Lance Lopez knows the blues. The Dallas native has been sharpening his blues’ slinging chops since he was a child. He can feel it in his bones, through his fingertips as they slide across the fretboard. Lopez’s guitar skills sometimes seem otherworldly as he bends his strings to create something…
Micky and Gary Braun of Micky and the Motorcars have long lived under a formidable shadow. These two brothers are the younger siblings of Willy and Cody Braun, who make up the core of the stellar Austin-based roots-rock outfit Reckless Kelly. Born into a musical family in Idaho, performing has…
Texas country kingpin Pat Green is also a Fort Worth resident, Dallas restaurant owner and a heck of a live performer. He can now add “Lyle Lovett duet partner” to that list of titles with the release of a new song, “Girls from Texas.” Save from his admirable 2012 collection…
Watch out, Deep Ellum; there’s a new gang in the neighborhood. Well, sort of. The folks behind Club Dada rolled out a brand-new venture Tuesday night with the soft opening of Off the Record, a unique combination bar and record store in the space adjoining the Elm St. music venue…
Dallas’ DVK, known as Dustin Van Kleeck when he’s not performing, loves house music and his energizer rabbit level of enthusiasm reflects that. The mix he submitted for the DC9 mix has his personality written all over it. It’s an upbeat and high-energy house mix that features the work of…
Dallas, you’re hard to understand. It’s hard to contextualize a lot of your actions. How is it that even though Erykah Badu is from these parts, you don’t give much attention to R&B and soul music. Badu is perhaps the greatest R&B/soul act since the Chitlin Circuit cooked its way…
In the early of hours of last Wednesday morning, after playing a Tuesday night set at Adair’s in Dallas, someone broke into the car of local country singer-songwriter Melissa Ratley and stole her beloved acoustic guitar. While a few other personal items from her vehicle went missing as well, it…
By Ivan Guzman Way back in 2006, I bet the founders of Twitter had no idea the social-media platform would become the force it is today. Sure, you can interact with your friends and whatnot, but perhaps the coolest, most intriguing part of Twitter is the way it makes us…
About six months ago, The Wild Detectives opened its doors with the intention to be more than just a bookstore. So far they’ve hosted readings, wine tastings and book presentations as well as their backyard shows. As an aspiring member of the Oak Cliff community (and not just another fixture of…
Billboard, everybody’s favorite trade music magazine, just put together a list of the 25 Most Popular Music Clubs is the U.S. There are many takeaways here, but the most pertinent one for Dallas music fans is that our local House of Blues was the fourth-most attended venue (222, 988) in…
This one’s been a long time coming. Really. (No pun intended.) Bethan’s debut album, Time Gone By, could be traced back about four years, to when husband and wife Daniel and Jessi Hall (then Jessi James) first started a recording project together. There have been some recordings released along the…
When guitarist-turned-drummer Rico Garcia of TEAM*, practitioners of warm and energetic indie-rock, was approached by the corporate behemoth Verizon to use one of their songs from their debut EP for a televised ad, it was not exactly earth-shattering news. In fact, many bands receive similar interests that yield no follow…
Gavin Guthrie a.k.a. TXConnect has made quite a splash over the past year. He released 12-inches for a few notable international labels like Adelaide Soundworks, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Bad Mums club and, most impressively, the taste-making Long Island Electrical Systems. His debut album under his own name recently came…
The word “community” gets thrown around a lot, but it seems as though the North Texas music community is indeed acting as one in order to help a talented and beloved member. When the Phuss’ Drummer Trey Alfaro was seriously injured after a hit-and-run driver crashed into him as he…
I never thought I’d see a jazz show at a taqueria, much less a great one. To be fair, Saturday’s bill at Taqueria Pedritos, including Unconscious Collective, HEX CULT, Drug Mountain and Baring Teeth, boasted a wide array of experimental offerings. Free jazz, no-wave, power electronics and metal were all…
As far as album teasers go, Denton’s Bludded Head know how to do it right. For starters, the new LP — announced just yesterday and due to be released through New York imprint Sleeping Giant Glossolalia on October 6 — is titled Reign in Bludd. That’s a good start; we…
Last year, first-time Denton festival Oaktopia delivered on content but not so much on attendance. As Aaron Ortega reported in November, the largest crowd was 200 or so, for the mighty Del the Funky Homosapien. You might suppose a festival that drew such a modest crowd last time would scale…
This Saturday It’ll Do Club brings one of the original architects of Detroit techno to town. Kevin Saunderson was part of the first wave of techno artists in the late ’80s. Along with fellow Belleville High School students Derrick May and Juan Atkins, he laid down the foundation of what…
In North Texas, Ride for Dime is the best of the best for metal gigs. It’s an event that not only showcases a lineup of killer metal bands at two of the top venues — Trees and The Rail Club — for metal in the DFW area but also pays…
Along with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Soundgarden completed the classic grunge rock trifecta that emerged from Seattle in the mid-’80s. Fronted by the hunky Chris Cornell and featuring the blistering guitar work of Kim Thayil, Soundgarden found a large audience on the strength of intense and brooding songs such as…
From the ashes, Good Luck Karaoke rose out of Twilite Lounge, having lost its long-time home at the Doublewide last spring. But its new Deep Ellum base is, according to host Josh Hammertimez, a perfect fit. Tonight, Good Luck will be offering another unique layer to their eclectic shows: all…
Hooking up on the phone Tuesday afternoon, Nick Harmer is happy to report that life as the bassist for Death Cab For Cutie remains “a gravy train with biscuit wheels”. Harmer is an animated conversationalist, and rattles off his rationale without pause. “We’re still getting along, we’re making music we…
