It’s 2015, people. Get over whatever bullshit 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. Let’s embrace our inner fabulous and…
The life of a talent buyer seems glamorous, but it’s much harder than you think. Wrangling up artists, venues, fans, and the relevant authorities is no easy task, which means that the folks that bring Dallas its best live shows are some of the hardest working people in the music…
Remember way back when Sufjan Stevens claimed he was going to write an album each for all 50 states in the Union? Those were the days. He was the naive, fresh-faced folkie with the completely impractical, overly ambitious dream, and people loved him for it. Then he got weird, said…
The Suffers Make Some Room EP Release with the Tontons and Fat Tony Club Dada, Dallas Sunday, January 25, 2015 “…Damn. Daaamn. DAMN. DAYUM!” Those were the words Kam Franklin belted out last night at Club Dada as The Suffers cooly dropped their version of Outkast’s “SpottieOttieDopaliscious” in a room…
We’re a few weeks into 2015 now and mostly settling into our post-New Years ruts. Er, grooves. We’ve either started following through on whatever resolutions we set for ourselves or already decided, “What the hell, I didn’t want to have to exert myself anyways.” Either way, good for us. But…
The big event on the table this week is Super Bowl Sunday. The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will face off in Glendale, Arizona to determine who is the world champion of a sport played exclusively in the United States of America for the most part. So, there’s that…
For years now, “Big Gus” Samuelson has been as busy a musician as can be found in North Texas. Whether he’s playing with his longtime band Swampadelic or flying solo, Samuelson, who also works as a DJ on KHYI 95.3 FM (we even gave him an award for it!), currently…
Billy Joel With Jamie Cullum American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, January 22, 2014 I’ll tell you straight up: Billy Joel can do whatever the hell he wants. He’s been a shape-shifting musician throughout his mainstream career. He’s had about as many musical styles as any good chameleon should. His first…
The working week is over. It’s time to party and there’s a bunch of options to do so this weekend. Grammy Award winning band, Snarky Puppy, is putting on a show of a side projects from the members of the band. Post-rock band This Will Destroy You will hit the…
Legends come in many forms. For Shaka, it came as a three-round rifle burst of projectile vomit. It’s the kind of spectacle that stuns bar patrons and catapults you from a random out-of-town band directly to cult status. That level of infamy that causes a venue to beg you to…
Dallas and Houston have a bit of a rivalry going on. Montrose vs. Lower Greenville. Texans vs. Cowboys. Bla vs. Bla. Blah Blah. Who Cares vs. *Fart Noise*. Let’s get to the real matters of substance, the pressing questions, the logical debates. Simply put: Which city has a better hip-hop…
A few blocks down from the intersection of Washington Street and San Jacinto Road, outside Bryan Street Apartments, Donny Domino loiters on his phone. He’s speaking to Freddy Sans, the producer/engineer-directed singer, at the Dojo 45 recording studio. It is here that the Team From Nowhere sound is created and…
It doesn’t take anything more than a few people, a couple of instruments, and a little inspiration to put a band together. Usually, though, there is some vision, some guiding force like a genre or message that compels musicians to get together and start making music. In the case of…
Foley may be the most accomplished musician in Dallas that you’ve never heard of. He’s toured with George Clinton, Miles Davis, and performed with several bands on the 1993 Lollapalooza tour. He recorded albums for Motown and performed on countless talk shows and award shows. At 52, Foley, who grew…
Colin Theall is amongst the younger talents in the Dallas DJ scene to emerge in the past few years. Theall is very much a product of the newer generation of DJs. That’s not always an advantage, but in Theall’s case he has a gifted ear for solid floor tracks, tracks…
What do we mean by “bro bar?” More specifically, what do we mean by “best?” (Guess we didn’t use up all of our irony with the Best Hipster Bars list.) Well, it’s a funny question. For a large segment of the population, “bro bar” means plaid shorts, beer pong and…
Sure, we’ve already handed out the DOMA trophies, and we had a hell of a good time in doing so. Just because the showcase and the ceremony have past doesn’t mean we’re ready to stop celebrating the artists that were worthy of DOMA-love. So, let’s tip a hat, a glass…
Okay, this one’s just kind of funny. Don’t get us wrong, we loved the ’90s. But in a strange way, we love ’90s reunion tours even more than we loved the real thing back in the day. Why’s that? Because with reunion tours you get something hilarious like a New…
Sometimes, periods of inactivity and awaiting inspiration are the perfect breeding ground for an artist’s best and transcendent material. For the garage-punk energy of Oklahoma’s Broncho, their pop-laden fortitude lay dormant in tangible form for three years between the release of their debut LP, Can’t Get Past the Lips, and…
Amid the clatter of diner plates, Claire Morales methodically eviscerates her waffle into equal-sized square morsels, explaining that she’s trying to be a “cutting ahead” waffle person instead of a “cut as you go” type. As a graphic designer by trade, it’s definitely not the strangest habit she could have…
Google “police kill unarmed black man” and it garners about 3,560,000 results in 0.38 seconds. This is an issue that further divides America. Police are more or less one of the top three most trusted professions in the country. There are those who trust the police force unquestionably and unconditionally,…
It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day today. You can do a number of things to pay homage to the civil rights activist like watch Selma, read up on his legacy or just plain be nice to one another. I suggest buying and reading How To Be Black, a satirical…
