Music

Speaking of new music videos and, uh, fetishes, the biggest rapper going in Dallas released a new music video this weekend for the song “Hood Chick Fetish,” from his Gangsta Grillz mixtape and, one assumes, from his upcoming sophomore release, Get Big, from which we’ve already seen the title track…

It’s been a couple months since Sore Losers offered up an epic set at what was then The Lounge on Elm Street, exuberantly performing to a packed room. And if you weren’t there–or you somehow didn’t hear–the duo raised the bar on their already excellent stage show by performing their…

Seems there’s more to Erykah Badu and Rick Ross’ relationship than Badu simply providing the hook for Ross’ “Maybach Music III,” after all: Seems the Dallas singer and Florida rapper have teamed up for another project, this time a remix of Badu’s “Window Seat.” And, already, they’ve got a music…

Dallas has seen many bands come and go. Some put out records that generated a lot of hype, but ultimately were forgotten. Some released albums that defined our music scene and still stand up today. Pleasant Grove is an example of the latter, and their crowning achievement is their album,…

Dance Your Face Off! creator and promoter, Mikey Rodge, hasn’t been DJing for long. The party-promoter first dabbled in playing tracks two years ago when he decided he’d like to take a shot at some behind-the-booth action. Despite an unsuccessful first attempt, Mikey Rodge kept at it, and eventually graduated…

Take it from someone who’s been there: DJs have great power if they do their job right. They can get people to shake, sweat, and pick invisible apples. But I can’t remember ever getting people in the crowd to fall in love. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to get back…

Around this same time last year, The Von Ehrics released Loaded, the band’s third and best effort to date. Filled with actual alt-country hooks to go along with the typical punk roar, Loaded sounded like a hybrid of The Goo Goo Dolls (when that band had something) and Slobberbone. Now…

Saturday night’s kind of crazy-filled with shows from locals-done-good: There’s the Toadies (with support from The House Harkonnen and The Burning Hotels) celebrating Feeler at the Palladium; there’s Pleasant Grove (with support from Mike Graff and Derek Rogers) at the Kessler; and then there’s a little show going on at…

The above 102-second clip from Kanye West, touting the sometimes-controversial, but generally all-kinds-of-awesome rapper’s new Symbolyc One-produced single made its debut on MTV last night–to massive results, blowing up all over the Internet within moments of its airing and spilling over quite nicely into conversational pieces this morning.It’s a “moving…

Pleasant Grove will be at The Kessler in Oak Cliff Saturday for a very special performance. Not only is it a rare (reunion?) show for the band that for years has been either broken up or on the verge of breakup, depending on who you ask, but they’ll be performing…

Is it a cop out to pick a winning poster that a) isn’t for a local show, and b) won’t be taking place for another three months? On both counts: Probably. But, folks, it was a weak week for submissions. And the above design met our biggest criteria when judging…

Last month, we pointed you in the direction of Cali Swag District’s big hit “Teach Me How To Dougie,” a song that references the D-Town Boogie movement and, specifically, Lil Wil’s “My Dougie.” Seemed a rather innocuous song to us. If anything, we figured, it seemed a nice little shout-out…

Canada’s The Cliks has been through quite a few changes in the band’s relatively brief six-year existence. Lucas Silveira, one of rock’s few transgendered frontpersons, has twice broken up the band, once in 2005 and again in 2009. Silveira is a perfectionist who admits to being difficult to work with.All…