For longtime fans of Dallas radio host Chris Jagger, their morning routine has been turned on its ear. On Friday afternoon, 102.1 FM The Edge, the station where Jagger and his various ensembles of the Jagger Mafia has hosted a morning radio show on and off since 1998, announced that…
Late last week, some pretty big news dropped about 102.1 The Edge’s morning show: Chris Jagger, who was on his second stint with the station, had been let go. Replacing Jagger will be The Atom Smasher Show from the Houston radio market, which takes to the airwaves on May 2…
It’s been a couple of years since we first profiled Shaun Colón, a local director working on a documentary about San Francisco-based record label Fat Wreck Chords. After two Indiegogo campaigns that raised money in the five figures, the Dallas director’s A Fat Wreck is finally ready for its world…
It’s been four years since John Congleton has released any new music. It hasn’t been for a lack of trying on his part, though. In the meantime — and practically all of his time — he’s been busy with his work as a producer, engineer and mixer of international repute,…
The highly-anticipated reunion of At the Drive-In hit a big snag last week. Via a Facebook post, the band announced co-founder, vocalist and guitarist Jim Ward is not in the band anymore. This news came only a few days before the band heads out on an extensive tour of the…
For a singer-songwriter who plays more than 200 shows a year and has more than 10 albums, Vanessa Peters is not nearly as well known as she should be. She’s received plenty of praise from the local press (including this publication), but she doesn’t consider herself a hometown girl. “In…
There was a time in the 1990s when Tablet was inescapable around Dallas. Between 1993 and 1997, they were pegged to go the way of Tripping Daisy, the Toadies and Old 97’s, with their songs on the radio and playing live quite a bit. But when frontman Steve Holt stepped…
If you’ve had the pleasure of receiving a hug from Kevin Howard, the current keyboard player for the Rich Girls, it was probably one of the best hugs you’ve ever received in your life. A lot of sincerity, as well as incredible strength, comes through his skinny body. On…
El Paso quintet At the Drive-In have returned. Again. Four years ago, they played a short Texas tour (including a memorable stop at Trees) and then played Coachella. Now they’re touring the US and Europe between March and June (no Texas dates have been announced), and they have teased new…
For someone who moved to Dallas a little under a year ago, Sarah Henry has dived right into the music scene with her record label, Palo Santo. Started last summer, she already has a couple of releases under the label’s belt and has more on the schedule for 2016. Prior…
Yesterday was just another Monday afternoon for Tiger Darrow, currently living in New York after growing up in Austin and going to Booker T. Washington in Dallas. But right before she left for work, she got the news that Glenn Frey had passed away at the age of 67. Frey…
Muse American Airlines Center, Dallas Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Due to “technical logistic problems” between the Houston date and last night’s date in Dallas, the Muse show at American Airlines Center started late on Wednesday. Very late, actually. But that didn’t stop the AAC from being mostly filled as the…
Cheap Trick With Ian Moore and the American Fuse The Bomb Factory, Dallas Saturday, November 7, 2015 When Cheap Trick usually comes to town, they have to stick to the hits. Whether they’re playing Billy Bob’s or opening for Aerosmith, the set list doesn’t veer too far from the songs…
Before the original members of the Alice Cooper Group took the stage together earlier this month for a surprise reunion at Good Records, it had been 40 years since they played together. So when some high quality footage of the performance appeared on Rolling Stone’s website last week, the whole world was…
Don Henley With Shawn Colvin Verizon Theatre Thursday, October 15, 2015 Shortly into Don Henley’s two-hour, 24-song set at the Verizon Theatre, he said it was good to be home. As easy as that was to say to the crowd, the meaning meant a lot. Henley and his 10-piece backing…
Don Henley might have grown up in the Northeast Texas town of Linden, but Dallas has been his adopted home for many years. He spent time in Dallas playing with his formative bands and had a stint at North Texas State University (now known as UNT). As famous as he…
Mötley Crüe With Alice Cooper and the Cringe American Airlines Center Wednesday, October 7, 2015 For all the promotion that this is Mötley Crüe’s final tour, their nearly-two hour set Wednesday night didn’t quite come across as a farewell. Rather, it was a band that essentially played their Decade of…
Good Records has hosted many great in-store signings and shows, but Tuesday night, they made rock ‘n’ roll history when all of the surviving members of the Alice Cooper Group played an 8-song set. On Monday, rumors floated around that the former Vince Furnier would join guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist…
A few years ago, Sean Kirkpatrick wasn’t sure he would make another record. He openly talked about it when Fake Infinity, his second record with Nervous Curtains, was released in 2012. The keyboardist/vocalist wasn’t making bold declarations; he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do another grand presentation of recording…
The Decemberists With Olivia Chaney Majestic Theatre, Dallas Friday, October 2, 2015 There were four phases to the Decemberists’ sold-out, two-hour set at Majestic Theatre on Friday night. The first part was a Colin Meloy solo set, then a lengthy portion of straightforward full-band material, then a full-on prog rock…
Alan Palomo is back in Texas, and he’s in a pretty good mood about it. It’s a Tuesday night and he’s getting ready for a show in town very close to Austin called Manor. A few year ago he left Austin, having lived previously in Denton, for New York City…
There was a time when Chris Holt’s name was often mentioned in this publication. He was frequently nominated (and won) many Dallas Observer Music Awards for his work with Sorta, the Slack, Salim Nourallah and as a solo artist, including the prestigious Musician of the Year. You couldn’t avoid hearing…
