Pop-Punk and Emo

Edgefest - FC Dallas Stadium - April 27, 2013

The area directly in front of the main stage at Edgefest was fenced off, and you needed special access to get in. So the kids pressed against its boundaries all day, standing against the gate and designated lines to get a few feet closer to the stage, still a third of a soccer field away. A hole o ... More >>

Into It. Over It's Evan Weiss Talks Being Fed Bullshit, Plus Five Warped Tour Recommendations

If you've seen No Room for Rock Stars, a recently-released documentary on the Warped Tour, it might be hard to imagine someone like Evan Weiss fitting in. Weiss, the mastermind behind Into It. Over It, isn't a tatted-up singer in a metalcore band who's missing his daughter back home. He isn't drivin ... More >>

The Rocket Summer's Bryce Avary on Reading Ray Bradbury and Being on Double Dare

Bryce Avary, the man behind The Rocket Summer, has been doing his project for more than a decade now. On the heels of his latest record, Life Will Write the Words, he returns to Dallas on Friday, with States and The Scene Aesthetic. En route to San Diego from Las Vegas, Avary called and we discuss ... More >>

Stephen O'Sicky of Caterpillars: "I Love Old School Emo. That's Who I Am."

Local act Caterpillars won't play their next show until July 20 at the Crown and Harp, but until then, they have a new record to finish. They took some time out at the Double Wide a few weeks ago and discussed what they're up to, their first musical obsessions, and how they feel about the (still) dr ... More >>

The Fest Quest: How Many Festivals Are You Going To This Summer?

It's beginning to look at a lot like festival season. Has Dallas always had so many? And with such... random lineups? Here's a guide to some of the upcoming ones. And feel free to consult with Festy for more tips on how to maximize your summer festival experience, like the foolproof "Get backstage b ... More >>

Matt Pryor of Where's the Band? Talks About Drinking a Lot of Coffee and How Touring Is Like Fight Club

Matt Pryor's main gig is fronting The Get Up Kids, but every year or so, he decides to go the sensitive singer/songwriter route and bring a few friends along, including Bayside's Anthony Raneri and Chris Conley from Saves the Day. They all play under the banner of Where's the Band? Speaking from th ... More >>

Thrice's Ed Breckenridge Remembers How His Band Built Up Anticipation for Their First Show

​At this stage of things, Thrice has survived a couple of generations of punk and hardcore fans. A thinking-man's band since their debut ten years ago -- even that album featured a blend of hardcore, emo, electronica and full-on rock -- it's no surprise to see the group still at it. (Plus, have to ... More >>

Last Night: Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Blink-182, My Chemical Romance, Matt & KimGexa Energy PavilionSeptember 27, 2011Better than: seeing SR-71 right now.Rachel ParkerBlink-182's Mark Hoppus mugging for the camera at gexa Energy Pavilion last night. For more photos from the concert, check out the slideshow.​They're a little older ... More >>

Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's Past: "We Thought That We Needed To Be Unified As Three People With One Vision, When We're Not."

The new Blink-182 album is in stores tomorrow.​Tomorrow night at Gexa Energy Pavilion, things will come full circle for Blink-182: The San Diego-sprung outfit will celebrate the release of their new album, Neighborhoods, their first release in eight years and their first since their ugly split in ... More >>

25 Years In, The Dwarves Keep Growing

Last Night: Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Colour Revolt and The New Regime at the House of Blues

Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Colour Revolt, The New Regime House of Blues July 5th, 2011 Better than: having your first colonoscopy.Taking Back Sunday​One of the biggest complaints about venues that can hold more than 100 people is that the intimacy between band and audience gets lost. Those ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday Takes Back Their Original Lineup

Last Night All Day Yesterday: Warped Tour Kicks Off Its 17th Summer-Long Tour in Dallas

Warped Tour LaunchGexa Energy Pavilion June 24, 2011 Better than: spending all day on traffic control at the new In-N-Out Burger. Rachel ParkerThe crazy kids today and their crowd-surfing ways.​Let's address the elephant with the pink tutu standing in the corner: Sure, there were doubts about t ... More >>

Five Bands Expected To Draw Big Crowds at Warped Tour

Looking Back at The Best and Worst Lineups Seen In Warped Tour's 17 Years Of Existence

