For students, this week likely marks the end of another summer and the beginning of overpriced text books and early-morning alarms. It’s a farewell to late nights and lazy mornings, maybe, but not to great shows. Lose the blues and indulge in one last hurrah or three with the likes…
Gwen Stefani With Eve Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Saturday, August 13, 2016 If only everyone could be as lucky as Gwen Stefani. For most, dealing with heartbreak might just lead to drunken Facebook rants or passive-aggressive tweets. But not for Stefani. Instead, she responded with This is What the Truth…
The Monkees The Bomb Factory, Dallas Thursday, August 11, 2016 Thursday night at The Bomb Factory, Dallas got its first glimpse into Mark Cuban’s new TV concert series with a free performance from ’60s legend the Monkees. With the band celebrating its 50th anniversary, it was a night predictably heavy…
Where do you go after touring with Justin Bieber? That’s the question that Post Malone has known he’d eventually have to answer. And now he has an answer: Headlining this year’s Outbreak Tour, presented by Monster Energy drinks. Whether or not you have a problem with the corporate branding slapped…
Culture Club With Grove Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, August 5, 2016 Around the midway point of Culture Club’s 90-minute set at a raucous Verizon Theatre on Friday night, Boy George turned reflective. “Well, 30-some years have passed since we started this thing. Remember, you were going to be a…
With election years comes a plethora of arguing, protesting and bumper stickers and this year is proving that to be especially true. Between scrolling past endless Facebook rants and figuring out which topics you probably shouldn’t discuss with your family, why not escape this crazy world with some live music?…
Dixie Chicks With Vintage Trouble and Smooth Hound Sound Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 5, 2016 Girls everywhere, Friday night at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Old girls, young girls, middle-aged girls; girls in gangs of twos and threes and fours and fives; lots of girls in cutoff jeans and cowboy…
Rob Zombie With Korn and In This Moment Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, August 4, 2016 Words like “togetherness” and “escapism” might not be the first ones that come to mind when you’re looking to describe a concert headlined by Korn and Rob Zombie. There’s all that pent up aggression,…
Guns N’ Roses With the Cult AT&T Stadium, Arlington Wednesday, August 3, 2016 The elephant had been in the room the whole night. For the first time in 24 years, Axl Rose and Slash were on stage together in North Texas, but they were keeping their distance. They would pass…
Steven Tyler Music Hall at Fair Park, Dallas Monday, August 1, 2016 “This ain’t American Idol!” Steven Tyler shouted near the start of his near-sellout show Monday night at the Music Hall at Fair Park. No, Tyler wasn’t here as an occasionally snarky, yet profound television talent judge. Nor was…
By now, anyone with a Netflix account has binge watched Stranger Things and may not know what to do with themselves. Don’t worry, though, because there are plenty of other things to do in this town besides sitting on the couch. Why not find out in person if Steven Tyler’s…
Blink-182 With A Day to Remember and All-American Rejects Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, July 29, 2016 Bands change lineups all the time; that’s nothing new. But when a lineup change happens 24 years into a band’s existence and without the members’ consent? That’s interesting, and it added a neat…
Boris With Earth and Shitstorm Trees, Dallas Monday, July 25, 2016 Mother Earth and Father Boris sharing the same stage: It’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the birth of a mountain, or even a planet. And while neither of these appeared within the walls of Trees last night,…
In the fading afternoon light, Joe Mekan sits near the entrance to Gathering of the Juggalos, smoking a Marlboro and watching his fellow Juggalos pour into the festival. He’s wearing a black tank top and black beanie; tattoos cover his arms, including a work-in-progress he’s doing himself, starting with a…
I’ve been reading Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, which was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who channels Trump’s daily deal-making in what is basically a window into the life of a more charmingly juvenile version of Gordon Gekko. I like this book a lot, if only because it reads…
Brand New With Modest Mouse Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie Friday, July 22, 2016 So deciding to host your first-ever outdoor concert in the middle of July doesn’t exactly fit with conventional wisdom — or, well, common sense. But for Verizon Theatre and AEG, it worked surprisingly well on Friday night…
This week offers up a parade of pop fun for all the ’90s kids out there. Blink-182, Rascal Flatts, Alien Ant Farm and Edwin McCain are coming through town to help you relive your salad days. Take the train and catch some Pokemon on the way, just be careful not…
Pitbull With Prince Royce and Farruko American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, July 22, 2016 It takes a lot to make Pitbull stop smiling. The Miami superstar’s sole goal in life seems to live the best life on this planet, and he almost never stops smirking. But on Friday night at…
When I told my wife I wanted to go to Gathering of the Juggalos, she had one simple request: “You have to get your face painted, and you have to send pics.” Or is that two requests? Either way, since I do pretty much everything my wife tells me to,…
Drake With Future and DVSN American Airlines Center, Dallas Thursday, July 21, 2016 There is no time for apologies when exacting revenge. That message rang loud and clear as Drake appeared on stage at American Airlines Center Thursday night, rapping the opening lines to “Summer Sixteen” with the word “Revenge”…
Of all the ways I thought I would be describing my first Gathering of the Juggalos, “like my first rave” was not on the short list. But after less than 24 hours among the fans of Insane Clown Posse, that’s how I’m feeling. It’s like I’ve traveled back in time…
Roky Erickson means many different things to many different people. To most, he’s a torchbearer of psychedelic rock and beloved Texas institution. To informed music connoisseurs, he’s the wailing voice behind such cult masterpieces as “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” “Starry Eyes” and “Two Headed Dog.” To those that dig a little…
