The concert beat goes on this week for live music fans in Dallas. Read ahead for details on DMB, Country Megaticket acts and a series of stellar shows coming to local clubs. You know warmer weather isn’t far around the corner when The Dave Matthews Band announces their spring/summer touring…
Robert Olivas is like many Americans. He works five days a week and uses the money to pay his mortgage and car loan. He is fortunate to like the people he works with. They don’t try to micromanage him. They just let him do his thing. This is huge for…
Jeremy Word has been a trailblazer among Dallas dance music promoters. He’s been a behind-the-scenes player responsible for countless electronic acts coming through Dallas and the infamous Meltdown Festival, which was the city’s premier electronic music festival for most of the ’00s. On top of all that, he remained a…
Cameron Ray, a local singer-songwriter, will leave Dallas the right way with a headlining show at The Kessler Theater on Saturday, Jan. 26. Ray has lived in Dallas off and on for 30 years, and even though he is moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife to pursue his music…
Kevin Fowler has without a doubt entrenched himself in Texas music lore. Twenty years ago, Fowler began crooning at honky-tonks and beer joints around Austin. Just getting started, he — along with contemporaries Pat Green, Cory Morrow and Roger Creager — stumbled upon a magical formula that would birth what…
The last year and a half have been busy for Americana recording artist Amanda Shires since she released her fourth album, My Piece of Land. She has recorded and toured with husband Jason Isbell as a member of the 400 Unit, finished her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing…
Local busker and musician, conquered his stage fright by playing as many shows as he could. He’ll be releasing his debut album later this month.
While performing at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on Saturday night, Dallas R&B and neo-soul legend Erykah Badu made some controversial remarks regarding the widespread allegations of sexual assault against R. Kelly. “I don’t know how everybody else feel about it, but I’m putting up a prayer right now for…
If you missed Justin Timberlake a few months ago, you’ve got a second chance to see him this week at American Airlines Center. Other highlights include local rapper Mozez Tha Great playing his new album, Undefined, in full at The Prophet Bar; Thursday plays two nights with its classic LPs Full…
Poppy Xander had $100 in her bank account when she quit her job as a music teacher. Armed with a dream and all the neon she could find from her neighborhood Michael’s, Xander, a pianist, locked herself in her closet and made her first transmission from the moon. “It was a…
Mick Jenkins is not a great performer. And honestly, it doesn’t really matter. Experiencing the Chicago rapper is akin to watching a protagonist from one of French director Jean-Luc Godard’s films: effortless and cool. The meat-and-potatoes lies in the lyrics, which is why people came, filling Trees in Deep Ellum…
It’s an eventful week of concert announcements in Dallas. We’ve got Globe Life Park going out in style. A slew of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees coming to town. And, did you hear about the big-ticket music and comedy festival coming to Jerry World? All of that, plus…
Max Cronen went from working as a stagehand at the Levitt Pavilion in Arlington to founding a small, independent booking agency that has represented many DIY artists across the country. The 24-year-old Arlington resident says he started Biker Gang Booking in 2016 to help grow Arlington’s music scene. His initial…
With the release of his third album, When I Was Yours and You Were Mine, Fort Worth-based songwriter Charlie Shafter has his first record since his self-titled album in 2012. Fueled by an eventful set of personal peaks and valleys, Shafter’s new set of songs simply had to be recorded…
Jon Spencer, a long time figure originating from the New York Punk scene of the 80s, released his first solo album last year and is coming to Club Dada to play a show.
The time has come again for another five supergroups to deliver 25-minute sets based on different characters from the classic series Twin Peaks. Yes, it’s Damn Fine Music Fest II. If you’re not familiar with the concept, DOMA-winning talent buyer Jeff Brown of King Camel Productions has created an annual celebration…
In recent years, music critics have argued the existence of “festival fatigue” and have attributed this phenomenon to the saturated presence of music festivals in the country. Despite this economic impediment, organizers of Del Mar, California-based music festival KAABOO have made it a point to deviate from the cookie-cutter curation…
It’s easy to wander your way into a drug addiction – and oftentimes, people do. But to overcome one requires a will power that, to many people, is so unprecedented that they seek out spiritual intervention in the process, whether they’re religious or not. The story of Ruston Kelly is…
2016 was a breakout year for Lubbock-birthed Texas country band, Flatland Cavalry, whose first full record, Humble Folks, caught the attention of fans and music critics across the state. The band’s self-described sound that’s “easy on the ears, heavy on the heart” was a breath of fresh air for a…
The new year has gotten off to a rough start for Dallas metal fans. Local metal legend Bruce Corbitt has entered hospice care. The former lead signer of Rigor Mortis and Warbeast, the 56-year-old Corbitt has been battling stage 4 esophageal cancer since early 2018. He’s been chronicling this battle…
Two people. One Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross concert. One owns two of Simpson’s albums. The other didn’t even know how Ashlee spelled her name, that she still sang or that she was married to someone other than Pete Wentz. Here is how the night went from two different perspectives…
Linda Septien knows a thing or two about talent. As the founder of Septien Entertainment Group, Septien has coached and developed Texas superstars Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and many more. She’s earned her title as the Kingpin of Pop Talent, yet she shows no signs of slowing down. SEG boasts a loaded…
