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Strong Language.

Karlo X. Ramos
Scenes From Last Night's This Will Destroy You Show at the Kessler. If there was a theme to last night's show at the Kessler Theater, it was drums.It...

White Noise.

Cory Graves
The Morning News Hires A Music Critic, Josey Records Opens and Parquet Courts Maybe Changes Its Name Fourteen months after Dallas Morning News music critic Mar...

Sucker Punch.

Pete Freedman
Scenes From Saturday's Sold-Out Charli XCX Show at Trees. Pretty much everyone knew it heading into Saturday's sold-out show at Trees: On this night, Charli XC...

Buzz Rankings: 10/16.

Cory Graves
This Week, Leon Bridges Proved Himself The Better Man. Each week, we take a survey of the local music scene and try to determine which acts in town are really ...

Open Book.

Central Track Contributor
Sharon Van Etten’s Music Is So Therapeutic, She’s Considering Getting Her License. Sharon Van Etten's catalog is, at times, a tough thing to stomach. Her ...

Something Old, Something New.

Pete Freedman
We've Been Calling Leon Bridges The Next Big Thing For Months. Now We've Got Proof. All it took was a single song. And, right then, we knew: Fort Worth crooner...

White Noise.

Cory Graves
Locals Head Off To CMJ, Luke Wade Makes Gwen Stefani Cry And Tim McGraw's Playing The Mall. Last night on the television, North Texas continued its domina...

Take A Whiff.

Karlo X. Ramos
Scenes From Last Night's Perfume Genius Show at Three Links. The last time we saw Perfume Genius perform around these parts -- back in March of 2012, when...

Almost Famous.

Pete Freedman
Bucks Burnett Recruits Alejandro Escovedo, Members of REM, Talking Heads and Minus 5 To New Band. Bucks Burnett is a known provocateur. And, hell, as the mind ...

Gassed Up.

Karlo X. Ramos
Scenes From Saturday Night's Sold-Out Social Distortion Show At Gas Monkey Live's Opening. Before the crew from Discovery Channel's Fast N'...