The Eight Best Shows in DFW This Week

Is there such a thing as the end of festival season here? I don’t know. What I do know is that there are a couple more this weekend — Fort Worth Music Festival features twang on Friday and fuzzy guitar bliss on Saturday. And Wildflower remains the most fun I…

Busking with A.Dd+ and The Relatives

Earlier this week, Kelly Dearmore showed you a video of Austin up-and-comers Sons of Fathers playing an acoustic song outside the Granada Theater. The Frisco-based video company, Globe Trek Productions, responsible for the video actually produced three in conjunction with Homegrown Music and Arts Festival last weekend. The other two…

Whiskey Folk Ramblers’ Long Road to a New Album: Listen

In this week’s music feature, Gavin Cleaver gets up to speed with Whiskey Folk Ramblers. They just released an excellent sophomore album, The Lonesome Underground, which you can buy on their website. It’s been a long time coming for the band, which has lost members and engineers and still, as…

The Kenny Chesney Tailgate Dos and Don’ts: Photo Essay

Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Nation tour came to Cowboys Stadium, bringing the DFW Chapter of said Nation to Arlington for a day of drinking, flag waving and camaraderie. Massive country tours don’t get any better than this in 2013 — Kenny’s undercard includes unlikely superstar/brilliantly odd songwriter Eric Church, the…

Kids Review the Homegrown Music and Arts Festival

Homegrown Festival brought a solid crowd to Main Street Garden Park on a perfect Saturday. That crowd was unlike your typical concert-going group. Even for a music festival, there were a disproportionate number of kids in attendance. That’s by design: Those under 10 got in for free and the day…

Your Guide to the Homegrown Festival Lineup

This weekend, Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will gather some of the area’s biggest and most interesting bands at Main Street Garden Park. This year, the lineup is once again all Texans, after the festival’s organizers decided they were losing the focus of the thing by expanding beyond the state’s…

Austin City Limit’s 2013 Lineup

Austin City Limits’ lineup for 2013 was just announced: Headliners include Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Kings of Leon and noted teenage-girl-advice-givers Atoms for Peace. Tickets go on sale May 7 — early bird passes are sold out but VIP is available if you just can’t wait. See also: -50…

Dia De Los Toadies’ 2013 Lineup is (Mostly) Here

The Toadies’ annual rock hangout festival, Dia De Los Toadies, returns in mid-September, this time to Panther Island Pavilion in Fort Worth. It’s the first time the fest has taken place in the Toadies’ hometown. Today, 11 of the 16 bands have been announced; you can see the full list…

Rihanna Postpones Dallas Show (Update: Rescheduled Date Announced)

Update, 4/30: The Dallas show has been scheduled for Monday, November 11, still at American Airlines Center. Tickets are available now through ticketmaster. Tickets from the postponed show will be honored. Original post follows… Rihanna has postponed tonight’s Dallas show because of illness — she did the same for last…

Edgefest – FC Dallas Stadium – April 27, 2013

The area directly in front of the main stage at Edgefest was fenced off, and you needed special access to get in. So the kids pressed against its boundaries all day, standing against the gate and designated lines to get a few feet closer to the stage, still a third…

Music Festival Fashion Advice from the Fans at Edgefest

This weekend, 102.1 FM The Edge brought a its annual music festival to FC Dallas stadium in Frisco. The lineup was eclectic — we went straight from ’90s grunge mainstay Bush to French synth-pop band Phoenix. The clothing worn by fans was similarly eclectic — everything from goth to pool…

Meltdown Festival Moves to LaGrave Field in Fort Worth

Meltdown Music Festival, the enormous EDM festival happening this Saturday, has just announced a venue switch, from QuickTrip Park in Grand Prairie to LaGrave Field in Fort Worth. In a release posted on the fest’s web site, organizers cite fewer restrictions on sound and the opportunity to go later as…

Rihanna Postpones Dallas Show

Rihanna has postponed tonight’s Dallas show because of illness — she did the same for last night’s Houston show. Live Nation is instructing fans to keep their tickets for an as-yet-unscheduled replacement date. Those seeking refunds should go to the point of purchase. The full announcement from the company is…