This weekend’s biggest show will give local music fans a good reason to get outside: On Saturday, Homegrown Music & Art Festival will feature performances from Neon Indian, School of Seven Bells and a handful of other bands with local ties at Main Street Garden Park in downtown Dallas. Before…
Fleet Foxes, Cave SingersPalladium BallroomMay 11, 2011Better Than: Seeing a bad band in a good venue. Based on the release of the Fleet Foxes’ brilliant, self-titled 2008 debut — along with their new record Helplessness Blues, which was released last week — it wouldn’t be hard for one to predict…
Less than a mile from the hole in the ground where Texas Stadium once proudly stood, a plot of land has been set aside for an entertainment complex that could drastically change the Dallas-Fort Worth music market, affecting everyone from local bands to major touring acts. The controversial complex, known…
As we mentioned yesterday, The Antlers are fresh off an interesting collaboration with Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo, which came shortly after the completion of their album Burst Apart. The album, which which features the band’s signature textured layers of guitars and keyboards, has been received with a solid amount of…
It looks like Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo enjoyed his collaboration with the Flaming Lips so much that he got together with some other musician folks from his newish neighborhood, Brooklyn’s The Antlers. The result was a super-slow yet powerful version of an Antlers song called “Rolled Together.” Fans of the…
The Deep Ellum mainstay bar July Alley has been around since long before many of its patrons were old enough to drink. But late last week, the State Comptroller of Public Accounts seized the property for failure to pay state taxes. When it will open again, nobody knows, including July…
Before there was The Crash That Took Me, and before there was Daryl, Dylan Silvers was in Fitz, the first band he fronted. But it wasn’t the first band he was in. According to Zac Crain, in this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, Silvers had already played…
Editor’s Note: This review was written by Jenny Block Brett Dennen, Dawes Granada Theater May 7, 2011 Better than: Hula hooping in your front yard on the first day of summer vacation, sun in your face, knowing that your mom will call you in for grilled cheese and grape Kool…
As we enter a pretty solid weekend of shows, we can’t help but look to Saturday night as the best of them all. That’s when Wilco performs at the University of North Texas. The tickets for the show have been sold out for weeks. But, starting tomorrow at noon, according…
With Mother’s Day almost upon us, we can’t help but look back on the days when Mom schlepped us kids around in the station wagon, minivan or what-have-you. While we were in the backseat losing french fries in the seat creases, getting chewing gum stuck to the back of Mom’s…
On a recent afternoon, the two Dallas-based members of instrumental post-rock act This Will Destroy You, bassist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore, stand in the middle of a bamboo forest. As a warm breeze moves through the canopy above, they savor the moment with a joint before heading back…
It’s only been a few years since The Prophet Bar started serving booze — a change that took place when the long-running Christian rock venue The Door changed its name to The Prophet Bar and moved into the space once occupied by The Gypsy Tea Room. The new space for…
The building occupied by Elm Street Bar must have been built on some kind of old Indian burial ground or something, right? Maybe: This week, only two months after opening, Elm Street Bar seems to be shut down yet again. Big surprise.We’ve spent a lot of time talking and joking…
The first time the Kings of Leon came to town, they played an intimate show at the Gypsy Tea Room. And what a different time that was: Critics referred to them as The Strokes of the South, and before long, Kings Of Leon found themselves as the opening act for…
In light of next weekend’s elections, This Week In Dallas Music History turns back to this week in 1996 when then-25-year-old Ex-Killbilly bass player, radio’s own Richard “Big Dick” Hunter ran for Fort Worth mayor. Unfair Park guy Robert Wilonsky covered the story leading up to the election, where –…
We’ve got a full weekend, with loads of shows ahead. Most notably, of course, is the Arcade Fire show at Gexa Energy Pavilion, which is up against Edgefest at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. Check out Pete’s breakdown of the two events here.But, hey, if going to see huge shows…
With only about a month until Death Cab For Cutie releases their seventh album, Codes And Keys, it’s a good time to ask yourself: “What would Zach Braff do?” Easy answer: He’d buy tickets for their upcoming concert. Death Cab, as they’re known by those “in the know,” have recently…
This week in 1996, Unfair Park’s Own Robert Wilonsky got down to brass tacks with Texas singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked, whose career was unexpectedly started a decade earlier.In the story, Wilonsky retells the somewhat widely known story of Shocked’s hijacked beginnings. “She recorded the songs on a fan’s weak-batteried Walkman only…
We’ve already had a busy week of shows, but that doesn’t mean the weekend’s shows will be spare. There’s actually quite a few nice choices this weekend. Let’s start by re-capping the oneswe’ve been mentioning all week.Tonight, Those Darlins will bring their newly established rock sound to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal…
We’re already started on a big weekend, folks. Earth Day and Good Friday are both happening now. Plus, Sunday is Easter. Oh, and Passover ends next Tuesday. Which brings us to this post. In the original passover story, Jewish families would sacrifice a lamb to have their house passed over…
As we reported yesterday, Wayne Coyne made a last-minute appearance at Good Records at 2 p.m. to hand deliver a few copies of The Flaming Lips’ newest release — four songs on USB drives located on the inside of a life-sized human Gummy Skull. Very, very strange stuff, indeed. It…
Jessi Darlin’s phone cuts in and out. She’s riding in a van that’s driving through the Southern states with her band Those Darlins, in the middle of a tour opening for Dallas favorites the Old 97’s. It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine Rhett Miller and company hanging…
