I Am Not the Coachella Silent Disco’s Target Audience

By Paul T. Bradley Just south of 1:30 a.m., as the car crowd heads back to their $500 motel rooms and the VIPs are airlifted to their alpha-resorts, the camping Coachella plebes are making the long, dusty march back to the tent city of earthly delights they’ve built to the…

Denton Drummer Nick Bozas Found His Calling As a Glassblower

Nick Bozas keeps himself plenty busy just playing his music. In his last semester of university study, he’s staked his claim as drummer for three Denton bands: Losing, No Touching and Goodboy, playing shows and recording with each to varying degrees. But that, surprisingly enough, is not the only passion…

Coachella Turned Me Into a Garbage Man

Daniel KohnCoachella is always thinking of clever ways to make us pick up our damn trash. Their bright-colored, well-labeled trash and recycle bins are everywhere. And in the past, any do-gooder or broke festival goer could pick up a standard amount of 10 water bottles to trade for a new…

The Best Concerts in Dallas This Week 4/20-4/26

Just another week in good ole Dallas, which of course means a new slate of shows to check out. Vice Palace celebrates its one year anniversary as does Do214. Pitbull does the casino show in Oklahoma, Caitlin Rose (a former Dallasite) hits Dan’s in Denton and Father John Misty does…

The Ultimate 2015 Dallas Record Store Day Guide

Ah, Record Store Day. Can’t you just feel it in the air? The fresh-pressed vinyl, the excitement of exclusive releases, the pitter-patter of feet scurrying across a storeroom floor? It only comes once a year, an annual armistice between the hi-fi purists and the tepid collectors. The perfect blend of…

Celebrating Coachella and the Art of the Music Festival High-Five

Nate JacksonJason Eppworth giving a high five down low.Smack!…Smack!….Smack! “Woooo! Coachellaaaaaaaahhh! Gimmie five!” That’s the sound of a loud, burly Kentucky man high-fiving his way through the sunburned Sunday crowd on weekend one of Coachella. Though he appears to be just another dude with a GA wristband, right now he’s…

The Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, 4/17-4/19

This week looks like a very fruitful one in terms of shows. First and foremost, there’s a ton of Record Store Day stuff happening with a gajillion bands and DJs sharing their love of music. Curren$y has a 4/20-eve show at South Side Ballroom where the clock is sure to…

Armoury D.E. is a New Bar Coming Soon to Deep Ellum

Just last week we were getting our feathers in a ruffle, heading out onto our lawn in Deep Ellum and screaming “GIT, GIT OFF.” We were shaking a stick at development deals coming to Deep Ellum in the form of retail space and lofts. But, it comes from a place…

How the Hell Do People Afford Coachella?

By Marc Ballon Sierra Blackford really wanted to go to Coachella. But it wasn’t easy. The 23-year-old Hawaiian singer-songwriter juggled three jobs as a waitress, playing gigs at local bars and working in a slipper store to save enough for her concert tickets, heavily discounted airfare (she knows somebody in…