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DC9 At Night: Last Night
11/03/2014 By James Khubiar
Slipknot
With KoRn
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Friday, October 31, 2014
Music is weird. It has a way of sticking around in your life, or coming back when you thought you'd left if behind....
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
10/27/2014 By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Jason Aldean
With Florida Georgia Line
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Ebola causes you to leak fluids from your body's orifices and bleed internally until your...
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Calendar: Highlights
Every comedy fan has a bucket list of famous funny people in their heads that they have to see on a stage before they die. It's a hard list to achieve because so many things that happen to...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/08/2014 By Jonathan Patrick
Drake vs. Lil Wayne
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Cards on the table, I think Drake is shit. For the life of me I can't see the appeal, and it's not for lack of...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/08/2014 By Paige Skinner
Brad Paisley
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Friday, September 5, 2014
Brad Paisley and I go back. Way back. As in he followed me on Twitter a little more than a year ago. So it's not exactly...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
09/05/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
A great thing about holiday weekends is that they bleed into the next week, just a little bit. Yes, you're thrown out of whack treating a Tuesday like it's a Monday and that's weird -- it...
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DC9 At Night: Columns
09/05/2014 By Paige Skinner
When Brad Paisley isn't writing and performing sweet, tender songs that make women melt into a big pile of love -- or even haunting songs about death -- he's writing some hilarious,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/27/2014 By Paige Skinner
OneRepublic
With Christina Perri and Jamie Scott
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
It was a typical midsummer show at Gexa Energy Pavilion last night as pop stars...
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DC9 At Night: Columns
08/26/2014 By Paige Skinner
You could very well be a OneRepublic fan and not even know it. Or at least a Ryan Tedder fan. OK, you could be a fan of Tedder's work and not even know it. You see, Tedder's day job might be...
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Calendar: Highlights
There’s a good chance you’ve found yourself humming along to the hit “Counting Stars” in your car in recent months. That’s because OneRepublic has been pretty...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/18/2014 By Darryl Smyers
Nine Inch Nails
With Soundgarden and Cold Cave
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Sunday, August 17, 2014
While some folks may have been attending religious services this Sunday evening, I found...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/18/2014 By Jaime-Paul Falcon
KXT Summer Cut
With Death Cab for Cutie, Iron & Wine, Hold Steady
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Friday, August 15, 2014
At the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X boulevards sits...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
08/15/2014 By Paige Skinner
Hey, you're really close to surviving Shark Week. This means you won't have to listen to that weird guy at the office talk about whatever last night's special was, and him swearing all of...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
08/15/2014 By Darryl Smyers
Along with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Soundgarden completed the classic grunge rock trifecta that emerged from Seattle in the mid-'80s. Fronted by the hunky Chris Cornell and featuring the...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
08/14/2014 By Doug Davis
Hooking up on the phone Tuesday afternoon, Nick Harmer is happy to report that life as the bassist for Death Cab For Cutie remains "a gravy train with biscuit wheels". Harmer is an animated...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/11/2014 By Christian McPhate
Rockstar Mayhem Festival
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Saturday, August 9, 2014
This year's Mayhem Festival was more than just a collection of metal bands like Trivium, Asking Alexandria,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/11/2014 By Paige Skinner
Tim McGraw
With Kip Moore and Cassadee Pope
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Friday, August 8, 2014
On Friday night at Gexa Energy Pavilion, Tim McGraw made his grand "Sundown Heaven Town Tour"...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
08/08/2014 By Paige Skinner
We're going to see triple-digit weather this weekend and it's most likely going to suck. A lot. But to make it suck less, might we suggest a cold beer and some of the best concerts Dallas...
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DC9 At Night: Columns
08/08/2014 By Paige Skinner
Life is pretty simple, really. Don't mess with Texas -- or Tim McGraw, for that matter. Where's that bumper sticker, America? Country music fans know McGraw as Faith Hill's loving husband of...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/17/2014 By Christian McPhate
Mötley Crüe
With Alice Cooper
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Dallas loves Mötley Crüe. A nearly sold out show, thousands of people showed up at Gexa Energy Pavilion...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/14/2014 By Christian McPhate
KISS
With Def Leppard
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Paul Stanley can fly. He soared over the audience, a star shooting across a starlit sky Sunday night at the Gexas...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
07/10/2014 By Christian McPhate
It's hard to imagine a time when KISS didn't exist. A friend wearing a Gene Simmons mask introduced me to their music when I was five years old, living in Germany. The Berlin Wall hadn't...
