Texas natives The Chicks bring their "Taking The Long Way Home: 20 Years" tour to Bass Concert Hall in Austin on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 8:30 PM. Resale tickets are currently starting around $623, reflecting strong demand for a hometown-state show marking two decades since one of their most acclaimed records. Formed in Dallas, […]
Hermanos Gutiérrez bring their instrumental, cinematic guitar sound to White Oak Music Hall’s outdoor Lawn stage in Houston on October 21, with the show starting at 6 PM. The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez have built an international following on wordless, reverb-drenched compositions that draw on desert-noir, spaghetti-western, and Latin American folk traditions. The […]
"Waitress," the Tony-nominated Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, opens its Austin run at Bass Concert Hall on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at 7:30 PM as part of the Broadway in Austin series. The run continues through October 23, with tickets starting at $77. Based on the 2007 film of the same […]
Vince Staples brings his “Cry Baby Tour” to Bayou Music Center in Houston on October 21, with the show starting at 8 PM. The Long Beach rapper has spent more than a decade building a reputation as one of hip-hop’s sharpest, most deadpan storytellers, pairing vivid, unflinching depictions of his upbringing with a dry, self-aware […]
Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt brings her rock-tinged folk storytelling to The Kessler Theater on October 21.
Today is the birthday of Bobby Fuller. He would be 84 today. Baytown, Texas, along the Houston Ship Channel, gave the world Bobby Fuller. His family later moved to El Paso, where the real story begins. He built a home recording studio in his bedroom, obsessing over Buddy Holly's sound. He taught himself engineering by […]
Long Beach rapper Vince Staples brings his Cry Baby Tour to Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Tickets start at $48 for a night with one of hip-hop's sharpest, most consistently inventive lyricists. Staples emerged from Long Beach and North Long Beach's Compton-adjacent street culture with a voice that […]
The Ransom Brothers bring their Texas country sound to The Rustic in Dallas on October 23, with no cover charge for this Uptown patio show. The duo has built a regional following through steady touring across Texas dance halls, patios, and honky-tonks, leaning on tight vocal harmonies and classic country songwriting that draws comparisons to […]
Dallas guitarist Christopher Holt, of the Eagles touring band, plays a hometown show at The Kessler Theater on October 23.
Today is the birthday of The Big Bopper. He would be 96 today. J.P. Richardson grew up in Sabine Pass, Texas, near the Gulf Coast marshes. He worked as a radio DJ in Beaumont before he ever cut a record. There, he invented a booming, larger-than-life persona called "The Big Bopper." His voice rolled out […]
Ray Wylie Hubbard, the whiskey-soaked outlaw poet of Texas songcraft, is headed back to Central Texas at the Temple Cultural Activities Center.
Indie-rock singer-songwriter Pete Yorn plays The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff on October 24.
