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The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

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. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

The Bizarre Life and Troubling Death of DarkSide, the Dallas Rave Church That Never Was

For over a year, a registered "spiritual organization" was the hottest after-hours spot in Dallas. Then it all came crashing down.

Toro Y Moi

Friday, February 1, at Trees

Reggie Watts Gives Hair Care Tips, Loves America (The Band)

Reggie Watts brings his bag of tricks, which includes beatboxing, loops and and songs about the interminable depths of a woman's purse, to Denton on Saturday, as part of the Hot Wet Mess. It's a rare chance to catch him in North Texas, and an even rarer chance to see him play next to a water slide. ... More >>

West Village Developer Wants Dogs, Food Trucks and Shipping Containers at Cityplace

At some point, the vacant triangle of land running along the west side of Central Expressway just north of Lemmon -- the plot where the McKinney Avenue Trolley recently laid down its new turntable -- will house tall buildings, mostly offices, 30 and 40 stories high.That's the idea at least, but the ... More >>

The $4,500 Toilet, A Must Have For Your Modern Home

Finally a toilet fancy enough to keep in the living room of your magnificent, glass-enclosed, hilltop house. This weekend's First Dallas Modern Home Tour begs the question: Everything else in your retro-futuristic frame is perfect, but how do you hide the commode? Well, if you're feeling especia ... More >>

Cityplace Trolley Turntable Takes Its First Spin. It's Adorable. Even With Lasers.

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe Green Dragon takes its inaugural spin.​Back in June, the plot of land near the Cityplace DART station at Haskell and N. Central Expressway was a vacant lot with a big hole and a big plan. It would be the future site of a trolley turntable, a novelty attraction to be ... More >>

A Beginner's Guide To Electronic Music: From Scratching to Dubstep and Everything Between

...among other things.​Electronica is an infant genre compared to most, its creation depending solely on tools and instruments designed in the last half of the 20th century. And its interpretation is constantly evolving. Because, even though it remains relatively new type of music, there remain so ... More >>

Brian Fiegelman Runs Sound For The O's on the Road, and House Of Blues at Home

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 the people who make the scene move.Brian Fiegelman​Brian Fiegelman came to DFW from the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. His friend Scotty Tee ... More >>

Trolley Trestle Lowered into Cityplace Turntable, Positioned For Influx of More Charming Vehicles (People Too)

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe construction team lowers the turntable trestle at Cityplace Station.​For 14 years, a salvaged portion of a Southern Pacific Railroad bridge from 1909 gathered dust, waiting to be recycled as main support of the trolley turntable now under construction at Cityplace Statio ... More >>

Last Night: A-Trak, Kid Sister and The Gaslamp Killer at Trees

A-Trak, Kid Sister, The Gaslamp KillerTreesApril 19, 2011Better than: a rousing game of DJ Hero.Pete FreedmanA-Trak at Trees last night.​ There weren't any grand entrances at Trees last night. Mostly, there were just transitions.And, in many regards, that was fitting. This show, after all, was cur ... More >>

If You Ever Wanted to Play Disc Jockey For George Gimarc, Tomorrow Night's Your Shot

From the Vinyl Preservation Society of Texas Facebook page​Just last night I was telling the wife about how, like, about 20 years ago I was part of a small group of music freaks and geeks who'd gather 'round the turntable every so often to drink bourbon and swap songs and stories about why this gu ... More >>

J&J's Pizza Cranks Up the Sound

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 27: DJ Love

​DJ Love isn't a Dallas native, but the seasoned DJ has made quite the name for himself around these parts thanks to several weekly gigs, a monthly gig, his own record label and an album that's about to drop. A few other things distinguish him from the rest of the local cop: For one, he exclusivel ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 25: DJ Sean Michaels

Having grown up in the '80s, DJ Sean Michaels gives credit to the era for the his diverse taste in music, and he claims that much of his inspiration came from the time period as well."My music pallet is not just one type of music," he says. "Some of my favorite stuff was the '80s alternative stuff l ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Rusko and Dub Assembly at Trees

Rusko, Dub AssemblyTreesApril 30, 2010 Better than: anything that has been at Trees since its re-opening.Rusko​This was the Trees of old. By 9:30 p.m., the room was already buzzing and already a quarter full; the line outside already wrapped to the parking lot between the venue and Franzini's ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Decadent Dub Team, Fracturing the Mash-Up

DDTers Jason Wolford, EZ Eddie D and Jeff Liles​ The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the ear ... More >>

Eyedea & Abilities

Friday, November 20,at Hailey's Club in Denton

Prints And Pimps

Night Moves: Trainwreck at the Green Elephant

Ray and Peter LekAmateur and wannabe DJ's had their chance to shine Friday night at the Green Elephant, where the turntables were thrown open for 15-minute sets from all who'd volunteer.Check out the Lek Brothers' photos from the night in our slideshow here.

Silver Sting

Bee Girls invade the Angelika

Noise Abatement, or: Solving the Ruckus Over Annette Strauss Artist Square

Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA buildin ... More >>

Looking For Funds, John Freeman Puts Sloppyworld PA System Up For Sale

4 Turntable Setup at The Party Tonight

Good Records Decides Records (and CDs... and DVDs) Aren't So Good

Your Wildest Dreams

Fort Worth gets Moody

Remembering DJ Frantic

The turntablist's friends and collaborators will remember him for his love of the craft

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

Mini-Spinners

Tweeners the Goldfish Girls can werk it

Ten Paces

See guns a-blazin' in Fort Worth

Salim Nourallah, Johnny Lloyd Rollins, The Hero Factor, Gazelles, Airline

Thursday, January 25, at ellum:ONSTAGE

Yes, There is Life in Deep Ellum

Things get complex

Coachwhips

Double Death (Narnack)

RAKE Me

Dallas DJs drop two needles on the record and change turntablism forever

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about.

Beard on Tap

The Cavern is officially a no-shave zone

Grandmaster Flash

Friday, September 30, at Liquid Lounge

Secret Society

The Dallas rap scene is good and plenty, so why don't more people know about it?

Best Late-Night Hookah Scene

Jasmine Cafe

Best Alternative Club

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

Best Free Kids Outing

Founder's Plaza at DFW Airport

Best Bet to (Shockingly) Still be in Business by Next Year's Best of Dallas Issue

Blue

Beat the Rap

Suburban cops to kids: Turn that rap stuff down

Way Out

For Hydroponic Sound System, mixing hip-hop with everything else is just Routine Insanity

Up Beats

Platinum records reward workaholic Cypress Hill producer Muggs

Sound mind

Calvin Johnson isn't a musician. He just plays one onstage.

Invisibl touch

The Invisibl Skratch Piklz are so good, they had to retire -- sort of

Handsome Dan

Dan "The Automator" Nakamura loves hip-hop -- but he loves music more

Just like before

Virtual DSO

A new recording technology is music to Andrew Litton's ears