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Formerly Untapped, Dallas’ biggest & best craft beer festival returns to Fair Park on November 11 and the official music lineup has been released. They will be welcoming Big Boi, J Roddy Walston & The Business, Cherub, Langhorne Slim & The Law, Tone Loc, and Michael Lee and the Wartime Limousine to the Index Fest stage!

Poet, actor, activist, writer, and musician Saul Williams performance was unspeakably awesome, as he engaged all of us in deep thought with his appearance at the Kessler Theater in Dallas last week.

Lead singer of Bowling For Soup, Jaret Reddick, graciously agreed to answer some of my burning questions I had for him.

Ms. Lisa Fischer is finally stepping back into the spotlight again — at last. After four decades of singing background for icons like the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, and Nine Inch Nails, Lisa is finally offering her own humble, heartfelt song, accompanied by her inventive new band Grand Baton.

Amazon Music and Live Nation recently unveiled their plans to livestream The Roots’ “A Night Of Symphonic Hip Hop” concert in Dallas, Texas. Special guests include Dallas’ own Erykah Badu, Bilal, Robert Glasper and conductor, Miguel Atwood Ferguson will join The Roots for this special performance backed by the full symphony orchestra the Dallas POPS mid-October.

Arcade Fire will bring their “Infinite Content” tour to the American Airlines Center next week. Their extensive concert trek promotes their fifth studio album Everything Now.

The tour, produced by Live Nation features a series of special guests including Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Phantogram, Angel Olsen, and Broken Social Scene. Wolf Parade is the featured opening act for their night in Dallas.

Arcade Fire is Win Butler, Will Butler, Regine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Tim Kingsbury, and Richard Reed Parry. The band has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket will go to saving lives, revitalizing communities, and transforming global health through Partners In Health.

Uptown Dallas, Inc. presents its 2nd Annual Uptown Block Party! Join them in Griggs Park for music by The Gibbonses followed by headliner- BOB SCHNEIDER! Grab your friends and meet your Uptown neighbors as they enjoy this FREE community event with drinks, food trucks, music, and more!

Strangelove-The Depeche Mode Experience will be headlining the main stage Friday night at Grapevine, Texas’ 31st annual Grapefest Wine Festival. Internationally touring tribute sensation STRANGELOVE delivers a pitch-perfect “best of” DEPECHE MODE arena/stadium scaled concert that transports listeners through time and touches on several key points in DM’s illustrious career.

Toadies hit the road yesterday, kicking off in Denton, Texas to support their newest album, releasing tomorrow The Lower Side Of Uptown. The two month trek will take them across the states and back and will include the band’s own Dia De Los Toadies Festival on September 16th.

The annual Denton Blues Festival sets the stage for one of the best ways to hear blues music in North Texas. A city dedicated to its musical reputation, Denton provides Friday night karaoke and two days of exceptional blues acts in a family-friendly outdoor setting.