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The KXT Local Show: Honoring Slobberbone’s Jess Barr
December 9, 2022 by Nilufer Arsala
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5 acts to see at Denton’s first Molten Plains Fest this weekend
December 9, 2022 by Preston Jones
The two-day festival at Denton’s Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios will feature “adventurous music” from more than 20 artists from across the country.
Ahead of The Smile’s sold-out Dallas gig, checking in on Radiohead side projects
December 8, 2022 by Preston Jones
The acclaimed British rock band hasn’t dropped a new album in six years, but its members have stayed very busy.
Dallas String Quartet lit up the night at Vitruvian Park for the holidays
December 5, 2022 by Jessica Waffles
During the holiday season, Addison’s Vitruvian Park lights up their trees with lights, creating a free holiday wonderland every night 5pm to 11pm until January 1. This year’s Vitruvian Lights Special Event featured the Dallas String Quartet, marking the celebration’s 10th anniversary. The Dallas String Quartet is an internationally known, local Dallas treasure. In October,… Read more »
The KXT Local Show: Pearl Earl, Mitchel Musso (feat. Marc Musso), Bryson Cole
December 2, 2022 by Nilufer Arsala
Check out what you heard on ‘The Local Show’ this week!
It’s Bandcamp Friday! Listen up to these North Texas artists
December 2, 2022 by Preston Jones
It’s time once again for Bandcamp Friday. If you’re unfamiliar with the event, it’s pretty straightforward: To help musicians amid the uncertainties of the ongoing pandemic, the streaming platform Bandcamp instituted “Bandcamp Friday,” a day where the company forgoes its revenue share in order to pass on to bands an average of 93 percent of… Read more »
Dallas jazz fusion group Wasafiri pushes the sonic boundaries
November 30, 2022 by Preston Jones
Max Gerl remembers it well — Wasafiri began with giving back. “One of my best friends at the time, Ben Hixon, started working at Josey Records when it opened, and I got to know [Jeff] ‘Skin’ [Wade],” Gerl said during a recent conversation. “That was sort of an interesting situation where ‘Skin’ got in touch… Read more »
PREMIERE: Dallas pro-glam band The Dirty Shirts drop “Detonator” music video
November 29, 2022 by Jessica Waffles
Dallas-based band The Dirty Shirts have been spreading their glamorous “dance floor rock n roll” all over the metroplex and beyond, showcasing their tour footage from New York in new music video, “Detonator.” (The video also has some live footage from their last show of tour at Louie Louie‘s in Dallas) “Detonator” is the third… Read more »
Rising star Bartees Strange brings his eclectic sound to Dallas’ Deep Ellum Art Company
November 29, 2022 by Preston Jones
One of the profound pleasures of listening to the music Bartees Strange makes is also one of its most confounding elements: Just how, precisely, is a person supposed to describe what Strange’s songs sound like? To date, the English-born, Oklahoma-bred and Washington, D.C.-based singer-songwriter hasn’t so much blurred genre boundaries as completely disregarded them. His… Read more »
Metallica announces AT&T Stadium stops as part of 2023 world tour
November 28, 2022 by Preston Jones
In 2023, the acclaimed metal band will make its first appearance in North Texas in six years with a two-night stand at AT&T Stadium.
