For a while, Cursive seemed unlikely to put out another record after 2012’s I Am Gemini. Frontman Tim Kasher made another record with his other band, the Good Life, and made a film (and its soundtrack) called No Resolution. But Cursive will not play the breakup/reunion game like so many…
There are lots of new concert announcements this week as bands and artists continue rounding out their schedules. We’ve got a slew of singer-songwriters, a country mega-act and a couple of interesting revivals planning visits. Soul artist India.Arie is hitting the road this year in support of her upcoming album,…
As we reported in November, the aptly named King of Country is scheduled to perform an intimate show at Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena, a 14,000-seat multipurpose arena anticipated to open next fall. Predictably, thousands of George Strait fans waited patiently then in Ticketmaster’s virtual waiting room (even on the internet,…
When a child of an accomplished musician makes his own leap into the artistic wild, it’s near impossible to keep from wondering how dear old dad influenced the music, and more functionally, did he lend a musical hand in any way? For Oscar DeLaughter, the 18-year-old son of Polyphonic Spree…
Liz Rose might not be aware of the talent she has. Rose, a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, says she’s able to turn off her songwriting mode as soon as she walks out of the studio. “Before I write, all I’m thinking is, ‘God, I cannot write a song today. There is…
Homegrown Festival almost didn’t make it to its 10th birthday. Last April, just weeks before the ninth festival was set to take place in Main Street Garden Park, the leaders faced a moment of reckoning. They needed as many as 5,000 ticket buyers, and they needed them fast. “We were…
On the patio at Jakes Burgers and Beer on McKinney Avenue lies a small gazebo with a four-top table. Sitting at this table across from me is 18-year-old Mjay Denman, and across from him is half of his management team. The former is a rising hip-hop artist who performs under…
We’re only a month into the new year, and America in 2019 appears to be just as angry, acrimonious and loud as it was the last two years. What’s an artist to do? For singer-songwriter Rebecca Loebe, the answer is to look on the bright side. She takes a positive…
Catch plenty of hip-hop, punk and indie rock this week. Locals Buffalo Black and RC and the Gritz team up for a show at The Prophet Bar Wednesday night, Fleetwood Mac stops at American Airlines Center on Thursday night, up and coming singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus plays at Ruins Thursday night…
On Wednesday morning, Fort Worth electronic act Vogue Machine released their new single “Kardio” for the soundtrack of the Adult Swim animated series Rick and Morty. A 15-second video featuring the single surfaced on the television series’ Twitter page Tuesday afternoon, with animation by Titmouse Inc., the animation studio behind…
A couple of rock ‘n’ roll titans come to town and a much-missed band is back on tour and heading this way. Elsewhere, the summer calendar continues to fill, and a couple of late spring shows have popped up. Vampire Weekend is back in the limelight after a lengthy hiatus…
The Prof. Fuzz 63 is a family band born out of Mike Farmer’s love of playing music heavy on the fuzz pedal. But it didn’t start out with the intention of being a family band. What began in 2013 as a band consisting of Farmer, who is an associate professor…
You don’t hear it often, but it’s kind of refreshing when a musician admits to something few fellow artists dare utter in public. “I actually like the business part of the music business,” admits country singer-songwriter Rob Baird. Chatting before his December concert at the Kessler in Oak Cliff, where…
Underaged emo fans flocked to Deep Ellum in droves Tuesday night to see AS IT IS at Prophet Bar — some were even accompanied by a parent. The U.K.-based pop-punkers have traveled across the pond this winter for a nationwide tour supporting their third studio album, The Great Depression. Centering…
Courtney Barnett’s sophomore album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, will mark its first anniversary this May. Since its release, it has gained multiple accolades, being recognized at the top of numerous music publications’ best-of lists for 2018. The acclaim has also produced different interpretations of the album coming from…
When Marquis of Vaudeville puts on a show, they do more than perform a set with a merch table strategically placed nearby. No, the alternative rock group transforms the performance space into a steampunk fantasy of Alice in Wonderland or a Wonka-esque factory filled with sweets and sinister secrets lurking…
“Unattractive” by Toadies in The Cable GuyWhen The Cable Guy was released in 1996, it made headlines for two key reasons: star Jim Carrey’s $20 million price tag for the film, and the movie’s less-than-glowing reviews. But local music fans back then were likely thrilled regardless of what critics were…
Singer-songwriter Cody Lynn Boyd bears a remarkable resemblance to Brian Jones. It’s not surprising if you don’t remember Jones, an original founder of the Rolling Stones, because he died in 1969. Boyd doesn’t remember him either. Boyd isn’t English, nor is he much into drugs, but the resemblance to the…
This week sees Peter Murphy celebrate 40 years of Bauhaus; Reel Big Fish tour in support of their ninth studio album; Denton’s Babe Bash celebrate female musicians; and more. The Funky Knuckles 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28 at Three Links, 2704 Elm St., threelinksdeepellum.com, free The Funky Knuckles have been…
Jeff Tandy is a freelance writer who contributed this article as a tribute to his longtime friend, Bruce Corbitt. This writing was promised to Bruce as an epilogue to his life, including his career and battle with cancer, to be published for everyone to read. Herein is his final wish…
This weekend will see the debut live performance in Dallas and the release of a three-track improvised-experimental EP collaboration between Denton-based Dahlia Knowles and Paul Slavens as Lorelei K x Kill the World. The Lorelei K x Kill the World EP marks the first recorded collaboration between Knowles, an up-and-coming…
Justin Timberlake brought sexy back. Three times. His Man of the Woods tour stopped in Dallas last May for two dates and came back around for a third time, eight months later. We apparently just couldn’t get enough. Timberlake threw a party. Literally, he had his stage set up with…
