Here’s Who Is Coming to Dallas This Week: July 7 – 10

DJ Alaska, DJ Tamayo and DJ Jesus Freak

July 8, 8 p.m. | Armoury Deep Ellum

Congratulations are to ensure that DJ Alaska. The Oak Cliff artist just lately collaborated with Dickies for Satisfaction Month, providing their information to Oak Cliff to the Fort Price-based clothes model. Click on right here to observe the collaboration earlier than the headlining set on Friday. Fort Price DJs Tamayo and Jesus Freak will be part of within the celebration on the Armoury. Anticipate a combination stuffed with home, darkwave, and synth. Come wearing your best all-Black, goth-inspired match for an evening on the cosmic membership. No cowl on the door.

DLMT, LAKIM of Soulection, JAKEGATEWOOD, and DJ BOYBLK

July 9, 8 p.m. | Deep Ellum Artwork Firm

Two summers in the past, musician and producer JAKEGATEWOOD got here up with the concept for a Youtube sequence he referred to as Take A Break the place he carried out a set of home music. The primary episode, recorded in an industrial kitchen, was a present of his meticulous preparation as he transitioned from one observe to a different on his Pioneer DJ controller. Like most musicians impacted by the pandemic, the producer used YouTube to remain inventive as a performer after we couldn’t collect in the identical room. That sequence has since advanced right into a month-to-month celebration to have a good time home music. To commemorate the inaugural perform, he has introduced a number of the greatest names within the style, reminiscent of DLMT and LAKIM, and BOYBLK, the resident DJ at Meet Me Underground in Fort Price. Buy tickets.

Devin The Dude

July 9, 9 p.m. | Granada Theater

Devin The Dude was one of many unique musicians signed to Rap-A-Lot Information, the Houston label that put out albums by the Geto Boys, DJ Screw, and Z-Ro, amongst many others. Because the early Nineties, the Houston MC has amassed a cult following by way of a particularly vivid model of first-person narrative storytelling and humor. The Dude, his debut studio album, showcased his specific and comedic nature, which earned him the moniker “Hip-Hop’s Richard Pryor.” Though he by no means achieved the mainstream success of a few of his Rap-A-Lot counterparts, Devin The Dude is one the style’s unsung heroes and all the time fills a room with smoke. Purchase tickets.

Maverick Metropolis Music and Kirk Franklin

July 10, 6:45 p.m. | Dickies Enviornment

“There’s by no means been a time when the most well liked gospel act on the earth is a choir from Atlanta beloved as a lot by Justin Bieber and Franklin as they’re by 1,300 inmates on the Everglades Correctional Establishment in Miami-Dade, Florida,” writes Marcus Ok. Dowling of the Nashville Tennessean. The most well liked gospel act in query, Maverick Metropolis Music, recorded Kingdom E book One, the band’s newest EP, with incarcerated women and men from the Miami correctional facility and Grammy award winner Kirk Franklin. Just lately, the group carried out picks from the EP with incarcerated people at Rikers Island in New York and lifted the spirits of attendees at this yr’s BET Awards ceremony. Get tickets.