We have a large amount of great local acts hitting the Granada Theater stage in the coming weeks. For the next few weeks, we’re going to highlight some of the great local talent that you should check out in addition to the other great bands our team has on the calendar for your live music >> Read More
Austin-based blues guitarist Elijah Ford made his reputation playing alongside his father Marc Ford (guitarist for The Black Crowes) in Fuzz Machine and touring with Oscar and Grammy award winner Ryan Bingham (for his work co-writing music in the film Crazy Heart). Elijah’s solo work started last year with Elijah Ford & The Bloom releasing >> Read More
We all have heard it, December 21st, 2012 is the date decided as the end of the world. Is Planet X or Nibiru on the path of total destruction, does it even exist! The Mayan calendar ends on this date so what does this mean to us…nothing but the end of the world!! Mel Gibson >> Read More
If Coldplay were Texan and less sappy, they’d sound a teeny bit like The Rocketboys. This Austin-based band serves listeners warm, arena-scale melodic rock like a summer shower over an open field. Rocketboys’ latest album Build It Anyway released this summer and the band is currently on tour with Bearcat through November. The Rocketboys play at Sundown at 11pm on >> Read More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YjhoTDnxp0 How’s this for a misleading band name? What Made Milwaukee Famous is based in Austin. The band’s name actually
Mike Patton is a prolific musician and the versatile vocalist of Tomahawk. His career spans across rock and metal into jazz, children’s music, film scores and even pop music. Mike also lends his distinct voice to cartoons and video games. Mike Patton started his career in high school with the experimental rock band Mr. Bungle in 1985. In 1989, >> Read More
Dallas band hormones broke out in 2009 with their self released EP Look Out Below followed by to the 9s last year. This biochemically-inclined rock band sounds like a compound of punk and hard rock elements in the periodic table of rock music. The band is shrouded in mystery consisting of: beard on bass, geoff on guitar and jordan taking care >> Read More
The pan-DFW band Mind Spiders is a flatland avalanche of heavy garage rock with grainy guitars, retro keyboard drones and dueling drummers. Mind Spiders is the -uh… brain child- of Mark Ryan. Ryan recorded all the instruments 2011 Mind Spiders EP in his lonesome. This past February, Mind Spiders released their first full album Meltdown (Dirtnap >> Read More
You expect a Sleigh Bells show to rock your world, and they do not disappoint. The explosive sound of Sleigh-pocalypse knocked a bottle of Kahlua off the bar, a full 50 feet from the stage. Their show is 1000 arms-in-the-air for an hour awesome. But I was most impressed with what I saw from Alexis >> Read More
At a year and couple months young, Bowling Green, KY’ s Sleeper Agent certainly sounds it’s age. The garage-rock sextet plays snappy, cheerful jams calling to mind The Black Lips. Alex Kandel’s Sourthern-hangover patois and guitarist Tony Smith’s Jack White-ish squawk swap and match to the lyrics. Their sophomore album Celebrasion, on Mom + Pop Records, brought their fresh, >> Read More