The scale of it all was striking. To watch a band that built its career, at least early on, with sensitive, relatively small tunes, take those deeply felt, finely wrought works, shot through with an acute interiority, and turn them into maximalist, synapse-frying spectacles capable of making an estimated crowd…
HAIM is on top of the world. In the last couple of years, they’ve amassed Oscar noms, late show appearances, fashion campaigns and more. Their critically acclaimed Women In Music Pt. III was nominated for the Grammy’s Album of the Year in 2020, leading some to anoint them as the…
One strange night in 2017 in El Paso, the gentlemen of Post Animal found themselves in a unique situation. They were on tour with fellow Chicago-based rockers Twin Peaks and spent most of their afternoon collectively picking away at a rotisserie chicken “like vultures,” as guitarist/keyboardist Jake Hirshland describes it…
Like many great joke ideas, Okilly Dokilly is one that just got way out of hand, and now the punchline is coming soon. The Phoenix group’s inspiration is Ned Flanders, the cheerful, hokey and fervently devout Christian resident of Evergreen Terrace who lives next door to Springfield’s most famous family…
It’s a front-heavy week this week with almost half of this week’s best concerts happening Thursday night and another third taking place Friday night. Kurt Vile kicks the concert week off with lo-fi dreamscapes on Greenville avenue while The Avett Brothers play in Grand Prairie and the Haim sisters play…
Chino Moreno’s nü-metal band has stood the test of time, and 25 years after releasing their debut album, Deftones was set to hit the road to promote its newest release Ohms back in 2020. The momentum and buzz they’ve conjured up album after album came to a halt when their…
Alt-country stalwart Kurt Vile is relaxing backstage in Atlanta at the Shaky Knees festival, where he’s scheduled to perform later in the day. In the meantime, he’s debating the merits of hi-fi. “This is going to sound like an iPhone commercial, but I just got the new iPhone, and sometimes…
Life, as the saying goes, is about the journey, not the destination. Few would probably agree with that axiom more fervently than Miranda Lambert. The Longview native has traveled a circuitous route to superstardom, taking the road less traveled as often out of necessity as by choice. The 38-year-old singer-songwriter…
With 10 studio albums, including the best-selling album ever released on an independent label, more than 30 years of touring and plenty of hits along the way, The Offspring remain relevant today. They just kicked off their 18-city U.S. tour in support of their latest record, Let The Bad Times…
My Morning Jacket was content to let the music do the talking Thursday night. Stepping onstage at the Factory in Deep Ellum and making, from all I could discern digging around prior to the show, its first appearance in Dallas proper in 14 years, the band – led by wild-maned…
Steady as she goes, Tori Amos walked onto an American concert stage for the first time in five years Wednesday night. Over the ensuing 95 minutes, the 58-year-old singer-songwriter demonstrated precisely how she’s endured through all of pop music’s endless contortions and upheavals: by affixing her sharp eye and keen…
This is a big concert week in North Texas with all 10 of the concerts on this list coming from legends in each of their genres. Indie rock band My Morning Jacket kicks of the week in Deep Ellum, touring its first album in six years, while ’80s rock god…
Ahead of her May 9 Dallas show, Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna says she knows that Texas ain’t all bad.
Lights dim, fog rolling in, the five-piece band Interpol strolled out onto the stage while flood lights illuminated the packed Factory. There was an instant change in atmosphere as their tour mates finished up: Matthew Dear, a Texas native solo electronic avant-pop act; and Tycho, a futuristic electronic band that…
It’s been the better part of a decade since musician Eric Martin has performed on a Dallas stage. On April 30, after performing in three bands, several solo projects and a stint in New York City, the Dallas-based singer and songwriter returns to play a special set with an array…
A small, laminated sign hung on the wall behind the merch table. Easy enough to miss amid the various commemorative garments for sale (at, it must be said, eye-watering prices), the breezy note also doubled as a mission statement of sorts: “John says size up for a looser fit.” The…
Given its historic status, it’s fair to say that any concert at Billy Bob’s Texas in the Fort Worth Stockyards is a big show. Each Friday and Saturday night, the massive honky-tonk, pool hall, bull-riding arena hosts the biggest names in country music for over 5,000 fans. If you’re a…
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
