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Black Tie Dynasty, The Burning Hotels, Airline

Saturday, March 28, at the Granada Theater

By Rich Lopez
Mar 26, 2009

Rumors are a given for any band. Take Black Tie Dynasty's breakup, for instance. When that announcement came, the rumors were everywhere, some touching on trouble with former label Idol Records, others implying a bizarre love triangle involving Smile Smile (thanks DC9 commenters!). Whether those tales were true is something...
Melodica Music Festival Out to "Light a Fire Under Dallas' Ass"

By Rich Lopez
Feb 21, 2008

From within the confines of his East Dallas apartment, Wanz Dover is foreseeing the future. He sayeth the Dallas music scene is on the precipice of something huge—like the coming of a cultural savior. Tectonic plates under the city itself will quake to reawaken the music gods that have slept...
Ricki Derek Does It His Way

Sinatra is dead. Long live Ricki Derek.

By Rich Lopez
Dec 6, 2007

Frank Sinatra would have understood. When Lady Luck blows on your dice, you have to take your shot. For Ricki Derek, good fortune came grimly on May 14, 1998, the day Sinatra died. The next night, Derek was debuting his new jazz lounge act at Club Clearview, performing the sort...
Lovie

Harshmellow (Self-released)

By Rich Lopez
Nov 15, 2007

Dallas band Lovie's indie debut Harshmellow doesn't evoke a girl-band aesthetic just because they are...um...girls; rather, it borrows heavily from the alternative pop that hit and flourished in the past 20 years from the (girl band) Go-Go's to (girly-lead-singer band) The Lemonheads to (boyish-girl-lead-singer band) The Cranberries. Lovie has developed...
IAMX, The Hourly Radio

Tuesday, November 6, at Club Dada

By Rich Lopez
Nov 1, 2007

Much to the dismay of metroplex hipster emos and grunge rock zealots, indie popsters The Hourly Radio may just be the next big band out of Dallas. They are making all the right moves with videos on the MTV-U channel and gracing American Eagle Outfitters' Web site with free music...
Lovie (CD Release), MC Router, Sunward, Golden Bear

Saturday, November 3, at Club Dada

By Rich Lopez
Nov 1, 2007

There is no doubt that all future reviews and articles will somehow incorporate the "clever" remark "people will fall in love with Lovie." The thing is, it's true. This all-girl, oops, all-female band harkens to the day of the Go-Go's and Veruca Salt, with aggressive guitars, head-bopping beats and vintage...
Mini-Spinners

Tweeners the Goldfish Girls can werk it

By Rich Lopez
Sep 20, 2007

Lunchroom chat amongst grade-school kids is an anthropological goldmine. The insight into what kids find of utmost, urgent importance could provide a glimpse of the forming future of America. Imagine this conversation in the lunchroom of W.E Greiner Middle School in Oak Cliff (paraphrased, of course). Student One: "Yeah, I...
Girls' Night Out

The boys of She-Dick don their fake boobs, drag names and lady detective personas

By Rich Lopez
Jul 12, 2007

The last thing my parents would expect at this point in my life is me spending the evening with a woman. However, I can't say that a night out with three women would go over well with them either. Well, maybe my dad, but that's just how men are. On...
Life and Death

A Christian venue hopes to resurrect Deep Ellum

By Rich Lopez
Jan 18, 2007

The death of Deep Ellum is now more of a simple catchphrase than an actual event, nothing more than a selling point for folks reopening closed venues and then climbing on the cross as the resuscitator of the old girl. How many times will people say "Deep Ellum is dead"?...
The Beatdown

Judging by his huge remix portfolio, Junior Vasquez is a house music senior

By Rich Lopez
Jul 20, 2006

Oh the places a mix tape can take you. From homemade mixes to DJing private parties for artist Keith Haring, Junior Vasquez pushed aside his dreams of working in fashion to become the big daddy of DJ culture. Vasquez, who makes his Dallas debut Saturday night, gained fast popularity in...