It’s a shorter list than usual this week for concert announcements, but there are still some good things to find. Some nostalgia, some top 40 chart toppers and some country jams headline the new listings. Mary J. Blige and Nas are teaming up for a joint outing this summer and…
Have you seen Carl? Or, as the fam at Deep Ellum Art Company prefers, have you seen Karl? Anyone who has journeyed to one of the nation’s bigger music festivals almost certainly has never seen Karl, but they’ve surely heard of him — or, more specifically, they’ve heard folks calling…
Singer Haley Reinhart’s velvety vocals are highly delectable, to the point that one would hope for a case of synesthesia — a condition that often results in an ability to taste music. Her sultry, growled phrasing moves teasingly along her unpredictable arrangements, landing Reinhart in third place on Season 10…
Cradle of Filth may not be a band for everybody, but they really aren’t a band that parents should worry about. Extreme metal — a kind of umbrella term that covers the many forms of metal made by bands with hard-to-read logos — has a history fraught with violence, vandalism…
Homegrown Fest X With Toadies, Seryn, Tripping Daisy, Ben Kweller and more Main Street Garden Park and The Kessler, Dallas April 13 and 14, 2019 It was all rescheduled so suddenly, but you never would have known it. On Friday, fans and media outlets received notice that the 10th anniversary…
That line of mopeds that’s likely to form outside Three Links this week won’t be a Vespa convention. It’s the fifth annual Ska by Skawest, a two-day celebration of all things ska starting Friday and including Denton favorite Madaline. If your skanking days are long behind you, Joan Baez stops…
Brandi Carlile The Bomb Factory, Dallas April 12, 2019 The cheers and applause seemed to rise and rise, as if the sheer force of it all would pop the roof right off The Bomb Factory. Brandi Carlile — singer, songwriter, mother, devoted activist and newly minted Grammy winner — stood…
When George Dunham lost both his parents after the turn of the millennium, the local sports radio personality took his grief and turned it into a good cause. This Friday’s eighth annual Jub Jam marks the latest chapter in Dunham’s mission with a sold-out charity event at South Side Music…
Entering their 14th year as a band, LA noise rockers Health started off 2019 with a new album and a tour to support it, scored Grand Theft Auto: Arena War and released many collaborative singles featuring experimental artists like Youth Code, who they’re touring with. To say they’ve kept themselves busy…
He’s an avant-garde music legend and creator of the electric rake, but Eugene Chadbourne’s music may not attract more than a so-called cult following of true music fanatics. Just don’t say that around the musician himself. “I have always thought the use of this word (cult) in reference to people…
It’s been 20 years since Lucinda Williams released her critically acclaimed album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Tonight at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, fans will see a VH1 Storytellers-style live performance of the full album accompanied by photos and video clips, as well as a second set…
A moment, late Friday night, perfectly crystallized Jenny Lewis’s particular blend of sweet and sour. As she brought “Born Secular,” a track from Rabbit Fur Coat, her 2006 collaboration with The Watson Twins (on hand Friday as a superb opening act, and participants in the encore), to its climax, a…
Much has been written about Ghost Light since its five acclaimed members joined forces to create a new band and album a year and a half ago. On Friday night at Deep Ellum Art Co., pianist Holly Bowling, guitarist Tom Hamilton (American Babies/JRAD), guitarist Raina Mullen (American Babies), bassist Steve…
Homegrown Fest is back this year for its 10th anniversary. The daylong concert features plenty of great acts, including Seryn, Tripping Daisy, The Toadies and more. Two country superstars, Eric Church and Brett Eldridge, play shows this week, and West Coast hip-hop pioneer Warren G plays in The Colony, plus…
This week’s concert announcements bring a multitude of events on the horizon. A lone festival chooses Dallas, one of the brightest names in pop is coming this way and a legendary icon makes another appearance. All that and more ahead. Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival has chosen our area for…
Jenny Lewis has endured her share of hardships, but as she puts it, she is still “stumbling through [her] own existence.” Her eyes are fixed upon the present, but if Lewis was so inclined, she could easily look back on a life of achievement. As a child actor, she co-starred…
Take a listen to any track on Charley Crockett’s most recent album, Lil G.L.’s Blues Bonanza, and you can hear it. There’s a weariness in his voice on these last-call covers — it’s there in the obscure Ray Charles single “Here Am I,” seeping into the lyrics “Here am I/All…
Longtime followers of jamgrass titans Railroad Earth aren’t surprised by the band’s resilient spirit since co-founding member Andy Goessling died last fall on the second day of the band’s own fall festival, called Hillberry, near Eureka Springs. That resilience has carried them through a difficult winter and follows them to…
A cursory glance at Bob Mould’s latest record Sunshine Rock almost tells you everything you need to know about where the alternative rock legend’s head is at these days. The album cover features a simple but bright, retro-riffic red and yellow swirl with his name and album title spelled out…
Anyone who had even the most fleeting emo phase knows Taking Back Sunday. Those of us who’ve never outgrown ours were treated to something special this weekend in celebration of 20 years with them — two “Decades Under The Influence,” if you will. The band is out on a commemorative…
The stylistic intricacies of what constitutes a boy band can be debated, but one thing is certain: If a group can walk from point A to point B safely and without hindrance from fans, it’s not a boy band. The Beatles, Monkees, New Kids on the Block, NSYNC and One…
Progressive-bluegrass bellwether Yonder Mountain String Band must’ve been feeling pretty gritty Saturday night as they walked onto the stage at Dallas’ Granada Theater. The Colorado-based quintet ditched the planned opener, “Travelin’ Prayer,” and instead opened with 2015’s “Insult and an Elbow,” a track whose chorus catchphrase, “stoned as rock ‘n’…
