England’s Band of Skulls is the perfect mixture of style and substance. For over a decade, this alternative blues rock trio have been impressing just about anyone who gets a chance to catch the band’s distorted fuzz. Although Band of Skulls has only released three full-lengths, each album has something…
The jury’s still out on whether North Texas can stake any claim to the music of Brooklyn-based St. Vincent, but we love the work that Annie Clark does regardless. We’re not the only ones, either. David Byrne feels the same way. So do Swans. Even Intelligentsia is in the same…
Texans are a fortunate group of folk music fans. We have legends and emerging artists that have either called the Lone Star State home at some point or are firmly entrenched here, primarily playing and making their artistic livings here so that we have more than ample access to their…
Hailing from someplace called Ashtabula, Ohio, Homewrecker are an extreme metal/hardcore band that have been raging like a psychotic beast for a little more than five years. In that time, the band has made its way to the Dallas area on several occasions and found a niche performing at a…
If there’s any one thing that makes for a healthy music scene, it’s a diversity of voices. That could mean different styles, different priorities, or just plain different experiences of the world. The important thing is that those voices be encouraged to come into conversation with one another. Well, the…
This Saturday, the heart of downtown was buzzing with a sense of local pride specific to the fifth annual Homegrown Festival. Upon entering through the shut-down stretch of Main Street between Hardwood and Saint Paul, the barrage of sights, sounds and smells were enough to put a smile on the…
Another weekend come and another weekend gone. Hopefully we all spent some quality time with our beloved mothers yesterday, having most likely spent all day Saturday doing some quality day drinking. (Or maybe we were just day drinking with our mothers.) It was perfect weather for both, in fact. Naturally,…
Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger With Bronchos Dada, Dallas Friday, May 9, 2014 It’s impossible to ignore the elephant in the room when it comes to Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, so let’s get it out of the way: Sean Lennon is the son of John Lennon and…
Having a famous musician as a father can always put pressure on a son or daughter who chooses the same profession. Not so for Bobby Bare Jr. With a blistering sense of humor and an emotional earnestness, Bare has never tried to walk in his father’s shoes. Instead, Bare Jr…
For over 25 years, Eddie Spaghetti and The Supersuckers have been playing a raw brand of hillbilly soaked rock and roll in just about any venue that would care to book them. Over the years, a definite country influence has steadily wormed its way into the band’s creative center resulting…
Hey now, weather. Knock it off, you hear? It’s almost the weekend, and we don’t need any more tricks, like that tornado business you thought was so damn funny. (Joke’s on you because we have Special Weather Reports on our side.) No matter though; from now through Sunday, we’re looking…
Local hip hop fans have been waiting for this day for a while. Blue, the Misfit, a local producer and rapper who detoured to Los Angeles for several years before coming back to Dallas, has already set himself apart for his sludgy beats and gritty non-hooks. Having previously produced tracks…
Ohio duo and multiple Grammy winners the Black Keys are preparing to drop a new album next week, titled Turn Blue. From the time it was announced, Blue, the band’s eighth album together, has been the crux of a slightly bizarre promotional campaign: first, its release was announced via Mike…
With the mind-expanding psychedelic rock outfit Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Sean Lennon (the 38-year-old son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono) and his girlfriend, model and artist Charlotte Kemp Muhl, have tripped into an enchanting realm. Since their first album, 2010’s Acoustic Sessions, the duo have explored a…
Mother’s Day is a holiday for emotionally-inept cowards to meekly hand-over a bouquet of gas station flowers to someone that probably knows them too well to truly give a shit if they did anything or not. And why is it just one day? We should be honoring these women every…
Frameworks With Gates, Tiny Moving Parts and Two Knights, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at Three Links, 2704 Elm St., threelinksdeepellum.com Rather than bitch online about an emo revival actually happening (or how it never went away), why not go and watch some of the most promising bands cut from…
The names of some music festivals are real head-scratchers. “Bonnaroo” and “Lollapalooza” are silly but effective. Others don’t leave much to the imagination. Locally, there’s the upcoming Fort Worth Music Festival: not a ton of mystery there, but at least we know where it’s going down, right? Somewhere in the…
Hailing from Minnesota, Tiny Moving Parts can’t seem to stay away from Texas for too long. The trio has already been to the DFW area a handful of times in the past year and a half, but they’re finally hitting Dallas proper on Thursday night. Paired up with the fantastic…
Sir Mix-A-Lot McKinney Avenue Tavern, Dallas Monday, May 5, 2014 This isn’t your normal concert crowd. Everyone’s here at McKinney Avenue Tavern for the same thing: the old-school shit. Nay, the old-school booty shit: They want to hear Sir Mix-a-Lot sing about butts that are big. Immediately. It’s Cinco-de-Goddamn-Mayo, after…
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting news of Dallas’ annual year-end EDM extravaganza, Lights All Night, then today should be a good day. Or at least a mostly good one. The promotional folks over at Highland Concerts and MCP Presents gave us a little tease this morning of this year’s festivities…
Since beginning his career in the Bay Area in the 1970s, Tommy Castro has become one of the most consummate blues musicians currently working. Castro’s body of work is an amazingly diverse collection of albums that are always tethered to classic blues and R&B. His most recent effort, The Devil…
Austin Psych Fest is an experience that’s hard to take measure of. I camped there for three days and saw well over a dozen acts. In other words, I ate and breathed this festival for 72 consecutive hours. I came back to my tent each night with a sweat-drenched notebook,…
