The 14 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, January 23-29

Where to begin? We have a jarring amount of noteworthy shows on this week’s calendar. Starting tonight with Neko Case at the Granada Theater, and ending on Wednesday when Parade of Flesh and Red Bull Sound Select bring Fucked Up to Dada- this is the first big show week of…

The 9 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week: January 16 to 22

Things are starting to pick back up around here, Dallas. More than halfway through the first month of the year, the show calendar has returned to it’s regular active programming. The week we’ve got lined up couldn’t be a more diverse range of ground covered. Starting off, we’ve got one…

The 9 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, January 9-14

What are you waiting for, Dallas? We’ve got a throwback teenybopper pop star, a sampling of some of the best local hip hop this city has to offer, one of the heaviest metal bills we’ve seen in a good while, and Deep Ellum’s first arts and music festival of 2014…

The Five Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, January 2-8

Well folks, we’ve got a slow show week upon us. Which makes sense, considering we’re all taking our Christmas trees down and recovering from all the holiday hoopla that has taken over our day-to-day lives for the last couple of months. Though quantity may be low, quality is high. Between…

The Ten Best Concerts in Dallas: December 26 to January 1

Another Christmas has come and gone, but the eggnog hangover lingers. Hopefully, you had a nice and restful holiday, because we’re getting right back to business as usual. There’s a few more gems on our concert calendar before we wrap up 2013. Perfect Pussy hits Three Links, Denton Does The…

The 13 Best New Years Eve Concerts in Dallas: $20 or Less

Dallas, if you want to ring in 2014 with some good live music, look no further. We have compiled comprehensive guides to all of the city’s best New Year’s Eve shows, for every different kind of music fan’s budget. Today, we bring you the best offerings with cover charges up…

The 11 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week: December 19 to 25

Last week on Fox News, anchor Megyn Kelly took it upon herself to advise the children of America that Santa is in fact Caucasian. Tasteless? Yes. Unnecessary? Absolutely. Racist? Of course. But no one could’ve predicted how wrong she’d be proven when just a few days later, Santa would prove…

The Eight Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, December 12-18

Dallas is currently undergoing one of the busiest concert seasons in some time. Between the KISS FM Jingle Ball, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, and next week’s Jay-Z show- the good folks over at Ticketmaster are certainly earning their Christmas bonuses this year. In the midst of arena-tour fever, this…

Five Excellent North Texas Holiday Benefit Concerts

The holiday season is upon us in North Texas, and there is no better time of year to give back. Every December, Dallas promoters and musicians come together to organize all kinds of charity benefit live music events. What could possibly be a more fun way to do a good…

The 42 Best Dallas Show Announcements from November

Every week more and more shows are added to the Dallas Observer live music calendar –here’s how to make sure your show is included. And you can always peruse every upcoming concert on our calendar. Below are the best of last month’s additions. The newest are in bold…

The 12 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, December 5-11

Whether you love him or hate him, you can’t deny his influence or relevance. If you do, you’re probably growing slightly out of touch with what is influential or relevant in American pop culture. Kanye West is an incredibly divisive figure- and becomes more and more so the further he…

Lady Gaga Is Coming To Dallas

This morning, Livenation has announced that Lady Gaga is coming to Dallas. July 17, 2014, Mother Monster herself will hit the American Airlines Center for artRave: The ARTPOP Ball. The tour will begin in the Spring, immediately after Gaga finishes her sold-out seven night residency at New York City’s Roseland…

Riff Raff at Prophet Bar, 11/30: Review

The Prophet Bar was packed this Saturday for one of hip-hop’s most perplexing and fascinating characters, Riff Raff. With his over-the-top personality falling somewhere between flamboyant carwash pimp and Jay sans Silent Bob, it’s hard not to ask ourselves if we’re actually supposed to be taking this seriously. The man’s…