Earlier, we introduced you to our 12 favorite music photographers in North Texas. We got more than 50 nominations, and our team of expert judges narrowed it down to these 12. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be introducing you to each of the finalists in turn by having them…
With a virulent wit, a deep antipathy for authority and a boiling paradox of emotions, Tyler has made some of the most controversial music of the 21st century. Far from mere shock fodder, his music reflects not only internal vulnerability and brokenness, but also the ever-fragmenting moods, morals and frustration…
A dark arena illuminates with a 60-foot specter of Miley Cyrus’ head floating independent from her body. Her giant, LED-emblazoned eyeballs glare into a sea of mostly 18- to 21-year-old female faces, as her pupils saunter in opposite directions. The crowd roars and shrieks as her lips begin to part,…
Last night I reluctantly headed to Deep Ellum’s Club Dada to see Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band perform. Now, if you’re anything like me, then that sentence takes some serious digesting before it can be completely understood. Former child star Macaulay Culkin is in a Velvet Underground cover…
Earlier, we introduced you to our 12 favorite music photographers in North Texas. We got more than 50 nominations, and our team of expert judges narrowed it down to these 12. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be introducing you to each of the finalists in turn by having them…
“Whiskey and yummy snacks.” Thus ends the rider for Dallas hardcore/thrash band Power Trip, whose recent ascent hasn’t left a lot of time for fleshing out a list of things the band would like in its green room. Concert offers from Australia and Asia are coming in, in addition to…
Updated at 7 a.m. Vanessa Quilantan contributed reporting. Two people were killed and 23 injured early this morning when a suspected drunk driver, speeding away from police after an attempted DWI stop, plowed through an Austin street crowded with SXSW partygoers…
Jerry Warden is a conduit for promoting heavy metal in the North Texas area. The former lead singer of Warlock, one of the first heavy metal bands in DFW, started in the early ’80s hosting live shows in the middle of a pasture christened “Heavy Meadows.” He continued with several…
St. Vincent Friday, March 14, at House of Blues What superlatives can be employed to describe Annie Clark’s mad genius that haven’t already been used so many times in the recent past, let alone over the course of the past several years that Clark has recorded under the St. Vincent…
It seems like that, in the last two years, we’ve lost too many musicians and industry leaders in the North Texas music scene: Ronald Shannon Jackson, Kidd Kraddick, Donovan Warren, Monte Aaron Krause, DJ Quick Chris, Summer Amshoff and, of course, Mike Scaccia. Now Jason Merito joins the list of…
A lively, multi-generational crowd made it out to the Granada Theater last night to catch pioneering electronic musician Gary Numan. The nearly sold-out crowd was treated to an energetic set that judiciously mixed in old and new favorites that spanned Numan’s four decade long career. The set list concentrated on…
Though it’s hard right now to even think of shows further out than this weekend, The wheels are still cranking right along for Dallas promoters and talent buyers. The biggest announcements of the week are oldies, but goodies. In between his shifts inventing the new Microsoft Zune, the legendary singer…
There are few things more numbingly familiar to a child of the internet age than the digital experience. The clicking of keyboard buttons, the harmonic hum of a device startup sound, the cold glow of a the whole word staring back at you from a portable screen- they have never…
Earlier, we introduced you to our 12 favorite music photographers in North Texas. We got more than 50 nominations, and our team of expert judges narrowed it down to these 12. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be introducing you to each of the finalists in turn by having them…
Can you hear that? It might be somewhat foreign by now, but it’s the sound of the Dallas Cowboys scoring a touchdown. You know, thousands of fans cheering in Cowboys AT&T Stadium and that one song blares through the speakers. Well that song is California-based band The Burning of Rome’s…
Sadly, many people may only know Gary Numan for “Cars,” his surprising, off-the-wall hit from 1979. Yet Numan’s four decade long career belies any classification as a one-hit wonder. Indeed, some of Numan’s best music came immediately before and after he made “Cars.” Taken together, Numan’s catalogue makes him one…
You can’t have a true St. Patrick’s Day concert without a few staples: a mega-ton of beer, a sea of green-covered people who may or may not look that way because they’ve had more than their fair share of said beer, and a long list of bands and performers. We’ve…
We are now in the dead heat of festival season. Even though everyone’s making their way down to Austin this week for some giant, week-long Doritos® party, there’s still plenty going on right here in our own backyards. From Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-centric Velvet Underground cover band to Miley Cyrus, there…
Even with the cold wind, Texas country music fans still headed out to enjoy the 18th annual Texas Music Revolution. This festival, featuring more than a dozen acts on the bill, was to take place at the famous Southfork Ranch in Parker. My friend and I picked up our tickets…
Earlier, we introduced you to our 12 favorite music photographers in North Texas. We got more than 50 nominations, and our team of expert judges narrowed it down to these 12. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be introducing you to each of the finalists in turn by having them…
Under a chilly and sometimes sprinkling sheet of grey Fort Worth sky that turned stout black sooner than usual, the second edition of Untapped Fort Worth successfully kept its attendees spirits high with quality ales and well-crafted musical performances. The several food trucks on-hand even lent the event some warmth…
Bryan “Infidelix” Rodecker runs through the streets of Ireland trying to find some place to hide. He knows his assailant is getting closer. The clapping of the little man’s heels echoes through the streets of Dublin like the chiming of church bells. He doesn’t know what he’d done to piss…
