When you hear about someone who is called “the poet of the violin”, you automatically peg them as someone who spent their childhood tethered to a string instrument. Joshua Bell did have a knack for the violin as a child, there’s no doubt, but he didn’t lose his younger... More >>

Dallas-based artist Patrick Romeo creates a site-specific show at the Dallas Public Library in the Lillian Bradshaw Gallery. Existing both in real life (IRL) as well as in digital form, Romeo crafts road signs and traffic cones that lead to nowhere, while a computer-generated voice reads... More >>

There are different levels of artistry: one on, there is art made for the sake of aesthetics; on another, there is art that goes beyond the purpose of appealing to people visually or aurally and seeks to effect social change or provide social documentation. There’s nothing wrong with art... More >>

Run the Jewels is the meow meow meow hottest thing in music right now meow. EL-P and Killer Mike's meow meow collaboration is so popular meow that they were able to fund a remix meow album that will consists of nothing but cat noises meow meow through Kickstarter with ease. Meow meow meow,... More >>

Lionel Richie is a legend. First, he and a few friends formed the Commodores at Tuskegee University after combining the Mystics and the Jays. What followed was a slew of hits like the funk staples "Machine Gun," "Brick House," and those beautiful ballads like "Easy" and "Three Times a Lady."... More >>

Kristin Welchez, better known by her stage name Dee Dee Penny, has been operating the Dum Dum Girls since 2008 with a rotating cast of players who create smart and often dreamy music. Earlier this year her third long player, Too True, dropped on Sub Pop. The album has a bit of a retro '90s... More >>

While not out to reinvent the wheel, the audio-visual artists in Flinching Eye Collective are out to sidestep the conventional expectations of performance art. A project that explores the connections between video, sound, and physical environment, FEC channel the ghosts of thinkers like John... More >>

You're not a true movie geek until you've been to the Alamo Drafthouse at least 1,312 times. They've become a growing mecca of pop culture goodness as new locations spring up all throughout the country. We've been gifted with our own theater in Richardson but one theater can't truly house the... More >>

In daily life, pretty is quite the compliment. Sure, it may rank lower than beautiful or stunning. But every good flatterer knows the power of telling a woman she’s pretty. In art, pretty is perjorative. You want to insult a serious painter? Tell her that her life’s work is pretty.... More >>

You, sir, look like you could use a fancy new pocketsquare. Or a bowtie. Look, if you’re going to reach your full potential as a dapper gentleman, you might want to check out Caviar Club’s menswear line. Because nothing says swanky like caviar and club. Stroll into the Winter trunk... More >>

Ten years is a hell of a long time to go silent. After just two years touring on 2004's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, Death From Above 1979 split and the album eventually became a posthumous classic, heralded as an utterly unique and heavy experience that was gone far too soon. The breakup... More >>

The English band, Bastille, is named after a French holiday to commemorate the Storming of the Bastille, which was a fortress and prison, at the beginning of the French Revolution. The triumphant, grandiose, celebratory nature of the band is encapsulated from the start, all by a name. It's... More >>

As more dance companies opt to dance alongside recorded tracks, Avant Chamber Ballet is a local dance company committed to performing with live music. It’s made them a go-to company for dance and music lovers. Recently they launched a concert series (Just music, no dance). This weekend,... More >>

This is an incredible show, well-worth the drive to Denton from Dallas or Fort Worth, and I’d be saying that even if Thee Oh Sees were playing alone. It is also worth noting that Thee Oh Sees will be performing as a trio with frontman John Dwyer backed by two new musicians, rather than... More >>

Still trying to figure out if The Pizza Underground is a real thing or if it's something that Carles from The Hipster Runoff conjured with the witchcraft of blog words? You can find out at Trees. This band essentially covers The Velvet Underground songs, but makes the said songs about pizza.... More >>

Like all great satirists, David Sedaris realizes that the best way to explore the foibles of human nature is to jump on the grenade and let all of your deepest fears and secrets splatter over every page. He can slice through just about any cultural taboo that the PC police would gladly write... More >>

Scottish rock band We Were Promised Jetpacks revel a masterful execution of post-punk. The guitar riffs are loud and pack nearly as much rhythm as the drummer's beats. Vocalist, Adam Thompson's lyrics are confessional and cathartic, the wok of a beat poet reappropriated for a millennial... More >>

The fifth anniversary season of The Nasher’s Soundings concert series begins with cellist Alisa Weilerstein in recital., and the offering is really something special. Before Bach’s six cello suites, there existed exactly zero compositions for solo cello. They remain some of the... More >>

Everyone’s got a story to tell, even if they don’t think their life is all that exciting. The story of the Thanksgiving where you left dinner early to bail your boyfriend out of jail is actually a potential legend in the making—something your kids will confide to their kids on... More >>

Evia Music is a record company based out of Sanger, TX of all places, a place I've never been. It does seem like a town that has one movie theater that only plays Clint Eastwood westerns. But, there is music. The sweet sound of music. On the bill: Victor Gann, a roots rock trio fronted by, you... More >>

A little bit of New Orleans is hitting the Granada. The headliner is Galactic, a jazz fusion jam band that digs deep into the roots of the bayou incorporating funk, a smattering of bright horn and saxophone notes and bits and pieces of other genres like upbeat funk and hip-hop. Opening for... More >>

When a record label goes forth and really tailors their roster to include artists and bands of a particular sound and vein, you gotta love it. The independent record label, Drag City packs their roster full of experimental indie rock bands. A lot of them loud. Some of them nostalgic. Dope Body... More >>

This trio of brothers from San Angelo have a unique blend of rock, blues, conjunto and Tejano. The brothers Garza started playing music in the '80s before they were even teens, backing up their father's solo project after the dissolution of his own band of siblings, the Falconers. Los Lonely... More >>

There is no person that is more quintessentially Texas than Willie Nelson. After a 50-year career in country, Americana and folk music, Nelson is as much a cultural institution as he is a musician. There has been no bigger influence on any of these genres than Nelson, and it's likely that even... More >>

While we're on the subject of the weather, which our weather gods tell us is changing from hot to slightly less hot, let's discuss one of the best places in Dallas to enjoy the great outdoors. It must be nice to be the Arboretum, which celebrates the four seasons like a holiday that never ends.... More >>