Something happens when Emmylou Harris sings. Sure, we can get into her history — best-selling singer, one-time girlfriend of Gram Parsons, genre-expanding country artist — or we could talk about her voice, which reaches your soul like a healing salve. Hyperbole? Not to me. Emmylou is playing Fort Worth, as…
I’ve long held the belief that Fred and Toody Cole are music’s most inspiring couple. In previous band Dead Moon, their music never really veered from its pure punk base, and existed across more than a dozen albums. Pierced Arrows aren’t much different, save for a new drummer, and continue…
QuikTrip Park was the site of Dayglow, the “paint rave” I attended a couple months ago, and I’m still finding evidence on my purse. The same young crowd will no doubt attend this electronic/DJ mass, featuring local favorites Pretty Lights, as well as Passion Pit, Steve Agnello, Sander Van Doorn,…
This has been a pretty great spring for touring acts in Dallas, but there hasn’t been much that makes you want to dance. That will change when NYC’s Santi White, aka Santigold, takes the stage at House of Blues. Four years after her debut Santogold spawned “Creator” and “L.E.S. Artistes,”…
Local act Caterpillars won’t play their next show until July 20 at the Crown and Harp, but until then, they have a new record to finish. They took some time out at the Double Wide a few weeks ago and discussed what they’re up to, their first musical obsessions, and…
When I finally set foot in Main Street Garden Park on Saturday afternoon, I knew what Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence was talking about. The strip of downtown green is beautiful, well-designed and forces interaction, like any good, walkable park should. Looking up at the old Grand Hotel, which shadowed…
Teenage Cool Kids, Beth Israel, Adult Books, Hot Times Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios Sunday, May 27 What happened Sunday night at Rubber Gloves was a pretty unique moment, almost a family reunion of sorts. The bill was full of familiar faces and borrowed band members, which is appropriate for a…
Turnpike Troubadours Granada Theater Friday, May 25 Friday night, Oklahoma’s Turnpike Troubadours and El Paso quarter the Dirty River Boys turned in a ferocious one-two punch that floored not only the packed lower level of the Granada Theater, but proved the newest generation of country and roots music is solid,…
Let the wild rumpus begin, Dallas. You had a buzzing, humming, sexy weekend of music. Like, a real luxury yacht of fiery shows. There’s more to come to this summer, of course, with KXT’s Summer Cut up next weekend (Mmm…Flaming Lips). Somewhere in the crowds for Homegrown Fest, FLOAT, The…
Urgh! A Music War exists as one of those concert films that could never be replicated today. Filmed in London and Los Angeles in 1980 and released in 1982, it was bankrolled by Miles Copeland, brother of Police drummer Stewart and founder of I.R.S. Records, and thus includes opening and…
Black Joe Lewis, Hayes Carll, Ben Kweller, Eisley, Centro-matic, Octopus Project, Robert Ellis, Mystery Skulls, Bright Light Social Hour, Ume, Mohicans, Girl in a Coma, Low Dark Hills, the Bird Dogs and Madisons hit downtown and represent Austin, Houston and Dallas. See this week’s music feature for more with organizer…
The other day a press release landed in my inbox announcing the Dallas appearance of Montreal trio Plants and Animals, who are touring in support of their new album, The End of That. It turns out this is the trio’s third full-length release, and they’ve opened for bands like The…
Since it is fest season, Allen’s getting in on the act with its first blues festival, and the lineup is packing some serious heat. The Robert Cray Band is a must-see for fans of Southern blues, as is Texas saint Jimmie Vaughan. Funk-soul powerhouse Robert Randolph & the Family Band,…
With lyricist and frontman Andrew Savage now in New York City, focusing his musical efforts on Fergus & Geronimo and Parquet Courts, Teenage Cool Kids return to Denton for what is being billed as the band’s “last Denton show.” For the unfamiliar, the act recorded two of the best local…
If you regularly go to LaGrange, Single Wide or Double Wide, you’ve seen a member of the quintet Dead Flowers. Earlier in the year, frontman Corey Howe was the opening act for The Revival Tour’s stop at Trees, playing alongside Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan, Alkaline Trio’s Dan Andriano, and…
M83Granada TheaterSunday, May 20There was a lot of walking involved to see M83 perform their second show of a two-night stand at the Granada Theater. A long walk from the distant parking space. A long walk around the venue trying to find a place to stand (nearly impossible). A walk…
Wildflower! Festival Galatyn Park Friday, May 18 The modern music festival exists as three very distinct types: The mega-fests put on by corporations, which bring together some of the world’s biggest acts and are able to cut huge checks so bands can reunite (ACL, Coachella); the righteous upstarts that bring…
Rubber Gloves 15th Anniversary Rubber Gloves Saturday, May 19 Ah, Rubber Gloves. I’ve been going to shows there since 2000, and it still has the most disgusting bathroom in all the land. But it’s also home to some of my favorite memories, from the packed chaos of a Riverboat Gamblers…
Drake Gexa Energy Pavilion Wednesday, May 16 Q: How Many Writers Does It Take To Review a Drake Concert? In the span of Drake’s set last night, I felt alternately excited, flummoxed and bored, which is sort of the trajectory of the first month or so of a doomed relationship,…
Todd Barry isn’t a musician by trade, but he’s alive at a time when music and comedy have become increasingly compatible, and the line between music and stand-up venues has been erased. Parade of Flesh has started the trend locally, bringing Barry to the historic Deep Ellum venue, followed by…
I’m sure even Yann Tiersen is tired of being known as “that guy who did the soundtrack to Amelie.” Beyond that film, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist has a vast catalog that stretches back to the mid-’90s, and his ear for intricately wound sounds permeates his latest album, Skyline, which…
This year marks the 20th year for Richardson’s Wildflower! Art & Music Festival, and lineups from fests past have always offered something from every decade and genre. A couple artists stand out this year: Friday has ’70s funk icons Chic, St. Louis rapper Nelly and Motown legends The Commodores. Saturday’s…
