Boom 94.5 Fest With Master P, Kurtis Blow, Big Daddy Kane and more Fair Park, Dallas Saturday, April 30, 2016 This year’s Boom 94.5 Festival wasn’t just a love letter to the history of rap. It was a group therapy session for the lovers and practitioners of hip-hop. The theme…
Vice Palace Two-Year Anniversary With Dezi 5, Party Static, Sam Lao and more RBC, Dallas Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, 2016 Art Peña’s Vice Palace has a healthy reputation for its grimey variety shows. For a long time, that meant guerrilla shows in warehouses, which was where…
The schizophrenic weather, and even more schizophrenic forecasts, have had us feeling more than a little all over the place in recent weeks. But with the April showers transitioning — theoretically, anyway — to May flowers, it may just as well that there’s a bit of a break from the…
Edgefest With Cage the Elephant, the 1975 and more Toyota Stadium, Frisco Saturday, April 30, 2016 Good Charlotte didn’t headline 102.1 FM The Edge’s annual Edgefest at Toyota Stadium on Saturday, but they did say what everyone was thinking. The station’s marquee event, taking place for this 26th time over…
Parquet Courts With Lee Ranaldo and Nots Granada Theater, Dallas Thursday, April 28, 2016 Granada Theater isn’t the first place you’d think of for a Parquet Courts show. This is a quintessential DIY house show basement band, with a sense of humor that can somehow make a total non sequitur into…
Drake used to call us on his cellphone, but now what? Well, every few years, he lets us know he hasn’t forgotten about us and books a stadium show in Dallas. Just thank the high heavens that this time, with his Sweet Sixteen Tour hitting town in July, Drake will…
Want a sign that Dallas is becoming an increasingly hot property as a concert city? Kraftwerk is coming to Dallas. Freaking Kraftwerk. How rare of an opportunity is this, exactly? Last fall, the German krautrock and electronic music pioneers played a pair of shows in Austin — where these sorts…
Off the Rails Country Music Fest With Blake Shelton, Eric Church, Sam Hunt and more Toyota Stadium, Frisco Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24, 2016 Half of a successful music festival is the venue. The music line-up is what gets people there, but it’s the venue that keeps its…
The Suffers With Sam Lao The Kessler Theater, Dallas Friday, April 22, 2016 On Friday night, the Suffers brought one of the loudest audiences the Kessler Theater has seen in a while. Lead vocalist Kam Franklin said they never expected to make it in Dallas on account of the…
Although nothing can even out the tragic loss of the artist formerly known as Prince, getting a surprise visual album from Beyoncé is as decent an opposite reaction as you could hope for. If you need help during these tough times, there are plenty of tributes in Dallas already in progress…
Duran Duran With Chic American Airlines Center, Dallas Tuesday, April 19, 2016 “First there’s 1D and then there’s double D,” that is how Elizabeth Smith, a longtime Duran Duran fan, explained her 16-year-old daughter’s definitive “boy band” ranking. The pair were at American Airlines Center Tuesday night to catch Duran…
Smashing Pumpkins With Liz Phair Majestic Theatre, Dallas Monday, April 18, 2016 Heading into The Majestic Theatre for Monday night’s Smashing Pumpkins show, it would’ve seemed unlikely that a pair of cover songs would steal the show. With songs like “1979” and “Tonight, Tonight” to draw on, Billy Corgan and…
Poor Billy Corgan. He can’t seem to escape the press for too long. Whether he’s spotted frowning on a rollercoaster or starting wrestling tournaments, it seems like most days aren’t exactly the greatest for Corgan. But hopefully it can be one of your better days when you go see them at…
Old 97’s County Fair With Drive-By Truckers, Lucero, Deer Tick, Justin Townes Earle and more Main St. Garden Park, Dallas Saturday, April 16, 2016 There were times during the inaugural Old 97s County Fair when you felt certain the looming cloud cover was about to break loose all hell. Like…
Kurt Vile Granada Theater, Dallas Saturday, April 16, 2016 Participation in the Revelation of Kurt Vile wasn’t compulsory during his sold-out show at Granada Theater on Saturday night. Inviting people in wasn’t really the Philadelphia native’s objective. Much like his latest album, b’lieve i’m goin down, his goal seemed to…
Beach House The Bomb Factory, Dallas Saturday, April 9, 2016 On Saturday night at The Bomb Factory in Deep Ellum, Baltimore dream-pop outfit Beach House was all about prettiness. Each song was pretty. Victoria Legrand’s vocals were pretty. But there were too many aspects that fell pretty flat. It wasn’t…
Justin Bieber With Post Malone and Moxie Raia American Airlines Center, Dallas Sunday, April 10, 2016 Something interesting happened when a couch came up through the floor during Justin Bieber’s visit to American Airlines Center Sunday night. There on one of the cushions was a guitar, and for the…
Look, there’s really no excuse to not see a show this week. In the next seven days, Dallas will be hosting Korean and ’00s hip-hop, chillwave and chill indie rock, unforgiving punk music and fairly forgiving country music, and, well, DJ Snake. If you’re finding yourself uninterested in any of…
M83 With Yacht The Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, April 8, 2016 Concerts don’t come with much higher feel-good levels than M83’s visit to The Bomb Factory did on Friday night. The French synthpop powerhouse rolled into town for the second stop on their Junk Tour on the exact day that…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band The River Tour American Airlines Center, Dallas Tuesday, April 5, 2016 If you’re only as young as you feel, then Bruce Springsteen must have found the fountain of youth. For three solid hours on Tuesday night, the 66-year-old lit up the American Airlines…
Mumford & Sons Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Monday, April 4, 2016 Although hordes of soundalikes still somehow find audiences, Mumford & Sons’ moment is over. A large Dallas crowd at Gexa Energy Pavilion last night offered fairly steady enthusiasm for Marcus Mumford’s crew, but the reaction to the few songs pulled from…
Everyone, quick, roll out your best weed jokes. Because, frankly, what else are you going to say about the news that Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa just announced a co-headlining gig at Gexa Energy Pavilion on August 19? You don’t need to feel bad about it, either, because Snoop and…
