When he opened for Nicki Minaj back at the end of July, at Verizon Theatre, Atlanta’s 2 Chainz put on a ferocious set, including doubled-down tracks from his new album, Based on a T.R.U. Story. And then he left the stage on a Segway. That’s just the sort of anti-baller…
Riot Fest, a Chicago-based event in years past, is expanding into Dallas for the first time, and judging by the lineup, this is more of what the Warped Tour should be. You’re not going to find phony boy bands dressed up in Hot Topic gear with sleeve tats. Instead, the…
This weekend, Houston’s Venomous Maximus will bring the metal to the mostly punk Riot Fest, featuring Rise Against, the Descendents and more. Sonic brothers with Dallas’ own Maleveller, we talked about dubbed cassettes, worst show experiences, and what their parents think of their music. Venomous Maximus was described to me…
Uproar Festival Gexa Energy Pavilion Sunday, September 16 See also: The tattooed fans of Uproar Festival “Buttrock: a term to identify a band trademarked with cheap, unoriginal song lyrics; the vocalist hiding his lack of vocal talent by producing a deep and ‘raspy’ voice (i.e. Nickelback, Creed)” – Urban Dictionary…
The Relatives, Pleasant Grove, Seryn Dallas City Performance Hall Friday, September 14 See also: More behind-the-scenes photos from opening night There was a moment backstage at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Friday night, when we were being led stage left before the 10 p.m. show started. We got a…
Mission of Burma, The Gary, Shiny Around the Edges Dan’s Silverleaf Friday, September 14 Mission of Burma’s1982 album, Vs., is a classic, but they’ve now reached a unique tipping point. Their output since 2002’s reunion has surpassed that of when they were initially active in the early ’80s, and the…
It’s been a little while since we’ve had any transmissions — live, vinyl or otherwise — from locals PVC Street Gang. Never fear: The group is launching a new 7-inch of punk-rock party-times music from Good Records’ Astroturf, assisted by Denton trio Curvette. Starts at 7 p.m. There will be…
Earlier this year, KXT, The Kessler and the Observer formed like Voltron to bring you the Triple Play series, which brought together emerging artists from Dallas, Denton and Fort Worth. After a bit of summer hibernation, the series is back, with a new home. The grand opening of the Dallas…
Arguably the finest extant ’80s underground rock act to return to service, Boston’s Mission of Burma were never particularly popular beyond the cognoscenti, and their comeback shows weren’t mobbed like those of the Pixies. But where Black Francis & Co. will never be anything more than a nostalgia act, MoB…
Swans’ February 2011 show at Mohawk remains one of the best shows I’ve seen in the last five years. Seeing Michael Gira and the rest of his retrofitted band warming up their engine again, after close to 15 years of inactivity, was a sight to behold. The slow-building, majestic volume…
In the current issue of Lone Star Music Magazine, The Departed’s primary lead singer, Cody Canada, described his band’s upcoming album, Adventis, as “the fastest moving project I’ve been a part of in a long time.” Given this album will be the first collection of original material for the band…
Check out this week’s North of the Dial column for more on Denton’s new house show venue, which is the noodly brainchild of Gutterth Records’ Michael Briggs. Fishboy and New Science Projects join touring acts James Rabbit and Iji for this inaugural show, which will hopefully break in the floorboards…
See also: A not-so-vulgar discussion of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power Next Tuesday, Phil Anselmo comes back to Dallas with Down, to play a show that was originally planned for the Ridglea Theater, but has now moved to Trees. Anselmo talked about the first show he played, how he befriended…
Hall & Oates Allen Event Center Monday, September 10 See also: The fans of Hall & Oates A couple of years ago, I did an experiment in the offices of another paper I worked for. I took out the Hall & Oates box set, Do What You Want Be What…
Turquoise Jeep Dada Friday, September 7 I don’t really like musical comedy. I appreciate the humor and a great comedian may be the nimblest of cultural painters, but even if I enjoy the joke, I am not going to play the music at a party or listen to it apart…
Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Brain Gang Blue, -topic, A.Dd+, Mohicans, Dre Marley The Door Friday, September 7 L.A. emcee Jay Rock took the stage Friday night following a downsized roster of homegrown artists, and established hype I’ve witnessed only from his Top Dawg Entertainment peer, Kendrick Lamar. While most emcees take…
See also: The people of Untapped Festival Listen: Dallas, Texas has become unstuck in time. At least that’s how it felt in the short break between the shot glass full of beer and the guy in front of me wearing a Vonnegut jersey that bore the number five. That’s a…
Nashville’s Daniel Pujol brings his project to town behind June’s Saddle Creek full-length, United States of Being, an album loaded with the three-chord new-wave punk that’s been Nashville’s calling card in the last few years. Supporting is local revolving door act Soviet, who shook up their lineup recently and, after…
You know those great Southern rock songs that make you crank up the volume and take your hands off the wheel for some air guitar or dashboard drumming? Quaker City Night Hawks have those songs in spades, except you haven’t already heard them a thousand times on the classic rock…
The big room over at the Prophet Bar has seen a Top Dawg Entertainment takeover in the form of Schoolboy Q and his packed performance back in June. Now, two more of TDE’s finest hit the stage, courtesy of Coffee Music Hub. California emcees Ab-Soul and Jay Rock headline the…
An Ariel Pink show is always exciting, mainly because you never know if the L.A. singer will go off the rails or spiral into some nonsensical glass case of emotion while performing. With a backing band, The Haunted Graffiti, in tow for the last few years, he’s straightened himself out,…
After Hospice, a concept album that chronicled the death of a woman from terminal bone cancer, it was hard to imagine The Antlers releasing an album as dark. No worries: The Brooklyn group followed it up with Burst Apart, which has a song called “Putting the Dog to Sleep,” and…
