Fun Fun Fun Fest With King Diamond Auditorium Shores, Austin Saturday, November 8, 2014 King Diamond was not messing around with his stage setup at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. The headlining set for the Black Stage on Saturday night, it came complete with gates on the front of…
Dallas music fans, you are in your prime this week. Before we hit a late fall lull, there’s a smattering of great live music coming through our glorious city. The Pizza Underground, Macaulay Culkin’s pseudo-cover band that turns the Velvet Underground songs into ballads on the greatness of pizza, hits…
Fun Fun Fun Fest With Forward, Long Knife, World to Burn, Power Trip and Wiccans The North Door, Austin Saturday, November 8, 2014 On Saturday night’s edition of the Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites shows, two of Texas’ best hardcore acts took the stage. Wiccans of Denton and Power Trip…
Run the Jewels Trees, Dallas Thursday, November 6, 2014 The blood red tour bus bearing Run The Jewels’ name and signature iconography – two mummified hands, one surrendering a gold chain to the other, gestured as a gun – glared in the early afternoon sun outside of Trees in Deep…
There’s a swath of great show to hit this weekend and that is in large part due to a little spillover from Fun Fun Fun Fest. So, go ahead and thank Austin before we go on. Cool, that was nice of you; it is good to express gratitude. This weekend…
Slipknot With KoRn Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, October 31, 2014 Music is weird. It has a way of sticking around in your life, or coming back when you thought you’d left if behind. I first heard KoRn when I was nine years old when my little brother got a…
Chive Fest Southfork Ranch, Parker Saturday, November 1, 2014 On the battleground of providing viral content to users on the internet one website has risen above all others when it comes to repeatedly scraping the bottom of the barrel to get eyes on the digital prize. The Chive, aka Buzzfeed…
This week is pretty stacked with some great shows. One of the best we’ve had in Dallas in a while. Lionel Richie does the whole casino in Oklahoma thing, the English Beat plays Trees, as does Run the Jewels and Ratking. Death from Above 1979 is set to play a…
It’s Halloween weekend, which is most likely your favorite time of the year to party if you’re under 30. If you’re over 30, relax, New Year’s Eve isn’t too far off. For now, there’s just a bunch of shows you should check out this weekend, Halloween-themed and otherwise. Slipknot and…
The Arctic Monkeys With Mini Mansions Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Tuesday, October 29, 2014 Earlier this year, the up-and-coming punk and garage rock band the Orwells spilled the beans on their experience opening for the Arctic Monkeys. They weren’t impressed. Guitarist Matt O’Keefe called the band a “hip Backstreet Boys,”…
The Melvins With Le Butcherettes Trees, Dallas Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Teri Gender Bender, the lead singer, guitarist and keyboard player of Le Butcherettes, is the most punk person I can imagine. Now, I know there’s a lot of deeply tedious discussion about what is and what is not punk,…
North Oak Cliff Music Festival With Edie Brickell, Seryn, South Dallas Funk Revue, Kat Edmonson, David Garza Trio, Fox and the Bird, Sarah Hickman, Meiko and Emily Elbert Lake Cliff Park, Dallas Saturday, October 25, 2014 Families are so uncool. So are old people, and so are people who listen…
Jason Aldean With Florida Georgia Line Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Saturday, October 25, 2014 Ebola causes you to leak fluids from your body’s orifices and bleed internally until your body starts to slowly shut down. Then you die from a combination of low blood-pressure and organ failure. If you have…
The hottest ticket this week is of course Halloween. There’s gonna be a shit ton of Halloween stuff for you to do this week and we know you started last week. Just couldn’t resist. So of course our music picks for this week include a few Halloween-based ones as well…
GWAR Gas Monkey Live, Dallas Thursday, October 23, 2014 In March this year Dave Brockie, better known as an intergalactic barbarian by the name of Oderus Urungus, was found dead of a heroin overdose. For a lot of bands, losing their lead singer and sole remaining original member would be…
There’s a ton of great shows to check out this weekend. If you love Lynyrd Skynyrd enough to head north to Oklahoma that’s an option. If Oklahoma is way too much for you to handle right now Red Bull Sound Select is bringing Chevy Woods, Fat Tony, Sam Lao and…
Mastodon South Side Music Hall, Dallas Tuesday, October 21, 2014 My wife does a thing with our son to get him to try new food. You remember what it was like being a kid and having a new food forced on you. What is this intruder on the side of…
Charli XCX Trees, Dallas Saturday, October 18, 2014 Charli XCX’s tour trucks are humming outside of Trees. The trucks are heavy duty and pack enough artillery for a pop star, or at least enough to adequately hold all of the junk LeBron James might need transported in a move from…
Sharon Van Etten With Tiny Ruins Kessler Theater, Dallas Friday, October 17, 2014 There are shows that are a joy because they celebrate the music; the recent War on Drugs show is a great recent example. And there are shows that are a joy because of what you learn about…
Sorry that the beautiful, beautiful weekend left you. It’s sad, but the weekend will be back in a few days, so chill. You’ve got some serious clinginess issues. To tide you over, we’ve got a few shows to keep you company: Ne-Yo is stopping by the House of Blues, Gardens…
Halloween is great when you’re a kid, but let’s face it: It’s at its best when you’re an adult. Everybody relishes dressing up as a provocative cat or as a zombie. Also, we especially love getting trashed while playing dress up. In fact, Halloween is the best holiday. It easily…
The weekend is here and as per usual there’s a few suggestions for concerts around Dallas that we’d like to throw your way. No pressure. The choice is yours. But, just know that Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias are gonna hold it down at American Airlines Center, Sharon Van Etten hits…
