Dick Sullivan

Dick Sullivan is a freelance writer living in Dallas. He writes about local pop music for D Magazine and previously wrote for Dallas Music Guide. He is a registered Professional Engineer and his top, one-quarter score on Galaga is 168,530.

Articles by Dick Sullivan

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  Pop Music

  Documentary Tries to Finally Tell the Unappreciated Story of Dallas Hip Hop

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  May 28th, 2013 10:28am

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  The filmmakers behind We From Dallas believe this city played an important, credible role in the broader history of hip hop that is overlooked.

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  Pop Music

  Kings X: Important Enough to Be Legends, Fringe Enough to Be Forgotten

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  May 20th, 2013 8:43am

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  Kings X’s music is difficult to define. The band’s career has had its ups and downs. But their influence is acknowledged, if not by magazines, then by the musicians they inspired.

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  Pop Music

  Why The Old 97′s Collaboration With Waylon Jennings Was Shelved — Until Now

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  April 18th, 2013 9:05am

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  In 1996, a young, and at the time unknown, alt-country band from Dallas was asked to record two tracks with a Texas music legend. Those recordings will finally be released on Record Store Day.

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  Pop Music

  SXSW 2013: Outer Minds Transports Music Back to the Summer of ’67

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  March 22nd, 2013 8:38am

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  What most people dream will happen at SXSW is that they will eventually be face to face with an undiscovered band that they immediately love. My dream is to be magically transported to the Monterrey Pop Festival of 1967. Outer Minds manages both.

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  Pop Music

  SXSW 2013: Will Micah P. Hinson, Abilene’s Traveling Troubadour, Ever Settle Down?

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  March 21st, 2013 8:17am

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  Standing alone before a late-night SXSW audience, Hinson looks at once jaded and fresh, recalling Hazel Motes from Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: a thin, meek, angry man-child.

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  Pop Music

  SXSW 2013: What’s the Secret to Gringo Star’s Ever-Sweating, Yeomen Rock and Roll?

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  March 20th, 2013 1:19pm

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  When I catch up to Gringo Star at this year’s SXSW showcase at Red-Eyed Fly, they are every bit the yeomen I recall, laying down their set like a band that has had an extra five years of polish.

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  Pop Music

  A Spotlight on Three Highlights from 35 Denton: Marnie Stern, Topic, and Wayne Hancock

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  March 14th, 2013 9:28am

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  From country to hip hop to a powerful figure in modern guitar rock, here are three acts that caught our eye at this year’s 35 Denton.

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  Pop Music

  The Relatives: Rediscovering Dallas’ Lost Musical Legacy

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  February 27th, 2013 8:45am

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  There is a reason many Dallas residents know little about the era between Blind Lemon Jefferson and The Toadies.

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  Pop Music

  Album Review: With Debut Album Low Wishes, Air Review Supplies Sweet, Low Impact Rock

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  January 28th, 2013 9:18am

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  The words are eked out at a high, reedy distance, at times so taciturn you would swear you were sharing a room with an intercom. It is music perpetually held at arm’s length.

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  Pop Music

  A Perfect Show For the End of the World (Or Not): Three Bands, Three Kinds of Apocalypse

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  By Dick Sullivan

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  December 21st, 2012 11:11am

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  The Granada is offering an Armageddon lineup of moody metal and bearded prophets of doom.

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