Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt Hits Deep Ellum This Sunday

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…

Jacob Furr Celebrates Life in the Wake of Devastating Tragedy

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…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with DJ Boxx

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…

Chris McDonald is the Promotional Wizard Behind the Granada Theater

“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…

The Outfit, TX’s Hip Hop Thrives on an Alien Perspective

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…

Toadies to Busk in Downtown Dallas This Thursday

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…

Josey Records Will Be the Most Ambitious Record Store in Dallas

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,…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with Demarkus Lewis

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…

The Phuss Get Rowdy in “I Don’t Feel Good” Music Video

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…

The Best North Texas Hip Hop Concerts In September

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…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with DJ Jon Doe

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…

Foxtrot Uniform Forge Their Own Brand of Rebel Country on Cisco

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…

Gatsby’s Mansion is an Essential DIY Punk Haven in Denton

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…