Whether you want to chalk it up to sexism or the reality of the music business or both, there just aren’t as many women in country music as there are men. In Dallas, that seems to be particularly true. Outside of a few incredible examples, like the recently-relocated-to-Nashville Amber Farris…
97.9 The Beat’s Dub Car Show With Future, Kevin Gates, Mike Jones and more Dallas Convention Center, Dallas Sunday, June 14, 2015 “It smells like popcorn and weed in here.” “Oooooooh this my shit!” —Both overheard at the DUB Car Show on Sunday American car culture is a fascinating thing…
It’s been a while. It’s been a long while. The last time that Belle and Sebastian played Dallas was even longer ago than the last time Jack White played here — which is saying something. By our count, it’s been almost a decade. But that’s about to change this August,…
The messiah is coming. The Black Messiah, in D’angelo that is. He’s been a recluse a bit through the years but his surprise album was one of the best to drop last year and word on the streets is his live show is more than up to par. Stellar even…
The Sonics With Mind Spiders Texas Theatre, Dallas Saturday, June 13, 2015 The best things in life are often worth the wait, but in the case of the Sonics this was an unusually long one. The legendary garage rock band, who made their first run as a band in the…
Nestled in a converted two-car garage in Tarrant County, Cool Devices has become a hot spot for locals and out-of-towners to record their material. Owned and operated by members of the band Radioactivity, the studio doesn’t advertise its location and it only has a Facebook page up with an e-mail…
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eddie Money, Blue Öyster Cult Verizon Theatre June 12, 2015 If you went Lynyrd Skynyrd’s show at Verizon Theatre on Friday night expecting to find much evidence of today’s political and racial tensions, well, you came away empty-handed. For all the band’s Confederate flag-waving and good-old-boy pretenses, this…
There’s a time in the life of every self-proclaimed party band when a certain degree of (shall we say) “partyability” has been reached, and the various venues that play host become almost interchangeable — the shape of the glass can’t change the liquid being poured inside. Doesn’t matter if it’s…
Yesterday, Ornette Coleman died. Let that sink in. Ornette Coleman has died. According to a family representative, he fell to cardiac arrest. He was 85. The composer, saxophonist, violinist and trumpeter has over fifty records to his name, a good bit of which can rightly be called masterpieces. His career…
Before there was any so-called Texas Country craze, dating back to the mid-1980s, Robert Earl Keen was packing honky-tonks and bars around the state with his brand of blended folk, rock and country. There’s little doubt that many Keen classics, primarily, the epic “Road Goes on Forever,” and the drunkenly…
You’ve earned this weekend. Congrats. There’s some awesome stuff as far as concerts go. Lynyrd Skynyrd is playing an awesomely classic-rock-radio-friendly show at Verizon with Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money. Oil Boom is playing at Shipping and Receiving. Sarah Jaffe has a free show in Arlington. Garage rock forefathers…
Sprawled out on the couches of Deep Ellum’s Ferralog Recording Studios, Moon Waves emit a restless post-practice ambience. Two members are singing at each other in dueling monologues, arms raised skyward, while a third sips on a glass bottle soda. A fourth laughs as she watches her bandmates goof around…
Back in 2013, a screening was held in Deep Ellum for 45, a documentary on the scorching local punk band Spector 45. As great as the band was, the tragic deaths of guitarist and vocalist Frankie Campagna and bassist Adam Carter loomed large over the band’s story. The documentary (which…
The next big thing, it seems, is getting booze delivered straight to your doorstep and like seemingly everything these days, from an application on your phone. Drizly, a start up founded in Boston in 2013that allows you to do what was mentioned above, is the latest start up that’s already…
Benjamin Booker Trees, Dallas Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Along with the yesterday’s torrential downpour and violent thunder clatter came N’awlins singer and guitarist Benjamin Booker. It’s been a long eight months since Booker graced Dallas with his presence, but boy, he made up for his absence. Booker’s penchant for growling,…
Splitting his time between Lubbock, Houston and Dallas, Michael Duncan has seen his share of DJ decks. Coming from a largely alt-rock background, he discovered house music in the ’90s and never looked back. Stylistically Duncan is not limited to house music and can be found DJing everything from new…
This was supposed to be the year Frank Turrentine planted rice and sorghum on his land. His garden was set to be twice as big as before, but it’s not going to happen. The May showers came and made a river of his driveway on his property out in Milsap,…
10. Abbey Underground Monday night karaoke at the Abbey Underground in Denton is probably the best place in town to embarrass yourself onstage. This oft-overlooked basement bar has solid acoustics, pocket change-level beer prices and almost zero cell reception – meaning you probably won’t have to worry about discovering video…
For eight years, talent buyer John Iskander has been synonymous with his production company, Parade of Flesh, which has evolved into a very specific brand of live entertainment. But he also has other endeavors, like booking free shows at The Foundry, a bar paired with The Chicken Scratch restaurant. As…
The Mountain Goats With Pinkish Black The Kessler Theater, Dallas Monday, June 8, 2015 In 1985, Dusty Rhodes delivered what is widely considered the greatest speech in the history of pro wrestling when he dressed down Ric Flair in the infamous “Hard Times” promo. So it made perfect sense that…
Nigel Rivers may be the most nomadic bass player in Dallas. His abnormal versatility, which covers seemingly every genre in the musical spectrum, leads him to continuously roam various cities of the world with a range of different artists. It’s uncommon for a for-hire musician to make a name for…
Much has changed about hip hop over the years, but at least one thing has always been a constant: bragging rights. The G.O.A.T. debate is one that will rage on forever, impossible to ever conclude definitively (well, okay, the answer is Rakim). But there will always ways to stake claim…
