It’s far too easy to get stuck in the bubble of Dallas’ hippest bars, to never leave the comfort of Deep Ellum, the Square in Denton or a bar named after a bird in Fort Worth. By doing so, we neglect the sheer number of unique locations that we’re afforded…
Imagine Dragons With Metric American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, July 17, 2015 Judging by the crowd who showed up at American Airlines Center on Friday night, Imagine Dragons have done more for sales of Cialis than any ad campaign run with any sporting event ever. The number of aging members…
Renato Rimach can still remember what it was like to grow up in a civil war. “Car bombs were going off everywhere,” he says. “One was so close to our home that it blew all the window glasses in our house.” It was the late 1980s, and his family was…
Thank god for El Nino. Every now again it shows up like Superman to save us from Lex Luthor’s evil summer heat death ray, and thanks to it we’ve had a pretty mild one so far. We’re still in Texas, though, so peak heat or not it’s of the utmost…
Taco Libre Fest With Ozomatli, Deep Blue Something, TEAM*, Pinata Protest, Dustin Cavazos, Party Static and Valise Main Street Garden Park, Dallas Saturday, June 27, 2015 There’s a first time for everything. For instance, Deep Blue Something — back together again and getting ready to release a new EP —…
Imagine the battle between good and evil, played out right in the heart of Dallas. Masked men flying back and forth inside a ring, diving off the ropes and crashing into one another — each battling to find out who’s the strongest, bravest and most honorable warrior. All the while,…
Class. We don’t get enough of it. We’ve gone to enough shows to accumulate a raging case of tinnitus and enough T-shirts to clothe a small village, and when it comes to concert going in Dallas we’ve noticed our fair share of bad behavior. It happens to the best of…
97.9 The Beat’s Dub Car Show With Future, Kevin Gates, Mike Jones and more Dallas Convention Center, Dallas Sunday, June 14, 2015 “It smells like popcorn and weed in here.” “Oooooooh this my shit!” —Both overheard at the DUB Car Show on Sunday American car culture is a fascinating thing…
The Mountain Goats With Pinkish Black The Kessler Theater, Dallas Monday, June 8, 2015 In 1985, Dusty Rhodes delivered what is widely considered the greatest speech in the history of pro wrestling when he dressed down Ric Flair in the infamous “Hard Times” promo. So it made perfect sense that…
We’ve had just about three decades of great Texas rap music from Port Arthur to Dallas to Austin to make us forget that for some reason Vanilla Ice is the highest-selling rapper from the state. Thanks to tracks like “One Day” by UGK or “Sittin Sidewayz” by Paul Wall, that…
Since it opened its doors in 2013, Deep Ellum’s Twilite Lounge has earned a reputation for being one of the area’s best places to grab a drink, have a conversation or take a date. Lost sometimes in all the fawning over the jukebox and boozy concoctions is that owners Danny…
The thing about music, especially popular music, is that it’s very youth driven. The thing about being youth driven, of course, is you need to make it possible for the youth culture to fully immerse itself via live performance. That’s how fans grow from being little caterpillar iTunes song buyers…
So what we have learned is that if you want to boost the visibility of your spanking new venue, all you have to do is label something a VIP party, give away free tickets, and not tell anyone who’s playing the show. Because sweet mother of all wristbands was every…
The Latino demographics are booming in North Texas, and nowhere is that clearer than in the thriving selection of Latin clubs to be found in and around Dallas. Here you’ll find music bursting with drums and accordion that you’ll just instinctively have to dance to. So it’s high time we…
There’s a festival entering its eighth year down in Austin this weekend, but you’ve probably never heard of it. It doesn’t get flocked to by hoards of people clogging up your social media feeds with endless posts, tweets and photos, but it’s tapped in to a vibrant part of America’s…
They Might Be Giants Granada Theater, Dallas Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Babysitters throughout the greater Dallas area were getting P-A-I-D last night as every hip dad, hip mom and hip-parents-to-be were crammed into a packed Granada Theater for a two-set performance from beloved indie legends They Might Be Giants…
Cinco de Mayo is the day when a relatively small section of Mexico celebrates a victory over the French in 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. Of course, this being America, we look for anything and everything to exploit in honor of the almighty dollar and the almighty excuse to…
Boom 94.5 FM Hip-Hop Meets Zydeco and the Blues Festival With Bun B, Mystikal, Juvenile, Fair Park, Dallas Saturday, May 2, 2015 It may have been Mystikal who put things best on Saturday: “To all the youngins who don’t know me,” he said, “ya mamma know me. Ya auntie know…
The greatest thing on Dallas radio (that’s not something on the Ticket) is when you’re cruising through town late at night, and the sounds of Houston start to come from your speakers. The slow synth beat emitting from the Third Coast is the work of Fat Pat, and if you’re…
Pitbull’s show tomorrow night in Oklahoma at the Winstar World Casino is sold out, it has been that way for months, and this tells us something. He’s not going away. No matter how much we want him to. But, why? In the world of pop music with some exceptions, everyone…
It’s spring, and spring means three very important things: It’s baseball season, the NBA is in the playoffs and it’s patio season. While we pretend the Texas Rangers are worth watching and that the Mavericks aren’t on their way to being swept in the first round, we flock to that…
How is it that Denton — that bastion of forward, liberal thinking; the small town that could; the place where citizens rallied together to defeat big business and ban fracking — can’t seem to pass a definitive smoking ban? A debate over the subject raged late into the night last…
