Hillsong UNITED Rocked the Church Long Before Kanye

Toyota Music Factory filled up two nights in a row this week to see one of the biggest names in Christian music. Religious or not, you might know them from their biggest hit, “Oceans,” which spent 13 weeks at Billboard’s Top 100 in 2014, going certified double platinum. With Kardashians…

Top 5 Acts to See at JMBLYA (and Why Lil Nas X Is No. 1)

As we reported back in late February, the seventh annual JMBLYA Festival will be headlined by one of the biggest acts in hip-hop, Travis Scott, as well as one of the genre’s most influential torchbearers, Lil Wayne. It’s an exciting offering every year, and one that gets plagued with curveballs…

Maren Morris Comes Full-Circle With Emotional Hometown Return

Maren Morris The Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, April 19, 2019 Before Maren Morris could move forward, she needed to step back. “I’m gonna conduct a straw poll,” the singer-songwriter told the sold-out Bomb Factory crowd Friday night, near the end of her performance, as she lightly strummed the opening chords…

Haley Reinhart Talks Post-American Idol Life and Musical Longevity

Singer Haley Reinhart’s velvety vocals are highly delectable, to the point that one would hope for a case of synesthesia — a condition that often results in an ability to taste music. Her sultry, growled phrasing moves teasingly along her unpredictable arrangements, landing Reinhart in third place on Season 10…

Homegrown Fest Brought the Goods After One-Day Rain Delay

Homegrown Fest X With Toadies, Seryn, Tripping Daisy, Ben Kweller and more Main Street Garden Park and The Kessler, Dallas April 13 and 14, 2019 It was all rescheduled so suddenly, but you never would have known it. On Friday, fans and media outlets received notice that the 10th anniversary…

Jenny Lewis Returns to Dallas, Bringing the Light to the Dark

A moment, late Friday night, perfectly crystallized Jenny Lewis’s particular blend of sweet and sour. As she brought “Born Secular,” a track from Rabbit Fur Coat, her 2006 collaboration with The Watson Twins (on hand Friday as a superb opening act, and participants in the encore), to its climax, a…