Guitarist Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down is happy to talk from his studio in Nashville ahead of another tour. The band has many hits to its name, so Henderson finds no reason to be bitter or jaded about the industry or the band’s long career. At this point, he…
After a month off, DJ Mark Schectman will return to the radio airwaves at 8 p.m. Sunday. The longtime host of The Local Ticket has a new show and a new place to call home. Now on the Entercom-owned Alt 103.7 (KVIL-FM), Schectman’s Locals Only show will be a continuation…
Lindsey Jordan’s Snail Mail project has only been around for a few years, but the buzz surrounding the band has elevated quickly. It’s already a headlining act with a few tours behind it, including a few stops in Texas. The band released its debut EP, Habit, in 2016 and their…
Despite having a pretty full schedule with his day job, Dicky Barrett still has time to front, write, record and tour with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Creating a mix of ska, rock, punk, metal and pop, the Boston nine-piece has been around since the early 1980s. The members made a…
It’s hard to imagine a summer without a Warped Tour. After this year, the cross-country tour will end. Founder Kevin Lyman has branched off to a cruise and overseas shows, but there will be a void for fans in America who grew up on it. Originally meant to be a…
Word came down late Wednesday afternoon that the Bomb Factory will host a public memorial for Vinnie Paul this Sunday, July 1. Dubbed “Vinnie Paul, A Public Celebration of Life,” the event is free to the public, but you need a wristband to get in. Born Vincent Paul Abbott, the…
Age Of Napoleon The beautiful thing about podcasts is that one exists for probably any topic. Need to learn how to play pinochle in a weekend? Easy. Want someone to analyze every political subtext of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid? Close your eyes and point to literally anywhere on your…
Bart Stevens, born and raised in Irving, has worked with the Old Red Museum in downtown Dallas since last fall. After 30 years in the music industry, he wanted to get into museum administration, but his time in his former industry has come back into frame. Six weeks after graduating…
The DTalks podcast, based in North Texas, focuses on telling stories about being a father and growing up with (or without) a father. Co-hosts Joe Shaw and Galan Aldaco are fathers, and fellow co-host John Laird is not. The three of them share perspectives on fatherhood to give people a…
Jeremy Enigk might not know exactly where his career will go in the future, but he certainly sounds way more open and giving than he used to. For many years, as the frontman of Sunny Day Real Estate and the Fire Theft and as a solo artist, Enigk had a reputation…
As places keep popping up around the Toyota Music Factory in Irving, the 500,000-plus square foot mixed-use entertainment and lifestyle complex has lost a large tenant. Word got out quickly late Tuesday morning that Big Beat Dallas was not reopening its doors after a rather rocky two months in business…
When we spoke to Ken Stringfellow last year, he was not in the head space to devote all of his creative energy to playing with his main band, The Posies, and doing the group’s best-known material. “I don’t want to give people the same thing again, exactly the same way,”…
North Texans like to kick Plano around. To its detractors, it’s an area apparently devoid of culture or anything worth venturing north of LBJ Freeway for. But the Collin County town saved Ron Bultongez’s life. Bultongez, a singer-songwriter, was on the ABC reboot of American Idol. When he initially tried…
Chris Cutler has led Fat By the Gallon through various permutations since 2002, things appear to have really come together for the pop-punk band in the past three years. Whether it’s opening locally for the Descendents or Bad Religion, or getting in a van and touring the country, the band…
It seems like Nada Surf always hits Dallas whenever it tours, which is not a bad thing. With every album it puts out, the band comes here, but Thursday’s show at the Granada Theater is a slightly different affair. For the first time in its career, it’s doing an anniversary…
Brandon Boyd always wanted to be a painter. He only accidentally had a career in music. The frontman of the long-running band Incubus is excited to share his artwork for the first time in Dallas. Boyd will be in attendance for the opening night of the show, called OptiMystic, on…
Sara Radle was a major part of the Deep Ellum music scene in the late ’90s. After fronting the poppy-punk trio Lucy Loves Schroeder, playing all the instruments in a solo project called Fred Savage Fanclub and running the Jeez Louise record label, she left for Los Angeles in 2005…
Mike Portnoy likes to joke that he plays drums in dozens of bands, which is a slight exaggeration. Since 2010, he’s recorded and toured with Avenged Sevenfold, Twisted Sister, Adrenaline Mob, Metal Allegiance, the Winery Dogs and the Neal Morse Band. This year, he’s touring with a new band called…
On Sunday afternoon at Panther Island Pavilion in Fort Worth, NOFX, Bad Religion and a few other punk bands will give fans a different kind of festival. It’s nothing like the Warped Tour or a club show; the Punk in Drublic festival is meant to be the kind of show…
On his Saturday off between two shows at The Bomb Factory this weekend, Jack White will play in the Sandlot War, a baseball game at Reverchon Park that’s free and open to the public. White’s team, the Warstic Woodmen, will take on the Ticket Timbers, which comprises mostly on-air personalities…
Four years after the band reunited, shoegaze legend Slowdive is still drawing fans. Off the heels of a well-received 2017 self-titled album, the English five-piece is happy to navigate whatever it wants to do. Whether it’s playing festivals in Europe or one-off dates in Texas, bassist Nick Chaplin appreciates how…
When Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello thinks about all the times his band has trekked up to North Texas, nothing really tops the first trip to Dallas in the early ’90s. Long before headlining tours, Warped Tour dates and support slots, the ska/pop-punk band found themselves facing a locked…
