Chat Room Pub barkeep Ben Rogers (on the left in the inserted picture, with owner Brad Hensarling) just updated the schedule for the bar and occasional music venue. Booked so far for 2009 are headliners History at Our Disposal, Musee Mecanique, Mount Righteous, “Danny Doyle” (I’d guess that means Daniel…
10. “Backdoor Santa,” Clarence CarterBelieve it or not, Carter had a career before “Strokin'”…
There’s another name to add to the list of local artists nominated for Grammys. Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya is up for his work on Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago. The recording features Harth-Bedoya conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with soloist Wu Man (whose…
This week’s winner promotes 100 Damned Guns, Blackland River Devils and Whiskey Folk Ramblers Saturday at The Double-Wide. Clearly, the guys in 100 Damned Guns are in no need of an ego massage if they boast the “Heart of Hank Williams,” “Brain of Waylon Jennings” and “Muscles of Jimmie Dale…
The first time I read “Boxing Day” on a calendar, I couldn’t wait to box the SHIT out of my asshole brother. Of course, when I asked Mom where we kept the gloves I was rather disappointed. But apparently it’s a real holiday in England, as characters have a Boxing…
If you think the assembly-line music that Disney and MTV shove down the throats of tweens and teenagers is vile, consider what their younger siblings have to listen to: The spastic and plastic monsters behind such kiddie pop-culture touchstones such as the seizure-inducing Wiggles and the Kidz Bop series of…
Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint- and another one! –Irish toast (one of many)Trinity Hall is the official meeting spot for the Dallas chapter of the 1759 Society, a group…
Pilot Point, Tioga and Aubrey teenagers who need something to do besides football games and the occasional country fair will have another option for weekend entertainment starting this Saturday. The Journey Pilot Point, an all-ages venue at Journey Church (972 W. Walcott St.) is holding its grand opening at 8…
From 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday, art, music and complimentary booze will collide at Continental Gallery for Creative South’s Collision 2. Featured artists are Isaac Brown, Kimberly Gloe, Clint Scism and Ange Fitzgerald, and musicians include DJ Pendergrass, Vaqueros Electronicos, Miss Flowerette and Rubba Rode. Art will be for sale,…
Art Conspiracy inexplicably got left off Good Friday, but really, the event deserves an entry of its own anyway. As in past years, volunteers will auction off art created on site between sets from local musicians. More than 150 artists participated in the charity arts event. This year’s conspiracy benefits…
First, a reminder of the shows we’ve already mentioned. Tonight, the Gonzalez brothers will improv with friends at Kettle Art, El Ten Eleven post-rock out at The Cavern, Death Cab For Cutie and some other boring bands play at a boring venue, Nicholas Altobelli releases a CD at Buon Giorno…
Dennis Gonzalez of Yells At Eels put together this week’s winner. This was a controversial winner, by the way. Music editor Pete Freedman much preferred Nevada Hill’s poster for the same event, saying the Saharan scene Gonzalez used reminded him of the vaguely Middle Eastern artwork hanging at his Hebrew…
Surely only Henry Cho’s fellow Korean-Americans could relate to clean, Knoxville-drawled jokes about redneck buddies confused by the sound of a turn signal (providing the name of his 2006 special, What’s That Clickin’ Sound?), a Southern town renaming itself to match its misspelled water tower and being a clueless new…
As if shopping for presents didn’t cost enough money and peace of mind, shopping for holiday meals will also take its toll on your wallet and soul. Former Abacus executive chef and Top Chef contestant Tre Wilcox looks to continue that tradition this year, unless you think his Festive Holiday…
To celebrate the birth of the Savior, Dallas’ two commercial modern rock radio stations are throwing three big concerts in the next few days. KDGE-102.1 FM “The Edge” will have two “How The Edge Stole Christmas” shows. Night 1 includes Blue October, Hoobastank and Deep Ella on Thursday, December 4,…
In a way, The Chat Room Pub will come full circle Saturday night when The Theater Fire and Peter and the Wolf take their places on the Oriental rug that serves as an improvised stage along the bar’s painting-festooned back wall. The Fort Worth bar had built a devoted clientele…
Bassist Aaron and drummer Stefan Gonzalez, who play together as grindcore duo Akkolyte and with their father, Dennis, in jazz trio Yells At Eels, have yet another brotherly collaboration coming up. The two will provide music at 9:30 p.m. Friday for the closing party of the eNeRGy exhibit at Kettle…
If you can overcome the dreary weather, Black Friday shopping exhaustion and post-Thanksgiving hangover, there are a few noteworthy shows to choose from this weekend. First, a reminder of what we’ve already mentioned. Tonight, you can catch Gojira, 36 Crazyfists, In Flames and All That Remains at The Palladium Ballroom;…
Cliched Holiday Generalization No. 1: With the holidays coming, and considering the booze required to endure family and office parties, you’re gonna be packing on the pounds starting today. Cliched Holiday Generalization No. 2: There’s a good chance you’ll make a New Year’s resolution to start exercising in about a…
Though Frank Campagna’s Kettle Art Gallery has only been open for three years, it’s already hard to imagine Deep Ellum without it. Part of that reason is because Campagna himself has long been a staple of the Dallas art and music scenes. He started back in the late ’70s designing…
Heavy, slow, dark. Repeat. That’s the formula True Widow sticks to like tar for the entirety of its eponymous debut CD. The 10-track slab of growling guitars and plodding drums stretches on for an hour, but the songs run together so soon that the band could have repeated the first…
Metro Diner occupies the once popular Pitt Grill location. Metro Diner 2316 W. Davis St., Dallas The Metro Diner in Oak Cliff is the epitome of no-frills, greasy-spoon dining: short-order fare, the waitresses call you “Hon” and you’d be hard-pressed to spend more than $10 on a meal. I knew…
