Music

Every so often, we get to wondering what people in the local music community do all day. So, we asked them. Today, Ken Shimamoto checks in with Doc’s Records employee Dave Howard, and learns a little about the life of a record store clerk in 2012. I grew up in…

When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. We call it Street Style. On Saturday, September 1 the North Texas State Fair Grounds were crawling with people attending the first-ever Hot Wet Mess…

See more scenes in our slideshow See also: Reggie Watts give hair care tips See also: Big Freedia’s house of bounce Saturday afternoon, RTB2, Fergus & Geronimo, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Big Freedia, Reggie Watts, No Age and the Black Lips converged on the North Texas Fairgrounds for 35 Denton’s Hot…

See also: Vol. 43: DJ Redsean See also: Vol. 44: T0MMYL33J0N3Z Gina Garza has only been spinning for a little over a year now, but rather than running out and purchasing the latest software like many newcomers, Garza is learning how to DJ the traditional way, with vinyl and a…

It’s been 45 years since trumpeter Lester Bowie, in the introduction to his track “Jazz Death?” (on Roscoe Mitchell’s album, Congliptious), answered the rhetorical question, “Isn’t jazz, as we know it, dead yet?” with the knowing rejoinder, “Well, that all depends on what you know.” Bowie might well have been…

Over the last two nights of the Republican National Convention, both Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney have taken the time to mention the music on Romney’s iPod, with Ryan, a noted Rage Against the Machine fan, saying, “There are the songs on his iPod which I’ve…

Every Thursday, we bring you the ten best shows you absolutely, positively can’t miss this weekend. As always, you can find even more to fill your long weekend via our concert calendar. Mind Spiders, Nervous Curtains, Diamond AgeThursday, August 30, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal StudiosThis solid triple bill will take…

I’ve spent many years behind a drum set. When I go to shows, I almost always catch myself peering at the drummer, no matter how engaging or magnetic the rest of the band is. I’ve come to admire the drumming of several local drummers from whom I’ve nicked many riffs…

Over the course of the last few years, the Sunday before Labor Day has seen some really good times take place on the dusty plot of land next to Billy Bob’s in Ft. Worth’s Stockyards district. Day-long festivals headlined by acts such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, the Black Crowes and…

There’s a 2010 New York Times interview with New Orleans rapper Big Freedia in which she describes creating a space for women at her shows who want to make their way up front and work it out with her on the dancefloor, while having to simultaneously defend them from men…

August is typically the cruelest month, in terms of temperatures, lack of energy and things to do. Looking back through the blog, however, we certainly got our fair share of photo ops. Here are a few to remind you of the month that was…

As with vinyl culture, cassettes never really went away. They just served certain micro-scenes a bit more efficiently. Nationally, cassette culture has been on an upswing for a few years, as CDs become increasingly inconvenient/obsolete, and the analog heads respond to the digital glut. Tapes used to be Morse code…

There’s a 2010 New York Times interview with New Orleans rapper Big Freedia in which she describes creating a space for women at her shows who want to make their way up front and work it out with her on the dancefloor, while having to simultaneously defend them from men…