We From Dallas Hip-Hop Documentary Trailer: Watch

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Some of the founding members of longtime local rap stalwart Poor Vida Productions, have teamed up with Media 13 for a major project: This summer, they'll screen the feature-length documentary We From Dallas. The film will tell an oral history of the Dallas hip-hop scene through a series of comprehensive, rare and intimate sit-down interviews. Covering a span of almost 20 years, artists like Mr. Pookie, Headkrack and Pikahsso narrate their firsthand experiences in building the local hip hop culture as we know it. Until now, the untold story of Dallas rap has never been compiled so extensively. From the graffiti, to the breakdancing, to the underground rap records you grew up on, it's all in this film. Today, we've got the exclusive trailer debut.


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The Red Dirt Community Comes to the Aid of the Tornado Victims

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Kelly Dearmore
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On Wednesday night, 16 tornadoes devastated much of Cleburne and Granbury, south of Fort Worth, leaving six people dead and millions of dollars worth of damage to the two normally sleepy towns. As Wednesday night rolled into Thursday morning, it took but only a few text messages between a couple of guys that care enough to put their impressive contacts-lists to good use to assist those who were suddenly in-need of extreme assistance.

As he listened to the news of the storms, Tony Avezzano, the owner of Coach Joe's Hat Tricks in Lewisville, where the popular, syndicated and locally-based Texas Country radio show, Texas Red Dirt Roads will be broadcast from over the next few weeks, immediately thought of his friend and Texas Country artist Steve Helms and his family, who live in Cleburne.

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The Party Is Reuniting in New York Today: Listen Live

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Were you hoping for some time travel this afternoon? Well, aren't you in luck.

Dallas booty shaker and party maker DJ Sober is on tour right now gracing the East Coast with his presence and those smooth fades. Sober assures me we won't lose him to those New York cool kids even if he has already been offered a Boston weekly and drove several of Le Bain's beautiful people into the rooftop pool.


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Busking with A.Dd+ and The Relatives

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Earlier this week, Kelly Dearmore showed you a video of Austin up-and-comers Sons of Fathers playing an acoustic song outside the Granada Theater. The Frisco-based video company, Globe Trek Productions, responsible for the video actually produced three in conjunction with Homegrown Music and Arts Festival last weekend. The other two feature beloved Dallas gospel group The Relatives and hip-hop duo A.Dd+, who flew in from New York for the festival, if that gives you any sense of the moves they're making. Watch both below.

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Whiskey Folk Ramblers' Long Road to a New Album: Listen

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In this week's music feature, Gavin Cleaver gets up to speed with Whiskey Folk Ramblers. They just released an excellent sophomore album, The Lonesome Underground, which you can buy on their website. It's been a long time coming for the band, which has lost members and engineers and still, as Gavin eloquently argues, puts on one of the most quintessentially Texas performances of any band in town.

Whiskey Folk Ramblers Have a New Album and a New Band -- Finally

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Spooky Folk Fans Explain What the Band Means to Them at the Farewell Show

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Rachel Watts
Spooky Folk onstage at their farewell show at Dan's Silverleaf
It was an emotional night for more than a hundred who gathered for Denton's folk-pop quintet Spooky Folk's farewell show at Dan's Silverleaf on Monday night. The beloved five are putting their live shows on hiatus so that singer Kaleo Kaualoku can marry and move to Denver at the end of the month. Several "thank yous" were said from stage during the duration of the band's two-part set, which included a shout out to Chris Hughes, who is currently recording the band's sophomore album. We talked to several fans and friends in attendance about their favorite memories and why Spooky Folk is so important.

See also:
- Spooky Folk Isn't Breaking Up, But it's A Farewell All the Same
- Chris Hughes is an Engineer Who Knows the Difference Between Correct and True

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Listen: North Texas Collective Chapter 11 has a Beautiful Hit with "Whiskey and You"

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When speaking of North Texas country music collective Chapter 11, we're not using the term "collective" lightly. The project, dreamed-up by Sherman-based producer and engineer Dustin Hendricks, who's worked with such greats as Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and even metal giants Hellyeah, isn't a traditional band by any means. It's a genuinely collaborative musical project by several talented folks that simply wanted to finally work together. In fact, Hendricks admits that a short-coming of his own led to the project's beginning.

"I've written several songs in the past," says Hendricks on his way back from a radio-promotion visit in Corpus Christi. "I never put much more into them due to the fact that my voice sounds like nails on a chalk board."

See also:
-The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List
-The Ten Most Badass Band Names in DFW
-The Best Bands in DFW: 2012 Edition
-Photo Essay: The Tattoos of Dallas' Nightlife Scene

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Denton's All Stars Pay Tribute to Jason Molina: Preview

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The passing of Jason Molina in March was met with much sadness amongst the musician community of Texas -- Molina had a wide influence on many in the state. Now a group of Texas based artist have teamed with curator Randy Reynolds to create Lone Star Horizons: A Texas Tribute to Jason Molina.

See also:
-Jason Molina, RIP: We Have Lost One of the Great Songwriters
-The Stage Crew Diaries: A Tribute to the Volunteers of 35 Denton

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Ishi Swings for the Pop Fences on Digital Wounds

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Electro-dance outfit Ishi, celebrated the release of their sophomore LP, Digital Wounds, this weekend at the Granada Theater. Frontman John Mudd (One of two remaining original members, along with producer Brad Dale) says they wanted to make a new record that captured the energy from the dance-floor numbers of the first album.

"Our key goal was always to have a record that was cohesive and worked together. So it didn't sound the same, yet tapped into the nostalgia of listening to a record front to back. Not being tired of it."

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Denton's Biographies Are Having More Fun Than You

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Biographies came into the Denton scene in the middle part of last year with a seemingly built in audience. Though they are neophytes, both as a band and as individuals (their oldest member is 23), they have a certain experimental bravery informed by their pre-emo idols; those certain David Bazans and Jeremy Enigcks, and their fans, typically aged mid to early 20's, seem to pick up on that.

They put out their first album, a self-titled, eight song EP they released on March 30th , at The Labb in Denton. It's filled with pensive contemplation and life-affirming monologues weaving over and under severe arpeggios and dramatic musical turns of phrase a la earlier Sunny Day Real Estate or Pedro The Lion. It's easy to imagine being comforted by this album amidst the throes of a first heartbreak.

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