Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters With the Sonics The Bomb Factory, Dallas Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Think of Robert Plant and his decade-plus run with Led Zeppelin, and images of pure hedonism are likely to spring to mind. Flowing hair, open shirts exposing bare chests, metal-heavy riffs, fables…
Twenty-four years ago, Street Arabs guitarist and Carnival Barker’s Ice Creams owner Aaron Barker lost his grandfather, Hub Barker, to lung cancer. For all those years since, Aaron Barker had been without his grandfather’s most prized possessions: his guitars. Until last week. Hub Barker lived near Oklahoma City and…
St. Patrick’s day is known for lots of things: funny hats, fake Irish accents and killer concerts. So, as we find ourselves on the verge of everyone’s favorite excuse to drink green beer, we wanted to help get everyone in the mood by highlighting some of the best Irish- and/or…
It’s Saturday night and there are six women sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the stage of Louie Louie’s Piano Bar in Deep Ellum. Beside the women, who are celebrating a birthday, there are two pianists playing “Dick in a Box.” A guy who looks very much like Jason Schwartzman circa 2007 gyrates…
35 Denton With Charles Bradley, Biz Markie, Eliot Sumner and more Downtown Denton Friday to Sunday, March 11 to 13, 2016 A 35 Denton without rain? You’ve got to be kidding. Aside from a little drizzle early on Friday night, the weather cooperated all weekend up in Denton — a…
At some point Saturday you’ll see him. He’ll be making his way to the DART, either through the efforts of a friend or a miffed girlfriend. One shoe will be missing, the green hat he’s wearing will be askew, and the festive holiday tank top he purchased from Target will…
With last week centered around hip-hop shows, this week is absolutely stacked with rock from every subgenre. You’ve got the classics with Robert Plant, and his spiritual descendants with Wolfmother. Their garage and punk grandchildren will be lining the bill at Spillover, while Killswitch Engage and Deftones are the weird…
Future With Ty Dolla $ign South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, March 11, 2016 The busiest rapper in the world took a no-nonsense approach to his latest Dallas stop in support of his newest mixtape Purple Reign at the South Side Ballroom Friday night. The 32-year-old Atlantan has been on Beast…
Today’s the big day for KISS fans of North Texas: Nearly eight months after plans were first unveiled, Rock & Brews, the restaurant franchise owned by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, opens the doors on its newest location in The Colony. The newest addition to the quickly growing Grandscape development,…
Richard Haskins and his band the Wee Beasties were scheduled to play at J&Js Pizza in Denton on Friday as part of the opening night of music for this year’s 35 Denton festival. But he never got as far as performing, as he was apprehended around 10 p.m. for charges…
It had been almost a year since Natalie Johnson had lost her husband, DJ Whiz T, when she realized she was going to have to sell his beloved record and sports memorabilia collections. Whiz T, a beloved member of the hip-hop community and the official DJ of the Dallas Mavericks,…
Before anyone had any idea who Granger Smith was, Earl Dibbles Jr. was the king of the Internet. A purveyor of sassy country memes and parody videos, Dibbles is Smith’s longtime alter-ego, a character created by the Dallas singer and his brother as a sort of tongue-in-cheek celebration of rural…
Marathons & Unicorns may not be Denton’s newest band, but they very well may be its youngest. Midlake keyboardist Eric Nichelson fronts the band on guitar, synth and vocals, and while he’s 40 years old himself, he’s joined by his two songs, Owen and Tate, who are just 12 and…
Gabriel Mendoza is a DJ’s DJ. A crate digger’s crate digger. From punk to metal to psyche to funk to Britpop to disco to Krautrock and beyond, he is a hard man to stump. Mendoza has the keen ability to find infectious funk in the places few choose to even…
It doesn’t really feel like festival season in North Texas until 35 Denton rolls around. Sure, there was a year in there where they went on hiatus, and sure, Thin Line Fest already happened last month with its mix of film and live music. But when 35 Denton rolls out…
Fetty Wap With Post Malone House of Blues, Dallas Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Fetty Wap and Post Malone have a lot of in common these days. Both singer-rappers had breakout years in 2015, both rising up the Billboard Hot 100 and both doing so on the strength of viral hits…
The saga over Kesha’s ongoing battle to free herself from the man she says drugged and raped her is nothing new for Dallas music fans. But new comments from Burleson star Kelly Clarkson may be more damning, not only for her accused rapist, Dr. Luke, but for Sony Music as…
A more fitting album-opening line has rarely been offered by a band, local or otherwise, than the one on Lift to Experience’s The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads: “This is the story of three Texas boys busy minding their own business,” sang Josh T. Pearson, “when the Angel of the Lord appeared.” Better yet, it…
Being the shortest month of the year, February often flies right by, and it was no exception this year. But it didn’t just have to do with the number of days in the month this time (it was a leap year, after all). In Dallas music, there was a hell…
We’re a week into March, which probably means one of two things for Dallas music fans: You’re either preemptively popping Xanax to brace yourself for South by Southwest in Austin or else saying to hell with it and preemptively popping Xanax to deal with the insanity of St. Patrick’s Day…
David Wiley and Rachel Roberts have a dream to enrich downtown Dallas with a new wave of street musicians. Buskers are already regular fixtures at night in Deep Ellum, playing music for tips from passersby, but Wiley and Roberts want to do more than just bring busking to downtown and…
Mavis Staples With Nick Lowe Kessler Theater, Dallas Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, 2016 Mavis Staples is showing no signs of slowing down. With 66 years into a legendary career, the gospel and soul icon celebrated the release of her first-ever feature length documentary and 15th solo album…
