Dallas’ biggest live act last weekend wasn’t even technically alive. Hatsune Miku’ is a 3D projection, an animated singer created in Japan who sings and dances next to a live band on stage. Her acolytes began to arrive at The Bomb Factory on Saturday afternoon, hours before the concert, and they…
Rihanna With Travis $cott and DJ Chase B American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, May 13, 2016 Through an aberration in the cosmos, Dallas was blessed with an abundance of bad girl pop stars last week. The big one, of course, was Beyonce, whose Formation Tour took over AT&T Stadium on…
Homegrown Fest With Ghostland Observatory, Neon Indian, Bright Light Social Hour and more Main St. Garden Park, Dallas Saturday, May 14, 2016 With better luck than it had enjoyed in 2015, Homegrown Festival didn’t have to move indoors on Saturday. Having been forced to relocate to The Bomb Factory last…
Springtime in North Texas means perpetually wondering when (and not if) Mother Nature is about to stop playing nice. Last weekend, the weather cooperated and didn’t throw out any unpleasant surprises, much to the benefit of Homegrown Fest and JMBLYA. This week? Well, we’ll see. One thing’s for sure, though:…
Disclosure With Honey Dijon The Bomb Factory, Dallas Thursday, May 12, 2016 Disclosure, the English electronic duo of siblings, sold out the Bomb Factory Thursday night and easily won over the crowd with their blend of house, U.K. garage, R&B and pop. Guy and Howard Lawrence stood surrounded by massive…
Young Thug With Lil Yachty South Side Music Hall, Dallas Thursday, May 12, 2016 There’s never been a rapper like Young Thug. The 23-year-old artist is from Atlanta but raps as if he’s from another world. But for all the weirdness and uniqueness that Young Thug embodies, he left a…
Beyoncé With Bunb B and DJ Khaled AT&T Stadium, Arlington Monday, May 9, 2016 There are few artists capable of giving performances that transcend to something beyond just a plain old concert, but Beyoncé is chief among them. Outside of her status as an artistic visionary, fashion legend and feminist…
Paul Simon Winspear Opera House, Dallas Sunday, May 8, 2016 Paul Simon knows there’s no real trick to getting old. It just sort of happens. You keep doing what you do, and maybe you do it with grace. At Winspear Opera House on Sunday night, Simon didn’t do anything too…
Sturgill Simpson The Bomb Factory, Dallas Saturday, May 7, 2016 It’s been a long road for Sturgill Simpson. A year and a half ago, in November 2014, Simpson packed Club Dada to capacity twice on the same cold, rainy night. At the time, he had come virtually out of nowhere…
So you’re sitting there, head in your hands, wondering how you could’ve forgotten Mother’s Day. It’s okay. You know how you can make it up to her? By spending outrageous sums to get her tickets to see Beyoncé tonight. Or maybe Hall & Oates is a bit more her speed?…
Were you planning on going to Addison tonight? If you were planning on celebrating Cinco De Mayo, there’s a good chance you might’ve been. In which case, you probably already know all about the Lil Flip show happening there tonight. But just in case: Lil Flip is playing a show…
Ms. Lauryn Hill The Bomb Factory, Dallas Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Ms. Lauryn Hill is in the business of making her fans wait. It’s been almost 20 years since she released the innovative solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and she’s yet to release a follow-up. Wednesday night at The Bomb…
Talk all you want about being “over” Austin and its festivals, but every once in a while you just have to swallow your pride. Austin City Limits’ lineup for its 15th annual festival, announced overnight, is definitely one of those occasions. The fact that Radiohead will be headlining this year’s…
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…
