With the recent discovery that R&B singer Montell Jordan is now just singing headlines from MSNBC to people via text, The Overserved columnist Deb Doing Dallas and I had a very serious conversation about what this all means, and I have a moment of panic that my phone had been…
See also: Full Fun Fun Fun Fest lineup announced Because they care about you and your well-being, and want to make sure you’re getting enough fest in your diet, the Granada has joined forced with Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest to offer up a limited time prize bundle. Here’s the…
See also: Oil Boom on the magic of Donnie and Joe Emerson See also: Vinyl Fantasy’s Nathan Johnson on Sunn O))) We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t…
At 62, Huey Lewis is happy to get by on the hits. His tour with Joe Cocker comes to the Meyerson tonight, so we asked about his band’s popular ascension in the ’70s, how he feels about singing with one of his idols and why he will never produce another…
Check out this new video from 19-year-old Dallas emcee Raw Elementz, for the track “Test My Ability,” off February’s Music From the Sole mixtape. It features a lot of sneakers, a lot of shots of downtown, and that chorus is killer. You can also check out his new EP, Flydayz,…
See also: 12 awesome shows to catch this weekend The curatorial forces over at Green Bandana Group have been doing some pretty interesting things at theSPACE in Deep Ellum, and beyond. It was just a month ago that they launched electronic music showcase Neon Sessions, and since then they’ve hosted…
See also: The problem with… Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” The United Kingdom is revving up songs on U.S. charts this summer, likely in tandem with the 2012 London Olympics. However, instead of promoting fresh British artists like Michael Kiwanuka and Emeli Sandé, they’re giving America by-the-numbers pop from…
Tenacious D Friday, July 20, at Palladium Ballroom Lots of frat boys expected to turn out for the D tomorrow night. Lots of mind bullets, too…
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If you haven’t been following the path of Dallas’ Ronnie Fauss over the past couple of years, you have quite the treat ahead of you. Beginning with 2009’s New Songs for the Old Frontier and most recently in 2011’s tribute collection Any Lovin’ Way But Wrong, Fauss’ four EPs serve…
This Thursday, the Denton weekly gets a little push from some other dark corners of Texas. Houston DJ Rabit drops some mystic club swerve appropriate for his city’s lineage, and celebrates his new release Terminator, which is being put out on Ben Aqua’s increasingly popular #Feelings label. San Antonio’s DJ…
A couple of years ago, Austin singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz got to open for Steve Martin, when his bluegrass band taped an Austin City Limits episode. At that point, she wasn’t even 21 yet, already had a Sugar Hill Records debut under her belt (2009’s Song Up in Her Head) and…
A year after the Identity Festival — co-founded by Kaskade and DJ Steve Aoki, and billed as the “first-ever touring festival exclusively featuring EDM” — came to town, Chicago house DJ and producer Kaskade returns. This time he’s flying solo, though fellow EDM musicians Alvin Risk and Fareoh are opening…
As Black Dotz shows are getting, according to singer Wanz Dover, “fewer and farther between,” you’d be wise to catch this great local triple bill. If you happened upon the phenomenal Ronald Shannon Jackson show at the Kessler a couple weekends ago, you caught Dotz guitarist Greg Prickett lending his…
Following up his 35th (!!) studio album, Tempest, out September 11, Bob Dylan will be rolling into Verizon Theatre on Thursday, November 1, with Mark Knopfler. More info to come when tickets go on sale. Honestly, I wrote this post so I could have an excuse to use this photo…
LA Weekly music editor and Southern hip-hop encyclopedia Ben Westhoff brought Marlon Jennings, aka Arkansas Bo, to my attention a few months ago, and pointed me in the direction of this profile from 2010. I’ve been jamming last year’s Natural State of Mind on and off since then, and was…
Ever wanted to see pasty music writers outside in the daytime, sweltering under the August sun, playing volleyball? Not really our natural habitat, but Endless Summer, local music and food blog House of Plates’ August 5 event at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, promises some exceptionally awkward moves, trash-talking and…
See also: Dennis Gonzalez schools us on Ramón Ayala We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t even care if it’s good, we just want to know what the…
Index Music Fest w/ Portugal. The Man, Washed Out, Grimes & MoreOctober 5, 6, at Trees, $32Last week, Spune announced Index Festival at Trees, which puts them back in the festival game again. If you remember their Wall of Sound Festival in the mid-Aughts, this lineup is an update, built…
At some point in the near future, Justin Young might end up playing in every active band in Dallas. He recently filled with Menkena while also finding time to play with J. Charles and the Trainrobbers, Auxiliary Voice, Arm Tha Homeless and the beloved Hall & Oates cover band, The…
We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t even care if it’s good, we just want to know what the music community has been obsessing over, playing on repeat,…
Eccotone’s Donovan Ford has utter contempt for your eardrums. “We’re big fans of making things uncomfortable for the listener,” he says, laughing. For the Denton-based band, that means being among the loudest in the region. Over the past year, Eccotone have made a name for themselves through their chest-rattling, ear-splitting…
