Turquoise Jeep Dada Friday, September 7 I don’t really like musical comedy. I appreciate the humor and a great comedian may be the nimblest of cultural painters, but even if I enjoy the joke, I am not going to play the music at a party or listen to it apart…
Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Brain Gang Blue, -topic, A.Dd+, Mohicans, Dre Marley The Door Friday, September 7 L.A. emcee Jay Rock took the stage Friday night following a downsized roster of homegrown artists, and established hype I’ve witnessed only from his Top Dawg Entertainment peer, Kendrick Lamar. While most emcees take…
See also: The people of Untapped Festival Listen: Dallas, Texas has become unstuck in time. At least that’s how it felt in the short break between the shot glass full of beer and the guy in front of me wearing a Vonnegut jersey that bore the number five. That’s a…
Editor’s note: Today we discovered that Christian the News Intern, a graduate journalism student at UNT, once played in a grunge band and hasn’t really updated his tastes, making him, we figure, one of about nine people alive to take offense to the politicization of a Foo Fighters song. Here’s…
See also: Five other names for Toby Keith’s new bar and grill What does a Toby Keith fan look like? That’s one question I had as I walked into Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill yesterday afternoon, as part of a “grand opening” for the North Dallas establishment…
Recently, I was gently reminded that the Toadies have a new album out, called Play.Rock.Music.. I listened to the album a couple times and tried to wrap my head around it. I waited for something to grab me: A hook, a melody. Instead, I found myself wincing. I couldn’t bring…
Rob Delaney’s coming to town this Saturday. He is a comedian, and this poster is a visual representation of comedy…
See also: This Sunday’s the final night of Lost Generation at Arcade Bar Back in June, we mentioned the dust-up involving Wanz Dover’s long-running Lost Generation DJ night at Arcade Bar, and its abrupt end. Since then, he’s kept himself plenty busy with DJ gigs at Nova, the Foundry and…
Consult our shiny new concert calendar for more goings-on this weekend and beyond. Untapped FestivalSaturday, September 8, at Trinity Groves ParkIt’s hard to tell what the biggest draw will be at Saturday’s Untapped Festival. It’s a music/beer festival that pairs bands like Givers, The Antlers, Akron/Family, Blackstone Rangers, Burning Hotels…
The Smoker’s Club Tour hit Dallas last month, and it was a busy night, like so many Thursdays in our town. I sit in my car on Elm Street, trying to get around a sudden surge of traffic. I hear sirens. Four blocks away from Trees, I can smell the…
On September 11, Will Johnson will release Scorpion, his first solo full-length record since 2005. It comes after a four-year stretch in which Johnson has seen his profile heightened by collaborations with Monsters of Folk (Jim James, M.Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis), New Multitudes (Jay Farrar, Anders Parker, Jim James)…
Got plans this weekend? Cancel them and go support live music instead. We’re here to help with our freshly updated calendar of Dallas concerts. The listings are sortable by artist, venue and even price, if you like to choose bands based on cost per riff. There’s also a big list…
Nashville’s Daniel Pujol brings his project to town behind June’s Saddle Creek full-length, United States of Being, an album loaded with the three-chord new-wave punk that’s been Nashville’s calling card in the last few years. Supporting is local revolving door act Soviet, who shook up their lineup recently and, after…
You know those great Southern rock songs that make you crank up the volume and take your hands off the wheel for some air guitar or dashboard drumming? Quaker City Night Hawks have those songs in spades, except you haven’t already heard them a thousand times on the classic rock…
The big room over at the Prophet Bar has seen a Top Dawg Entertainment takeover in the form of Schoolboy Q and his packed performance back in June. Now, two more of TDE’s finest hit the stage, courtesy of Coffee Music Hub. California emcees Ab-Soul and Jay Rock headline the…
An Ariel Pink show is always exciting, mainly because you never know if the L.A. singer will go off the rails or spiral into some nonsensical glass case of emotion while performing. With a backing band, The Haunted Graffiti, in tow for the last few years, he’s straightened himself out,…
After Hospice, a concept album that chronicled the death of a woman from terminal bone cancer, it was hard to imagine The Antlers releasing an album as dark. No worries: The Brooklyn group followed it up with Burst Apart, which has a song called “Putting the Dog to Sleep,” and…
A few years ago, it seemed “indie” bands (whatever that signifies these days) were jumping on the Hall & Oates bandwagon, covering their songs, declaring their non-ironic love for them. It was a tense time, especially for those of us who have loved the band since we were 7 years…
On September 11, Will Johnson will release Scorpion, his first solo full-length record since 2005. It comes after a four-year stretch in which Johnson has seen his profile heightened by collaborations with Monsters of Folk (Jim James, M.Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis), New Multitudes (Jay Farrar, Anders Parker, Jim James)…
The Smoker’s Club Tour hit Dallas last month, and it was a busy night, like so many Thursdays in our town. I sit in my car on Elm Street, trying to get around a sudden surge of traffic. I hear sirens. Four blocks away from Trees, I can smell the…
Funky Was the State of Affairs, Fergus & Geronimo’s newly released sophomore album on Hardly Art, takes a few wide swings towards a more resolute sound, and manages to land most of its punches in the gut and jaw. It’s a different swing than 2011’s Unlearn, which is essentially what…
See also: Ten of August’s best music photos This summer’s musical choices have been made. Our thighs have been chafed from festivals, our livers raked over the fiery coals, our eardrums gently caressed. And now, as we drift into the last quarter of the year, we’re taking one look back…
