The end of the school year isn’t supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be about exams, final papers and stressing over passing your classes. But not for the students in El Centro Community College’s Hip Hop Studies 101 course. No, for them it means hosting their own hip hop…
Boom 94.5 FM Hip-Hop Meets Zydeco and the Blues Festival With Bun B, Mystikal, Juvenile, Fair Park, Dallas Saturday, May 2, 2015 It may have been Mystikal who put things best on Saturday: “To all the youngins who don’t know me,” he said, “ya mamma know me. Ya auntie know…
This week is a great one — so much so, in fact, that you’ve gotta make some choices. Homegrown brings Spoon downtown with the Old 97’s and more. Lana Del Rey plays a show with Courtney Love (yes, we know it’s a bit strange) at Gexa. The Jesus and Mary…
Dwight Yoakam Gas Monkey Live May 1, 2015 Whether it’s a response to the filth that fills radio airwaves or just general nostalgia, country music from the 1990s is very much making a place for itself in the genre’s modern iteration. Comebacks from Reba McEntire, Lee Ann Womack and Shania…
It looks like a good weekend for some live music. Reptar hits sons of Hermann Hall with our favorite high school band, the Azalea Project. Yellowcard takes us to Ocean Ave at Gas Monkey. Dwight Yoakam is sure to set Gas Monkey Live ablaze. IAMSU! does Trees with Atlanta’s Rome…
Iron & Wine With Gregory Alan Isakov Granada Theater, Dallas Tuesday, April 28, 2015 As sure as I am breathing, Sam Beam — aka Iron & Wine — is right now feeling mighty good about the city of Dallas. A sold-out show with an audience that was both respectful and…
Hear ye, hear ye! D’angelo is coming to The Bomb Factory in June. Do you hear us? D’Angelo is coming to The Bomb Factory! Holy shit. What would you do for a ticket? Would you enter The Hunger Games: Second Coming Tour Ticket Edition? I would do this, just to…
Vice Palace One-Year Anniversary Party With iill, Lily Taylor, Rat Rios, $kaduf, Orgullo Primitivo and Tony Q and Plain Jane Francis. Oak Cliff, Dallas Saturday, April 25, 2015 It has been a helluva year for Art Peña. From the opening of Vice Palace last April to having it nominated for…
Music blogs are so 2007, but no one’s told that to Gorilla Vs. Bear. The Dallas-based blog is one of the few of its kind from the boom of the early 2000s, and if anything it looks like founder Chris Cantalini is making a push to expand in 2015 as…
Dan Deacon With Prince Rama, Ben O’Brien and Party Static Trees, Dallas Saturday, April 25, 2015 To celebrate the first anniversary of Do214 on Saturday night at Trees, Dan Deacon came out using Steely Dan as entrance music and appreciated the curtains enough to have them ceremoniously closed and reopened…
It’s a great time to be alive and attending concerts in Dallas. This coming week is especially stacked, and we’re excited for you to go to as many of theses shows as possible. Unless you have an Apple Watch, then we hope you fall into quicksand and sink to the…
Peter Hook and the Light Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, April 24, 2015 Start with the obvious: Joy Division and the subsequent New Order have been and continue to be a big part of the soundtrack to many lives. Sadly, both bands have suffered a catastrophic loss. The 1980 suicide of…
Well, we’ve got another great weekend on our hands. Dan Deacon and Lee Fields help Do214 celebrate one year. Lily Taylor, iill, Rat Rios, $kaduf, Tony Q and Plain Jane help Vice Palace celebrate its one-year anniversary as well. The Denton Arts & Jazz Fest comes back around. Matt &…
Seems like Art Peña is having one hell of a week. Yesterday we reported that he’s going to get $5,000 from the city of Dallas to start his own record label. That, as it turns up, is merely a bonus to the party that he’s throwing this weekend in honor…
Waxahatchee With the Goodbye Party and Mimisku Rubber Gloves, Denton Wednesday, April 22, 2015 There is no better way to see a band. Especially this band, and especially right now. At Rubber Gloves in Denton last night, Waxahatchee — the vehicle of Philadelphia singer/songwriter Katie Crutchfield — transformed their directionless…
Father John Misty With Luluc April 22, 2015 Granada Theater Whatever it is that you think about Joshua Tillman, or J. Tillman, or Father John Misty as he is calling himself these days, you have to acknowledge that he’s an incredibly talented guy. He undoubtedly has an unshakeable ego, has…
The Academy of Country Music Awards AT&T Stadium, Arlington Sunday, April 19, 2015 After an entire weekend of country music, last night’s 50th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards is easily the biggest music event (or series of events, as it were) that has ever happened in Dallas-Fort Worth. Or…
The ACM Awards’ Superstar Duets Globe Life Park, Arlington Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2015 After two beautiful days of sunshine and perfect Texas spring temperatures, things were really looking up as some of the genre’s biggest acts came together for the Academy of Country Music’s pre-awards extravaganza…
Just another week in good ole Dallas, which of course means a new slate of shows to check out. Vice Palace celebrates its one year anniversary as does Do214. Pitbull does the casino show in Oklahoma, Caitlin Rose (a former Dallasite) hits Dan’s in Denton and Father John Misty does…
For girls of a certain age — God, I guess we’re grown-up women now — Sleater-Kinney was an initial introduction into both punk rock and feminist ideology. As we listened to the tunes from their self-titled debut and The Woods, we were subconsciously absorbing the idea that women can be…
This week looks like a very fruitful one in terms of shows. First and foremost, there’s a ton of Record Store Day stuff happening with a gajillion bands and DJs sharing their love of music. Curren$y has a 4/20-eve show at South Side Ballroom where the clock is sure to…
Amanda Fucking Palmer Granada Theater, Dallas Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Amanda Palmer — or, to give her proper billing, Amanda Fucking Palmer — is about to be a mother. When she played Granda Theater last night, it was a special occasion not only because it was her first Dallas appearance…
