Check out this new video from 19-year-old Dallas emcee Raw Elementz, for the track “Test My Ability,” off February’s Music From the Sole mixtape. It features a lot of sneakers, a lot of shots of downtown, and that chorus is killer. You can also check out his new EP, Flydayz,…
See also: 12 awesome shows to catch this weekend The curatorial forces over at Green Bandana Group have been doing some pretty interesting things at theSPACE in Deep Ellum, and beyond. It was just a month ago that they launched electronic music showcase Neon Sessions, and since then they’ve hosted…
See also: Vinyl Fantasy’s Nathan Johnson on Sunn O))), Carly Rae Jepsen See also: Dennis Gonzalez on Ramón Ayala We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t even care…
As Black Dotz shows are getting, according to singer Wanz Dover, “fewer and farther between,” you’d be wise to catch this great local triple bill. If you happened upon the phenomenal Ronald Shannon Jackson show at the Kessler a couple weekends ago, you caught Dotz guitarist Greg Prickett lending his…
A couple of years ago, Austin singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz got to open for Steve Martin, when his bluegrass band taped an Austin City Limits episode. At that point, she wasn’t even 21 yet, already had a Sugar Hill Records debut under her belt (2009’s Song Up in Her Head) and…
This Thursday, the Denton weekly gets a little push from some other dark corners of Texas. Houston DJ Rabit drops some mystic club swerve appropriate for his city’s lineage, and celebrates his new release Terminator, which is being put out on Ben Aqua’s increasingly popular #Feelings label. San Antonio’s DJ…
Following up his 35th (!!) studio album, Tempest, out September 11, Bob Dylan will be rolling into Verizon Theatre on Thursday, November 1, with Mark Knopfler. More info to come when tickets go on sale. Honestly, I wrote this post so I could have an excuse to use this photo…
LA Weekly music editor and Southern hip-hop encyclopedia Ben Westhoff brought Marlon Jennings, aka Arkansas Bo, to my attention a few months ago, and pointed me in the direction of this profile from 2010. I’ve been jamming last year’s Natural State of Mind on and off since then, and was…
Ever wanted to see pasty music writers outside in the daytime, sweltering under the August sun, playing volleyball? Not really our natural habitat, but Endless Summer, local music and food blog House of Plates’ August 5 event at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, promises some exceptionally awkward moves, trash-talking and…
See also: Dennis Gonzalez schools us on Ramón Ayala We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t even care if it’s good, we just want to know what the…
We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t even care if it’s good, we just want to know what the music community has been obsessing over, playing on repeat,…
Local booking octopus Parade of Flesh is looking for a new logo, but not just any safe, sterile font that makes your eyelids heavy. They’re crowdsourcing this mess, and asking fans to come up with one. If you’ve got time to lean, and knowledge of what fonts are completely off…
About eight months ago, the Deep Ellum Community Association asked for submissions for a new community logo. Looks like they settled on one yesterday, as well as a collection of logos directed at different aspects of Deep Ellum life: Music, art, food, etc. The above submission by Belmont Icehouse won…
Roky Erickson The Kessler Theater Friday, July 13 Sam was in a tattoo shop Savannah, Georgia when he heard Roky Erickson and decided he needed a two-headed dog tattoo. I spotted him at the Kessler Theater bar, and noted Sam looked very young, probably not much past his late 20s…
The saga of Andy Dick’s balls, at least in relation to a 2010 incident at Trees, in which he forced them upon the face of audience member Robert Tucker, now looks to be getting even longer. Last summer, Trees responded to the lawsuit filed by Mr. Tucker, saying it should…
Last night I attended a new improvisational night at the Nasher Sculpture Center, led by SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts Dean and pianist José Bowen. He and his band, Jampact, played for close to an hour, dipping in and out of free jazz, funk and electronic pockets. In addition,…
See also: Run-D.M.C. reunite for Fun Fun Fun Fest Fun Fun Fun Fest announced their full lineup last night, and as usual, they knocked it out of the park with the additions. Public Image Ltd. should be a trip to see, and they’ve stepped up their hip-hop selection (Danny Brown,…
Saturday at Valley View Center, there’s a singing competition, in conjunction with the upcoming film Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, which stars former American Idol contestant Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston and comes out August 17. Here’s the plot synopsis, via the…
The New Orleans duo returns to town after their New Year’s Eve show at Zubar, in a much more fitting venue. Hopefully this time Miss Pussycat will do her acid-trip puppet show, as it’s always the perfect psychedelic appetizer to Quintron’s organ-grinding swamp-tech. Dallas’ Darktown Strutters play one of their…
If you’ve ever seen Irving’s own John Wesley Coleman with the Golden Boys or solo or with whomever he manages to snag as a backing band, you know his live show always holds the promise of going off the rails. Coleman’s output is sort of staggering, and he just released…
The trajectory of Dallas’ own Roky Erickson has been quite riveting. From his time in Houston psychedelic pioneers the 13th Floor Elevators to being committed to a mental institution to his strange solo career in the ’80s, his story has all the makings of a Greek myth. (The 2007 documentary…
A heavy but measured affair that balanced singer Casey Hess’ pained invocations with a rougher, guitar-driven edge, 2011’s Dark Water set the metronome for Dallas four-piece Descender. Doesn’t hurt that the band is made up of members of Dallas bands like Doosu and Slow Roosevelt — people do love nostalgia…