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DC9 At Night: DC9 at Night
06/23/2014 By Paige Skinner
Blake Shelton
With the Band Perry and Neil McCoy
Gexa Energy Pavilion
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Saturday night was the first official night of summer and to celebrate some of country music's...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/16/2014 By Steve Steward
Vans Warped Tour
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Sunday, June 15, 2014
If I were younger or were a newcomer to the Vans Warped Tour's annual Dallas stop, I suppose getting there at 10:30 a.m....
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DC9 At Night: Festivals
06/11/2014 By Darryl Smyers
Oh, it's that time of year again. It's the time for all those sweaty punk and metal (and whatever bizarre blend of either) bands to descend on Fair Park under the banner of the Vans Warped...
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DC9 At Night: Show Announcement
06/02/2014 By Jeff Gage
This morning, 91.7 FM KXT announced the lineup for the third annual installment of Summer Cut, the local radio station's summer music festival at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Given the folkie vibe...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
05/16/2014 By Darryl Smyers
Look, Dave Matthews seems like a great guy. I even like him as an actor. But the guy's music bores the living hell out of me. Maybe it's because he's basically a younger version of Jimmy...
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Calendar: Highlights
It could be the largest comedy show ever to kick through town. Hell, it could be the largest that ever kicked through anywhere. The Oddball Comedy Festival force-tickles thousands at Gexa...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
06/24/2013 By Mac McCann
When I do get around to going to a country concert, Tim McGraw is never a bad bet, as he proved again on Saturday night.
When the Two Lanes of Freedom Tour (which is named after McGraw's...
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DC9 At Night: Festivals
01/28/2013 By Kiernan Maletsky
Jack's Throwback, the self-described "largest and loudest tribute band festival" in North America, has just announced its 2013 lineup. It's presented by 100.3 Jack FM and will take place...
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DC9 At Night: Festivals
01/23/2013 By Kiernan Maletsky
Update: Presale tickets for KXT's Summer Cut go on sale today, January 23, at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Tickets range from $30 to $55 (plus fees). Use the code "kxtradio." The general onsale...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
09/19/2012 By Eric Grubbs
This weekend, Houston's Venomous Maximus will bring the metal to the mostly punk Riot Fest, featuring Rise Against, the Descendents and more. Sonic brothers with Dallas' own Maleveller, we...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
08/09/2012 By Catherine Downes
Identity Festival sets up shop at Gexa Energy Pavilion tomorrow, August 10. The touring electronic dance music festival sprang to life last year, with the help of celebrity DJs Kaskade and...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
11/07/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Guns N' Roses, The SwordGexa Energy PavilionSaturday, November 5
Better than: I could have ever expected in weather that was damn near perfect.
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/30/2011 By Mark Schectman
Incubus, Young the Giant
Gexa Energy Pavillion
September 29, 2011
Better than: sitting at home playing a bongo shirtless... by myself.Everyone driving up to Gexa Energy Pavillion last...
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Music: Columns
Payam Doostzadeh is understandably experiencing something of a high at the moment. The bass player has just walked off stage at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival, and with his exit,...
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Music: Show Preview
There's something mercurial about punk rock: a snapshot of intense, snobbish certainty about one's ideals, predilections or foibles, an incendiary moment that ends in a flash. In other...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
09/12/2011 By Nic Hernandez
Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, LloydGexa Energy PavilionSeptember 10, 2011Better than: a Super Bowl halftime show.
Lil Wayne is a shapeshifter -- and, at...
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Music: Show Preview
Prior to serving 11 months on Riker's Island, the world knew (and loved) Lil Wayne for being a delightfully schizoid celeb, hypercompetitive workaholic and the Best Rapper Alive. He dictated...
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The Mixmaster: Fashion
09/07/2011 By Catherine Downes
Two Sundays back, Identity Festival -- an EDM (electric dance music) festival -- stopped at Gexa Energy Pavilion in Fair Park. The all-day music festival brought in EDM acts from around the...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/01/2011 By Jenny Block
Selena Gomez
Gexa Energy Pavillion
August 31, 2011
Better than: hearing your 12-year-old sing lyrics about probing aliens and ménage a trois.?To the sounds of screams the likes of which...
