In today’s America, where kids in high school don’t even know what a record player looks like, the yearly gross of vinyl sales is on pace to pass CD sales for the first time since 1986. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released their mid-year report on Sep. 5,…
It’s been a good few weeks for North Texas students. Erykah Badu brought her friend Common to pay a motivational visit to her old stomping grounds, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, at the end of August. This Tuesday, another DFW school got a superstar visitor when…
With summer in the books, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts found a way to negate the bittersweet feeling of starting classes again. Dallas music legend and 1989 Booker T. graduate Erykah Badu, stepped back on to her old campus with one goal in mind:…
Reggae music will send irie vibes into the air for two days at an outdoor concert venue taking place at the Longhorn Ballroom during the upcoming 2019 Dallas Reggae Festival. This is Dallas’ first reggae festival — or at least in the last 10 years — and will include Grammy Award-nominated singer…
Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas State Legislature are learning that every action comes with a consequence. Their choice to legalize minimal THC cannabis — also called hemp — has become problematic for local law enforcement. The red state of Texas is known for treating cannabis cases similar to how…
Weed rapper Devin the Dude rolled into Dallas on Friday on a stop from his Still Rolling Up Tour, and lit up the stage at Gas Monkey Live! The smoke-filled hazy set complemented a crowd packed with potheads of all demographics: from carefree high school kids who think it’s OK to…
The Green Elephant in Dallas was turned into a psychedelic music festival, just for one night. Los Angeles-based record label ILLUZYN coordinated a two-stage rabbit hole adventure called ESCAPISM, that ran as smooth as some major music festivals. ILLUZYN representative Vladimir Calise says that he and his partners wanted to…
There’s a large community of people who think of head shops as art galleries. They walk in to find tobacco rolling products like Swisher Sweets and Backwoods, but it’s the hand-blown pipes and water pipes that catch their eyes, like blinding jewels. Whether they’re visiting the head shop to purchase…
A large group of mothers gathered together on the second floor of the Tavern on Main Street in Richardson. Many of the women, confident and determined, were meeting for the first time to discuss their use of cannabis. “Moms Talk Cannabis Consumption” was organized by Annie Eply and Sarah Mosely. Eply…
International pop star Ed Sheeran gave his Dallas fans a treat on the same day of the release of his fourth studio album, No. 6 Collaborations Project: A pop-up shop in Deep Ellum with exclusive merchandise only available to fans who made it to the Main Street building. The art…
On the side of a 1,200-square-foot building in Deep Ellum there are two aliens painted in a far-out galaxy with a spaceship that lights up Commerce Street at night. This is the home of Weed and Whiskey TV — A Video on Demand streaming service. The channel is like Hulu…
