As temperatures slowly decline and tastes of pumpkin pie and cinnamon-sprinkled everything make their way into our minds, let’s end the recent string of 100-degree days with a bang. This week offers a great opportunity to check out both up-and-coming acts and well-known artists, as well as a couple of…
Alice Cooper and Deep Purple with Edgar Winter Starplex Pavilion, Dallas Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017 Deep Purple and Alice Cooper made for a strange pair at Starplex on Saturday night. Both groups rock legends, and they’re on the same record label, but that’s where the similarities end. Beaumont-born Edgar Winter…
Fleet Foxes With Bedouine The Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, August 18, 2017 For a few minutes in the middle of Fleet Foxes’ show at The Bomb Factory on Friday night, Robin Pecknold was alone onstage. Dressed in black, the room dark save for the stars floating into the abyss on…
This week begins with a solar eclipse and plenty of watching parties around town. But if you packed up your telescopes and traveled to its path of totality because a partially eclipsed sun just isn’t good enough, you’re going to miss some seriously stellar shows this week. Pop-punk alum Simple Plan plays…
Blondie and Garbage have a lot in common. Both bands have frontwomen who blazed trails in their respective genres. Blondie’s Debbie Harry is a feminist icon who rose out of New York City in the ’70s, much the same way Garbage’s Shirley Manson did 20 years later during the grunge…
Lil Yachty may be well known, but he couldn’t sell out the Bomb Factory for the first show of his Teenage Tour. Friday night was a stark reminder that he’s liked more for his fashion sense and persona than his music. Everything about Lil Yachty is signature, from his braided,…
This week begins with a solar eclipse and plenty of watching parties around town. But if you packed up your telescopes and traveled to its path of totality because a partially eclipsed sun just isn’t good enough, you’re going to miss some seriously stellar shows this week. Stars abound early this week…
Juggalos and Sooners apparently don’t get along. By the end of this year’s Gathering, cries of “Fuck Oklahoma!” rang out across the festival.
John Mayer with Night Game American Airlines Center, Dallas Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 It was toward the end of the set when the show’s opener, Night Game, expressed warm gratitude toward John Mayer who, the members said, discovered the Boston band through Spotify and invited it along on this tour…
Recently, NASA announced it is looking for a planetary protection officer — someone tasked with protecting the planet from potential aliens, all to the tune of a six-figure salary. It sounds like something straight out of Men In Black, but if you meet the space program’s qualifications, you could hold…
Queen + Adam Lambert American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 It’s been six years since TV pop idol Adam Lambert partnered with Queen as the band’s vocalist in the place of the legendary Freddie Mercury. But Friday night, longtime members Brian May and Roger Taylor performed as if the…
Two musical icons filled up American Airlines Center on Thursday night as Lionel Richie took the stage to a nearly packed house, with Mariah Carey opening. But only one brought the chops to back up the fame. Carey was as divalicious as her reputation promises, strutting tentatively around the stage…
I’ve seen James Taylor in concert three times, but it doesn’t matter. I’m still as excited as the first time I saw him — with the Dixie Chicks — in college. I’ve been communicating in Taylor lyrics all week. “Your way and my way seem to be one and the…
The time is here for stepping out of the comfort of your air-conditioned home and Netflix queue and into the wide world of roadshows. This week is jam-packed with names hotter than August temperatures. Lionel Richie’s rescheduled concert from earlier this summer kicks off a stretch of great shows, including…
Logic with Joey Bada$$ Allen Event Center, Allen July 22, 2017 When rapper Logic ended his set in Allen on Saturday with “Confess,” he noticed a fan keeping pace with the complex track, bar for bar. So he invited the fan onstage and introduced him to the crowd. The fan,…
Kendrick Lamar with Travis Scott and D.R.A.M. American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, July 14, 2017 Rap’s in a good place in 2017, animated by a series of intensely fascinating figures. Young Thug is the moment’s experimentalist; the fiercely heady Vince Staples is rap’s chief fatalist; Kamaiyah and Princess Nokia are…
Only 10 sweltering Fridays stand between you and the start of fall. That’s some progress, at least. But until we get to pretend that it makes any difference in high temperatures around Texas, let’s hack through one of those weeks with some good music. Neil Diamond kicks things off with…
Tears for Fears and Hall & Oates with Allen Stone American Airlines Center, Dallas Tuesday, July 11, 2017 In June 2016, Tears for Fears announced it was working on a new album, its first since 2004’s Everybody Loves a Happy Ending. But at its packed show Tuesday night with Hall…
Not every concert lives up to its hype. A big name on a bill in an enormous venue doesn’t guarantee a great performance, just as a buzzy new band in a small room doesn’t always mean you’re in for a once-in-a-lifetime event. (Unless it’s Kendrick Lamar at Trees in 2012.)…
Dallas music is certainly one reason to brave the heat this week. Sprinkle a little cheese on your Tuesday with new-wave group Tears for Fears and pop-rock kings Hall & Oates as they join forces for a night of singalong magic at American Airlines Center. Catch experimental duo Pinkish Black…
Roger Waters American Airlines Center, Dallas Monday, July 3, 2017 At 73, Roger Waters is one of the last classic rock icons still touring and recording new music, and on Monday night, the Pink Floyd bassist and eventual frontman brought his Us & Them tour to the American Airlines Center…
This week marks another birthday for a country famous for its cookouts, fireworks and celebration of freedom in its simplest forms — from our right to purchase and consume three-liter bottles of wine in a single night to hitting snooze a dozen times before eating as many hot dogs…
