This is a week to get out, get active and see something new. Rain or shine, Denton will be hosting two very different festivals this weekend just about a mile away from each other and both include legendary performers.

What strikes us most when looking across this week’s concerts is just how many duos we have coming through North Texas.

It was the first night of fall in the corner of Bryan and Scripture, outside Killer’s Tacos in an otherwise quiet neighborhood just north of the University of North Texas’ campus.

The nights are getting longer and just a little bit cooler as fall makes its appearance, and to go with the inviting weather are some exciting shows this week just begging for your attendance. The names coming to town this week really don’t get much bigger. Kings of Leon have…

As the Deep Ellum Arts Festival makes its return to Main Street this weekend, there is plenty of local and national talent to go around.

This Labor Day weekend in North Texas is all about festivals. Marc Anthony’s show at American Airlines Center will open and shows by Between the Buried & Me and Black Magic Flower Power will close the concert week.

In past weeks, our Best Concerts lists ha fveocused primarily on weekend shows. And while there is plenty to do this weekend, the talent coming through North Texas this next week just could not be contained in a few days.

What a weekend we have planned out for you, dears.

What a weekend the music gods have planned for you; the kind that makes us wish we could be in more places at once (and have an endless supply of cash), especially Friday night when Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Alanis Morissette and Christian Death all play in different parts of North Texas at the exact same time.

Concerts in North Texas this week are nothing if not eclectic –  both in the variety of concerts, but among the bill lineups within those concerts

This week in live North Texas music brings a grand opening and a grand closing. As Tulips in Fort Worth celebrates its official grand opening after a pandemic year, J&J’s Pizza in Denton prepares to close its doors for good with a series of incredible shows. Legends both local and…

This week, North Texas sees the return of the first major act to cancel in response to the pandemic.

This is one of those weekends that many people have been looking forward to for a variety of reasons, happy and sad.

As North Texas marches toward normalcy, the concert calendar this week is starting to look a bit more like it used to with an eclectic mix of local and national acts taking to our favorite stages in Denton, Dallas and Fort Worth.