The night of February 4th, 2012, fans lined up in front of The Door on Main Street to see the six bands that were playing the Dallas date of the Strength in Numbers (aka S.I.N.) tour. Headlining this cross-country tour was the band Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, who is more commonly known by the tongue-in-cheek acronym D.R.U.G.S. Joining them on tour were Hit the Lights, Like Moths to Flames, Sp...
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Review by special guest correspondent Angeleeta Sosnowski You know a show will be good when you get a contact high in the parking lot. It will also have touches of irony that you’ll love, like the line for the men’s restroom being about 200 guys deep while the girls could walk and out in a matter of minutes. I must mention that I am a fan of Tool. However I have come in and out of their work ...
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Many times have we have been at the Granada Theater to see various artists, bands, and shows only having to grab a bite to eat across the street or next door before and after the show. Not only that, trying to get a beer inside the venue was almost a challenge at some times; depending on what show you were at of course. This posed a problem as visiting artists/musicians......
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What's better than spending time with family, friends, and loved ones over the holidays and drinking eggnog next to a warm fire? Rockin' out the eve of Christmas Eve at the best music venue in Dallas, that's what! Production company, Escaping The Ordinary brought Fair To Midland and Dead Letter Circus to Dallas' Granada Theater fans this weekend and I have to say it was quite a good turn out, con...
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Last weekend, over forty local and national bands rolled into Fair Park for Third String Productions’ annual Christmas festival, Unsilent Night. For about twelve hours, concert goers were able to go from one stage to the other to listen to their favorite bands and DJs while spending their concert money on merchandise and concessions. The moment I entered the venue, I was surrounded by thousands of...
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Local (817) rockers China Kills Girls - a.k.a. CKG - recently released their first record, and this self-entitled seven-track gem serves as further evidence that Funkytown knows how to throw down some solid punk rock. Ft. Worth’s punk scene seems to get stronger and stronger, take for instance Samuel Caldwell's Revenge, The Me-Thinks, How’s My Driving?, Perdition, Stoogeaphilia, and the like. An...
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Descender is defined in the dictionary as a part of a letter that extends below the level of its base (as in g, y, and p), or a letter having such a part. Ironically enough, the word descender is void of any descenders. Of course, around these parts, Descender is defined as an ominous 4-piece rock outfit who’s dropping their sophomore effort this Thursday at Trees; and there is absolutely nothin...
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The problem with strapping rockets to your first album and blowing hats off stuffy music critics everywhere is that no matter what you do in coming years, you can never recreate the intensity with which you were first received. You, like a child star, are thumbtacked to a specific moment in time, and as hard as you wriggle and writhe, you can never shirk the oppressive weight of premature success....
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I first heard of Portland’s Menomena on a sampler CD that had them performing “Trigga Hiccups” live at a venue called The Bug Jar in New York. Ever since I’ve been a fan that never misses anything the members of Menomena put out, such as solo projects like Danny Seim’s Lackthereof or Brent Knopf’s Ramona Falls. On July 27, Menomena will drop their fourth and long awaited album, “Mines.” NPR recent...
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No, it's not the latest flavor of Swisher Sweets. It's perhaps the most unique thing to come out of the Deep South since Shooter Jennings. Blackberry Smoke revitalizes the southern rock genre with a new record, Little Bit of Dixie, and a whole lotta soul....
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