​The Warped Tour has always had a lot of bands and a lot of different bands. Sure, you're not going to see these bands end up on any Pitchfork best-of, but the tour doesn't exactly play to people who decree most things in life as "meh," either.Even in its first few years, you could see a hardcore ... More >>

Blink-182 & My Chemical Romance, Girl Talk & The Cool Kids, and Many Other Announcements

Blink 182 are back, and they're looking for corporate sponsorhips​This week's most notable show announcements come our way via huge corporate sponsorships -- one from Honda Civic, and the other from 7-Eleven. The former, which features the newly reunited pop-punk forefathers Blink-182 and their mi ... More >>

Over The Weekend: My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive, The Architects at House of Blues

My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive and The ArchitectsThe House of BluesMay 21, 2011(Just Barely) Better Than: Staying home and watching the Mavericks beat the Thunder.Sara KerensMy Chemical Romance's Gerard Way. For more pictures from the performance, check out the slideshow.​New Jersey's alt-rock ... More >>

My Chemical Romance Shed Their Emo Roots

Good Friday: Sons' 100-Year Anniversary, All Time Low, Dierks Bentley, Guster and More!

David WilsonSons Of Hermann Hall turns 100​There are lots of shows happening this weekend -- and most of them are pretty good, too. But perhaps the most notable happens all day on Saturday, when Sons of Hermann Hall will officially celebrate their 100-year anniversary. Festivities will include per ... More >>

Last Night: The Get Up Kids, Steel Train, River City Extension at The Loft

The Get Up Kids, Steel Train, River City Extension The Loft January 23, 2011  Better than: polishing your multi-colored Hot Water Music vinyl records.  Alexander FloresThe Get Up Kids​Aren't you glad when a reunion tour isn't a fluke? Fifteen months ago, The Get Up Kids triumphantly retu ... More >>

My First Show: The Get Up Kids' Jim Suptic Got A Black Eye in The Pit of A Helmet, The Jesus Lizard and Therapy? Show When He Was 15.

Get Up Kids​Jim Suptic co-founded The Get Up Kids back in 1995. Their first practice came on his 18th birthday. And, in the following years, his band became a touchstone in the emo community. But their beginnings were pretty humble: Eons before Weezer's Pinkerton was worshipped and the members of ... More >>

Eisley Has The Battle Scars to Prove Their Coming of Age.

Tonight, Tonight: Bruno Mars at The Palladium, Hey Monday at The Prophet Bar, Nitzer Ebb at The Granada and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at House of Blues

Quite the array of shows we have this evening before the day before Turkey Day. Bruno Mars at South Side Music Hall Peter Gene Hernandez, aka Bruno Mars, was supposedly born in Hawaii, but I have my doubts. The Hawaiian Health Authority refuses to provide a bona fide copy of an authentic birth c ... More >>

Gig Alert: Cute is What We Aim For Tonight at The Loft

Cute Is What We Aim For​Front man Shaant Hacikyan may be the lone original member of power pop band Cute is What We Aim For, but that hasn't prevented him from keeping the band's music fresh and intriguing over the past few years.Hailing out of Buffalo, Cute is What We Aim For started up in 2005 a ... More >>

Last Night: Angels & Airwaves and Say Anything at the Palladium

Angels & Airwaves, Say AnythingPalladium BallroomMay 20, 2010Better than: staying in and listening to Angels & Airwaves on small computer speakers.   Angels & Airwaves​Angels & Airwaves has never been a vanity project for its singer/guitarist, Tom DeLonge. While he's back ... More >>

Band List Finalized for the Dallas Stop of the Vans Warped Tour

​On July 3, the Vans Warped Tour makes its stop in Dallas. I attended last year and, besides having to spend $4 on a bottle of water and nearly passing out a couple of times, I had a great time. Last year, there was several old-school punk and hip-hop bands sandwiched between a lot of emo acts. Th ... More >>

Angels & Airwaves Is NOT a Side Project

Over The Weekend: Edgefest 2010 at Pizza Hut Park

Edgefest 2010Pizza Hut Park in FriscoMay 1, 2010Better than: watching the Kentucky Derby, although probably not if you were doing so from Churchill Downs' infield--because that's a party, folks.Phoenix headlined Edgefest's smaller stage on Saturday.​Believe it or not, there was music at Pizza Hut ... More >>

Last Night: Coheed and Cambria, Torche and Circa Survive at the Palladium Ballroom

