There are few things more numbingly familiar to a child of the internet age than the digital experience. The clicking of keyboard buttons, the harmonic hum of a device startup sound, the cold glow of a the whole word staring back at you from a portable screen- they have never…
We are now in the dead heat of festival season. Even though everyone’s making their way down to Austin this week for some giant, week-long Doritos® party, there’s still plenty going on right here in our own backyards. From Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-centric Velvet Underground cover band to Miley Cyrus, there…
SXSW is hardly a festival. It is a free for all. SXSW is the complete opposite of a relaxing Spring Break. By the end of it, you will feel run down, wrung out, and ready to sleep for 24 straight hours. You have to make the after hours show, cause…
Don’t even talk to me right now, Dallas. Twenty notable concerts in the next four days? We don’t have time for your problems, you need to figure out how to be at Childish Gambino and Bobby Patterson’s birthday party at the same time. Oh, you didn’t get a ticket to…
Y’all, The Boss is coming! The biggest concert announcement of the week had the whole internet buzzing when it broke nationally that this year’s March Madness Music Festival will bring Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, fun., Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, and The Killers to Dallas. Though we can…
Festival season is upon us, and just because there’s no 35 Denton this year doesn’t mean things have slowed down for 2014. This week Untapped returns to Fort Worth, Three Links and Mad World Records will each celebrate their anniversaries with fests, and the inaugural ONE FEST will spend the…
When Jeffrey Brown of King Camel Productions opened up shop last year, he used a tried and true formula for success. He was getting into booking shows around Dallas last year, and started hitting the streets of Deep Ellum to do a little research. What he found was an opportunity…
Spring is here and what better time to kick out the cobwebs? I personally like to ring in the season with a good deep house cleaning, lots of “Let’s Dance”-era David Bowie records, and of course some good live music. This weekend presents plenty of opportunities to get your feet…
Every week, more and more shows are added to the Dallas concert calendar.This week is no different. The winter is drawing to an end, and our springtime bookings are starting to fill up fast. This week, the biggest bang on our radar came in the form of an AT&T Performing…
One of the first lines of Angel Olsen’s critically acclaimed sophomore effort, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, is, “Here’s to thinking that it all meant so much more.” Don’t let her soft wailing and palpable yearning for answers to mind-haunting questions fool you. To assume that this is just…
Dallas, do not be alarmed. I know this is a shift in your regular scheduled programming. Your eyes do not deceive you, we are indeed rolling out your weekly concerts post on a Monday, rather than the usual Thursday post. We’re trying out something a little different. From here on…
Dallas, February is almost over. That means soon this cold devil weather will be behind us, and festival season will be in full force. So take this time now to enjoy the smaller shows and intimate venues. Perks include short lines at merch tables, high order turnaround at the bar…
Deep Ellum got a taste of Mardi Gras this weekend in the best possible way. In order to mark the occasion, Commerce Street’s The Free Man Cajun Cafe organized a proper New Orleans second line horn parade that circled the neighborhood. Owner and proprietor John Jay Myers lead the charge…
This weekend the staff at Majestic Theatre took every necessary precaution to ensure that no tomfoolery or shenanigans would take place for the long sold-out Neutral Milk Hotel concert this past Saturday. Lead singer and notorious recluse Jeff Magnum has been known to be spooked by over zealous fans, so…
If I close my eyes tight enough, I can almost still picture it, even though it’s almost been a decade. I am fifteen years old and feeling very close to heat stroke, so I lean against the wall. Even that feels labored, because I’m standing on such a sharp incline…
It’s Valentine’s Day weekend in Dallas, and clearly, something about live music turns you people on. This entire week is jam packed with notable concerts, every single night. For your hot and heavy week ahead, we’ve got twenty live music date night options to try and help get you laid…
Marijuana and music have gone hand in hand for decades. In the ’60s, when Bob Dylan smoked out the Beatles for the first time and howled, “Everybody must get stoned!” on the opening track of Blonde on Blonde, middle America was frightened by the reefer madness of rock ‘n’ roll…
Dallas, what the hell? It is offensively cold outside. I don’t appreciate it, and I don’t want any part of it, but despite my wants or needs, the polar vortex has laid its wrath upon us with great vengeance and furious anger. I took my dog for a walk this…
Nestled on the corner of Zang and Beckley, just over the bridge into Oak Cliff, sits restaurateur and venue owner Chris Jeffers’ newest acquisition. With Outpost American Tavern, Jeffers and his business partners (who also own Bolsa, Smoke and The Foundry) decided to deliver something new and different to the…
Alright Dallas, your weekend is looking pretty flush. We’ve got twelve great live music picks for you this week, but unfortunately, seven of them take place between Friday and Saturday alone. Whereas last week brought us a bunch of weekday shows (see also: cubicle hangovers), you’ll be able to catch…
Few symbols in Joel Salazar’s life hold more meaning than a set of turntables. “Música, Daddy! Música!” his 2-year-old daughter, Natalia, yells at least once a day. And when she does, her father is happy to oblige her. Salazar stops whatever he’s doing and sets two chairs at his decks…
It’s always memorable to see a band during a transitional phase, as was the case last night at Three Links in Deep Ellum, where La Luz played their first Dallas show. Incidentally, it will also be the last time we see the current incarnation of the band, what we will…
