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.
Robert Ellis, the Texas-bred singer-songwriter known for his sharp, literate songwriting, plays Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas on October 24. Raised in Lake Jackson, Texas and long based in Houston and Nashville, Ellis has built a career blending traditional country songwriting with wry, self-aware lyricism that draws comparisons to both classic Texas troubadours and […]
Stockholm-based indie folk singer-songwriter Hazlett plays The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff on October 28.
Today is the birthday of Narciso Martínez. He would be 115 today. Narciso Martínez built the sound of modern conjunto from a farmhouse near San Benito, Texas. He crossed the border from Reynosa as a small child, and Texas raised him. The Rio Grande Valley, not his birthplace, shaped the music he made. In 1935, […]
One of West Texas's most exciting country rock acts, Treaty Oak Revival brings their electric live show to Concrete Street Amphitheatre in Corpus Christi on October 29, 2026. Tickets are available from $71 — a chance to see a band on the rise at one of the Gulf Coast's most beloved outdoor venues. Treaty Oak […]
Texas rock legend Alejandro Escovedo brings decades of songwriting to The Kessler Theater on October 29.
Today is the birthday of Illinois Jacquet. He would be 104 today. Illinois Jacquet played one saxophone solo that basically invented rock and roll's attitude. His family moved to Houston, Texas when he was still an infant. Illinois Jacquet's Houston, Texas upbringing filled his ears with blues, church, and street parades. He learned tenor saxophone […]
Texas outlaw-country godfather Ray Wylie Hubbard returns to his old Dallas neighborhood for a show at the Granada Theater on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026. Tickets start at $81. Hubbard grew up in Oak Cliff, the South Dallas neighborhood his family moved to when he was eight, and he graduated from W.H. Adamson High School alongside […]
PJ Morton brings his “Saturday Night Sunday Morning Tour” to Bayou Music Center in Houston on October 30, with the show starting at 8 PM. The New Orleans-born singer, songwriter, and keyboardist has spent more than two decades building parallel careers as a solo R&B artist and as a longtime member of Maroon 5, a […]
East LA Chicano soul band Thee Sinseers play a Halloween night show at The Kessler Theater on October 31.
