If you go to see Son Volt for the first time, you will notice that singer and band leader Jay Farrar doesn't engage the audience very much. He doesn't have to -- he and his band let the music do...
Editor's note: We've been choosing Hot Tickets and spotlights in our print Guide section, and now we want to bring those same picks to the Playlist music blog on dallasnews.com. Basically, we go through the concert schedule so you don't...
If you've heard of only one Deep Ellum club, it's Trees. And it's making a comeback with a grand-opening weekend sure to get some attention. The live-music venue first opened in 1991 but then closed in 2005 after financial issues....
Why rewrite great news? Lisa Endicott, who gives me the scoop on happenings at the Granada, sent this to me today "via Blackberry": "Brit singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 play Granada Theater Apr 4 at 8 pm. What...
This week, Mike Shoder closed both his CD World stores, at Mockingbird and Greenville (which opened in '92) and Belt Line and the Tollway ('94). But rather than moan about how Mp3s are killing record stores, the eternally optimistic Shoder...
Not that there's anything wrong with it, but Neko Case's show Saturday at the Granada Theater wasn't much different than her '06 Granada gig. Like that show (which was also drew a near-capacity crowd) she focused Saturday on songs from...
Ani DiFranco said she was thrilled to be playing Texas, but she didn't cut George Bush any slack Friday night at the Granada Theater in the title track to her new CD Red Letter Year: "The water is rising, and...
Texans have fond memories of the Bad Livers, the late great Austin band (1990-2000) that blended bluegrass with punk and whatever else it felt like. Now, in the spirit of the Livers comes a punky new banjo band -- the...
With all of the decentralization and cold-shouldered attention that the local pop music scene's been enduring lately, this development might be a sign that important folks are finally beginning to realize how rich it actually is: DowntownDallas has partnered with...
This is the fourth installment of our new "We were there" category, featuring blog-only mini-reviews of shows we check out in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Unlimited Enthusiasm Tour 2008 came through Dallas last night and despite slight technical difficulties,...
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