The first day of Austin City Limits Music Festival was a surprise to say the least. Having never been to one of these outdoor music festivals, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had a hunch that getting close the stage at any act I wanted to see would be tough…
This weekend, Dallas benefits heavily from the Austin City Limits Music Festival spillover effect, which has some of the best bands in the world looking for a place to play in and around town. There are a whole bunch of these shows, as well as a few others, making this…
Something happened this week 20 years ago, and music hasn’t been the same since: Nirvana released “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the lead single from Nevermind, which would itself come out later in the month. With the song came a new movement in music, a new era. But plenty of other…
The fall season is starting to shape up as expected. The fall and the spring are, after all, the prime touring seasons, and right away, it looks like the Granada Theater’s got some pretty impressive bills coming our way.New York noise rock band A Place To Bury Strangers will be…
It’s a beautiful day in the blogosphere for Dallas artists. First of all, Pitchfork is tossing out “Best New Music” like parade candy, and North Texas natives are scooping it up. It seems St. Vincent’s much-anticipated third album, Strange Mercy, hit a home run on the music site, which praised it as her…
There are a good many reasons to skip this year’s installment of Austin City Limits Music Festival down in Austin.For starters, the weather is supposed to sunny with a high of 98 degrees on all three days. in a giant field with no air conditioning, teeming with thousands of warm…
It turns out that Neon Indian isn’t the first area musician to essentially invent a new genre.Fourteen years ago to the week, something new was brewing in the then-somewhat dry Dallas hip-hop scene: Bhakti, a project by Dallas rapper Reggie Shaw, was garnering international attention for its new style, “Krishna…
It seems that The Young Money Millionaire is making up for time lost while locked up last year. Lil Wayne is returning to Dallas on Saturday at the Gexa Energy Pavilion after performing at the American Airlines Center only five months ago. And the opening acts are reason enough to…
Fort Worth’s The Moon Bar is moving on up, literally. Sometime in mid-November, the bar, currently located on the Texas Christian University campus, will move northwest to a spot in the Ridglea Theater complex. But it won’t just be a few doors down from the historic theater, according to The…
A well-timed cover can be just the thing to take a band’s live performance from good to great. But if the execution of the song is off, it could blow the whole set. On the flip side, although playing a cover is a risky move, sometimes the rewards can make…
The rent for Lakewood bars is too damn high. At least that’s what we’re learning this week as another area staple shutters its doors. Around 6 p.m. last night, Lakewood Bar & Grill updated its Facebook page with news of its abrupt closure. According to the update, the closure was unplanned…
Seems that the big acts in this week’s show announcements were even bigger some 20 years ago. Much bigger. You might think we’re talking about Morrissey, or Wilco (who still seem to be on the fringe of their prime) or Third Eye Blind (did they ever even have a prime?), but, no,…
In the past, Labor Day has unofficially marked the end of the hot summer. But, this year, the heat will continue. There are some Labor Day parties this weekend, though, that will offer a chance to cool down and catch some good bands. The Double Wide, for instance, has their…
Spune Productions head Lance Yocom is moving rather swiftly down the road to recovery after he mysteriously fell ill in Flagstaff, Arizona, last month. It took a few weeks of intense testing for doctors to discover the Yocom was suffering from severe pneumonia. As such, for over a month, Yocom…
Leagues, The Old Home Guard, Katie Caroll, Stephanie PolskiThe Prophet BarAugust 30, 2011Better Than: watching A League Of Their Own followed by Major League. The crowd at The Prophet Bar stayed pretty full for the pretty much the entire show — pretty impressive stuff considering that the venue had booked…
Remember the early aughts? When the punk-rock resurgence yielded acts like The Hives, The Vines, and The Sounds? Well, Swedish act The Sounds have managed to stay around long past their heyday, releasing three full-length records since their breakthrough album Living In America. And now they’re on tour again in…
Leagues frontman Thad Cockrell has been writing and performing country music for well over a decade. All three of his albums, two of which (Stack Of Dreams and Warmth And Beauty) were released on Yep Roc Records, have been met with critical acclaim. His fan base has stayed loyal throughout…
Long before he was in Preteen Zenith, Secret Machines and even Tripping Daisy, Philip Karnats was just a guitar player from Bloomington, Illinois, who came to Dallas to audition for Bobgoblin. In a terrible decision — presumably made by the person who came up with the name Bobgoblin — Karnats…
There are some pretty solid shows this weekend, both local and national, but the biggest one comes to us by way of neo-soul star Jill Scott, who will headline the Budweiser Superfest at Gexa Energy Pavilion on Saturday night. Also on the bill? Anthony Hamilton, Mint Condition, DJ Jazzy Jeff,…
The three major cities that make up North Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth and Denton, duh!) have always taken part in a sort of friendly competition with each other. There’s always been trash talk from apologists of each music scene, of course. But, in the end, each scene seems to reluctantly…
It’s hard to deny the impact that Animal Collective has had on the blogosphere over the last half-decade or so — and not just as a whole, either, but individually with each of its members.One such member, Panda Bear, is coming off of the release of his second full-length record,…
Elm Street Bar is going for a record. If it can stay in business for six months straight after it re-opens on Monday, August 29, it will be the longest run the place has had in years. Some say it’s cursed (we may or may not be guilty of that),…
