The year’s first truly great week of concerts features a pair of especially pleasing pop acts in Barrance Whitfield and Tennis at Three Links and Club Dada, respectively. Then there’s a veritable vulnerable songwriting workshop at the Kessler with Josh Ritter and Gregory Alan Isakov one one bill, and plenty…
Another quiet week early in 2014 nevertheless features a few great shows, including Nashville goofballs Royal Bangs on Thursday at Club Dada, a heavyweight metal bill at Lola’s Saloon and our own hip-hop showcase at Granada Theater (not featured below, for obvious reasons). The Mother Hips Thursday, January 9, Dan’s…
It’s the quietest week of the live music year, with everyone nursing a New Year’s Eve hangover and preparing for the spring album release bonanza. You can still find plenty to keep your nights full, though, with a hometown show from blues titan Lance Lopez and some promising punk. Riverboat…
Jason Boland’s bio reads like the lyrics to a classic country tune. Maybe that helps explain why Jason Boland and the Stragglers are among Texas country’s best artists. Don’t care for country? The waning days of 2013 also bring a sampler of jazz, folk and psychedelic percussion. Spoonfed Tribe Friday,…
The insane run of arena tours ends this Saturday with Jay Z, who follows his wife and a couple of former proteges into American Airlines Center. There are a few straggling Christmas concerts, and New Year’s Eve is right around the corner. Kopecky Family Band Thursday, December 19, at Live…
A couple holiday shows highlight this week’s docket, including the biggest installment yet of Chad D’s Annual Toy Drive on Greenville Avenue. Resilient Dallas band Drowning Pool plays a somewhat rare hometown show at Trees and House of Blues has the week’s best punk show. New Science Projects Christmas Mixer…
Kanye West brings his circus to Dallas on Saturday, bringing with him arguably the biggest persona in all of pop music right now. Plus, possibly the best rapper working, Kendrick Lamar, is opening. Elsewhere, Austin’s great Alejandro Escovedo plays the Granada and the Christmas tours continue with Yo Gabba Gabba!…
The slew of Holiday concerts begins this week with the Donny and Marie Osmand tour. It will be cheesy and perfect and you know you want to go. Elsewhere, New Orleans genius Trombone Shorty visits House of Blues and the venerable CD source turns 20. Congratulations to them. CD Source…
Everyone wish the Granada a happy ninth birthday by seeing indie darlings Built To Spill mope their way through one of the more impressive back catalogues for guitar rock out there. Elsewhere: The final of three benefit shows for Dallas artist and cancer patient Nevada Hill and resurgent songwriter Cory…
Music festivals: Not just for Austin and/or giant corporations. Just ask the upstarts behind Oaktopia, this weekend’s downtown Denton takeover featuring Del The Funky Homosapien, Dallas expat Astronautalis and a slew of exceptional homegrown bands and artists. In other Denton news, the town’s elder statesmen Midlake open for Pearl Jam…
Our top shows this week include one of indie rock’s greatest elder statesmen in Johnny Marr (The Smiths, The Pretenders, Modest Mouse, etc.). We’ve also got up-and-comers (Chromatics), and the start of the winter arena season here in Dallas with John Legend’s Verizon Theater stop. John Legend Thursday, November 7,…
Our annual music showcase is this Saturday, along with the North Oak Cliff Music Festival and Denton’s annual Rock Lottery. New Orleans comes to the Granada in the form of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and the Doublewide hosts a punk showcase. The Fall Punkstravaganza Friday, November 1, at the…
This week, we get the Dallas debut of Odd Future-affiliated MellowHigh. Country music outlaw Jamey Johnson will play the most famous honky tonk in the world, and The Pharcyde bring vibrant hip-hop storytelling to the Prophet Bar. MellowHigh Thursday, October 24, at Dada MellowHigh is a three-piece offshoot of controversial…
Index Festival comes to Deep Ellum this weekend, bringing with it a slew of impressive national acts (most notably EL-P and Killer Mike’s Run the Jewels collaboration) and locals (including our current cover story subject, Son of Stan). Elsewhere, former Polyphonic Spree member St. Vincent plays the First Unitarian Church…
Dallas is stuck between summer tour season and fall festival season, but there are still plenty of worthy concerts this week. Guitar ripper Joe Satriani plays out in Grand Prairie, former members of Royal Trux play Dada and Untapped Dallas brings together good music and better beer. Joe Satriani Friday,…
