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…
It’s hard to think of much else today besides the news that legendary singer, actor and all-around badass David Bowie has passed away. But is there some positive news out there, especially for fans of classic rock, both young and old: Former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant is going…
With shocking suddenness, we’re left to live in a post-David Bowie world. The man who brought us Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke and Jareth the Goblin King had secretly battled cancer for the past 18 months. On Sunday, just two days after celebrating his 69th birthday with the release…
What’s going on with A.Dd+? According to Paris Pershun, one half of the popular Dallas rap duo, “Everything” is — and not in a good way. After dominating the North Texas scene for years, the Nawf Dallas duo is calling it quits — at least according to Pershun. The other…
Unless you have been ignoring the Internet over the last few days, you’ve probably noticed Denton’s Kaela Sinclair has entered 2016 with a bang. The Florida-born University of North Texas alumna posted a killer video cover of SOHN’s “Artifice” to Facebook last Thursday and the results have been impressive, to…
Kevin Dunlap stands in the darkness of The Rail Club discussing the changes that he and co-owners Josh Campbell and Kyle Booker made to transform what was once known as Fort Worth’s premier metal venue into a full-blown music venue for all genres of music. Dunlap, a 26-year-old McKinney native,…
It’s exciting to have Moody Fuqua working as a talent buyer in Deep Ellum with the recent rebranding of RBC. His eclectic lineups and commitment to highlighting local hip-hop and electronic music are already a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood. But what about Crown & Harp on lower…
For 18 years, Joe Virus has held down his residency The Church at Lizard Lounge where he still plays every Thursday and Sunday. He has been delivering industrial and goth standards in line with his own take on cyberpunk on a consistent basis for almost two decades, making it the…
What’s in a band name? Well, when your band doesn’t have any recorded music and has never played a show, it had better be a lot, because that’s all there is to work with. But that’s not enough to stop someone like Bucks Burnett from starting up the hype machine:…
If you like dueling piano bars, then by all means, go and enjoy yourself. Don’t let anyone else’s opinions or experiences with these forms of live entertainment sway you from going to Louie Louie’s — the first dueling piano bar and newest musical venue to open its doors to the public on…
Hailey’s Club as we know it is gone, and if we’re being honest it’s been absent for a couple of years now. Nevertheless, the club had a great 12-year run. It took Jennifer Gibbs, the club’s current owner, two years to realize running that space as a music venue had ultimately…
Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister — “a pirate of the rock business,” “the king of partying” and a “fucking monster” on a bass as the frontman for the English rock band Motörhead — died on December 28 at age 70. Dressed like a biker with black mutton chops, he spoke the language of a…
It’s been an overwhelming few weeks for Whitney Larkins. At the beginning of December, the Dallas resident filed a lawsuit against Dave Free, rapper Kendrick Lamar’s manager, for more than $1 million. The reason? She claims Free was trying to extort her for $10,000 cash to meet Lamar at his South…
For the past three years, Dustin Evans has received the best club music education by living in Berlin, the beating heart of modern dance music. It’s also a far cry from the more modest club scene of his native Texas. Every year he comes back to Dallas for a bit…
If you were busy last week taking care of that last-minute shopping, traveling to Grandma’s house or just decided to take a break from the Internet for the sake of some family time for Christmas, there’s a chance you missed the wealth of releases the city’s local talent put out…
This has been a banner year for DJ Santa Claus. During his off time from his day job (really more of a night job), Santa dug his heels into his craft and toured relentlessly on the underground circuit. He released a string of 12-inches as anonymous, candy-cane coated white labels…
Production for Rigor Mortis’ documentary, Welcome to Your Funeral, started in 2007. The original idea was to make a film about the birth of the DFW metal underground. But after Rigor Mortis guitarist Mike Scaccia died in 2012, the focus shifted solely to the band, which was mixing metal with…
Paul Quigg never saw himself working at a concert venue. He’d spent 40 years in the music business, playing in bands and doing sound engineering for recording studios, theaters and television productions. So when his old friend and bandmate Jeffrey Liles approached him about joining him at The Kessler Theater,…
Brent Nuro transplanted to Dallas after cutting his teeth in the Kansas City scene. Nuro can now be found playing at the Nothing But Techno residency at Crown & Harp. For this week’s mixtape drops deep in to the vortex of deep techno vibes more common with Berlin’s Panorama Bar…
It’s been an interesting year for music festivals in North Texas. “Interesting” as in a year of transition, although to the most part essentially a year of growth. While Spune put its Index Fest on hiatus until 2016, it rolled out the first-ever Reunion Fest and moved its marquee Untapped…
Jazz in the Atrium, the longtime weekly source of live jazz music at the Dallas Museum of Art, is calling it quits after this Thursday, December 17, with a performance by the Freddie Jones Jazz Group. The series is a local tradition, a place where up-and-comers from Booker T. Washington…
Add another supergroup to the books. Banquet, the band formed earlier this year by Midlake that includes members of Band of Horses and Franz Ferdinand, are busy recording their first album, Volume I, at none other than Denton’s Redwood Studios. The record is due out early in 2016, a fact…
