It’s nothing short of astonishing that an ambient Icelandic band who don’t sing in English or write songs in a verse-chorus structure are filling arenas across the US. Some of the next acts to play this same arena are Shinedown, The Lumineers, Styx and the Killers. Sigur Ros are a…
Neville Livingston, a.k.a. Bunny Wailer, has officially excommunicated Snoop Lion from the “Rastafari Community.” I say “officially”: He made a Facebook post wherein he said, “SNOOP LION IS OFFICIALLY EXCOMMUNICATED FROM THE RASTAFARI COMMUNITY!” and then posted a definition of excommunication from Wikipedia. The post has 34 likes and 24…
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. Sunglasses&Sugar will be opening for Colleen Green this week, and have supplied us with a collection of…
Five short years ago, Grizzly Bear played before a transfixed and adoring audience of perhaps 100 people on the cramped stage of Club Dada. Touring to support their break-through album Yellow House, the band brought to stage the unique and peculiar blend of soaring vocals, tight harmonies, literate lyrics and…
The best band names play upon the pop cultural lexicon, using reference to convey attitude or sound. The best ones do so subtly or unexpectedly, turning injustices or misconceptions in on themselves. I’ve gathered the 10 most intriguing and kick-ass of the rowdy and reckless DFW band names as an…
Rick Ross is having a rough week. The Maybach Music Group kingpin is currently being crucified by the media & women’s interest groups all over the country, for a guest verse he gave on Atlanta rapper Rocko’s new single, U.O.E.N.O. Featuring a hook from autotune boy wonder, Future, the song…
At 2:15 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27, local DJ, longtime musician and father of three John Walker had just left his job at Rockit Lab Studios and was traveling on Lemmon Avenue, near the intersection at Oak Grove Avenue. He collided with a taxi cab. Exact details of the accident…
Ft. Worth post-rock indie folk band Katsuk is playing the Grotto on April 12th with Michael Garfield and Psychedelephant. But this won’t be your normal show, as if that’s really possible for a band like Katsuk. The stand out DFW group plans on marrying at least two same sex couples,…
This weekend, Dallas hip-hop fans are going to be busy. Just as we were starting to recover from festival season, two inaugural local fests pop up to remind us that there’s still plenty going on in right here in our own backyard. Between April Foolin in Deep Ellum and Function…
Dallas’ own Drowning Pool has a new album — its first with lead singer Jasen Moreno. He’s the fourth man to fill that spot and the transitions haven’t always been easy or smooth. But the band is clearly comfortable with Moreno. Comfortable enough to take a crack at an unrehearsed…
Editor: April showers, right? But a little water isn’t stopping anyone, which is good because there are excellent shows happening this week. Including the blissfully strange Danny Brown, touring with beat master and unexpected meme star Baauer. -topic and his TeamFromNoWhere are throwing a party on Saturday at Club Dada…
Forty-three years after forming ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons is trying to unlearn almost everything he knows about music. Everything except the psychedelic foundation he laid with his former group, the Moving Sidewalks, long before the famous beard sprouted. “We’re taking things in reverse. The enticement of unlearning is certainly working…
Fuck me, I am going to overdose on this new Justin Timberlake album. I know that I’m supposed to be ashamed of certain selections in my album collection. I know this from all of the times that people have looked through my CDs or records or iTunes and been all,…
Hell. Yes. I’ve always heard that Depeche Mode is a thrilling live band, and since they’re touring with lo-fi electro duo Crystal Castles, that gives you one more reason to pee-pee in your electro-loving pants. I figured DM was sure to spring a tour announcement on us at some point,…
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. Similarities emerged at CD Source and Good Records this week with top artists reaching high sales,…
Coacapalaroo Festival is new to the United States this year. No, “lying on the internet day” was Monday. Instead, the three major US alternative music festivals, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, all seem to have shared the same bookers this year. They may as well be an extremely large touring festival…
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. Kicking off the first of the month is a Sin Motivo demo release show, and a homemade…
Late last year, Josh Venable was let go for the second time from the Clear Channel-owned 102.1 KDGE, the Edge, and he has yet to find another radio station to call home. “I watch a lot of Murder, She Wrote,” Venable says of his down time while sitting in an…
Rob Zildjian is eulogized thusly on that great modern document, Wikipedia: “Robert Zildjian (14 July 1923 – 28 March 2013) was the founder of Sabian Cymbals, the second largest manufacturer of cymbals in the world.” There’s a lot in that one sentence, if you know where to look. The largest…
Phil Ramone, who died Saturday following an aneurysm, produced an astonishing number of albums it’s not cool to enjoy. Wikipedia helpfully provides a category full of them. He was in on Rod Stewart’s first pop standards album; he did the Sinead O’Connor album after the one Sinead O’Connor album; he…
Consider the damn state of things when a songwriter with a decade-plus experience, in front of an adoring sellout crowd at the Granada Theater, says the following halfway through his set: “Alright, we’re gonna do a Harlem Shake video.” Bob Schnedier pulled on a Luchador mask after he said it…
For anyone whose grown-up in the Metroplex, Billy Bob’s Texas is as synonymous with this region as the Dallas Cowboys, Six Flags Over Texas or Reunion Tower are. Since opening in the equally iconic Ft. Worth Stockyards in 1981, the cavernous space has been the go-to spot for Country stars…
