We’ve had a lot of rain here of late, but Dallas has a serious drought of another kind. For the past six years, Jack White has been nowhere to be found on a local concert bill. If you’re a fan of the nouveau bluesman, you’re probably wondering exactly why Dallas…
Gina G is a relative newcomer to the DJ scene, but unlike many of her young counterparts she he has come to the craft through the old-school method of vinyl. With a gifted ear for deep cuts that betray her youth, Gina is most often seen at Crown & Harp…
There are few things that Dallas loves more than country music, but one of those precious few is a spectacle. This weekend, one of the biggest shows in country music is coming to town to prove that point. On Sunday, the Academy of Country Music will host the 50th Annual…
Trade publications tell us things that are generally only interesting to people within the trade. Finding out how much the person who is directing one of the next 74 Kevin Hart movies or how much the current hyped-up indie movie got picked up for a distribution deal in Variety doesn’t…
Five years ago, Doug Burr was on a roll. The Denton-based singer-songwriter and former Lonelies frontman had cranked out four albums in seven years between 2003 and 2010, each seemingly better than the last. The last of those, O Ye Devastator, was devastatingly beautiful and easily one of North Texas’…
Early on Saturday morning a group of crate diggers roll into a church parking lot on Columbia Ave. They pay a small cover charge to walk into a big room with boxes of 25 cent vinyl on the floor and a few private retailers with boxes of premium but reasonably…
To use an analogy, compare Chris Stapleton to Sturgill Simpson. Not necessarily in terms of sound or aesthetic, but in terms of what is about to happen to this relatively unknown country-folk artist. You may not have actually heard of Chris Stapleton, but you have undoubtedly heard a few of…
If you google “cover bands” you’ll see five different think pieces published in 2014, because well, people can’t ignore how many of them there are. Bars across the nation are packed with groups of musicians not doing original music, but paying tribute to some of their favorite acts, and getting…
DJ Menace has a dream. That dream is to be a rapper, and he’s traveled far and wide to make it happen. But sometimes your plan B becomes your plan A, and for Menace, a one-time Air Force brat who’s always been a nomad, that’s exactly what happened: After years…
Randy Rogers Band With Josh Abbott Band WinStar World Casino April 10, 2015 Upon approaching the WinStar World Casino’s Rome entrance, home of the Global Events Center and a bunch of terribly-rendered copycat Italian sculptures, the first thing I saw was a woman with her head in her hands, crying…
It’s going to be a hell of a week for live music here in Dallas. Two of the biggest events aren’t even straight-ahead concerts so much as they are sprawling celebrations: First is the American Country Music Awards, which spreads itself across several shows with an unreal selection of country…
X Trees, Dallas Thursday, April 9, 2015 Last night, iconic punk band X gave the crowd at Trees a set that served up a lot of surprises. Rather than bang out one hard-charger after another, the Los Angeles quartet (aided by touring member Michael Kilpatrick, who switched between guitar, drums…
Back in 2008, rock band the Orange had a whirlwind taste of local success, playing venues like the House of Blues, making it to radio on The Edge and sharing tour dates with the Toadies and Soul Asylum. Regrettably, the band broke up a year later, and that Orange became…
There’s a bunch of crappy weather on the way this weekend, but we can manage so long as there’s so good music to tide us over, indoors. Thankfully there is, so we’re not going to be beholden to Netflix all weekend. Man Man does Red Bull Sound Select at Club…
tUnE-yArDs With Son Lux South Side Music Hall, Dallas Thursday, April 9, 2015 Heavy times are upon us. Lyrics pleading “don’t take my life away” sound more locked and loaded than ever. The dangers that tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus fearfully described four years ago on W H O K I…
Show Empire Records to anybody born in the post-9/11 era (I think we’re calling them Generation Z) and they might think you’re showing them some type of surreal period-piece drama. Record stores, sadly, aren’t as enormous nor as important to music fans as they once were. They’re like boutique shops…
It’s hard to beat a warm spring night at The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. The sun beginning its descent toward the horizon, artistic director Jeff Liles tossing around a football out front and maybe even a band playing some impromptu songs on the front patio. Just about the only…
We here at DC9 at Night could go on and on about our love for Deep Ellum. What’s great about the neighborhood is its concentrated number of music venues, local businesses and its, well, character. The well-worn buildings accent the fact that the neighborhood is truly one of Dallas’ richest…
Even though they’re not actually from Dallas, Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers have a pretty substantial following in our fair city. There is likely no genre of music that is more popular than Texas country in the area (or the state, even), and these two guys have been a fixture…
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what Voodoo Chile sells. The red one-story house on Bell Avenue, just off Lower Greenville, is like a trip into another world. You’ll find vintage clothing, Halloween masks, VHS tapes, records, record players, bongs, pipes, ashtrays, books and other knick-knacks, and the walls are swallowed…
Phillip Washington, better known to most as Cygnus, has been making waves in Dallas electronic music for over a decade. He made a name for himself with a series of victories at the infamous Laptop Deathmatch and strong showings at the national Laptop Battles in Seattle. Since his battle days,…
Some people think that tainting the purity of Rae Sremmurd’s “No Flex Zone” by remixing it is tantamount to a war crime, but ravers are not those people, so the crowd at Lizard Lounge in Deep Ellum, sweaty and bouncing, swallows every downbeat. It’s late on a Friday night in…
