Stefan González is the oldest 28-year-old in Dallas. At least in musical terms, that is, which by his own admission are the only terms he understands. Best known as the drummer of jazz trio Yells at Eels, which he plays in with his father Dennis and older brother Aaron, Stefan…
It’s a Saturday afternoon and Sheffield, England four-piece the Crookes are on another marathon drive to the next gig. They play Minneapolis on the night in question, Chicago the next and then Dallas tonight, Tuesday, July 15 for a show at City Tavern. Frontman/bassist George Waite was originally slated to…
When they formed in the early 1980’s, Tesla was a pleasant anomaly, a group of regular guys from California that for some reason got lumped in with the seemingly endless array of hair metal and glam bands. Although Tesla’s music always had its pop/metal side, the band members themselves seemed…
Fort Worth’s Jacob Furr has been on an intense journey these past couple of years. While he’s certainly been a well-traveled troubadour, spending a great deal of time in California after moving from here a few years ago, it’s safe to say that his geographical wandering isn’t what has impacted…
KISS With Def Leppard Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Sunday, July 13, 2014 Paul Stanley can fly. He soared over the audience, a star shooting across a starlit sky Sunday night at the Gexas Energy Pavilion. He landed on a spinning platform, while a demon, a cat and his Space Ace…
Polyphonic Spree With Sam Lao and Quaker City Nighthawks Club Dada, Dallas Saturday, July 12, 2014 A white curtain shrouds the band in anticipation. Ribbons hang around the stage’s perimeter and along the fences in Club Dada’s backyard. The ribbons are colorful, every spectrum of ROYGBIV is touched. Magically, as…
Erykah Badu WinStar World Casino, Thackerville, Okalahoma Saturday, July 12, 2014 From Oak Cliff to just over the Oklahoma border to WinStar World Casino it’s just about 80 miles, roughly 90 minutes if you get lucky and there’s no traffic. From Dallas proper it’s an hour and from Denton it’s…
Summerland Tour WIth Everclear, Soul Asylum, Eve 6 and Spacehog South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, July 11, 2014 The 1990s and early 2000s weren’t exactly the golden years of rock music, but that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t plenty of it. As bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden and Hole set…
It might be a little tough to get out of bed this morning, but at least we all have a great collection of shows to look forward to this week. Not only is Dallas receiving another visit from the Mother Monster herself, but cool kids far and wide are lining…
Richard Haskins has been through the shit. For two years, he paid for attempted bank robbery with a jail sentence. Not everyone was there to help him when he needed. Haskins’ own mother would sit in the bail bond room, telling people who tried to bail him out that he…
Queen + Adam Lambert American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, July 10, 2014 English band Queen is like a solar system that lost its star. Late singer Freddie Mercury was an icon of showmanship, passion and theatricality, the ultimate performer and arguably the most talented vocalist in rock history. When you’ve…
So let’s get this straight: right when it’s starting to resemble something akin to a real Texas summer, with some triple-digit temperatures in the forecast, we start hearing about a polar vortex? Well, anything’s possible. And with the World Cup drawing to a close this weekend, we might all be…
Country superstar Gary Allan has been a hit-making machine for damn-near two decades now. The 46-year-old California native has finely walked the line between stadium filler and perpetual critical favorite with little following. Due to the tragedy surrounding the 2004 suicide of his third wife, Angela, he became an even…
Sometimes a band’s message, sound and philosophy can be strikingly simple. For the Denton-born foursome American Werewolf Academy, simplicity is more or less a standard operating procedure. When one clicks onto the Biography page of the group’s website, they quickly learn so much of what they really need to know…
It’s hard to imagine a time when KISS didn’t exist. A friend wearing a Gene Simmons mask introduced me to their music when I was five years old, living in Germany. The Berlin Wall hadn’t fallen yet. He revealed the KISS Double Platinum as if he were holding the holy…
To say Tim Delaughter, lead singer of the Polyphonic Spree, has had an enriched music career would be a gross understatement. He’s fronted two huge Dallas-based bands, recorded more than eight full-length albums, composed movie soundtracks and toured extensively for almost 24 years. But Dallas native Delaughter comes full circle…
Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour House of Blues, Dallas Wednesday, July 9, 2014 An unusually functional prop set the stage, both literally and figuratively, for last night’s Randy Rogers’ and Wade Bowen’s show at House of Blues in Dallas. About ten feet behind…
You know that stereotype of Dallas that people go with? No, not the one about the city being extremely segregated, and stuck in a class warfare. We mean the one all the sports broadcasts use. The one where they show b-roll of the area to kill time between action, and…
Queen + Adam Lambert 6 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave., 214-222-3687 or Americanairlinescenter.com, $35-$125 Let’s be very clear here: The last Queen show was performed 28 years ago at Knebworth House in England. It was the last show because that was the last…
Curren$y With DJ Fat Tony Trees, Dallas Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Last night red and blue lights lit the hazy stage at Trees, and the smell of incense was in the air with the attempt to cover the smell of marijuana. The Dallas crowd was rebellious last night, people of…
For a decade now, Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, along with their trusty band mates, have become A-Listers in the nebulously defined, increasingly lucrative world of Texas Country Music. The reason for each artist’s ascendency isn’t a secret. Rogers, a native of Cleburne just outside of Fort Worth, and Waco…
For most of her life, Lindsey Stirling’s pursuit of music has been an exercise in taking risks and breaking down barriers. A classically trained violinist who grew up surrounded by classical music, Stirling has also long enjoyed EDM music. Finding a way to reconcile those two loves was not easy,…
