At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the coronavirus has gotten concerts canceled faster than Kevin Spacey, and things are only expected to get worse. Thankfully, many artists are doing livestreams to help those jonesing for a live music experience, but nothing can fully replicate the experience of…
The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the music industry has been nothing short of cataclysmic. The ripple effect has reached A-listers and the leviathans at Live Nation and AEG, but local artists have been especially vulnerable. “I have gigs canceled through June,” says Dallas-based keyboardist Poppy Xander. “Mostly big city gigs…
With the novel coronavirus causing Dallas (and beyond) to declare a state of emergency, and so many events to be canceled, it’s becoming harder and harder to track what concerts are still going down in North Texas. Here is a list of 10 shows that — at least at press…
This St. Patrick’s Day, you’re going to want to make your way up to Denton (where there are no confirmed cases of the coronavirus) because you have got to see this. Djunah (pronounced JUNE-uh) is a female-lead, two-person noise rock band from Chicago fronted by Donna Diane, a singer and…
As coronavirus takes hold of all nationwide events, it remains unclear as to how the concert industry will handle things moving forward. But, as life moves on, so the shows must go on, so here are some new concert announcements for the upcoming months as you can tentatively make plans…
Two seemingly opposite, long-standing Denton bands will both headline what’s being dubbed as a “polka punk apocalypse” at the Granada Theater on March 21: polka legends Brave Combo and punk band Wee Beasties. Richard Haskins, frontman of Wee Beasties, says the show is “one of those things totally by accident.” The…
Just yesterday I got a call from a dear friend of mine who had just walked out of her Planned Parenthood appointment in exasperation. She didn’t have the cash to cover a routine wellness check with the tips she makes as a server, and the clinic lost federal funding support…
It’s a Tuesday night like any other Tuesday night, and just like any other Tuesday night you can hear CoLab, a band that offers a Tuesday night that you can’t experience anywhere else in this city. There’s never a cover to keep anyone from walking in the door. CoLab’s motto…
To hear Harry Connick Jr. tell it, he’s spent much of the last year rescuing Cole Porter from obscurity. “Most people not only don’t know much about him, but don’t know who he was,” Connick Jr. explained not long into his 110-minute performance before a near-capacity audience at Winspear Opera…
There are some incredible lineups at North Texas venues this week. Mägo de Oz, the Spanish folk metal legends, will be taking over House of Blues on Wednesday night. Raul Malo and Ben Rector are both rolling into town for sold-out performances Friday. The next day, Orville Peck will be under the lights…
With almost 100,000 cases of the coronavirus reported worldwide, the global economy is continuing to incur damage, and the live music industry is one of its largest casualties. Below is a list of major festivals and tours that have been postponed, canceled or affected in other ways by the outbreak…
A bevy of new concert listings has arrived in time for this week’s batch of announcements. It’s a list populated with quite a few up-and-coming artists, some of whom are branching out into playing some of the largest venues of their careers. There are also a few oldies-but-goodies hitting up…
He was born Maurizio Colella, but dance music fans know him as EDX. And we’ll never know why exactly. Our interrogation-like attempts to uncover the meaning of “EDX” were all shot down by the producer, DJ and executive. We took our best jabs in search of an answer, but they…
Spring will be upon us in two weeks, and since winter is a suboptimal time for outdoor events, it officially marks the beginning of music festival season. Yes, the festival bubble is bursting, but some local festivals have managed to stick around and impressively withstand the test of time. If…
It looks like Russian spies aren’t the only ones who’ve discovered a way to break Facebook. Last week, the budding Dallas band Learning Names released a music video for its first single, “Be Quiet,” that quickly attracted over 15,000 views between Facebook and YouTube, two-thirds of which came from the…
What does it mean to reckon with your legacy? Does confronting a creative achievement — even if it’s the product of decades past, when you were someone else entirely — constitute a form of capitulation, a shrugging acceptance that you’ve peaked and are merely coasting on the fumes of previous…
They say girls run the world, and anyone who spends time exploring the entertainment scene throughout North Texas will especially appreciate that sentiment. We’ve got talented ladies in spades around here, so it was about time an event highlighting all-female or female-fronted acts came around. Last year, the Denton-based nonprofit…
Given that Super Tuesday is happening this week, you’ll probably need to find some escape from all the politics. And how can you hear all the political discussions if your ears are ringing from standing too close to the speakers at too many live concerts? Hopefully, you can’t. And here…
As the Leaning Tower of Dallas awaits its final demolishing, a Dallas news oddity will soon come to a close. Time to get back to focusing on all other things local, like the Dak Prescott contract negotiations, the new restaurants in Trinity Groves and the ubiquity of Michael Bloomberg-for-president ads…
“When can you have that Neil Diamond story in?” my editor asks as I begin to leave the office at the end of the day. She sighs after making the tired mistake. “I mean, the Morrissey one … I think Vegas and I think Neil Diamond.” This pretty much sums…
On Friday, March 13, Gas Monkey Live will host something they are calling “Freakers Small,” an event that will host seven bands, five of them tribute bands and three featuring one man, Paragraph Taylor, whose tendency to … embellish … his words earned him his moniker. You might have heard…
The Larimer Lounge, Lost Lake and Globe Hall lead talent buyer is headed to Dallas.
