David Byrne is best known for groundbreaking music he made as frontman for the Talking Heads — a band with influence extending far beyond its late-’70s to mid-’80s lifespan. You can hear it in every corner of music today, from punk rock to hip-hop, pop and dance music. Talking Heads were…
Four years after the band reunited, shoegaze legend Slowdive is still drawing fans. Off the heels of a well-received 2017 self-titled album, the English five-piece is happy to navigate whatever it wants to do. Whether it’s playing festivals in Europe or one-off dates in Texas, bassist Nick Chaplin appreciates how…
Jacksonville, Texas, native Lee Ann Womack told a jam-packed Kessler Theater on Sunday night that when it came to making her most recent album, she had to go back before she could move forward. “When I was growing up in East Texas, I had everything ahead of me, and I…
Jack White’s in town for two shows this week at the Bomb Factory, but don’t expect to snap any smartphone photos; the White Stripes frontman has banned them from his concerts for this tour. Cellphone-friendly shows include ’80s shoegaze pioneer Slowdive, grunge influencers the Melvins, the best in local metal…
To stand inside a Foo Fighters show — amid the lights and lasers, smoke machines and drummers rising nearly to the rafters — is to understand how the band has endured, however improbably, for nearly 25 years. The reason is simple: Frontman Dave Grohl and his bandmates show up and…
Charley Crockett loves Deep Ellum. “Here’s the thing,” Crockett began at his concert Friday night. “Whether you know it or not, this is the most important city in the world. I’m talking about the contributions to music of Deep Ellum. Let’s boogie.” Just before his declaration, as the curtain came…
Fans still have to wait two months to hear 5 Seconds of Summer’s third album, but that didn’t stop the boys from giving Thursday night’s audience a sneak peek of what’s to come. “We have a third record coming, out and we just couldn’t wait,” says Michael Clifford, the lead…
It’s an album anniversary for Lauryn Hill, and she plans to celebrate with a stop in Dallas. Elsewhere, the Kessler Theater snags a pair of cool shows, the multi-band package tours continue to roll in and a few cool shows pop up on the club calendars. The Loudwire Gen-X Summer…
Jesse Dayton got his start at a young age, sneaking into honky-tonks and jamming with zydeco bands as a teenager in Beaumont. He’s spent the last four years touring the country on the biggest run of his career as a solo act. But while his love of music was always…
When Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello thinks about all the times his band has trekked up to North Texas, nothing really tops the first trip to Dallas in the early ’90s. Long before headlining tours, Warped Tour dates and support slots, the ska/pop-punk band found themselves facing a locked…
Like many of their contemporaries, it’s an anniversary year for alt-country legends Old 97’s. They’ve been making music and visiting clubs and theaters for 25 years. Or, as lead singer Rhett Miller says in a recent song, “We’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive.” At 47, Miller certainly…
We’ve got a couple of festivals and a welcome-back show for a local favorite this week. Denton’s Thin Line Fest offers us more than just three days of documentaries and photography; it’s packed with an excellent lineup of local and nonlocal music acts. And Ska by Skawest celebrates all things…
For an aspiring musician, the ability to share music with the best possible production value is almost as important as a song itself. A music video shared online will, in most cases, be the first time a potential fan sees as musician’s work, and that first impression needs to be…
Some cool instrumental rock shows are heading this way over the next few months. Some more anniversary shows hit the docket, and hitmakers of the ’90s continue to strut out and take victory laps for adoring crowds. All this and more in this week’s concert announcements. Melodic guitar pioneer The…
“Hold on, something really exciting just happened.” Marissa Paternoster, the frontwoman of punk band Screaming Females, stepped away from the phone to convene with her bandmates. She returned, breathless. “Sorry, we just found out we’re at the first-ever Planet Fitness. This is a big deal for us,” she says. Even…
When iconic musicians embark upon reunion tours, often it’s because they’re broke. That’s not the case for legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim. Their debut album, Paid In Full, released in 1987, is considered one of the most influential ever made in hip-hop or any genre. Its release began…
Defying any expectations created by his low-key albums, King Krule unleashed a raucous, ballistic show Wednesday night in front of a sellout crowd at the Granada Theater. In support of his latest work, 2017’s critically acclaimed album The OOZ, King Krule played 19 songs divided between tracks from the current…
It was strange to see people standing still during a Titus Andronicus show. Even lead singer Patrick Stickles implored the audience. “If I was at a show such as this, I would definitely be taking a seat at the table,” he said pointing to the dozen or so tables the…
Good music is in bloom this spring. Catch the French pioneer of experimental and ambient music, Jean-Michel Jarre, on Monday night; indie rock duo Matt and Kim on Saturday; several of the best in local talent at The Wild Detectives’ fourth anniversary all day Saturday and several others this week. Jean-Michel…
The nostalgic air of the ’90s hangs heavy over Dallas with this week’s batch of concert announcements. Counting Crows, Live, Dandy Warhols, Backstreet Boys, Guided By Voices and Alison Krauss all made names for themselves two decades ago. Over the next few months, they’ll appear at various venues around town…
Anyway you cut it, Clint Black is country music royally. If you’re looking at numbers, he has 57 charted singles, 31 top 10 hits and 22 No. 1 smashes, and he’s sold more than 22 million albums worldwide. As for awards, he has a bevy of American Country Awards, American…
Sunday night’s Ho99o9 show saw metal fans learning to love the ever-expanding world of hip-hop. In the musical neighborhood of Geto Boys at the intersection of Bad Brains and Death Grips lives Ho99o9 (pronounced “horror”) — a hip-hop duo, TheOGM and Eaddy, from New Jersey by way of Los Angeles…
