The hot smell of human bodies smashing against one another rose up from the hoard of pink bandana-clad revelers moshing in front of Lil B on Saturday night. “You’re all legends!” Lil B told them.
Dallas should expect some cooler weather later this week — as in low 90s — so go ahead and celebrate with some fantastic concerts. Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, RBC, 2617 Commerce St., 469-487-6149 or rbcdeepellum.com, free We actually look forward to Mondays now, thanks to…
The Southern roots of singer-songwriter Lera Lynn run deep. She was born in Houston, raised in Georgia and forged her career in the competitive Nashville music scene. Her role on True Detective’s season 2 in 2015 had a galvanizing effect on her career. Since then she’s used that momentum to ensure…
The Granada Theater makes a splash this week as the folks there have announced a couple of prime upcoming concerts. Elsewhere, things continue to be busy across the Dallas area as bands and artists add fall and winter dates. Singer-songwriter, Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, is back with his first album…
Spend 60 seconds with longtime Dallas impresario Brooke Humphries and you’ll conclude she isn’t the type to do anything half-assed. So when Humphries decided to open a honky tonk in the heart of Deep Ellum, she took a scene straight out of the Urban Cowboy playbook. In fact, that scene…
On a cold, late November night, young teachers and even younger students of the Neighborhood Art & Music School in Frisco rolled their gear up to the stage of Lava Cantina. Parents began to fill up the seats to watch their children in the band Three at Four, comprised of…
Wesley Jensen isn’t originally from North Texas, but he got here as fast as he could. And he didn’t waste any time with putting new music out this year, either. It’s expensive just to exist in California, so Jensen moved to Texas. He wanted to find a music town that…
New music is on the horizon for Denton-based singer-songwriter Jessie Frye. On July 10, she announced she was ready to get back to the studio and work on her next EP, which is to be funded through a PledgeMusic campaign. Fewer than 20 days left until her deadline, Frye is…
Chris Cotter looks exhausted as he pulls into Chichen Itza, grazing the restaurant’s brick wall with his front bumper. “Fuck!” he shouts from the driver’s seat before walking to the front of his vehicle. The bumper has done its job — no damage to the van or to the wall…
An enthusiastic Shaun Cooper remembers when his band Taking Back Sunday came through Dallas last summer on July 24. “The last time we were there, I think it was National Tequila Day, so I may have imbibed a little bit,” the bassist says of the show at Gas Monkey Bar…
As news spread last week about Demi Lovato’s drug overdose, people from all walks of life (and musical genres) chimed in with their thoughts on the matter. Many were compassionate and gave regards to Lovato and her family, especially on Twitter. Yet it quickly brought up a debate about addiction,…
After eight years of business, Starwood Studios, an all-ages concert venue in Southlake, has been forced by the city to close its doors to live music. The venue has seen the likes of artists such as Post Malone (before he was Post Malone) and local bands Polyphia and Crown the…
Dallas rapper, songwriter and producer Joe Mayberry remembers the first time he worked with the man he respectfully calls “Mr. Scott.” It was nearly 20 years ago, and Mayberry — much to his own surprise — drafted the older man to reprise some vocals on a rap remake of a…
The audience was partying long before they made it into Dos Equis Pavilion to see country music star Jason Aldean for his High Noon Neon Tour on Saturday night. On the way to the entry line for the bag check, patrons were upending beers in one hand, a full beer…
Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions10 p.m. Monday, July 30, RBC, 2617 Commerce St., 469-487-6149 or rbcdeepellum.com, free We actually look forward to Mondays now, thanks to the work of Stefan Gonzalez. The lineup he curates on that day every week at RBC make it one of the best places in the…
The concert listings continue to pile in even after last week’s flurry of announcements. This week, we see a bevy of new shows that are guaranteed to attract a slew of audiences from the area. Onwards we go. The National is bringing its Sleep Well Beast tour to South Side…
In an upcoming music video for Eric Pulido’s single “Used To Be,” off his first solo album, To Each His Own, a Bad News Bears-esque band of bandits suit up in maroon baseball uniforms. Bubblegum pops and faux-players run from base to base. The uniforms read “E.B. The Younger,” the…
Washington Charcopa is humble and zen, which is the exact opposite of his alter-ego, DJ Megalomaniac. In an environment where techno is once again topping the DJ charts and an increasing number of younger DJs are genre hopping over to techno every week, Charcopa is a bonafide veteran among the…
Polyphia, a Plano band that is hard to nail down to just one genre, is ramping up to release its third full-length studio album. Bassist Clay Gober told the Phoenix New Times that the album, set to release next month, turned out a lot darker than…
The world’s biggest a cappella group is coming back to its hometown. Three out of five of Pentatonix’s members were classmates at Martin High School in Arlington, but it seems the entire group is excited to return. “Oh, my gosh, we’re always excited to come back to Dallas. I mean, that’s their…
Most bands’ goals are fairly straightforward. You want to make plenty of good songs, hope that audiences respond to them in a positive manner and then have faith that enough folks show up when you take those songs out on the road. The four members of folk-rock quartet River Whyless…
It opened less than a year ago, but the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving is already the ninth most-attended amphitheater in the world, according to Pollstar Magazine. The magazine’s list of the top 50 amphitheaters based on ticket sales in the first half of the year shows that…
