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The KXT Local Show is celebrating the first Thursday of Pride Month with a special playlist featuring all LGBTQ artists.

May has five weekends and three holidays (four, if you count Star Wars Day): (in chronological order) Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day, so that’s a lot of musical opportunities, rain or shine. Here are some cool-to-us shows we’ve noticed after a little digging, plus some schedules from local

Live music attendance (or lack thereof) has been a steady subject in these pages over the past few months. There weren’t a lot of venues relying on the live music model to begin with, but now with a few recent closures, we’ve all been talking about who still goes to shows — and, more importantly, who doesn’t. And

With music festivals happening in Denton and Fort Worth, this might be a good weekend to take a drive, but concerts from Peter Gabriel, Ben Folds, Nick Cave and more will give you reasons to stay in Dallas.

Thursday, May 11, 2023 With the 58th annual Academy of Country Music Awards happening at The Star (3620 The Star Blvd, Ste 1205, Frisco), local country music fans are abuzz. Dolly Parton and some guy named Garth Brooks are the MCs. Tickets? Totally worth $450 apiece. If you’re not looking to sell a kidney, go to

It’s not that Jason Suder dislikes the annual stock show and rodeo. The Tulips FTW owner just wants those of us who aren’t interested in three weeks of saluting animal husbandry and ungulate riding to have something else to do. That’s really why Not Stock exists. “It’s not like we’re competing with the rodeo,” Suder

The good news: I didn’t puke. The bad: I spent about a million dollars at the bar. And that’s a million dollars that I, the editor of a small newspaper in Smalltown, U.S.A., do not have, but who gives af. It was local music Christmas, and if I was going to carpet-bomb the shit out of my checking account, I might as

Join the Fort Worth Weekly at the Ridglea Theater at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, for our 2022 Music Awards Ceremony with host Greg Spicoli from the Reckless Rock Radio show on KNON. This free community event is brought to you by Silver Star Spirits and will feature live performances by Brandin Lea and Fatima Thomas of

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Look at Fort Brewery & Pizza (2737 Tillar St, 817-923-8000), getting into ye olde live music scene. After booking more than a handful of knockout shows over the past few weeks, the joint welcomes rocking and rolling singer-songwriter Shelby Stone 6-9pm today/Wed, Aug 17. No cover, and seating is first come, first