Lucinda Williams’ Top Five Most Playful Love Songs

For many years, Lucinda Williams seemed to have some anger inside of her. Much of that anger was directed towards the men she had fallen in and out of love with over the years. The pain and resentment that went into so many of her songs proved quite fruitful for…

John Fullbright Leads a Trio of Rising Oklahoma Songwriters

Texans are a fortunate group of folk music fans. We have legends and emerging artists that have either called the Lone Star State home at some point or are firmly entrenched here, primarily playing and making their artistic livings here so that we have more than ample access to their…

Homegrown Festival Stretches Its Legs in Fifth Installment

This Saturday, the heart of downtown was buzzing with a sense of local pride specific to the fifth annual Homegrown Festival. Upon entering through the shut-down stretch of Main Street between Hardwood and Saint Paul, the barrage of sights, sounds and smells were enough to put a smile on the…

The 10 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, May 12 – 18

Another weekend come and another weekend gone. Hopefully we all spent some quality time with our beloved mothers yesterday, having most likely spent all day Saturday doing some quality day drinking. (Or maybe we were just day drinking with our mothers.) It was perfect weather for both, in fact. Naturally,…

The Black Keys Coming to American Airlines Center in November

Ohio duo and multiple Grammy winners the Black Keys are preparing to drop a new album next week, titled Turn Blue. From the time it was announced, Blue, the band’s eighth album together, has been the crux of a slightly bizarre promotional campaign: first, its release was announced via Mike…

Sir Mix-a-Lot Smiled Upon The Asses at McKinney Avenue Tavern

Sir Mix-A-Lot McKinney Avenue Tavern, Dallas Monday, May 5, 2014 This isn’t your normal concert crowd. Everyone’s here at McKinney Avenue Tavern for the same thing: the old-school shit. Nay, the old-school booty shit: They want to hear Sir Mix-a-Lot sing about butts that are big. Immediately. It’s Cinco-de-Goddamn-Mayo, after…

JMBLYA Music Fest Capped off a Big Day for DISD Students Last Friday

Editor’s Note: Last Friday’s JMBLYA Music Festival took place in conjunction with a daylong student summit, organized by Support Our Students and featuring students from throughout the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). As part of the program, two students — Rebecca Woo and Arianna Trejo, both sophomores at Adamson –…

Suburbia Music Fest Eases Into the North Texas Festival Fray

As David Guetta closed out the first-ever Suburbia Music Festival in Plano during the early-evening hours of Sunday, the level of chaos was directly dependent on your proximity to the stage. Directly underneath the stage lights, the shoulder-to-shoulder energy of the dancing festival-goers could have been straight out of a…

Ghost B.C. Is a Mystery, But It’s a Goddamn Entertaining One

Ghost B.C. With King Dude House of Blues, Dallas Saturday, May 3, 2014 What do you get if you combine Scandinavian metal, Satanic chanting, 1970s shock-rock pageantry and exhibitionism, the best parts of an American classic rock radio station, and some of the tightest funk-rock licks to emerge from a…

Gavin DeGraw Can Hold a Crowd in the Palm of His Hand

Gavin DeGraw With Parachute and Nick Gardner House of Blues, Dallas Friday, May 2, 2014 Worlds collided Friday night in downtown as the Mavericks’ game six was underway and pop-rock musician Gavin DeGraw was in town, playing a sold-out show at the House of Blues. Parking, to say the least,…

Movement Electronic Music Festival Pre-Party Hits Dallas This Weekend

By Mwanza Dover Over the month of May, Detroit’s world-famous Movement Electronic Music Festival is holding pre-parties building up to their annual Memorial Day weekend blowout. Local promoter Source 20/20 is behind the Dallas edition of official pre-parties at The Green Elephant this coming Saturday. Featured on the bill is…

The Hold Steady Bring a “Real Good Time” to the Granada

The Hold Steady With Oil Boom Granada Theater, Dallas Wednesday, April 30, 2014 As Craig Finn and his four bandmates in the Hold Steady walked out on the stage to the sounds of Lou Reed’s “Real Good Time Together” Wednesday night, there was a change that rippled through the Granada…

Austin Psych Fest 2014 Survival Guide

So, it’s the day before Austin Psych Fest and you’re still not ready. Especially if you plan to make a weekend of it (maybe camp out?), then man, it’s high time you start prepping. There’s plenty of I’s to dot and T’s to cross, and maybe a few hard-to-come-by party…

Charles Bradley at Trees, 4/27/14

Everybody loves a nice feel-good show every once in awhile to kick out the cobwebs and revive the spirit from the doldrums and disappointments of everyday life. However, it is rare and unique to see a concert so positively charged, fueled with such raw passion, and as spiritually and mentally…

Goblin at Texas Theatre, 4/27/14

Everybody that’s seen Suspiria has an opinion about Goblin, whether they realize it or not. The Italian prog rock greats have, throughout their career, created some of the most captivating and unnerving music ever put to film. With their work on Suspiria, though, they made what is widely considered the…

The 5 Bands Who Defined Edgefest 24

On Saturday, the bustling northern ‘burb of Frisco hosted many thousands of modern-rock lovers at Toyota Stadium for the annual, all-day Edgefest aural orgy (the 24th installment, no less). Saturday’s festival roster proved to be one that, maybe more than any recent Edgefest, bridged the generational gap of those who…