Everybody loves to see somebody from their city or town “make it.” That’s more or less a subjective thing, “making it.” Essentially, whenever an artist manages to get the attention of the New York and Los Angeles tastemakers, they wear this vicarious success like a badge of honor. At The…
The O’Jays were formed way back in 1958 in a high school in Canton, Ohio. So naturally a casino in Oklahoma will have yet another legendary act you didn’t have a clue still tours pop into town. Accolades for the soul and R&B group run deep: Seven of their studio…
Collectively, a city sluggishly heads back to to its desk. Welcome to the working week. Your weekend is over, hopefully it was perfectly fun. (Well, unless you watched the Cowboys game.) But there is plenty more to be had by seeing live music. As per usual, a few great shows…
A great thing about holiday weekends is that they bleed into the next week, just a little bit. Yes, you’re thrown out of whack treating a Tuesday like it’s a Monday and that’s weird — it throws off your workplace vertigo. But, your week is only four days long and…
Howdy, folks. The best thing that’s gonna happen this month is the one and only State Fair of Texas. It’s in your best interest to head on down to Fair Park and daze at the 55 foot gargantuan glory that is Big Tex. Gorging on fried foods that have the…
King Camel celebrates its one year anniversary this Saturday at Club Dada. With the anniversary show’s stellar lineup, you would that think prior to becoming a promoter, King Camel’s Jeff Brown was already a fixture and popular guy around Dallas’ music scene. But that isn’t exactly the case. Sure, Brown,…
Dallas, you’re hard to understand. It’s hard to contextualize a lot of your actions. How is it that even though Erykah Badu is from these parts, you don’t give much attention to R&B and soul music. Badu is perhaps the greatest R&B/soul act since the Chitlin Circuit cooked its way…
Billboard, everybody’s favorite trade music magazine, just put together a list of the 25 Most Popular Music Clubs is the U.S. There are many takeaways here, but the most pertinent one for Dallas music fans is that our local House of Blues was the fourth-most attended venue (222, 988) in…
Growing old means letting go. Love fades and friends move away. The people closest to you — mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, the whole nine — they depart this earth. And the places we visit, our old haunts, they come and go as well. Concert venues, much like restaurants,…
There are no less than 30 people on stage and it’s been this way for the majority of the evening. Men mean-mug and bop in an attempt to look both cool and menacing. Women are in the back just barely dancing. A Virgin Mary suctioned to the dashboard of a…
As PARTYNEXTDOOR sadly reported on the opening track of his new project; the summer is over. It won’t physically feel that way for us down here in North Texas until about early to mid October, but that magical haze is fading away now. Everyone’s going back to school. Football practice…
Hell took a few days off. It’s hibernating. Taking a well-earned nap. It must have gone on a date or something. Maybe it’s at the ballpark cheering on its favorite baseball team, the New York Yankees. Point is, the hellish Texas heat isn’t terrorizing the citizens of the Valley Ranch…
JEFF the Brotherhood With Sealion and Not in the Face Club Dada, Dallas Wednesday, July 23, 2014 The headliner gets the smoke machine. JEFF The Brotherhood is the headliner, therefore, they get the smoke machine. The band is tucked neatly under tufts of smoke, playing their hearts out to a…
When Bobby Patterson, a legend of Dallas soul music, decided to call his new album I Got More Soul, he wasn’t kidding around. If you ask him, he really does have more soul. More of everything, in fact. “More soul for your ear hole. More soul than more soul. More…
Polyphonic Spree With Sam Lao and Quaker City Nighthawks Club Dada, Dallas Saturday, July 12, 2014 A white curtain shrouds the band in anticipation. Ribbons hang around the stage’s perimeter and along the fences in Club Dada’s backyard. The ribbons are colorful, every spectrum of ROYGBIV is touched. Magically, as…
