You probably love Spotify, lest you’re an old-school rock dude, like Thom Yorke, or believe the Internet is evil (well, it kind of is). The ease and wide-ranging catalog is the equivalent of having Christmas everyday for music enthusiasts. Unless we have a cool dad or mom, most of us…
Want to contribute to a good cause while also getting a sweet hookup on some concert tickets? Sure you do. For the third year running, the folks at Fun Fun Fun Fest are hosting a scavenger hunt in Deep Ellum as a way to preview the upcoming festival (it takes…
Folk singers are storytellers. The best ones are able to take the most simplistic subject matter and make it ache with beauty. The great ones can also take life’s greatest complexities and unanswerable questions and present us with a new, relatable vision with which we can view such big-picture wonderings…
Frank Edwards is a busy man these days. Earlier this month, for the second time this summer, rumors began to circulate that his bar, July Alley in Deep Ellum, was set to close. The reported closing date has come and gone, and yet Edwards still seems like a man burning…
Since mid-spring, Chicago and Dallas resident DJ Boxx and his partner Jasmine Holt have been hosting Deep Inside, a monthly residency at Crown & Harp of the deepest, funkiest and most authentic house residencies in the city. More than just an admirer of the birthplace of house music, DJ Boxx…
You could probably refer to Danny Rush with just about whatever surname you want to at this point. That’s pretty well what he’s started doing. Many know him through his musical exploits in Denton as Danny Folmer, some as Danny Rush, and nowadays he calls himself Danny Diamonds. We just,…
“I always say, with any job you’re in there’s that one question that you have to answer,” explains Chris McDonald, Marketing Manager for the Granada Theater, as he chips crumbs off of an oversized chocolate chip cookie at the front table of Society Bakery on Greenville Avenue. “Like their main…
Coheed and Cambria are currently on tour promoting the reissue of their second album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. They play tonight, September 15, at South Side Music Hall with Thank You Scientist. The New York-based four-piece is playing the record from start to finish, but doing much…
The story of Deep Ellum’s comeback is not a new one, but there is a new neighbor in the form of Red Light Lounge. In the spot on main street that was once Eden Lounge this new offshoot of Lizard Lounge has been throwing one-off events all summer long to…
This Saturday in Fort Worth at Dia de Los Toadies, on a line-up filled with promising talent and proven veterens, there may not be a band that represents the past while pointing to the future as vividly and dramatically as Pleasant Grove does. The five-piece, formed in late 1998 by…
Record stores all the rage this season. Normally the fall is the time for bands and labels to roll out new albums and promotional tours, but in Dallas it’s the record stores making the moves. Off the Record, which opened a couple weeks ago in Deep Ellum, is a bar…
The lines “M-A-R-S. Mars, bitches,” declare what The Outfit, TX, are shooting for with their current project. It’d be easy to chalk up the reference to the group’s characteristic “cooly fooly space age funk” aesthetic, or even just the song’s title. But it goes a bit deeper than that, because, to…
Face it: You still love the Toadies. Try as you might, you just can’t help getting all the feels any time you hear that opening riff to “Possum Kingdom.” It might as well always be 1993. In fact, more so than you think: This weekend marks the seventh-annual Dia De…
Dallas is going through a bit of a record store renaissance. Over the past year, the vinyl comeback that has been root throughout the music industry has made its presence felt locally, as well. Of the stores opening, including the recently opened Off the Record and the soon-to-be-christened Spinster Records,…
Dallas is home to a significant number of producers and DJs that are well known internationally but mostly off the radar in their hometown. Demarkus Lewis is very much one of those DJs. It’s highly unlikely any other musician or producer in Dallas has more releases under his belt. Lewis…
It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point: How many people can fit in my apartment for a party? Better yet, how many people can fit in my apartment for a party while my band plays live music and we film all of it? Well Josh Fleming, the…
Howdy, folks. The best thing that’s gonna happen this month is the one and only State Fair of Texas. It’s in your best interest to head on down to Fair Park and daze at the 55 foot gargantuan glory that is Big Tex. Gorging on fried foods that have the…
In this day and age where everyone is a DJ (or at least thinks they are), guys like Joe Walker are a rare treat. Performing under the moniker of DJ Jon Doe, he’s coming up on 25 years of DJing and the experience and passionate dedication to the art of…
A couple weeks back, we had the pleasure of announcing that local avant-pop purveyors Bethan will be releasing a new album this fall, Time Gone By. Not just a new album, in fact, but their first. It drops on California imprint Velvet Blue in a little over a month on…
When Kenny Uptain and Kelly Test started Foxtrot Uniform, they were looking to rebel. They’d become disillusioned by the strictures of recording session tradition. Hailing to the unflinching producer’s demands, most of the Texas country scene was obligated to be “clean” for radio play. But for this pair, that just…
Out on his front porch with a clove cigarette, platinum-haired Cade Bundrick leans back in a lounge chair. Behind him sits a headless mannequin wearing a blazer adorned with buttons. The house, the location of which is kept carefully guarded, is recessed in a nook off the road and holds…
Prior to 1986, Robert Cray was just another talented blues guitarist wondering where his next gig was going to be. But after the Strong Persuader album and the hit single “Smoking Gun,” Cray became a viable commercial proposition across several genres. Cray has parlayed that success into a four- decade-long…
