Hoodie-wearers of all ages gathered at the Dallas House of Blues Tuesday night to hear alternative rock group Switchfoot. Although the group is best known for singles from their 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown, Switchfoot opened the show by playing...
By MANUEL MENDOZA Special Contributor It may sound counterintuitive, but have you noticed how the mellowest music can be made when there are a whole bunch of musicians onstage, and the most intense when it's just one or two? That's...
If you go to see Son Volt for the first time, you will notice that singer and band leader Jay Farrar doesn't engage the audience very much. He doesn't have to -- he and his band let the music do...
You know it's going to be a party when the D-O-double G comes to town, especially if he has Method Man and Redman in tow (how high, indeed). Evidence of that was plenty at House of Blues on Sunday night....
AC/DC made a return stop at American Airlines Center Monday night on its Black Ice tour, following its first visit in January. Fans were treated to songs spanning the band's extensive career. The band opened with "Rock 'N Roll Train"...
This show was not about Maxwell's voice, which was a bit compromised Monday night. Not in the least. This show was about Maxwell coming back to the place he owned for several years: the top. I kept thinking how much...
I learned two things at Superpages.com Center in Fair Park on Tuesday night. Don't believe anything you read about Chris Martin. And two, butterflies are free. Confetti in the shape of butterflies was in abundance as Coldplay finished a performance...
With only two original members left between them, the Temptations and Four Tops proved they still have standards. Newer members have taken over the leading-man roles that all "man" groups have, and it's as if the music never stopped (or...
By Matt Weitz Special Contributor GRAND PRAIRIE -- John Hiatt's Monday night performance at Nokia was a textbook case of great show, bad night: a Monday evening, immediately following bad weather, that was also a major sports night (Cowboys game)....
Who cares about his critics? Not Nas, who started a rousing set at the House of Blues last Tuesday night with the title cut from his untitled album. Oxymoron? Maybe, but the crowd knew every line and spelled the original...
Teena Marie unleashed some testifying, glorifying and tears at Nokia Theatre in an almost two-hour set on Friday night. The soul-funk sister's distinctive voice and unique phrasing never faltered through a barrage of hits. Even the strongest and highest notes...
By Manny Mendoza, Special Contributor, tvboymanny@yahoo.com Though he never acknowledged it to the audience Wednesday night, it was clear a few songs into Tom Petty's set at American Airlines Center that he was under the weather, perhaps road-worn from three...
Young Jeezy turned a hip-hop show into a sing-along at House of Blues last Tuesday night. Onstage, there was a collegial atmosphere, with one of the 18 bystanders on stage handing Jeezy a drink in the middle of a song,...
Wondering what all the fuss was about at the 2008 Cuervo Black U.S. Air Guitar Championships that recently came to Dallas' House of Blues? I could tell you (oh, I already have; see other blog posts), but there's nothing like...
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