It’s official now: 2016 is off to one hell of a rough start for music fans. Losing David Bowie last week was harder than most for a lot of music fans, and tributes have been rolling in for more than a week now to the great British singer. But now…
These days, the gang always gets back together. In recent years it’s been trendy and big business for large national acts to reunite after just a few years of calling it quits. In 2016, we’ve already seen LCD Soundsystem and Guns N’ Roses announce reunions from faux breakups. On top…
Normally the prospect of sitting out at a show at Gexa Energy Pavilion in the middle of August is the stuff of night terrors — something akin to frying an egg on the sidewalk. But every so often there’s a show that makes it worthwhile, and one of them just…
Jonny Brashear is an old-school techno head in the purest sense. He’s a connoisseur of the robot dance music and was owner of the now-defunct Sonic Convergence, a label that was based in Dallas but focused on European producers. Though not as active now as a DJ as in the…
Luke Bryan seems to grace Dallas with his don’t-call-it-bro-country presence every few months — he was here to play Gexa Energy Pavilion just last summer — so it’s not much of a surprise when he makes plans for a visit. What is surprising, though, is Bryan’s apparent leap from the…
It still seems hard to believe that David Bowie is gone. The great master of shape shifting, he never really seemed human — much less mortal. Many of us are listening to Blackstar, the goodbye album released just a couple days prior to his passing, as well as our many…
About a year ago, we took a look ahead into the immediate future of local country music and pointed you in the direction of a few fine North Texas talents we thought would be worth keeping an eye on in 2015. Those artists indeed made their fair share of noise,…
In his more than 50 years in the music business, David Walker has seen plenty of shit. Walker has played various roles in the stories of some of rock ‘n’ roll’s most historic acts, including The Rolling Stones, Devo and Paul McCartney. Walker first got his start in the business…
It’s hard to think of much else today besides the news that legendary singer, actor and all-around badass David Bowie has passed away. But is there some positive news out there, especially for fans of classic rock, both young and old: Former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant is going…
With shocking suddenness, we’re left to live in a post-David Bowie world. The man who brought us Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke and Jareth the Goblin King had secretly battled cancer for the past 18 months. On Sunday, just two days after celebrating his 69th birthday with the release…
What’s going on with A.Dd+? According to Paris Pershun, one half of the popular Dallas rap duo, “Everything” is — and not in a good way. After dominating the North Texas scene for years, the Nawf Dallas duo is calling it quits — at least according to Pershun. The other…
Unless you have been ignoring the Internet over the last few days, you’ve probably noticed Denton’s Kaela Sinclair has entered 2016 with a bang. The Florida-born University of North Texas alumna posted a killer video cover of SOHN’s “Artifice” to Facebook last Thursday and the results have been impressive, to…
Kevin Dunlap stands in the darkness of The Rail Club discussing the changes that he and co-owners Josh Campbell and Kyle Booker made to transform what was once known as Fort Worth’s premier metal venue into a full-blown music venue for all genres of music. Dunlap, a 26-year-old McKinney native,…
It’s exciting to have Moody Fuqua working as a talent buyer in Deep Ellum with the recent rebranding of RBC. His eclectic lineups and commitment to highlighting local hip-hop and electronic music are already a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood. But what about Crown & Harp on lower…
For 18 years, Joe Virus has held down his residency The Church at Lizard Lounge where he still plays every Thursday and Sunday. He has been delivering industrial and goth standards in line with his own take on cyberpunk on a consistent basis for almost two decades, making it the…
What’s in a band name? Well, when your band doesn’t have any recorded music and has never played a show, it had better be a lot, because that’s all there is to work with. But that’s not enough to stop someone like Bucks Burnett from starting up the hype machine:…
If you like dueling piano bars, then by all means, go and enjoy yourself. Don’t let anyone else’s opinions or experiences with these forms of live entertainment sway you from going to Louie Louie’s — the first dueling piano bar and newest musical venue to open its doors to the public on…
Hailey’s Club as we know it is gone, and if we’re being honest it’s been absent for a couple of years now. Nevertheless, the club had a great 12-year run. It took Jennifer Gibbs, the club’s current owner, two years to realize running that space as a music venue had ultimately…
Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister — “a pirate of the rock business,” “the king of partying” and a “fucking monster” on a bass as the frontman for the English rock band Motörhead — died on December 28 at age 70. Dressed like a biker with black mutton chops, he spoke the language of a…
It’s been an overwhelming few weeks for Whitney Larkins. At the beginning of December, the Dallas resident filed a lawsuit against Dave Free, rapper Kendrick Lamar’s manager, for more than $1 million. The reason? She claims Free was trying to extort her for $10,000 cash to meet Lamar at his South…
For the past three years, Dustin Evans has received the best club music education by living in Berlin, the beating heart of modern dance music. It’s also a far cry from the more modest club scene of his native Texas. Every year he comes back to Dallas for a bit…
If you were busy last week taking care of that last-minute shopping, traveling to Grandma’s house or just decided to take a break from the Internet for the sake of some family time for Christmas, there’s a chance you missed the wealth of releases the city’s local talent put out…
