Shallow Reign are one of the earliest and most important bands to come out of Deep Ellum during its emergence in the 1980s. After a long hiatus, the group returned for a show at The Kessler Theater last Saturday. The performance was an emotional one: Back in December, Shallow Reign’s…
She may have been born in Oklahoma and be based out of Brooklyn these days, but Annie Clark still calls Dallas home. So it’s fascinating to see the singer and master shredder, who recently got her own Ernie Ball guitar and popped up onstage at a Taylor Swift concert, come…
Hank Williams Jr. Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Saturday, September 5, 2015 Hank Williams, Jr. played at Verizon Theatre on Saturday night, but aside from the smart-phone users in the audience and the unexceptional lights show, the whole episode was straight out of a decades-old memory. Some anachronisms are expected, even…
Another holiday has come and gone, and what do we have to show for it? If you did Labor Day right, probably some sunburn, a hangover and a healthy dose of guilt over some unhealthy overeating. Fortunately, you can do something feel a little better about yourself (although probably not…
You have probably heard at least a thousand times in the last six months that DEEP ELLUM IS BACK, BABY! You might have heard this from, well, us and everyone else in Dallas. Deep Ellum is officially reinvigorated and revitalized, which means that we’re starting to see an influx of…
When Heather Lowe came to Dallas a little over a year ago to work at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, she realized she was sitting on a gold mine. While the Dallas Public Library system had taken on a series of budget cuts over the years, one thing had…
Wanz Dover is a veteran of the Dallas music scene. He’s been a part of it for over 20 years and is one of the best live performers in the cit. (If you don’t believe it, just catch his band Black Dotz live.) Dover does regular DJ sets all over…
It has been a rotten — and downright scary — week for Motörhead front man Lemmy Kilmister and his fans around the world. The English speed-metal ace, whose band was due to visit Dallas on Friday night for a show at The Bomb Factory, in the midst of a worrisome…
The first sound anyone heard from Classic Cult was a persistent buzz that grew ever louder. It wasn’t played by any of the band members on any stage, but by their manager Tyler Rougeux of Whiskey Folk Ramblers, who strummed Facebook like a Stratocaster, generating excitement and “likes” for the…
Shoose McGee’s daughter will turn 4 on September 19, the same day his new EP is released. His daughter is in the “repeat stages.” With joint custody, McGee isn’t always around her. But when he is with her, sometimes he notices that she has memorized songs that he wouldn’t have…
Stephen Ketner has heard this talk before. On Monday morning, Steve Brown at the Dallas Morning News reported plans that Westdale Properties and StreetLights Residential are teaming up to bring a 17-story high-rise to the outskirts of Deep Ellum, and the hand-wringing was almost immediate. This must be the death knell for Deep…
Jake Paleschic doesn’t go anywhere without his bike. He rides it to and from work, to band practice, even to the shows he plays on the odd occasion that he has the luxury. So when it came time to release his new EP, Cowboys Songs, last month he had a…
All Good Cafe isn’t just a restaurant with badass country fried steak and bacon to die for. Thanks to owner Mike Snider, its employees are a close-knit family of artists. Snider, who never married and doesn’t have kids, has become a father figure to those who work for him, using…
The last time Spector 45 took to the stage to play music, it was under the most tragic of circumstances. Shortly after the turn of the new year in 2011, the beloved Dallas punk band played their last show at Club Dada — as a tribute to their fallen leader,…
We’ve been hearing it for quite a while: Deep Ellum is back. While we’re the first ones to be excited by that idea, we try to temper our effusiveness as best we can. But we gotta admit, these past few weeks have been CRAY-ZEE. Ever heard those stories about how…
Kelly Clarkson With Pentatonix Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Sunday, August 30, 2015 Kelly Clarkson has really come out of her shell. Since her win on the first season of American Idol nearly 15 years ago, she’s established herself as one of the most powerful vocalists in the business. If you remember…
Dorrough probably could have been in the NBA. He played basketball in high school with several people who became professional athletes. But by the time he was a senior he had refocused on hip-hop music and decided to switch gears. But Dorrough wasn’t through with sports. And now, after a…
Breathe easy, folks: A three-day weekend is just around the corner. So too is the end of the summer, which means it’s about time to make the most of the hot weather. Dallas has been hopping with shows the past few weeks and this next one — the first of…
KXT Summer Cut With Belle & Sebastian, Sarah Jaffe, Calhoun and more Gilley’s Dallas, Dallas Saturday, August 29, 2015 KXT 91.7’s annual Summer Cut festival hit the reset button this weekend and, with a little help from Belle & Sebastian, it looked like a change for the better. On a…
Yes With Toto Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Thursday, August 27, 2015 Holding a band together for decades at a time is a tough ask. Eventually attrition takes its toll, whether its age, illness or the members simply growing sick of one another. Yes and Toto have managed to stick things…
North Texas country music fans are very, very sad right now. On Wednesday, Rolling Stone Country announced that Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard would join forces for a month-long tour across the Midwest and Southeast to promote their new joint album, Django & Jimmie. In true Nelson and Haggard fashion,…
Astronautalis has a hard time standing still. For more than 10 years,his life has been lived on the road, flying by the seat of his pants and on the move. If he’s not on tour, he’s traveling for the hell of it, probably on a Harley. He has the itch…
