Update: This show has been cancelled due to illness. The band promises another Dallas date this year. The enemy is everywhere. Original post follows… Titus Andronicus takes its name from a Shakespeare play — fitting, given the theatrics of leader Patrick Stickles and his band. From a practice space in…
The passing of Jason Molina in March was met with much sadness amongst the musician community of Texas — Molina had a wide influence on many in the state. Now a group of Texas based artist have teamed with curator Randy Reynolds to create Lone Star Horizons: A Texas Tribute…
Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we’ll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the metroplex. Starting off the beginning of May is a Homegrown Fest After Party poster, with an all-seeing eye…
Austin City Limits’ lineup for 2013 was just announced: Headliners include Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Kings of Leon and noted teenage-girl-advice-givers Atoms for Peace. Tickets go on sale May 7 — early bird passes are sold out but VIP is available if you just can’t wait. See also: -50…
A two-set performance at a rock show is as rare as a not-self-indulgent guitar solo. But those rarities are exactly what a full house at the Granada was treated to Saturday night at the Granada. Prior to the show starting there was some speculation in the crowd about how the…
We’re fewer than five songs into the Dwarves’ set, Friday night at Three Links, and the music has stopped, the drums have been kicked over, and the band has left the stage. No one seems immediately clear on what happened at that moment. No one, that is, except the guy…
Electro-dance outfit Ishi, celebrated the release of their sophomore LP, Digital Wounds, this weekend at the Granada Theater. Frontman John Mudd (One of two remaining original members, along with producer Brad Dale) says they wanted to make a new record that captured the energy from the dance-floor numbers of the…
Friday night at the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Annette Strauss Square Amphitheater, two things were pristinely clear: the gorgeous night sky above the blanketed crowd of BYOB-ers, and that the Search for Sugarman is now a full-blown phenomenon of followers who’ve found their guy in Rodriguez. The crowded, but comfortable,…
Shabazz Palaces | TheeSatisfaction Granada Theater May 2, 2013 I don’t remember the exact moment that the concert turned into a party, which I suppose is a good sign, but it’s how the night felt inside the warm belly of the Granada last night. Before TheeSatisfaction, the crowd was thin,…
If you’re a fan of Dawes, Deer Tick, Andrew Combs or Shovels and Rope, you may have already heard of Jonny Fritz without realizing it. The Virginia native released an excellent album under the pseudonym Jonny Corndawg in 2011. The Corndawg album, which featured instrumental help from Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith…
Biographies came into the Denton scene in the middle part of last year with a seemingly built in audience. Though they are neophytes, both as a band and as individuals (their oldest member is 23), they have a certain experimental bravery informed by their pre-emo idols; those certain David Bazans…
Slayer’s social media outlets are reporting that founding member Jeff Hanneman died Thursday morning at 11am, of liver failure. A constant of the band from his first meeting with Kerry King in 1981 until taking his leave from the band in 2011 due to a case of necrotizing fasciitis potentially…
Ringing in your first week of May is a week of music that’s as diverse as it gets. We’ve got everything from Rodriguez, the legendary musician and subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugarman, to the Dwarves, a group of disgusting punk badboys. Get a taste for them by…
Friday night’s lineup at Deep Ellum’s newest audible invader, Three Links, is a bit of a dream for those of us who love our punk raw and possibly infected. Now, seeing The Dwarves live, standalone, is a crucial experience at least once in the life of all from the rebellion…
Pop stars try not to make a habit of canceling shows on their highly-anticipated tours, but it certainly happens. When it happens to me (the ticketholder), I blast it on social media, stow my ticket away in a trinket box and sulk for about a week. Then it’s back to…
Killa MC, the brash, proud and highly skilled member of Denton hip-hop collective Brain Gang, enters from behind the curtain in full military regalia and takes his place at the front of the stage inside the Prophet Bar. “I want to be all over Instagram with this outfit on, so…
The Toadies’ annual rock hangout festival, Dia De Los Toadies, returns in mid-September, this time to Panther Island Pavilion in Fort Worth. It’s the first time the fest has taken place in the Toadies’ hometown. Today, 11 of the 16 bands have been announced; you can see the full list…
“Vintage Silvertone Acoustic guitar,” “1977 Dobro Duolian,” “Martin 00X1 Auditorium Acoustic Guitar (14 Fret)” are just some of the headlines advertising guitars on Craigslist, but how are you supposed to play them, hear them, feel them? When you order a guitar online, you’re missing an important part of the musical…
As we approach the halfway mark of 2013, it’s time to recap the five most interesting local hip-hop music videos released so far. There were plenty of releases to choose from, so to keep things diplomatic, I kept it to one per artist. Although lyrical content and beat played a…
This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we’ll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops;…
Update, 4/30: The Dallas show has been scheduled for Monday, November 11, still at American Airlines Center. Tickets are available now through ticketmaster. Tickets from the postponed show will be honored. Original post follows… Rihanna has postponed tonight’s Dallas show because of illness — she did the same for last…
The Joy Formidable Trees April 29, 2013 Taking the stage around 9:30, the Joy Formidable came out one at a time, starting with drummer Matt Thomas, who threw his enthusiasm at the crowd before sitting behind a picturesque kit, complete with gong. The kit was positioned on the right edge…
