As North Texas gears up for the final holiday countdown, we are seeing a lot fewer national acts in town this week, meaning that most of our list this week is made up of locals.
Sting, as the kids say, understood the assignment. The multi-platinum pop superstar was on hand Tuesday night for the official “grand opening” of the new Echo Lounge & Music Hall, the venue opened in partnership between Mark Cuban (in attendance Tuesday) and Live Nation that’s been up and running for about five weeks.
Over the course of his 20-year career, singer-songwriter Hayes Carll has received a great many accolades and performed on some of the most prestigious stages in the United States.
Try as one might during the holidays, sometimes things just go awry. So it was Saturday night at McFarlin Auditorium, as a slightly-more-than-half full room sat and waited … and waited … and waited some more for She & Him to materialize from behind an enormous red velvet curtain.
In the three years since Lindsey Buckingham last visited Dallas, his life has been marked by one misfortune after another.
Don we now our gay apparel, for Christmas concerts have started across North Texas. This week’s list features three holiday shows from around the music world.
Grammy winner Billy Strings took the stage Saturday night to an enthusiastic sold-out crowd at The Factory in Deep Ellum.
With Thanksgiving behind us and the leftovers finally hitting the trash can, it’s time for North Texas to gear up for the holiday season.
The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball made its triumphant return to Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena Tuesday night, bringing some hot names and all the mainstream music you’ve been hearing on radio year round.
Once the big meal is over and all the leftovers are wrapped and packed away or sent home with anyone who wants them, make the most of this long holiday weekend by getting out there and seeing some shows.
On a hot August night in 2012, two of the most iconic women in modern rock music shared the stage for the first time in El Paso.
There are some pretty big decisions to be made this weekend, North Texas. With all of this week’s 10 best concerts occurring within three days of each other, music fans have a lot of options Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
It may not be obvious, but meditation can be essential to making music. Whether it’s as simple as just going fishing or more traditional guided breathwork, all creative minds have a need to be at one with themselves in order to let the creative juices flow.
Chvrches excels at finding light in darkness. The group’s fourth and latest studio album, Screen Violence, the impetus for the tour which brought the Scottish synth-pop trio to the South Side Ballroom Sunday night, is a prime example.
There’s something creeping in the shadows, stalking the heroine as she limps along in a tattered dress that’s streaked with grime and blood. She has managed to evade death, but only so far. As the first rays of sunlight begin to peek over the horizon, it becomes clear that she…
One of the best things that has come out of the age of consuming music digitally is the way people listen to wildly eclectic playlists that jump from one genre to the next without any ease in the transition.
Tame Impala has a way of emphasizing time that fixes your attention.It’s both obvious – there are an abundance of song titles explicitly referencing time and its passage, like “One More Hour,” “Eventually” or “Lost in Yesterday” – and subtle: an extended guitar solo given a moment to breathe, a single lyric uttered so frequently it becomes a mantra, or a loop repeated so insistently your own perception of time folds in on itself.
After multiple delays, Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin finally brought their joint tour to American Airlines Center this past Wednesday.
This week, smaller and local shows get a bigger spotlight than they have in recent weeks, with Tame Impala taking one of Dallas’ largest stages Tuesday night at American Airlines Center. The shows are also much lounder than they have been with acts like The Casualties and Frozen Soul playing…
Why are The Rolling Stones still touring?The members of “the world’s greatest rock n’roll band” are pushing 80 years old and a net worth close to a billion dollars.
It was a smaller crowd the evening of All Saints Day at the Granada Theater. Fans filed in at an easy pace into the venue to the sounds of a garage-surf pre-show playlist.
One of the best things about the world getting back to normal is seeing traditions make a comeback. On Saturday night, Ghostland Observatory renewed their tradition of playing one of the most outstanding laser dance shows for Halloween in North Texas.
