The Rocket Summer

Eleven of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Rihanna, GZA and More

Check out our shiny new concert calendar for more upcoming shows Rihanna Tuesday, April 16, at American Airlines Center, $39.50-$125Don't know what you'll be doing on April 16 yet? Get with it. Tickets are only $125, dude. Just grab a hammer and break the glass on your emergency Rihanna Concert F ... More >>

15 of This Weekend's Best Shows: Miguel Migs, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Iris DeMent and More

It'll Do Club Grand OpeningSaturday, June 16, at It'll Do ClubEver driven eastbound on Elm Street until it hits the dead end? Then chances are you've seen the It'll Do Club. Shrouded in the long-forgotten East Ellum neighborhood, this club opening marks another step in Deep Ellum's expansion. Plu ... 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 >>

10 Big Show Announcements: M83 at Palladium Ballroom, One Direction at American Airlines Center and More

M83Thursday, October 11, at Palladium BallroomThis must be some kind of record. The three most anticipated shows coming to town in the next year belong to M83. The two taking place at the Granada Theater later this month are sold out already. I wonder how long it will take for these tickets to disap ... More >>

The Good Friday Edition of Good Friday, With Acid Mothers Temple, The Singapore Slingers, Pontiak and More

If you live in or have passed through Deep Ellum in the last few days, you've noticed the white tents crowding the streets. That's because it's time for the Deep Ellum Arts Festival. The event, which has seen better days, is now in its 17th year, and will feature performances from The Virgin Wolves, ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair of VIP Tickets to the Fourth Annual Unsilent Night Music Festival

The mall punk scene is still going strong here in Dallas, and Saturday, December 10, marks the fourth annual Unsilent Night Music Festival, put on by ZH Entertainment and Third String Productions. Anyone who has been to any of these mall punk shows in recent years knows  that they are not small ... More >>

My First Show: Chance Morgan of The Burning Hotels On One of the Bronco Bowl's Last Shows

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Mindy ByrdChance Morgan​Chance Morgan and Matt Mooty, friends since childhood, are the masterminds behind one of Fort Worth's finest ... More >>

Adrian Hummel Finds Ways To Sneak Local Content Into His Power FM Show

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.Adrian Hummel​KPWR-89.7 FM Power FM jock Adrian Hummel holds a lot of noble titles in our local mu ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Spooky Folk Mines A Hatred For Its Members' Bible Belt Upbringing at No. 2

[Over these last few days of 2010, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 2 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump for a stream the track. Also after the jump, ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Orbans' Music Rings True at No. 6

[Over these last few days of 2010, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 6 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to watch its accompanying music video. Also a ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Beaten Sea Recalls A Forgotten Time and Cures Our Ills at No. 7

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 7 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream of the track ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Old 97's Drum Up Some Of Their Old Magic at No. 8

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 8 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream the track. Also after the jump, check ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Mind Spiders Rises Valiantly From The Ashes of The Marked Men at No. 10

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 10 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab a free download of the track. Also after the ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: With An Assist From "Young Folks," Sore Losers Free Loads Its Way to No. 15

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 15 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab a free download of the track. Also after the ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Leg Sweeper Does It For The Weekend at No. 14

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 14 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab a free download of the track. Also after the ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Lalagray Offers A Confident Introduction, But Leaves Out The Hard Part, at No. 16

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 16 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream of the track. Also after the jump, c ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas, 2010: Sundress Unleashes A Hypnotic Plague at No. 20.

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 20 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab the song as a free download. Also after the ju ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Burning Hotels Make A Case For Post-Punk at No. 24

[Over the next few weeks we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 24 on the list--and, please, feel free to click after the jump for a free download of the track. Keep checking back to s ... More >>

The Best Songs In Dallas Music, 2010: Damaged Good$ Calls Out Its Haters (Even If The Rest Of Us Didn't Realize There Were Any) at No. 25

[At the end of each of the last two years, we spent the final few weeks of the year counting down the best music that the local scene has had to offer. This year's no different -- well, except that, this year, our original list of songs to be included for consideration was significantly larger than ... More >>

Five Things About Local Music to be Thankful For

Hey, we're still excited about the Old 97's new record being great.​It's turkey time once again, but there are many other things to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Here are five music-related items that North Texas residents should be thankful for having. ​ 1. The Old 97's finally ma ... More >>

Spend A Day (Or, Actually, Just A Slideshow) In The Rocket Summer's Shoes

​If you've ever wondered what it'd be like to walk a day in rock star shoes, the folks at Alternative Press have you covered. As part of their "Warped Speed" Vans Warped Tour coverage, the magazine gave us less-famous folk a look at just that, following around Grapevine's Own hook-heavy alt-rock h ... 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 >>

Turn On Your Television: There's Local Music Everywhere!

