Parquet Courts “Fucking Rocked” at Club Dada

Parquet Courts With Swearin’ and Radioactivity Club Dada, Dallas Tuesday, June 3, 2014 About midway through Parquet Courts’ blistering set at Club Dada last night a trio of youthful looking concertgoers stood at the bar ordering cokes. The band had hit a lull in a song, then drove full bore…

George Strait’s 10 Best Texas Songs

On Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, George Strait will ride away into the sunset as he concludes his long-running touring career. Though he will keep recording and will occasionally play the one-off gig, the days of taking another Strait show for granted appear to be over. Before frat boys…

tUnE-yArDs Brought a Fun, if Familiar, Party to Granada Theater

tUnE-yArDs With Sylvan Esso Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, May 30, 2014 Merrill Garbus is a force of nature. From her big, booming voice to her colorful wardrobes and face paint to her unorthodox assemblage of looped tracks and beats, Garbus has made herself and her band tUnE-yArDs a singular force…

Migos Were Late to Their Own Party at South Side Music Hall

365 Entertainment Presents: Migos South Side Music Hall Friday May 30, 2014 By Michelle Ofiwe By the time midnight rolls around, the Migos are officially late to their own party. If it matters to the crowd filling out South Side’s dance floor, such discontent remains imperceptible. Throngs of girls press…

Death Cab for Cutie to Headline KXT Summer Cut 2014

This morning, 91.7 FM KXT announced the lineup for the third annual installment of Summer Cut, the local radio station’s summer music festival at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Given the folkie vibe of last year’s bill, which featured the likes of the Avett Brothers and Dawes, the headliners shouldn’t come as…

Index Festival to Host Free Announcement Party at Trees June 17

Deep Ellum’s about to become pretty busy in the next couple weeks. Or is it just that much busier? Starting June 11, Elm St. will swarming with (presumably inked-up) concertgoers for five whole days, thanks to the Elm St. Music and Tattoo Festival. Now in its fifth year, this is…

Journey Played the Hits and Some Deep Cuts at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Journey With Steve Miller Band and Tower of Power Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Sunday, May 25, 2014 There’s something about hearing songs like “Lights,” “Only the Young” and “Don’t Stop Believin'” that never truly gets old, no matter how many times you hear them or how old you are. The…

The 10 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, 5/27 – 6/1

Memorial Day makes for a short week this week, which should come as a relief even if it does make Tuesday into something of a de facto Monday. (Can’t win ’em all, am I right?) As we all trek back from our weekend getaways and shake off those barbecue-induced hangovers,…

DOWN Made One Young Fan a Hero at Verizon Theatre

DOWN With Black Label Society, Butcher Babies, and Devil You Know Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, May 23, 2014 Ten-year-old Jacob Trueblood had been waiting to meet Phil Anselmo all night. He’d been telling his mom that he wanted to give him a hug. He’s been listening to Pantera and…

Eagulls Brought a Moody Angst for Their Dallas Debut

Eagulls With Twin Peaks and Sealion Three Links, Dallas Friday, May 23, 2014 For any band who’s accustomed to playing extremely large venues, it can be a test to see how well they perform when they step down to a much smaller stage. Eagulls, a five-piece from Leeds, have played…

Heart Byrne Recreate the Thrill of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense

Tonight, the Granada Theater stage will play host to two very distinct conventions of typical performance abandonment. One will be intricately oddball. The other will revisit a quintessential performance by one of the most revered and unapologetically adorable new-wave bands of the ’80s. The rare occurrence of witnessing, nay, experiencing,…

Morrissey Has Mastered the Art of Being Morrissey

Morrissey With Kristeen Young Majestic Theatre, Dallas Thursday, May 22, 2014 You have to hand it to Morrissey: He’s one aging rock star who will not go softly into that good night. No, his band didn’t wear the “Meat Is Murder” T-shirts that were mooted to be the plan. (The…

5 Reasons We Love to Hate Morrissey

We love Morrissey. We love his coiff, we love the tactless way he shoots off his mouth. We even love his supposed plan to have his band show off their new “Meat is Murder” T-shirts as a gesture of protest during his Thursday night show at the Majestic. And did…

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Announce September Dallas Visit

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers made their fans happy twice over this morning with the announcement of a new album and a slew of North American tour dates taking place in late summer. The album, Hypnotic Eye, due out on Reprise Records July 29, is Petty’s 16th studio album and…

Eels Never Play the Same Show Twice

Eels/Chelsea Wolfe Annette Strauss Square 5/19/2014 I have seen Mark Oliver Everett and his rotating band of anonymous indie rockers several times now. Not once, in all of these times, have I heard the same song. Sure, I’ve literally heard the same song a few times. But it’s never been…