Fort Worth’s psychedelic garage rock band Mean Motor Scooter is back with a five-track EP due out on Dreamy Life Records just in time for this week’s 4/20 celebrations. The follow-up release to their well-received full-length album, 2017’s Hindu Flying Machine, the EP, TV Baby, is filled with a kind…
Cradle of Filth may not be a band for everybody, but they really aren’t a band that parents should worry about. Extreme metal — a kind of umbrella term that covers the many forms of metal made by bands with hard-to-read logos — has a history fraught with violence, vandalism…
Homegrown Fest X With Toadies, Seryn, Tripping Daisy, Ben Kweller and more Main Street Garden Park and The Kessler, Dallas April 13 and 14, 2019 It was all rescheduled so suddenly, but you never would have known it. On Friday, fans and media outlets received notice that the 10th anniversary…
That line of mopeds that’s likely to form outside Three Links this week won’t be a Vespa convention. It’s the fifth annual Ska by Skawest, a two-day celebration of all things ska starting Friday and including Denton favorite Madaline. If your skanking days are long behind you, Joan Baez stops…
Brandi Carlile The Bomb Factory, Dallas April 12, 2019 The cheers and applause seemed to rise and rise, as if the sheer force of it all would pop the roof right off The Bomb Factory. Brandi Carlile — singer, songwriter, mother, devoted activist and newly minted Grammy winner — stood…
Homegrown Festival is set to extend its 10th annual celebrations into two days this weekend with news of a last-minute schedule change due to weather. Saturday’s forecast of thunderstorms has prompted organizers to split the outdoor event between two venues, with a handful of artists performing that day at The…
A new batch of shows are on the horizon for the upcoming months in North Texas. We’ve got Grammy nominees, nostalgic reunions, indie rockers on the comeback and even a hologram headed this way. Sara Bareilles will spend much of the remainder of 2019 out on tour behind her recently…
Marc Rebillet laughed when he heard about this story. The experimental DJ and musician has an unmistakable laugh, one of those booming, dad-like chortles that fills a room. His pencil mustache frames a wide, toothy grin, his bespectacled eyes grow wide and his face briefly contorts into one of the…
When George Dunham lost both his parents after the turn of the millennium, the local sports radio personality took his grief and turned it into a good cause. This Friday’s eighth annual Jub Jam marks the latest chapter in Dunham’s mission with a sold-out charity event at South Side Music…
Taking a trip midday through downtown Dallas, you’re met with a variety of musicians performing. The spot you saw a guitar-strumming songwriter on Monday is now replaced with an opera singer hitting impossible notes on Tuesday. By Friday, it’s a violinist performing a one-man symphony to a nearby audience eating…
Entering their 14th year as a band, LA noise rockers Health started off 2019 with a new album and a tour to support it, scored Grand Theft Auto: Arena War and released many collaborative singles featuring experimental artists like Youth Code, who they’re touring with. To say they’ve kept themselves busy…
He’s an avant-garde music legend and creator of the electric rake, but Eugene Chadbourne’s music may not attract more than a so-called cult following of true music fanatics. Just don’t say that around the musician himself. “I have always thought the use of this word (cult) in reference to people…
In Globe Trek Productions’ latest busking video, Max Frost, dressed in a San Francisco 49ers jacket, serenades Deep Ellum wanderers as the sun makes its steady descent on the shops and restaurants. Playing his songs “Money Problems” and “Good Morning,” Frost broke the hum of passing cars and echoing footsteps with…
It’s been 20 years since Lucinda Williams released her critically acclaimed album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Tonight at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, fans will see a VH1 Storytellers-style live performance of the full album accompanied by photos and video clips, as well as a second set…
A moment, late Friday night, perfectly crystallized Jenny Lewis’s particular blend of sweet and sour. As she brought “Born Secular,” a track from Rabbit Fur Coat, her 2006 collaboration with The Watson Twins (on hand Friday as a superb opening act, and participants in the encore), to its climax, a…
Much has been written about Ghost Light since its five acclaimed members joined forces to create a new band and album a year and a half ago. On Friday night at Deep Ellum Art Co., pianist Holly Bowling, guitarist Tom Hamilton (American Babies/JRAD), guitarist Raina Mullen (American Babies), bassist Steve…
Homegrown Fest is back this year for its 10th anniversary. The daylong concert features plenty of great acts, including Seryn, Tripping Daisy, The Toadies and more. Two country superstars, Eric Church and Brett Eldridge, play shows this week, and West Coast hip-hop pioneer Warren G plays in The Colony, plus…
This week’s concert announcements bring a multitude of events on the horizon. A lone festival chooses Dallas, one of the brightest names in pop is coming this way and a legendary icon makes another appearance. All that and more ahead. Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival has chosen our area for…
Jenny Lewis has endured her share of hardships, but as she puts it, she is still “stumbling through [her] own existence.” Her eyes are fixed upon the present, but if Lewis was so inclined, she could easily look back on a life of achievement. As a child actor, she co-starred…
Admit it, you love playing online quizzes, the kind where you pick your favorite potato and find out which kind of ocean plankton you should be rinsing your colon with. We have something much better: a fun quiz that will also teach you something of value. Also, it’s the shortest…
Northern National has learned the hard way that not all family is blood. That line was the inspiration for their new single called — yep — “Not All Family is Blood.” The Dallas-based alt-pop band has reflected on their past and cut ties with everything and everybody standing in their…
Take a listen to any track on Charley Crockett’s most recent album, Lil G.L.’s Blues Bonanza, and you can hear it. There’s a weariness in his voice on these last-call covers — it’s there in the obscure Ray Charles single “Here Am I,” seeping into the lyrics “Here am I/All…
