The human race will remember 2012 as the year that birthed a new kind of hologram, but that technology is just the jumping-off point in this exciting era of interactive music experience. New research allows us to look into technology that might shape the way we listen to music in…
M83Granada TheaterSunday, May 20There was a lot of walking involved to see M83 perform their second show of a two-night stand at the Granada Theater. A long walk from the distant parking space. A long walk around the venue trying to find a place to stand (nearly impossible). A walk…
Wildflower! Festival Galatyn Park Friday, May 18 The modern music festival exists as three very distinct types: The mega-fests put on by corporations, which bring together some of the world’s biggest acts and are able to cut huge checks so bands can reunite (ACL, Coachella); the righteous upstarts that bring…
On Saturday night, while we were all out shortening our lifespan in one form or another, the Granada quietly slipped the lineup for this summer’s July 28 gig onto Instagram, which really is the most stylish way to leak music news: Glass Candy, Chromatics, Taken By Trees, Twin Sister, Laurel…
Rubber Gloves 15th Anniversary Rubber Gloves Saturday, May 19 Ah, Rubber Gloves. I’ve been going to shows there since 2000, and it still has the most disgusting bathroom in all the land. But it’s also home to some of my favorite memories, from the packed chaos of a Riverboat Gamblers…
Back at the end of April, before the Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves, I asked Peopleodian’s James Washington about Forever Home, his new project with Bad Design’s John Gillespie: [It’s] Peopleodian’s idiot twin, a miserable and mangled mockery of the Peopleodian aesthetic. Gone are the drums, the guitar,…
I don’t know how my kid does it. He’s heard “ABCs” a thousand times and it’s still his number one request. If you have a little one, you know you’re going to hear the same song hundreds – no, thousands – of times. If you’re particular about the music you…
If emo kids didn’t have it tough enough, this past week a report surfaced from Andrew Hogan, education director of the Optometrists Association of Tasmania, saying, “If a young emo chap has a fringe covering one eye all the time, that eye won’t see a lot of detail. And if…
What are you doing this weekend? You don’t know yet? Well, what are you doing tonight around 8 p.m.? I strongly advise you to tune into Indie-Verse for the Ladies Room, which is me, Mixmaster editor Jamie Laughlin and The Overserved columnist Deb Doing Dallas telling you what to do…
In recent months, the North Texas country community has produced some solid albums, and future months will witness the release of anticipated records from Somebody’s Darling, Grant Jones and Ronnie Fauss. While vets like Eleven Hundred Springs, Tejas Brothers, the King Bucks, Nate Kipp and Mo Robson continue to release…
Better grab tickets for Van Halen’s June 20 show at the American Airlines Center while you still can. The band’s North American tour just got significantly lighter. Turns out the group (David Lee Roth’ll be on hand for the Dallas) has postponed 30 or so concert dates after June 26,…
35 Denton can’t stop festing. Now they’re throwing an end-of-summer party, September 1 at North Texas Fairgrounds, called The Hot Wet Mess. I’m assuming that means there will be water-related activities in addition to bands, not drunken bouts of crying. Or slime. You can buy presale tickets here. Lineup will…
LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known onstage as Donna Summer, passed away today in Florida, after a lengthy battle with cancer. The singer paired with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder for one of her biggest hits, “Love To Love You Baby,” known for its effusively climatic finale, and was lumped into the disco…
Wildflower! FestivalFriday – Sunday, at Galatyn Park, RichardsonThere’s a pretty long list of well-known performers at Wildflower! Festival this year. Friday’s headliner is Nelly, who will be joined by The Commodores and a handful of local acts, including The King Bucks. Saturday will have Dashboard Confessional, Augustana, Joe Walsh and…
The third annual Homegrown Fest is fast approaching on May 26, and we’ve got some tickets we want to throw your way. Here’s the question: Homegrown performer Hayes Carll has covered a song by which universally divisive singer? Hit us here and we’ll give away two pairs of tickets by…
Drake Gexa Energy Pavilion Wednesday, May 16 Q: How Many Writers Does It Take To Review a Drake Concert? In the span of Drake’s set last night, I felt alternately excited, flummoxed and bored, which is sort of the trajectory of the first month or so of a doomed relationship,…
When the Christian rock band Stryper first emerged in 1983, many people thought they were both a marketing ploy and tasteless joke. After 1986’s To Hell With the Devil sold over two million copies, so-called Christian bands started popping up everywhere. Somehow, brothers Michael and Robert Sweet have kept some…
Chris Jeffers, the subject of this week’s music feature story, is a quote machine. It’s tough to translate his enthusiasm to written word. Raspy sentences pour out of him like grand statements.I asked if I could follow him around for a day a few weeks back, and he politely obliged…
Todd Barry isn’t a musician by trade, but he’s alive at a time when music and comedy have become increasingly compatible, and the line between music and stand-up venues has been erased. Parade of Flesh has started the trend locally, bringing Barry to the historic Deep Ellum venue, followed by…
I’m sure even Yann Tiersen is tired of being known as “that guy who did the soundtrack to Amelie.” Beyond that film, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist has a vast catalog that stretches back to the mid-’90s, and his ear for intricately wound sounds permeates his latest album, Skyline, which…
This year marks the 20th year for Richardson’s Wildflower! Art & Music Festival, and lineups from fests past have always offered something from every decade and genre. A couple artists stand out this year: Friday has ’70s funk icons Chic, St. Louis rapper Nelly and Motown legends The Commodores. Saturday’s…
Pour some out for Denton’s revered venue, which is now almost old enough to drive, even though it started smoking and drinking when it was, like, seven. Slobberbone, Chris Flemmons, Dove Hunter, Pinkish Black, Year of the Bear, Occult Detective Club, Akkolyte, Bad Design, Code Talkers and Banos y Banos…
