Yesterday morning, ZZ Top fans got some bad news: The Texas blues rock legends have been forced to drop out of their upcoming gig in Frisco with Jimmy Buffet. The culprit? Bassist Dusty Hill’s fractured shoulder. But if you happened to be at the right birthday party last Saturday, you’ve…
James Richard Anderson, better known as Big Dad Ritch, the growling lead singer for Texas Hippie Coalition, is as much of a country boy as he is a metal head. As far as he’s concerned, his band, formed in Denison and perhaps the most successful North Texas metal act currently…
Since the early ’70s, heavy metal has been dominating counterculture, spawning several genres from death metal to stone metal and inspiring generations of local metal bands. Yet with so many metal offerings, how does a young aspiring North Texas metal god determine which songs to include in his or her…
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…
Dallas’ biggest live act last weekend wasn’t even technically alive. Hatsune Miku’ is a 3D projection, an animated singer created in Japan who sings and dances next to a live band on stage. Her acolytes began to arrive at The Bomb Factory on Saturday afternoon, hours before the concert, and they…
Friends and family have confirmed that Krissy Arnold, bassist for Dallas’ Mercury Rocket, took her own life in San Francisco on Friday. She had just turned 35, and was splitting time between Texas and California in recent months. “Love each and everyone one of y’all I’ve had [a] personable moment with,” Arnold’s…
Rihanna With Travis $cott and DJ Chase B American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, May 13, 2016 Through an aberration in the cosmos, Dallas was blessed with an abundance of bad girl pop stars last week. The big one, of course, was Beyonce, whose Formation Tour took over AT&T Stadium on…
Homegrown Fest With Ghostland Observatory, Neon Indian, Bright Light Social Hour and more Main St. Garden Park, Dallas Saturday, May 14, 2016 With better luck than it had enjoyed in 2015, Homegrown Festival didn’t have to move indoors on Saturday. Having been forced to relocate to The Bomb Factory last…
Springtime in North Texas means perpetually wondering when (and not if) Mother Nature is about to stop playing nice. Last weekend, the weather cooperated and didn’t throw out any unpleasant surprises, much to the benefit of Homegrown Fest and JMBLYA. This week? Well, we’ll see. One thing’s for sure, though:…
Paul Slavens has made a lot of music over the years. And no, that doesn’t just mean the songs he makes up off the top of his head every Monday at Dan’s Silverleaf for Pau Slavens and Friends. That doesn’t even mean his decades of material released as the front…
Disclosure With Honey Dijon The Bomb Factory, Dallas Thursday, May 12, 2016 Disclosure, the English electronic duo of siblings, sold out the Bomb Factory Thursday night and easily won over the crowd with their blend of house, U.K. garage, R&B and pop. Guy and Howard Lawrence stood surrounded by massive…
Young Thug With Lil Yachty South Side Music Hall, Dallas Thursday, May 12, 2016 There’s never been a rapper like Young Thug. The 23-year-old artist is from Atlanta but raps as if he’s from another world. But for all the weirdness and uniqueness that Young Thug embodies, he left a…
Chromat!k and Zach Witness are almost inseparable. You can’t really blame them: The rapper and producer, both 23 years old, met in high school and have been making music together almost as well. They’ve learned the craft together and they know each other’s strengths. And with a new single, “Sad…
Mikey Rodge has been a constant presence amongst the younger set of DJ’s to come out of the short lived days, but fondly remembered Fallout Lounge. Rodge is an ex-pat of the blog house scene that brought a generation of indie kids into club music. As a DJ, promoter and…
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,”…
Crystal Yates was listening to a sermon at Cross Timbers Church in Argyle when she had a musical epiphany. “Stop trying to separate the secular and sacred by treating everything as sacred,” implored the pastor, Toby Slough. It was then that the country singer-songwriter from McKinney realized her love of songwriting…
Nothing says rock and roll like a bar and grill out in the middle of nowhere, so close to a Nebraska Furniture Market that your address is on Nebraska Furniture Mart Drive. But if you happen to be out in The Colony and want average food and a large beer…
Erykah Badu’s no stranger to the silver screen. Going back to 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000, Dallas’ Queen of Neo-Soul has periodically made time to squeeze in films — when she isn’t crashing high school cafeterias or conducting sociological Twitter debates, of course. This year, Badu has a new project, and…
The news of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ pending closure is still sinking in for Denton music fans. Barely a week ago, the news that owner, Josh Baish, would have to close the place down following his recent divorce left the city to face a future without a venue that’s been…
Ride for Dime President Rob Eichelberger announced on Monday evening that he’s stepping down from his position heading the nonprofit organization named for late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbot and dedicated to raising money for other music-related charitable organizations. “I, Rob Eichelberger, will be stepping down as President to make…
Renan Villanova has been playing music for a very long time. More than 40 years, in fact — ever since he left Mexico City at the age of 18 to follow a girl to Dallas. Many of the musicians he’s befriended and performed with are gone now, but at least…
Brave Combo have been local music legends for years. The Denton polka punks have been mainstays of North Texas music for nearly four decades, picking up two Grammy awards and even making an appearance on The Simpsons. But now it’s really, truly official, with news that the band will be…
