Bonus MP3: Ronnie Fauss — “To Ease My Mind”

In a region filled to the PBR-soaked brim with alt-country talent, there’s much to be said for an artist that manages to stand out above the crowd. Take, for a killer example, East Dallas’ Ronnie Fauss. He’s been on a serious roll lately, and has displayed a deft and delicate…

Tum Tum’s Latest Mixtape Is Smoking.

It started, just like so many of his ideas, in a moment of drug-induced inspiration. A staple in these parts since the release of his 2006 ode to not-quite-classic cars, “Caprice Muzik,” which put both him and, effectively, the entire Dallas hip-hop movement onto the national map, Tum Tum wanted…

Leon Russell

Leon Russell and the Abominable Snowman appear to have a lot in common. Both are legendary. Then too, there’s that physical similarity—Russell’s flowing white hair and massive beard find him a dead ringer for that reclusive creature. More important, sightings of each are relatively rare. Russell’s low profile contrasts with…

Crystal Castles, Mr. Kitty

Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have been making music together as Crystal Castles for five years now, and their eponymous debut album hit the indie music scene hard. The band had sampled tracks from other semi-off-the-radar musicians at the time, such as fellow Canadian dance-rock act Death From Above 1979…

Autolux Gets Back on Track

Some artists are so good they get in their own way. And sometimes the world and events just conspire against them. Los Angeles-based trio Autolux might be the poster child for these cruel realities. Evidence? How about the time in 2002 that drummer Carla Azar crushed her elbow in a…

Patrick Park Faces the Realities of Television

Once upon a recent time, musicians weren’t able to offer up their art for the sake of commercialization—not, at least, without suffering the burn of the scarlet “sell-out” label. Now, though, with bands seeking new avenues in which to keep their artful hopes alive, the practical decision to craft a…

Dave Matthews Band, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

It’s very chic for connoisseurs of “cool” music to trash the Dave Matthews Band. Yes, they crank out jammy songs that tend to be indistinguishable from one another. Yes, they’re so prolific they come off as annoyingly ubiquitous. And, absolutely, they attract inebriated throngs of former Greek-system undergrads to their…

The Symbolyc One Powers The New The Social Network Spot–But He’s Not The Only Area Musician Involved in the Facebook Film.

If you’ve been paying attention, then you’ve long known that Dallas’ own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West’s inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling “Power.” And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track–it’s currently being used in the as-seen-above-and-on-TV advertisement for…

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s 2010 album Beat The Devil’s Tattoo isn’t quite as popular as their previous efforts, but they still have some pretty big tour plans in support of the disk, including a few Texas dates with Stone Temple Pilots. Initially, though, the band wasn’t coming to Dallas.Lucky for…