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Since his debut in 2015, Maxo has evolved into one of the rap’s most acclaimed and respected emcees, earning a reputation as a storyteller for his detailed accounts of his dark past. His 2018 album Punken earned “Best of 2018” plaudits from Pitchfork, Noisey, The AV Club, FACT Mag, and more. Now signed to RCA Records, in partnership with 88 Classic and Maxo’s own Big Persona imprint, launched Brandon Banks, his major label debut, featuring singles such as the ChaseTheMoney-produced “Still,” “She Live” with fellow Houston native Megan Thee Stallion, and the soulful “Meet Again,” listed by Esquire, Billboard, and Vulture as one of 2019’s best songs so far. With additional features from Travis Scott and ScHoolboy Q, Brandon Banks was released on July 19th and catapulted Maxo Kream’s stardom to the next level with accolades like Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” with an 8.4 album review as well as rave reviews and coverage from Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ and many more.

Jennifer Peña Live

Come help us celebrate the life of DFW’s own Shannon McMillan. Crankfish is honored to be a part of this special event. Make your plans to be there. The memorial is from 3pm until 8pm. We are completely stoked to have BigIron drummer Dave Slaughter behind the drum kit for us. See you there!

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (often abbreviated and referred to as D.R.I.) are an American crossover thrash band that formed in Houston, Texas in 1982 and would later relocate to San Francisco, California. The band is currently composed of two of its founding members, lead vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as bassist Greg Orr and drummer Danny Walker. D.R.I. never gained a mainstream audience, but the integration of their hardcore punk roots with thrash metal influences was a stylistic catalyst for their contemporaries – most notably Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, Stormtroopers of Death, the Cro-Mags, Nuclear Assault, Adrenalin O.D., and Cryptic Slaughter – alongside whom they are considered to be one of the major pioneers of what would later be called “crossover thrash”. These bands had a heavy influence on modern thrash metal. As of 2026, D.R.I. has released seven full-length studio albums. Apart from three new songs on the 2016 EP But Wait… There’s More!, they have not released a full-length studio album since Full Speed Ahead in 1995. Despite this, the band has continued to tour for almost every year, and gone on hiatus intermittently, notably between 2004 and 2009, when Cassidy was diagnosed with colon cancer. Since the late 1990s, D.R.I. has been working on their eighth full-length studio album, which remains unreleased.

Since launching in 2017, Surfaces has built a devoted global following on warmth, optimism, and effortless melodicism — amassing billions of streams, six studio albums, and multiple entries on the Billboard Hot 100, while headlining stages and festivals around the world. Founded by Colin Padalecki, the project has become synonymous with feel-good pop built on soul and surf-rock textures, offering listeners a reliable dose of sunshine in an often heavy world. Surfaces returns with its seventh studio album, All the Space Between, its most personal work yet. Lead single “Blame It All on Me,” featuring Mike Posner, was the first song written for the record and marks a turning point for Padalecki, who wrote it while working through a period defined by conditionality and transactional relationships. The result is a song about unconditional love — about letting someone else carry the weight for once — wrapped in the buoyant, sun-soaked sound the project is known for. With All the Space Between, Surfaces continues an evolution rooted in its founding spirit — proof that hope, when it’s earned rather than assumed, still lands.

Sungazer is a modern progressive jazz fusion band led by bassist Adam Neely and drummer Shawn Crowder. Originally formed in Brooklyn NY, Sungazer has brought their dynamic live mixture of jazz, progressive metal and electronic music to audiences across the world. Touring members have included saxophonist Jared Yee, guitarists Joshua de la Victoria and Shubh Saran, and keyboardists Button Masher, Pier Luigi Salami and Christian Li. Since their first EP release in 2014, Sungazer has carried the “inner mounting flame” of past fusion greats, while forging their own distinctive sound for the 21st century. On September 27 they released their sophomore album Against the Fall of Night featuring guest guitarist Mark Lettieri and Plini.