“We’re in a stadium, but I can probably hear each and every one of you,” says Ra Ra Riot front man Wes Miles. “So if you have anything you want to say…” That invitation rarely ends well. Some people standing near the back of the 50-person crowd in FC Dallas…
It’s too hot out for a letter jacket, man…
Tyler’s finest family band, Eisley, played at this year’s Dia De Los Toadies. The band took some time before their set to play a couple songs for our ongoing Busking series with Globe Trek Productions. Up first is “Mr. Moon.”…
Fun Fun Fun Fest has been known to be a good time in the past, and it is shaping up to be an even better one this year. You could go and buy passes. But you know what is even more fun than buying things? Winning them in preposterous fashion,…
Matt & Kim will play at 6 p.m. this Saturday at the Breakaway Music Festival. They will burn more calories during their set than the entire roster of the Wu-Tang Clan a couple hours later. That has become the band’s calling card — a live show that needs a descriptor…
Of all North Texas’ music festivals, 35 Denton is unique. The magnitude alone is singular — this year’s installment featured several hundred bands. And when the festival’s creative director (Kyle LaValley), talent buyer (Natalie Davila) and primary financial backer (Little Guys Movers) left their posts this spring, it appeared to…
Last night Mumford and Sons played their make-up date at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Good times were had. And I don’t mean to pile onto the chorus of indignation aimed at a band whose biggest sin is getting famous. If vests and repetitive song construction really offends your sensibility so much,…
Here is the situation with Breakaway Music Festival, which will happen this Saturday at FC Dallas stadium: The lineup is excellent. It includes the surprisingly resilient Empire of the Sun, our Young Money hometown representative in Lil Twist and the highly majestic Explosions in the Sky, who you maybe remember…
Electronic festival Lights All Night will return to Dallas’ Convention Center on December 27 and 28 this year, and they’ve just announced the headliners: Deadmau5 and Kaskade. This year, Lights All Night will also host a New Year’s Eve show in Mexico City. Tickets for the Dallas shows are $79…
Let’s not bury the lede here: John Densmore played drums for one of the ten most famous rock bands ever, and he’s coming to hang out with you at Good Records tomorrow, September 18, at 7:30 p.m. The occasion is a signing for his new book Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy…
When things go horribly wrong and then keep going that way, there’s no better strategy to maintain your sanity than to think about the story you’ll have. Music writer Jon Niccum has collected a bunch of those stories from musicians and published them in a book called The Worst Gig:…
This week, our series of busking videos with Globe Trek Productions features Whiskey Folk outside Oak Cliff fever dream chicken coop The Foundry, and they actually busked! Like, put out a sign and a container and everything. Not a lot of foot traffic pre-show outside a restaurant in a part…
Gavin Cleaver: Who wants to pay twice for a thing? No one, that’s who. So when Deep Ellum venues come together for a night like this weekend’s Sailor Jerry/Oliver Peck/Reverend Horton Heat Elm Street Tattoo and Music Festival, and you can see several bands by simply walking around Elm Street…
Whatever your opinion on Dallas’ many neighborhoods, there is little question that Deep Ellum is at a distinct logistical advantage. No where else boasts as many bars and restaurants in such a small area, and when a bunch of them are humming at once the effect is very it’s-all-happening. It…
Ward Richmond toured the country with rockabilly/Americana band Slick 57, which also includes The O’s John Pedigo. The band has opened for Wilco and Frank Black. In 2002, DallasMusic.com named Richmond Instrumentalist of the Year. Richmond has just sent me a text message from a rehearsal for the first show…
Update: The Dia is upon us! The Toadies’ festival kicks off tonight in Fort Worth. Prepare yourself with a second video of Vaden Todd performing in Klyde Warren Park — this one’s for “Magic Bullet” and it’s at the end of this post. Original post follows… This weekend, Fort Worth…
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2013 is now officially on the horizon. It’s the second weekend in November (the 8, 9 and 10), and today the Fest announced which bands will be playing each day, and also who will be playing the Nite Shows. You get into those for free with…
There are no shortage of music festivals in Texas around this time of year. But the Trans-Pecos Festival is less music overload and more…desert pilgrimage. Held at the El Cosmico property in Marfa, Trans-Pecos features some expected adornments (camping, music) and some considerably less so (leatherworking workshops! sandlot baseball!). Pre-registration…
A couple weeks ago, we introduced you to some of the best live sound engineers in Dallas. Those people voluntarily run complicated circuits late at night in rooms full of beer and idiots. Our hats are off to them. Alan Ayo, who wrote that post, asked each of them what…
Last weekend I went to Raleigh, North Carolina for Hopscotch Music Festival. It was cool, and before I go on I want to acknowledge that there was plenty of cool to be found in Dallas/Fort Worth/Etc. music last weekend as well. There was a growing beer/music music festival featuring cool…
Fort Worth’s fanciest metal band Pinkish Black has a new album coming out, and Pitchfork still loves them. Still loves them so much, in fact, that they’re offering a free stream of that album, called Razed to the Ground right now, a week ahead of its official release. You can…
George Strait, he of the black cowboy hat and the 70 million album sales, is going on a Jay-Z style farewell tour of the country (meaning it’s not goodbye by any standard definition). Yesterday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, he announced several things, including that this tour will finish right…
