When it comes to dub music in Dallas, there’s no one else who does it quite like Sub Oslo. Their live show blows away all conceptions of the typical band in a club experience, a sensory overload of sights, sound and vibrations. Bass sounds shake and rattle the room like…
Trash Talk With Ratking and Lee Bannon Club Dada, Dallas Tuesday, February 17, 2015 There are varying levels of crazy in this world. It can range anywhere from the harmless, muttering-nonsense-to-yourself kind to the murderous, going-to-kill-the-next-person-you-see variety and anywhere in between. Bouncing gleefully between those poles is Sacramento hardcore band…
It’s still early going but already 2015 is shaping up to be a banner year for music festivals in North Texas. Much has changed in the past couple years, thanks in no small part to the recent hiatus of 35 Denton, which had led the way for local fests for…
Last spring, Dallas rapper Buffalo Black was scrolling Instagram on his phone when a post caught his eye. It was from noted director Spike Lee. He needed independent artists for his next film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, which was being financed through Kickstarter. Lee asked for artists to email…
Rick Simpson keeps a low profile. Not one to promote or push his skills on anyone, he has been a staple in the regional DJ scene for almost a quarter century under aliases like Ricky Silk and R9. He’s collaborated with local wunderkind Cygnus and dropped a track on wax…
For someone living in the relative comforts of a city like Dallas, it’s easy to take music and the arts for granted. But for free jazz trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, who visited Crown & Harp last night for the weekly Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions and is the featured guest tonight at…
Trash Talk, the hardcore punk band from Sacramento, California, has a reputation. Like, a walk around, always screaming reputation. A leave a fan bloodied reputation. A start a mosh pit, rad reputation. Since their inception in 2005, they’ve been putting on shows that ought to require fans to sign a…
The Wild Detectives is hidden near Zang and 8th in Oak Cliff, and has been opened for the better part of a year. The burnt-orange house converted into a cozy bookstore serves espresso, local beer and has hundreds of those antique objects with paper pages called books. They even have…
Piero Rossini, the man behind one-man electronic act Peladini, is a true nomad. From Florida and Lima, Peru, Rossini has led an unlikely journey that has only seen him firmly plant foot here in the Dallas music scene in the past couple months. Even in a music scene that thrives…
Sarah Jaffe With S1, Blue the Misfit and Sam Lao Trees, Dallas Friday, February 13, 2015 For many people, their first introduction to Sarah Jaffe was hearing “Clementine” performed in an intimate Denton venue like Dan’s Silverleaf. After the release of Suburban Nature in 2010, people quickly crowned the soulful,…
When it comes to concerts in North Texas this week the biggest single event of the week may not be in Dallas, but rather in Denton. The Thin Line Film Fest has a wonderful music bill that includes Devin the Dude, Joe Ely, Blue, the Misfit and local expats Seryn…
Bob Seger With Heartless Bastards American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, February 12, 2015 Every time I go to a show at American Airlines Center (counting Thursday night’s Bob Seger concert, I’ve been to four), I have that one friend who says something like, “Ugh. Why? I’d rather see a band…
Last Friday night marked a homecoming for one of the Dallas dance music community’s prodigal sons. DJ Brett Johnson was born and raised right here in North Texas, but for several years now he’s made his home on the other side of the Atlantic in dance-crazed Berlin. On Friday, he…
That time of year is already upon us: Time for the suburban music festivals to announce their 2015 lineups. (Pinch us!) Granted, there are fewer for us to choose from this year thanks to the uncertain future of Suburbia Music Fest, which lost the support of LiveNation after its first…
Valentine’s Day is on Saturday. If you’re solo and lonely, there’s a quick fix. You can pay money for someone to pretend to be your girlfriend or boyfriend for $30. If that prospect doesn’t scare you enough, then remember this: Tonight is also Friday the 13th. But never fear, there…
North Dallas isn’t usually the kind of place you’d go to for a fun night out on the town. Amongst the sprawling grid of lower-to-middle-class households and apartments, strip malls, pawn shops and other respectable businesses, this area has almost always been a void of culture. But, as unlikely as…
Kanye is an artist! Respect his artistry! Oh wait, sorry, wrong thread. What we meant to say is, what the hell does Kanye West have up his sleeve this time? The pied piper of pop music and Taylor Swift’s unofficial new BFF has been tweeting the website Yeezy.supply for just…
It’s hard to name a more unforeseen story in the music industry than the recent resurgence of the vinyl LP. With vinyl record sales increasing at astronomic rates (up over 50% since 2013 alone), opportunistic major labels that had abandoned the format years ago have been promoting limited re-releases and…
Valentine’s Day is coming up. It’s a holiday that celebrates love and puts an immense amount on both single and coupled people. I feel dirty using the word “coupled.” There’s so much stuff to consider. Why am I single? Will she marry me? Why am I not getting any Tinder…
True Widow has garnered international acclaim for their glacially paced drum section, haunting, reverb-soaked vocals and shoegazey brand of stoner rock. But behind the smoke and mirrors is guitarist Dan Phillips, a pivotal force in the three-piece’s wall of sound, who actually only moonlights as a musician. “The band is something…
Alice Cooper Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Tuesday, February 10, 2015 When it comes to Alice Cooper, there are two indisputable facts. 1.) His Miliii-wau-kee cameo in Wayne’s World was one of the best and most memorable cameos of all time; and 2.) The man knows how to put on one…
Andrew Barton, aka M3SA, straddles the fine line between four on the floor and U.K. bass music. As a producer and DJ, he pays homage to the various sides of floor-friendly club music without being allegiant to any one in particular. M3SA approaches electronic from more of a producer’s point…
