Timing is everything in pop music. Few modern A-list acts understand that axiom better than Dua Lipa.

Kacey Musgraves wasted little time stating the obvious. “Happy Valentine’s Day,” said the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter early in her 90-minute set Monday night.

In an evening full of casual grandeur, the most simple sentiment made the biggest impression.Adam Granduciel (the stage name of singer-songwriter Adam Granofsky) and his War on Drugs bandmates had amply demonstrated they were capable of conjuring a mesmerizing swirl of guitars, percussion, brass and keys by the time they tucked into “Living Proof,” roughly a quarter of the way through the band’s two-hour set Friday night at Irving’s Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory.

Last things first: Yes, Leon Bridges showed up.The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter walked onto the Factory in Deep Ellum stage Friday night to a wave of ecstatic roars, making certain what had been widely rumored beforehand – that he’d be making an appearance alongside Khruangbin to perform a few of their collaborations (a Khruangbridges sighting, to borrow a popular social media portmanteau).

Sting, as the kids say, understood the assignment. The multi-platinum pop superstar was on hand Tuesday night for the official “grand opening” of the new Echo Lounge & Music Hall, the venue opened in partnership between Mark Cuban (in attendance Tuesday) and Live Nation that’s been up and running for about five weeks.

Try as one might during the holidays, sometimes things just go awry. So it was Saturday night at McFarlin Auditorium, as a slightly-more-than-half full room sat and waited … and waited … and waited some more for She & Him to materialize from behind an enormous red velvet curtain.

In the three years since Lindsey Buckingham last visited Dallas, his life has been marked by one misfortune after another.

Chvrches excels at finding light in darkness. The group’s fourth and latest studio album, Screen Violence, the impetus for the tour which brought the Scottish synth-pop trio to the South Side Ballroom Sunday night, is a prime example.

Tame Impala has a way of emphasizing time that fixes your attention.It’s both obvious – there are an abundance of song titles explicitly referencing time and its passage, like “One More Hour,” “Eventually” or “Lost in Yesterday” – and subtle: an extended guitar solo given a moment to breathe, a single lyric uttered so frequently it becomes a mantra, or a loop repeated so insistently your own perception of time folds in on itself.

After 22 years, Kings of Leon maintains a veil of inscrutability no amount of fame could ever fully pierce. Over the course of two hours and more than two dozen songs Friday night at Dos Equis Pavilion, the last dregs of a surprisingly mild summer ebbing away, it was possible…

This past week in North Texas, the biggest bang for your musical buck could be found Saturday night at Arlington’s Globe Life Field: Chris Stapleton’s All-American Roadshow.

Sentimentality is simply not Steve Earle’s stock-in-trade.

To hear Harry Connick Jr. tell it, he’s spent much of the last year rescuing Cole Porter from obscurity. “Most people not only don’t know much about him, but don’t know who he was,” Connick Jr. explained not long into his 110-minute performance before a near-capacity audience at Winspear Opera…

What does it mean to reckon with your legacy? Does confronting a creative achievement — even if it’s the product of decades past, when you were someone else entirely — constitute a form of capitulation, a shrugging acceptance that you’ve peaked and are merely coasting on the fumes of previous…