What was predicted last year in Unfair Park has come true. Country star Toby Keith is bringing his chain-wreck to Dallas. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill opens May 15, and they’re hiring. Yes, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. Google maps says it will be…
Denver trio Tennis is coming through Dallas tonight, on the stylish heels of their latest album, Young & Old. It continues debut Cape Dory’s trend of charming pop songs that inspire you to make out with the person next to you, lifted by singer/keyboardist Alaina Moore, who was most likely…
With the passing of storyteller Maurice Sendak today, many of a certain age found ourselves thrown back into specific childhood memories of his books. After re-watching In the Night Kitchen, the animated short based on his controversial book of the same name, I started piecing together a very specific memory…
The CW network is in the final stages of casting for its new reality show, The Star Next Door, which is being produced by Queen Latifah. They’re looking for “highly talented, established singers that are known in the Dallas area and already have a following in DFW.” Some other requirements:…
There’s been a bit of collective chatter lately, about how Dallas in 2007 or 2008 was the last time there was this feeling of momentum in the music and arts scenes. I can’t speak to that, but there was definitely a similar wave hitting Austin during that span of time:…
Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman’s Violitionist Session is finally up, and it includes a cover of San Antonio country singer Leon’s Payne’s oft-covered “Psycho,” which recounts a series of violent acts by the narrator, who, at the end of the song, claims his “mind just walked away.” Gaiman does a…
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, aka MCA, has passed away at the age of 47. More news as it comes, but Yauch had been battling cancer since 2009, after it was discovered he had a tumor in his salivary gland. Sadly, he wasn’t able to join his fellow Beasties last month,…
It’s been a bad run for sax players lately, what with the Killers’ Tommy Marth committing suicide and Men At Work’s Greg Ham passing on. As you try to find solace, this amazing website has compiled various sax solos from 1978-1989 to ease you into your weekend. And yes, the…
In the great tradition of made-up holidays (oh, today is also No Pants Day), May The Fourth Be With You may be the most insular, but have you ever seen the look on a Star Wars fan’s face when someone tells them they’ve never seen any of the movies? Or…
Texas Frightmare is this weekend, and Mixmaster has all the info you need about the three-day event, which includes a prom where Anthony Michael Hall will be in attendance, and a reunion of the cast of They Live. If that’s not enough to get you excited, I’m not sure what’s…
This is DFW quintet Darstar’s first video, for “Trapdoor Spider,” off last year’s Tiny Darkness. The song’s got a great, heavy riff, and though the video uses a pretty basic band-in-a-warehouse-concept, that riff matches the random couch destruction nicely. I’d like to see more videos of bands destroying things. No…
The first time I saw Screaming Females was 2009 at The Parlor in Austin, a small, narrow pizza place that sends gusts of warm pizza dough wind into the venue every time the oven is opened. Within five minutes of their set, guitarist and singer Marissa Paternoster ripped into her…
In the span of the past month, Sarah Jaffe graced our cover, Zhora reported for My First Show duty, and we had John Dufilho, aka John Singer Sergeant, interview co-hort Salim Nourallah in the wake of his new collaborative self-titled album. With that business taken care of, this is one…
Since Greg Ginn settled himself and his SST catalog into Taylor, Texas, a few years ago, we’ve been seeing him a lot more around here. The former Black Flag guitarist even played Coachella this year, on the same day of Tupac’s hologram, which fits at least two decades of L.A…
The Track Meet DJ crew is throwing yet another themed party, this one in the glittering confines of Beauty Bar, to celebrate the release of Ynfynyt Scroll’s new EP, Let Me See It. YS is the moniker of former North of the Dial columnist Rodrigo Díaz, and I’ll just let…
Last year at Chaos in Tejas, Austin’s annual hardcore and punk fest, Portland’s Tragedy laid waste to DIY venue The Broken Neck in the way any good after-hours hardcore show should: I left with beer, sweat and spit on me, and Tragedy almost blew the PA. Adding to the tinnitus…
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx was in town yesterday, announcing that he’s bringing his radio show, Sixx Sense, to the 6- 10 a.m. morning slot on 97.1 The Eagle KEGL-FM, starting Monday, May 7. It’s co-hosted with Casey Kasem’s daughter, Kerri, who was also on hand. A sampling of some…
The first time I saw Screaming Females was 2009 at The Parlor in Austin, a small, narrow pizza place that sends gusts of warm pizza dough wind into the venue every time the oven is opened. Within five minutes of their set, guitarist and singer Marissa Paternoster ripped into her…
I tried to do this yesterday, when the new website dedicated to legendary BBC radio DJ John Peel’s amazing record collection, which counted roughly 26,000 LPs, was announced. But then too many vinyl obsessives feverishly converged on it at once, and the WEBSITE CRASHED. This is the power of the…
Florence and the Machine Palladium Ballroom Tuesday, May 1 As I scrolled backwards through my notes from last night’s show, I found something I had jotted down a few days earlier, I think from an episode of Parks and Recreation: “Don’t half ass two things. Whole ass one thing.” I…
Steve Earle was just in town last week, and now his son is coming ’round the bend, touring behind his new Bloodshot Records LP, Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now. We’re giving away two pairs of tickets to Justin Townes Earle’s Saturday show at Dada? You…
The Internet yielded very little info on the whereabouts of Liquid Pyramid, which only adds to the mythical element of this press photo, pulled from the depths of the Observer’s filing cabinets. I miss the days when you could wear your p-jam bottoms to your band’s photo shoot. And this…
