Concerts

A Venn diagram comparing indie folk stalwarts Bright Eyes and global pop goliaths Maroon 5 would not have a lot of overlap, but if you’re keyboardist/arranger Nate Walcott, you’d be right in the middle.

North Texas have a lot to look forward to this week, but with seven of this week’s concerts taking place at just three locations, music fans won’t have quite as many travel decisions to make. Three shows will take place at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, spanning the genres…

The moment the first chords of “Can’t Buy Me Love” rang out, the weight of years evaporated. So it was Tuesday night.

Forty years ago, armored with adolescent angst and a talent for songwriting, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed one of pop music’s most influential duos, Tears For Fears. In 1982, they topped the charts with the single “Mad World” and have since created some of the best musical output in…

As surely as the mercury spikes in May, the Dave Matthews Band will cross a stage in the North Texas summer. DMB, like the Texas Rangers struggling to stay above .500 or heat indexes north of 105 degrees, is a seasonal staple ’round these parts. The Grammy-winning rock band from…

The roar could have been heard across DFW. Thousands of teenagers scream-sang along to every single word throughout Olivia Rodrigo’s hour-long set, nearly drowning out the music itself. It was evident: Rodrigo has struck a Gen Z chord. The three-time Grammy-winning artist brought her Sour tour, her first ever, to…

Things are starting to heat up in North Texas this week with some real legends and mythic figures gracing our stages this week.

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic taught many of us that our jobs are not necessarily the most important thing in our lives

Briston Maroney is doing exactly what he needs to do. The musician is scheduled to return to Dallas following his triumphant February solo performance at Trees by opening for Jack White on Monday, May 23 at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving.

Royal Blood bassist/singer Michael Kerr has some advice for teenagers trying to impress girls: Don’t become a juggler.

Carne Asada Fest will return to Dallas on May 29 for its second iteration. Showcasing the best of Latin music, food, and brands, this year’s Carne Asada is expected to be even bigger and better. The inaugural Carne Asada was held last year at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep…

The scale of it all was striking. To watch a band that built its career, at least early on, with sensitive, relatively small tunes, take those deeply felt, finely wrought works, shot through with an acute interiority, and turn them into maximalist, synapse-frying spectacles capable of making an estimated crowd…

HAIM is on top of the world. In the last couple of years, they’ve amassed Oscar noms, late show appearances, fashion campaigns and more. Their critically acclaimed Women In Music Pt. III was nominated for the Grammy’s Album of the Year in 2020, leading some to anoint them as the…

One strange night in 2017 in El Paso, the gentlemen of Post Animal found themselves in a unique situation. They were on tour with fellow Chicago-based rockers Twin Peaks and spent most of their afternoon collectively picking away at a rotisserie chicken “like vultures,” as guitarist/keyboardist Jake Hirshland describes it…

Like many great joke ideas, Okilly Dokilly is one that just got way out of hand, and now the punchline is coming soon. The Phoenix group’s inspiration is Ned Flanders, the cheerful, hokey and fervently devout Christian resident of Evergreen Terrace who lives next door to Springfield’s most famous family…

It’s a front-heavy week this week with almost half of this week’s best concerts happening Thursday night and another third taking place Friday night. Kurt Vile kicks the concert week off with lo-fi dreamscapes on Greenville avenue while The Avett Brothers play in Grand Prairie and the Haim sisters play…

Chino Moreno’s nü-metal band has stood the test of time, and 25 years after releasing their debut album, Deftones was set to hit the road to promote its newest release Ohms back in 2020. The momentum and buzz they’ve conjured up album after album came to a halt when their…

Alt-country stalwart Kurt Vile is relaxing backstage in Atlanta at the Shaky Knees festival, where he’s scheduled to perform later in the day. In the meantime, he’s debating the merits of hi-fi. “This is going to sound like an iPhone commercial, but I just got the new iPhone, and sometimes…

Life, as the saying goes, is about the journey, not the destination. Few would probably agree with that axiom more fervently than Miranda Lambert. The Longview native has traveled a circuitous route to superstardom, taking the road less traveled as often out of necessity as by choice. The 38-year-old singer-songwriter…

With 10 studio albums, including the best-selling album ever released on an independent label, more than 30 years of touring and plenty of hits along the way, The Offspring remain relevant today. They just kicked off their 18-city U.S. tour in support of their latest record, Let The Bad Times…

My Morning Jacket was content to let the music do the talking Thursday night. Stepping onstage at the Factory in Deep Ellum and making, from all I could discern digging around prior to the show, its first appearance in Dallas proper in 14 years, the band – led by wild-maned…

Steady as she goes, Tori Amos walked onto an American concert stage for the first time in five years Wednesday night. Over the ensuing 95 minutes, the 58-year-old singer-songwriter demonstrated precisely how she’s endured through all of pop music’s endless contortions and upheavals: by affixing her sharp eye and keen…