More than a dozen acts are slated to play this annual benefit show, and we hope they’ve got another stage going for the night, or else it’s going to be real intimate inside Libertine. Nevertheless, it will be a drunken good time, for a good cause. The O’s, Ryan Thomas…
Before the storm of best-of lists to come, I wanted to take a second to put aside the artistic merit aspect of the year in review, and take a look at what happened in the cultural landscape of rap music. Some of these albums were really good, some of them…
On August 31, Todd Gautreau, the brains behind excellent area dream-pop act Crushed Stars, took to the band’s Facebook page to sound off on a topic that’s turned into a national debate among artists, record labels, music consumers and various streaming services, specifically and most notably Spotify. Gautreau, who’s received…
Blowfly Saturday, February 9, at Dada, $11/$15 Clarence Reid is better known as the gonzo performer Blowfly, a caped and masked X-rated rapper who is now in his 70s, and still releasing albums with titles like Black in the Sack. Watch the trailer for his upcoming documentary, The Weird World…
As a city, we’ve been developing culturally and economically at a rapid pace over the last few years. Built around a scene of prominent weekly events like Beauty Bar’s Big Bang Thursdays and Prophet Bar’s Wednesday night open mic jam sessions, local rap artists get the chance to interact and…
Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to…
Houston native Roger Creager has been a mainstay of the Texas-centric festivals and college-town honky-tonks that make up the Texas country circuit. Over the course of six full-length albums and 14 years, Creager’s become known more for his rambunctious live shows than he has his relatively small catalog of recorded…
We were, for reasons obvious to readers of this blog, a bit depressed when music editor Audra Schroeder announced recently that she would retire as a music journalist and pursue writing about Things That Aren’t Music. Today, though, a little shot of human-resources Prozac: We have a new music editor…
Tonight at Texas Theatre, Oak Cliff Film Fest is presenting another “Show Your Shorts” night, featuring work from local filmmakers. The films must be shorter than 20 minutes, and they’re taking numbers over on the Facebook event page. TT’s Barak Epstein says they still have a couple slots open. One…
There were too many great performances this year, in venues big and small, by acts local and national, to thoroughly cover within the confines of a blog post. This year’s DOMA showcase (self-indulgence alert!) provided some transcendent local sets, we had a wealth of great festival acts to consider, and…
It’s impossible to discuss the magnitude of the Denton music scene without including Robert Gomez as one of its pivotal players. Since 1993, Gomez has been everywhere from Denton to Istanbul, and the list of musicians he’s played with include Norah Jones, Philip Glass and Tico da Costa. He’ll perform…
Dom Kennedy, Raw Elementz Trees Saturday, December 8 On Saturday, Dom Kennedy saved the best for last. On the final date of his Yellow Album tour, he sold out Trees, making him the third West Coast rap act in three months to sell out a Dallas date. Not only was…
Bloc Party, The Burning Hotels Tuesday, December 11, at House of Blues, $30/$35 Bloc Party are coming to town after the release of their fourth full-length earlier this year, appropriately titled Four. The band reverts back to the guitar-centric sounds of its past, recreating the same feel as their 2005…
Lamb of God, Hellyeah, In Flames, Sylosis Palladium Ballroom Friday, December 7 Christmas came early this year, as Sylosis, Hellyeah, In Flames and Lamb of God imploded eardrums on Friday night. British band Sylosis started the show, offering a modernized version of old-school Bay Area thrash metal, informed by West…
George Quartz’, Midnight Movie, At Night Double Wide Saturday, December 8 In a last-minute switch-up, The Atomic Tanlines, who were slotted to open the three-act bill at Double Wide Saturday night, were replaced by a local electronic band called At Night. It was a pleasant surprise though, as the well-groomed…
One night ahead of Sarah Jaffe’s late-night debut, Dallas soul singer Larry g(EE) performs tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, thanks to OurStage.com, a social networking site that places emerging artists on the show, and also got him a handful of gigs on this summer’s Warped Tour. He’ll be performing the…
Shea Serrano, whose name you may have seen in our sister papers L.A. Weekly and Houston Press, has been responsible for some of this year’s finest music writing. This piece, in which he chronicles the night he chaperoned a middle school dance, may be the high point, mainly for this…
See also: – The fans of Odd Future…
Ulnae is the fairly new project of singer Lily Taylor and cellist Darcy Neal (also of Bludded Head), who combine free-form sound, visuals and a bit of theatre into their experimental live show. In preview of tonight’s Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves and the Meme Gallery, with Zorch,…
Word came today that Clear Channel has laid off KDGE-102.1 FM’s Josh Venable (again), and KHKS-106.1 Kiss FM’s Adrian Hummel and Michael Blake (Kidd Kraddick). This marks another wave off lay-offs, which started at Clear Channel back in 2009, and adds to the chimney-sweeping that’s happened at other Dallas radio…
[Editor’s note: On Monday, Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe was formally indicted on manslaughter charges relating to a 2010 incident at a show in the Czech Republic, for which he will stand trial. This interview was done before that verdict came down.] To say that 2012 has been an…
Mark Kozelek Thursday, December 6, at Granada Theater, $29-$39 I’ve been hard on Kozelek’s past band, Red House Painters, mainly because in college they radiated an air of preciousness I couldn’t accept. As I’ve gotten older and softer, though, Kozelek’s music, namely Sun Kil Moon, has grown on me. The…
