Music

Speaking of both Play-N-Skillz and Dirk, we’d heard on Friday that the hip-hop production duo was working on a track about the Mavericks and their NBA Finals victory. This morning, the brother Salinas formally released the track, called “Victory,” no doubt a reference to both the championship and the part…

In the late ’90s and early aughts, there were a handful of Dallas bands that made a big splash locally, and a slightly smaller splash nationally. Today’s edition of This Week In Dallas Music History focuses on one such act — Lewis, whose brief three-year run saw the band release…

The Polyphonic Spree played a free show at the Dallas Museum of Art on Friday night, and, as expected given all that the band and their related entities have going on these days, the band debuted some new material. Clad in white robes, the band performed a new song called…

Last year’s trippy Electric Daisy Carnival did so well that it will be back for a second time in Dallas on Saturday night in Fair Park. This year’s headliners are DJs Paul Van Dyk and Diplo, along with a couple dozen other artists who will, just like last year, keep…

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday’s NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route — and in the sweltering heat, no less — there were only five arrests. By contrast, Vancouver…

Back on Monday night, Norah Jones performed as part of the 2011 Webby Awards Gala in New York City. Why? Well, we’re not so sure. But, hey, a nice performance nonetheless — she covered Johnny Cash’s “Ain’t No Grave” with the help of a backing band and some superbly art…

The heat was indeed sweltering as The Naptime Shake’s Noah W. Bailey and Chris Mayes tuned their instruments on the AT&T Performing Arts Center patio yesterday afternoon.  “We’re gonna play the slow, lazy version of our songs,” said Naptime Shake steel guitarist Chris Mayes. “‘Cause it’s hot. And we’re lazy.” …

Those guys in Sundress are pretty talented dudes, ain’t they? They really are — and not just on the music front. Guitarist Kennon Talley, who also plays in Western Giants, is the man behind the above image that promotes his band’s show on the all-Denton bill of Sam Robertson, The…

Speaking of albums produced by Matt Pence: The Denton dreamscapers in Sundress have a new album on the way — their “debut” EP, if you’re pretending that their 2010 EP, Fever, never happened, which the band apparently is doing. The six-track self-titled affair won’t be out until August, though. But…

Centro-matic has long been a jewel of the local music scene — and emphasis on long, as the band’s been around since 1996.That year was when main man Will Johnson — fresh out of Funland — released Centro-matic’s debut album, Redo the Stacks, recording each and every instrument on his…

After going on Letterman last night to talk about their win, their potential new Kardashian boos and their very dirty habit of licking the Larry O’Brien Trophy, the Mavericks paraded around Dallas today like the champs they are and ended up at the American Airlines Center. There, they hosted their…

Today would have been iconic rap artist Tupac Shakur’s 40th birthday. He was just 25 years old when he was shot and killed in Las Vegas in September of 1996. To celebrate the rapper — a fixture of the early ’90s and one of the most talented emcees to ever…

I’m starting to think the whole ’80s retro thing has run its course. We’ve seen plenty of it in recent memory, and now Katy Perry’s latest single “Last Friday Night” is the latest attempt to pull at your nostalgic side — while referencing, of course, to the ABC sitcom block…

If you were to make a short list of the greatest bass players of all time, Bootsy Collins would surely be included. After firing his backing band in the late ’60s, James Brown hired Collins and his brother Catfish’s band, the Pacemakers, to back him up. Collins later became a…