Whatever you think about country music, there’s no disputing that it’s taken its fair share of heat. But as much as we criticize, we only do it because we love it, and just don’t like seeing it in the state that it’s in. Fortunately, the newly announced 2015 Country Music…
She may have been born in Oklahoma and be based out of Brooklyn these days, but Annie Clark still calls Dallas home. So it’s fascinating to see the singer and master shredder, who recently got her own Ernie Ball guitar and popped up onstage at a Taylor Swift concert, come…
When Heather Lowe came to Dallas a little over a year ago to work at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, she realized she was sitting on a gold mine. While the Dallas Public Library system had taken on a series of budget cuts over the years, one thing had…
Wanz Dover is a veteran of the Dallas music scene. He’s been a part of it for over 20 years and is one of the best live performers in the cit. (If you don’t believe it, just catch his band Black Dotz live.) Dover does regular DJ sets all over…
It has been a rotten — and downright scary — week for Motörhead front man Lemmy Kilmister and his fans around the world. The English speed-metal ace, whose band was due to visit Dallas on Friday night for a show at The Bomb Factory, in the midst of a worrisome…
Stephen Ketner has heard this talk before. On Monday morning, Steve Brown at the Dallas Morning News reported plans that Westdale Properties and StreetLights Residential are teaming up to bring a 17-story high-rise to the outskirts of Deep Ellum, and the hand-wringing was almost immediate. This must be the death knell for Deep…
North Texas country music fans are very, very sad right now. On Wednesday, Rolling Stone Country announced that Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard would join forces for a month-long tour across the Midwest and Southeast to promote their new joint album, Django & Jimmie. In true Nelson and Haggard fashion,…
It happens all the time; one day you’re looking into entering a float in Dallas’ annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and the next you end up with a liquor-store-slash-neighborhood-hangout on your hands instead. At least that’s what the folks at Lower G Spirits & Cigars hope they’ve gotten themselves into…
Taylor Swift has been sharing the stage with a lot of her BFFs recently on her 1989 World Tour. Everyone from Alanis Morissette to Nick Jon es to Fetty Wap and Ellen DeGeneres have popped up at her shows so far, and last night she added another name to that…
John Baugh is a staple in the Dallas house and techno community, best known for his affiliation with the Soundslike crew and as one half of the DJ duo Dragonlazer. Baugh dives into some deep but floor-friendly territory for this week’s Mixtape, complete with a nod to Dallas’ own Brett…
There is no more controversial piece of property (except for those Trinity River plains) in Dallas right now than the historic Lakewood Theater. Beloved by residents for years for its iconic tower and theatre seats that were apparently worth dumpster-diving for, this Dallas icon appears to be teetering on the…
Where do you go after Skrillex? That would seem to be the big, soul-searching question for EDM these days, amidst all the talk that the genre is already on the decline. It’s also a question that a festival like the Mad Decent Block Party is soon to be asking itself,…
Dallas’ only locally-owned community radio station has had a difficult month. With news that it was going to be forced to leave its current home on Maple Ave. to make way for storage units, KNON 89.3 FM was facing an uncertain future — and not for the first time. But…
The title of the new record from the Hundred Inevitables, Decade of Downtime, is beyond misleading. Even if My Bloody Valentine’s brain-crushingly loud Loveless had been named Super Quiet, it wouldn’t have been has as misleading a title as Downtime. Over the course of the past decade plus, in fact,…
Kleptik is a recent transplant from Puerto Rico to Dallas who brings a different perspective to techno and tech house musings on the dance floor. He style features an extra emphasis on layered polyrhythms that are informed by original stomping grounds without being derivative. After hooking up with the Motif…
There are some things you just don’t do in Deep Ellum. You don’t mess with Keyboard Bob, you don’t harass the bar staffs and you sure as hell don’t fuck up any of the artwork. Those are the sorts of things that were supposed to have been confined to the…
Deep Ellum is most definitely on the upswing. A ghost town a half-decade ago, the neighborhood has seen the return of venues like Club Dada, Trees and The Bomb Factory alongside the emergence of new ones like Three Links and Twilite Lounge. The coming months look set to witness a…
Best known for his epic run hosting the ’80s night at Hailey’s Club in Denton, Jonathan Graham has been a staple DJing as DJG in North Texas for the past few decades. Due to an older brother that was involved with the DJ scene in his younger years, he was…
When’s the last time you left your house? Was it for a beer run? (If so, c’mon, you can get that shit delivered.) Or maybe it was for a concert (because, nope, you still can’t do that from home). If the latter, we may have just the thing to get…
Denton’s Rubber Gloves is going through a badly-needed facelift. To hear owner Josh Baish tell it, it’s actually more like reconstructive surgery following blunt trauma for the 19-year old venue, which makes it one of Denton’s oldest. “Rubber Gloves is going through something of a rebirth at the moment,” Baish…
Bruce Corbitt isn’t ready to die. It’s not that he’s afraid of death; e says he just has too much to live for. A popular local metal singer for bands like Rigor Mortis and Warbeast for decades now, the 52-year-old Dallas native recently finished a display of Texas metal at…
Been wondering when Index Festival is going to announce its 2015 lineup? For last year’s festival, which took place in September, organizers Spune held a big to-do at Trees in the springtime to reveal the first round of bands. Here we are in August but still there’s been no word…
