Concerts

As snotty nose kids on the Haisla Nation reservation in Canada, the Snotty Rez Kids played a lot of basketball and dug graves for their loved ones.

It’s a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll this week in North Texas with four distinct country acts taking to our stages and a couple other acts that dabble in the genre

Girl Talk might be the only artist to have Paul McCartney dance on stage at their show while being completely unaware of it.

In a sea of Journey shirts, the Wednesday night crowd at American Airlines watched Toto while waiting impatiently for the headliner.

When putting together this week’s list of best concerts, it was hard to overlook the animal theme among the band names

Everyone wants a do-over. Maybe a second chance to go back and not say that utterly stupid thing we said at the worst possible time

In the early days of Killer’s Tacos, Redditers took to the internet claiming that it is not a legitimate music venue, that the backyard is weird and that there’s not any parking.

There’s a chance that if you live around Dallas area, at some point in 1985, Jerry Cantrell helped remove asbestos from your school.

It’s been one full year since we brought back the “10 Best Concerts of the Week” column after the pandemic had us wondering if we’d ever see live music again.

Gratitude, grief and hope dwell in close proximity these days. Perhaps it has always been this way, or maybe the ongoing pandemic has just made it easier to discern.

In what might be the best news of the week, legendary English art-rockers Roxy Music have announced their first tour in 11 years.

With spring in the air and COVID-19 protocols diminishing, it’s starting to feel like the good ol’ days again when you could just go be in a crowd and enjoy a show from some band, no matter who they were. With the Deep Ellum Arts Festival returning to its normal…

Repeat after me: Bon Iver is a band. Ever since the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2011 went to a tall, lanky bearded man who accepted the award on behalf of “Bon Iver,” the misconception has persisted that Bon Iver is the solo moniker of that man, singer-songwriter Justin Vernon (a rumor cemented by one of the most amusing SNL impressions of the last decade via Justin Timberlake).

There were moments Sunday night, during a sold-out show at The Factory in Deep Ellum, when Beach House allowed itself to be bathed in light.

The British-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Yola makes it a point to highlight the slippery stylistic nature of her songs, so much so that her merch booth features a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase she uses to describe her sound: “Genre-fluid.” (Thirty-five bucks and it’s yours to take home!) Typically, such snappy…

This week’s concerts in North Texas are little bit all over the place with a huge festival, a benefit show, rappers-turned-country artists, legendary bands, bossa nova techno, up-and-comers and everything in between.

The term “legend” gets thrown around a lot, but if anyone has earned it, it’s blues guitarist Buddy Guy.

Queensryche and Judas Priest got straight to the point when they hit the stage at Irving’s Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on Friday.

After two years in pandemic hell, North Texas finally gets to experience the aftermath of SXSW once again.

Timing is everything in pop music. Few modern A-list acts understand that axiom better than Dua Lipa.

Elton John began his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in September 2018 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The first leg of the tour saw two mesmerizing, sold-out shows at Dallas’ American Airlines Center two months later in December.

This week’s best concerts are all about nostalgia and activism. Your concert week kicks off with two of the biggest names in modern music gracing our local stages: Bob Dylan and Elton John.