Ringo Deathstarr With Blackstone Rangers, Midnight Masses and Blessin Rubber Gloves, Denton Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Ringo Deathstarr are fucking sick of the word “shoegaze.” Even before they played a single song, Elliott Frazier, singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Austin band asked the audience to “look at my shoes,…
Parquet Courts With Swearin’ and Radioactivity Club Dada, Dallas Tuesday, June 3, 2014 About midway through Parquet Courts’ blistering set at Club Dada last night a trio of youthful looking concertgoers stood at the bar ordering cokes. The band had hit a lull in a song, then drove full bore…
On Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, George Strait will ride away into the sunset as he concludes his long-running touring career. Though he will keep recording and will occasionally play the one-off gig, the days of taking another Strait show for granted appear to be over. Before frat boys…
To say the past year was an eventful one for Parquet Courts and frontman Andrew Savage would be a mammoth understatement. As NPR noted in this First Listen featuring Sunbathing Animal, Parquet Courts went from playing “humble Brooklyn warehouse spaces to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in the span of…
tUnE-yArDs With Sylvan Esso Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, May 30, 2014 Merrill Garbus is a force of nature. From her big, booming voice to her colorful wardrobes and face paint to her unorthodox assemblage of looped tracks and beats, Garbus has made herself and her band tUnE-yArDs a singular force…
365 Entertainment Presents: Migos South Side Music Hall Friday May 30, 2014 By Michelle Ofiwe By the time midnight rolls around, the Migos are officially late to their own party. If it matters to the crowd filling out South Side’s dance floor, such discontent remains imperceptible. Throngs of girls press…
Dolly Parton WinStar Casino, Thackerville, OK Friday, May 30, 2014 Dolly Parton, the country singer and theme park owner once labeled by Barbara Walters as a “country music caricature of her own design,” sashayed onto the stage of WinStar World Casino’s massive 3,500-seat Global Event Center on Friday night sparkling…
This morning, 91.7 FM KXT announced the lineup for the third annual installment of Summer Cut, the local radio station’s summer music festival at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Given the folkie vibe of last year’s bill, which featured the likes of the Avett Brothers and Dawes, the headliners shouldn’t come as…
Die Antwoord House of Blues, Dallas Saturday, May 31, 2014 No music reflects our ever-fragmenting, post-internet cultural condition quite like hip hop. The last ten years have seen the genre in constant flux, splintering and contorting into some of the most bizarre and fascinating shapes music has ever taken. Case…
Deep Ellum’s about to become pretty busy in the next couple weeks. Or is it just that much busier? Starting June 11, Elm St. will swarming with (presumably inked-up) concertgoers for five whole days, thanks to the Elm St. Music and Tattoo Festival. Now in its fifth year, this is…
Sand blankets a warehouse floor in west Dallas, a space aglow with the fluorescence of artificial tree-life. There’s three bikini-clad women bathed in blood. An audience convulses like spirits locked in exorcism pangs. On the horizon sits the Dallas skyline, shimmering and stoic, like massive sticks of studded jewelry. At…
The first half of 2014 has been a strong one for beloved acts with strong ties to the North Texas region. The new albums from St. Vincent and the Old 97’s have sent fans and critics looking for new superlatives, and rightfully so. Now we can add Centro-matic to the…
Fu Manchu Gas Monkey Bar & Grill Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Since I’ve been over here, I’ve been slowly but assuredly collecting bands I liked in the late ’90s, like someone younger might collect baseball cards, or Pokémon, or whatever it is the youth of today enjoy. Bands I would…
Journey With Steve Miller Band and Tower of Power Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Sunday, May 25, 2014 There’s something about hearing songs like “Lights,” “Only the Young” and “Don’t Stop Believin'” that never truly gets old, no matter how many times you hear them or how old you are. The…
Memorial Day makes for a short week this week, which should come as a relief even if it does make Tuesday into something of a de facto Monday. (Can’t win ’em all, am I right?) As we all trek back from our weekend getaways and shake off those barbecue-induced hangovers,…
DOWN With Black Label Society, Butcher Babies, and Devil You Know Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, May 23, 2014 Ten-year-old Jacob Trueblood had been waiting to meet Phil Anselmo all night. He’d been telling his mom that he wanted to give him a hug. He’s been listening to Pantera and…
Eagulls With Twin Peaks and Sealion Three Links, Dallas Friday, May 23, 2014 For any band who’s accustomed to playing extremely large venues, it can be a test to see how well they perform when they step down to a much smaller stage. Eagulls, a five-piece from Leeds, have played…
OFF! With Cerebral Ballzy and Nasa Space Universe Club Dada, Dallas Friday, May 23, 2014 There’s the great scene in The Dark Knight where Alfred explains to Bruce Wayne the true nature of the Joker. “Some men just want to watch the world burn,” says Alfred. Watching Keith Morris front…
Tonight, the Granada Theater stage will play host to two very distinct conventions of typical performance abandonment. One will be intricately oddball. The other will revisit a quintessential performance by one of the most revered and unapologetically adorable new-wave bands of the ’80s. The rare occurrence of witnessing, nay, experiencing,…
Morrissey With Kristeen Young Majestic Theatre, Dallas Thursday, May 22, 2014 You have to hand it to Morrissey: He’s one aging rock star who will not go softly into that good night. No, his band didn’t wear the “Meat Is Murder” T-shirts that were mooted to be the plan. (The…
We love Morrissey. We love his coiff, we love the tactless way he shoots off his mouth. We even love his supposed plan to have his band show off their new “Meat is Murder” T-shirts as a gesture of protest during his Thursday night show at the Majestic. And did…
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers made their fans happy twice over this morning with the announcement of a new album and a slew of North American tour dates taking place in late summer. The album, Hypnotic Eye, due out on Reprise Records July 29, is Petty’s 16th studio album and…
