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…
A lot of people are home for Thanksgiving nursing food hangovers and hanging out with family, which explains why most of this weekend’s shows are from local acts. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some big shows happening this weekend, like the one from Dallas’ own Demi Lovato tomorrow at Verizon…
This week’s poster comes to us from artist Scott Spooner, who sends us a quirky take on a Christmas party.Spune Productions throws some great parties year-round, and the poster for their Christmas party, which will take place on Sunday, December 11, at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, manages to capture the…
The Polyphonic Spree certainly loves the holidays. It makes sense, seeing as they’re the most joyful band on the planet. And only three weeks after they throw their annual Holiday Extravaganza at Lakewood Theater, they’re throwing a New Year’s Eve bash at House Of Blues on December 31. Which show…
If you’re reading this blog, it’s likely you frequent a record store, and there are several good ones in the area to choose from. But, if you didn’t realize that purchasing music online is a mild sin, and if your record store of choice is the iTunes store or Amazon.com,…
A degree from Boston’s Berklee College of Music holds a lot of clout no matter what type of music you make. Saying you went to Berklee will raise eyebrows of folks involved in classical, indie rock, jazz, hip hop and just about any other genre of music.And Berklee is scouring…
People On Vacation have been a thing for some time now — almost two years according to the introductory band video we posted earlier this year. Billing themselves as a sort of local supergroup, Smile Smile’s Ryan Hamilton and Bowling For Soup’s Jaret Reddick have been working on their debut…
In the wake of Good Records Recordings’ relaunch last week, it was interesting stumbling across this 1999 Zac Crain-penned piece about the late Tripping Daisy guitarist Wes Berggren. For more than a decade, much ado has been made about Berggren’s untimely death, brought on by a drug overdose. But this…
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Hey, music is pretty good”? Have you ever unsuccessfully suppressed the urge to pump your fist at a concert? Do you know how to read and write?Well, lucky for you, we’re now searching for spring music interns, and if you fit those requirements, you…
There are lots of big shows this weekend, and the one about which much ado has been made is the [DARYL] reunion at Sons of Hermann Hall tonight. Since the band broke up several years ago, members have continued playing around town in various other capacities. Tonight, they’ll be joined…
Real Estate, Big Troubles, Lonesome GhostDadaNovember 17Better than: Hanging out with Moz and them. In some strange turn of events, mellow new jersey buzz band Real Estate have become a party band. Never mind that their latest release Days is a breezy, melancholy offering with a handful of surprisingly big…
Many music fans in Dallas know guitarist Bugs Henderson for his influence on the international blues community. In this week’s paper edition of DC9 at Night, local blues musician and historian Jim Suhler talked about how Eric Clapton and the late Freddie King would go see Bugs Henderson perform when…
Looks like Rolling Stone has a jump on Rhett Miller’s new live covers album The Interpreter: Live From Largo. The record is set to be released November 22, but you can listen to the entire thing on the Rolling Stone site.Just a word of warning, there are no original songs…
This week’s selection for Poster of the Week, created by Daniel Hughes, comes to us from Parade Of Flesh, who are promoting tonight’s Real Estate show at Dada. The reason it was selected? Pretty simple, really…
It may be one of the most important landmarks in blues music, but 508 Park Ave., just down the street from Dallas City Hall, is in shambles. What once was a stately building where blues legend Robert Johnson famously recorded on June 19 and 20, 1937, now has boards on…
This news from former Lift To Experience frontman Josh T. Pearson comes as a bit of a shock. In our story about the painful release of his record Last Of The Country Gentlemen earlier this year, he told us, “I called it Last Of The Country Gentlemen because I didn’t…
This edition of show announcements is topped by two shows happening on the same day, Friday, February 10. The first of which will be headlined by Burleson’s own vocal powerhouse Kelly Clarkson. Her most recent album Stronger was released on October 21. The following tour will take her all around…
There was a time years ago when the old Winedale Tavern on Lower Greenville Avenue was a decent place to grab a drink. That was long before Singlewide owner Kim Finch, who bought the Winedale earlier this year, had her team scrape dried vomit from the bathroom floor when renovating…
It was a rough weekend for former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, who along with his band, The 400 Unit, were victims of theft here in Dallas. It wasn’t petty either. They lost their van and trailer, which, according to the band’s publicist, was sitting outside the Holiday Inn Express by…
There are loads of great shows this weekend, but probably the most notable is the Cystic Fibrosis benefit concert at Granada Theater on Saturday night. For the fifth year in a row, Rhett Miller will be headlining, this time with the help of Sarah Jaffe and The O’s. If helping…
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveFor many who watched the interview with Brian Eno on the Colbert Report, there was interesting news about Eno’s current project. No, it’s not a reunion for Roxy Music, his band in the ’70s, or production on Coldplay’s…
There’s a good reason this two-sided poster, designed by Tractorbeam’s Daniel Führer, has topped the list of this week’s poster submissions. It’s for a good cause, and it offers a glimpse into man’s circulatory system that no other concert poster has yet…
