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Reviews
All Time Low, The Summer Set, Hit the Lights, and The Downtown Fiction
	by Kristen Reed All Time Low came to the House of Blues in Dallas during their Rockshow at the End of the World Tour and brought pop punk/rock favorites The Downtown Fiction, Hit the Lights, and The Summer Set along for the ride. ... read more

Gotye, Kimbra, and Jonti
	by Kristen Reed On October 12, 2012, Grand Prairie experienced the Oceania Invasion. Gotye graced the stage of the Verizon Wireless Theater with opening acts Kimbra, and Jonti.... read more

M83 and Sun Airway
	by Kristen Reed On October 11, 2012, The Palladium Ballroom played host to the electronic/alternative/pop act M83, and their support, a crunk/shoegaze/tropical band called Sun Airway. ... read more

The All-American Rejects, Boys Like Girls, and The Ready Set
	by Kristen Reed On October 3, 2012, the Dallas House of Blues lent its legendary stage to The All-American Rejects, who are out on the road in support of their latest release Kids in the Street along with Boys Like Girls and The Ready Set. ... read more

Saving Abel @ Southside Music Hall 6/9/2012
	by Mark Ambrose After a very long and hot day in the Texas heat, I managed to pull a double-header and make it just in time to see Saving Abel take the stage in Dallas. If you're not familiar with this group, they are a bunch of good ‘ol southern boys from Mississippi that know how to get down and boogie; whether it be in a live venue, their front porch, or a rock festival they sure know how to get a crowd going... read more

Album Reviews
China Kills Girls Self-Entitled Debut Album
	by Josh Pitts 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... read more

A Peek at Descender's New Album Dark Water
	by Josh Pitts 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... read more

Tapes 'n Tapes: Knocking on Outside's Door
	by Laura Miller 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.... read more

Menomena’s “Mines”
	by Travis McAnelly 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... read more

Blackberry Smoke Sustains Southern Rock with Dixie Album
	by AndrewMcElwee 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.... read more

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