Record Store Day 2018 is nigh upon us. Now in its 11th year, RSD is the musically drenched holiday when you and all your friends become John Cusack in High Fidelity. No matter your taste in music, odds are there’s a record coming out that day that will tickle your…
During the past four years, Gavin Mulloy has been synonymous with Trees and The Bomb Factory. Doing marketing for two of the best venues in Deep Ellum, he seemed to be staying put, given the quality of the shows and their turnouts. But he dropped some big news Monday: He…
April 21 might be best known as Record Store Day this year, but year after year, a byproduct called Vinylthon keeps growing. Now in its third year, Vinylthon will take place across the United States on more than 80 terrestrial and online radio stations. Arlington-based UTA Radio participated last year…
After eight years together, the great local band Oil Boom is calling it quits in May. “We have five excellent shows coming up in the next month,” the band wrote Thursday in an announcement on its Facebook page. “And that’s going to be it for us as an area band…
If you’re a musician and are not worried that a court recently upheld the verdict on “Blurred Lines,” you should be. In 2015, after a couple of years of back-and-forth lawsuits, Marvin Gaye’s family won a copyright infringement lawsuit against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams. The Gaye family believed Thicke’s…
Whenever Chris Carrabba hits Dallas on tour, he knows there’s something special here. It’s one of the first cities that warmly embraced his band, Dashboard Confessional, and a former member resides here, so Carrabba is not short on kind words. Ahead of a long tour in support of the latest…
Shannon Taylor grew up in Mesquite until she was 15, but for the past 11 years, she’s lived on the East and West Coasts. Now she’s coming back to North Texas with her band, awakebutstillinbed, en route to SXSW. It will be their first time playing Dallas and Denton. Taylor’s…
Kevin Griffin has been coming around the Dallas area for a long time, but it’s usually been with his band Better Than Ezra. Thirty years after the band formed in Baton Rouge (and later based in New Orleans), Griffin will play a solo show in Dallas for the first time…
Flogging Molly plays March 10 at the Southside Ballroom for our St. Patrick’s Day Concert. “Enjoy life,” Dave King says once. Then again. And again. He repeats the words at least three times during a 20-minute interview. Whether he’s talking about his mother (who died more than a year ago)…
Dallas born and raised Scarlett Deering has some pretty big gigs coming up this spring and summer. In addition to the many projects she’s involved in, she’ll play violin with the Eagles on dates in March and July. The 27-year-old Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual…
Getting your name out there in the music business was tough before the internet came along. Things got way more complicated with emerging media, so old business models have been trying to hang in there ever since. Frisco-based Music Audience Exchange, known as MAX, is taking a modern approach to…
Given the continued decline in CD sales overall for the past 15 years, it’s only been a matter of time for big-box stores to stop selling them. The dominant format from the early ’90s to the early ’00s is about to be gone from all Best Buy locations, and Target…
Bummer news, Say Anything fans. The emo band has canceled the rest of its tour — including shows at Trees on Tuesday, Jan. 30, and Wednesday, Jan. 31 — for health reasons. This morning, the band’s official twitter accounted tweeted that frontman and founder Max Bemis has laryngitis. “We are…
Longtime Dallasite John Congleton continues to have a prolific career as a producer, engineer and mixer. Congleton now lives in Los Angeles, and he’s adding the Decemberists to the list of artists hundreds of artists he’s worked with. The Portland, Oregon-based quintet dropped a new song, “Severed,” this week. It’s…
Mind Spiders have performed a magic shrinking trick. Just a few years ago, the band had a huge sound influenced by Phil Spector and Brian Eno. But for its fifth record, Furies, Mind Spiders have significantly pared down that lineup of two drummers, a keyboardist, two guitarists and a bass player…
Ashley Falgout sings in improvisational hip-hop band CoLab, and when she met Dead Flowers frontman Corey Howe, it was her only experience performing with a band. The two met through Evan Johnson, the bassist for both CoLab and Dead Flowers, and via Howe’s former gig as a bartender at the…
Sad news came down Friday that Teddy Davey, singer, actor and owner of the Balcony Club, had died. He was 54. Davey’s widow, Lorena, posted an obit Sunday morning on her Facebook page and his: “Theodore Joseph Davey was born May 11, 1963, and was peacefully ushered from time into…
Robert Earl Keen plays the House of Blues on Friday, Dec. 29 and Bass Performance Hall on Saturday, Dec. 30. This time of year, most musicians pause their tours to head home and spend time with friends and family. Not Robert Earl Keen. The country and folk singer-songwriter is busying…
Red Animal War plays Three Links on Saturday, Dec. 23, with Casey Hess & the Alexander. This month, a rock band that gained steam in Dallas in the late ’90s is celebrating the reissue of one of its first albums. Red Animal War originally released Black Phantom Crusades through North…
Tera Melos plays Three Links on Monday, Nov. 13. After seven years of commuting between Texas and California, drummer John Clardy has finally left Tarrant County for good. Clardy, who grew up in Colleyville, became the drummer for the Sacramento-based math rock three-piece Tera Melos in 2008, but it’s easy…
North Texas has four Top 40 pop stations, including one that replaced the legendary Edge late last year. We’ve also got quite a few country stations, which makes sense. Those can attract wide audiences. But the terrestrial music radio scene in DFW also includes a handful of stations that foster the weird…
Deep Ellum music venue Canton Hall was set to open its doors for the first time tonight with a show by Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman, but the show has been postponed. The second coming of the space that once housed Deep Ellum Live, shuttered in 2004, has…
