La Luz’s Debut Dallas Performance Was Also a Farewell

It’s always memorable to see a band during a transitional phase, as was the case last night at Three Links in Deep Ellum, where La Luz played their first Dallas show. Incidentally, it will also be the last time we see the current incarnation of the band, what we will…

Neko Case Defies Definition at Granada Theater

Neko Case blew into Dallas on the whiplash end of the reversing polar vortex. Fortunately, Case’s Thursday night Granada Theater performance generated a lush, radiating warmth. Along with her band mates, Case is touring in support of her recently Grammy-nominated album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The…

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…

Barefoot at the Belmont Season Passes are Available Now

There is an eight-show outdoor concert series in the middle of the summer in Dallas. None of the artists have been announced yet. So why might you be tempted to spend $180 right now on a season pass to such a thing? Barefoot at the Belmont, KXT’s now five-year-old series…

Meet The Vliets, a Dallas-Affiliated Band That Calls The Internet Their Hometown

The Vliets (Pronounced Vleets) describe themselves as ‘experimental rock’ , which seems an accurate enough description if you’re a fan of understatement. If their name offers any indication, it’s an homage to Don Van Vliet, the experimental musician better known as Captain Beefheart, a longtime collaborator of Frank Zappa’s. Lead…

Mike Snider Looks Back on 20 Years of Booking Shows in Dallas

For a guy from Pittsburgh who started out in the catering business, All GoodCafé owner Mike Snider knows a lot about Texas music. Sitting in a barbeque joint, Snider reminisces over his two decades of booking shows in Dallas. “It all started on January 14, 1994,” he says between bites…

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 North Texas Hip-Hop Showcase Grand Prize Winners

Earlier this week, we told you about our North Texas hip-hop showcase prize package, which includes (among other things) the best seats in the house at the big event tonight at the Granada. That event, again: Six of the area’s best hip-hop artists, plus singer Jaeson Green and DJ Jay…

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…