Prince (Musician)

Percussionist Nick Hennies Brings Meditative Percussion to CentralTrak's Ex Mus

Last November, CentralTrak debuted Ex Mus, an experimental concert series, featuring Denton musicians Andrew Jordan Miller, Jonathan Jackson, Chaz Underriner and Martian Back reinterpreting Greek composer Anatassis Phillippakopoulous. It was an ambitious first show, and set the tone for the quarterl ... More >>

How To Start a Record Collection, Part III (Record Store Day Edition)

I thought it would be a private relationship between me and my record player. Music collections, no matter what they are made of, can be so intimate they border on embarrassing. Not sure what to buy, I clicked on review after review, talking myself into and out of nearly every purchase. But the thin ... More >>

The Ten Funniest 35 Denton Band Descriptions

When you go on the 35 Denton website, it becomes clear that most of the bands sent in their own descriptions. Some are standard musical lexicon-run-of-the-mill "Such and such band emerged from the Bumville scene in 19-dickety-two and have been playing since blah blah blah..." type of stuff. Some are ... More >>

The 15 Best North Texas Releases of 2012

In a year when Kickstarter efforts have ballooned from humble requests to egocentric slaps in the face, the recording, funding and distribution of albums has taken on a different hue, as the chasm between what you can do "yourself" and what labels are offering gets wider and deeper. A few of the art ... More >>

Dallas and Dwaine Caraway Both Have Big Plans for the Reunion Arena Area, but Only One Involves Prince's "Purple Rain."

Downtown Dallas 360, the city's long-range master plan for the area, has high hopes for southwestern downtown. Where Reunion Arena once stood, it envisions a cluster of mid-rise mixed-use developments. These would be clustered around a promenade and central park and would be accessible by stops on t ... More >>

Debauchery, Resurrected

It's Prince's Birthday: What's Your Favorite Song?

As my Mixmaster companion Jamie Laughlin and I were driving to lunch today, Prince's "Purple Rain" came on the radio. We both looked at each other and threw up a fist when the breakdown came, that part when Prince starts ecstatically screeching like only he can. And there is the beauty of a Prince s ... More >>

Starck Contrast

Another new documentary on the Starck Club revisits the storied Dallas nightclub of the '80s

Purple Pretenders

Finally, an Announcement Worthy of the Super Bowl: Prince to Play on Old Reunion Arena Site

​Two months back we revisited that magical New Year's Eve in 1984 when Prince played Reunion Arena, a high number in my all-time concert-going Top 10. And, sure, there's no more Reunion, but there's still a Prince Rogers Nelson, and per the announcement that landed in the Unfair Park in-box mere m ... More >>

Listomania: The Top Music Videos of 2010

This dude knew a thing or two about music videos.​The death of Michael Jackson in 2009 seemed to prompt a lot of artists to rediscover the art of music videos in 2010. Some, like Lady Gaga and Kanye West, took the artistic merit behind mainstream music videos from acts like Michael Jackson and Pri ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Prince Rings In a Delirious 1985 at Reunion Arena

Prince-Live.com​Details of Prince and the Revolution's stop through Dallas in support of Purple Rain remain a bit hazy; I was, after all, 16 at the time and just happy to get out of the house. Especially on New Year's Eve. Or was it the night before? Or the night after? My ride that night doesn't ... More >>

Listen: The Riverboat Gamblers Cover Bad Religion's "Heaven Is Falling" For Spin

​The punk rockin' Denton ex-pats in the Riverboat Gamblers are no strangers to the folks at Spin--not, at least, since the music mag vaulted the band from small regional clubs and the pages of Alternative Press and into the limelight by naming the band one of the best live acts in America. And the ... More >>

Listomania: The 30 Best Songs About Genitalia

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

Q&A: Legendary Electronic Musician Alexander Robotnick Talks Italo Disco And His First DJ Gig In Advance Of His First Ever Dallas Stop.

Alexander Robotnick​The city of Dallas has never been a very vocal champion of electronic dance music. Apart from the infamous "club kids" and the days when MDMA was sold at bars in Dallas, the city hasn't ever really been known for its electronic music culture--not in any important or globally re ... More >>

Whitt's End: 7.23.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *OK, OK,  I get it. So I write that Dez Bryant almost assuredly wouldn't be signed by Day 1 of Dallas Cowboys' training camp. "Barring an 11th-hour agreement ... " I think I penned. Never wish ... More >>

Beat It, Purple Rain

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 4: DJ A1

​This week's DC9er takes you behind the booth with Dallas-based, hip-hop expert DJ A1. Having been exposed to DJ culture at a young age (back in the day, he used to tag along with his cousin, who was a DJ at the time), A1 entered his first DJ battle at age 16--and he came in second place. Not too ... More >>

Weekend Lover

Download: Spin's Purplish Rain Compilation, Featuring the Riverboat Gamblers, of Montreal, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and Many More...

As we discussed last week, the Denton ex-pats in the Riverboat Gamblers are among the artists who've been asked by Spin to participate in the magazine's celebration of all things Prince this month, appearing on the magazine's Purple Rain tribute called, quite ingeniously, I think, Purplish Rain in t ... More >>

Next Week, The Riverboat Gamblers Will "Go Crazy" For Purple Rain

On Tuesday of next week, Spin will unleash Purplish Rain, a tribute record, quite obviously, for Prince's Purple Rain, released in conjunction with an oral history of the disc that the magazine is also putting out next week. And it's not just anybody on the disc: There's contributions from Sharon J ... More >>

What's In A Name?

There's plenty of music business precedent for Santogold's reinvention as Santigold.

What's In My Closet? Brush With Greatness Edition

My career has its perks. I've sipped Mai Tais on Waikiki Beach with Troy Aikman. Shaken hands with Wayne Gretzky moments after his final NHL game. Seen - first hand - Roger Federer win at Wimbledon, Michael Johnson triumph in Atlanta and Michael Jordan sink his last shot as a Chicago Bull. And ... More >>

The Scratch Pad: Prince William Talks Post-Rap And The Dallas Dance Scene

Last Night: Raheem DeVaughn and Bryan-Michael Cox at Gilley's

The Way You Make Me Feel

Harmony Korine creates a Neverland for celeb impersonators in the singular and sincere Mister Lonely

Trey Songz, J. Holiday

Monday, March 17, at House of Blues

Eerie Glow

Ghosthustler Resurrects '80s Synth Beats

Ghosthustler's sound leaves you nostalgic for the future

Free Love?

The Lovemakers stay true to their name

Will Johnson Only Wants 2 See U Laughing in the "Purple Rain"

Madonna

Confessions on a Dance Floor (Maverick)

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.

King Prince

More than a quarter-century after he hit the scene, Prince still rules

The Evolution of Prince

On June 11, the purple one rocks out with his butt out

Prince

Musicology (Columbia)

Prince

April 2

Beck, the Flaming Lips

November 14

LeAnn Rimes

Twisted Angel (Curb)

Dump

That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? (Shrimper Records)

Out & About

Prince

The sick sense

What's truly frightening about Scary Movie is that parts of it are actually funny

Live in Chicago, 1999

Out There

The Artist

Listen up

1998 was not a very good year, but it's still worth the bother

'Blue' it

If she isn't careful, LeAnn Rimes could fade away before she's old enough to vote

Real McCoy or decoy?

Dallas hip-hop 1997

Chocolate and cheese

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

Of Prince and spines

It doesn't matter if you Ween or lose, it's how you play their game

Black and white

Madonna isn't a failed icon; she's a failed artist