The Polyphonic Spree’s album release show at The Granada starts in seven minutes, and there is no water in the refrigerator backstage. A couple members of the choir ask band manager Chris Penn where the water bottles are. Penn asks Granada Backstage Manager Wes McIntyre. McIntyre says he just filled…
The Melvins | Honky Trees Saturday, August 10, 2013 Sometimes you’ve just got to stand right at the front, in the middle. Especially when there’s two drum kits, both slightly angled in, so if you stand in the right place they’re like terrifying speakers positioned exactly for your benefit. Only…
Whether you’re in the mood to bounce around with the shiny, happy people of The Polyphonic Spree, or get your eardrums blasted by The Melvins’ dual drummers this week has a little bit of everything for Dallas music fans. Saturday is especially packed with options for your ear holes: Denton…
Just as the doors opened at Dada last night, True Widow bass player Nicole Estill pulled up in a pick-up truck with the band’s drum kit in the back. This was a night for Texas music. The band, Dallas’ latest band to hit it big after serious publicity from NPR…
This week in show announcements has excited music fans of all kinds. The second half of 2013 is shaping up to be jam-packed with quality live music in Dallas. When it’s time to hop up off that pool float, and the margarita machine has run dry, grab a Red Bull…
The clumsily titled Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival swept into the Gexa for the last date on its cross-country metal bandwagon, and once more metal was ordained by the corporate gods on a day that didn’t so much swelter as annihilate. The sun beat down like a double-pedal to the head…
There were a lot of music festivals in Dallas this weekend. Most of them could have happened anywhere — did happen in many other places, in fact. But not Cooler-N-Hell Fest. Set at The Ewing Family Ranch and named after a Ray Wylie Hubbard song, Cooler-N-Hell Fest was a distinctly…
Update, 8/2, 11:45: The general on-sale begins in 15 minutes, at noon. You will have minutes or possibly seconds, not hours, so get that browser ready and pointed at either the NMH web site or Spune’s. Update, 8/1: The presale is live now through Crowdsurge. There are no codes or…
B L A C K I E | Zorch Good Records August 1, 2013 “Giant surprise/we are lizards disguised/and we’re controlling your lives/with trilateral spies.” It would almost come as no surprise if Zorch were indeed our alien overlords, as they catchily reveal at the end of new track “Zut…
So who’s ready for B L A C K I E to scare some people at Good Records today? We certainly can’t wait. If you weren’t already going (to this one or the show tomorrow at Macaroni Island in Denton), please read the great Shea Serrano’s excellent profile of the…
The age old dilemma of having one band on the bill you (kind of, sort of, used to) like and one you (pretty much) hate was thrust upon me Wednesday night at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Back in the early ’90s, I found the Goo Goo Dolls to have that same…
As far as concert promoters are concerned, Summer 2013 has come and gone. Fall show announcements are upon us, and before we can even get through ACL, we’re bombarded with a fresh crop of show announcements that will hit us in the pocketbooks right before the holiday season. Still, though,…
Friday night fans who made the social media cut gathered at Prophet Bar for Red Bull Sound Select’s first Dallas show. The company has paired emerging artists with headliners to present free shows for those who share their desire to attend on varying social media platforms. Expect more like this…
Dillinger Escape Plan House of Blues July 26, 2013 The Dillinger Escape Plan are the best live band around right now. I’m putting that right out there straight away, because I believe it to be true. There is nothing to match their intensity, their musicianship, the sheer magnetism they create…
Seeing both Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker on the same bill was a perplexing experience. On the one hand, it was two of my favorite bands, each one responsible for a (different) decade’s worth of quality alternative rock. On the other hand, since David Lowery fronts both bands, the show…
Raw and Underground event organizer AV The Great isn’t the least bit shy about proclaiming his freestyle battle and beat competition being the “best representation of the Dallas hip-hop scene.” In fact, in the spirit of rap battles and DJ swagger, he’s not the least bit shy about anything. “This…
Joel Salazar is well-known in Dallas hip-hop, from his early days MCing at the now-closed Royal Rack on Lower Greenville to his current role as co-producer of We From Dallas, the upcoming documentary about the history of Dallas hip-hop. And the founder of the newly formed Too Fresh Productions (he’s…
It’s always sad seeing a good bar or venue close its doors. This week we’re losing Zubar, a Greenville Avenue bar that has hosted a lot of great DJ residencies and some pretty phenomenal reggae, house and hip-hop sets in its nearly 17-year span. On the bright side, they’re throwing…
This week brought some pretty promising show announcements, so scroll down to see what’s coming through DFW soon. See also: – “Canned Festival, a New Music Fest from the Makers of Untapped, Coming to Downtown Denton”…
Last year, the teaser trailer for Filmage debuted to much acclaim. Looking back at the career of The Descendents (including the formation of All when frontman Milo Aukerman left the band), local filmmakers Matt Riggle, Deedle LaCour, Justin Wilson and James Rayburn have documented something that many punk rock fans…
Monday night, I went to a One Direction concert with my daughter. “What is One Direction?” you blessed, fortunate, blissfully unaware life-livers ask? One Direction is a highly publicized group of styled boys who gather on stage and say words into very powerful microphones to thousands upon thousands of young…
Last night, 20,000-plus fans and their parents filled the American Airlines Center to witness the world’s biggest boy band take their victory lap after almost three years of steady fan-base-building. It would be easy to talk about One Direction as a study on how watered-down pop music has become, and…
