Editor’s Note: Last Friday’s JMBLYA Music Festival took place in conjunction with a daylong student summit, organized by Support Our Students and featuring students from throughout the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). As part of the program, two students — Rebecca Woo and Arianna Trejo, both sophomores at Adamson –…
By Mwanza Dover Over the month of May, Detroit’s world-famous Movement Electronic Music Festival is holding pre-parties building up to their annual Memorial Day weekend blowout. Local promoter Source 20/20 is behind the Dallas edition of official pre-parties at The Green Elephant this coming Saturday. Featured on the bill is…
Ever since sunshine acid saturated Woodstock back in 1969, music festivals and recreational pharmaceuticals have gone together like wine and cheese. Which is why we’d like to recommend a few pairings for those so chemically inclined, a fine list of musical acts coupled with good stuff sure to provide complementary…
Dear Andrew, My entire family are teetotaling religious types who never tasted a drop of liquor or tried a single drug. They even find dancing offensive. Well, I drink, and just last week they had an intervention on my behalf. Now they’ve got me thinking I may have a problem…
Dear Andrew, I love my girlfriend, but she’s a bore in the bedroom. My previous girlfriend had crazy sex with me. She introduced me to a lot of stuff, like playing with my ass. I couldn’t even begin to ask my new conservative girlfriend about ass play. Or can I?…
By Andrew W.K. Editor’s note: Every week Andrew W.K. takes your life questions, and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose or — no surprise here — a party. Need his help? Just ask: AskAWK@villagevoice.com] Dear Andrew, I have serious trouble letting things go. For…
We do not know if you can buy, say, a taco with a song in Denton. We haven’t tried it. But we wouldn’t be surprised if you could. You can see Denton’s musical influence all over North Texas. It’s where so many of our best musicians found their voices, where…
Electronic music’s recent surge in popularity comes with serious side effects for underground-party aficionados. Suddenly, Daft Punk is winning Grammys, and drunk girls (and guys) are ruining life at 4 a.m. in a warehouse somewhere. By Sarah Stanley-Ayre Take this recent incident: Under a haunting pink hue Dustin Zahn tended…
There’s something in the air this week besides Wintery Mix. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, that magical time of year where even really solid romantic gestures seem tacky and contrived. But hey: Everyone deserves a little love. And a whole bunch of bands are choosing North Texas this year. So open…
On Friday, post-punk darlings Yuck played to a packed house at Trees. It was their third and final Texas show this year, and the new lineup proved an even more impressive live unit than the old one. Locals Son of Stan and Blackstone Rangers opened. Photographer Mike Brooks was there…
In many ways Oak Cliff is the soul of Dallas — home to several of its best restaurants and most vital residents. Its finest music venue, The Kessler, is the great counter-argument to all those who would accuse Dallas of worshipping only the new and shiny. The theater is an…
It’s widely known that band names, which once were mainly nouns and sometimes even gave you a sense of what the artist’s music sounded like, have devolved into an apocalypse of in-jokes, cleverness, punctuation and strange capitalization. It’s almost impossible these days not to look at a festival lineup without…
Artwork by Tatiana Craine A few weeks have passed since we found out who will be officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April. Which means enough time has passed for the migraines and projectile vomiting to have subsided. Here’s a scorecard for the inductees of…
All illustrations Jena Ardell By Jena Ardell Feuding Oasis brothers Liam, 41, and Noel Gallagher, 46, came face to face for the first time in more than a year at their niece’s wedding in Co. Kildare, Ireland, last weekend. The brothers have barely spoken since Noel quit Oasis four years…
Yesterday, an announcement was made that The Toadies’ major label debut, Rubberneck, will be reissued in April on Kirtland Records. Remastered for CD and vinyl with five unreleased bonus tracks, this is obviously a pretty big deal for longtime fans of the band. The band will head out on an…
It’s getting to be time to focus on 2014: A year we think will be a good one in North Texas music. Here are 12 of the artists and bands we expect to be on everyone’s year-end highlight roundups this December. See also: Five Local Rappers to Watch in 2013…
There’s no definitive way to say how many albums, EPs, mixtapes and other new music came from North Texans in 2013. Bandcamp keeps track of tags, and it has over 400 releases for “Dallas” since mid-April. So figure somewhere well into the thousands. We listened to as many of those…
Screenshot from video.Foxes actually make a kind of high-pitched bark/scream sound. You would’ve known that if you just searched the Internet for, like, ten seconds. Music, as a largely subjective medium, lends itself to some thought-provoking questions: What is the best concert you have ever seen? Which is the better…
The Prophet Bar has removed next weekend’s Public Enemy show from its calendar, and the ticket link on the band’s web site is now dead. No word on the reason for the cancellation, but they’ll still be playing in Houston on December 27. Original post from November 19 follows… The…
There’s no definitive way to say how many albums, EPs, mixtapes and other new music came from North Texans in 2013. Bandcamp keeps track of tags, and it has over 400 releases for “Dallas” since mid-April. So figure somewhere well into the thousands. We listened to as many of those…
Do the people who conceived and designed these metal album covers just not give a fuck, or do they give too many fucks? The answer is not entirely clear, but that’s what makes them so awesome. Behold, the ten most ridiculous metal album covers of the year. By Jason Roche…
Reznor at peak anger.Trent Reznor sure is a happy guy these days. In a recent interview in the Fader, Reznor is even shown as chipper when facing a root canal. Reznor’s apparent changed mood is so interesting because he has faced his demons so publicly in his music. Reznor today…
