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No Thanks Fest attendees brave the great outdoors for the festival in 2013
Man's connection to nature, his desire to simultaneously embrace, tame and succumb to the siren song of the wild, has been expressed through art for centuries. And there's...
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Music is a part-time gig for Ronnie Fauss, but "Built to Break" is a great record all the same
This week, Dallas-based songwriter Ronnie Fauss released Built to Break, his second full-length effort for the New West Records imprint Normaltown. Of...
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There's no place we'd rather be this weekend than Fun Fun Fun Fest
The ninth incarnation of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest starts tomorrow, and the growth of the festival shows no signs of slowing. It's a festival that feels loved, that feels like an...
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TWIABP have moved tonight's Dallas show from the Prophet Bar to Club Dada
Tonight was supposed to witness Connecticut band the World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die visiting Dallas for a show at the Prophet Bar. But as of las...
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"Hey Mom, yeah, we're just trying to figure out which shows to see at Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend"
Fun Fun Fun Fest hits Austin hits this weekend, and for many of Texas' most devout music heads, it's the music festival of the year. That's becaus...
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Daniel Markham (left) with bandmates Grady Sandlin, Ryan Thomas Becker and Tony Ferraro
Daniel Markham is in the midst of a pretty serious addiction. Now 33 years old, the Denton-based singer-songwriter has managed to live an exceptionally length...
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Every Music scene has that guy who has seen it all. He's the guy you always run into at influential shows, record stores and DJ nights from as long as you have been going to shows. Evan Chronister, known to many as Captain Groovy, was one of those gu...
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Pageantry playing in Manhattan during CMJ in October
By Roy Robertson
At the end of October, Denton's Pageantry traveled to New York City for the annual CMJ Music Marathon. We invited singer and guitarist Roy Robertson to reflect on the band's e...
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This past weekend, Ingram appeared on a new episode of the popular syndicated television show Texas Music Scene with Ray Benson. And, wouldn't you know it, he had a new song to sing. Given that it's been a whole half-decade since his last album, new ...
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Step into the ring with A.Dd+'s Slim Gravy and learn about DOMA's Best Rap/Hip Hop Acts
It's that time of the year again when artists and creatives of the Dallas-Fort Worth area vie for honors in the annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. The polls ...
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Slipknot were in "costume" at Gexa for Halloween on Friday
Slipknot
With KoRn
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Friday, October 31, 2014
Music is weird. It has a way of sticking around in your life, or coming back when you thought you'd left if behin...
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Julian Casablancas and the Voidz in the shadow of The Chive culture last Saturday
Chive Fest
Southfork Ranch, Parker
Saturday, November 1, 2014
On the battleground of providing viral content to users on the internet one website has risen above a...
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Collin Pollitt and David Sanchez of Prism Cloud offer their different perspectives.
Prism Cloud, like innumerable bands, started in a garage. But instead of plunking around on guitars haphazardly and figuring it out themselves, they pulled from ...
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This week is pretty stacked with some great shows. One of the best we've had in Dallas in a while. Lionel Richie does the whole casino in Oklahoma thing, the English Beat plays Trees, as does Run the Jewels and Ratking. Death from Above 1979 is set t...
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Jay Wil and Rollo are the duo behind Deep Ellum on Air's Live from the Underground
Imagine what your labor of love was in college. It could have been a band or a blog or anything really. Just something that was your creative outlet. Now imagine c...
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The basement of J&J's Pizza: Home to live music, and spirits?
Almost everyone, at one time or another, has a story about a haunted house or some other sort of paranormal activity. Maybe it's a benign spirit, some former tenant of a home or apartm...
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It's Halloween weekend, which is most likely your favorite time of the year to party if you're under 30. If you're over 30, relax, New Year's Eve isn't too far off. For now, there's just a bunch of shows you should check out this weekend, Halloween-t...
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The Arctic Monkeys
With Mini Mansions
Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie
Tuesday, October 29, 2014
Earlier this year, the up-and-coming punk and garage rock band the Orwells spilled the beans on their experience opening for the Arctic Monkeys. They wer...
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Power Trip is one of many North Texas acts that aren't for the faint of heart
There's nothing quite like getting the shit scared out of you, is there? It's why we love watching horror movies. It's why we do things like jumping out of airplanes fo...
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Cake and Beer. Boom! You're Welcome.
This past March, Fort Worth hosted the spring edition of the Untapped Indie Music and Beer Festival. The weather absolutely sucked, but in a weird way, that made the day and evening a fun one, because the bee...