Coheed and CambriaPalladium BallroomApril 29, 2010Better than: "Slappin da bass" or any other potential live offering ever attempted by Rush.Coheed and Cambria​All work and no play definitely makes Coheed and Cambria anything but dull. From the opening chords of their set Thursday night to the ver ... More >>

Gig Alert: Story of the Year, Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, After Midnight Project and Terrible Things--All Tonight at the Prophet Bar

Quite the alt-rock line up tonight at the Prophet Bar--especially for a Monday. Headlining what is sure to be a lengthy evening of music is St. Louis' Story of the Year. These husky Midwesterners have been churning out anthemic and earnest post-hardcore (under a couple of different names) for the be ... More >>

Alkaline Trio Deals With Fan Expectations

Q&A: Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba Talks The Misfits, The Cure and Mullets.

The trio behind Alkaline Trio? Well, that's just Matt Skiba, Dan Adriano, and Derek Grant. And their latest, This Addiction, is their first for Epitaph Records--quite the change, after putting out records on Asian Man, Vagrant, and Epic prior. With a sound that mixes the best of The Misfits, The Dam ... More >>

Last Night: Motion City Soundtrack, Set Your Goals, This Providence, The Swellers at the Prophet Bar

Motion City Soundtrack, Set Your Goals, This Providence, The SwellersProphet BarFebruary 10th, 2010 Better than: sitting at home worrying about the snow's possible effect on traffic Thursday and Friday morning. ​Motion City Soundtrack played--as expected--to a packed crowd in the big room of the ... More >>

Motion City Soundtrack, Set Your Goals, This Providence, The Swellers

Wednesday, February 10, at The Door

Gig Alert: Straylight Run and a Bunch of Other Folks Tonight at The Prophet Bar

Straylight Run​Despite the cold and wet weather, the fine folks at The Prophet Bar are offering up a crowded and fairly consistent line-up of moppy rockers to hopefully not add to your rainy day blues.On tonight's bill are Straylight Run, Dangerous Summer, Mansions, Brian Bonz and David Melillo. F ... More >>

Last Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the Granada Theater

Sunny Day Real Estate, The Jealous Sound Granada TheaterOctober 5, 2009Better than: seeing 10 crappy bands that cite Sunny Day as an influence. Sunny Day Real Estate doesn't always blend in this easily.​Sunny Day Real Estate returned to Dallas with such a rush that you couldn't help be deeply move ... More >>

Sunny Day Real Estate Reunites At Just The Right Time

Last Night: The Get Up Kids at The Granada Theater

[Editor's Note: Sorry this is being posted so late in the day. We had some technical difficulties in getting it your way. But, alas, here you go...] The Get Up Kids, Youth Group, Pretty & Nice Granada TheaterSeptember 30, 2009 Better than: seeing The Get Up Kids in 2004 opening for Dashboard ... More >>

The Get Up Kids

Wednesday, September 30, at the Granada Theater

Hey Monday, This Providence, The Friday Night Boys, Stereo Skyline, The Bigger Lights

Thursday, July 23, at The Door

MySpace To Host Free All-American Rejects Performance At The House of Blues on Monday, July 13

Myspace has been running a free concert series called The List--a pretty interesting deal in that, if you befriend The List's Myspace page on the networking site, you can get into certain free performances when the company decides to put them on in your city. And it's not just slouches offering up t ... More >>

Today In Music News: Bennett Overdosed and Emo Originators Return

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 24, 2009...This really shouldn't come as a shock to anyone: Jay Bennett died of a drug overdose.The seminal emo-rockers in Sunny Day Real Estate are getting back together for a tour. Of course, you'd know this if you've been scanning the Gr ... More >>

AFI Dallas Is No More. But Debuting Next Spring, the Dallas International Film Festival.

Patrick MichelsMichael Cain, kicking off the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26 at the AMC NorthParkIn September 2006, some local cineastes were terrified to learn that Michael Cain was shuttering his mom-and-pop Deep Ellum Film Festival and spending a little less than $1 millio ... More >>

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

Misery Business

PARAMORE'S HAYLEY WILLIAMS DEALS WITH THE FREAKY SIDE OF FAME

Prog-Com

Sanches signs his C-and-C song fodder

Pre-bridal Blowout

Ginuwine takes care of this Bachelorette Party

Spencer's Gift Rock

Go Bowling for Soup in Fort Worth

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