Dallas Breweries Tap Into Another Thirsty Market: Runners

Nearing the halfway point of last weekend’s Velvet Hammer 5K at the Peticolas brewery inside the Dallas Design District, I caught a glorious glimpse of volunteers holding out small white cups of water just up ahead of me. As intensely needed as those life-giving helpers were, their usefulness paled in…

Quiz: Pick a National Act and We’ll Give You a Local Act To Love

Admit it, you love playing online quizzes, the kind where you pick your favorite potato and find out which kind of ocean plankton you should be rinsing your colon with. We have something much better: a fun quiz that will also teach you something of value. Also, it’s the shortest…

Kylie Rae Harris Looks Back and Moves Forward on Her New EP

On her new self-titled EP, Kylie Rae Harris mines a wide swath of seriously adult terrain. Not that dealing with the sometimes-shocking twists and turns in life’s post-college road is anything new for the Wylie native, mind you. But more than even in the past, Harris is intent upon employing…

3 Nations’ Horchata Beer Is the Best of Both Delicious Worlds

Perhaps the most common question one can overhear from another table when visiting one of the dozens of local brewery taprooms is “Ooh, now what’s that I’m tasting here?” Thanks to the ever-expanding number of craft breweries in North Texas, each with its own ever-expanding list of selections both permanent…

The Vandoliers Have Their Eyes Set on Lasting Forever

With the release of Forever, Josh Fleming has now led the Vandoliers for four years, spanning three full-length albums of country punk raucousness. The twangy, genre-bending group has become one of the best countrified outfits in town, which is a considerable feat, given that before he created the Vandoliers, Fleming…

Oscar DeLaughter Experiments With His Own Future in Music

When a child of an accomplished musician makes his own leap into the artistic wild, it’s near impossible to keep from wondering how dear old dad influenced the music, and more functionally, did he lend a musical hand in any way? For Oscar DeLaughter, the 18-year-old son of Polyphonic Spree…

Rob Baird Has To Keep Going To Make the Music Business Work for Him

You don’t hear it often, but it’s kind of refreshing when a musician admits to something few fellow artists dare utter in public. “I actually like the business part of the music business,” admits country singer-songwriter Rob Baird. Chatting before his December concert at the Kessler in Oak Cliff, where…