Yo La Tengo, A$AP Rocky and Deftones: This Week’s DFW Bestsellers

This is not your everyday Bilboard chart. Each week, we’ll tell you what bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. This week’s sales at CD Source reflect some of Dallas’ upcoming shows: P!nk’s Truth About…

Calexico at Granada Theater: Review

Last night, Calexico delivered a performance as expansive and dramatic as the Southwestern landscape and people from which the band draws so much of its inspiration. In turn the audience — and the Granada itself — gave back to the band all required to make the evening a memorable one…

This Week’s Best Concert Posters: The O’s and a Shadowy Van Gogh

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. This week’s picks includes a Van Gogh-inspired portrait that underscores Mad About Music’s monthly BYOV event at…

Los Lobos at the Kessler Theater: Review

Los Lobos is one of a handful of American bands that have sustained a notable and distinguished presence on the American music scene for over 30 years. A crossover band before the term was coined, they write music that has been a bridge between Mexican and American cultures ever since…

The Five Best Concerts In DFW This Week, January 22-24

Calexico, Bahamas Tuesday, January 22, at Granada Theater, $18-$29 The last time Calexico rolled through Dallas for their 2008 release, Carried to Dust, they were as effortless as a tumbleweed, but harnessed the power of a sand storm. It’s no news that since the mid ’90s, Tucson, Arizona’s Calexico has…

35 Denton 2013: 111 More Bands Added to the Lineup

35 Denton fast approaches, and today our friends to the north just added a whopping 111 more bands to the bill. This batch is heavy on area bands, including big names like AD.d+ and The O’s and some of our recent favorites such as Pinkish Black. Though there’s a little…

Calexico Found Truth in A New Orleans Church

These are among the key factors that caused Tucson-based Calexico chose New Orleans to write and record Algiers, their most recent full-length album: Cancer. Cuba. Children. A Cowsill. A church. And a book–with Calexico’s guitarist/singer/songwriter Joey Burns, there is often a book. “We needed to have some fresh perspectives, so…

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, January 17-20

Stalley, Ace Mitch, Dustin Cavazos, Nice Major, -Topic, KO Boyz Saturday, January 19, at The Prophet Bar, $18 Maybach Music Group rapper Stalley was busy in 2012, mostly with the release of his popular mixtape, Savage Journey to the American Dream, featuring heavy-hitters like Rick Ross, Curren$y, 2 Chainz and…

Who Rules Dallas DJing? Meet Five of the Contenders

DJs are no longer the music geeks they used to be. Now, they are front and center and depended on, not just to speak the language of the party but to create the conversation itself. This Friday, the Red Bull Thre3style Sub Regional Qualifying competition will kick things off in…

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams has always sounded wise and weary, but never has she seemed as comfortable with that role as on last year’s Blessed. Williams achieved an alt-country masterwork early in her career with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and wound up a household name somewhere around the considerably less-acclaimed…

Heartless Bastards

Almost a year ago, Erika Wennerstrom and her band, the Heartless Bastards, released an excellent LP, Arrow, which followed up the possibly more excellent The Mountain. Now that the hoopla surrounding the release of Arrow has passed, the Austin-based act is in a sweet spot. The band’s set last March…