Members of the DFW trio manintheraw, who describe themselves as indie math folk, know they play a niche genre, and they don’t care. For them, it’s all about the feelings music invokes. “During our practices, we really just focus more on the emotions we went through that week as a…
Miss CJ knows what it means to hustle and grind. The producer, DJ and promoter is a unifying force for the bass-heavy music scene in DFW and a founding member of the Basshead Society, which throws the annual Evarland Music and Arts Festival, a weekend of music, dancing and camping on a…
A rainstorm’s been hammering their van for two straight days — but like everything, the Jacuzzi Boys take it all in stride. When they play behind Texas Theatre’s screen in Dallas on Saturday night, they’ll show Texas the easy energy that’s made them hometown heroes in Miami. Since breaking out…
Techno is a misunderstood genre in Texas. Here, the word techno is a catch-all used to describe all electronic music. Some even confuse it with the pop music-centered EDM fad, which is lot like lumping Good Charlotte in with Black Flag and calling them both punk. They’re just not the…
Dallas is a town that has no ground set aside for the burial of ghosts, local legends and has-beens. There are no memorial statues for the ’80s cult figures, the ’60s underground garage bands that might’ve cut 45s or the ’70s lounge acts whose LPs still fill the boxes at your…
Former Fun Fun Fun Fest co-founder Graham Williams has knocked it out of the park once again with Austin’s second annual Sound on Sound Festival lineup. The multigenre bonanza, which essentially replaced Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2016, returns Nov. 10-12 to Sherwood Forest. The Austin venue is a 23-acre…
Dallas has seen an explosion of record stores in the last few years, and at least two of the new businesses — Spinster and Josey — have already seen such success that they’re expanding to other states. But while there’s no shortage of places to buy vinyl in Dallas proper,…
EDC Las Vegas 2017 is Andre Benz’s first music festival — but with his Trap Nation art car, he’s already making a big splash.
Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull with CNCO American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, June 16, 2017 Star power was anything but lacking Friday night as Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull performed the seventh show of their 2017 tour at American Airlines Center. At 8 p.m., after a quick set by Latin pop boy…
Metallica With Avenged Sevenfold AT&T Stadium, Arlington Friday, June 16, 2017 Thirty-one years ago, Metallica released its masterpiece, Master of Puppets. Not that you’ll see the group commemorate it with an anniversary tour: The Angeleno metal legends are on the road for their WorldWired Tour, promoting their latest album, Hardwired…to…
This week marks the start of summer, and with it come plenty of sunscreen and high electricity bills. Luckily, some shows this week take place in cool, air conditioned venues — which is not to say you won’t work up a sweat Wednesday night at The Bomb Factory when George Clinton…
Ghost and Iron Maiden play the American Airlines Center on Friday, June 23. In a genre that isn’t known for its sense of humor, the Swedish metalheads in Ghost play music that is not afraid to be melodic, thunderous and funny. Their presentation may be ominous, with songs about Satan…
More great concert announcements have flooded Dallas this week. The upcoming months are shaping up to be a particularly busy time for shows at House of Blues and the Granada Theater. Elsewhere, there will be appearances from a Texas icon, an L.A.-based buzz band and a legendary knight. Pop piano…
Steve Gunn plays Sons of Hermann Hall with Lee Ranaldo on Tuesday, June 20. Singer-guitarist Steve Gunn and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo make sense as a pair. Both artists, who will be playing at Sons of Hermann Hall next week, push the boundaries of six strings. Gunn is still riding…
Tyler Bryant has come a long way from his humble Northeast Texas beginnings. At 26 years old, he is widely considered to be a guitar prodigy. “I always knew this is what I wanted to do,” says Bryant, who grew up in the tiny town of Honey Grove. In 2006,…
John Walker has been a consistent presence in Dallas DJ culture for two decades. He’s best known in house music circles, but he also deals in minimal house, tech house and, more recently, straight-up techno. For this week’s mixtape, Walker meets in the middle of his many musical interests and…
Lost Balloons’ Hey Summer comes out Friday, June 16, via Dirtnap Records. Jeff Burke is a prolific songwriter, but he doesn’t sit down to write much. Songs tend to come to him when he’s watching TV or just messing around on his guitar, he says. “When I try to write…
Michael McDonald plays Winstar with Boz Scaggs on Friday, June 16 In the course of his 40-plus years in music, Michael McDonald has collaborated with some of the industry’s biggest names. From stints in the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan to writing songs for Van Halen and singing with Ray…
IQmuzic aspires to be in regular rotation on the radio, but he’s not the typical person who tops the Billboard charts today. The Dallas resident and El Paso native, whose real name is Joe Garcia, wears a suit and tie when he performs, voraciously reads science fiction and creates infographics…
Veteran Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie actor Edwin Neal resurrects hitchhiker role for Warbeast’s final music video.
For the fifth time this month, Southern Methodist University celebrates the life and work of cellist and Holocaust survivor Lev Aronson, who made Dallas and SMU his home after escaping a concentration camp in Latvia. The annual Lev Aronson Legacy Festival, which began last Friday, features free master classes from…
North Texas has never been short on music festivals. But every year, there are at least a few new festivals that pop up, adding to the bouquet of options. They either grow into local staples or fold before the gates open, as was the case with Go Figure Fest and…
