Record stores all the rage this season. Normally the fall is the time for bands and labels to roll out new albums and promotional tours, but in Dallas it’s the record stores making the moves. Off the Record, which opened a couple weeks ago in Deep Ellum, is a bar…
The lines “M-A-R-S. Mars, bitches,” declare what The Outfit, TX, are shooting for with their current project. It’d be easy to chalk up the reference to the group’s characteristic “cooly fooly space age funk” aesthetic, or even just the song’s title. But it goes a bit deeper than that, because, to…
Face it: You still love the Toadies. Try as you might, you just can’t help getting all the feels any time you hear that opening riff to “Possum Kingdom.” It might as well always be 1993. In fact, more so than you think: This weekend marks the seventh-annual Dia De…
Dallas is going through a bit of a record store renaissance. Over the past year, the vinyl comeback that has been root throughout the music industry has made its presence felt locally, as well. Of the stores opening, including the recently opened Off the Record and the soon-to-be-christened Spinster Records,…
Dallas is home to a significant number of producers and DJs that are well known internationally but mostly off the radar in their hometown. Demarkus Lewis is very much one of those DJs. It’s highly unlikely any other musician or producer in Dallas has more releases under his belt. Lewis…
It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point: How many people can fit in my apartment for a party? Better yet, how many people can fit in my apartment for a party while my band plays live music and we film all of it? Well Josh Fleming, the…
Howdy, folks. The best thing that’s gonna happen this month is the one and only State Fair of Texas. It’s in your best interest to head on down to Fair Park and daze at the 55 foot gargantuan glory that is Big Tex. Gorging on fried foods that have the…
In this day and age where everyone is a DJ (or at least thinks they are), guys like Joe Walker are a rare treat. Performing under the moniker of DJ Jon Doe, he’s coming up on 25 years of DJing and the experience and passionate dedication to the art of…
A couple weeks back, we had the pleasure of announcing that local avant-pop purveyors Bethan will be releasing a new album this fall, Time Gone By. Not just a new album, in fact, but their first. It drops on California imprint Velvet Blue in a little over a month on…
When Kenny Uptain and Kelly Test started Foxtrot Uniform, they were looking to rebel. They’d become disillusioned by the strictures of recording session tradition. Hailing to the unflinching producer’s demands, most of the Texas country scene was obligated to be “clean” for radio play. But for this pair, that just…
Out on his front porch with a clove cigarette, platinum-haired Cade Bundrick leans back in a lounge chair. Behind him sits a headless mannequin wearing a blazer adorned with buttons. The house, the location of which is kept carefully guarded, is recessed in a nook off the road and holds…
Prior to 1986, Robert Cray was just another talented blues guitarist wondering where his next gig was going to be. But after the Strong Persuader album and the hit single “Smoking Gun,” Cray became a viable commercial proposition across several genres. Cray has parlayed that success into a four- decade-long…
Lance Lopez knows the blues. The Dallas native has been sharpening his blues’ slinging chops since he was a child. He can feel it in his bones, through his fingertips as they slide across the fretboard. Lopez’s guitar skills sometimes seem otherworldly as he bends his strings to create something…
Micky and Gary Braun of Micky and the Motorcars have long lived under a formidable shadow. These two brothers are the younger siblings of Willy and Cody Braun, who make up the core of the stellar Austin-based roots-rock outfit Reckless Kelly. Born into a musical family in Idaho, performing has…
Texas country kingpin Pat Green is also a Fort Worth resident, Dallas restaurant owner and a heck of a live performer. He can now add “Lyle Lovett duet partner” to that list of titles with the release of a new song, “Girls from Texas.” Save from his admirable 2012 collection…
Watch out, Deep Ellum; there’s a new gang in the neighborhood. Well, sort of. The folks behind Club Dada rolled out a brand-new venture Tuesday night with the soft opening of Off the Record, a unique combination bar and record store in the space adjoining the Elm St. music venue…
Dallas’ DVK, known as Dustin Van Kleeck when he’s not performing, loves house music and his energizer rabbit level of enthusiasm reflects that. The mix he submitted for the DC9 mix has his personality written all over it. It’s an upbeat and high-energy house mix that features the work of…
Dallas, you’re hard to understand. It’s hard to contextualize a lot of your actions. How is it that even though Erykah Badu is from these parts, you don’t give much attention to R&B and soul music. Badu is perhaps the greatest R&B/soul act since the Chitlin Circuit cooked its way…
In the early of hours of last Wednesday morning, after playing a Tuesday night set at Adair’s in Dallas, someone broke into the car of local country singer-songwriter Melissa Ratley and stole her beloved acoustic guitar. While a few other personal items from her vehicle went missing as well, it…
By Ivan Guzman Way back in 2006, I bet the founders of Twitter had no idea the social-media platform would become the force it is today. Sure, you can interact with your friends and whatnot, but perhaps the coolest, most intriguing part of Twitter is the way it makes us…
About six months ago, The Wild Detectives opened its doors with the intention to be more than just a bookstore. So far they’ve hosted readings, wine tastings and book presentations as well as their backyard shows. As an aspiring member of the Oak Cliff community (and not just another fixture of…
Billboard, everybody’s favorite trade music magazine, just put together a list of the 25 Most Popular Music Clubs is the U.S. There are many takeaways here, but the most pertinent one for Dallas music fans is that our local House of Blues was the fourth-most attended venue (222, 988) in…
