Vice Palace Two-Year Anniversary With Dezi 5, Party Static, Sam Lao and more RBC, Dallas Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, 2016 Art Peña’s Vice Palace has a healthy reputation for its grimey variety shows. For a long time, that meant guerrilla shows in warehouses, which was where…
The schizophrenic weather, and even more schizophrenic forecasts, have had us feeling more than a little all over the place in recent weeks. But with the April showers transitioning — theoretically, anyway — to May flowers, it may just as well that there’s a bit of a break from the…
Edgefest With Cage the Elephant, the 1975 and more Toyota Stadium, Frisco Saturday, April 30, 2016 Good Charlotte didn’t headline 102.1 FM The Edge’s annual Edgefest at Toyota Stadium on Saturday, but they did say what everyone was thinking. The station’s marquee event, taking place for this 26th time over…
The Dixie Chicks’ return to touring was bound to produce some pretty incredible music, both new and old. Hell, that was even bound to include some great covers. But dropping a Lemonade cover just a week after Beyoncé had dropped her burn-it-down visual album? Now that’s what we’ve been missing…
Parquet Courts With Lee Ranaldo and Nots Granada Theater, Dallas Thursday, April 28, 2016 Granada Theater isn’t the first place you’d think of for a Parquet Courts show. This is a quintessential DIY house show basement band, with a sense of humor that can somehow make a total non sequitur into…
Owning a record store in the 21st century means a more than it used to. While vinyl’s return to favor has led to a host of new record stores in Dallas, simply selling records isn’t always enough for DJs. That’s why when Josh Kynd and his wife decided to open…
2016 got off to a rough start for Dallas’ DIY music scene. A series of busts that started on New Years Eve and ran for weeks after saw house show after house show get shut down by the fire marshal. Suddenly it looked like these underground shows would be forced…
If you were planning on making the trek to Austin this weekend for Levitation, you’d better stop packing those bags. And if you’ve already hit the road, for god’s sake, turn around before you get to I-35. Just in time for those early birds looking to make the drive ahead…
| Gavin Guthrie has a gift for the follow through. Just a few years into his career as a dance music producer under the name TX Connect, Guthrie has more vinyl releases than most of his veteran peers in Dallas. In the past year alone, he dropped releases on European…
The Relatives have long been in the business of resurrection. The members of this Dallas psychedelic gospel band are men of God, but they’ve walked different paths. Founding member Reverend Gean West found his way to the church after a five-year prison sentence, and got a new lease on life…
Parquet Courts frontman Andrew Savage is a man who stays true to Texas. While the band relocated from Denton to Brooklyn and has since gone on to such acclaim as being dubbed “The Last Rock Band,” Savage carries a bit of the Lone Star State wherever he goes. Whether it’s the…
Think about what makes a honky tonk, and a few images are likely to come to mind: Cowboys and girls drinking beers, doing some two-stepping, shooting some pool and smoking. Lots of smoking. No honky tonk in North Texas is more iconic than Billy Bob’s. But the Fort Worth venue…
Since the days of Joe’s Garage, North Texas’ metal venues have hosted some groundbreaking local bands like Rigor Mortis, Pantera and Drowning Pool. Today, dozens of venues showcasing local and national metal acts can be found across North Texas, and when one disappears, two more take their place. To pay homage…
In 2012, A$AP Rocky closed out Saturday night of Coachella in the Gobi tent. Considering he had only released his first mixtape, Deep Purple, the summer before, it was a plum set time for the Harlem rapper. Being a rap and Rocky lover, I was excited to see him perform…
Erykah Badu is so fucking special. That was Dave Chappelle’s message to Badu in February at her 45th birthday party at The Bomb Factory as he sang Radiohead’s “Creep” with the help of the Cannabinoids. Now, thanks to Reddit, video of the performance has surfaced. You can trust that Chappelle…
Rustin Luther is dying. He’s only 30. But he didn’t want another “woe is me” kind of story. He’s not that kind of guy. When the bassist for Fort Worth metal band Urizen told his friend Boyd Konkle that he had an inoperable, incurable brain tumor, Luther, who was sitting…
James Hall is one of the most intense live performers you will ever see. A brilliant songwriter exploring several genres of the last three decades, he has toured with bands as big as Rage Against the Machine, was once signed to a major label and even turned down an offer…
Drake used to call us on his cellphone, but now what? Well, every few years, he lets us know he hasn’t forgotten about us and books a stadium show in Dallas. Just thank the high heavens that this time, with his Sweet Sixteen Tour hitting town in July, Drake will…
Want a sign that Dallas is becoming an increasingly hot property as a concert city? Kraftwerk is coming to Dallas. Freaking Kraftwerk. How rare of an opportunity is this, exactly? Last fall, the German krautrock and electronic music pioneers played a pair of shows in Austin — where these sorts…
Off the Rails Country Music Fest With Blake Shelton, Eric Church, Sam Hunt and more Toyota Stadium, Frisco Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24, 2016 Half of a successful music festival is the venue. The music line-up is what gets people there, but it’s the venue that keeps its…
At 57 years old, Top Ten Records in Oak Cliff is Dallas’ oldest record store. It’s also steeped in local history: It was at Top Ten, on November 22, 1963, that police officer J.D. Tippit was last seen before Lee Harvey Oswald murdered him. He left his car parked right…
The Suffers With Sam Lao The Kessler Theater, Dallas Friday, April 22, 2016 On Friday night, the Suffers brought one of the loudest audiences the Kessler Theater has seen in a while. Lead vocalist Kam Franklin said they never expected to make it in Dallas on account of the…
