Austin’s Psych Fest is now Levitation. Partially due to a new partnership between Psych Fest (which began as a single-day, underground music festival in 2008) and promotion company Transmission Events, and inspired by the 13th Floor Elevators’ track of the same name, the festival has been rebranded. Over the past…
Critics of a new bill filed in the Texas House that seeks to establish a Texas music history museum say that even though their hearts are in the right place, their brains are somewhere else entirely. HCR 75, a bill introduced in the Texas House last month by Rep. Senfronia…
Over the course of the past three years, Untapped has found itself a prime niche here in North Texas. Actually, it’s spread well beyond that, with events not only in Forth Worth and Dallas but also Houston, Austin and even Nashville, each time offering up whats seems like miles worth…
Scott McCullogh has been a regular vinyl pusher around Dallas over the past decade. McCullogh specializes in a specific area of crate digging that leans heavily towards classic soul music and related genres. He has popped up at as a guest at a variety of of local soul residencies but…
Scott McCullough has been a regular vinyl pusher around Dallas over the past decade. McCullogh specializes in a specific area of crate digging that leans heavily towards classic soul music and related genres. He has popped up as a guest at a variety of local soul residencies, but can be…
It doesn’t have employees, a posted address or even a sign or storefront. It doesn’t have regular hours — in fact, it’s almost never open. And you certainly won’t find its name mentioned in any advertisements. Dallas has a secret record shop…
Inside an art studio in Deep Ellum, two people are working on Wayne Coyne’s brain. The studio is called Lady Brain Studios and the two people are the studio’s owners, Darcy Neal and Hailey Moore. Oh, and the brain isn’t really Coyne’s brain, merely the latest iteration of a custom-made…
Cinco de Mayo is the day when a relatively small section of Mexico celebrates a victory over the French in 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. Of course, this being America, we look for anything and everything to exploit in honor of the almighty dollar and the almighty excuse to…
Ever since Forth Worth R&B singer Leon Bridges signed with Columbia Records at the end of last year, it was clear that he’d be having an eventful 2015. After a string of buzzed-about shows at SXSW back in a March and his late-night TV debut shortly thereafter, he’s got another…
The Open Carry movement of 2014 didn’t contribute much to society. Its overall aim (no pun intended) may have been to bring a greater awareness to gun rights and fears over firearm control, but the images of grown men in camo hats walking into Chipotle with AR-15s really only did…
Surprise, surprise. The storyline for the Who’s visit to Dallas over the weekend seemed predictable enough, with the only real question mark being whether or not this would be the last time we’d see them play here. But that didn’t account for opener and recent Rock and Roll Hall of…
Boom 94.5 FM Hip-Hop Meets Zydeco and the Blues Festival With Bun B, Mystikal, Juvenile, Fair Park, Dallas Saturday, May 2, 2015 It may have been Mystikal who put things best on Saturday: “To all the youngins who don’t know me,” he said, “ya mamma know me. Ya auntie know…
This week is a great one — so much so, in fact, that you’ve gotta make some choices. Homegrown brings Spoon downtown with the Old 97’s and more. Lana Del Rey plays a show with Courtney Love (yes, we know it’s a bit strange) at Gexa. The Jesus and Mary…
Dwight Yoakam Gas Monkey Live May 1, 2015 Whether it’s a response to the filth that fills radio airwaves or just general nostalgia, country music from the 1990s is very much making a place for itself in the genre’s modern iteration. Comebacks from Reba McEntire, Lee Ann Womack and Shania…
On New Year’s Eve 2014, Joshua Fleming inadvertently made one hell of a New Year’s Resolution. He’d already had an eventful and tumultuous year with his band, local punk trio the Phuss, where he plays guitar and is lead vocalist. While he was in the Double Wide’s outdoor space selling…
It looks like a good weekend for some live music. Reptar hits sons of Hermann Hall with our favorite high school band, the Azalea Project. Yellowcard takes us to Ocean Ave at Gas Monkey. Dwight Yoakam is sure to set Gas Monkey Live ablaze. IAMSU! does Trees with Atlanta’s Rome…
What’s the worst part about getting a tattoo? Is it having to sit still for hours on the end? The potentially excruciating pain of going under the needle? Being sober? Most likely the first answer that comes to mind isn’t “the lack of live music inside the tattoo parlor,” but…
Last night at Clark Park on the University of North Texas campus in Denton, country singer-songwriter Zane Williams performed for a dancing group of co-eds. Five days ago, however, the McKinney resident was making his debut on the hallowed stage of country music’s greatest stage, the Grand Ole Opry in…
It’s cool to drink like a serious grown up. One or two drinks, then head home. Hell, maybe even get some reading in before you cut the lights out at 11:30! But, every now and again, “just one drink” becomes four and you’re standing on a table voguing to a…
Change is a good thing, we tell ourselves. It’s inevitable, something that we have to accept to cope in a world where everything is different every time you look up. We also tell ourselves that as time marches on, all things will evolve, leaving shells of their former inspirations in…
Iron & Wine With Gregory Alan Isakov Granada Theater, Dallas Tuesday, April 28, 2015 As sure as I am breathing, Sam Beam — aka Iron & Wine — is right now feeling mighty good about the city of Dallas. A sold-out show with an audience that was both respectful and…
Between 2003 and 2006, the Burden Brothers ruled North Texas rock. The band’s full-length debut, Buried in Your Black Heart, from locally based Kirtland Records, made a splash nationally, and songs like “Shadow” and “Beautiful Night,” the ocean-sized anthem that had a nice run on the Billboard Rock charts, became…
