Cameron McCloud is a rapper, but he wants to live like a rock star. He’s a paranoid schizophrenic, but music is his therapy and he has a fan in Erykah Badu. He used to go by ThatKidCam, but now McCloud prefers to be part of a group: Cure for Paranoia,…
Just a few months after purchasing the only vinyl record plant in Texas, Josey Records is already making its mark on the local music scene. Two new record labels out of Josey, New Math and Dolfin, are putting out some great sounds that few are familiar with, even highlighting a…
J.M. Rizzi and his eight-year-old daughter love to look at graffiti together. In the car they will slowdown to take a look at something or watch it go by on a train. But as much as she enjoys the art his daughter is sure that he would never do graffiti…
Eric Bogosian does not suffer fools gladly. The theater veteran from New York City commands a room like few others. He has a tremendous confidence and loose delivery that only comes with serious chops. Occasionally he glanced stage side at a list of characters unique to each particular performance; he…
Instead of a neighborhood arts festival, new fest Kwestival is a festival for neighborhoods, a giant pop-up of an extraordinary blend of merchants. According to organizers, the new fest will create a little Dallas in Klyde Warren Park, bringing together the culture of fifteen local neighborhoods. Much like its namesake,…
Lometa are obsessed with putting out the perfect EP. The dynamic alt-rock duo have already released five with impressive results, but the songs don’t come cheap. The asking price on their Bandcamp page is $713. That’s actually a byproduct of their obsession. You are welcome to buy these songs if…
You may not know hip-hop artist Eno $tripez or his music, but there is a pretty good chance you have seen his viral video, not even realizing it was shot in North Texas. Last Friday afternoon, he was pulled over by a police officer while driving in Mesquite. Riding shotgun…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra With Lower Dens Trees, Dallas Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Unknown Mortal Orchestra absolutely tore through their set for a sold-out show at Trees on Fat Tuesday, playing in front of a backdrop of lights that looked like a bunch of giant Lifesavers. The only acknowledgement of the…
The new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in The Cedars is, in a word, awesome. The second Alamo in Dallas-Fort Worth is located on South Lamar and the view of the city skyline from the front doors is absolutely majestic. In the lobby, there is an enormous film poster of Robocop, which…
You may recognize him as Captain Danny Ross from Law & Order: Criminal Intent or from his appearances in films directed by Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Atom Egoyan. But Eric Bogosian is also a playwright, novelist, and historian. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Talk Radio, a…
This week, the Texas Musicians Museum (TMM) debuted an exhibit commemorated February 3, 1959. “The Day the Music Died” was the day Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens died in a plane crash in Iowa. With rare memorabilia, the exhibit is a great addition to a museum on…
North Texas may be losing one of its most profitable artists. Mike Murdock, a contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and televangelist, will auction off two lavish Dallas-Fort Worth estates on Saturday, February 20. You could actually attend both auctions if you feel so inclined. Murdock is a 69-year-old who dresses like someone’s…
Last year, an artist named Felix released a solid, lo-fi ’80s funk album recorded straight to cassette. Soon after, another release appeared, a collaboration between Felix and rapper Lord Byron called Ghoulfive. The music has created enough buzz that both records will be released on vinyl next month. But much…
In his studio, Jeff Parrott has paint in pill bottles. For him, painting is therapeutic, a journey into his mind, an addiction. His imagery is frenetic and crowded. An intensely prolific psychedelic artist, he literally has rooms full of paintings in his home. Parrott is still making final decisions on…
Tippy Balady is a 15-year-old singer with a powerful voice and sophisticated delivery. Even more impressive, this teen is also an inspired songwriter. “Sometimes I grab a piece of paper and write it down before I go to sleep,” Balady says. “When I wake up I go to the piano…
This week The Procedure, a short film made with Dallas talent, won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A man is abducted and forced to endure a strange experiment. Any other details about the plot would spoil it. The…
Deep Ellum clubs are not supposed to be the place to get closer to God. You might dance yourself clean or, at most, have a drug-induced out-of-body experience, but for the most part these are the havens of excess, depravity and decisions made to be regretted later. But at RBC,…
Bill Herbert was sweating bullets in his cowboy hat, his face bright red. The 2015 Cowboy’s Professional Rodeo Association saddle bronce champion was moments away from saddling up in front of a sold-out crowd at Cowtown Coliseum Saturday night in the heart of the Fort Worth Stockyards. He was waiting…
After achieving a production sound that turned heads around the world and functioning in a makeshift state for a year and a half, Niles City Sound in Fort Worth is finally ready to open. The studio where Leon Bridges recorded his debut album, Coming Home, was built with a focus…
Keegan Mcinroe is a man of the world. Like many Americana songwriters, he counts Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Tom Waits among his biggest influences. But where his peers may not venture out much further than that, Mcinroe seeks out more unfamiliar territory: His music is also informed by travels…
In many cases, the notion that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is absurd. “What doesn’t kill you makes you fragile” may be more sensible. But after a health scare that put him in a hospital bed for weeks, Wanz Dover came back stronger than ever. He is now…
In 1972 David Bowie released his classic alter ego album, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Iggy Pop inspired the alter ego’s first name, but he took the last name from a psychobilly outsider artist from Fort Worth. At one point in the late ’60s, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy…
