Jeff Ryan doesn’t have much reason to get starstruck these days. Besides his gigs as drummer for the Baptist Generals and Pleasant Grove, he’s played with St. Vincent, the War on Drugs, Daniel Johnston and Sarah Jaffe. But one show in particular still gives Ryan goosebumps, more than 30 years…
Although nothing can even out the tragic loss of the artist formerly known as Prince, getting a surprise visual album from Beyoncé is as decent an opposite reaction as you could hope for. If you need help during these tough times, there are plenty of tributes in Dallas already in progress…
In ’81 he accessorized his trench coat with high heels and bikini briefs. In ’84 that coat got dandified, high-collared and famously purple, Edwardian formalwear over a frilled tuxedo shirt over that wicked slick of chest hair. It was the get-up of a perv or a president, a look that…
It might’ve been hard to take your eyes off Teen Wolf last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but our attention was fixed firmly on someone else: Kaela Sinclair, who made her late night TV debut last night with Teen Wolf and his band M83. And she killed it, thank you…
Yesterday, the world turned purple. Despite a health scare last week that put his millions of fans on edge, the news of Prince’s death, at the all-too-young age of 57, came as a shock on Thursday morning. In his hometown of Minneapolis, legendary club First Avenue, known locally as “The…
Early last week, Dallas soul singer Kirk Thurmond was quietly signed with British record label DEFDISCO. This announcement comes on the heels of Kirk Thurmond & the Millennials’ debut single “Break Free” from their upcoming album People Change and Thurmond’s first-ever solo tour, which included a couple of dates with…
It’s 3 o’clock in the afternoon and Post Malone has just woken up. The Southlake rapper is on his tour bus on the way from St. Louis to Louisville, and he has no idea where he is. He gives the tight, gasping cough of someone with smoke in his lungs…
DJ Titan has been a cornerstone in Dallas drum and bass for the past 15 years. He’s been a musical pilot behind the decks and producer in the studio. For this week’s mixtape, Titan digs deep for an upbeat, vocal-driven mini-mix of drum and bass featuring a few tunes from regional producers…
After you’ve decided to start ranking all the acts on the Coachella lineup, there comes a moment when you realize you’ve made a terrible mistake. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is way too big, too ambitious in scale and scope, too sonically diverse to be reduced to a…
Duran Duran With Chic American Airlines Center, Dallas Tuesday, April 19, 2016 “First there’s 1D and then there’s double D,” that is how Elizabeth Smith, a longtime Duran Duran fan, explained her 16-year-old daughter’s definitive “boy band” ranking. The pair were at American Airlines Center Tuesday night to catch Duran…
The Suffers have come a long way since they started out playing cover songs five years ago. The 10-piece “Gulf Coast soul” band from Houston started in 2011, started writing their own songs in 2013 and by 2015 had made their late-night television debut on The Late Show With David…
Oi! If you’ve got those letters tattooed on your brain, somewhere alongside the Lucky 13 tattoo you got on Friday the 13th, you probably spend a lot of time at punk shows in Dallas. That’s prone to mean a lot of time spent in Deep Ellum, but North Texas’ punk…
Smashing Pumpkins With Liz Phair Majestic Theatre, Dallas Monday, April 18, 2016 Heading into The Majestic Theatre for Monday night’s Smashing Pumpkins show, it would’ve seemed unlikely that a pair of cover songs would steal the show. With songs like “1979” and “Tonight, Tonight” to draw on, Billy Corgan and…
It didn’t sink at first with Darren Caperna that he was actually auditioning with AC/DC. As the singer of Dallas-based AC/DC tribute band Back in Black, he knew their songs inside and out. But what was happening did;t really sink in when he received a call from the band’s tour manager,…
For longtime fans of Dallas radio host Chris Jagger, their morning routine has been turned on its ear. On Friday afternoon, 102.1 FM The Edge, the station where Jagger and his various ensembles of the Jagger Mafia has hosted a morning radio show on and off since 1998, announced that…
Jeff Liles, artistic director of the Kessler Theater, discovered a trove of unseen Dallas music history when he resurrected one of his old hard drives. It contained never before seen live performances dating to the Texas International Pop Festival of 1969. The musician and talent buyer shot most of the video…
Poor Billy Corgan. He can’t seem to escape the press for too long. Whether he’s spotted frowning on a rollercoaster or starting wrestling tournaments, it seems like most days aren’t exactly the greatest for Corgan. But hopefully it can be one of your better days when you go see them at…
Old 97’s County Fair With Drive-By Truckers, Lucero, Deer Tick, Justin Townes Earle and more Main St. Garden Park, Dallas Saturday, April 16, 2016 There were times during the inaugural Old 97s County Fair when you felt certain the looming cloud cover was about to break loose all hell. Like…
Kurt Vile Granada Theater, Dallas Saturday, April 16, 2016 Participation in the Revelation of Kurt Vile wasn’t compulsory during his sold-out show at Granada Theater on Saturday night. Inviting people in wasn’t really the Philadelphia native’s objective. Much like his latest album, b’lieve i’m goin down, his goal seemed to…
Late last week, some pretty big news dropped about 102.1 The Edge’s morning show: Chris Jagger, who was on his second stint with the station, had been let go. Replacing Jagger will be The Atom Smasher Show from the Houston radio market, which takes to the airwaves on May 2…
Okay, so you blew your tax refund on a ticket to Coachella. How do you make these the best three days of your life while on a budget? It’s not easy. Last year, writer Marc Ballon asked a bunch of people how the hell they afforded Coachella. Most estimated they…
Before this week, it had been weeks — literally weeks — since we’d had a reason to write about Erykah Badu. Frankly, we were getting a little worried. The singer of a thousand names had been relatively quiet since throwing her 45th birthday bash at The Bomb Factory in February,…
