The Lumineers With Soak. and Sleepwalkers The Bomb Factory, Dallas Sunday, May 22, 2016 The Lumineers serenaded The Bomb Factory Sunday night in what has to be near the top of the list for date-night concert of the year. Lead singer Wesley Schultz and the gang led an accessible, folksy…
Barbecue has enjoyed a renaissance in Texas, and the trendy phenomenon has yielded two related byproducts. Like it or not, barbecue has become city-fied, and the price has risen substantially. But neither has encroached on Lee’s Bar-B-Q in Haslet — not yet, anyway. If you last walked into owner, operator, pitmaster…
Florence + The Machine With Grimes American Airlines Center, Dallas Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Florence Welch was in a more joyous mood than when she and her Machine last played Dallas in 2012. “More drunk,” Welch said the previous appearance to Wednesday’s show at American Airlines Center. “Much more drunk.” …
Just outside the average Dallasite’s comfort zone lies some North Texas beer that’s well worth the drive. Rabbit Hole Brewing in Justin has been canning the official brew of the greatest-ever American-born hockey player since the team of Matt Morriss, Tom Anderson and Laron Cheek swung open their doors in late…
The Cure American Airlines Center, Dallas Sunday, May 15, 2016 If anyone could make 19,000 people feel dejectedly jolly, it would be Robert Smith. The Sussex man synonymous with sadness gave Dallas four encores Sunday as the Cure firmly planted their feet in alternative roots during a nearly three hour…
Alexander Beggins loves festival season, but he loves this year’s more than most. Six years after starting his band, Wild Child, the vocalist and baritone ukulele player is looking forward to the seven-piece’s biggest festival year to date. “It seems like people care more in Dallas than they used to,”…
On an otherwise gray Wednesday in Denton, the meat beacon shone bright from Locust Street as The Juicy Pig swung open its doors and its walk-up window for an anticipated, if brisket-less, soft opening. To be sure, even after The Pig hits its stride, which a couple opening-day issues say…
Post Malone has had a pretty good run of things in 2015. The Grapevine-bred rapper (and, in a past life, Bob Dylan fan) came out of nowhere during the winter to score a viral hit with his song “White Iverson.” A trip back home and a major-label record deal later,…
3 Stacks Smoke and Tap House in Frisco and its signature bloody mary have a question for you. Just how brutal is that hangover you’re nursing, little buddy? Brutal enough that you want to go for bloody marys the next morning? Or brutal enough that your everyday bloody mary simply will…
When Hand Drawn Records founder and co-owner Dustin Blocker was was in the middle of planning his second-annual Cancer Jam, a cause he’d first taken up in 2014, back in June, he was dealt a devastating blow: He found out that his mother Linda had stage four breast, lymphatic and bone cancer…
When Dallas gets to be just a little too Dallas-y, Dallasites in droves tend to get in their cars and go; for an overnighter, for a long weekend, hell, for a decade if they can manage it. And Austin is one of those soul-replenishing destinations featuring the right combination of…
Downtown Denton was always where Armadillo Ale Works co-founders Yianni Arestis and Bobby Mullins wanted to be. The brewers and their brand have taken quite a circuitous route, but they look to be on their way to their dream location after securing a lease for the old Sanford Muffler &…
It happens all the time; one day you’re looking into entering a float in Dallas’ annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and the next you end up with a liquor-store-slash-neighborhood-hangout on your hands instead. At least that’s what the folks at Lower G Spirits & Cigars hope they’ve gotten themselves into…
Incubus With the Deftones and Death From Above 1979 Gexa Energy Pavillon, Dallas Thursday, August 20 Thursday night Gexa Energy Pavilion hosted ’90s alt gods Incubus and Deftones, just the sort of dual-headlining bill that it was built to host. A crowd near the 20,000 capacity stormed into Fair Park…
Alabama Shakes With Drive-By Truckers Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Tuesday, August 18 Brittney Howard is everything right now. On Tuesday night at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie, she led her Alabama Shakes in a chilling show that was more lounge than garage, more Nina Simone than Betty Davis and more…
In truth, what put Grapevine Craft Brewery on the map was probably its Lakefire rye pale ale, whose use of Cascade and Centennial hops balances with a sweet maltiness and subtle fruitiness. But in its new and expanded location near downtown Grapevine, the taproom is going to put butts in…
Arlington was a city begging for its signature barbecue place. Sure, David’s and Eddie Deen Crossroads offer barbecue well above the average standard, but they’re not quite destination locations. Now husband and wife duo Paul and Ashton Lovato believe they’ve answered that call by bringing Jambo’s Barbeque Shack’s second location…
Denton’s Rubber Gloves is going through a badly-needed facelift. To hear owner Josh Baish tell it, it’s actually more like reconstructive surgery following blunt trauma for the 19-year old venue, which makes it one of Denton’s oldest. “Rubber Gloves is going through something of a rebirth at the moment,” Baish…
Shredding. Slapping. Fingering. Oh my. Three-fifths of the ‘classic’ Deep Purple team that wrote the famous Smoke on the Water descended upon Verizon Theatre Sunday and squeezed every possible solo into the evening. On a purely logistical level, you’ve got to give props to any band that can jam 30…
The differences between the drankin’ scenes in London and Dallas become evident when one first sets foot into one of the many cozy but ornate public houses that dot the landscape of what barmen and pint-seekers alike call the best city in the world. The English “pub” and our “bar”…
DFW’s favorite limey Brit Gavin Cleaver recently regaled us with an account of Texas barbecue in London, which put my mind at ease to a certain extent. Even if the product wasn’t any good, at least I knew that someone somewhere had meat on a smoker, should my blood’s oak…
Smack in the middle of DFW lies an abundance of meathead smokers and barbecue sandwich stops. From Arlington to Southlake, gas stations, shacks and barns turn around beef plates and classic sides ad nauseam, and it can all start to run together a bit, just like the towns. But some…
