Music

It’s another full week of triple-digit temperatures ahead, but one or more of this week’s concerts is sure to make you cool.

For decades, Dallas has often been regarded as a “behind-the-scenes” music city. But with UpNext Festival, which is taking place this Saturday and Sunday, the festival’s founder aims to put more artists at the forefront and set them up for long careers.

Dallas St. Mark’s school alumnus Boz Scaggs performed all the hits Saturday night at the Winspear.

To celebrate the great Tony Bennett, here’s a look back at his 2018 performance in Dallas. At age 91.

Jonny Pierce and The Drums beat the audience into a frenzy on Wednesday.

Let’s go, girls. Shania Twain is playing on Friday, plus erykah Badu, Jason Mraz and all the concerts you’ll want to read about.

For more than 20 years, Atmosphere has been producing albums, but their latest is unique in that Slug was just blocks away from where George Floyd was murdered while writing it.

Brothers Russell and Ron Mael’s musical stylings have been anything but conventional over the past five decades, and yet they are among music’s most underrated geniuses. Embellishing elements of pop music with operatic vocals, synth-heavy melodies and songs about everything from stubborn erections to manifesting one’s own destiny, Sparks is…

Stay cool in Dallas and Denton this week with indoor concerts from Ben Kweller, Ace Frehley, Jackson Browne, Black Tie Dynasty, Overkill and many more.