Every year, the Denton Rock Lottery creates music starting with two scoops of chaos. A panel chooses 25 local musicians and puts their names in a random drawing of five individual groups. Then those groups meet for 12 hours on a chosen day to create a band and prepare three…
A group of Dallas musicians is using heartbreak to help others. This Wednesday, Nov. 9, Sarah Johnson will spearhead Heartbreak Heroes
Fans of the heavy metal band WASP got to see live performances by Armored Saint and Michael Schenker at Amplified Live, but they never got to the main event. “There were chants for WASP and [singer and guitarist Blackie Lawless] but the house lights came up and the audience went…
After several weeks of gigantic shows coming to North Texas, this week feels like a good chance to get out and see something new, whether you’re thinking locally or globally.
You wouldn’t think you’d see kids at a Misfits show, but there they were – children as well as teens, 20- and 30- somethings, old punks, posers and everyone who knew something legendary was happening Saturday night.
For about three minutes Friday night, everything was as it had once been. Maren Morris, who was born and raised in Arlington, about 20 miles to the south and west of where she stood on the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory’s stage
Earlier this week, we let you know the best bets for Halloween weekend, but if you’re looking to expand your concert calendar this week, we’ve scared up a few more that should do the trick.
On Tuesday night in Dallas, one of the biggest K-Pop bands in the world, Blackpink, kicked off the North American leg of their Born Pink tour.
When The Jesus and Mary Chain released their landmark debut album Psychocandy back in 1985, brothers Jim and William Reid made it clear that fuzzy guitars and distorted feedback belonged in a new wave of alternative rock.
On an ordinary day a year ago, 23-year-old Aaron Paredes woke up at his parents’ house in Arlington. He checked his phone, just as he always did, and to both his surprise and that of his close friends, he was TikTok famous. He scrolled through text after text of friends…
The years that Halloween doesn’t fall on a Friday or Saturday, we end up having two Halloweens: the official one for the kids and the other, better one for adults to party. We’ve done the research to help you make the best plans for this four-day Halloween weekend. Friday, Oct…
North Texas’ very own Post Malone made a triumphant return to his hometown on Friday night on his first of two stops in D/FW.
Fall is in the air, and if the sudden cooler weather hasn’t got you down this week, there’s plenty to do out there in all corners of the Golden Triangle.
The Euclid Tavern in Cleveland, which closed in 2018, had a capacity of about 150. Standing before a Dallas audience easily 100 times that size, Dan Auerbach explained how that cozy room led to the vast one in which we all found ourselves on Tuesday night.
Weekend Two of Austin City Limits was a hot one, and we were back in the thick of it – though this time better prepared than the previous week, having learned a valuable lesson about bringing a mask to keep the dust at bay.
On Friday night, Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalia lit up the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory at the Irving stop of her Motomami World Tour, her first major tour supporting her album of the same name.
There is a lot going on this week, North Texas. With The State Fair bringing in lots of tourists and hosting its own concerts, there was almost too much this week to really fit into this little list of 10.
DOMi and JDBECK opened their North American tour Monday night at a sold-out Deep Ellum Art Company. The tour comes in support of the duo’s first album, Not Tight, which we named Best New Album in 2022.
The legendary Dallas country trio The Chicks opened their first of two shows at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving on Monday with a snippet of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation.”
ACL Fest kicked off the first of two weekends this past Friday with a crammed three days of shows at Zilker Park in Austin.
North Texas has had one of the best two weeks in concerts with tour stops by Elton John (in his last North Texas appearance), Flaming Lips, Wu-Tang and Nas, Smashing Pumpkins and Gorillaz, among so many others.
Every week, we get to celebrate the wide range of music North Texas attracts to its hallowed venues, and this week is giving us a lot to celebrate.
