AC/DC With Tyler American Airlines Center, Dallas Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Angus Young is going to die with his boots on. After seeing the 60-year-old AC/DC guitarist in action at American Airlines Center on Tuesday night, it’s hard to imagine it happening any other way. The man lives to play,…
After almost 10 years in downtown Dallas, the House of Blues’ Foundation Room is preparing for an overhaul. Opened in 2007, the chain establishment owned by LiveNation is undergoing a transformation into a themed lounge that will feature regular DJ appearances. Once a private room reserved for members and after-parties,…
Imagine Devo, sung in Spanish and played at 78 rpm, and you have a rough idea of what Seres sounds like. Waiting at Exposition Circle, the three men are standing between the columns of the memorial, which almost resembles Stonehenge. They are wearing different colored latex outfits that make them…
Leave it to a Dallas celebrity to start some bad blood over a good deed. Over the weekend, Dallas native, former Disney Channel actor and rising pop star Demi Lovato took a stand against fellow singer and recent Grammy winner Taylor Swift — for the fact that Swift had donated…
Sam Lao remembers when she had the Dallas music scene in the palm of her hands in 2013. From the day she released her debut EP West Pantego, the rapper and singer has been riding a 15-month wave of critical acclaim. She opened for famed English singer Jessie Ware and played Homegrown…
The Voice’s newest season premieres Feb. 29 and this is exciting for your mom, if no one else. She’s got that crush on coaches Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, and sometimes even Pharrell when she’s feeling naughty. Yeah, the show seems pretty focused on the celebrity coaches — what they’re…
Carly Rae Jepsen House of Blues, Dallas Friday, February 19, 2016 Carly Rae Jepsen didn’t just come to Dallas to dance on Friday night. Visiting the House of Blues in support of 2015’s well-received Emotion, Jepsen’s high energy was assisted by a faux — at times almost forced — ’80s…
Ya’acov “Rusty” Burns played his guitar until the very end. Sitting up in his hospital bed at a hospice in Denver, draped in a hospital gown, the 63-year-old Texas guitar slinger caressed the neck of his Martin one final time in a photo posted on Facebook. It was a love…
Kid Cudi The Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, February 19, 2016 The polarization that surrounds Kid Cudi these days is genuinely curious. Yes, his latest albums have veered sharply from the sonics of his highly-praised early material but this behavior, depending on how well you know his discography, was largely predictable. On…
The line between art and obscenity has always been a thin one. But as bookings of artists like Viet Cong and Black Pussy in the past year have shown, it’s a question that even promoters in North Texas find themselves having to deal with — and, more important, the bands…
This week, there couldn’t be purer embodiment of Dallas than its crown jewel herself, Erykah Badu, performing for her annual birthday bash at The Bomb Factory. And if you want to stay hyperlocal, Sealion’s surf punk sensibilities will keep you rooted with a killer bill at RBC the same night…
You may have never heard of Nevada Hill, but his fingerprints — quite literally — were all over the the North Texas music scene. He was never the sort of guy to be headlining a big venue like Trees or to get his songs played on the radio. Sadly, Hill…
Barry Manilow With Michael Lington American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, February 18, 2016 Despite health issues, generational shifts in taste, and the unavoidable passage of time, Barry Manilow is still bringing the goods. The pop legend rolled into the American Airlines Center Thursday night, just less than a week removed…
Cameron McCloud is a rapper, but he wants to live like a rock star. He’s a paranoid schizophrenic, but music is his therapy and he has a fan in Erykah Badu. He used to go by ThatKidCam, but now McCloud prefers to be part of a group: Cure for Paranoia,…
We’re a month and a half into the new year, and what you have done with yourself? If your first answer is, “Not much,” then don’t fret; you only have a little over 10 months left to not follow through on your New Year’s resolution. If your second answer is,…
Busking is about as basic as it gets when it comes to performing live music. Not exactly pure, mind you; the idea is still to make some money. All you need is an instrument, a place to stand and the ability to attract a crowd. Just ask Leon Bridges. But…
Scott Augat is a transplant from New England who has been behind the decks for over two decades. He has a firm background playing variations of hip-hop, techno and house. Along with Aleah Axiom, he holds down the techno and house weekly residency at the recently opened Drugstore Cowboy in…
For a band whose earliest incarnation dates back to 1993, Third Eye Blind have experienced a ridiculous amount of change in their 18-year history. The band has undergone personnel shake-ups that could have tanked a lesser act’s success. But Third Eye Blind have been fiercely devoted to making the music…
Don’t get us wrong: We’re never going to be disappointed about the opportunity to see a Ludacris show. Hell, the guy even played the Dallas Observer’s St. Patrick’s Day concert a couple years ago. But when news broke yesterday afternoon that the Dallas Mavericks will be hosting a Luda concert…
Over the course of the past year, Jason Isbell has been on a wild ride. Along with the release of his much-anticipated follow-up to 2013’s Southeastern, Isbell had a baby, toured in support of the record, and finally started to receive some of the acclaim he’s spent the last ten…
It’s taken seven years, but Homegrown Festival has finally expanded to two days. Well, sort of. The organizers of the Texas-only festival in downtown Dallas have actually branched out into hosting a whole second music festival, and they’ve done so in a way that could easily seem risky: the new…
Hope you took a late lunch, folks, because perusing this list is going to take a while. As is tradition with 35 Denton, the festival’s organizers have rolled out the announcements for this year’s event — set to take place in less than a month from March 11 to 13…
