Spanish author Benjamin Villegas had never traveled to El Paso, but he figured it would be the perfect spot to set his punk rock novel. Out now in a new English translation from Deep Vellum Publishing and with a foreword by El Paso punk rocker Beto O’Rourke, ELPASO: A Punk Story is…
“It leaks, it squeaks, it creaks” is how regulars describe a longtime cherished Denton venue, beneath a pizza joint in a basement, its musical history memorialized in the graffiti on its walls by local and touring bands and concertgoers over the years.
The world’s greatest rock and roll band is returning to Dallas
Oddly, the year 2021 is seeing a resurgence of Beatlemania, with Peter Jackson’s docuseries Beatles: Get Back headed to Disney+ this Thanksgiving.
The most common images that come to mind when we think of prog rock are probably those of lavishly dressed Englishmen: Keith Emerson adorned in full chainmail regalia, making violent love to his keyboards in
front of a sold-out stadium; Chris Squire in a lavender jumpsuit and accompanying magenta cape, attacking his bass with such fury that one wrong note may cause a rip in the space-time continuum; Peter Gabriel fully immersed in his onstage roles as a fox, a flower, an alien overlord, or whatever this is.
The thing about being a musician in a band is that their mastery is constantly developing as they refer back to old material.
It’s been a head-spinning year-and-a-half and it’s time for our bodies to follow suit, so dust off your old skates and channel your inner Roller Girl, because DJs Blake Ward and Sober are having a party.
Jason Mraz wrote his seventh studio album back in 2019. Although it didn’t receive rave reviews from music critics upon its release in June 2020, Look For The Good turned out to be 12 tracks of pure, wholesome reggae sunshine that served up the feel-good vibes we desperately needed during…
It’s been two years since Dallas-based Luna Luna last released an album.
Blame it all on my roots, but I’ll be damned if there isn’t something special about the “second golden age” of country music, the neotraditional wave of line dancin’, hat tippin’ and boot scootin’ hillbilly music of the late 1980s to mid ’90s.
There are only two instances that rapper Auntie AJ can recall when someone had a problem with a live performance of his song “Fuck White People,” a ditty he’s performed “literally over 100 times” in shows and concerts.
America has a long tradition of challenging its culture through the use of public transportation. A recent ad spotted on a Dallas bus is no Rosa Parks moment, but a curious one nonetheless.
It’s open mic night at the Free Man in Deep Ellum. For Dallas-based rock-and-roll band King Clam, it’s an adopted practice spot away from rehearsal space
Two of the biggest and most iconic music venues in Deep Ellum will reopen under the banner of a new name.
As a teenager, Zeke Forever’s biggest source of inspiration was his older self.
As music journalists, our email inboxes receive oodles of announcements, invitations to concerts and offers for exclusives on new songs and albums every day.
Bill Hutchinson, a wealthy Dallas developer who appeared on the reality show Marrying Millions, was arrested in Highland Park on Tuesday.
Over the course of the last year, the R&B artist known as Tears followed her own trail, making her way to Dallas from Miami.
If you’ve listened to an album by any musician from Dallas in the last decade, you should know it probably wouldn’t exist without Jeff Saenz.
As business owners began getting warnings from code enforcement about noise, it seemed to them that the rules had changed. They didn’t, but the people enforcing them did.
If you’re looking for a long overdue escape from landlocked claustrophobia, bust out your Hawaiian shirts and swim trunks because Dead Words’ new EP, Patron Saints of Paradise Vibes, bodes well with the sounds of summer.
The sounds of Texas and Mexico collide in singer Rafa’s music. Having grown up along the Mexican border, the artist spent his childhood dividing his time between both worlds.
