Concert Reviews

Billie Eilish, George Strait, Jon Batiste and the Best of Austin City Limits Week 2

Billie Eilish, George Strait, Jon Batiste and the Best of Austin City Limits Week 2

Modest Mouse and Future Islands Turned the Toyota Music Factory Into a Nostalgic Raver

Modest Mouse and Future Islands Turned the Toyota Music Factory Into a Nostalgic Raver

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TLC Brought a Backyard Boogie Vibe to Irving With Their CrazySexyCool Tour Stop

By Aria Bell
Oct 6, 2021

TLC has made being crazy, sexy, and cool look easy for nearly three decades.
St. Vincent, Megan Thee Stallion, Charley Crockett and the Best of Austin City Limits

By Rachel Parker
Oct 4, 2021

Austin City Limits got off to a rocky start on Friday. The festival's gates, which were supposed to open at noon, delayed fans' entry until 3 p.m. due to heavy rain the night before, creating a traffic jam on the streets and at the entrances.
Hall & Oates Held a Parade of Hits in Fort Worth's Dickies Arena

By Andrew Sherman
Sep 29, 2021

For kids of the 1970s and '80s, Hall & Oates was a band that was always playing in the background as we lived our lives, but never a band we focused on — we'd only become aware of them after we learned their songs had bad words.
Chicana Punk Band Fea Brought It on Tuesday Night, Sorry You Weren't There For It

By David Fletcher
Sep 22, 2021

It was the first night of fall in the corner of Bryan and Scripture, outside Killer’s Tacos in an otherwise quiet neighborhood just north of the University of North Texas' campus.
Kings of Leon Succeed With a Secular and Spiritual Synthesis Mixed With Arena Rock

By Preston Jones
Sep 19, 2021

After 22 years, Kings of Leon maintains a veil of inscrutability no amount of fame could ever fully pierce. Over the course of two hours and more than two dozen songs Friday night at Dos Equis Pavilion, the last dregs of a surprisingly mild summer ebbing away, it was possible...
Lil Baby and Lil Durk Cemented Their Star Power in Dallas

By Eric Diep
Sep 16, 2021

Lil Baby, who is going by his the nickname The Hero these days, wanted to do something special for Dallas. The day before his show, he notified his followers on Instagram that he'd arrived for The Back Outside Tour, blasting Rae Rae’s “Unconditional Love” in his car.
Pop-Punk Lived to See Another Day Thanks to New Found Glory

By Chelsey Norris
Sep 1, 2021

Modern-day pop-punk bands have undoubtedly had trouble reaching the level of commercial success that its OG groups — like blink-182, Fall Out Boy and Paramore — enjoyed through the early-to-mid-2000s.
Chris Stapleton's All-American Roadshow Brought Country's A-list to Globe Life Field

By Preston Jones
Aug 22, 2021

This past week in North Texas, the biggest bang for your musical buck could be found Saturday night at Arlington’s Globe Life Field: Chris Stapleton’s All-American Roadshow.
Despite His Grief, the Show Went on With Steve Earle's Dallas Concert

By Preston Jones
Aug 18, 2021

Sentimentality is simply not Steve Earle’s stock-in-trade.
Alanis Morissette and Garbage Took Millennials Back to Simpler Times in Dallas

By Eva Raggio
Aug 14, 2021

The internet loves to divide us, sometimes in ways that have nothing to do with politics.
Nearly 40,000 Fans Partied Like It Was 2019 for Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer

By Chelsey Norris
Jul 26, 2021

Dallas was the first stop for the rescheduled Hella Mega tour led by three of emo’s legendary acts, Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer, all in one show at the Rangers’ swanky new home base, Globe Life Field. Despite the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in North Texas, the virus...
The Bastards of Soul Were Back on Track With a Packed Fort Worth Show

By Mike Brooks
Jul 12, 2021

A year ago, the Bastards of Soul were a new band on a classic trajectory for success.
Harry Connick Jr. Was Too Comfortable at the Winspear Stage on Sunday

By Preston Jones
Mar 9, 2020

To hear Harry Connick Jr. tell it, he’s spent much of the last year rescuing Cole Porter from obscurity. “Most people not only don’t know much about him, but don’t know who he was,” Connick Jr. explained not long into his 110-minute performance before a near-capacity audience at Winspear Opera...
The Eagles Reckoned With Their Legacy on Saturday Night in Dallas

By Preston Jones
Mar 2, 2020

What does it mean to reckon with your legacy? Does confronting a creative achievement — even if it’s the product of decades past, when you were someone else entirely — constitute a form of capitulation, a shrugging acceptance that you’ve peaked and are merely coasting on the fumes of previous...
Erykah Badu Celebrated Her Birthday with 4,300 of Her Closest Friends

By Mike Brooks
Feb 24, 2020

This past Saturday night, Erykah Badu was scheduled to perform as part of her annual birthday celebration. And the legendary singer is usually so legendarily late, that she made a post on social media the day of the show warning those who expected a late entrance that she wouldn't be...
Dear Dallas: A Great Band Came to Town, You Missed It and They Felt It

By David Fletcher
Feb 20, 2020

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...
Yola Was Simply Flawless at The Kessler on Sunday Night

By Preston Jones
Feb 10, 2020

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

By Preston Jones
Feb 10, 2020

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

By Preston Jones
Feb 4, 2020

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

By Preston Jones
Jan 27, 2020

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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