The concert calendar continues to ramp up as summer inches ever so nearer. This week, we’ve got another act closing down Globe Life Park, an interesting alternative pairing performing at Dos Equis Pavilion and a couple of dance-infused acts bringing the vibes to area venues. All that and more ahead…
Paul Oakenfold is a DJ with a purpose. There is a philanthropic component in many of his recent shows. His 2017 set at Mount Everest base camp benefited Himalayan Trust and Supporting Nepal’s Children, two efforts helping survivors of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Last September, he and fellow U.K. legend…
All the Slayer fan wanted to do was return to the concert, throw up some devil horns and roar with the crowd as Slayer lead singer Tom Araya’s virus took hold. It was contagious this Wednesday evening at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving, affecting thousands of Slayer fans and…
Cameron Ray, a Dallas-born singer-songwriter, left North Texas to pursue his music career in Knoxville, Tennessee, just this January. He still comes back from time to time, like last week when he played The Kessler Theater for Bill’s Records’ Birthday Bash. Thanks to the advent of music streaming services, no…
To this day, John Lennon’s 1971 song “Imagine” remains an anthem for peace that’s revered around the world. The song, which became the best-selling single of Lennon’s solo career, was composed as a political rallying cry, a call for a world without hatred or divisions of any kind. Decades after…
Odd fellows, vagabonds, rabble-rousers and revelers all came together to bring a taste of New Orleans to the Bishop Arts District in Dallas. That is how district business owners Amy Wallace Cowan, Jason Roberts and Corey McCombs would describe themselves. In a short walk between their other creations, Odd Fellows…
At age 15, stylist Jonathan Wright discovered his love of fashion and launched his career as a wardrobe consultant in Dallas. Although mostly famed for hair design, Wright didn’t discover his passion for hair until about four years ago, when a client, singer Just Brittany, was getting ready for the…
The Polyphonic Spree members walk everywhere among us. Most are unrecognizable at a glance, but one could sense a jubilant energy just waiting to jump out. They’re behind you in the checkout line, teaching yoga class, inventing new technology in a Dallas garage, writing your favorite fashion blog or operating…
Channel 69’s Kyle Schember laughs at the memory of a time when an unknown boy band named Backstreet Boys opened for them in Miami in the ‘90s. “It was around 1995 during Winter Music Conference on South Beach and there were shows happening everywhere in Miami that week,” Schember tells…
It’s a rainy Friday night and the two-man band, Chasing Rent, plays their own Southern-rock version of tunes like Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” and Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” at Stumpy’s Blues Bar in Arlington. Between sets, Andy Weaver, 43, talks about how he and 34-year-old Jeremy Norvelle met and…
Folk rock, blues rock, hard rock, psych rock, surf rock, soft rock, punk rock, alt rock. Eels brought all of it to Canton Hall Sunday evening in their triumphant return to Dallas. Under the guidance of Mark Oliver Everett, otherwise known by his stage name “E,” Eels played a career-spanning…
This week boasts plenty of touring acts, including Slayer, The Cult, The Strumbellas and The Killers to name a few. Gorilla vs. Bear hosts its seventh showcase featuring the Chromatics at Granada Theater, and Bonnie Bishop plays a Mother’s Day concert at Fort Worth Live on Sunday. Paul Slavens and…
It seems like just yesterday that we were all following along with Deryck Whibley and Avril Lavigne’s punk-rock romance and hoping she could get him on the straight-and-narrow. (“Everybody’s got their problems,” amiright?) But that ended almost 10 years ago, which means that yes, we are old. Whibley and his…
Coming out is a landmark moment for many, one that replays on an endless loop for those who’ve done it and for those preparing themselves to get to it. For Dallas native Cameron Hawthorn, a country singer-songwriter now based in Los Angeles, that moment will be immortalized in a music…
Several acts that have been off the road for a while are heading back to the Dallas area. The region’s various venues will be filled with a variety of performers whose fans will likely be excited to jump on the first ticketing opportunities. Read ahead for more details. The comedic…
The day is Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. The Super Bowl is being filmed from the newly constructed AT&T Stadium in Arlington. You and your friends are at a watch party for a pastime more American than a bald eagle picking at Benedict Arnold’s innards while listening to Toby Keith. “The…
Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain, one of the Mid-South’s biggest multi-genre music-and-camping festivals, is co-hosting three events in Dallas this month, including a band battle and a DJ battle, with the winner of each earning a spot on one of Backwoods’ stages. The Trail to the Woods battle events happen Wednesday…
Deerhunter has always been known for creating beautiful, emotionally charged music — as if they know something about the universe that we don’t. Tuesday night’s show to a packed house at Trees proved they could balance that emotional intensity with a side of humor. The night began with a set…
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…
Dallas has some seriously cool shows to check out this week. Catch Sum 41 and Earl Sweatshirt midweek before the weekend lights up with down-and-dirty rock ‘n’ roll from Dead Mockingbirds, the daylong music festival JMBLYA, a reunion for Dallas electronic band Channel 69 and more. Sum 41 7 p.m…
Musician, Artist and Art Curator Scott Tucker is the singer/songwriter of Dallas-based bands The Orange and Aztec Milk Temple.
Barns Courtney possesses all the qualities needed to be this generation’s monster-sized rock star. A natural performer unburdened with the obnoxious neediness to be liked, the U.K.-based recording artist is cool and self-deprecating in the same breath. It’s a sight to behold, and Dallasites can see it firsthand when he…
