Culture Club With Grove Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, August 5, 2016 Around the midway point of Culture Club’s 90-minute set at a raucous Verizon Theatre on Friday night, Boy George turned reflective. “Well, 30-some years have passed since we started this thing. Remember, you were going to be a…
With election years comes a plethora of arguing, protesting and bumper stickers and this year is proving that to be especially true. Between scrolling past endless Facebook rants and figuring out which topics you probably shouldn’t discuss with your family, why not escape this crazy world with some live music?…
Pat Averhart believes Dallas’ underground music scene can become a flourishing, self-sufficient culture — it just needs a little help. That’s where Dallas Week comes in. Running today through Sunday, the second annual Dallas Week will include 15 local events that Averhart helped organize. He hopes to not only create awareness…
Dixie Chicks With Vintage Trouble and Smooth Hound Sound Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 5, 2016 Girls everywhere, Friday night at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Old girls, young girls, middle-aged girls; girls in gangs of twos and threes and fours and fives; lots of girls in cutoff jeans and cowboy…
There’s no good way to say it: It hasn’t been a good year for Denton music venues. The first closure of 2016 had come virtually before the year had even started, as Hailey’s Club closed after one final night of business on New Years Eve. Then came Rubber Gloves, which…
Rob Zombie With Korn and In This Moment Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 4, 2016 Words like “togetherness” and “escapism” might not be the first ones that come to mind when you’re looking to describe a concert headlined by Korn and Rob Zombie. There’s all that pent up aggression,…
When Joshua Luttrull, Ivette Colon, and Vincent and Victor Bui first crossed paths in Junior High, they had no idea that they would one day share the stage. Many years, the band known as Field Guide came to form their unique brand of breezy, psych-tinged indie rock. With shows lined…
For years, record shows have avoided Dallas-Fort Worth like the plague. There were too many failed efforts that cost organizers and vendors money, so no one wanted to take the risk. But that’s very much changed: North Texas has at least four record conventions slated for this year alone, the…
Oaktopia is still about six weeks away, but it’s already shaping up to be a pretty good festival this year. What started as the little-hip-hop-festival-that-could just a few years ago has developed a pretty eclectic lineup of indie and emerging rap talent, from Rae Sremmurd to Andrew W.K. to the…
Guns N’ Roses With the Cult AT&T Stadium, Arlington Wednesday, August 3, 2016 The elephant had been in the room the whole night. For the first time in 24 years, Axl Rose and Slash were on stage together in North Texas, but they were keeping their distance. They would pass…
It’s Friday night at The Rustic, and Ray Johnston, the former Dallas Mavericks’ point guard turned country singer, can’t get close enough to the crowd. “Here’s an ode to a honky tonk hero, Mr. King George,” he says. His new guitarist plays the first bars of “All My Ex’s Live in…
M3SA and Pintalabios recently started making the rounds of the Dallas party scene as a duo operating largely within the realm of techno, with added hat tips to classic industrial and synth pop. That crossover is a trend that has existed in club music for many years, but gained extra…
JayHawk Walker goes right for the jugular on the opening track of the Outfit, TX’s latest mixtape, Green Lights: Everythang Goin’. Aggressive and menacing, his verse sets the tone for the 13 tracks that follow. This is the year the Dallas trio of Mel Kyle, Dorian Terrell and Walker…
Football season is almost upon us, and with the kickoff of the Cowboys’ training camp Dallas football fans are one step closer to erasing the words “Blake Weeden” from their memories. Tony Romo will rebound. They’re still in the junk pile known as the NFC East. 9-7, here we come…
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and music is no exception. Sometimes when you’re on the prowl for live music, you just want to have a good time — maybe even hear your favorite band’s songs, even if they’re not the ones playing them. Enter the…
Steven Tyler Music Hall at Fair Park, Dallas Monday, August 1, 2016 “This ain’t American Idol!” Steven Tyler shouted near the start of his near-sellout show Monday night at the Music Hall at Fair Park. No, Tyler wasn’t here as an occasionally snarky, yet profound television talent judge. Nor was…
Steve Shein just can’t stay away from music. A Dallas veteran who was on the ground floor of Deep Ellum in the 1980s, he was a behind-the-scenes player at some of the city’s biggest music milestones — from the beginning of The Prophet Bar to the demise of The Bronco Bowl. …
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein grew up fascinated by sound. Their early experiments with electronic music may not have impressed their teachers, but the Dallas born-and-bred half of Austin synth band Survive have impressed millions of fans after composing the score for the Netflix Original sci-fi drama, Stranger Things. Stein…
Could there have been any other candidate to headline Billy Bob’s 35th anniversary concert? Even though Willie Nelson picked up and moved his annual 4th of July party back down to Austin, the Red Headed Stranger will always be synonymous with the World’s Largest Honky Tonk. In fact, in the…
Six Shooter is a recurring feature where we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. The summer is never an easy time to be in Dallas, but the tragedy that rocked the city in July makes it one month that most likely aren’t sad to see go. All the…
By now, anyone with a Netflix account has binge watched Stranger Things and may not know what to do with themselves. Don’t worry, though, because there are plenty of other things to do in this town besides sitting on the couch. Why not find out in person if Steven Tyler’s…
Blink-182 With A Day to Remember and All-American Rejects Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, July 29, 2016 Bands change lineups all the time; that’s nothing new. But when a lineup change happens 24 years into a band’s existence and without the members’ consent? That’s interesting, and it added a neat…
