Becoming a 1 percenter wasn’t exactly what Jerry Warden had in mind when he threw his hat into the ring for Arlington mayor.
Warden, 60, a well-known metalhead from the band Warlock, collected just over 1 percent of the vote during the May 1 mayoral election after he was thrown out of the race. Eight names had been placed on the ballot for mayor and Warden owned the top slot. However, the dogged determination of rival mayoral candidate Jim Ross led to Warden getting officially booted from the race because of his past felonies.
Warden had served 15 years in prison after “being convicted in 1996 on charges of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 24-year-old woman,” according to
Perhaps the biggest story in local music news has to do with Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to lift the statewide mask mandate and open Texas back up entirely while the pandemic is still very much going on and this state is ranked 48th in vaccine rollout.
The owners and operators of several
Dallas music venueshave responded to the governor by maintaining their mask policies for the sake of protecting their staff, and, well, all of us. Dallas musicians have also spoken out about their preference to continue performing at drive-in concerts and low-capacity crowds for their own and their fans’ protection.
House Parties is the latest woman-fronted punk band to emerge alongside acts like penny bored, Matchstick Ghost and Velvet Skyline. Their first, high-energy single “Hindsight” is available now on Spotify. A reflection on moving on from bad situations and bad people, the uplifting track is bolstered by emocore harmonies and exuberant riffs. House Parties will be featured on Palm Mute Records’ upcoming
Woah Oh! That s What I Call Pop Punk compilation doing a cover of “Jamie All Over” by Mayday Parade.
DAMOYEE and her friend and fellow Berklee College of Music student, multi-instrumentalist Timothy Stone. The two wrote, recorded and produced the lovingly nostalgic song about missing your friends, from their bedrooms in Texas and Connecticut during quarantine. Though they had never actually met on campus before, Stone and DAMOYEE connected via Discord to write the song together after they returned home from college to ride out the pandemic.
Dallas lost a pillar in its music community when
Tim Daniels, co-owner of Club Dada, Off the Record, and other venues, passed away from COVID-19 complications on Saturday, Jan. 15. Daniels is remembered in the community as someone who was always there to support musicians and even patrons who needed some help. A memorial page has been set up in his honor to help his mother, Mary, for whom Daniels was the sole financial provider.
With COVID still going strong, Fort Worth’s
Fortress Festival has decided to cancel its 2021 festival, which was rescheduled from 2020. All ticket holders will be refunded in the coming days, and the festival is expected to try again next year in April. In the meantime, Fortress Presents has teamed up with Wild Acre Brewing to create Wild Acre Live, a new multi-stage live venue complex located at Wild Acre s original brewery in Fort Worth. The outdoor stage will reportedly feature a mix of local artists from across DFW alongside popular national tourin