On Monday night, the marquee of the Oak Cliff music venue The Kessler read, “The Kessler remembers Trey Johnson, Musician, RIP.” The venue has been a favorite for State Fair Records artists to celebrate album releases or simply to showcase their talents. Only hours before the lights came up on…
The last time Tool came through the American Airlines Center, our reviewer was not impressed. The band’s most recent album, Fear Inoculum, had only come out a few months prior, and COVID-19 was still a distant threat. The album divided fans and critics alike. Some praised it as Tool’s most…
“I don’t know what to call it. It sounds like being in love.” Years ago, a friend of mine attempted to describe a new band called The Marías, who at the time were almost untraceable. Their music wasn’t on any streaming platforms, and you couldn’t buy their EPs in stores…
Ezra Furman has a thing about time, dates and places. She remembers Feb. 17, 2017, as a day when “I am shattered, I am bleeding, but God damn it / I’m alive” on “Peel My Orange Every Morning” from 2018’s Transangelic Exodus.
It’s a Monday night – the first evening’s rest of the new workweek, and Joe Blow from longstanding Dallas punk band Dog Company is by an old jukebox toward the back of Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, admiring the selection of classic country and rockabilly songs.
Cameron McCloud burst onto the Dallas music scene in 2015 after a video blew up of him sneaking backstage at the Bomb Factory and freestyling for Erykah Badu.
Once again, North Texas shows itself to be a haven of diverse local talent with only two national touring acts making our list this week.
The wig is off. Touring life is briefly at a halt and so is the blinding shine of rock stardom. St. Vincent is in Los Angeles, but she’s soon flying home to North Texas as “Just Annie.”
Of the nearly 55 years that Jethro Tull has existed as rock ‘n’ roll’s ambassador of flute-driven English folk music, 45 of those years were driven by the muscular guitar battery of Martin Barre
Elton John fans will not be feeling the love tonight. The English rock legend announced on Tuesday that his Dallas shows, scheduled for Tuesday Jan. 25 and Wednesday Jan. 26 at American American Airlines, are canceled because he’s tested positive for COVID-19.
When going down the rabbit hole that is social media, it’s almost impossible to miss the dance videos – you know, the ones where large groups surround two extraordinarily talented dancers as they alternate taking the center, battling it out for bragging rights.
Sir Elton John is doing a two-night stand at American Airlines Center this week, and while the singer-songwriter extraordinaire has normally been confined to single nights at the same venue in times past, this time is different.
Dallas was treated to a rare live performance by Texas royalty this past weekend when Arc Angels performed at the Echo Lounge on Saturday.
In an evening full of casual grandeur, the most simple sentiment made the biggest impression.Adam Granduciel (the stage name of singer-songwriter Adam Granofsky) and his War on Drugs bandmates had amply demonstrated they were capable of conjuring a mesmerizing swirl of guitars, percussion, brass and keys by the time they tucked into “Living Proof,” roughly a quarter of the way through the band’s two-hour set Friday night at Irving’s Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory.
There can never be another Meat Loaf.The artist who was born in Dallas in 1947 as Marvin Lee Aday and died Thursday at the age of 74.
It’s a Wednesday night, and the premiere edition of Industry Night at Green Light Social. The venue’s main room is packed with local bartenders, VIP hosts and bottle servers.
Two words describe the roster of bands we have coming to North Texas this week: spacey and bluesy. That’s not to say that these artists exist in one realm or the other.
Chances are you’ve seen someone share a picture of the lineup poster for Live Nation’s When We Were Young festival, a collage of emo and alternative band logos that looks like the early aughts threw up on a Goth kid’s Trapper Keeper.
Some members in the McKinney-based band The Kid Brothers aren’t old enough to drink, and some of them aren’t even old enough to drive.
2021 was a year of many new things for all of us, from new adventures to new Netflix shows to new COVID variants! Dallas creatives used their year following the COVID hibernation of 2020 to break out of their respective caves and start making art again.
Dallas has no shortage of talent. Time and time again, artists slip out of the city’s grip and drift off to find stardom – elsewhere.
It’s hard to fathom, but every so often we get glimpses into the lives of rock stars showing them to be regular, ordinary people, just like all of us non-rock stars.
