Brad Paisley

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

Five of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Best Coast, The Octopus Project, Brad Paisley and More

Best Coast Tuesday, May 28, at Granada Theater, $24 L.A.'s surf-pop duo Best Coast blew up on everyone's radar in 2010 when they were one of the most blog-worthy bands around after releasing their debut LP Crazy for You. Then, last year they had an equally as powerful follow-up with The Only Place, ... More >>

Brad Paisley Tells Country Audiences There's Nothing Wrong With White Folks Becoming the Minority

Brad Paisley, "Southern Comfort Zone" Current Billboard Country Singles Chart Position: 10 The Verdict: Holy shit, songs on the radio can still be important! So, here, in a shimmering single whose title buzz markets a godawful no-whiskey whiskey liqueur, we have a black gospel choir belting "Dixie" ... More >>

Ring Cycle

Like marriage, This Is 40 is long, aimless and worth it.

Brad Paisley Show Postponed Due to Weather, Will Be Rescheduled Will Not Be Rescheduled

Update 8/24: Live Nation sent word earlier today that Saturday's canceled Brad Paisley show at Gexa Energy Pavilion "will not be rescheduled due to scheduling conflicts." All Virtual Reality World Tour tickets for the August 18th Dallas show will be refunded at point of purchase. For 2012 Country ... More >>

Seven Mainstream/Top 40 Country Acts That Don't Suck

For almost as long as country music has lived as a genre, the argument about what makes a song, album, singer or group "country" has existed. Depending on who you ask, over time, and especially in the past couple of decades, country music has either splintered into dozens of wildly different and com ... More >>

Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak, Mark Kozelek and More Show Announcements

Dirty Projectors have a lot to live up with their forthcoming 2012 album Swing Lo Magellan. Past efforts include an album of Black Flag songs recorded only from memory, and a concept album about Don Henley's life. The band's output has slowed since 2010, when they peaked as blogosphere darlings ... More >>

Good Friday: Kings Of Leon, Band Of Horses and The Best of The Rest This Weekend

The Kangs​The biggest show this weekend, for better or for worse, is headlined by a group of Followills known as Kings Of Leon. The show will take place tonight at Gexa Energy Pavilion. And, with Band Of Horses as the opening act, we suggest that the tour be called The Bands That Started Off Great ... More >>

Daytona 500: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. NASCAR fans are loyal and rabid and ... strange. I asked a guy who he was rooting for before Sunday's Daytona 500 here in Florida and his answer: "Dodge." Imagine NFL fans picking their favorite team based on whether they wore Nike or Reebok or Under Armour. 9. All the yellow cauti ... More >>

Q&A: In Advance Of His Saturday Night Benefit Show, Jack Ingram Talks Texas Country, Writing Hits and The Importance of Arts in Schools

Jack Ingram​Dallas-raised and SMU-educated country star Jack Ingram is still a relatively new name on the national stage for fans that live outside of the Lone Star State. But, for those of us who have lived around these parts for years and have scribbled all sorts of illegible items on the walls ... More >>

Good Friday: Pleasant Grove, Toadies, B.o.B., RTB2, Queensryche, Ishi, Slobberbone, Spooky Folk, Dark Dark Dark, Trey Songz, Dondria, More...

​Dallas has seen many bands come and go. Some put out records that generated a lot of hype, but ultimately were forgotten. Some released albums that defined our music scene and still stand up today. Pleasant Grove is an example of the latter, and their crowning achievement is their album, Ausculta ... More >>

He's Here, With Mud on the Tires

Show Announcements: Rhett Miller, Ben Kweller, Spune 2K10 Ice Cream Social, Telegraph Canyon, Dwight Yoakam, Delorean, Helmet, Guided By Voices, Gorillaz, Adam Lambert, Michelle Shocked and more

Rhett Miller​Rhett Miller's solo career has had its ups and downs, but overall, he's one of the most successful artists to come out of Dallas. His most recent self-titled album is his third solo effort, released last year to mixed reviews. He's still touring in support of it, and he'll be at the G ... More >>

Show Announcements: Phosphorescent, Keane, Shakira, Mat Kearney, Built to Spill, Black Crowes,Jimmy Buffet, Jonas Brothers, Brad Paisley, Bel Biv Devoe and More!

Phosphorescent​Brooklyn-based Phosphorescent went from being an unknown indie poet scouring the globe and playing empty rooms to a critical darling almost overnight--many thanks to Willie Nelson. Matthew Houck, the man behind the moniker, made the risky decision to do an album of Nelson covers las ... More >>

Show Announcements: Three Dog Night Coming To Arlington, More

​As Three Dog Night's website boasts, "From 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets." But just because the band is some four decades beyond its glory days doesn't mean it isn't keeping busy. The group--including original members Cory Wells and Danny ... More >>

Good Friday: Will Johnson, Slobberbone, Blackheart Society

Neon Indian plays these beautiful confines on Sunday.​Not the busiest weekend of shows around town this time around--which I'm OK with as I'm off to Colorado to visit friends and check out Neon Indian's debut at Monolith on Sunday (and you thought we were done with them for the time being.. ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair of Tickets To The Fray PLUS HOT DOGS AND DRINKS

As part of Live Nation's continuing No Service Fee Wednesday (now going by the initials NSFW, which caused me to open the press release quite a bit quicker than I might have otherwise, I'll have to admit), Live Nation is once again offering tickets for select shows at an "all-in" ticket price of $29 ... More >>

Live Nation Keeps The "No Service Fee Wednesday" Train Going With Deals Today On 4-Packs. Also, A Giveaway!

Just as it did last Wednesday and the Wednesday before that, national booking/concert promotions conglomerate Live Nation is back today with another "No Servive Fee Wednesday" promotion, this time removing all service fee charges on its 4-Pack ticket bundles, which allow ticket-buyers to save 17 pe ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

Top 10 Country Albums of 2008

Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and ... More >>

Mavericks Meander into the Season

With minimal upgrades and a fragile psyche, this season could stroll off in any ol' direction

Texas Bard

Guy Clark remains an understated statesman of true country

KSCS Country Fair 2005

Saturday, April 9

Crapped Out

After Pat Green's last album, few of his fans are feeling like Lucky Ones

Shatner, Transformed

After years of being a musical punch line, Captain Kirk sets his new CD on stun

Dog Gone

Have a ball with the Corndog Festival