Dalton Kane can’t sit still. Or, better put, he can’t stop writing. Performing under the pseudonym “Chinaski, the Fury,” he has a colossal catalog of work squirreled away on his hard drive, featuring over 300 tracks that he insists he can’t ever release. Even in his live performances he improvises…
Chase Dugger a.k.a. Space Chase was a key figure in the short-lived but highly influential Denton Dance Collective. He curated the Subsonic Indulgence residence bringing a wide variety of the region’s best DJ talent to Denton, a town not exactly known for welcoming dance music. Denton Dance Collective even had…
Most people don’t know about the harmonica player. Long gone are the days when a first-rate blues harp player could be the star draw of a band. Today it’s an increasingly rare art form, its practitioners content to take a side role in their band or may even be a…
Slim Gravy is a man in transition. For years he’s been known as one half of Dallas’ most popular rap group, A.Dd+. Tall, lanky and not afraid to spit fire, Gravy has always brought a special attitude to his music, a swagger and determination that helps drive the group. But…
The guys at The Ticket really like music. It’s not even close to being a secret, even if it is technically a sports talk radio station. But they’ve always tended to keep their passion for music at arm’s length — say, with funny segments on the radio, or with performances…
Vanilla Ice has played a lot of different roles over the years. He was, of course, once a rapper, and in fact still the most successful one that Dallas has ever produced. But he’s also been a nu metal singer, a movie star (well, he’s been in movies anyway), a…
When it comes to dub music in Dallas, there’s no one else who does it quite like Sub Oslo. Their live show blows away all conceptions of the typical band in a club experience, a sensory overload of sights, sound and vibrations. Bass sounds shake and rattle the room like…
Last spring, Dallas rapper Buffalo Black was scrolling Instagram on his phone when a post caught his eye. It was from noted director Spike Lee. He needed independent artists for his next film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, which was being financed through Kickstarter. Lee asked for artists to email…
Rick Simpson keeps a low profile. Not one to promote or push his skills on anyone, he has been a staple in the regional DJ scene for almost a quarter century under aliases like Ricky Silk and R9. He’s collaborated with local wunderkind Cygnus and dropped a track on wax…
For someone living in the relative comforts of a city like Dallas, it’s easy to take music and the arts for granted. But for free jazz trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, who visited Crown & Harp last night for the weekly Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions and is the featured guest tonight at…
The Wild Detectives is hidden near Zang and 8th in Oak Cliff, and has been opened for the better part of a year. The burnt-orange house converted into a cozy bookstore serves espresso, local beer and has hundreds of those antique objects with paper pages called books. They even have…
Piero Rossini, the man behind one-man electronic act Peladini, is a true nomad. From Florida and Lima, Peru, Rossini has led an unlikely journey that has only seen him firmly plant foot here in the Dallas music scene in the past couple months. Even in a music scene that thrives…
North Dallas isn’t usually the kind of place you’d go to for a fun night out on the town. Amongst the sprawling grid of lower-to-middle-class households and apartments, strip malls, pawn shops and other respectable businesses, this area has almost always been a void of culture. But, as unlikely as…
Kanye is an artist! Respect his artistry! Oh wait, sorry, wrong thread. What we meant to say is, what the hell does Kanye West have up his sleeve this time? The pied piper of pop music and Taylor Swift’s unofficial new BFF has been tweeting the website Yeezy.supply for just…
It’s hard to name a more unforeseen story in the music industry than the recent resurgence of the vinyl LP. With vinyl record sales increasing at astronomic rates (up over 50% since 2013 alone), opportunistic major labels that had abandoned the format years ago have been promoting limited re-releases and…
True Widow has garnered international acclaim for their glacially paced drum section, haunting, reverb-soaked vocals and shoegazey brand of stoner rock. But behind the smoke and mirrors is guitarist Dan Phillips, a pivotal force in the three-piece’s wall of sound, who actually only moonlights as a musician. “The band is something…
Andrew Barton, aka M3SA, straddles the fine line between four on the floor and U.K. bass music. As a producer and DJ, he pays homage to the various sides of floor-friendly club music without being allegiant to any one in particular. M3SA approaches electronic from more of a producer’s point…
Last week a song by the name of “White Iverson” made its rounds on the Internet. It’s a spacey and melodic number and it deservedly captured the attention of many. Naturally, it got the attention of Twitter, but more importantly it also impressed Complex and XXL. You know how this…
Preferring to be addressed as S1, Dallas’ platinum-selling producer and songwriter is also known as Larry D. Griffin Jr. or Symbolyc One. He has collaborated with the likes of Beyoncé, Jay Z and Ghostface Killah. S1 is a member of The Cannabinoids, the band that backs up Erykah Badu and…
A little over two years ago, Texas Radio Hall of Famer John Rody and his wife Sallie launched The Southside Pirate, a Fort Worth-based Internet radio station dedicated to only playing local music. But they weren’t content to just stream music; they filed for a frequency under the Community Radio…
Well, yet another Grammy Awards night has come and gone, and like usual, there are plenty of things for people to complain about. Like Macklemore in 2014 or Adele back in 2012, the big winner on Sunday night was Sam Smith, who took home four awards, although not necessarily because…
After years of persistent and ugly rumors, Uptown bar Kung Fu Saloon was publicly, and loudly, accused last year of racism at its door and in its dress code. The bar’s owners didn’t say much at the time, but now the bar has accepted a plea deal with the city…
