See also: Five other names for Toby Keith’s new bar and grill What does a Toby Keith fan look like? That’s one question I had as I walked into Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill yesterday afternoon, as part of a “grand opening” for the North Dallas establishment…
Recently, I was gently reminded that the Toadies have a new album out, called Play.Rock.Music.. I listened to the album a couple times and tried to wrap my head around it. I waited for something to grab me: A hook, a melody. Instead, I found myself wincing. I couldn’t bring…
Rob Delaney’s coming to town this Saturday. He is a comedian, and this poster is a visual representation of comedy…
See also: This Sunday’s the final night of Lost Generation at Arcade Bar Back in June, we mentioned the dust-up involving Wanz Dover’s long-running Lost Generation DJ night at Arcade Bar, and its abrupt end. Since then, he’s kept himself plenty busy with DJ gigs at Nova, the Foundry and…
A few years ago, it seemed “indie” bands (whatever that signifies these days) were jumping on the Hall & Oates bandwagon, covering their songs, declaring their non-ironic love for them. It was a tense time, especially for those of us who have loved the band since we were 7 years…
An Ariel Pink show is always exciting, mainly because you never know if the L.A. singer will go off the rails or spiral into some nonsensical glass case of emotion while performing. With a backing band, The Haunted Graffiti, in tow for the last few years, he’s straightened himself out,…
Funky Was the State of Affairs, Fergus & Geronimo’s newly released sophomore album on Hardly Art, takes a few wide swings towards a more resolute sound, and manages to land most of its punches in the gut and jaw. It’s a different swing than 2011’s Unlearn, which is essentially what…
See also: Ten of August’s best music photos This summer’s musical choices have been made. Our thighs have been chafed from festivals, our livers raked over the fiery coals, our eardrums gently caressed. And now, as we drift into the last quarter of the year, we’re taking one look back…
My Education’s live scoring of the silent film Sunrise a few months ago during the Oak Cliff Film Festival , as well as the live performances accompanying May’s screening of Urgh! A Music War, had us wishing for more live shows like that at Texas Theatre. Alas, they’re bringing in…
See also: A conversation with Sharon Needles After the bizarro performance art of last night’s RNC speeches, I think we all needed a palette cleanser. Thankfully, It’ll Do brought in RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sharon Needles to christen Queen, their new Thursday drag party. She did a couple short sets,…
There’s a 2010 New York Times interview with New Orleans rapper Big Freedia in which she describes creating a space for women at her shows who want to make their way up front and work it out with her on the dancefloor, while having to simultaneously defend them from men…
August is typically the cruelest month, in terms of temperatures, lack of energy and things to do. Looking back through the blog, however, we certainly got our fair share of photo ops. Here are a few to remind you of the month that was…
And the award for local band name I love to say out loud goes to: Bitch Bricks. The Fort Worth trio just released a single called “Stop Smiling In My Direction,” an anthem they recently took on a mini-tour with fellow Fort Worth-a-shits the Longshots, with whom they also share…
Have you been watching RuPaul’s Drag Race? Of course you have, so you’re familiar with the soul-shattering tower of terror that is Sharon Needles, aka Aaron Coady. She’ll be at It’ll Do as part of their new Thursday night Queen series, featuring the best local and national drag performers. If…
Two bands that both put out excellent albums this year — Mind Spiders’ Meltdown and Nervous Curtains’ Fake Infinity — combine forces in Rubber Gloves’ ashtray. Nervous Curtains are about to head off on tour, so this might be your last chance to catch their theater of synth. Mind Spiders,…
There’s a 2010 New York Times interview with New Orleans rapper Big Freedia in which she describes creating a space for women at her shows who want to make their way up front and work it out with her on the dancefloor, while having to simultaneously defend them from men…
As with vinyl culture, cassettes never really went away. They just served certain micro-scenes a bit more efficiently. Nationally, cassette culture has been on an upswing for a few years, as CDs become increasingly inconvenient/obsolete, and the analog heads respond to the digital glut. Tapes used to be Morse code…
35 Denton is bookending their successful spring festival season with this summer mess, featuring waterslides, wrestling, pools, booze and … there was something else. Maybe it was musical performances from Big Freedia, The Black Lips, No Age, Reggie Watts, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Fergus & Geronimo, RTB2 and DJ Sober. See…
Flint, Michigan’s own Jon Connor returns to Dallas to headline this declarative statement of a show. That is, before he goes on tour with Big K.R.I.T. this fall, and no doubt becomes a little less “slept on.” There’s a nice sampling of Texas talent, too: Houston’s Doughbeezy joins Dallas’ Dustin…
The Kessler Theater is getting in on the festival action, and has just announced the inaugural Oak Cliff Music Festival, set for November 3, which will take place in the Winnetka Heights neighborhood surrounding the venue. The acts slated so far are the usual suspects — Carolyn Wonderland, Alejandro Escovedo,…
Young/Forbes/Gonzalez Trio, Terminator 2, Bludded Head Rubber Gloves Monday, August 27 Mike Forbes was last night’s MVP. He started behind the kit with Bludded Head, who had literally just returned from a 10-day tour, providing the slowly melting glacier for guitarist Nevada Hill and cellist Darcy Neal to float their…
See also: The 100 best Texas songs of all time See also: KNON’s Don O. knows the Dallas blues Freddie King made it on our recent top 100 Texas songs list a couple times, a testament to just how important and influential the Dallas-born blues guitarist still is some 30…
