Chromeo, Holy Ghost!Palladium BallroomAugust 25, 2010Better Than: Hearing a Dallas DJ drop Chromeo on a very suspecting crowd in some dingy club. Before the band even stepped out onto the stage at the Palladium Ballroom last night, the crowd was chanting “Chro-me-o-ooh, Chro-me-o-ooh.” On stage, giant glowing…
What a week: Between Heart on Monday night and Meat Loaf on Thursday, we might have to break out our Van Halen t-shirts and the Hall & Oates tapes just to get into the mood.Billy Idol added himself to the mix last night for a jam-packed show at the Palladium…
Who covers Led Zeppelin better than Heart? If you’re skeptical, which I was as a massive Led Zeppelin fan, well, then you haven’t heard their spot-on, no-Black-Crowes-members cover of “Black Dog.”But I digress.Heart brought its particular brand of rock, along with with the tunes of Dreamboat Annie, to the House…
KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat’s sixth annual custom car show and concert jam-packed a massive lineup of rap stars and souped-up cars at the Dallas Convention Center Sunday, August 22. The event’s headliners were Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Plies, Bun B, Trina, Slim Thug, Dorrough–not to mention the…
Tanya Morgan, Bodega BrovasGreen ElephantAugust 20, 2010 Better than: Any hip-hop concert you would see at an American Airlines Center bill filled with marquee acts that get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to destroy your ear drums. Tanya Morgan has been touring the country sporadically for the past few…
On Saturday, after watching an episode of Saved by the Bell and knocking back a few ecto-coolers, we sent photographer Rachel Parker over for a seriously-’90s night at the Superpages.com Center with the Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, and Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance. Between the Dolls and Sean Hannity’s Freedom…
Maybe it was the intense heat–or the fact that the school semester begins this morning–but the dance crowd was out for Dallas’ Dub Assembly at the Granada Theater on Saturday night. DJs Mundo, Royal Highnuss, Jimmy B, LBFD and Aries3 played the latest dubstep for a very energetic crowd. Meanwhile,…
Shiner Rising Star Contest: Round 1, Week 5Main Street Liquid Co., RichardsonAug 19, 2010For week five of the preliminary round of the Shiner Rising Star competition, three more bands took over the small in size, but big in character Main Street Liquid Company in Richardson. Last week, bands from outside…
It was yet another busy weekend for the Lek Brothers. On Friday, they began with DJ Noah D at the Green Elephant, who spun dubstep alongside Dallas’ Dub Assembly crew. Then they ventured to Brooklyn Jazz Cafe for Alexander Robotnik, which Rodrigo Diaz reviewed with words earlier, and gave us…
Trees celebrated its one-year anniversary this weekend with some help from Otep and Fair to Midland, the latter of which was one of the first to play the storied Deep Ellum venue when it re-opened last August. And, no surprise here, the place was packed, even on a busy night…
Alexander RobotnickBrooklyn Jazz CaféAugust 13, 2010Better than: seeing the bad guy from the Sonic the Hedgehog games in a live concert. Well, maybe.Fresco has been putting on parties in Dallas for years, bringing to town legends of electronic music such as Larry Heard, Ron Trent, Theo Parrish (the list goes…
Shing Rising Star Competition: Week 4August 12, 2010City TavernAnother Thursday night in the Metroplex meant another evening of the Shiner Rising Star contest last night. Whereas the majority of the competing bands in the previous weeks have been North Texas products, last night featured a couple of acts that trekked…
Built to Spill, Finn Riggins, Telegraph CanyonGranada TheaterAugust 11, 2010Better than: your nephew’s second birthday. Last night’s showcase at the Granada Theater, which featured performances from Boise’s Built to Spill and Finn Riggins, as well as DFW’s own Telegraph Canyon, served as a celebration for the theater’s sixth anniversary of…
Last night, the Granada Theater celebrated its sixth anniversary–which, if nothing else, explained the balloons and streamers laid throughout the venue as Built to Spill, Finn Riggins and Telegraph Canyon performed to a crowded house. It was a good time, too (be sure to read our upcoming review of the…
Cyndi LauperHouse of BluesAugust 11, 2010Better than: staying home and watching American Idol: Blues Edition. Looking spry and awkwardly fashionable, pop icon Cyndi Lauper hit the stage last night at House of Blues looking to educate her fans about the value of the blues.”I’ve been wanting to make this new…
If you’re experiencing summer American Idol withdrawals, you had your chance last night to jump/scream at the best of the best on stage. The American Airlines Center hosted a big juicy chunk of the Idol favorites, including Tim Urban’s hair of Duncanville and Fort Worth’s Casey James–like an Avenger team…
Pleasant GroveKessler TheatreAugust 7, 2010Better than: Ignoring the past.The trend of bands booking a show for the purpose of playing a seminal album in entirety hit home this past weekend, as the revered, but, for the most part, dormant, local heroes in Pleasant Grove took to the Kessler Theatre on…
Holy hell, this was a busy music weekend. There was the Toadies’ show at the Palladium and the Queensryche Cabaret at the House of Blues, and, of course, a whole bunch of DJs at The Lizard Lounge. On Friday, August 6, headliners Atomikdog and Twin Shape were bumping alongside a…
With Feeler, the Toadies’ new (but not really) record in tow, the local hard rock icons stopped by the Palladium Ballroom for a set of material spanning the band’s almost 20-year career. Danny Hurley was there, in the pit, taking in the festivities. See his collection of photos from the…
Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes, Fungi GirlsThe NightmareAugust 5, 2010Better than: giving in to the heat and staying at home in your air conditioning. No one, it seemed, was in a rush for things to get started last night at The Nightmare, where a powerful triple-bill of the Sub Pop-signed Happy…
Crowded House, Lawrence ArabiaHouse of BluesAugust 5, 2010Better than: Seeing Crowded House on an Edgefest bill in 1994 and only getting 45 minutes of greatness… Oh, and um, all my expectations. Because, people, I’m not pretending this is an unbiased work, or, howyousay, an objective review. I bought my tickets…
Here We Go Magic, Beach FossilsThe LoftAugust 4, 2010Better than: Seeing these headliners open in a hot and crowded Granada, as was the case last time around. Last summer, Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic opened for Grizzly Bear in what many considered to be one of the concert highlights of…
