They were supposed to be somebodies. In 2007 when music blogs ruled the world (RIP Music Blogs 2005-Whenever Gorilla Vs. Bear dies) Black Kids took the world by storm with their Myspace-released EP The Wizard of Ahhhs, gaining major hype form blogs and traditional media alike, including an 8.4 out…
For 18 years, 3 Doors Down has been packing out venues with their blend of faux-Nirvana alt-rock that burst into the mainstream in 1999. You can’t begrudge an act for making a career for itself, so instead of slagging away at the band or making them the butt of some…
Panic! at the Disco With Youngblood the Hawke and Walk the Moon, 7 p.m. Friday, August 22, at South Side Music Hall, 1135 S. Lamar St., 214-421-2021 or southsidemusichall.com, $39.50-$45 Man, Las Vegas is weird. Look at the list of bands from there: The Killers, Imagine Dragons and Friday night’s…
At some point in the career of a band, the members of the group reach an impasse with their relationship and go their separate ways. Of course, there’s always money to be made, so the parties involved make the decision to hit the road and play their hits anyway. The…
When XXL revealed its Freshman Class of 2009 much of the hype went to Asher Roth, but it was B.o.B. who would see the most commercial success. In 2010 the Atlanta based rapper unleashed The Adventures of Bobby Ray on the world and quickly shot up the billboard charts with…
KXT Summer Cut With Death Cab for Cutie, Iron & Wine, Hold Steady Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 15, 2014 At the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X boulevards sits the Dallas MLK Center, where on Friday, six days after Missouri teenager Michael Brown was killed,…
Wiz Khalifa With Jeezy, Tyga, DJ Drama, Iamsu!, Rich Homie Quan, Ty Dolla $ign and Mack Wilds, 6 p.m. Thursday, August 14, at Gexa Energy Pavilion, 1818 1st Ave., 214-421-1111 or livenation.com. $28-$103 Last year I found myself in the nightmarish hellscape that is the DART Green Line after a…
Tonight sees one of DFW’s favorite bands, Spooky Folk, play a release show for their sophomore album Youth Is A Notion, a follow-up to their much-acclaimed self-titled album from 2010. With various band members residing in different parts of the country, it’s become a rare treat to catch the band…
WWE returned to American Airlines Center this Sunday, and this being a culture blog, we asked Jaime-Paul Falcone to go and send a sketch of what exactly goes at a WWE Live event. Drama, that’s what. Lots of drama, plus merchandising. ACT I Scene 1: Thousands of neon-clad children run…
THE IMMORTAL Cirque du Soleil American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, July 25, 2014 Inside the American Airline Center a child of maybe five years stands next to the Cirque Du Soleil merch table wearing a replica of Michael Jackson’s red leather jacket from the “Beat It” video. He’s pointing out…
Starting Friday the Quebecois carnival group Cirque Du Soleil takes over the American Airlines Center with their tribute to the life and music of Michael Jackson with THE IMMORTAL tour. The Texas leg of the tour is the last in the U.S. for the company, as they will cap off…
Erykah Badu WinStar World Casino, Thackerville, Okalahoma Saturday, July 12, 2014 From Oak Cliff to just over the Oklahoma border to WinStar World Casino it’s just about 80 miles, roughly 90 minutes if you get lucky and there’s no traffic. From Dallas proper it’s an hour and from Denton it’s…
You know that stereotype of Dallas that people go with? No, not the one about the city being extremely segregated, and stuck in a class warfare. We mean the one all the sports broadcasts use. The one where they show b-roll of the area to kill time between action, and…
Let’s be very clear here: the last Queen show was performed 28 years ago at Knebworth House in England. It was the last show because that was the last time bad leader, vocalist and rock icon Freddie Mercury shared a stage with band mates Roger Taylor and Brian May. Since…
You gotta hand it to Denton artist Jessie Frye: she’s never once shied away from being sultry. She turned her Main Stage performance at this year’s Edgefest into a a sweaty, energetic mess that impressed local critics and earned her quite a few new fans. Impressing people with her performances…
Wye Oak With Pattern is Movement Trees, Dallas Saturday, July 5, 2014 About a quarter of the way through Wye Oak’s set at Trees on Saturday night, a mother led her three children through the crowd carrying a pizza. They retreated to the upstairs segment of Trees, sat down and…
“Visually, to me, this is the best show ever. I get to watch sports highlights with subtitles and a heavy metal show.” — Dick Valentine, lead singer of Electric Six That quote, ladies and gents, might perfectly sum up the madness that occurred between the hours of 5 p.m. and…
For a band that tours fairly often, it’s amazing how much the members of the Mountain Goats are able to pop up in so many other areas of pop culture. From writing books to appearing on podcasts, frontman John Darnielle, bassist Peter Hughes, and drummer Jon Wurster keep busy in…
It’s as if Dallas collectively decided to self-fulfill the prophecy of the full honey moon on the 13th causing a crazy night. As the whiskey flowed in the packed bars of Elm St., the bands of the festival smiled and played to crowds of freshly inked fans, the majority of…
Black Flag Elm St. Music and Tattoo Festival, Night 1 Club Dada Wednesday, June 11, 2014 I do not like punk rock. I do not like what it was, I do not like what it stood for, and I do not like how it’s become short hand for some ideal…
You should all go get tattoos on Friday. Why? Well, not just to be a part of the crowd. You should do it because it’s obviously lucky, and also because, as someone who lives in Dallas it’s a bona fide rite of passage. It’s true. I swear it. You’ll get…
Starting Wednesday, Deep Ellum gets taken over by Oliver Peck and all his rowdy friends as the Elm Street Music & Tattoo Festival takes over programming at Trees, Wit’s End, Three Links, Club Dada and the Prophet Bar. Now in its second year, the event has grown to its most…
