Is being a rapper really the most dangerous job on the planet? In November, the hip-hop community lost another of its biggest stars to gun violence with the death of Takeoff, one-third of the superstar group Migos, who was shot and killed in Houston at age 28.
This year, Deep Ellum turns 150, but on the heels of the neighborhood’s milestone, not every venue will be there for the celebration.
Believe it or not, Ducado VeGA started his music career as a band nerd. “I started out playing tenor sax in junior high school,” Vega says with a laugh.
Deep Ellum is entering its 150th year and the occasion calls for a new recording facility. A new studio is making its way to the musical neighborhood and will let new artists record songs the old-fashioned away.
New year, new music, right? Here in the opening weeks of a promising 2023, the big touring acts have yet to arise from hibernation, making this week a great time to see something with which you’re either just vaguely familiar or something that you’ve completely never heard of before.
Isaac Hoskins knew the gentleman in the crowd was important. Standing onstage at the Magnolia Motor Lounge in Fort Worth, Hoskins was playing another opening slot at a Friday night gig as he’d been doing for nearly two decades now.
Dallas isn’t always the best at honoring its musicians. It took years and a lot of effort to get a proper homage to Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan going with a statue in their native Oak Cliff, and Deep Ellum visitors are finally clued in to the neighborhood’s heritage thanks to the Blues Alley mural project.
Are you ready for more of the Sandman, Dallasites? That’s right, Adam Sandler will be making his way to the American Airlines Center this February for a lively combination of music and stand-up comedy.
Technically, Deep Ellum Radio (DER) never went away, but it also really wasn’t there. The free online radio station, which launched in 2011, has been broadcasting, but it’s only been churning out a backdated catalog of music and the occasional live broadcast.
How Jonathan Tyler learned to tune out the noise and turn up the sounds in his head.
It’s time to bring it all back home as the year comes to a close. With the big touring acts home for the holidays, venues around North Texas have turned to the deep well of local talent in putting together their New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Even if you’ve never heard Kanye West’s music or seen one item of his clothing/shoe brand, you still know the name thanks to his many public breakdowns.
Twenty five years ago, Dallas’ most famous psychedelic rock trio, Lithium X-Mas, broke up after a long, storied run that included 17 album and single releases.
We’ll be straight with you, North Texas, with the holiday season in the air and everyone excited for a mostly-forgotten pandemic holiday gatherings for the first time in a couple of years, there really just isn’t a whole lot going on in the coming week.
The Pocket Sandwich Theatre is almost done with its first run of shows in more than a year since it moved into a new building, and one of the last performances had a special guest in the audience.
Just when we thought Pitbull’s ancient hit “Give Me Everything Tonight” couldn’t be more overplayed in modern radio, the ’90s pop music station Hot 93.3 FM announced its internal clock is moving forward by one decade.
It started as a “Sunday Funday” event series for young professionals in 2020, and it’s still fun, but not just on Sunday.
On Saturday, Chris Penn, Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree hosted their annual Christmas extravaganza and variety show.
For better or worse, TikTok has become the musical tastemaker of our time. Unlike past launchpads for popularity, however, success on TikTok is nearly impossible to predict.
A former Soundcloud rapper who claims he’s collaborated with Young Jeezy and Chamillionaire can now add “federal court” on his list of live appearances.
With the holidays right around the corner, it seems that many of North Texas’ all-time favorite acts are making their way back to where it all got started.
Singer McKenna Holland was 14 years old when he first started perfecting his death metal chops. The East Texas native has always been a metalhead, but he then discovered deathcore and the extreme stuff.
