Kenny Withrow

The GrandMothers of Invention - The Kessler Theater - 8/14/12

The GrandMothers of Invention, The Tidbits The Kessler Theater Tuesday, August 14 Tuesday night, a storm brought much-needed rain to the Metromess, and a van brought the GrandMothers of Invention to the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff for two sets of impeccably-performed music from the Frank Zappa can ... More >>

Video: A Look at La Rondalla, the Oak Cliff Cultural Center's Student Guitar Program

Dennis Gonzalez just passed along this mini-documentary on La Rondalla, the Oak Cliff Cultural Center's free guitar program for kids ages 11-15, of which he's the Dean. It's been going on since 2010, and is aimed, much like next week's Girls Rock Dallas camp, at those who might not be able to afford ... More >>

Fever in the Funkhouse go back to their original recipe

You've No Doubt Seen "Crazy Picture Guy" At Area Shows. Now Learn His Backstory.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages. Scotty Mankoff, aka "Crazy Picture Guy."​Scotty Mankoff can be a bit menacing to witness at a live music show, with his hulking frame draped in black clothing, a flowing, curly ma ... More >>

The Electro-Magnetics

Dirty (Self-released)

Local Music 'Mericans: Dave Castell Has Produced More Local Musicians Than You Can Name.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk.Scogin MayoDave Castell and Vaden Todd Lewis, working on the Toadies' No Deliverance.​David Castell is credited with producing some pretty success ... More >>

Young Talents Thrive at the Kessler.

Good Friday: Heavy Make-Up With Edie Brickell, Dresden Dolls, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Hayes Carll, Stars, Black Mountain, Black Angels, Social Distortion, Misfits, Comrade, Marc Cohn, Pomegranates, Roger Waters & more

Edie Brickell​Certainly not the biggest, but the most notable show coming to town is Heavy Make-Up at The Kessler Theater on Friday night. The group features Edie Brickell, fellow New Bohemian Kenny Withrow and Spin Doctors drummer Aaron Comess. This improvisational band is certain to recall th ... More >>

Show Announcements: Dawes, The Soft Pack, Glen Campbell, Magic Kids, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, GWAR, Earl Harvin, Aaron Neville, Archeology, Gaslight Anthem and More!

The softer side of The Soft Pack​Just north of Dallas, in Frisco, something is brewing at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery. The bar's enlisted the help of Spune Productions to help diversify the music scene, who, so far, has done a bang-up job. More proof: On Thursday, October 14, garage rock ac ... More >>

Show Announcements: Christina Aguilera Cancels, But Chromeo, Josh Pierson, ZZ Top, Blues Traveler, Lady Gaga and Others Are Coming...

Christina, clearly frazzled by a busy tour schedule​In last week's show announcements post, we made a big to-do about Christina Aguilera's forthcoming album, Bionic, and the tour she has planned to support it. Well, in a press release we received yesterday, Aguilera's people informed us that the t ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: More or Less, the Live History of the New Bohemians

​Jeff Liles gave me a tour of The Kessler last week -- hadn't yet seen behind every door and corner. Workers were installing a new bar; a handful of 6- and 7-year-old girls were taking ballet lessons in the auditorium; their mothers were in the back, reading and knitting. Jeff took me upstairs, to ... More >>

Phoenix Project Lets You Listen To Improv Lottery Recordings, Then Walk Like A Zombie

Click to enlarge​The DIY space Phoenix Project has a busy weekend, with Saturday's lineup of Big Fiction, Muhammadali, Leg Sweeper and The Sleepies followed by Sunday's show with Dysrhythmia, Four Days To Burn, Waste Burai and Baring Teeth. But the capper is an early Halloween treat Sunday afterno ... More >>

Gig Alert: Elliott Levin Trio And The Tidbits At The Phoenix Project Tonight

​Philadelphia experimental sax man and poet Elliott Levin had to cancel his Annex House show last month, but the brothers Gonzalez aren't going to leave fans hanging. Tonight, the Elliott Levin Trio--consisting of Levin with Stefan Gonzalez on drums and Aaron Gonzalez on bass--will make up the can ... More >>

The Phoenix Project Rises From DIY Ethics

Echoes and Reverberations: Melting Down With the Butthole Surfers

Catch some local music legends in Greendale

Be There: Carter Albrecht Memorial Show At Club Dada Tonight

Undermain's Forever Young, As It Schleps Greendale Up to NYC

Playback: The Week (6/6/08 - 6/13/08) In Review

Coming Together, Falling Apart

This past week was a big one for Booker T. Washington High School—and an abysmal one for local hip-hop

Edie and Norah Sounded Awful Good

Booker T. Washington Brings Out The Stars--And We've Got Their Shine

Experimental Musicians To Go Mad This Weekend

Theatrical Version of Neil Young's Greendale Leaves an Unpleasant Aftertaste

Be Young Again

Undermain rides through Greendale

Introducing the Greendale Band

Forgiven

Stranger Things have happened to Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

New Bohemians

Friday, February 3, at AllGood Café

Go fish

Every local band that broke up this year, take one step forward. Not so fast, Hagfish.

What they were

The New Bos reunite for--please, quiet down--a best-of collection

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

Absolute perfection

Reed Easterwood's record is one of the year's best. Good luck finding it

Out Here

Free KittyBoo

Brandon Boyer's Denton label offers pure pop pleasure, seven inches at a time

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Broken Fever

The hardest thing Nick Brisco ever did was grow up

Radio free America(s)

Right now a local radio show is the only voice of Rock en Espanol in Dallas

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

And a search for the truth

On the West Coast, Jeff Liles shoots and scores

Keep coming back

Singer Edie Brickelland some old Bohemians Slip into something viable

Rapper's delight

Erykah Badu emerges from nowhere with a record deal and vast ambition

Kicking his habit

Billy Goat's Mike Dillontries to live down his past

Scene, not heard

A few clubs and a few bands do not a "music town" make

Beating time

New Bohemians show proves you can go home again, but only for a little while

Home, sweat, home

New Bohemians reunion heals old and new wounds