It’s always sad seeing a good bar or venue close its doors. This week we’re losing Zubar, a Greenville Avenue bar that has hosted a lot of great DJ residencies and some pretty phenomenal reggae, house and hip-hop sets in its nearly 17-year span. On the bright side, they’re throwing…
Three friends and Deep Ellum devotees hover around the polished wooden bar inside the building at 2704 Elm St. as they unwrap a package. “These are awesome,” says one. “I’m so happy with the way they turned out,” says another. Oliver Peck’s tattooed hands move swiftly for a moment before…
Austin City Limits shattered dreams this morning, as every festival eventually must, when it released its schedule for the two-weekend bash. Whereas before excited festival-goers could look at the line-up and think “I’d love to see that one! And that one! Wow, and them!,” now they must look at the…
Every six minutes another guitarist is born. Every 13 minutes another guitarist falls out of the musical spotlight and into the household one. Some polls claim there are 20 million guitarists living in America, while others claim there are 50 million if you include the ones who only know how…
This week brought some pretty promising show announcements, so scroll down to see what’s coming through DFW soon. See also: – “Canned Festival, a New Music Fest from the Makers of Untapped, Coming to Downtown Denton”…
Formed in Austin nearly a decade ago, The Sword is one of the heaviest bands to emerge from that scene. Full of monstrous guitar riffs and typically bombastic sci-fi themes, the four Sword albums are intense, thought-provoking and filled with good humor. The band’s most recent effort, Apocryphon, is a…
Last year, the teaser trailer for Filmage debuted to much acclaim. Looking back at the career of The Descendents (including the formation of All when frontman Milo Aukerman left the band), local filmmakers Matt Riggle, Deedle LaCour, Justin Wilson and James Rayburn have documented something that many punk rock fans…
Monday night, I went to a One Direction concert with my daughter. “What is One Direction?” you blessed, fortunate, blissfully unaware life-livers ask? One Direction is a highly publicized group of styled boys who gather on stage and say words into very powerful microphones to thousands upon thousands of young…
Last night, 20,000-plus fans and their parents filled the American Airlines Center to witness the world’s biggest boy band take their victory lap after almost three years of steady fan-base-building. It would be easy to talk about One Direction as a study on how watered-down pop music has become, and…
Rob Viktum is busy these days. Since we last featured one of his mixtape releases, the “Double Cupped Up” for the Dallas-based Prep Street, he has formed a label and released an excellent mixtape from Kool Quise, all while keeping folks crowded on the dance floors of Dallas from behind…
Local bookers Spune have announced the Canned Festival for the first Saturday in October, an extension of their Untapped series of festivals. These festivals aim to combine high quality music and alcohol into one intoxicating day out. After the success of the Fort Worth event, there’s also been a Dallas…
It’s Monday, so it’s as good a time as any for you to peruse this quick grab-bag of local music news hastily cobbled together with no agenda or real thought. Do you have a few minutes to care about your local music scene? Good, because it just so happens that…
“The best part of the show was when Big Sean was on the stage,” one crowd member told me Saturday night. “The worst part of the show was when Big Sean wasn’t on the stage.” Well, yeah, I guess that sums up the Big Sean, Roscoe Dash and Yung Nation…
Dallas is hot and the Gulf of Mexico is three and a half hours away. But we make do in true Dallas style: with shiny, man-made solutions in the form of an impressive array of pools. Some are obvious and open to the general public, others are not. But nightlife…
In the late ’80s/early ’90s, if you wanted to become a guitarslinger but couldn’t afford lessons, your options were limited to guitar tab in a magazine like Guitar World or Guitar One, your old man or some other drunken family member willing to show you a chord or two before…
Dallas is home to one of the richest religious music scenes in the country. Over the summer, we’ll be attending services, both big and small, of many denominations, as well talking to musicians, directors and pastors. “Today is a celebration,” Patrick Ryan Clark tells the audience. “So let’s celebrate.” Dressed…
Editor: The days of constant sweat are upon us. Fortunately, Dallas has an especially fine array of pools. Some are easy to find, some are … less so. Deb Doing Dallas has a way with these things, fortunately, and she’ll be leading you on a tour of pretty much every…
In America, politics and music have been tied together since the very beginning. Benjamin Franklin played multiple instruments, including the violin, harp and guitar, and he even invented one: the glass harmonica. Thomas Jefferson, who played the violin, used music to woo his wife, Martha, who played the piano. To…
The Velvet Underground’s classic song “Rock & Roll” tells a story of a 5-year-old girl falling in love with the music coming from her radio: Young Susie, whose life was changed by rock ‘n’ roll. This week, the tale will resonate deeply with a group of Dallas-area girls. Girls Rock…
Not only do you have this list of awesome shows to see around DFW this week, but you should know that Fuzzy’s Taco Shop opens in Deep Ellum on Monday, so if you live in that neighborhood, “taco” will soon become a verb in your life. See also: – “Johnny…
Editor: The days of constant sweat are upon us. Fortunately, Dallas has an especially fine array of pools. Some are easy to find, some are … less so. Deb Doing Dallas has a way with these things, fortunately, and she’ll be leading you on a tour of pretty much every…
Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs has one of most distinctive voices in rock. Equal parts David Bowie and Johnny Rotten, Butler’s jagged croon can convey the intensities involved with love and regret with the phrasing of a single syllable. Amazingly, after nearly four decades rasping out hits such as…
