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  Dear Dallas: A Great Band Came to Town, You Missed It and They Felt It

  February 20 at 11:47 a.m.

  Dallas, we have a problem. Portland’s genre-smashing, horn-driven intergalactic glam performance band Lovebomb Go-Go landed at Three Links in Deep Ellum on Wednesday in the middle of a cold, wet February night to give us a nova blast of sound before heading east to New Orleans. You weren’t there. About...

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  Yola Was Simply Flawless at The Kessler on Sunday Night

  February 10 at 12:07 p.m.

  It took all of 40 seconds. The woman born Yolanda Quartey, standing before a sold-out Kessler Theater Sunday night, resplendent in her afro, clad in a black gown and performing under her musical moniker Yola, glided smoothly into the chorus of her song “Lonely the Night.” As she did, the...

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  Miranda Lambert’s Dallas Show Was a Satisfying Overview of Her Remarkable Career

  February 10 at 10:40 a.m.

  “I’m so happy to be home right now, I can’t even stand it!” Miranda Lambert shouted on Saturday night. Whether in a Stockyards honky-tonk, an Arlington football stadium or a Dallas amphitheater, there is always an intense emotional undercurrent to her hometown shows. It’s no mystery as to why: Lambert...

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  Celine Dion’s Monday Night Show at AAC Gives Us a Break From All That’s Wrong in the World

  February 4 at 11:16 a.m.

  From all outward appearances, Celine Dion is unmarred by time. Her eyes — beaming at the near-capacity audience from one of several enormous video screens — sparkle as ever. Her wide, white smile beams munificently at all who gaze upon it. Her muscular arms gesticulate freely, piercing the air to...

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  Dwight Yoakam’s Friday Night Show at Bomb Factory Reinforced His Devotion to Country Music

  January 27 at 4:15 a.m.

  The most dangerous thing that can happen to an art form is for it to be treated gently — relevance calcified into reverence. There is no doubting Dwight Yoakam’s devotion to country music — his was a poignant presence in documentarian Ken Burns’ sprawling 2019 assessment of the genre —...

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  Tool Overstayed Their Welcome at American Airlines Center on Wednesday Night

  January 23 at 1:04 p.m.

  Over the span of a three-decade career, progressive metal juggernaut Tool has, from a commercial and artistic standpoint, become the envy of almost every contender in the genre. In a 13-year stretch, Tool belted out four entries in a timeless discography that serve as metal benchmarks: Undertow, Ænima, Lateralus and...