The British-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Yola makes it a point to highlight the slippery stylistic nature of her songs, so much so that her merch booth features a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase she uses to describe her sound: “Genre-fluid.” (Thirty-five bucks and it’s yours to take home!) Typically, such snappy…
Timing is everything in pop music. Few modern A-list acts understand that axiom better than Dua Lipa.
The dictionary definition of justice is deceptively simple: “The quality of being just, impartial or fair.” To watch The How to Be Project: Ten Plays for Racial Justice unfold across the Bishop Arts Theatre Center’s stage is to be reminded – bracingly, amusingly and most often, painfully – how often that quality is not afforded to those whose skin color is anything other than white.
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…
While Jon Randall’s name may not be instantly recognizable, you’re likely very familiar with his work.
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.
This was always going to be a bittersweet story. A story about four friends, bound together by the act of creation and love for one another, whose creative exploits are a part of Dallas-Fort Worth music history and who had rediscovered their artistic bond in time to mount a potential…
The record, released Sept. 22, feels like home in a way not much has since the world began to unravel earlier this year.
The storm had only begun to gather when South by Southwest made the painful but necessary decision to cancel the entirety of its 2020 conference, sending shockwaves through the creative community in Texas and around the world. As everyone processed the enormity of such an unprecedented step, Fort Worth singer-songwriter…
Like many of us these days, Nicholas Altobelli has abundant time on his hands. And, like some of us these days, Altobelli is making productive use of it. As a lark, the musician recently wrote, recorded and released a new EP — the evocatively titled I Took My Hockey Stick…
Pop music, historically speaking, isn’t kind to maturity — doubly so when it comes to women. You need only look as far back as the late 1990s and early 2000s for ample evidence of this: Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera — the Helen and Clytemnestra of tweenaged Y2K bubblegum pop…
Lesser bands might have been overwhelmed by the success of a single like “Creep.” Radiohead exploded into the public eye with its 1993 LP Pablo Honey and the ubiquitous, slow-burning ballad, which spent weeks lodged in the charts. To this day, “Creep” remains the band’s most successful single — and one the…
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…
