Welcome to October, the month of pumpkins, hoodie weather and, duh, Halloween. To get this most festive month kicked off, let’s take a look at some of the first week’s best concerts, including Wilco, Crystal Castles and Lynyrd Skynyrd headlining the third annual Laid Back Fest. Outward Bound Mixtape Sessions10 p.m…
You should never walk into a Lauryn Hill concert with expectations. It’s dangerous. Over the past few years, Hill has inched back into the spotlight. She had taken a lengthy reprieve following the success of her 1998 solo debut record The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which turned her into an icon…
Arcade Fire with Wolf Parade American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 For a band that doesn’t play Top 40 standards, Arcade Fire fits remarkably well in an arena setting. The group commanded the American Airlines Center on Thursday night. The band is on its “Infinite Content” tour, promoting its latest…
KISS Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Three years ago, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons declared that rock was dead. “The death of rock was not a natural death,” Simmons told Esquire magazine in a 2014 interview. “Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.”…
Banks South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 Jillian Banks, who goes by just her last name struggled to make her voice heard over the boisterous crowd at South Side Music Hall on Friday night. “Sometimes it’s still crazy that people know the words to my songs,” she murmured…
Brett Eldredge is a star. He’s also 31, unmarried and a heartthrob. Yes, he’s a single white male in country music, and that means he’s not an underdog by any means, but he should be headlining concerts. That became evident Saturday night when he opened for Luke Bryan at Starplex…
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the total value of the recording industry reached more than $15 billion last year. (We sure love our music.) And about half of that dollar amount came from online streaming of some kind. While Spotify and YouTube certainly offer convenience and the…
Susan Tedeschi talks about her mega-band, avoiding floods, and co-parenting rock and roll kids.
Say sayonara to summer this week as we ring in a season that promises pumpkins, picnics in the park and (hopefully) lower electricity bills. This week, an impressive music lineup will fill your heart with nostalgia and perhaps introduce you to your new favorite band. Depeche Mode, The Church and…
At 8:24 p.m., a DJ gently implores the nearly sold-out American Airlines Center crowd to “make some noise.” Janet Jackson’s still nowhere to be seen, so exactly who or what is on the receiving end of the request is unclear. Still, the ocean of sequined caps complies, Arsenio-style. At 8:33…
This week’s music lineup is the most impressive we’ve seen in a few months, spanning everything from Dallas-bred alt-country to experimental music and bubblegum pop. The former Dallasites of Dark Rooms return to town for a show at Club Dada on Monday, former ’90s boy band Hanson proves it’s still…
As we bid adieu to the hottest month of the year, September already proves it’s going to be better than August, and not just because it starts us off with a three-day weekend. There’s plenty of great music to get excited about. Nineties alternative darlings Goo Goo Dolls play a relocated…
As temperatures slowly decline and tastes of pumpkin pie and cinnamon-sprinkled everything make their way into our minds, let’s end the recent string of 100-degree days with a bang. This week offers a great opportunity to check out both up-and-coming acts and well-known artists, as well as a couple of…
Alice Cooper and Deep Purple with Edgar Winter Starplex Pavilion, Dallas Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017 Deep Purple and Alice Cooper made for a strange pair at Starplex on Saturday night. Both groups rock legends, and they’re on the same record label, but that’s where the similarities end. Beaumont-born Edgar Winter…
Fleet Foxes With Bedouine The Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, August 18, 2017 For a few minutes in the middle of Fleet Foxes’ show at The Bomb Factory on Friday night, Robin Pecknold was alone onstage. Dressed in black, the room dark save for the stars floating into the abyss on…
This week begins with a solar eclipse and plenty of watching parties around town. But if you packed up your telescopes and traveled to its path of totality because a partially eclipsed sun just isn’t good enough, you’re going to miss some seriously stellar shows this week. Pop-punk alum Simple Plan plays…
Blondie and Garbage have a lot in common. Both bands have frontwomen who blazed trails in their respective genres. Blondie’s Debbie Harry is a feminist icon who rose out of New York City in the ’70s, much the same way Garbage’s Shirley Manson did 20 years later during the grunge…
Lil Yachty may be well known, but he couldn’t sell out the Bomb Factory for the first show of his Teenage Tour. Friday night was a stark reminder that he’s liked more for his fashion sense and persona than his music. Everything about Lil Yachty is signature, from his braided,…
This week begins with a solar eclipse and plenty of watching parties around town. But if you packed up your telescopes and traveled to its path of totality because a partially eclipsed sun just isn’t good enough, you’re going to miss some seriously stellar shows this week. Stars abound early this week…
Juggalos and Sooners apparently don’t get along. By the end of this year’s Gathering, cries of “Fuck Oklahoma!” rang out across the festival.
John Mayer with Night Game American Airlines Center, Dallas Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 It was toward the end of the set when the show’s opener, Night Game, expressed warm gratitude toward John Mayer who, the members said, discovered the Boston band through Spotify and invited it along on this tour…
Recently, NASA announced it is looking for a planetary protection officer — someone tasked with protecting the planet from potential aliens, all to the tune of a six-figure salary. It sounds like something straight out of Men In Black, but if you meet the space program’s qualifications, you could hold…
