Slowdive will play Fortress Festival at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on April 30 The last and only time Slowdive passed through Dallas was August 1993 when they opened for Catherine Wheel at Trees. Back then, the UK shoegaze legends were touring behind their second album, Souvlaki. Now it’s…
Richard Haskins is a free man. After serving six and a half months in prison for an attempted bank robbery, the Denton punk singer, showman and provocateur is on the patio at Killer’s Tacos, surrounded by friends. On the table before him is a welcome back cake and in a…
Last month we alerted you to a few Texas EDM artists to watch, including Lubbock’s Ryan Scott, who goes by the name Swanbeats. This week he’s given us a first look at an electronic duo he’s formed with Austin’s Kelly Bergeron, aka Evolsi, by way of a cover of Drake’s “Passionfruit.”…
Over the past few weeks, a number of musicians with North Texas ties have received an email from an apparent superfan from Ukraine named Malesh Ivan. At first glance, it looked like a genuine fan letter from a real Gmail account. Aside from a few typos and an overuse of…
Thursday afternoon, news broke through Facebook that Crown and Harp, a 20-year-old Lower Greenville bar and music venue, will close early next month. Concerts and DJ nights will be carried out as planned through May 7. “The building has been sold as far as I know,” says Jermy Johnson, who…
As of this writing, Stephen Patrick Morrissey is still scheduled to perform at the Majestic on Saturday. But, as fans of the former Smiths frontman know, any appearance these days comes with the expectation that he will cancel the show. It’s like Moz is Lucy van Pelt holding the football…
Dallasites love Willie Nelson and the Texas legend loves us right back. As proof, he’s included Dallas as one of the initial six stops of his just-announced Outlaw Music Festival. In other concert news, an influential goth act celebrates 40 years together at the House of Blues, two guitar gunslingers…
Of all the Dallas crews, DJs and producers who dived head first into dubstep during its early days, Dragonman and his Fort Worth-based crew Dub Commission are one of the few who stuck by the genre as it got sucked into the mainstream and eventually faded from the spotlight. The…
It’s the ultimate battle of the bands. Metal bands from North Texas submitted their videos to 97.1 the Eagle this month in hopes of being selected to open for Metallica during five dates of their upcoming worldwide stadium tour. Only two Dallas bands advanced to the finals of the Hit…
Dallas musician Daniel Hart seems to attract successful projects. The Dark Rooms frontman is a film composer whose body of work includes the scores for Disney’s Pete’s Dragon and upcoming A Ghost Story, starring Casey Affleck. Hart recently debuted the soundtrack he composed for S-Town, a podcast created by the…
In 1908, Jack Norworth was sitting on a subway train when he saw a sign saying, “Baseball Today – Polo Grounds.” Norworth had never been to a baseball game before, but the sign inspired him to write one of the most iconic songs in sports history: “Take Me Out to the…
It was after midnight, the show was running 45 minutes behind and many in the crowd were on edge. A large window had been broken during opener Same Brain when a mosh pit started and sent one person flying through it. Native Fox’s guitarist and vocalist James Naylor surveyed the…
In less than a year, Northern National have amassed a considerable online following and received the support of major media companies. It seems that the alternative pop-rock band have picked up their audience almost everywhere — except their hometown, Dallas. While Northern National are a regular act at music festivals…
Music and art may seem like appealing career paths for creative people. However, at a Dallas Startup Week panel on Wednesday, several entertainment entrepreneurs warned that these fields require business sense as well. “A lot of people want to create, but one of the things you have to worry about…
The Bomb Factory had a busy week of show announcements. In addition to upcoming appearances slated for two giants in the contemporary indie-rock scene, there are dates set for a classic rock titan and an illuminating act with deep Texas ties. In other news, the aTrolla Festival has released its…
It’s not simple being FlexinFab. The 19-year-old, born Fabricio Rojas, is currently riding a wave of success only six months after setting out on his rap career. On the flip side, he’s knee deep in internet trolls and hip-hop purists who think he represents everything that’s wrong with the genre…
Lucinda Williams plays Old 97’s County Fair at Main Street Garden Park on Saturday, April 8. Lucinda Williams has received a lot of praise in the course of her career, but the last couple of years have been particularly kind. Her most recent two albums — 2014’s Down Where the…
Last weekend one of the cornerstones of Dallas’ DJ community unexpectedly died. Aaron Wilkerson, better known to his peers and fans as Squirt, rose to prominence in the mid to late ’90s. If you picked up a flyer for a party or a rave during that time, you likely saw his name…
Jeffrey Liles has packed a lot of living into the past 35 years. The Kessler Theater artistic director’s resume — his life story, actually — reads like a fanfic book co-written, somehow, by assorted members of the 27 Club and the characters of Almost Famous. He’s resurrected his alter ego,…
The Orwells play Club Dada on Saturday, April 8. The last time the Orwells played Dallas, their set at Trees ended with an on-stage altercation between a sound man and vocalist Mario Cuomo. After Cuomo spiked the mike a few times during their set at last year’s Spillover Fest, he and…
Singer-songwriter Paul Howeth is an unknown. He’s lived in obscurity for most of his adult life — he has no job, and before recently becoming homeless, was surviving off disability payments in a cramped apartment with his longtime companion Diane and their three pets. The musician, who’s probably in his…
88 Killa is the Don of Dallas in the new music video for his latest single “The Code,” directed by longtime friend and confidant Jeremy Biggers. The 29-year-old rapper explores his inner mob boss in the ’70s gangster film-inspired video. Biggers even used the same iconic font that Francis Ford Coppola…
