If you’ve never found yourself in the middle of a mosh pit, there’s a good chance that you can’t understand what’s happening. It’s easy to look at the men and women shoving into one another and think of it as an act of needless aggression at an otherwise friendly affair,…
David Byrne is best known for groundbreaking music he made as frontman for the Talking Heads — a band with influence extending far beyond its late-’70s to mid-’80s lifespan. You can hear it in every corner of music today, from punk rock to hip-hop, pop and dance music. Talking Heads were…
Four years after the band reunited, shoegaze legend Slowdive is still drawing fans. Off the heels of a well-received 2017 self-titled album, the English five-piece is happy to navigate whatever it wants to do. Whether it’s playing festivals in Europe or one-off dates in Texas, bassist Nick Chaplin appreciates how…
On his Saturday off between two shows at The Bomb Factory this weekend, Jack White will play in the Sandlot War, a baseball game at Reverchon Park that’s free and open to the public. White’s team, the Warstic Woodmen, will take on the Ticket Timbers, which comprises mostly on-air personalities…
Erin Kinsey, a 17-year-old country musician from Rockwall, once looked at her childhood music lessons as a burden. Now, she has an opening slot for a Hunter Hayes concert April 28 at Ascend Theater in Tennessee and no other plans for her future besides pursuing a career in music. Kinsey…
The Box Garden, an outdoor venue at Legacy Hall in Plano, is about ready to open as a hub for live entertainment, bars and restaurants. It will seat more than 400 people, with additional standing space to hold up to 1,200. As part of the new entertainment space’s grand opening,…
Jacksonville, Texas, native Lee Ann Womack told a jam-packed Kessler Theater on Sunday night that when it came to making her most recent album, she had to go back before she could move forward. “When I was growing up in East Texas, I had everything ahead of me, and I…
Jack White’s in town for two shows this week at the Bomb Factory, but don’t expect to snap any smartphone photos; the White Stripes frontman has banned them from his concerts for this tour. Cellphone-friendly shows include ’80s shoegaze pioneer Slowdive, grunge influencers the Melvins, the best in local metal…
To stand inside a Foo Fighters show — amid the lights and lasers, smoke machines and drummers rising nearly to the rafters — is to understand how the band has endured, however improbably, for nearly 25 years. The reason is simple: Frontman Dave Grohl and his bandmates show up and…
Charley Crockett loves Deep Ellum. “Here’s the thing,” Crockett began at his concert Friday night. “Whether you know it or not, this is the most important city in the world. I’m talking about the contributions to music of Deep Ellum. Let’s boogie.” Just before his declaration, as the curtain came…
Fans still have to wait two months to hear 5 Seconds of Summer’s third album, but that didn’t stop the boys from giving Thursday night’s audience a sneak peek of what’s to come. “We have a third record coming, out and we just couldn’t wait,” says Michael Clifford, the lead…
Allow us to tell you something: Weed is popular. Stacy, from the movie The Wood, said it best: “Weed is universal. You name me one race that don’t smoke bud.” We decided to reach out to a few Dallas burlesque performers for a friendly inquisition about cannabis. In celebration of…
It’s an album anniversary for Lauryn Hill, and she plans to celebrate with a stop in Dallas. Elsewhere, the Kessler Theater snags a pair of cool shows, the multi-band package tours continue to roll in and a few cool shows pop up on the club calendars. The Loudwire Gen-X Summer…
People generally don’t think of the Dallas suburbs as places where local music goes to thrive, but Highway 31 has spent most of its time building a loyal following outside the epicenter of the Dallas music scene. Formed in 2012, Highway 31 will celebrate the release of its second album,…
Jesse Dayton got his start at a young age, sneaking into honky-tonks and jamming with zydeco bands as a teenager in Beaumont. He’s spent the last four years touring the country on the biggest run of his career as a solo act. But while his love of music was always…
Alexus Sacco and Frank Stevens’ mutual interest in synthesizers and electronic music has brought them together as the ambitious electronic duo PVLMS, a pairing that happened at a chance meeting at a Baths concert five years ago. They reconnected soon after in college and have been making music together ever…
The two-hour deep clean at The Secret Factory starting at 6 a.m. Sunday mornings is of paramount importance. The Secret Factory transforms from techno den to place of worship. Yeah, from nightclub to a church. Disco balls and the massive Fulcrum speakers that push 118 decibels of techno sound are…
Weed, the drug that remains in the same class as heroin, LSD and cocaine, has been a staple of the counterculture for decades. With a handful of states legalizing the substance in some way, the taboo behind smoking pot is beginning to dissolve. People have become accustomed to marijuana’s influence on…
Record Store Day 2018 is nigh upon us. Now in its 11th year, RSD is the musically drenched holiday when you and all your friends become John Cusack in High Fidelity. No matter your taste in music, odds are there’s a record coming out that day that will tickle your…
When Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello thinks about all the times his band has trekked up to North Texas, nothing really tops the first trip to Dallas in the early ’90s. Long before headlining tours, Warped Tour dates and support slots, the ska/pop-punk band found themselves facing a locked…
Dallas knows that putting music and art together is oftentimes more successful than having an event that highlights just one. The Nasher Sculpture Center capitalized on that idea eight years ago when it launched the ‘til Midnight series, where the museum stays open until midnight (as one would guess from…
Bobby Sessions’ career as a major label artist at Def Jam has begun. Last week, the Dallas rapper released his first single, “Like Me,” and it has received rave reviews from NPR and Pitchfork. The track addresses the climate of racial injustice in America, both past and present. It’s a…
