On the second Tuesday of every month at Double Wide, Brad Sigler slips into his DJ Dead Wax alias to spin the finest in country, rockabilly, western swing and Americana. Sigler only started deejaying in bars a few years ago, but he has roots as a radio DJ that go all…
Denizens of goth and industrial communities are preparing to descend upon Dallas this weekend. A seminal goth festival, Convergence, is being hosted here for the first time in its 23-year history. The Convergence festival got its start on online forums in the early ’90s, enabling members of the subculture to…
Deep Ellum fixture Bob Crawford — better known as “Keyboard Bob” or “Deep Ellum Bob” — is in the hospital. He’ll be at Walnut Hill Medical Center for at least week, recuperating from an undisclosed surgery. At 67, the short, silver-haired iconoclast can often be found walking around Elm Street…
In March, when wildfires ravaged more than a million acres across Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas, Plano restaurant and bar Love & War in Texas quickly lent a hand to the families who lost property, livestock and loved ones. Now it has partnered with country musician Gary P. Nunn, a native of…
Gabe Reed opened the door to the house he shares with his daughter, grandchild and a couple of younger roommates in a middle-class neighborhood on the east side of McKinney. The modest house on Legend Drive is a far cry from the mansion, yacht and expensive sports cars and motorcycle…
There are some old traditions at baseball parks: Singing anthems, eating hotdogs, overpaying for beer. There are some new traditions as well, including keeping an ear peeled for a player’s walkup song, the tune that plays when he takes the plate. Globe Life Park in Arlington is no exception to this …
As a high school senior, Josh Fleming hoped that in 10 years he would miss his class reunion because he’d be on tour. This year, Fleming’s wish comes true: When the reunion takes place this spring, he’ll be on tour with Vandoliers, the six-piece country band he fronts. But now…
Though no new concert listings came from the big-ticket venues this week, there was much news elsewhere. It was a big week of show announcements for fans of post-punk, indie rock and singer-songwriters, as some recognizable faces and some new innovators are making their way to area stages. Lots of…
The video for “Bad Baby,” the propulsive title track and first single off of North Texas musician Sarah Jaffeis an audio-visual scrapbook of what Jaffe describes as the album’s connective tissue: collaboration. L.A.-based photographer Lindsey Byrnes shot the photos of Jaffe in New York and art director John Lisle, a…
The Deep Ellum Foundation is taking a new step this weekend to combat crime in the neighborhood. Ten off-duty Dallas Police officers will be working 20 shifts on Friday and Saturday nights in Deep Ellum, and private security officers will serve as a deterrent to crime during weekdays and on…
Most people quit their vices the day after Fat Tuesday. But John Jay Myers, frontman of jazz band The Free Loaders and owner of Cajun restaurant The Free Man, isn’t most people. “Right before Fat Tuesday I thought that I’d had enough,” he says from a dingy couch in the…
The downtempo, contemporary R&B music on Larce Blake’s new EP invokes calm, a fitting sound for the 22-year-old producer,. He says he’s at peace now that he’s finally found the time to release new music. Blake is a full-time student at the University of Texas at Dallas majoring in mathematics,…
After three years of construction, a new 17-block entertainment district in Las Colinas finally has an opening date. The centerpiece, simply called the Pavilion, will be one of the largest and most high-tech venues in Dallas-Fort Worth when it opens Sept. 1. Local bookers and musicians say it could result in…
Dance music genres go in and out of fashion, but drum and bass has continually defied the odds to remain relevant. Two:Tone Crew ahem done the same. They’ve provided a consistent platform for drum and bass music at their Thursday night residency at Wit’s End, where they regularly host…
Steve Aoki has been an icon in EDM for over two decades, as an artist, a promoter and a label executive. He’s also had plenty of critics, who’ve accused him of being a champagne-spraying, cake-throwing showman first and a DJ second. But what’s never been called into question is his…
Tripping Daisy play Club Dada on Thursday, May 11 and Homegrown Festival on Saturday, May 13 By now you’ve heard that after 18 years apart, Tripping Daisy are reuniting for six shows this year: the first at Club Dada this Thursday, and the second at Homegrown Fest on Saturday. But…
The past week has been a busy one for Dallas concert announcements. The Bomb Factory continues to bolster its schedule for the year; a popular television series is bringing some cast members to town; Trees will host a pair of thundering guitar acts; a group of emo torchbearers are returning;…
If you’re still looking for Cinco de Mayo plans, the fifth annual JMBLYA fits the bill. The one-day music festival features a strong lineup of hip-hop, dance and rap, headlined by Chance the Rapper. The Chicago native’s career has only grown since his last visit to Dallas in October. At…
Robert Taylor has been a key figure in the Dallas DJ scene since the 1990s. As one of the core members of the legendary Hazy Daze Collective, he helped set the bar for underground dance parties. Then he went on to a fruitful partnership with DJ Red Eye as Cold…
The New Pornographers play Friday, May 5, at Granada Theater The New Pornographers have been making power pop for two decades. Oddly, guitarist, vocalist and frontman Carl “A.C.” Newman attributes the longevity of the band to the fact that many of its members have other succesful projects that take time…
“Some people are driven to compete and others aren’t,” says Dr. Pamela Mia Paul, the regents professor of piano at the University of North Texas College of Music, says of graduate student Baolong Zhang. The graduate artist certificate student at the University of North Texas in the College of Music,…
In March, 2014 Mathew Vickers flipped his Scion four times, ejected from the vehicle. He was leaving his parents’ home but has no recollection of where he was headed since he says he was both drunk and high. One month later he awoke from a coma with a reconstructed pelvis…
