Justin Pearson is a busy man, with four part-time, active bands. One of these bands is the notoriously enigmatic and oft-misunderstood noise-rock band The Locust, in which Pearson sings and plays bass. The group is playing three Texas dates in addition to its first show in five years, which was…
The weather is finally getting cool in Dallas, and Brody Price is taking the opportunity to sit outside his home with his dog and reflect on the upcoming release of his new album Hoop Dreams. The record is not your typical country album, but then again, Body Price is not…
Drew Merritt has been a busy man since returning to Dallas to work completing work on a new mural for the Virgin Hotel, in a little over four weeks before moving on to another project — a parking garage at The Realm and Castle Hills in Lewisville. The mural covers one…
Before heading out on the road with Cold War Kids for a long fall and winter tour in support of the band’s new album, New Age Norms, Vol. 1, singer Nathan Willett is at home doing some last-minute packing and finishing up some coloring with his daughter. “It’s been some…
If you ask Bruce Robison whose idea it was to take legendary country singer-songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey out on the road for four dates for The Next Waltz Live tour, he’ll swear up and down that “he was the one that suggested doing some shows, but I think his idea…
You may not have heard of Cassandra’s Curse, but the Dallas band has been playing in the margins of the Dallas music scene for over 12 years now. “We started in July 2007,” says singer and guitarist Charan Bhamidi (aka Charan SpidaFingaz). “We released what they called a ‘cross-over prog’…
During a short break from Bad Religion’s hectic tour schedule, bass player Jay Bentley is using his free time to do some normal dad stuff like making his daughter’s lunch, sending her off to school and drinking “like a hundred cups of coffee, bouncing off the walls and not doing…
After his February announcement that he will be retiring from touring due in part to his inclusion body myositis diagnosis, Peter Frampton made one last stop in DFW on Sunday night at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory. Kicking off the night was Led Zeppelin Evening, who ran through Zeppelin’s…
Celebrating their 45th anniversary as a band, Squeeze brought their Songbook tour to The Bomb Factory Thursday night with the foundational punk band X as their opening act. Once heralded by Rolling Stone as the heirs to the throne left vacant by The Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the…
First of all, shut up. We get it. Yes, Greg Ginn is the only original member of Black Flag left in the band. No, Henry Rollins does not have nice things to say about Ginn or the current iteration of the band. Yeah, pro-skateboarder Mike Vallely is not the lead…
Say what you will about Kenny G, but the guy is one of the most disarmingly nice people you will ever have the pleasure to talk to, and he doesn’t really care if you have anything negative to say about him. “I may not be a person like Taylor Swift…
Dallas indie-punk band Posival was pretty much dead in 2015. In the two preceding years, singer and guitarist Michael Zamora had written enough material to fill up three full-length albums and an EP, all released after the band members went their separate ways in early 2016. It was in those…
It was a mild evening on July 28, 1994, the first season the Texas Rangers played at The Ballpark in Arlington. Kenny Rogers had pitched to 24 batters and sent all 24 back to the dugout, one out after another. Rex Hudler, second baseman for the California Angels and seventh…
The 40 Acre Mule is just coming back to Dallas after a short run down I-35, where they played a couple of nights in and around Austin, first at The Continental Club and then at the historic Gruene Hall — which singer and guitarist J. Isaiah Evans says was the best show…
It’s Monday evening, and Ottoman Turks singer and rhythm guitarist Nathan Mongol Wells is doing his very best to avoid Margarita Monday at Ozona after a day of work and e-mails and preparation to make the band’s Friday night show at Granada as big of a party as possible. “We…
Paul Cauthen’s new video for “Prayed for Rain” is an ode to Dust Bowl-era sharecroppers and their strength to overcome a hardscrabble existence, which is what the song is about, ostensibly. “Some of the strongest people lived and made it through the Dust Bowl,” Cauthen says. “Hardships, famine, drought almost…
The Verizon Artist Lounge at ALT 103.7 headquarters is an unexpected rehearsal space for a new band, but it’s the perfect spot for a band like Young Optimist, which is making serious business out of radio-friendly electro-rock. How does a band that has played only one show, albeit to a…
Since the release of their 2002 breakthrough album Wonder What’s Next, Chevelle has been playing alternative metal at large-scale shows, like their upcoming Dallas concert with Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Dorothy and Diamante at Dos Equis Pavillion. Singer and guitarist Pete Loeffler looks back at a point in time,…
Post-rock isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The minimal lyrics, or no lyrics at all, so disrupt the traditional rock formula that they easily turn audiences off, leaving them wanting for something they can actively participate in. For the last 25 years, this fact has not stopped Scottish post-rock band Mogwai…
Let’s get one thing straight right here — emo is not a music genre comprising tall, scrawny dudes with long black hair in their face with a red streak in it or something, screaming about how much life sucks and how much women just don’t understand the kind of love…
“Give me half a chance / I can prove to you / This life is worth living.” So begins “Off the Ledge,” the second single from Fort Worth alt-rock band Meach Pango’s highly acclaimed second album Distractions. A song about not being able to prove the brighter side of life…
Robert Trusko is a ubiquitous bass player, lending his talents nightly to projects like Skinny Cooks, Thaddeus Ford Project, Bree & the Fellas, Scour, Melody Memory and Jamil Byrom and the Grown Folks, but the project closest to his heart is his solo project, TRUSKO. “I graduated (with a master…
