Loyal Sally is a band that knows how to make a music video. It’s a dying art in a media age where there aren’t dedicated cable channels drawing in viewers, exposing them to new bands that ticket buyers can obsess over. You wouldn’t know it by watching Dallas native Loyal…
Festival season is upon us, and the draw of Austin’s South X Southwest is pulling on you hard. There’s a problem, though. Either you can’t make it to Austin, or you don’t have the money, or you think that the whole thing has just become too corporate, man. Well, don’t…
More than 300 students turned out for Pseudo Stereo Showcase, a concert organized by the University of Texas at Dallas’ radio department, Radio UTD. The sun was still out as the stage was being prepared for the night, and more people gathered at The Plinth, a common area at UTD…
We have known since the ’00s that the country/hip-hop musical hybrid was a failed experiment, yet for some reason, it keeps being executed tastelessly. Kid Rock, Martina McBride and T.I. did it in 2010 with “Care.” Carrie Underwood and Ludacris did it last year with “The Champion.” Brad Paisley and LL…
If The Killers show at The Bomb Factory is any sort of teaser, then we may see some more of the KAABOO artists book shows at area venues this May. That show and many more highlight this week’s concert announcements. Read ahead where some really interesting artists are being spotlighted…
Rosegarden Funeral Party is back with a new video, and this time they’re out to conquer darkness and save the world. The song “Once in a While” is their latest single, and though the band has not yet decided on a home for the track on any particular release, they…
Thyroids’ new EP, Gelatinous Happiness, is what you need in your life when you’re on your way to work in the morning. The band has been around since 2014. Along with their two previous releases, Gnarlands and Oh Well, this third EP brings their total recorded output just over the…
Dallas-based hip-hop producer Sikwitit has hit his stride over the last five years. He’s won numerous beat battle tournaments, produced the lion’s share of Bobby Sessions’ RVLTN (Chapter 1) and crafted tracks for Snow Tha Product, Dave East and 21 Savage, to name a few. It’s arguable his most impressive achievement…
Michael Zamora’s project Posival has been keeping him busy since he was 18. Now six years later, he and the band are just now releasing their first single, “Songbird,” from their sprawling, 16-track unnamed album. For him, the single and forthcoming album are the culmination of many years of thought…
After having dressed some of Dallas’ most well-known musicians, including Bobby Sessions and Dorrough, it was only a matter of time before Charles Smith II’s designs received the coveted Knowles seal of approval. Last Friday, Solange released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home. The album was accompanied by…
Last week, there was vagueness circulating via social media surrounding future in-stores at Good Records. Jeff Tweedy’s performance on Saturday would be one of the last “Live from the Astroturf” events, which seemed a little odd to hear at first. But now it makes a lot of sense, because we…
If over the next few days anyone who sat inside the Majestic Theatre on Sunday night comes up to you and starts raving about the Jeff Tweedy concert — well, just bear this in mind. “I’ve been telling everyone at these shows — it might be the greatest show, but…
Concert photographer Mike Brooks has come to be regarded as a Dallas institution. Known for his wide-angled, dynamic and dramatic visual storytelling, when he shows up to an event, its stock rises. Every night after shooting, he drives for over an hour to get to his house in the country…
It’s hard to believe that one of Dallas’ smallest record stores happens to be run by one of the city’s biggest characters. Bucks Burnett has been in the business of buying and selling vintage records and memorabilia for over three decades. And at his current store, 14 Records, Burnett spares…
This week’s highlights include Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y, who are on a special one-month tour and stop through Dallas on Thursday night – 10 years after first collaborating on the 2009 mixtape How Fly. North Texas native and Grammy-nominated Kacey Musgraves plays The Bomb Factory on Friday night. And Denton’s Backyard…
A classic rock icon bids farewell, a funky guitarist makes a local appearance and a couple of outdoor amphitheater shows light up the summer schedule in this week’s concert announcements. All that and more are ahead. Classic British rock band The Psychedelic Furs are appearing at The Granada Theater on…
Although they had performed in Dallas three times the year before, there was something different about the March 3, 1994, Green Day concert at Trees in Deep Ellum. The Bay Area punk trio had just released Dookie on Reprise Records, its first major label release. The fans, zines and artists…
The inaugural KAABOO Texas festival, scheduled for Friday-Sunday, May 10-12 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, unveiled its daily artist lineup and announced that single-day passes will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. When the initial artist lineup dropped Jan. 17, people raised eyebrows and voiced skepticism, but the Del…
Fort Worth-based band Quaker City Night Hawks found themselves in a social media slipstream a few years ago. Thanks in part to a few celebrity shoutouts and their genre-bending 2016 release, El Astronauta, the band have gone from hometown heroes to renowned rock ’n’ rollers. And after a short break,…
To his peers and fans, Hayes Carll fits right in Texas’ rich heritage of singer-songwriters. Like his predecessors Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Robert Earl Keen, Carll is visceral yet intellectual, with well-placed wit and humor to lighten the mood between songs that tackle the trouble on his mind…
The Pops Carter All-Star Band will honor the music of late Denton blues icon Tom “Pops” Carter with a free show Thursday at Dan’s Silverleaf. Show starts at 9 p.m. Before the show, the Denton Public Art Committee, Greater Denton Art Council and Denton community members will unveil a restored…
When you’re a fairly unknown local act, it’s no secret there is more money playing cover songs instead of playing your own. Familiar tunes in a cover band or tribute act situation is an easier sell at a large venue like the House of Blues or the Granada. For musicians…
