With the year getting off to a slow start as far as national touring acts go, it’s another week of small and local shows that will let music fans get up close and personal with some bands that are sure to become their new favorite.
New year, new music, right? Here in the opening weeks of a promising 2023, the big touring acts have yet to arise from hibernation, making this week a great time to see something with which you’re either just vaguely familiar or something that you’ve completely never heard of before.
It’s time to bring it all back home as the year comes to a close. With the big touring acts home for the holidays, venues around North Texas have turned to the deep well of local talent in putting together their New Year’s Eve celebrations.
We’ll be straight with you, North Texas, with the holiday season in the air and everyone excited for a mostly-forgotten pandemic holiday gatherings for the first time in a couple of years, there really just isn’t a whole lot going on in the coming week.
On Saturday, Chris Penn, Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree hosted their annual Christmas extravaganza and variety show.
With the holidays right around the corner, it seems that many of North Texas’ all-time favorite acts are making their way back to where it all got started.
Italian rock band Maneskin played a sold-out show at the South Side Ballroom on Tuesday as part of their first major U.S. tour, and we had questions.
On a humid, rainy Thursday night at The Factory in Deep Ellum, The Smile made its Dallas debut. The group name might not mean a thing to most people, but its members’ names certainly will.
There are a few oddities in this week’s concert list. For one thing, instead of 10 concerts, this week we actually suggests 11 concerts for North Texas music lovers with an acclaimed rock ‘n’ soul singer performing two nights in Oak Cliff.
As we enter into the cold season, this is a great weekend for North Texans to discover some local talent and rediscover old favorites.
On Black Friday evening, Eagles fans entered Dickies Arena to a stage shrouded by a gray curtain, as classic folk rock songs played low as the venue’s walk-in music.
For all the lack of big name acts we’ve seen in the weeks leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, things pick right back up on Black Friday, a day on which half of the concerts on this week’s list occur.
It’s normal for an album release party to be full of family and friends, and Jacob Metcalf’s didn’t break that trend.
There is a lot of music to be thankful for in the week leading up to Thanksgiving. For one thing, the “King of Country” himself will be playing two nights in Fort Worth this weekend.
The 1975, who played at the Texas Trust CU Theater in Grand Prairie on Tuesday, don’t seem to know what their deal is either.
SAIAH gained a significant following over the past year. The Los Angeles-based, non-binary artist will be making a stop through Dallas on tour with Sad Dynamite to promote their new single, “Blue,” released on Nov. 11.
Shortly after we heard word that Pink would be delivering what will surely be an emotional tribute to Olivia Newton-John at this year’s American Music Awards, she announced a new nationwide tour in 2023.
As the year begins its slow descent into the holiday season, it’s another week of smaller shows in North Texas, another chance to walk a bit outside of your comfort zone and get to know your local music community a little better. The concert week kicks off with a show…
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.
