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The New Outpost American Tavern as Campo Part 2: The Laid Back Sequel

When Campo in Oak Cliff opened in back November of 2011, the creative modern cuisine at the hands of chef Matt McCallister was widely praised. Yet, three months later when Scott Reitz learned that the Stephan Pyles-trained chef already had his eye on his own project, Retiz asked the question "Campo ... More >>

The Kessler's Melissa Hennings Tends Bar and Shoots Your Favorite Bands

See also: Kessler front-of-house man Paul Quigg finds a niche in Oak Cliff Melissa Davis Hennings stumbled into photography, really: Her first shot was The Black Keys. But taking photos of local bands isn't how she makes ends meet. She's the bar manager at The Kessler, an ideal gig for someone with ... More >>

Smokey But No Fire at WaterTower Theatre, While Amphibian's Understudy Underwhelms

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #79-60

Best Texas songs, #100-80 The Spotify playlist for songs #79-60 79. Lift to Experience, "Falling From Cloud 9" From one of the best albums of any North Texas act in recent history, "Falling From Cloud 9" is one of the more accessible songs on 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads. It's probably t ... More >>

Merle Haggard Tells It Like It Is

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-not ... More >>

Songs For Your Casey Anthony Trial Hangover

​OK, so it wasn't the trial of the century or anything. But with planking beginning to become passe, all the good sports either in their off-season or lockout, and no high-profile Robert Blake/Phil Spector/OJ Simpson murder cases going on, the Casey Anthony murder trial thing provided plenty to c ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton Can't Hear Enough Frank Sinatra, John Mellencamp or Third Eye Blind.

Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton​Delightfully catchy.That's exactly how you can describe the folk-flavored indie pop being made by the boy-girl duo Smile Smile. Members Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme are riding high on the success of their Kirtland Records-released sophomore offering Truth on Tape ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Interpol at the Palladium, Widespread Panic at Verizon, Don Williams at the Majestic and Bones Thugs-N-Harmony at the House of Blues

What a packed Wednesday evening. And that's not even counting Your Texas Rangers playing in their first ever World Series game. Crazy, right?

A View From The Judges Table: Night One of the Shiner Rising Star Semi-Finals

​Shiner Rising Star Competition: Semi-Finals, Night One.Hat Tricks, LewisvilleSeptember 23, 2010After eight weeks worth of first-round performances, and then last week's wild-card round, the semi-finals of the annual Shiner Rising Star contest, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range and Shiner Bock Beer ... More >>

Q&A: Stan Ridgway Talks Voodoo, Ethel Merman and Covering "Love Will Keep Us Together"

Stan Ridgeway​Stan Ridgway will always be known, for better or worse, as they guy who sings "Mexican Radio." As the founding member of the legendary new wave act Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway found a musical niche all to himself--some bizarre world where Johnny Cash sang show tunes in the desert. From 1 ... More >>

A View From the Judges Table: Week 4 of The Shiner Rising Star contest.

​Shing Rising Star Competition: Week 4August 12, 2010City TavernAnother Thursday night in the Metroplex meant another evening of the Shiner Rising Star contest last night. Whereas the majority of the competing bands in the previous weeks have been North Texas products, last night featured a couple ... More >>

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Border Poet

Over The Weekend: Second Annual Dia de Los Toadies Festival

Dia de Los ToadiesRough Creek Ranch, Glen RoseAugust 29, 2009Better than: planting your ass at a sports bar in the asphalt jungle. Keep an eye out for a slideshow from the event, coming later today.​ Rough Creek Ranch is a scenic patch of olive Texas prarie centered around a modest ... More >>

Star Wars Art and Johnny Cash Tees. Oh, Like You Need a Reason to Go to Oak Cliff.

Jonathan Kimbrell​Been spending quite a bit of time in Oak Cliff of late, and if you need me 'round 6 tomorrow eve, no doubt I'll be accompanying the 6-year-old who lives in my house to The Soda Gallery for the Star Wars Fan Appreciation Art Show -- otherwise known as "These Aren't the Droids You' ... More >>

Agave Tex-Mex: Good, Bad and Ugly

Almost Blue? Hardly, As Elvis Costello Brings His Secret to Grand Prairie on September 2.

I spent way much of the wee small hours of this very morning listening to Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane, his country record due June 2 and one produced by Fort Worth's own T Bone Burnett. It's more or less Almost Blue 2, though a wee bit more hushed and rushed--a jingle-jangle ramb ... More >>

Branded Man

The DSO welcomes The Hag

On Hold Time, M. Ward Further Establishes Himself as a Student of Music

The Road Goes On Forever...

And the stories never end with Robert Earl Keen

Weekend Roundup: The Black Crowes, One Percent Band, Slow Burners

If you read our Good Friday column, you know there was a lot going on this weekend. However, we were obviously too busy actually seeing it to record and post it. But here's a sampler platter of what the weekend in the world of Dallas music was like. A yummy sampler platter. Skip the carrot sticks. T ... More >>

ACL: Sunny Sweeney Yes, Vampire Weekend No

The Blues Period

Louisiana Woman

Loretta Lynn visits Bass Hall

Developing Legends

Hanson's exhibition give applause to the past

The First Stage

So you want to be a rock superstar, huh? First you've gotta find a home for your sound

Film 2007: Revenge of the Nerds

Judd Apatow's pretty good year

Rhinestone Cowboy

Manuel visits Fort Worth

Country to the Bone

James Hand sings it straight

Super Unknown

Hinson slays the Granada

He Will Survive

Cornell outlived grunge and didn't sink "Like a Stone"

Stuck in the Midlake With You

Long-time Listener, First-time Caller

Signing Off

The Handsome Family

Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)

Parlor Music

Everybody Has a Dark Side, but nobody's sounds as timeless as the Theater Fire

Sound Man

Sage Francis

A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)

Top Dog

Plus: Bad Medicine; Sack of Kittens

Bolton No More in ’04

And other New Year’s resolutions we’re not sticking with

Caught Red Headed

Willie Nelson is always on my mind

Girl Power

The Gals of the Big "D" Jamboree remain the sweethearts of the wrestling ring

Scene, Heard

A good idea...in theory

'Sunday Morning,' coming up

Kris Kristofferson has lived a dozen lifetimes, and they keep on coming

James Blackwood and The Light Crust Doughboys

Red River Valley Memories: The Texas Swing Sessions Vol. 2 (self-released)

Town and country

Whiskeytown and No Depression pour into town

Out Here

Grading on a curve

This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?

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