Cheap Tix

Dozens of Dallas summer concerts go on sale for $20 a ticket

Tickets to Kesha's June 20 show will get snapped right up.

Photo courtesy of Kesha

Live Nation, the national concert promoter, is launching National Concert Week with what has become an annual ticket sale on dozens of concerts in summer 2018.

The event takes place April 30-May 8 with an exclusive $20 all-in ticket offer for fans to celebrate the kickoff to 2018's massive summer season.

The deal includes more than 1.5 million tickets to 2,000+ shows across Live Nation’s roster of summer tours including comedy, country, hip-hop, Latin, metal, rock, pop, and every other genre imaginable.

The $20 tickets will become available starting April 30 at 8 am and run through May 8 at 11:59 pm.

Buy $20 all-in tickets at NCW.LiveNation.com.

This year the ticket sale includes more than 60 shows coming to Dallas-Fort Worth. The offer applies to select shows and is only available while supplies last.

Participating venues include American Airlines Center, The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Dos Equis Pavilion (formerly known as Starplex Pavilion), South Side Ballroom and more.

Shows participating in Live Nation Dallas’ $20 All-In “National Concert Week” Ticket Offer:

5/3 - Juanes
5/4 - Sum 41
5/10 - Primus & Mastodon
5/11 - Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company
5/21 - Tom Jones
5/22 - Tash Sultana
5/24 - Jake Paul
5/25 - Luis Miguel
5/25 - Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers
5/26 - 97.1 The Eagle presents BFD 2018 feat. A Perfect Circle, Stone Temple Pilots, Theory of a Deadman & more
5/26 - Exodus Music and Arts Festival feat. Kirk Franklin, Erica Campbell, Marvin Sapp & more
5/31 - David Blaine
6/2 - Poison with Cheap Trick
6/5 - The Illusionists
6/6 - Shania Twain
6/8 - Ray LaMontagne with Neko Case – presented by KXT 91.7
6/10 - Bo & Jim Bash VII: Styx & Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6/16 - Enanitos Verdes & Hombres G
6/20 - Kesha & Macklemore
6/27 - Weezer and Pixies with The Wombats
6/29 - Chicago & REO Speedwagon
6/30 - Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, Ryan Bingham, The Head and The Heart & more
7/1 - Chris Brown with H.E.R., 6lack and Rich the Kid
7/5 - Camp Nowhere feat. Louis the Child, TroyBoi, Big Wild & more
7/6 - Vans Warped Tour feat. Simple Plan, The Used, State Champs, Motionless in White & more
7/11 - Thirty Seconds To Mars with Walk The Moon, K.Flay and Welshly Arms
7/14 - Ludovico Einaudi
7/14 - Paramore with Foster The People and Jay Som
7/20 - Niall Horan with Maren Morris
7/21 - Foreigner with Whitesnake and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening
7/24 - Counting Crows with LIVE including Ed Kowalczyk
7/24 - Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train
7/25 - Jeff Beck and Paul Rodgers with Ann Wilson of Heart
7/26 - Pentatonix
7/27 - O.A.R. with Matt Nathanson and The New Respects
7/28 - Bill Burr
7/28 - Jason Aldean with Luke Combs, Lauren Alaina, and Dee Jay Silver
7/29 - Logic with NF and Kyle
8/3 - Erasure with Reed & Caroline
8/4 - Five Finger Death Punch & Breaking Benjamin – presented by 97.1 the Eagle
8/4 - Coheed and Cambria & Taking Back Sunday with The Story So Far
8/8 - Gladys Knight & The O'Jays
8/10 - Dispatch with Nahko and Medicine for the People
8/10 - G-Eazy with Lil Uzi Vert, Ty Dolla $ign, and P-Lo
8/11 - Alison Wonderland
8/11 - Miranda Lambert & Little Big Town with The Steel Woods and Tenille Townes
8/12 - Shinedown & Godsmack – presented by 97.1 the Eagle
8/16 - Marilyn Manson & Rob Zombie – presented by 97.1 the Eagle
8/23 - Charlie Puth with Hailee Steinfeld
8/24 - The Russ Martin Show presents "Loudwire's Gen-X Summer" with Buckcherry, P.O.D., Lit & more
8/24 - Evanescence & Lindsey Stirling
8/25 - Rascal Flatts with Dan + Shay and Trent Harmon
9/1 - Avenged Sevenfold with Prophets of Rage and Three Days Grace
9/13 - Rise Against with AFI and Anti-Flag
9/16 - Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience
9/22 - Dierks Bentley with Brothers Osborne and LANCO
9/23 - The Australian Pink Floyd Show-Time 2018
9/26 - Ozzy Osbourne with Stone Sour – presented by 97.1 the Eagle
9/27 - 5 Seconds of Summer
9/28 - Need To Breathe with Johnnyswim and The Rocketboys
9/30 - Ms. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour
10/16 - Alice Cooper
10/24 - Josh Groban with Idina Menzel
10/26 - Kevin Hart

For a full list of participating artists, visit NCW.LiveNation.com.

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Vinyl Record News

Dallas record store chain Josey Records opens location in Garland

Josey Records

Vinyl at Josey Records

Dallas music maker Josey Records has extended its reach east: The record store chain, whose empire includes one of the largest single independent record stores in the U.S., has opened a location in Garland, at 1005 Northwest Hwy., at the intersection of Centerville Road, where it's selling its trademark assortment of vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, turntables, music posters, new releases, and music accessories.

This is the sixth location and the third in the Dallas area, joining the original in Farmers Branch which owners Waric Cameron and Luke Sardello opened in November 2014. They've since opened locations in Plano, Tulsa, Kansas City, and Vidalia, Missouri.

The original location is a giant place with 16,000 square feet devoted to vinyl, 45s, CDs, turntables, and T-shirts. They do a good job showcasing new releases and collector vinyl — they made CultureMap's list of 5 best places in Dallas to buy vinyl records — and are known to host album release and listening parties such as a recent blockbuster celebrating Linkin Park.

They made headlines in June 2020 when they acquired the vast musical inventory of Bill’s Records following the death of owner Bill Wisener; Cameron and Sardello both worked at Bill’s, and knew the sprawling collection first-hand.

"It has taken us years to even start going through it, but in last two years, we've made some headway," Cameron says. "Bill's has its own audience, so we created a specific Instagram account, just for Bill's Records merchandise called @billsrecordsvault."

They chose Garland because they saw it as an area that was under-served.

"There are very few record stores in that area of northeast Dallas, Casa View, Garland, Rockwall, Mesquite," Cameron says. "We have customers who live over there, so it seemed like a good place for a store."

The storefront they're in was most recently The Music Store, which sold and rented musical instruments and accessories; but coincidentally, it's next to an address that was once RPM Records, a hip record store from the '90s.

The Garland store follows the same model as their others: selling new and used records and merchandise, and buying used goods, as well.

"One thing that's cool is that each location takes on its own identity," he says. "We buy used CDs, vinyl records, cassettes — we're a used resale business — and what we buy from our customers dictates what that store becomes. For example, our Plano store has a lot of classic rock. So we're looking forward to seeing what Garland gravitates to."

Garland does have one thing that the other locations do not.

"Right now, Garland has this incredible collection of jazz," Cameron says. "We bought a great collection of jazz records — someone called and wanted to sell it. We get that a lot, we buy major collections from all over the U.S., we even make house calls. So we saved it for the Garland store."