Oak Cliff has undergone quite the reinvention over the past half-dozen years or so. The Bishop Arts District has blossomed with coffee shops, art boutiques, restaurants and bars. Further down Main St., the iconic Kessler Theater has experienced a full-on revival. And now, thanks to David Grover and his upstart…
Say hello to July, everyone. While we’ve been taking special care to celebrate the wide bevy of versatile shows to visit the DFW in the past six months, it’s been important that we highlight some of the great shows of the future. Although plenty of rap and hip-hop favorites will…
July Fourth is upon us, and no doubt you’re looking forward to a Friday filled with hot dogs, apple pies and a good ol’ fashioned three-day weekend. Thankfully, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate the red, white and blue in DFW, and we’ve put together a handy list…
With June (finally) ending, it’s time to assess the slew of releases from Dallas’ best and brightest for the first half of 2014. Although news has been majorly slow on the scene so far, Dallas’ rappers have been diligent in releasing quality material across the internet. This list is a…
Last week, Classic Waxxx Records announced the new Dallas-based label’s first release, a candy apple red 7-inch vinyl from John Paul Smith & the Coal Creek Boys out of Alberta, Canada. They also announced a whopper of a second release: one of the greatest songs ever written by Lightnin’ Hopkins…
We’ll say this much about Erykah Badu: she has a real sense of humor. This year has seen her get into some hot water — that whole performing for an African dictator thing didn’t go over so well — but the Dallas R&B singer is still out having plenty of…
Sure, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die might someday make a list called “All-Time Most Emo Band Names.” But before such a dismissive listicle appears, the eight-piece band is incredibly busy and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Still…
For a country music fan, living in North Texas is akin to a six-year-old getting locked inside a room over night where the walls are made only of assorted Minecraft games. There’s plenty of variety and more than enough offerings to keep one busy without ever having to look too…
For being a relatively friendly bunch of guys, the Fray gets a lot of flak from critics. Admittedly, some of it is deserved as the band’s overly earnest brand of pop/rock can be a bit grating. But hell, the majority of acts in the Top 40 can be just as…
Every photo of Michael Gira shares a set series of features: a stern grimace, a stoic, crag-like rigidity and a fiercely penetrating gaze — a look that tunnels straight to your instincts, sets your nerves on edge. Even when a hint of a smile cracks its way across his face,…
“Visually, to me, this is the best show ever. I get to watch sports highlights with subtitles and a heavy metal show.” — Dick Valentine, lead singer of Electric Six That quote, ladies and gents, might perfectly sum up the madness that occurred between the hours of 5 p.m. and…
“Do you wanna hear some Slayer?” a very disappointed Craig Welch says, queuing up the next track at his turntable set-up. Pumping his fists, palm up (indicative of frustration), Welch is engrossed deep into a combination of disappointment of the U.S.-Portugal game result and general agreement with the heavy metal…
The Yardbirds hold a special place in the history of rock and roll. Over the course of some fitful years in the mid- to late 1960s, the band featured the talents (separately) of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. During that time, the Yardbirds made several classic albums and…
Christopher Victorio By Dennis Romero The Clark County Coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas Saturday morning. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren’t yet available to the media, an official at the coroner’s office told us…
Well Dallas, it’s finally officially summer, which can only mean one thing: lots and lots of rain. Hey, wait a minute. That’s supposed to be “crazy heat,” isn’t it? OK, so sometimes life is a little unpredictable, but neither that nor the weather are going to be keeping us from…
If you’re looking for some variety to help spice up your weekend, then the concert schedule around North Texas should be just the thing to help make it happen. We’re talking everything from Pegasus Music Fest to John Fogerty to Tech N9ne. If you have yet to set up any…
The topic of guns is all over the news, whether they are being used as props of democracy and freedom or props of violence and destruction. Somehow, “gun nuts” actually found a way to be gun-nuttier when they thought it was a good idea to walk into public spaces across…
Remember three years ago when your workplace productivity levels plunged because people kept sending those Yacht Rock videos around the office? It’s quite possible that in the wake of watching parodies of the incestuous early ’80s careers of dudes who had recorded with Steely Dan, you wasted all of 30…
For a band that tours fairly often, it’s amazing how much the members of the Mountain Goats are able to pop up in so many other areas of pop culture. From writing books to appearing on podcasts, frontman John Darnielle, bassist Peter Hughes, and drummer Jon Wurster keep busy in…
For any music fan who has lived in or around Dallas for at least a few years, stories (and probably grand exaggerations) of times had at one of the Texxas Jam Music Festivals in the late 1970s or early 1980s are commonplace at this point. The Texxas World Music Festival,…
Emotionless robots take over Ishi’s new music video for their latest single “Emotional Hard Drive.” The single comes from their sophomore album, titled Digital Wounds. The Dallas-based band is known for their unique blend of electronic music with funk and soulful story telling. The record, which frontman J.T. Mudd previously…
My mind is full of fear. It’s always trying to get me to think five steps ahead of any situation and predict all the possible outcomes, especially ones that could lead to the stripping of my dignity and the utter degradation of my worth as a social being. Some might…
