When Soundgarden first emerged from the grunge scene way back in 1984, they were the odd stepbrother to the Nirvana/Pearl Jam dynamic duo. Chris Cornell and crew had neither Nirvana’s crude power nor Pearl Jam’s over earnest muse. Instead, Soundgarden were the muscle-headed stoners who knew every Led Zepplin and…
Sure, there was plenty of speculation about Black Flag reuniting. A previous reunion ten years ago was disastrous and forgettable. Seemed like the band was best left as a myth and plenty of fans were fine with that. Especially since there’s no way longest-tenured singer Henry Rollins will ever play…
On a recent allergen-filled spring day in Austin, Black Angels lead singer Alex Maas chuckled as he struggled through a sinus infection before this Saturday’s show at Granada Theater. Speaking over the phone, Maas tried his best to give an answer as to whether the organ was more psychedelic than…
Hello again, all! So, what you may not know is that each week I try to decide which picture of which band should go at the top of this weekly blog post. This week I settled on Guns N’ Roses, since their fans span several generations; even though the tickets…
You know, this seldom happens, but I can say without a doubt that I have every single one of these artists in my iPod. Maybe I’ll make it into a playlist. This’d be a good playlist, right? Either way, here are your top show announcements this week, and if you’re…
Rigor Mortis, Gammacide, Devilfist and Demonseed are all the musical ingredients the supergroup Texas Metal Alliance needed to create Warbeast, a legendary Texas thrash metal super supergroup. Adding just a dash of “no bullshit metal onslaught” by local acts Protest and The Black Moriah, Warbeast sent fans into a mosh-filled…
KoolQuise’s new EP, Small Time Lo$er (The Dream Theory), is definitively his. No overabundance of guest spots, no swagger-jacking flow or a grandiose gamble on riding a trends coattails. At times self-deprecating and at others stream-of-conscious confessional, it wasn’t until songwriting was complete did the lyricist realize he had written…
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. In 2000, a 15-year old Gavin persuaded his dad to buy him a ticket to see the Smashing Pumpkins on their farewell tour. They were to play the cavernous NIA in Birmingham, England. Gavin had not been to see many concerts before. In…
OK guys, this week is a little skimpy on the announcements, but rest easy knowing that so many good summer, fall and Justin Timberlake concerts have already been announced. What upcoming concert are you most excited for? See you in the comments!…
Update, 5/13: As of 11:30, or an hour and a half into the regular on-sale, there are still plenty of tickets available. Our searches included hits for tickets nearly on the floor, toward the back of the arena, for $197 (!!) and some at the lowest price point, which is…
Saturday in Dallas was a day you could choose to paint in the starkest possible contrasts, if that’s your thing. Two big gatherings cut from an extraordinarily different cloth were happening within a relatively pleasant fifteen-minute stroll of each other, and how often do you get to travel from one…
This weekend, Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will gather some of the area’s biggest and most interesting bands at Main Street Garden Park. This year, the lineup is once again all Texans, after the festival’s organizers decided they were losing the focus of the thing by expanding beyond the state’s…
We’ve got some pretty awesome shows happening in your city this week, and you wanna know what else? Of the twelve concerts listed below, some of the musicians in these bands have be involved in some crazy antics, including the following: 1. Got his/her eye pissed into by a bat,…
Here’s the thing about Ted Nugent — it doesn’t matter what you think about him. Yeah, his insane political statements are moronic at best, but his shtick is so thoroughly thought out that he manages to be a punchline and ideologue and a hero, to some all at the same…
Yesterday we unleashed the beast of information that is Justin Timberlake coming to town. For those of you who are fans and who haven’t yet heard, commence pants-shitting. Now on to other business! Let’s not forget about Alpha Rev, Devin the Dude and more; specifically Josh Groban, who has been…
Last night in Dallas there was a man seemingly composed entirely of hips, the James Brown of Americana-folk, Mr. Father John Misty. He glided across the stage of the Granada Theater crotch-first, the first man to perfect the penis-led moonwalk. It was as if he was made only of the…
Update: This show has been cancelled due to illness. The band promises another Dallas date this year. The enemy is everywhere. Original post follows… Titus Andronicus takes its name from a Shakespeare play — fitting, given the theatrics of leader Patrick Stickles and his band. From a practice space in…
A two-set performance at a rock show is as rare as a not-self-indulgent guitar solo. But those rarities are exactly what a full house at the Granada was treated to Saturday night at the Granada. Prior to the show starting there was some speculation in the crowd about how the…
We’re fewer than five songs into the Dwarves’ set, Friday night at Three Links, and the music has stopped, the drums have been kicked over, and the band has left the stage. No one seems immediately clear on what happened at that moment. No one, that is, except the guy…
Friday night at the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Annette Strauss Square Amphitheater, two things were pristinely clear: the gorgeous night sky above the blanketed crowd of BYOB-ers, and that the Search for Sugarman is now a full-blown phenomenon of followers who’ve found their guy in Rodriguez. The crowded, but comfortable,…
Shabazz Palaces | TheeSatisfaction Granada Theater May 2, 2013 I don’t remember the exact moment that the concert turned into a party, which I suppose is a good sign, but it’s how the night felt inside the warm belly of the Granada last night. Before TheeSatisfaction, the crowd was thin,…
If you’re a fan of Dawes, Deer Tick, Andrew Combs or Shovels and Rope, you may have already heard of Jonny Fritz without realizing it. The Virginia native released an excellent album under the pseudonym Jonny Corndawg in 2011. The Corndawg album, which featured instrumental help from Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith…
