Texas’ cinematic rock group This Will Destroy You will headline a show at Granada with local stoners True Widow and dark folk ensemble The Angelus. The San Marcos foursome has played several gigs in Texas after the release of their sophomore LP, Tunnel Blanket, which digs into the darkest and…
Since 1961, Preservation Hall has been a cultural hub for the brass band jazz sound of New Orleans, and since its inception in the French Quarter, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has had a steady roster of rotating members. On December 21, the legendary ensemble will make the Texas stop…
Zhora headlines this electronically informed night, and hopefully we’ll be hearing some new songs from a potential full-length. We sure liked the mellow sounds of their four-song EP this year. Fort Worth’s Ice Eater add some mood to the mix, a nice tandem with Austin’s dark stars, Missions…
WAAS Gallery is extending its reach from the art side of things to present this collaborative music event. Brain Gang’s Bobby Sessions and Denton’s Jenny Robinson, two emcees on our “Five Local Rappers to Watch in 2013” list, will pair up with Ynfynyt Scroll and Air DeeJay from Dallas’ Track…
We decided to check back in with some of the people we interviewed this year for My First Show, and ask about favorite concerts, records, and most-wanted Christmas gifts. Bad Design’s Steven Altuna takes the cake for best answer for a Christmas wish. What was the best show you saw…
Turbo Fruits put on a very memorable set a few months ago at Bryan Street Tavern, and the Nashville group returns tomorrow with PVC Street Gang, Sealion and Savage and the Big Beat at Dada. Frontman Jonas Stein remembers that show, along with other musical firsts. Was guitar the first…
Austin multi-instrumentalist Ralph White has been playing shows in Fort Worth on a pretty regular basis, and he does so again this Thursday at Fred’s Texas Cafe, but follows it up with a Dallas gig at Smoke & Mirrors Gallery, with D.H. Phillips and Warren Jackson Hearne. White is still…
Spune Productions offers at least six reasons to forget about the commercialism of the holidays and go out to see a show. Biographies, a band that seemingly came out of nowhere in the last three months and have been filling every Denton venue they play, will be featured early in…
Formed in 2009, when Woods bassist Kevin Morby and Vivian Girls guitarist Cassie Ramone met at a party in Brooklyn, The Babies started making noise in 2010 with “Meet Me in the City,” a gloriously energetic trip that features some of the best dueling vocals this side of a Lee…
Fort Worth jam-punk-folk collective KatsuK is fronted by the Ian Anderson-esque Daniel KatsuK, former frontman of the indispensable Spoonfed Tribe back in the late ’90s and early aughts. Shortly after the Tribe disbanded, he moved to Colorado, but returned to North Texas in 2008 to form his critically acclaimed new…
More than a dozen acts are slated to play this annual benefit show, and we hope they’ve got another stage going for the night, or else it’s going to be real intimate inside Libertine. Nevertheless, it will be a drunken good time, for a good cause. The O’s, Ryan Thomas…
Lamb of God, Hellyeah, In Flames, Sylosis Palladium Ballroom Friday, December 7 Christmas came early this year, as Sylosis, Hellyeah, In Flames and Lamb of God imploded eardrums on Friday night. British band Sylosis started the show, offering a modernized version of old-school Bay Area thrash metal, informed by West…
As part of KXT 91.7’s holiday concert series, the radio station is hosting three shows in December, one of which features folk quintet Milo Greene and local folk-pop band Air Review. Los Angeles’ Milo Greene released their debut self-titled album earlier this year, and were listed as one of Esquire’s…
Roughly two years of buzz later, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, also known as Odd Future, are finally making a non-SXSW Texas appearance. Collective members Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt have certainly enjoyed continued success, with co-founder Tyler, the Creator representing on plenty of guest verses and generally…
I’ve been hard on Kozelek’s past band, Red House Painters, mainly because in college they radiated an air of preciousness I couldn’t accept. As I’ve gotten older and softer, though, Kozelek’s music, namely Sun Kil Moon, has grown on me. The spring of 2013 sees the release of Perils From…
As the fall semester comes to an end in Denton, Gutterth and Pan Ector once again host the Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves and the Meme Gallery, a tandem print art/music event featuring the electronically assisted sounds of Zorch, New Fumes, Summer of Glaciers, Def Rain and Ulnae,…
Double Wide’s been pulling double duty since the closing of LaGrange a few weeks ago, and taking on their orphaned shows. This isn’t one of them, but it’s a solid weekend of locals, starting Friday night with Nervous Curtains, Blackstone Rangers and Skeleton Coast. Saturday sees that cad George Quartz,…
Last month, Norton Records’ warehouse, which sits in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, was flooded during Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed much of their inventory. This is sad news for fans of the obscure punk/surf/R&B/soul label, founded by Billy Miller and former Cramps drummer Miriam Linna in 1986, which is…
Local metal trio Baring Teeth have a few great shows coming up, including one at Tapatio Studios tomorrow, with Gaza, Code Orange Kids and Full of Hell. We talked to guitarist/vocalist Andrew Wiggins about his musical firsts. What did you own first, a cassette or a CD? Regardless of the…
Rush American Airlines Center Wednesday, November 28 Last night at the American Airlines Center, which was filmed for a future DVD release, Canadian trio Rush took some bold chances by not playing a predictable set. They gave staples like “Limelight,” “Working Man” and “Freewill” a rest. Matter of fact, the…
Carry Me Back, Old Crow Medicine Show’s comeback record after a yearlong hiatus, is also a return to the raw, freewheeling style of their early days. The former New York City subway buskers are at their best when they’re telling a story that may bear the sound of the old…
Bettye LaVette’s 1965 single “Let Me Down Easy” was the song that should have put the Detroit singer in the ranks of the Supremes and Marvin Gaye. LaVette’s fame came later in life, however, namely as she’s re-emerged in the last decade or so. Her 2005 covers album, I’ve Got…
