In case you didn’t hear about it, Morrissey got tackled last week. During his own concert. By some of his own fans. Talk about a tough break. Granted, as far as we can tell, there was no ill intent in the mass attack unleashed on our fair Moz. Then again,…
The jury’s still out on whether North Texas can stake any claim to the music of Brooklyn-based St. Vincent, but we love the work that Annie Clark does regardless. We’re not the only ones, either. David Byrne feels the same way. So do Swans. Even Intelligentsia is in the same…
If there’s any one thing that makes for a healthy music scene, it’s a diversity of voices. That could mean different styles, different priorities, or just plain different experiences of the world. The important thing is that those voices be encouraged to come into conversation with one another. Well, the…
Another weekend come and another weekend gone. Hopefully we all spent some quality time with our beloved mothers yesterday, having most likely spent all day Saturday doing some quality day drinking. (Or maybe we were just day drinking with our mothers.) It was perfect weather for both, in fact. Naturally,…
Hey now, weather. Knock it off, you hear? It’s almost the weekend, and we don’t need any more tricks, like that tornado business you thought was so damn funny. (Joke’s on you because we have Special Weather Reports on our side.) No matter though; from now through Sunday, we’re looking…
Local hip hop fans have been waiting for this day for a while. Blue, the Misfit, a local producer and rapper who detoured to Los Angeles for several years before coming back to Dallas, has already set himself apart for his sludgy beats and gritty non-hooks. Having previously produced tracks…
Ohio duo and multiple Grammy winners the Black Keys are preparing to drop a new album next week, titled Turn Blue. From the time it was announced, Blue, the band’s eighth album together, has been the crux of a slightly bizarre promotional campaign: first, its release was announced via Mike…
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting news of Dallas’ annual year-end EDM extravaganza, Lights All Night, then today should be a good day. Or at least a mostly good one. The promotional folks over at Highland Concerts and MCP Presents gave us a little tease this morning of this year’s festivities…
Still recovering from the busy music weekend freshly past? Reveling in the newfangled 90-degree heat? Well, there’s no rest for the wicked, folks — at least not when it comes to the non-stop excitement that is the Dallas concert schedule. In fact, you’d better be ready for some more festival…
It’s finally May and — surprise, surprise — the music festivals are getting into full swing. There two noteworthy ones this weekend alone, and both are new kids on the block (or relatively so): tonight’s JMBLYA Festival and tomorrow and Sunday’s Suburbia Fest. And that’s just the tip of the…
It’s been an awfully strange week in Graceland. (Well, not Elvis’s Graceland. But then when isn’t that strange?) Dallas-reared New Bohemians’ vet Edie Brickell hit headlines earlier this week for a bizarre domestic dispute with her long-time husband, good ol’ “Rhymin’ Simon” himself, Paul Simon. Then they showed up to…
Last December, the tours Carter and Knowles just missed intersecting each other in Dallas by a couple weeks. At the time, Jay Z played it low-key and Bey went big time. Then this happened. And now, at last, the worlds of “Magna Carter” and “Mrs. Carter” will collide in DFW…
We get it. You’ve cracked the code on this whole music festival business. You’ve got it down to a science where you can predict which bands the organizers are angling for each year, based strictly on a formula of tour schedules, nostalgia, and price range. You’ve basically gamed this system…
Nostalgia is making a real comeback — in the music festival world, at any rate. Based on the announcements that were made yesterday, two of our local (or local-ish) flagships aren’t looking to buck that trend in 2014. In the case of Deep Ellum’s budding springtime star, Homegrown, now in…
We all have our Record Store Day stories. Maybe we pulled an all-nighter to stake out a spot in line before the stores had even opened. Maybe we planned our day to avoid the rush and make a quick record-grab-and-go. Or maybe we just went to stand around in the…
Neil Young Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center Dallas, Texas Thursday, April 17, 2014 Don’t tell Neil Young what to do. He may have grown into some grandfatherly approximation of old age, full of rambling stories and an easy, self-deprecating sense of humor. But deep down, he’s the same prickly soul…
It’s a long way from here to Minneapolis. About 14 hours, in fact. I know because I made the trip myself last weekend, having packed everything I own into a U-Haul and hopping on Interstate 35, which I followed virtually from one end of the country to the other. When…
After all these years, there’s still something special about seeing the Old 97’s back where they started — right here in their native Dallas. Perhaps it’s Rhett Miller and the boys’ longevity; perhaps it’s whatever that certain something special is that leaves us longing for the “next” Old 97’s. Either…
Wales seven-piece Los Campesinos! jam-pack about as much youthful exuberance as you can imagine into their shambling indie rock. Shouting more than singing over the rest of his band, frontman Gareth Campesinos helped characterize the brash, playful demeanor of their debut, Hold on Now, Youngster, with his clever, snarling vocals,…
The word “subtlety” doesn’t really factor into any description of The Big Pink. To begin with, the London duo produces an oversized, forceful sound between its two members, shamelessly following in the footsteps of multitudes of its Britpop predecessors. There’s the My Bloody Valentine wall of guitar, the Stone Roses’…
