After the 2010 SXSW Music Festival, Next Big Sound, a tracking tool for monitoring fan interaction with music groups, released data on their website that was music to my ears. Personally, I can’t resist hearing new music that might potentially takeover my iTunes playlist for the next few months. Last week I sampled all the artists on the list, bought a few albums, and then dug in a little deeper to check if any of them were coming to town. As of this posting, 6 bands have announced dates in Dallas. Check them out here.

The Second Annual Oak Cliff Art Crawl presented by Go Oak Cliff will be a great event for families and locals interested in the Dallas arts scene. The event goes above and beyond to create a fun and friendly environment while offering a unique look into the Oak Cliff we all have yet to discover.

Indie rock community, MadeLoud.com, is now a proud sponsor of ILiveInDallas.com ‘s Music category to reach more independent Dallas musicians, bands, and solo artists. Home to thousands of unsigned independent artists where fans can download new music legally , and bands can host and showcase their music for free.

After a couple months of prep and planning, Team CJ has pulled together our wits and resources and we’re ready to rock our upcoming Core Conversation at SXSW Interactive.

But before we get all serious and pack it in for SouthBy, we are throwing a sendoff party for our friends and fans!

Come by CoHabitat for the Official Unofficial SXSWi Sendoff Pre-party on Tuesday, March 9th between 7 and 10pm. Meet local techies, bloggers, artists, foodies, fellow SXSW attendees, and free stuff enthusiasts for the only pre- SXSWi party in Dallas!

Here at ILiveinDallas.com, we have traditionally promoted and reported on the Dallas art scene, advocacy, musical performances, education, literary talks, and cultural events in order to encourage the creative and expansive growth of the community. We are now opening a new category: technology and the social web. We want to offer our readers educational and networking opportunities in order to learn everything they can about using social media, web tools, and ways to collaborate with like-mined individuals to expand their knowledge. With that said, here is our first official article in this new category.

GuerillaArts, the nonprofit space committed to increasing art awareness and support in Dallas, will be giving tours of their 5,000 sqft building this Sunday – even the upstairs artist studio space, which has been closed off at past events.

Stop by between 2 and 4pm – meet and mingle with the people behind GuerillaArts and your local artist community. They will be talking about the great things GuerillaArts will be launching this spring, including the artist in residency program, spring classes and their summer institute for high school aged artists.

As the lights dimmed at The Music Hall at Fair Park, the familiarly haunting opening refrain of one of America’s most famous contributions to musical theater began to fill the air. As the richness of the pipe organ soared above the crowd, the eyes of all were drawn upward as the stage and the room were magically transformed into an opera house reminiscent of early 20th century France; as the all too famous chandelier took its place above the crowd, it became suddenly and undeniably clear- the Phantom of the Opera had once again arrived in Dallas.

The controversy that has accompanied the publication of the Noyola collection of Frida Kahlo material has raised numerous questions. This panel will bring together the owners of the Noyola material, experts who have examined the objects, the publisher of the related book (Finding Frida Kahlo), as well as scholars, dealers, and journalists who are familiar with the artist’s oeuvre. The discussion will range from the specific — a description of the Noyola archive — to more general questions about how newly discovered artworks are received and evaluated by the scholarly community and the market.

The 1st Annual Dallas Art In The District Art Fair features an array of contemporary emerging art galleries and artists. Art In The District provides participating galleries with a platform to present new works to a strong and growing audience. Art In The District is for everyone from the first-time buyer to the art savvy collector.

ArtLoveMagic connects local artists with spectators for a night of creativity and entertainment. From 8pm to midnight on Saturday, January 30th, fifty local artists and musicians are taking the stage to create in front of you.