The tectonic house beats of “Apollo 11” by Cody Currie or “Good People – Director’s Cut Signature Mix” by Marko Militano shake the wooden dance floor and leather booths. Fluorescent lights timed to the music reflect from disco balls. The packed crowd bobs and bounces and dances to the enveloping,…
It’s about noon on the West Coast when Cypress Hill’s agent calls in to connect with founding member Sen Dog. “I had a proper wake and bake for breakfast,” he says, “so I’m good.” Cypress Hill will play Aug. 6 at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory with opening support…
Cure for Paranoia just released its first EP. Kind of. The collective put the eight-track By Any Means Necessary on Soundcloud in April 2020, but it was accessible only via a private link: You donated some money and Cameron McCloud (Cure for Paranoia’s frontman) sent you the link. But the…
This week in live North Texas music brings a grand opening and a grand closing. As Tulips in Fort Worth celebrates its official grand opening after a pandemic year, J&J’s Pizza in Denton prepares to close its doors for good with a series of incredible shows. Legends both local and…
There’s a moment 2 minutes and 22 seconds into ZZ Top’s masterpiece “La Grange” that often goes unnoticed. It’s something normally only hardcore music nerds would catch, but it’s worth pointing out because anyone who has ever danced, driven, drank, deviated or created children to “La Grange” has felt the…
Spanish author Benjamin Villegas had never traveled to El Paso, but he figured it would be the perfect spot to set his punk rock novel. Out now in a new English translation from Deep Vellum Publishing and with a foreword by El Paso punk rocker Beto O’Rourke, ELPASO: A Punk Story is…
Zach Person was a skateboarding kid in North Carolina when his friends turned him on to the music of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. He was enticed by the sounds of the electric guitar, and when he began to take lessons, he took inspiration from BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn and…
“It leaks, it squeaks, it creaks” is how regulars describe a longtime cherished Denton venue, beneath a pizza joint in a basement, its musical history memorialized in the graffiti on its walls by local and touring bands and concertgoers over the years.
During Game 6 of the Milwaukee Bucks-Phoenix Suns NBA finals, Beats By Dre unveiled a commercial starring 21-year-old track superstar Sha’Carri Richardson, whose 10.86-second run recently set the record for the women’s 100-yard dash at the U.S. Olympic track field trials only to be barred from the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games after…
Dallas was the first stop for the rescheduled Hella Mega tour led by three of emo’s legendary acts, Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer, all in one show at the Rangers’ swanky new home base, Globe Life Field. Despite the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in North Texas, the virus…
The world’s greatest rock and roll band is returning to Dallas
Oddly, the year 2021 is seeing a resurgence of Beatlemania, with Peter Jackson’s docuseries Beatles: Get Back headed to Disney+ this Thanksgiving.
This week, North Texas sees the return of the first major act to cancel in response to the pandemic.
The most common images that come to mind when we think of prog rock are probably those of lavishly dressed Englishmen: Keith Emerson adorned in full chainmail regalia, making violent love to his keyboards in
front of a sold-out stadium; Chris Squire in a lavender jumpsuit and accompanying magenta cape, attacking his bass with such fury that one wrong note may cause a rip in the space-time continuum; Peter Gabriel fully immersed in his onstage roles as a fox, a flower, an alien overlord, or whatever this is.
The thing about being a musician in a band is that their mastery is constantly developing as they refer back to old material.
It’s been a head-spinning year-and-a-half and it’s time for our bodies to follow suit, so dust off your old skates and channel your inner Roller Girl, because DJs Blake Ward and Sober are having a party.
Jason Mraz wrote his seventh studio album back in 2019. Although it didn’t receive rave reviews from music critics upon its release in June 2020, Look For The Good turned out to be 12 tracks of pure, wholesome reggae sunshine that served up the feel-good vibes we desperately needed during…
It’s been two years since Dallas-based Luna Luna last released an album.
Blame it all on my roots, but I’ll be damned if there isn’t something special about the “second golden age” of country music, the neotraditional wave of line dancin’, hat tippin’ and boot scootin’ hillbilly music of the late 1980s to mid ’90s.
Dallas-based artist manager Lorenzo Zenteno wants to shine a light on Latinx and Hispanic artists.
There are only two instances that rapper Auntie AJ can recall when someone had a problem with a live performance of his song “Fuck White People,” a ditty he’s performed “literally over 100 times” in shows and concerts.
This is one of those weekends that many people have been looking forward to for a variety of reasons, happy and sad.
