Vice Palace One-Year Anniversary Party With iill, Lily Taylor, Rat Rios, $kaduf, Orgullo Primitivo and Tony Q and Plain Jane Francis. Oak Cliff, Dallas Saturday, April 25, 2015 It has been a helluva year for Art Peña. From the opening of Vice Palace last April to having it nominated for…
Music blogs are so 2007, but no one’s told that to Gorilla Vs. Bear. The Dallas-based blog is one of the few of its kind from the boom of the early 2000s, and if anything it looks like founder Chris Cantalini is making a push to expand in 2015 as…
Dan Deacon With Prince Rama, Ben O’Brien and Party Static Trees, Dallas Saturday, April 25, 2015 To celebrate the first anniversary of Do214 on Saturday night at Trees, Dan Deacon came out using Steely Dan as entrance music and appreciated the curtains enough to have them ceremoniously closed and reopened…
It’s a great time to be alive and attending concerts in Dallas. This coming week is especially stacked, and we’re excited for you to go to as many of theses shows as possible. Unless you have an Apple Watch, then we hope you fall into quicksand and sink to the…
Peter Hook and the Light Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, April 24, 2015 Start with the obvious: Joy Division and the subsequent New Order have been and continue to be a big part of the soundtrack to many lives. Sadly, both bands have suffered a catastrophic loss. The 1980 suicide of…
Well, we’ve got another great weekend on our hands. Dan Deacon and Lee Fields help Do214 celebrate one year. Lily Taylor, iill, Rat Rios, $kaduf, Tony Q and Plain Jane help Vice Palace celebrate its one-year anniversary as well. The Denton Arts & Jazz Fest comes back around. Matt &…
Seems like Art Peña is having one hell of a week. Yesterday we reported that he’s going to get $5,000 from the city of Dallas to start his own record label. That, as it turns up, is merely a bonus to the party that he’s throwing this weekend in honor…
Waxahatchee With the Goodbye Party and Mimisku Rubber Gloves, Denton Wednesday, April 22, 2015 There is no better way to see a band. Especially this band, and especially right now. At Rubber Gloves in Denton last night, Waxahatchee — the vehicle of Philadelphia singer/songwriter Katie Crutchfield — transformed their directionless…
Father John Misty With Luluc April 22, 2015 Granada Theater Whatever it is that you think about Joshua Tillman, or J. Tillman, or Father John Misty as he is calling himself these days, you have to acknowledge that he’s an incredibly talented guy. He undoubtedly has an unshakeable ego, has…
The Academy of Country Music Awards AT&T Stadium, Arlington Sunday, April 19, 2015 After an entire weekend of country music, last night’s 50th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards is easily the biggest music event (or series of events, as it were) that has ever happened in Dallas-Fort Worth. Or…
The ACM Awards’ Superstar Duets Globe Life Park, Arlington Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2015 After two beautiful days of sunshine and perfect Texas spring temperatures, things were really looking up as some of the genre’s biggest acts came together for the Academy of Country Music’s pre-awards extravaganza…
Just another week in good ole Dallas, which of course means a new slate of shows to check out. Vice Palace celebrates its one year anniversary as does Do214. Pitbull does the casino show in Oklahoma, Caitlin Rose (a former Dallasite) hits Dan’s in Denton and Father John Misty does…
For girls of a certain age — God, I guess we’re grown-up women now — Sleater-Kinney was an initial introduction into both punk rock and feminist ideology. As we listened to the tunes from their self-titled debut and The Woods, we were subconsciously absorbing the idea that women can be…
This week looks like a very fruitful one in terms of shows. First and foremost, there’s a ton of Record Store Day stuff happening with a gajillion bands and DJs sharing their love of music. Curren$y has a 4/20-eve show at South Side Ballroom where the clock is sure to…
Amanda Fucking Palmer Granada Theater, Dallas Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Amanda Palmer — or, to give her proper billing, Amanda Fucking Palmer — is about to be a mother. When she played Granda Theater last night, it was a special occasion not only because it was her first Dallas appearance…
Trade publications tell us things that are generally only interesting to people within the trade. Finding out how much the person who is directing one of the next 74 Kevin Hart movies or how much the current hyped-up indie movie got picked up for a distribution deal in Variety doesn’t…
Randy Rogers Band With Josh Abbott Band WinStar World Casino April 10, 2015 Upon approaching the WinStar World Casino’s Rome entrance, home of the Global Events Center and a bunch of terribly-rendered copycat Italian sculptures, the first thing I saw was a woman with her head in her hands, crying…
It’s going to be a hell of a week for live music here in Dallas. Two of the biggest events aren’t even straight-ahead concerts so much as they are sprawling celebrations: First is the American Country Music Awards, which spreads itself across several shows with an unreal selection of country…
X Trees, Dallas Thursday, April 9, 2015 Last night, iconic punk band X gave the crowd at Trees a set that served up a lot of surprises. Rather than bang out one hard-charger after another, the Los Angeles quartet (aided by touring member Michael Kilpatrick, who switched between guitar, drums…
There’s a bunch of crappy weather on the way this weekend, but we can manage so long as there’s so good music to tide us over, indoors. Thankfully there is, so we’re not going to be beholden to Netflix all weekend. Man Man does Red Bull Sound Select at Club…
tUnE-yArDs With Son Lux South Side Music Hall, Dallas Thursday, April 9, 2015 Heavy times are upon us. Lyrics pleading “don’t take my life away” sound more locked and loaded than ever. The dangers that tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus fearfully described four years ago on W H O K I…
Nickelback With Pop Evil Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, April 3, 2015 Nickelback are from Canada. Don’t get us wrong; we know that. But as they proved when they passed through Gexa Energy Pavilion on Friday night, America loves the hell out of this band. Sorry, haters, but you’re not…
