To stand inside a Foo Fighters show — amid the lights and lasers, smoke machines and drummers rising nearly to the rafters — is to understand how the band has endured, however improbably, for nearly 25 years. The reason is simple: Frontman Dave Grohl and his bandmates show up and…
Charley Crockett loves Deep Ellum. “Here’s the thing,” Crockett began at his concert Friday night. “Whether you know it or not, this is the most important city in the world. I’m talking about the contributions to music of Deep Ellum. Let’s boogie.” Just before his declaration, as the curtain came…
Fans still have to wait two months to hear 5 Seconds of Summer’s third album, but that didn’t stop the boys from giving Thursday night’s audience a sneak peek of what’s to come. “We have a third record coming, out and we just couldn’t wait,” says Michael Clifford, the lead…
Allow us to tell you something: Weed is popular. Stacy, from the movie The Wood, said it best: “Weed is universal. You name me one race that don’t smoke bud.” We decided to reach out to a few Dallas burlesque performers for a friendly inquisition about cannabis. In celebration of…
It’s an album anniversary for Lauryn Hill, and she plans to celebrate with a stop in Dallas. Elsewhere, the Kessler Theater snags a pair of cool shows, the multi-band package tours continue to roll in and a few cool shows pop up on the club calendars. The Loudwire Gen-X Summer…
People generally don’t think of the Dallas suburbs as places where local music goes to thrive, but Highway 31 has spent most of its time building a loyal following outside the epicenter of the Dallas music scene. Formed in 2012, Highway 31 will celebrate the release of its second album,…
Jesse Dayton got his start at a young age, sneaking into honky-tonks and jamming with zydeco bands as a teenager in Beaumont. He’s spent the last four years touring the country on the biggest run of his career as a solo act. But while his love of music was always…
Alexus Sacco and Frank Stevens’ mutual interest in synthesizers and electronic music has brought them together as the ambitious electronic duo PVLMS, a pairing that happened at a chance meeting at a Baths concert five years ago. They reconnected soon after in college and have been making music together ever…
The two-hour deep clean at The Secret Factory starting at 6 a.m. Sunday mornings is of paramount importance. The Secret Factory transforms from techno den to place of worship. Yeah, from nightclub to a church. Disco balls and the massive Fulcrum speakers that push 118 decibels of techno sound are…
Weed, the drug that remains in the same class as heroin, LSD and cocaine, has been a staple of the counterculture for decades. With a handful of states legalizing the substance in some way, the taboo behind smoking pot is beginning to dissolve. People have become accustomed to marijuana’s influence on…
Record Store Day 2018 is nigh upon us. Now in its 11th year, RSD is the musically drenched holiday when you and all your friends become John Cusack in High Fidelity. No matter your taste in music, odds are there’s a record coming out that day that will tickle your…
When Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello thinks about all the times his band has trekked up to North Texas, nothing really tops the first trip to Dallas in the early ’90s. Long before headlining tours, Warped Tour dates and support slots, the ska/pop-punk band found themselves facing a locked…
Dallas knows that putting music and art together is oftentimes more successful than having an event that highlights just one. The Nasher Sculpture Center capitalized on that idea eight years ago when it launched the ‘til Midnight series, where the museum stays open until midnight (as one would guess from…
Bobby Sessions’ career as a major label artist at Def Jam has begun. Last week, the Dallas rapper released his first single, “Like Me,” and it has received rave reviews from NPR and Pitchfork. The track addresses the climate of racial injustice in America, both past and present. It’s a…
The bags of mulch in the front yard for new flower beds resemble any ol’ house in the suburbs. It’s a nice red brick home, and the subdivision has one of those typical names, like Canyon Lakes, Dove Ridge or Grand Oaks. Do not judge a book by its cover…
On Saturday, independent record stores worldwide will celebrate the 11th annual Record Store Day, a holiday aimed at crate-diggers and the overall record store atmosphere. It has become an opportunity for musicians of all kinds to do in-store performances while customers scour for hard-to-find exclusives. According to the 2018 Recording…
Like many of their contemporaries, it’s an anniversary year for alt-country legends Old 97’s. They’ve been making music and visiting clubs and theaters for 25 years. Or, as lead singer Rhett Miller says in a recent song, “We’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive.” At 47, Miller certainly…
We’ve got a couple of festivals and a welcome-back show for a local favorite this week. Denton’s Thin Line Fest offers us more than just three days of documentaries and photography; it’s packed with an excellent lineup of local and nonlocal music acts. And Ska by Skawest celebrates all things…
For an aspiring musician, the ability to share music with the best possible production value is almost as important as a song itself. A music video shared online will, in most cases, be the first time a potential fan sees as musician’s work, and that first impression needs to be…
Some cool instrumental rock shows are heading this way over the next few months. Some more anniversary shows hit the docket, and hitmakers of the ’90s continue to strut out and take victory laps for adoring crowds. All this and more in this week’s concert announcements. Melodic guitar pioneer The…
“Hold on, something really exciting just happened.” Marissa Paternoster, the frontwoman of punk band Screaming Females, stepped away from the phone to convene with her bandmates. She returned, breathless. “Sorry, we just found out we’re at the first-ever Planet Fitness. This is a big deal for us,” she says. Even…
When iconic musicians embark upon reunion tours, often it’s because they’re broke. That’s not the case for legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim. Their debut album, Paid In Full, released in 1987, is considered one of the most influential ever made in hip-hop or any genre. Its release began…
