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Mike Ziemer Started Promoting Bands At Age 14. Now He's Looking For The Next Big Thing.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Mike Ziemer​Mike Ziemer is a lot of things -- a promoter, a manager, a marketing whiz, an entrepre ... More >>

What Ales You?

Discount North Texas Beer Festival Tickets, Craft Beer Week Updates and More from the Dallas Beer Scene

​American Craft Beer Week is fast approaching, so you'd better save your beer money. You can start by taking $10 off the advance price and $20 off the door price by buying your North Texas Beer Festival tickets today, as the event's Facebook page is offering admission to the Saturday festivities a ... More >>

Details On Two Beer Fests, Tactical Tasting, Stone Brewing Co. Events And More Beer Quick Hits

​Lots of Brews News and Brews Clues to drink in after the jump.For starters, Flying Saucer on the Lake has announced the lineup for its spring beer festival as well as an opportunity to taste Brewdog Tactical Nuclear Penguin. There's a beer festival a-brewin' in Plano. The Common Table is tapping ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Using The Power of Social Media, Jonathan Swinnea Promotes Your Favorite Concerts, Bands and Tours.

Welcome to Local Music' Mericans, where we meet some people behind the local music scene -- the folks who aren't necessarily members of a local band, but who still make the scene move.Jonathan Swinnea​Jonathan Swinnea's passions are music and social media. Some would say he's an element of the "ne ... More >>

Critter Shopping

Plano, the Final Frontier, This Is Our Recap of the Star Trek Convention Over the Weekend

Photos by Danny FulgencioWilliam Shatner's Q&A at the Plano Centre Saturday afternoon was more like a one-man show.​In between his flag football game, during which we almost drowned, and his school's fall carnival, I took the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Trekkie confab at the Plano ... More >>

Book 'Em

Listen: Forever The Sickest Kids Cover "Crazy Train" For Punk Goes Classic Rock.

​Today marks the release of Punk Goes Classic Rock, the ninth installment of Fearless Records' Punk Goes... cover songs series since its inception with 2000's Punk Goes Metal. Back then, it wasn't too shabby a concept; the original disc that boasted names like Strung Out, The Ataris, New Found Glo ... More >>

3-Days' Grace

Say, Jawas, Is That a Blaster in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Princess Leia?

Eli LunaWithout a doubt, this woman was by far the most popular person at the Plano Centre on Saturday. By. Far.​Sci-fi cons held days before Halloween are always highly recommended, for reasons made clear in this slide show from Eli Luna, who trekked out to the Plano Centre for Star Wars Fan Days ... More >>

Meet Market

Suburban tweeners rock out to mall punk, DFW's hottest musical export. No, really.

Q&A: Third String Productions' Mike Ziemer Talks South By So What, Not Killing Deep Ellum

On Saturday at the Plano Centre, Mike Ziemer's Third String Productions will throw its annual South by So What!? event--a deal that's become something of a tradition. But it's not the only show Ziemer puts on every year. At just 23 years of age, he's booked thousands of bands on hundreds of shows--m ... More >>

Picture Show: Unsilent Night 2 at the Plano Centre

Photographer Caity Colvard braved the Plano Centre yesterday for some quality time at the second Unsilent Night Festival, headlined by Forever the Sickest Kids and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and attended by a whole lot of actual kids, too.Shots of local acts Red Car Wire and Sky Eats Airplane (and pl ... More >>

Good Friday: The Post-Xmas Hangover Edition

Kinda a slow weekend coming up around the D this time around. Maybe everyone's just gearing up for Amateur Night New Year's Eve? Dunno.I do know that we only hipped you to two weekend shows this week in print, though: Todd Snider's two-night stay at the Granada Theater tonight and tomorrow; and Spec ... More >>

Good Friday: Rodney Parker, The Happy Bullets, Ivoryline, The Lashouts, Mad Mexicans, Somebody's Darling, THe BAcksliders, Days of the New, Scuba Team Go, Big Chief

Ah, Friday. If this were 1993, I'd be gearing up for a badass night of TGIF on ABC. But, alas, it's 2008. Luckily, there's plenty of live music to take in all weekend long. Some pretty good. Some not as much. But, for the most part, pretty good.Anyway, onto the weekend of shows. First, the one's w ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Monster Mosh, Black Achilles, Cheech and Chong and STS9

Calling All Brides

Spare the grief, plan ahead

Junior Circuit

There exists a world much like our own where emo pop-punk acts reign supreme over the Dallas music scene

Bonus MP3: Kessler -- "Dallas"

The Door's 10-year Anniversary Show

Friday, May 30, at The Door

You Don't Have to Head to SXSW to Find a Festival This Week

Dallas has something for all tastes in town

Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Halifax Headline South By So What

The Ryan Express is Back in Arlington

Parade of Patchwork

Get quilted in Plano

Hiiiii-Ya!

Nerd Alert

Comic fans rejoice in Plano

Dork Out with Your...Uh...Dork Out?

A Vow So Weak

Take Stock

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Odds & Ends

Hop in the Buzz-Oven with 19 bands, become an Urban Cowboy and wait in The Green Room

Odds & Ends

Cory Helms benefit entertains and helps out; The Hourly Radio plays NYC showcase; rockin' women headed for Hailey's

Look East

Odds & Ends

Falkon leaving town, clubs denied late-night permits and When Rock GoesBad

Odds & Ends

News about the Polyphonic Spree, the Feds and Red Animal War

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Science Friction

Plus: Q&A with Deborah Norville

Remembering Dave

Drowning Pool loses a singer, Dallas loses a star

Clubland

Rubber Gloves finally brings its own alcohol, and the Gypsy Tea Room tackles That Hip Hop Genre

The final frontier

Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

Night & Day

February 11 - 17, 1999

Night & Day

October 15 - 21, 1998

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