Celebrate CD Source’s 20th Anniversary This Friday

CD Source has been servicing Dallas’ music needs for what will be approximately 20 years this coming Friday — owner Lance Price opened the store on December 5, 1993. A lot has happened in 20 years: we’ve seen the digitization of music sales, a resurgence in the vinyl medium, the…

Seven Killer Photos from Charli XCX and Kitten at Dada

On Monday night, British singer-songwriter Charli XCX and LA’s Kitten took the stage at Dada. From the looks of it, it was one hell of a performance. Photographer Mike Brooks was on hand, and captured the energetic scene. Here are seven of our favorite shots from the night — you…

How Junior Brown Beat Out Jerry Reed to Narrate the Dukes of Hazzard

With his handmade “guit-steel” guitar and deep, country drawl, Junior Brown makes a hell of an impression. Over the course of four decades, Brown has taken his blues-inspired honky tonk across the nation and around the world, thrilling fans of honest and well crafted roots music. In truth, Brown is…

The Ten Best Bars in Denton

In many ways, Denton is DFW’s little Austin, our small slice of “weird.” Its inexpensive living costs and college town environment have made it something of a cultural hotbed, a landscape as readily filled with bohemians as fraternity herds. This unique melting pot of backgrounds and social interests has led…

Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes on How Carl Sagan Changed His Life

Since 2003, Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes have produced a catalogue of some of the finest psychedelic rock out there. Led by the husband-wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, the group released their stunning Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO earlier this year as the follow-up to 2010’s excellent The…

Steve Vai on What it Takes to Be a Good Collaborator

First hired in 1979 by Frank Zappa as a music transcriptionist, guitarist Steve Vai has just about done it all. Whether as a solo artist or playing with everyone from David Lee Roth to John Lydon, Vai’s sheer musical ability has never been questioned. Undoubtedly a hired gun, Vai’s career…

The Ten Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, November 21 to 27

Ugh, next week is going to be gross. Not only are you going to be about 10 pounds heavier from gorging yourself on holiday fare, exhausted from all the passive-aggressive family drama shooting across the dinner table and just all around grumpy from your Black Friday sleep deprivation, but also…

Music Picks: Built to Spill, Cory Morrow and More

Everyone wish the Granada a happy ninth birthday by seeing indie darlings Built To Spill mope their way through one of the more impressive back catalogues for guitar rock out there. Elsewhere: The final of three benefit shows for Dallas artist and cancer patient Nevada Hill and resurgent songwriter Cory…