Bastards, Bastards, Bastards!

Music fans all over the DFW area wanting to see Cincinnati's Heartless Bastards in the next few months are in luck. You will have not one, not two - but three! - chances to see them coming up... in the city of your choice to boot! On Friday, February 27, the new Longhorn Saloon in the Ft. Worth Stockyards will see the Bastards with opener Dove Hunter. Tickets are $10 and are available in advance through Frontgate. The next night, Saturday, February 28, Hailey's in Denton will host the band (with openers Record Hop and Will E. Lee). Again, tix are $10 and available via Frontgate. Lastly, for the Dallasites who missed their headlining gig last November at Club Dada, they will be returning on Tuesday, April 28 to play at the Granada - not as a headliner, but as opener for New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem. Tickets for that show are $13-$17 and are available online through the Granada's website. A Death in the Family is also opening.

Now that the Bastards have relocated to Austin, hopefully we will be graced by their presence this frequently from now often!

Photo by Cambria Harkey

Fleetwood Mac at the AAC

Announced today - classic rock vets Fleetwood Mac will be hitting Dallas in the middle of the second leg of their "Unleashed" Greatest Hits North American Tour. Specifically, American Airlines Center will be hosting the band on Thursday, April 30. Unfortunately, the band will be without singer Christine McVie (who retired from the band in 1998), so don't expect to hear "Say You Love Me,""Dreams" or "You Make Loving Fun." Or maybe Stevie Nicks will sing those, I dunno. In any event, tickets run from $49.50-$149.50 and go on sale through Ticketmaster Monday January 26 at 10 AM. There are also various pre-sales starting this Saturday, January 17.

New Neko Case Song

This is an unusual post for me, but Anti- records is running a special promotion for the new Neko Case album - Middle Cyclone - that is being released March 3. For every blog that reposts this new song, Anti- will donate $5 to the Best Friends Animal Society. Details on how to post and make sure your donation counts are here.

Neko Case - "People Got a Lotta Nerve"

Download:http://www.anti.com/media/download/708

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New Year, New Shows

Well, I had an enough shows added to the list for a proper update before New Year's but there weren't too many big names of merit an actual post it seemed. Then the flu knocked me on my ass for about a week and a ton of shows were announced and now there are plenty to substantiate an update. So here you go. Highlights as follows, but as always, many many more on the full list.

• Rock House Films: Richie Havens (show sponsored by Bend Studio)
• Granada: The English Beat, Black Kids/Mates of State
  
• Minc Lounge: KRS-One
• Firewater Bar & Grill: Vanilla Ice
• Dan's Silver Leaf: Slobberbone (reunion show), Son Volt
  
• House of Blues: Tesla, Queensryche
  
• Double-Wide: A.A. Bondy
• Poor David's Pub: Guy Clark
• Hailey's: The Heartless Bastards
• The Loft: Kool Keith (Dr. Doom vs. Dr. Octogon), King Khan & The Shrines
• Lola's: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
  

List Update - Morrissey, Lucinda Williams & More!

Making this post a couple days later than I would have liked, but I have kept the list pretty well updated. Additions to this week's update include Morrissey at the Palladium, Lucinda Williams at the House of Blues, Devotchka at the Pontiac Garage, Dave Matthews Band at Superpages (with The Avett Brothers opening) and Denis Leary at Nokia. But, of course, lots more (and ticket info) on the full list, so see for yourself!

We're Back!

So, I was trying to update the site over Thanksgiving on my parents' shitty computer and something happened to the formatting of the main list and completely fucked it up. Whole days of events were missing and I had to completely un-format the entire list. Which wiped out all of the hyperlinks to tickets, etc. In any event, it took me a while to get it back to "working order" and it took me even longer to even think about undertaking that task so the blog just kinda sat there for a couple weeks.

I've also used this overhaul as a chance to add both comedy shows and "tribute" acts to the list - two genres which I had previously ignored.

That being said, we're back up and running with an assload of updates. The only caveat is that a lot of the ticket links are still missing so I will be adding those back over time. So bear with me. In the meantime, here are some of the highlights while I was gone:

• Majestic Theatre: Tracy Morgan
• Pontiac Garage: Amy Ray (of The Indigo Girls), Annuals/Jessica Lea Mayfield
  
• Granada Theater: Kevin Costner (?!) & The Modern West, Tokyo Police Club/Ra Ra Riot, Andrew Bird
  
• Hailey's Club: Loney, Dear
• Nokia Theatre: Robin Williams, Slipknot/Coheed and Cambria, Gordon Lightfoot
  
• Lakewood Theater: Joan Baez
• House of Blues: The Pretenders
• American Airlines: Britney Spears (ZOMG)
  
• Superpages.com: Nickelback (barf)
• Palladium: Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society
  

All right kids, go see some shows.

List Update - November 16, 2008

OK. It's been forever, but the list is finally updated. Sorry you guys. So many notable shows added that would have merited their own posts, but alas.... here we are. Let's get right to the highlights:

• Nokia Theatre: Death Cab for Cutie/Snow Patrol/Cold War Kids (102.1 FM Xmas show), Buckcherry/Hinder (97.1 FM Xmas show), Glen Campbell, John Legend, John Mellencamp
  
• The Door: Eagles of Death Metal, Ice Cube, King's X
  
• Granada: The Polyphonic Spree Xmas Shows, Los Lonely Boys (Acoustic), Lykke Li, Cut Copy/Matt & Kim
  
• AAC: Lil Wayne
• Ridglea Theater: Toadies (New Year's Eve)
  
• House of Blues: Cross Canadian Ragweed (New Year's Eve), Broken Social Scene, Dr. John
  
• Club Dada: Tapes 'n Tapes, Los Campesinos!/Titus Andronicus

The Killers Coming to Nokia

OK, so I will have a list update coming later today (I hope), but I wanted to make one special update first. Per Consequence of Sound, The Killers have announced a new round of US dates to support their upcoming album Day & Age, including a stop at Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie on Wednesday, February 4. No word on an exact on sale date or ticket prices yet, but other shows are going on sale as early as this weekend so heads up.


Update: Tickets are $39.50-$42.50 and are available through Ticketmaster beginning this Saturday. There is also a pre-sale this Friday at 10 AM.

List Update - October 14, 2008

OK, I'm officially going to stop calling them "weekly" updates - that was clearly a pipe dream. Regardless, the list is updated as of this morning. The highlights:

• The Aardark: MC Chris (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
• House of Blues: Q-Tip/The Cool Kids, Usher, Buddy Guy
  
• Lola's: The Sword
• Nokia Theatre: George Jones/Jerry Jeff Walker, Duran Duran

And lots of others on the full list.

Conor Oberst at the Palladium

According to Pollstar, Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst is bringing his new outfit, The Mystic Valley Band, to Dallas. Oberst will be playing songs of his new self-titled album as well as Bright Eyes tunes and covers at the Palladium Ballroom on Saturday, November 22. The Felice Brothers are set to open. No word yet on ticket prices or on sale info.