The Granada Theater makes a splash this week as the folks there have announced a couple of prime upcoming concerts. Elsewhere, things continue to be busy across the Dallas area as bands and artists add fall and winter dates. Singer-songwriter, Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, is back with his first album…
An enthusiastic Shaun Cooper remembers when his band Taking Back Sunday came through Dallas last summer on July 24. “The last time we were there, I think it was National Tequila Day, so I may have imbibed a little bit,” the bassist says of the show at Gas Monkey Bar…
After eight years of business, Starwood Studios, an all-ages concert venue in Southlake, has been forced by the city to close its doors to live music. The venue has seen the likes of artists such as Post Malone (before he was Post Malone) and local bands Polyphia and Crown the…
The audience was partying long before they made it into Dos Equis Pavilion to see country music star Jason Aldean for his High Noon Neon Tour on Saturday night. On the way to the entry line for the bag check, patrons were upending beers in one hand, a full beer…
Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions10 p.m. Monday, July 30, RBC, 2617 Commerce St., 469-487-6149 or rbcdeepellum.com, free We actually look forward to Mondays now, thanks to the work of Stefan Gonzalez. The lineup he curates on that day every week at RBC make it one of the best places in the…
The concert listings continue to pile in even after last week’s flurry of announcements. This week, we see a bevy of new shows that are guaranteed to attract a slew of audiences from the area. Onwards we go. The National is bringing its Sleep Well Beast tour to South Side…
The world’s biggest a cappella group is coming back to its hometown. Three out of five of Pentatonix’s members were classmates at Martin High School in Arlington, but it seems the entire group is excited to return. “Oh, my gosh, we’re always excited to come back to Dallas. I mean, that’s their…
Most bands’ goals are fairly straightforward. You want to make plenty of good songs, hope that audiences respond to them in a positive manner and then have faith that enough folks show up when you take those songs out on the road. The four members of folk-rock quartet River Whyless…
Dallas has seen plenty of good shows this year. Whether it was St. Vincent destroying The Bomb Factory with her guitar and vocals or Tony Bennett showing us age doesn’t matter, we were treated to an array of talent. Here are the 10 best we’ve seen so far in 2018,…
Record high temperatures may be dampening your summer days, but don’t let them get the best of your nights. Catch several cool acts this week, including Logic, Paul Oakenfold, Hall & Oates, Glassjaw and more. Hall & Oates With Train, 7 p.m. Tuesday July 24, American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory…
As the sold-out crowd filed into the American Airlines Center on Friday, there were the weighty quotations displayed on screens flanking the angular stage, which stretched out into the middle of the floor. Settling into your seat, you could ponder this, from poet Rupi Kaur: “What is stronger than the…
Eight years have passed since Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush released their last album as the country duo Sugarland, but they’ve come back with a real treat — a collaboration with Taylor Swift. Together with Swift they released “Babe,” and all three appear in the music video, which has generated…
It’s mostly big-name artists this week as concert announcements have arrived with gusto for the Dallas area. There is so much to get to, so start figuring out your budget and setting dates aside on the calendar. With Golden Hour, East Texas’ Kasey Musgraves has made one of the year’s…
The original Smashing Pumpkins were not able to reform in 2018, so Billy Corgan and company gave fans something worth remembering: a well-crafted three-hour, 31-song marathon walk down memory lane. After people found their seats to the sounds of Metric, the Great Pumpkin came out alone just shy of 8:30…
The last time BJ Barham and his band made their way through Dallas, American Aquarium looked different from how it will appear when they return to town to play in the new Statler Ballroom on July 28. In February 2017, the band, comprised mostly of childhood friends, all called it quits…
A self-described “musical prostitute,” Anthony Green is the brains behind emo prog-rock favorites Circa Survive and Saosin, as well as The Sound of Animals Fighting (a supergroup founded by Rx frontman Rich Balling, in which the members rock out sporting animal masks). In the midst of all this, Green has…
It’s easy to think of human trafficking as a far away problem, but it isn’t. In the last 37 years, the nonprofit organization Children of the Night has helped rescue more than 10,000 children and young people from sexual exploitation, pornography and prostitution in the United States. To help raise…
The crowd that filed into Toyota Music Factory to see Paramore on Saturday was a particular group; if you didn’t know what band was playing that night, you could reasonably guess the lineup on the marquee from the attendees. The throng of people entering skewed heavily female, their brightly dyed…
Package tours are a hallmark of the summer concert season. Whether they’re artfully curated with alternative scene-makers, skillfully assembled with corporate branding or nostalgically organized to appeal to fans’ youthful past, these types of bookings populate the calendars of sheds around the country. Sunday evening’s bill at The Pavilion at…
It’s a wonderful week for music nostalgia, local bands and free shows. Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, Neurosis and Foreigner take us down memory lane while Granada Theater says thank you with a week of free shows. And for a chance to hear local favorites such as electronic musician Cygnus, check out KUZU…
Guitarist Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down is happy to talk from his studio in Nashville ahead of another tour. The band has many hits to its name, so Henderson finds no reason to be bitter or jaded about the industry or the band’s long career. At this point, he…
An 8-year-old stops near a snack bar to grab a new pair of purple earplugs before heading to band practice. “We’re going to need these,” Ellie Johnson says. ”Our band is loud.” Johnson is part of Girls Rock Fort Worth, a weeklong summer camp that uses music education and workshops…
