Our crush this week is singer Bree Parker, who fronts jazz and R&B fusion group Bree & the Fellas. A sunshine-like source of delightfully absurd talent, Parker is a master of vocal control who’s often lighting up stages in Deep Ellum. And she doesn’t litter. Swoon. What’s one song everyone loves that…
Latin music is no longer a trend. It’s part of the U.S. mainstream now and it’s here to stay. I mean, come on; when your favorite pop star reveals the tracklist of their upcoming album, nine times out of 10, you’ll see a Bad Bunny or a J. Balvin feature…
Chatting to the Allen brothers can feel a bit like a history lesson. Replace lectures on Watergate and World War II with anecdotes about The Door and Forever the Sickest Kids, and you have a sense of what it’s like to talk shop with this pair of DFW music veterans…
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat, a time of wealth and abundance. It’s also shaping up to be a time of redemption and retrospection for North Texas megastar Jessica Simpson, who joins power blondes Taylor Swift and Paris Hilton in setting their demure (dare…
In a move many critics are referring to as daring and cavalier, local singer-songwriter Connor Overton announced that he is genre-fluid. “I don’t adhere to the genre binary,” he declared Monday night at a Garland Central Library open mic event. “People like to pigeonhole me into either folk or rock,…
This past Saturday night, Erykah Badu was scheduled to perform as part of her annual birthday celebration. And the legendary singer is usually so legendarily late, that she made a post on social media the day of the show warning those who expected a late entrance that she wouldn’t be…
If you stay in too much this week, you’re going to miss some badass shows. Like most Mondays, The Funky Knuckles will be taking over Three Links. Then, at Eastbound and Down Icehouse, LOAFERS will share a bill with The Go Go Rillas. But if you’re in Deep Ellum that night, you…
Since its inception in 2013, Texas hip-hop festival JMBLYA (pronounced “jambalaya”) has hosted a wide array of heavy-hitters and A-listers, such as Travis Scott, J. Cole, Chance the Rapper, Post Malone, Migos, G-Eazy, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne and others. The festival has become notorious for its star-studded and cutting-edge…
This week’s batch of local concert announcements finds another solid collection of performers coming this way. There’s a top-notch tribute performance, a tastefully curated collection of country-folk artists huddled in Grand Prairie and a couple of acts returning to the road after lengthy hiatuses. Read on for the details. Primus…
There’s a piano in the rec room at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in New York. It took musician Danielle Grubb a few days to find it, but eventually, she did. In the winter of 2017, Grubb was staying at the hospital following a psychotic break. Eventually, she was diagnosed with bipolar…
Dallas, we have a problem. Portland’s genre-smashing, horn-driven intergalactic glam performance band Lovebomb Go-Go landed at Three Links in Deep Ellum on Wednesday in the middle of a cold, wet February night to give us a nova blast of sound before heading east to New Orleans. You weren’t there. About…
Many fans of Texas country and red dirt music will recognize some key figures who give life to the music they love so dearly. The unmistakable voices of Jack Ingram, Robert Earl Keen and Randy Rogers are universally revered, and they’ve soundtracked our lives for over two decades now. But…
It’s Saturday night, and the recently engaged couple Hayden Kirkby and Katie Puryear are at Armadillo Ale Works in Denton to meet up with some of Puryear’s friends and grab a few drinks before going to throw axes at Ironwood Axe Throwing down the street. This sweetest of couples consists…
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Taylor Young. Outside of a few one-off shows with his long-running folk-rock band The O’s, Young has been laying low, running a small mortgage company through First United Bank Mortgage and writing songs that he just couldn’t find a home for. “I had…
Like with so many artists these days, it’s hard to know what to call Jenna Clark’s music. In her most recent EP, Ten O’Clock in the Morning, guitar riffs as sharp as razors flow in the deep space created by solid bass lines and keyboard playing on top of swinging…
We bet you didn’t know that one of the “10 Best Music Festivals in North America” takes place in Fort Worth. USA Today gave that title to Fortress Festival, which comes to the city’s Cultural District in April. The festival launched in 2017, and this year’s offering is bringing names…
Have you ever heard of Adventure Time? The critically revered cartoon is set in a mythical land where a boy and his dog strive to conquer evil. They meet a sentient piece of gum and an Ice King voiced by the actor who gave life to SpongeBob SquarePants. When it…
It’s a given that in the pop music industry, sex will always sell. But when female artists decide to complement their music with a risqué look, it’s often to mixed reviews. Take Taylor Swift, for example, who revealed in the documentary Miss Americana that she developed an eating disorder after…
In the streaming era, a solid, cohesive album is rare, as many label heads ask musicians to instead deliver (hit) singles. On her sophomore album Almadura, Ileana Cabra, better known as iLe, reminds us of the high art present in a thematic album. Almadura is a collection of Latin pop tracks,…
If you didn’t already know what to do with your evenings this week, we’ve got you covered. There’s a lot happening in North Texas on the live music front. The Used will be coming to town, passing through the Lone Star State as part of their tour ramping up to…
Some big events this week in the ol’ concert announcements. We’ve got an R&B queen, a boy band comeback and a whole lot of shows at Dallas’ newest music venue. There are also some interesting things happening on the club circuit and some nice additions to the amphitheater lineups for…
In November, Rage Against the Machine announced they would be playing together again after a nine-year hiatus. Now, the outspoken rap metal legends will embark on a comeback tour that consists of over 40 stops, and one of those is the only Texas stop, in El Paso. A Dallas appearance…
