OutKast

Big Boi Opens for Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt. The Future is Weird.

Jambalaya really was the right name for Scoremore's one day festival offering at The Palladium on Saturday. It was an appetizing and sometimes surprising mix of hip-hop and EDM artists that only the folks at Scoremore could assemble. Headliners Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future ... More >>

Atoms for Peace is Dallas' Favorite Band This Week

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Lance Price, CD Source owner, says a recently turned solo artist with a classic sound is makin ... More >>

The Grammys are Good for Something, at Least: Dallas Record Stores Get a Sales Bump

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. CD Source owner Lance Price says the Grammys still seem to be effecting who is rising to the t ... More >>

Patti Labelle was Perfect and Bobby Brown was a Mess Last Night: Review and Photos

It was a clear crisp Valentine's night in Dallas, Texas. As a matter of fact, it was one of the most gorgeous nights we've had in awhile. A slight cool breeze blew through Victory Plaza, and I thought to myself that it would have to be a holiday for the city streets to be so empty. Inside the Americ ... More >>

A.Dd 's DiveHiFlyLo is Here: Slim Gravy and Paris Pershun Tell Us What it Sounds Like

This Saturday night, The Granada is hosting what will surely be one of the biggest nights of 2013 in Dallas rap. For the release of their highly anticipated new project, DiveHiFlyLo, hometown heroes A.Dd are bringing out -topic, Tunk, and Brain Gang to throw a drop party that is 100% Triple D. In a ... More >>

Five Rap Albums That Changed the Game in 2012

Five Rap Albums That Changed the Game in 2012

Before the storm of best of lists start hitting the blogs, I wanted to take a second to put aside the artistic merit aspect of the year in review, and take a look at what happened in the cultural landscape of rap music. Some of these albums were really good, some of them were really not, but all of ... More >>

Why The Chronic is the Greatest Album in Rap History

The Cheap Bastard Does (and Judges) Iron Fork: So Much Bacon. So Much Awesome.

Last night, a metric shit ton of fancy Dallas people met at the Fashion Industry Gallery to stuff their faces full of awesome. There was much bacon. Will Fleischman and his beard were slicing up a Lockhart Smokehouse meatfest for the masses. Mixologists were shaking up cocktails whilst wearing the ... More >>

It's all "Fa Shiggadow" to Hip-Hop Duo The Mohicans

Damaged Good$

Kickin Teef Self-released

Flula, the German Genius Behind "His Name is Dirk," Has Concept Album (or EP) In the Works

Flula Borg and Outkast's Big Boi​Last night, at the end of the first quarter of Mavs-Thunder, I spoke on the phone with Flula Borg -- yes, that Flula Borg. The man behind "His Name is Dirk (Nowitzki)," who, according to the press release one of his friends sent out last night, is pushing to make h ... More >>

Last Night At 35 Conferette: !!! Pave The Road To Big Boi With Bass Intentions

​!!!6:30 p.m., Main Stage OneIt took all of one song for !!! singer Nic Offer to whip the Main Stage crowd into wild abandon; by the end of opener "AM/FM," from last year's Strange Weather, Isn't It?, Miami Horror was a distant memory. If the band's hypnotic grooves and electronic textures are ... More >>

A Few Words With Nonna's Julian Barsotti

​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Julian Barsotti, owner and executive chef at Nonna. Today, we asked Barsotti to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares a recipe for one of his favorite Italian dishes. I was raised in...Dallas and Santa Fe. Mostly Dallas though. My friends ... More >>

Can the albums scheduled to be released in 2011 match the stellar albums released in 2010? They just might be better.

B.o.B. Finally Figures It Out

Get Out Your "Flashlight"

Supersuckers Stick With What Works

Twenty years into his career Eddie Spaghetti has no intention to change his band's sound—for better or worse

Fox News Akin To Southern Rap

Anti-intellectual appeal and red-state focus are just the tip of what these two have in common.

PPT

Denglish (Idol Records)

Last Night: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist at House of Blues

Waging War on the Digital Jukebox

It's a Badu World

The rest of us just live in it

Snap to It

Comeback kids, rhymin' Limeys and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

TGIFF

A Pack of Mutts

Need a little alt in your country? These ten don't.

Waiting for Erykah

A decade after her SXSW debut, Badu returns a star and a sage

Get Lost

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good

Jackpot!

Denton's Rock Lottery trumps the American Music Awards

Odds & Ends

Ranking radio, Liz loves Sorta, and Swinging My Vote

Rock Star Olympics

Snoop Dogg vs. Bob Marley? Ike vs. Courtney? Let the games begin.

Anatomy of a Buzz

With the proper machinery in place, a band could remain a Secret no more

Letters

Modest Mouse

Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)

All Praise Kirk Franklin

Gospel singer makes the Hall of Fame

Parental Guidance

Listening to the year’s hit singles with Mom and Dadyear’s hit singles with Mom and Dad

Dance This Mess Around

What a bad feeling--and taste--Honey leaves behind

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Musiq, Cee-Lo

May 14

The Other Side

You could call The Dismemberment Plan boring. But you won't.

N.E.R.D.

In Search of N.E.R.D. (Virgin)

Out & About

Snoop Dogg

Out & About

Najee

Scene, Heard

Check out the, uh, interesting artwork on Lift to Experience's debut album

Five for Fighting

Selected Notes on Music, 2000

Just Beautiful

A year so good, not even Sleater-Kinney makes the Top 10

The weak in rock

Throw your hands in the air

Beatin' down hip-hop in 1998 like a stepchild

Real McCoy or decoy?

Dallas hip-hop 1997