This one’s been a long time coming. Really. (No pun intended.) Bethan’s debut album, Time Gone By, could be traced back about four years, to when husband and wife Daniel and Jessi Hall (then Jessi James) first started a recording project together. There have been some recordings released along the…
When guitarist-turned-drummer Rico Garcia of TEAM*, practitioners of warm and energetic indie-rock, was approached by the corporate behemoth Verizon to use one of their songs from their debut EP for a televised ad, it was not exactly earth-shattering news. In fact, many bands receive similar interests that yield no follow…
Gavin Guthrie a.k.a. TXConnect has made quite a splash over the past year. He released 12-inches for a few notable international labels like Adelaide Soundworks, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Bad Mums club and, most impressively, the taste-making Long Island Electrical Systems. His debut album under his own name recently came…
The word “community” gets thrown around a lot, but it seems as though the North Texas music community is indeed acting as one in order to help a talented and beloved member. When the Phuss’ Drummer Trey Alfaro was seriously injured after a hit-and-run driver crashed into him as he…
I never thought I’d see a jazz show at a taqueria, much less a great one. To be fair, Saturday’s bill at Taqueria Pedritos, including Unconscious Collective, HEX CULT, Drug Mountain and Baring Teeth, boasted a wide array of experimental offerings. Free jazz, no-wave, power electronics and metal were all…
As far as album teasers go, Denton’s Bludded Head know how to do it right. For starters, the new LP — announced just yesterday and due to be released through New York imprint Sleeping Giant Glossolalia on October 6 — is titled Reign in Bludd. That’s a good start; we…
Last year, first-time Denton festival Oaktopia delivered on content but not so much on attendance. As Aaron Ortega reported in November, the largest crowd was 200 or so, for the mighty Del the Funky Homosapien. You might suppose a festival that drew such a modest crowd last time would scale…
This Saturday It’ll Do Club brings one of the original architects of Detroit techno to town. Kevin Saunderson was part of the first wave of techno artists in the late ’80s. Along with fellow Belleville High School students Derrick May and Juan Atkins, he laid down the foundation of what…
In North Texas, Ride for Dime is the best of the best for metal gigs. It’s an event that not only showcases a lineup of killer metal bands at two of the top venues — Trees and The Rail Club — for metal in the DFW area but also pays…
Along with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Soundgarden completed the classic grunge rock trifecta that emerged from Seattle in the mid-’80s. Fronted by the hunky Chris Cornell and featuring the blistering guitar work of Kim Thayil, Soundgarden found a large audience on the strength of intense and brooding songs such as…
From the ashes, Good Luck Karaoke rose out of Twilite Lounge, having lost its long-time home at the Doublewide last spring. But its new Deep Ellum base is, according to host Josh Hammertimez, a perfect fit. Tonight, Good Luck will be offering another unique layer to their eclectic shows: all…
Hooking up on the phone Tuesday afternoon, Nick Harmer is happy to report that life as the bassist for Death Cab For Cutie remains “a gravy train with biscuit wheels”. Harmer is an animated conversationalist, and rattles off his rationale without pause. “We’re still getting along, we’re making music we…
The thing about house venues is that they’re always more interesting than public ones. Idiosyncrasies are the décor. Little trinkets here, deliciously askew lighting there — tonight it’s horror film reds and greens, like watermelons and glow sticks. The colors spill through the windows, out onto the creaky deck and…
Hailing out of Austin, the Ugly Beats have been making their garage rock-inspired racket for a little over a decade. In that time, they’ve released four killer albums, the most recent being Brand New Day. The band’s unwavering dedication to ’60s rock and ’70s power pop is both commendable and…
The weird entertainment complex loop at the corner of I-35 and Northwest Highway is one of northwest Dallas’ stranger places to visit. Not quite Bachman Lake, not quite Harry Hines, and not quite Irving, it’s in a vortex all of its own. Technology Boulevard, as this loop is called, is…
In the world of film and DVD, the Criterion Collection is the king of digging up deserving films and offering them to the public. Each of their releases gets the deluxe treatment, filled with extras that highlight why the movie is worthy of such royal massaging. For music buffs, there…
Houston ex-pat M. Parks has been making the rounds of area DJ nights as one of the only proper techno DJ’s on the Dallas scene. Techno is often thrown around as a catch word to describe all dance music when it is actually a very specific genre. If you ever…
This year’s Ride for Dime marks the 10-year anniversary of the benefit show and the untimely passing of “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, Nathan Bray, Jeff Thompson and Erin Halk. Inevitably, it’s a bittersweet occasion, given the tragic events that spurred the event’s founding. And yet a decade in, Ride for Dime…
Dallas ‘Nawfsiders’ Paris Pershun and Slim Gravy, known together as A.Dd+ (pronounced ‘ay-dee-dee’), have had the local hip-hop scene on lock for years now. Today, North Texas’ favorite hip-hop duo will drop their first release since DiveHiFlyLo, a five-song EP titled Nawf. The project started coming together back in April, when the…
We’ll give AraabMuzik this much: At least he didn’t wait till the fans were already inside the door at Trees to cancel his concert. (Sorry, Young Thug, but not sorry.) In all seriousness, though, word came out this afternoon that the East Coast producer, who was scheduled to headline Trees…
Dallas isn’t exactly renowned for being a bike-friendly city, but over the weekend that point was driven home to the music community when one of its own, drummer Trey Alfaro from the band the Phuss, was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident while riding his bicycle Friday night. While Alfaro’s…
For anyone familiar with the fate of beloved Dallas rock band Spector 45, there are few things that could make the story any more tragic than it already is. Within a few weeks of each other, two of the band’s members, Frank Campagna (a gifted and charismatic young singer and…
