable Bad Sports, who are in the process of recording a new album. Since their conception in the early aughts, the ... More >>

A Spune Christmas

Friday, December 14, at Dan's Silverleaf

The Long, Strange Tale of Pee Pee Cat and Fart Dog

Shiny Around the Edges Stay Denton-Centric On Their Latest Album

Since the release of their highly-praised second album, Denton's Dreaming, experimental trio Shiny Around the Edges have been working on their third full-length, The Night Is a Disco, which takes the band's bass-heavy sound in a new direction. Two of the three brains behind the outfit are husband an ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase: A User's Guide

We're taking over Deep Ellum on Saturday. Come along, will you?

Good/Bad Art Collective's Rock Lottery 11 Announced

Denton's historically-popular Good/Bad Art Collective, an artist-run co-operative studio and gallery that was active from 1993 to 2001, comes out of the woodwork each year to organize its Rock Lottery event, and has recently announced that its eleventh one will take place at Dan's Silverleaf on Nov. ... More >>

Scenes from Denton's Friday Night Bites

The city of Denton enjoyed a wildly successful turnout at Friday Night Bites this weekend as more than 3,000 hungry people huddled around the Denton Downtown Transit Center (604 E. Hickory St.), celebrating the A-train's extended Friday service (past midnight!) to and from Dallas. It was bitterly co ... More >>

35 Denton Announces First Round of Acts, Including Roky Erickson and Sleep

Wipe the crust out ya eyes, it's already time for 35 Denton to start making their initial round of announcements for the 2013 fest, which will go down March 7-10. Perpetually blunted metal figureheads Sleep and 13th Floor Elevators' spiritual guide Roky Erickson are among the bigger names announced. ... More >>

The Sword

Tuesday, October 30, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

Dallasites Can Take The A Train To Denton For Friday Nite Bites

The last stop on the A-Train line will host "Friday Night Bites" this weekend. The event marks the return and expansion of late Friday night service of the DCTA train that runs from the Trinity Mills DART station to Denton six days a week. Food trucks will gather in the Denton Transit Center while ... More >>

RTB2, Nervous Curtains, Ice Eater at LaGrange

Watch: Vulgar Fashion's Violitionist Session

Denton electronic duo Vulgar Fashion just cut their Violitionist Session, and the Q&A that follows is fairly illuminating, in terms of the spirit of the local scene, getting older and the experience of making music. Also, fingers crossed that they can indeed get sponsored by Virgin Airlines. Says ... More >>

Five Denton Bands You Should Get To Know

Fall in Denton is a breeding ground for music.The town receives its annual boatload of fresh faces dropped at its doorstep, from college freshman to young couples laying roots. I've sifted through the crap to bring you a list of five new Denton bands you should know. Daniel Markham A recent Lubbo ... More >>

A Comedy of Errors: The Fumbling of the Denton Time Capsule

When Denton musician Glen Farris arrived at the corner of S. Locust and E. Hickory Street on the morning of September 12 and uploaded an Instagram photo of Denton's familiar First State Bank plaque, people embraced it and spread its viral joy. The brass plaque observed September 12 as the 100-year ... More >>

Fishboy, New Science Projects at Macaroni Island

Monday, September 17, at Macaroni Island

Doug Burr Diagnosed With West Nile Virus, Not Too Worried About It

This morning a tweet from Denton singer-songwriter Doug Burr showed up on my Twitter home page. In it he used the hashtag #WestNileSurvivor. I called him up to see if he had, in fact, survived the West Nile Virus, and he confirmed that for about a week he suffered from flu-like symptoms."Sure, flu-l ... More >>

DART's Fares are Going Up

After a veritable avalanche of public comments on Twitter and in 18 town hall meetings, DART's board of directors voted yesterday to hike -- er, "streamline" -- its fares. The changes go into effect on December 3. The cost of a local ride jumps up from $1.75 to $2.50, with a corresponding hike in t ... More >>

Exploring Quantum Physics on Meatless Monday

In celebration (or a painful reminder) of the fall semester starting this week at universities around the Dallas region, let's talk Meatless Monday in North Texas' own mini-Austin: Denton. Home to what very well could be millions of bushy beards, Denton is one of my favorite places on the planet a ... More >>

UNT May Merge its Denton and Fort Worth Schools

The University of North Texas System just announced that it's considering merging its flagship Denton campus with the UNT Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The UNT System Board of Regents will decide Monday whether to authorize a study of the merger, which would then require approval by the stat ... More >>

Denton's Mellow Mushroom: The Best Way To Gain Weight on Meatless Monday

Going meatless to rid your colon of pounds of rotting red meat? Good choice. Going meatless is (apparently) an excellent way to keep your cholesterol in check and probably avoid the cancer. So good choice, citizen, way to take charge of your health. You also may want to avoid Denton's Mellow Mushroo ... More >>

Denton's Taqueria La Sabrocita Beats Taco Lady In Fake Taco Battle

We have a conundrum on our hands. Denton's taco state has long been ruled by the incredible flavors of the Taco Lady (1101 E. McKinney St.). Actually, I think the full, legal name is Taco Lady Behind the Laundromat. Of course, this is no jab at our beloved taco eatery; they really are exceptional. B ... More >>

Meatless Monday Conquered At Seven Mile Cafe

While I wait for the USDA to sort out its feelings about Meatless Monday with breath that is most certainly bated, I continue the valiant search for meatless dishes that don't suck and aren't cheese nachos from 7-Eleven. This week, I couldn't ignore the dull roar of ballyhoo any longer and decided t ... More >>

Shiny Around the Edges on Death Grips and Patti Smith

See also: Oil Boom on the magic of Donnie and Joe Emerson See also: Vinyl Fantasy's Nathan Johnson on Sunn O))) We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't ... More >>

Satans of Soft Rock, Ryan Thomas Becker at Common Table

Thursday, July 5, at the Common Table

If Your Mouth Could Drive, It Would Go To These Five Places

Maybe you've noticed, the Dallas-Fort Worth region is huge. Everything outside of the urban core takes an hour if you're lucky. Unless you need to hop on LBJ, in which case BLAAAAGGHHH. But now that gas has dropped a few cents and it's not quite hot as the devil's balls yet, we think a nice little d ... More >>