​The normal rule of thumb is that you need three examples of something happening before you can call it a trend. Well, how about four? SUPER TREND, DUDES. And, in this case, the super trend is all about your TV. Specifically: Area products and songs on TV. Like, for instance, did you know that DFW ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Rocket Summer, Analog Rebellion at the Granada Theater

The Rocket Summer, Analog RebellionGranada TheaterFebruary 26, 2010Better than: blowing some kickass bubblegum bubbles.Jered ScottBryce Avary, also known as The Rocket Summer.Holy crap. guys. People really love The Rocket Summer. Like really really.It's not difficult to see why: At the Granada Theat ... More >>

The Rocket Summer Tries Growing Up

Hop Onto The Dallas Lilith Fair Bill. Or Maybe Open For The Rocket Summer.

​A couple interesting items in the inbox this morning for local musicians looking to add some high-profile gigs to their resume. So, hey, might as well pass 'em along, yeah?First up a chance to open for The Rocket Summer on Friday, February 26, when Bryce Avary stops on by the Granada Theater to c ... More >>

Show Announcements: Buck Pets To Rock Trees Once Again, More

Yet another reunion show recalling Deep Ellum's glory days is in the works as The Buck Pets, whose history Jeff Liles tackled in Echoes and Reverberations last year, will play Trees Saturday, April 10. We haven't heard any kind of formal announcement yet, but the calendar on the Trees MySpace page c ... More >>

The Rocket Summer Joins Others In A Live "Stand By Me" Cover, Releases Of Men And Angels Album Art, Track List And, Sure, A New Song, Too.

This past weekend, at a benefit concert held in Orlando each year to fight suicide, addiction and self-cutting, Grapevine's own Bryce Avary (aka The Rocket Summer) performed a cover of "Stand By Me" alongside the likes of Mat Kearney and members of Underoath, Anberlin and Copeland. Check it out in ... More >>

Today's Sign of The Apocalypse: In Case You Missed It, Forever The Sickest Kids Performed at Halftime During the Lions-Packers Thanksgiving Day Game. Watch it.

OK, so it's less a Forever The Sickest Kids performance and more of a performance from just frontman Jonathan Cook, as the rest of the Dallas-based pop-punk sextet goofs off behind him alongside a few other guests. But, true enough, as promised, there FTSK was taking part in the Motown-themed halft ... More >>

Stream The Rocket Summer's New Single. If You Dare.

​As promised, Grapevine's own Bryce Avary of The Rocket Summer has gone ahead and debuted his new single, "You Gotta Believe," the title track to his new EP, over on the Alternative Press' Web site.And, according to Avary's label, Island Def Jam, it created quite the stir, apparently crashing the ... More >>

The Rocket Summer Preps New EP, Announces Full-Length For Early 2010

Bryce Avary​Grapvine's own The Rocket Summer--or pretty much the person we all have to thank for the success that all the mall-punk acts of the region have been having in recdent years--dropped some big news earlier this week, announcing two new records set for release in the near future. Later th ... More >>

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 >>

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

General Greetings

hellogoodbye HOBs into Dallas

Happy Freakin' Valentine's Day

Some local CD-release shindigs make this horrible holiday a little more tolerable

This Is Me

Bryce Avary explores the other side of The Rocket Summer

Hip-Hop Hooray

Final Friday's growing fan base sends showcase to a larger venue

OK Karaoke

XPO Gold! gives its vocalists a chance to shine

Generals Knowledge

Sub Pop set to release Baptist Generals disc

Conference for Cynics

SXSW offers up dreamchasers, diatribes and some darn good music, too

Scene, Heard

One Ton Records closes its doors

Scene, Heard

A year ago, all Bryce Avary wanted was a record contract...

Scene, Heard

KRBV's change in format causes barely a ripple in the airwaves

Everyone's a Critic

Or at least a handful of musicians and music-industry types are, for a few brief moments

Dallas Stars

Revisiting the best local albums of 2000

Best evidence that the local music scene is better than Austin's (Despite what Texas Monthly says)

Scene, Heard

Smirnoff sucks them in; The Rocket Summer waits 'til fall; Jeff Buckely's mom; North Texas Music Festival jab; Plus, much, much more

Across the Bar

End hits

Across the Bar

Rocket Summer, Toadies break out, Solex gets Good, Live at the Hootenanny, and more

Teenage love rock

Seventeen-year-old Bryce Avary prepares for The Rocket Summer