Local music lovers over the age of 30 still remember Jibe frontman Joe Grah jumping off the side of the Curtain Club. Grah was exactly what we all morbidly want a rockstar to be: daring, out of control and ever on the verge of screwing up his chance at stardom…

Dallas is rampant with every type of musician, varying from classically-trained savants to genres which can only be described as WHAT?, and we’re damn proud of our diversity. While they’re all rich in talent, local musician’s finances slightly vacillate, depending on, among other things, their tip jar’s undernourished or obese…

Charley Crockett was destined to be an outsider. A mixed-race kid born into poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, he found refuge in the in-between spaces, first among the squatters of New Orleans and then as a busker in New York’s subways. He couldn’t have been anything but a blues…

There’s a party at the Roomsounds’ house. It doesn’t matter what day of the week, or even what time of day (although the later the better), there are almost always people wall-to-wall — musicians, beautiful girls and what the band calls “permanent guests,” all decked out with long hair, big…

Nigel Rivers may be the most nomadic bass player in Dallas. His abnormal versatility, which covers seemingly every genre in the musical spectrum, leads him to continuously roam various cities of the world with a range of different artists. It’s uncommon for a for-hire musician to make a name for…

The Funky Knuckles have just begun their latest residency, a gig at Sundown at Granada every Monday night. They’ve had a great run in that respect, being on a six-year lucky streak of steady residencies, having never gone longer than two weeks before finding another home. The fact that they’re…

The iPod is nothing short of a miracle. That might sound a tad bit out of touch in 2015, when the iPhone has all but rendered it obsolete and the click wheel has found its resting place in the history books. (Let’s face it, it’s now a rarity to get…

It seems perfectly reasonable to meet Dezi 5 at 4 o’clock on a Tuesday morning. There’s very little about the man that is conventional. He sits at a booth inside the Deep Ellum Buzzbrews, engaged in lively conversation with a couple of strangers, the only other reminders of human life…

When it comes to live music venues, Dallas has polychromatic shades of bar staffs, from its draft-pouring, quietly rustic bartenders to the sophisticated mixologists with novel ways of concocting a drink. When you frequent a venue often enough, it’s nice to be remembered. This could very well mean you need…