With two very high-profile opening gigs happening in North Texas in the next few days, singer/songwriter/producer Jamie Scott doesn’t sound nervous at all. You see, Scott isn’t just opening for any couple of bands. On Sunday, August 24, he performs with One Direction at AT&T Stadium. Then on Tuesday, August…
Panic! at the Disco With Youngblood the Hawke and Walk the Moon, 7 p.m. Friday, August 22, at South Side Music Hall, 1135 S. Lamar St., 214-421-2021 or southsidemusichall.com, $39.50-$45 Man, Las Vegas is weird. Look at the list of bands from there: The Killers, Imagine Dragons and Friday night’s…
When XXL revealed its Freshman Class of 2009 much of the hype went to Asher Roth, but it was B.o.B. who would see the most commercial success. In 2010 the Atlanta based rapper unleashed The Adventures of Bobby Ray on the world and quickly shot up the billboard charts with…
It seem hard to believe, but it’s already that time again: school is just around the corner. (Granted, if you’re reading this there’s a good chance that school isn’t really at the forefront of your mind, but whatever.) That means that there are only so many more summer nights left…
KXT Summer Cut With Death Cab for Cutie, Iron & Wine, Hold Steady Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 15, 2014 At the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X boulevards sits the Dallas MLK Center, where on Friday, six days after Missouri teenager Michael Brown was killed,…
Nine Inch Nails With Soundgarden and Cold Cave Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Sunday, August 17, 2014 While some folks may have been attending religious services this Sunday evening, I found myself wandering around Fair Park in need of some classic alternative rock of the ’80s and ’90s variety. Seeing that…
Hey, you’re really close to surviving Shark Week. This means you won’t have to listen to that weird guy at the office talk about whatever last night’s special was, and him swearing all of the footage was real. Your water cooler chat can move to other things, like the awesome…
Wiz Khalifa With Jeezy, Tyga, DJ Drama, Iamsu!, Rich Homie Quan, Ty Dolla $ign and Mack Wilds, 6 p.m. Thursday, August 14, at Gexa Energy Pavilion, 1818 1st Ave., 214-421-1111 or livenation.com. $28-$103 Last year I found myself in the nightmarish hellscape that is the DART Green Line after a…
Okay, then. Not bad, guys. A few months back, the folks at Lights All Night Fest, the Dallas dance and electronic music extravaganza that caps off the year at the end of December, teased us with the dates and ticketing information for this year’s festival. They made us wait, however,…
The Both With Lemura Kessler Theater, Dallas Tuesday, August 12, 2014 To be completely honest, I have been an Aimee Mann fangirl since I first heard her work for the Magnolia soundtrack years ago. When the news broke last year that she was planning to join up with Ted Leo…
In the scheme of local music promoters, Ken Welker’s 13th Floor Music is a relative upstart. The company itself, based in North Dallas, is barely a year old, and Welker himself has only been working as a promoter for the past couple years. But already 13th Floor has built up…
Tim McGraw With Kip Moore and Cassadee Pope Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 8, 2014 On Friday night at Gexa Energy Pavilion, Tim McGraw made his grand “Sundown Heaven Town Tour” entrance by simply walking out on the stage. There were no gimmicks, no over-the-top stage antics. It was…
Rockstar Mayhem Festival Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Saturday, August 9, 2014 This year’s Mayhem Festival was more than just a collection of metal bands like Trivium, Asking Alexandria, Korn and Avenged Sevenfold dominating the stage with mind-blowing music that warped the lines of metal genres. It was a festival to…
Most of the time, it’s pretty lame to say that a weekly concert lineup has “something for everyone.” This week, however, it’s kind of true. Or, better put, the shows that are happening in and around Dallas over the next seven days really run the gauntlet. There are staunch liberal…
Loretta Lynn Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth Friday, August 8, 2014 It’s safe to say that the golden age of country music is long over, and we’ve lost so many formative artists in the last several years. Based on the current state of country, it’s clear that fans are in…
We’re going to see triple-digit weather this weekend and it’s most likely going to suck. A lot. But to make it suck less, might we suggest a cold beer and some of the best concerts Dallas has to offer this weekend? What do you say?…
Antemasque/Le Butcherettes Trees 8/5/2014 We’ve all had friends who got married to each other. It’s strange when these friends fight with each other. It’s even stranger when these friends get divorced. What side do we take? Who do we support? Who do we boo? When it comes to Texas alt-rock,…
Every now and then Dallas gets a string of shows that make you forget that we live in a Southwest region that often gets passed over by underground artists. The month of August will feature plenty such reminders, with the new few weeks bringing some cornerstones of underground DJ culture…
With the announcement of Oscar winner and former rodeo cowboy Ryan Bingham being added to this fall’s Index Festival having been made today, we now know that this is the year the three year old Deep Ellum-located fest grew up into a major regional force. The three night affair taking…
In case there’s any confusion: Da Mafia 6ix (formerly Three 6 Mafia) are not conscious rap. Twenty-three years into the crew’s storied career and it remains one of Three 6’s only constants. Lineup shifts, name changes, reunions, even death haven’t changed that, but just in case, on new release 6ix…
Ray LaMontagne, Belle Brigade Fair Park Music Hall, Dallas Saturday, August 2 By the time that “She’s the One,” the second song from Ray LaMontagne’s Saturday night show at Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas, was complete, the tone for the night had been firmly set. Unfortunately, it was a…
There are no less than 30 people on stage and it’s been this way for the majority of the evening. Men mean-mug and bop in an attempt to look both cool and menacing. Women are in the back just barely dancing. A Virgin Mary suctioned to the dashboard of a…
