There aren’t a whole lot of venues like Fort Worth’s 1919 Hemphill anymore: all ages, volunteer-run, existing on donations, bringing in great hardcore and punk bands, maintaining a library of zines. A true community venue built on support and common ground, one that encourages discourse. The motto, writ large on…
On and off, for nearly three decades, Brent Best has fronted Slobberbone, arguably the best alt-country act to emerge from the local scene. Beginning in the mid-’90s, the group produced a series of albums that culminated in 2000’s Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today, which remains a landmark…
So many got to know former Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Joe Avezzano as a hard-nosed, foul-mouthed, award-winning special-teams coach during his days roaming football sidelines, which began in 1968 and ended yesterday, after Avezzano died of an apparent heart attack while in Italy coaching the Seamen Milano of the Italian…
Led by the energetic and enigmatic Riley Gale, Dallas metal-punk trio Power Trip has been stuck in a creative lull since releasing the killer Armageddon Blues EP back in 2010. However, since changing drummers and getting the guitarist to commit full time, Power Trip is once again forging ahead, having…
Remember when the city was divided into two sides and it was all East side versus West side? Just when you thought that violent feud was over, BAM, East Dallas hits hard with the first ever East Dallas Indie Crawl. The bar-hopping event starts at the AT&T Performing Arts Center,…
Oak Cliff’s Foundry, built into the space of previous bar Jack’s Backyard, is quickly becoming one of the coolest venues in town. Thing is, it hasn’t even had a show yet. This weekend, a Rockers vs. Mods party will remedy that.On Saturday, Sleezy Mancini, The Black Dotz, Missile and The…
Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitar master Ravi Shankar and half-sister to North Texas’ Norah Jones, is an extraordinary talent who lets her inventive work introduce her vision. Shankar sees a wide, blank canvas from which to work, using regional and sonic traditions as mere suggested guidelines. Whether…
The term battle of the bands is sort of an antiquated one, yes? I mean, bands are battling every day to keep their heads above water on the Internet, to get their music to the people (and, in turn, to get people to come see their music), to keep the…
The all-Texas lineup for the third annual Homegrown Fest is quickly expanding, with the addition today of Austin’s Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and The Bright Light Social Hour, plus the Ticket’s own George Dunham. Add those names to a roster including Hayes Carll, Robert Ellis, Octopus Project, Centro-matic,…
Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, is a talented, young singer-songwriter who has made quite a mark with his sophomore effort, Put Your Back N 2 It. However, the release was not without controversy. Perfume Genius’ 16-second ad for the new album was deemed inappropriate by YouTube because it featured the…
Bands that mash up several genres can produce some amazingly unique music as well as some unadulterated shit. New York’s Mindless Self Indulgence is quite capable of doing both within the same song. For nearly 15 years, Jimmy Urine and crew have created what they like to call industrial jungle…
Since the 2005 release of his modern outlaw coming-out party, Put the “O” Back In Country, Shooter Jennings has proudly waved the banner his mother and father, Jesse Colter and Waylon Jennings, had helped design decades ago. After the surprising release of his 2010 concept album, Black Ribbons, Jennings collected…
Ah, yes. So much synergy happens during SXSW. If you’ve been on the Austin festival circuit in the last six months or so, you may have noticed Christian Bale at Austin City Limits, where he played bongos with Fleet Foxes, or Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at Fun Fun Fun…
Chuck Ragan returns to Dallas tonight with the fifth annual Revival Tour, and the co-frontman of Hot Water Music will share the stage with Dan Andriano from Alkaline Trio and Tom Gabel from Against Me!, as well as Mississippi songwriter Cory Branan. In the midst of remodeling the bathroom in…
Although they may look like rejects from the casting call for a sequel to The Craft, Nashville’s The Black Belles are actually more original than their look suggests. The band was “discovered” by Jack White, but the four Belles see him more as mentor than Svengali. Speaking from Laredo and…
As Rio Room’s ’83 Series comes to a close, you may have thought Thursday night would free up. Sorry, shaking your groove thing is just going to become a year-round habit, but at least you know there are international and regional tastemakers set to underscore your weekly dance party. We…
Although Britain’s Band of Skulls has been around since 2004, the power trio has managed to release just two full length efforts. And the recently issued Sweet Sour is good enough to make one wish the band were a bit more prolific. Featuring a diverse collection of blues based garage…
Back in the drunken glory days of the Replacements, not many people would have described bassist Tommy Stinson as hardworking. But hell, he was still in his teens. Now 45, Stinson has developed a work ethic that is damn near impossible to fathom. Besides being the full-time bassist in Guns…
Philadelphia’s folk-pop trio Good Old War just released their third album, Come Back as Rain, and stop in Dallas tonight before heading off to Austin. Guitarist Dan Schwartz took a few minutes to chat with us about sing-alongs, SXSW and other bands from Philly. Given how many shows you’ve played…
35 Denton just announced the opening act for Wednesday’s rescheduled Jesus and Mary Chain show will be San Francisco shredder Ty Segall, whose 2011 Goodbye Bread LP contained the perfect right brain/left brain of pop and distortion. It’s actually the perfect match. Damn, 35 Denton, y’all playin’ cupid. Again, the…
Word has been circulating all over Facebook and Twitter today that Dallas blues legend Bugs Henderson passed away last night. A call to close friend and former bandmate Jimmy Wallace confirms that Henderson did indeed die at age 69 from complications of liver cancer. “A blood clot showed up in…
Even though country singer Wayne “The Train” Hancock was born in the ’60s, he comes across like a man from an entirely different generation. His look, mannerisms and style of music are much more akin to someone raised in the Roaring Twenties, though Hancock’s first album was released in 1995…
