Sean Anderson has been deep in the production side of dance music for a very long time under his alias Pointbender. His label Harmonious Discord, which just celebrated its 15-year anniversary, has featured some of the best and brightest in Texas electronic producers, as well as artists from beyond the…
Gensu Dean likes to stick to the basics. A veteran Dallas hip-hop producer, Dean is all about the old-school, right down to his analog equipment. But above all else, his likes to make collaborative records: Dean’s role is ideally as one half of a duo. And in his latest collaboration,…
Max Hartman, the lead singer of the band Mur, turned to his music after he grew tired of losing loved ones. “I’ve been to an amazing number of funerals of people who one way or another took their own lives, or accidentally OD’d or got themselves killed,” Hartman says. “That’s something…
It’s 2016, people. Get over whatever absurd misconceptions you’ve been holding onto all these years (yes, Texas, we’re looking squarely at you) and get with the 21st century. Once you do, you’ll discover a crucial fact: Nothing beats a party at a gay bar. So let’s wave the flag for…
Concert promoters. You may not know who they are, but if you attend shows in Dallas you certainly know their work. They’re the behind-the-scenes people who make live music happen, curating lineups, negotiating terms with band or agents and marketing the shows. They know the scene as well as anyone…
(Excerpted from Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap.) In the mid-1980s, Cleo Turner spun records as a Los Angeles DJ, calling himself Dr. Rock. He joined a flamboyant electro-rap group called World Class Wreckin’ Cru. Dr. Dre took his…
Denton rapper Bryan “Infidelix” Rodecker has spent the past couple of years promoting his music on city streets across Europe. He’d quit his job as a waiter, cashed in his life savings and crossed an ocean to pursue his dream of sharing his lyrical art. Now he’s gone viral. Rodecker,…
September’s here and things are getting exciting as Dallas gears up for the cooler autumn months ahead. It’s not quite time to bust out the sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes, but no matter; a three-day weekend is plenty reason to get in the spirit, and there are plenty of concert…
Don’t mess with North Texas country ladies. That seemed to be a recurring theme this week, as two of them — Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert — made headlines by notching up some big-time awards (or at least award nominations). But there’s been a lot more happening closer to home…
It seems like every time a new generation of music fans enter the mainstream, the generations that preceded them think the other generation’s greatest hits sound like spoons in a garbage disposal. Richard Cheese, the leading crooner of the lounge-style Los Angeles cover band Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the…
Bill Longhorse, as troubled genius of a guitarist as Dallas ever seen, has a new album. That in itself is a miracle. There is a really good chance that if you polled Dallas’ community of rock, jazz, noise and noir musicians regarding who the best local guitarist is, Longhorse would…
Cody McPhail performs electronic music of the experimental variety under the moniker of ATOP. Over the past few years, ATOP has cultivated a niche in the Dallas music scene with his Dallas Ambient Music Nights. DAMN has become a meeting point for the audio and video artists that exist in…
Six Shooter is a recurring feature where we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. Quick, thank your lucky stars because it’s finally September. That means you can convince yourself that the weather’s about to be tolerable now that August is over. (It’s not, but still.) On the music…
This week marks the first week of classes for University of North Texas students in Denton. For years, the first week of school has gone hand-in-hand with another occasion, Free Week, the annual fall semester kickoff extravaganza of free shows at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. But not this year. Rubber…
A hiss of air pierced the night in the dim alleyway behind The Rail Club in Fort Worth. The pair of tires, the victims of a stabbing, were already flat before the white SUV screeched out of the parking lot. Inside the club, Texas Hippie Coalition (THC) had already begun…
Monty Lee Wilkes saw a lot in the 30 plus years he worked in the music business. A Minneapolis native, he bumped heads with Prince and dodged bottles onstage with the Replacements. He worked as a tour manager and sound engineer with the likes of Britney Spears, the B-52’s and…
This is poised to be a big year for Lights All Night. North Texas’ biggest EDM festival — the area’s biggest music festival, period — has already expanded from one day to two, and taken up residency at Dallas Market Hall for its annual New Year’s bash. This year will…
There are a few key things you need to make Ships Lounge the real Ships Lounge. First, of course, is the jukebox. Second is chili dog night. But maybe the most important part of making sure the Lower Greenville dive, which reopened last month after a year out of business,…
There’s an undeniable charm in discovering a thoroughly trashed dive bathroom. Some are so bad it has to be a point of pride, even if it’s just to spread their infamy among Dallas boozehounds. With that in mind, we did the dirty work and compiled 10 of the worst men’s bar…
Shake, shake, shake your booty this week, Dallas, and get down tonight (or tomorrow night, or the next). Yep, if it isn’t obvious already, KC and the Sunshine Band is funking things up this week, thanks to Mark Cuban’s concert series at The Bomb Factory. But if you can’t find…
Coldplay With Alessia Cara AT&T Stadium, Arlington Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 Minutes into Coldplay’s set Saturday night at a sold-out AT&T Stadium, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin looked like a man who had already put in a hard night’s work. Drenched in sweat and adorned with a few strands of the…
Mad Decent Block Party With Kaskade, GRiZ, D.R.A.M. and more Victory Park, Dallas Aug. 26, 2016 Electronic dance music ricocheted off the underbelly of Woodall Rogers Freeway and down the streets of Victory Park, bathing the area in pulsating electronic beats on Friday. By 7 p.m., about a thousand people…