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Music: Feature
Late last month, hordes of electronic dance music fans took to the streets outside Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater for the premiere of the music documentary Electric Daisy Carnival...
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Music: Feature
There are times when Selena Gomez sounds like your average 19-year-old — like when she giddily (and unprovoked) geeks out over Instagram, the photo app she recently downloaded onto her...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
08/24/2011 By Catherine Downes
On Sunday night, theIdentity Festival -- billed as the first-ever touring festival exclusively featuring EDM (electronic dance music) artists -- will make a stop in Dallas at the Gexa Energy...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/11/2011 By Nick Rallo
Fuckin' Slayer! No, we don't mean that. We're actually referring to this perfect photo from last year's Iron Maiden show at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Over the last year, we've collected a number...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/05/2011 By Shahryar Rizvi
Ke$ha, LMFAO, Spank Rock
Gexa Energy Pavilion at Fair Park
August 4, 2011
Better than: trying to get by without water in this climate.?
The Gexa Energy Pavilion's stage housed a two-story...
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Music: Columns
Admit it: The first time you heard Ke$ha's breakout hit "Tik Tok," you were interested.
You might've found it repulsive, catchy, stupid, annoying, bewildering, dazzling or offensive to your...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
08/02/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
The fallout from the Kings Of Leon disaster at Gexa Energy Pavilion over the weekend hasn't settled yet. In a not-so-shocking revelation today, US Weekly reports that the rest of the band...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
08/01/2011 By Pete Freedman
If there was a silver lining to the fact that Kings of Leon had to cut their Friday night set at Gexa Energy Pavilion short because lead singer Caleb Followill was "overheated" (right...),...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/30/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Kings of Leon, Band of Horses
Gexa Energy Pavilion
July 29, 2011
Better than: watching a train wreck.
About three songs into Kings of Leon's set, lead singer Caleb Followill addressed the...
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Music: Show Preview
Kings of Leon used to complain that they only got to play arenas when they were overseas at big festival dates — even if each album released since 2004's Aha Shake Heartbreak inched...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/25/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Warped Tour LaunchGexa Energy Pavilion
June 24, 2011
Better than: spending all day on traffic control at the new In-N-Out Burger. Let's address the elephant with the pink tutu standing in...
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Music: Feature
Each year, the Warped Tour drags dozens upon dozens of bands around the country as a part of its annual tour. This year is no different, as 66 bands in total are scheduled to perform in and...
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Music: Feature
Talking to Tom Gabel feels like the polar opposite of seeing Tom Gabel perform with his band, Against Me!
Rather than look at his ink-filled arms flail away or watch him sing himself hoarse...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
06/23/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Walking through the mall in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, Andrew Wetzel of the metal band Attack Attack! sounds a bit winded over the phone as he makes his way to a semi-quiet place to...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
06/21/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Welcome to My First Show, where we
give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended --
no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.Lucero has played Dallas...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/08/2011 By Laura Mann
Mötley Crüe, Poison, New York DollsGexa Energy PavilionJune 7, 2011Better than: sitting on your couch watching the Mavs win. Sure, the game was dramatic, but not as dramatic as Tommy Lee's...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
06/07/2011 By Laura Mann
David Johansen's career is the entertainment equivalent of a patchwork quilt. The New York Dolls' first incarnation, after all, lasted just a few years. After dissolving that first time,...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
06/06/2011 By Laura Mann
Motley Crue are a love-or-hate type of deal. From their look to their music, everything about them gets a reaction. And, for 30 years now, the Crue has refused to go away, still living as...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
05/02/2011 By Pete Freedman
Arcade Fire, Okkervil RiverGexa Energy PavilionApril 30, 2011Better than: any other show you've seen in 2011.?More than five years have passed since Arcade Fire last played Dallas --...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
04/29/2011 By Pete Freedman
For over a dozen years at this point, Austin's Okkervil River has been making intelligent, defiantly lyrical indie rock. And next week, after a few years out of the spotlight, the band will...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
03/28/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
This morning, we received a press release from the skateboarding folks at Vans Warped Tour headquarters. Turns out that this year, the 16th year of the tour's existence, The Vans Warped Tour...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
01/27/2011 By Pete Freedman
After three years of existing under the name of Superpages.com Center, the Live Nation-owned and -operated concert amphitheater located in Fair Park announced today a new corporate sponsor...