It’s February, which in Texas means it’s just about festival season. Really. South By Southwest is only a month away, meaning so too are 35 Denton and Spillover. Hell, music and film fest Thin Line is next weekend. So it’s about time for some of Dallas’ bigger late spring and…
The location of the party is top secret. There are no fliers, no public advertisements, not even an address for those who have been invited. There is only a private group on Facebook, and a message: “WE ARE THE UNDERGROUND. WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER. IN THE SHADOWS WE ARE FREE.”…
From the moment Johnette Napolitano walked onstage at The Live Oak in Fort Worth on Friday night, it was clear there was a problem. The Concrete Blonde singer was in town for a solo acoustic performance, but from the very beginning she was visibly intoxicated. After fumbling through a handful…
Frank McCright has just shy of three decades in the DJ game as DJ Love. He has seen every facet of the DJ biz, from the production side in the studio to a front row seat for the infamous ’90s rave scene. Love has benefitted from a depth of experience…
North Texas may be losing one of its most profitable artists. Mike Murdock, a contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and televangelist, will auction off two lavish Dallas-Fort Worth estates on Saturday, February 20. You could actually attend both auctions if you feel so inclined. Murdock is a 69-year-old who dresses like someone’s…
If you’ve had the pleasure of receiving a hug from Kevin Howard, the current keyboard player for the Rich Girls, it was probably one of the best hugs you’ve ever received in your life. A lot of sincerity, as well as incredible strength, comes through his skinny body. On…
“River,” one of the standout tracks from Leon Bridges’ 2015 debut Coming Home, thrives on its understatement. A contrast to the R&B bounce of singles like the title track or “Better Man,” “River” is stripped down and bare, mostly Bridges with his guitar, his voice and his demons. In many…
Tom Strong comes to this week’s Mixtape with a banging electro mix. Electro as a term is often thrown around as an adjective to describe a wide variety of electronic music styles when it is very much a specific genre. It has evolved from its humble roots in hip-hop, from…
The last time Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were in Dallas, it was for a one-off performance at Reunion Tower during the NCAA March Madness festivities back in 2014. As usual, The Boss put on a killer show, although the novelty of having it at Reunion was dampened…
DJ EZ Eddie D has been a Dallas staple for just short of three decades. His vault of music is vast and wide beyond the hip hop he is most known for. Eddie can still be heard on the radio every week spreading the musical word on his Knowledge Dropped…
Looking for a music festival with plenty of hip hop? Apparently Denton is the place to be. While most Dallas fests, save for JMBLYA and Rageville, only intermittently tap into rappers for their lineups (if at all, in some cases), Denton has been doing it more and more. Oaktopia built…
If you’ve been waiting for Janet Jackson’s much-anticipated return to the road, you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer. Announced by the American Airlines Center earlier today, Jackson’s Dallas date, originally scheduled for January 24, has been postponed until the summer. In fact, Jackson’s entire Unbreakable tour…
Yesterday was just another Monday afternoon for Tiger Darrow, currently living in New York after growing up in Austin and going to Booker T. Washington in Dallas. But right before she left for work, she got the news that Glenn Frey had passed away at the age of 67. Frey…
Remember a few weeks back when there were nonstop parties to go to, and work holidays to help recover from them? Those were the days. Now, however, it’s not only cold outside but there are no holidays and no reasons to party (besides, you know, your usual alcoholic tendencies). But…
It’s official now: 2016 is off to one hell of a rough start for music fans. Losing David Bowie last week was harder than most for a lot of music fans, and tributes have been rolling in for more than a week now to the great British singer. But now…
These days, the gang always gets back together. In recent years it’s been trendy and big business for large national acts to reunite after just a few years of calling it quits. In 2016, we’ve already seen LCD Soundsystem and Guns N’ Roses announce reunions from faux breakups. On top…
Normally the prospect of sitting out at a show at Gexa Energy Pavilion in the middle of August is the stuff of night terrors — something akin to frying an egg on the sidewalk. But every so often there’s a show that makes it worthwhile, and one of them just…
Jonny Brashear is an old-school techno head in the purest sense. He’s a connoisseur of the robot dance music and was owner of the now-defunct Sonic Convergence, a label that was based in Dallas but focused on European producers. Though not as active now as a DJ as in the…
Luke Bryan seems to grace Dallas with his don’t-call-it-bro-country presence every few months — he was here to play Gexa Energy Pavilion just last summer — so it’s not much of a surprise when he makes plans for a visit. What is surprising, though, is Bryan’s apparent leap from the…
It still seems hard to believe that David Bowie is gone. The great master of shape shifting, he never really seemed human — much less mortal. Many of us are listening to Blackstar, the goodbye album released just a couple days prior to his passing, as well as our many…
About a year ago, we took a look ahead into the immediate future of local country music and pointed you in the direction of a few fine North Texas talents we thought would be worth keeping an eye on in 2015. Those artists indeed made their fair share of noise,…
In his more than 50 years in the music business, David Walker has seen plenty of shit. Walker has played various roles in the stories of some of rock ‘n’ roll’s most historic acts, including The Rolling Stones, Devo and Paul McCartney. Walker first got his start in the business…
