Dallas, it’s beautiful outside. I don’t have to tell you how necessary it is to get out out of the house and go see some live music this weekend. Lucky for you, AT&T Performing Arts Center is hosting two different outdoor concerts this weekend, so you can soak up every…
Hailing from New Orleans, Goatwhore are one of the most anti-religious metal bands going. But despite the darkness of their overarching message, the music is tight, white-hot, stop-on-a-dime hardcore metal. Hanging together for nearly two decades, Goatwhore have released six full-lengths, but 2012’s Blood for the Master and the soon-to-be-released…
Pure X Thursday, April 10, at City Tavern Austin’s Pure X play dreamy, droning music that floats by like a polluted cloud. Over the course of three albums, the band has gone from sounding remotely like Sonic Youth to something more akin to ’70s soft rock with a slight psychedelic…
Alright y’all, I know you’re still basking in a Springsteen glow from March Madness Festival this weekend, but it’s a new week with new concert picks. Luckily, we’ve got some good stuff coming up. From Bad Sports to Jeff Bridges, don’t stay cooped up this week. The weather might still…
Despite cold and rainy weather, fans came out to Reunion Park for Sunday’s big March Madness Music Festival finale. The Wind and The Wave, Pat Green, fun., and the man of the hour, Bruce Springsteen, put on a rain or shine show that couldn’t be stopped or even hampered by…
Maybe I hang out with extreme cynics or maybe my friends don’t appreciate free, outdoor concerts like I do, or heck, I probably just don’t have enough friends, but convincing someone to tag along with me to the Final Four series of concerts at Reunion Plaza proved tricky. Everyone told…
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ride for Dime, a charity event that raises funds for Little Kids Rock Foundation and pays homage to “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. Every year co-founder Rob Elchelberger gathers bands from all across the country to play two nights of mind-blowing metal in honor of…
March Madness Festival has been making headlines around the country since it was announced last month. To accompany the NCAA’s Final Four tournament in Dallas this week, the college basketball league is throwing the city an enormous free weekend-long outdoor music festival at Reunion Park (by the old Reunion Arena…
This contest started way back in February with one announcement, followed by hundreds of nominations and over four thousand votes deciding who would become the best music photographer in North Texas. On this journey, we discovered some great talent and hopefully introduced you all to just some of the great…
For over a decade, Arizona’s Calabrese has been doing the horror rock/punk thing with wit and wisdom to spare. Carrying on the horror movie meets Elvis tradition of the legendary Misfits, the three Calabrese brothers have released six fun-filled albums concerning zombies, vampires and other dark subject matter. Interestingly, the…
Donovan Warren stands center stage at The Rail Club, looking every bit the part of metal-band frontman: H.R. Giger-inspired motifs tattoo his arms. A pair of dice and an alien eye decorate the back of his hands. The words “Last Call” bleed from his fingertips. His long, blondish-brown beard is…
Those summer dates are starting to fill up faster and faster each week, and it looks like the coming season will be a great one for live music. The most talked about announcement this week, however, was a actually a three way tie between Too Short and E-40 at Trees,…
Perhaps more than any attribute making Madison King’s songs burst with cochlea-catching appeal is the unvarnished honesty that pops from them. It’s in her lyrics, and it’s in her retelling of significant events from the past few years of her life, especially since the release of her twangy 2011 debut,…
For the past 15 years, Dallas locals’ dirty little nightlife secret sat at Henderson and McMillan avenues. The Slip Inn may have been tiny, it may have been poorly lit, and the bathrooms might have been the most avoided on Henderson — but there was a reason that there was…
How sweet it is to see the streets of Downtown, Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville, and Expo Park filled with nightlife patrons again after a cold winter. It’s that perfect time of year where the weather is still pre-heating for the summer and everyone just wants to be out and about…
Saxophonist Dave Hillyard followed a girl to New York City back in 1992 and ended up joining an up and coming ska band called The Slackers. Some two decades later, Hillyard remains in the band as it crisscrosses the country several times a year playing a potent blend of rocksteady,…
While you’d expect a young crowd for most Odd Future shows, Trees was filled on Saturday night with a diverse mix of fans of all ages. Then again, The Internet’s Neptunes-influenced, neo-soul tinged, starry eyed R&B is not what you’d normally expect when you think from an off-shoot of a…
Once ridiculed as the hilariously embarrassing accessory of choice for fat American tourists, the fanny pack is now a practical piece of party gear for hot, young EDM fanatics. At music fests such as Miami’s Ultra, it has become a ubiquitous carry-all for scantily clad ravers with no pockets. Easy,…
10. Believe and Be Found by Love Despite EDM fests being a sweaty mob scenes, our new pal Stacey believes wholeheartedly in the chance to find love amid the uhntz-uhntz-ing masses…
Bands like the Avett Brothers and Colorado’s Yonder Mountain String Band have somehow managed to make progressive bluegrass cool. YMSB have done this by straying as far as possible from the stereotypes and songwriting norms associated with traditional bluegrass. By incorporating some rock spirit into their well-played picking and grinning,…
Last night around 6pm, Dallas rap duo A.Dd+ dropped a brand new music video on their YouTube channel, for their fan favorite single, “Can’t Come Down”. Slim Gravy’s art-of-storytelling weed saga produced by X The Misfit first hit Soundcloud almost two and a half years ago, but the new Jeff…
Cover bands, impersonators, tribute bands, they’re often the next best thing to the original act. Tickets are cheaper, and lines are usually nonexistent to get inside the club. Some of the band members even look and sound as if they’re channeling their idols as their instruments ignite the stage. Zoso…
