On a Saturday afternoon, 19-year-old rapper Eliza Versa strolls into Universal Studios in Arlington, ready for her audition for the Konscious Konnect Sypher. Producer M. Slaego puts on a five-minute mix of beats, ranging from twinkling keys to belching boom bap, all while Versa doles out life lessons peppered with…
It’s 9 p.m. Saturday, June 25, and the crowd packing the Bomb Factory is awaiting Odessa-born boxer Joey Alday’s entrance into the ring. As Alday, 21, walks out to the tune of Future’s “March Madness,” the audience’s murmuring builds into a roar, with fans rising from their seats in attention…
I believe in Kanye West, but can he ever enjoy an album release without suffering some problem? Every album since The College Dropout met the butt of misfortune – familial loss, dissolution of relationships, perceived devil worship, attacks on his seeming arrogance. Remember the footage of Kanye throwing a tearful…
At the Drive-In couldn’t have reunited to record an album at a more perfect time. Years after the El Paso band’s messy breakup and soul-searching with various legacy bands — De Facto, the Mars Volta, poor Sparta — post-hardcore’s favorite sons buried the hatchet (for a second time) and regrouped…
Lights All Night With Hardwell, Kaskade, Porter Robinson and more Dallas Market Hall, Dallas Thursday and Friday, December 31, 2015 and January 1, 2016 Lights All Night’s two-day EDM dance party at Dallas Market Hall didn’t get much better than Flosstradamus’s set on the Mothership. In a set that highlighted…
