Concert News

New Live Nation VIP pass gets you unlimited access to certain Dallas clubs

You become a member of the club.

House of Blues

Concert promoter Live Nation has launched a new pass that covers all General Admission shows at more than 50 venues across the country.

In Texas, that includes the House of Blues in Dallas and Houston; the Echo Lounge and Music Hall in Dallas; 713 Music Hall and Bayou Music Center in Houston; Emo's and Scoot Inn in Austin; and the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio. The full lineup of clubs is listed below.

The pass gets you access to one club and it's good from October 1 to December 31. For Emo's and Scoot Inn, it's $59. For all other Texas clubs, it's $79.

But they're also offering a Multi-Club Pass for $299, which gets you access to all participating Live Nation clubs, including well-known venues like Irving Plaza in New York, The Fillmore in San Francisco, and the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

Upcoming shows for the fall may include artists such as Ali Gatie, Amon Amarth, Bad Omens, Better Than Ezra, Blue October, Dayglow, Giant Rooks, Giveon, I Prevail, Jacob Banks, Jessie Reyez, Jinjer, Måneskin, Marcus King, Mother Mother, Noah Cyrus, Pusha T, Russell Dickerson, Toadies, Trivium, and Yung Gravy.

How to purchase
The Club Pass is on sale September 19-September 30 at clubpass.livenation.com while supplies last. Each venue will have a limited number of Club Passes available.

Once you own a Club Pass, you get added to the club's membership list. On the day of the show, you show your ID to get a ticket at the Club’s box office.

Venues
Venues participating in Club Pass include:

713 Music Hall (Houston, TX)
Ace of Spades (Sacramento, CA)
The Aztec Theater (San Antonio, TX)
Bayou Music Center (Houston, TX)
Belasco (Los Angeles, CA)
Bogarts (Cincinnati, OH)
Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom (Chicago, IL)
Coca Cola Roxy (Atlanta, GA)
The Depot (Salt Lake City, UT)
The Echo Lounge & Music Hall (Dallas, TX)
Echoplex and The Echo (Los Angeles, CA)
Emo’s (Austin, TX)
Egyptian Room and Deluxe at Old National Centre (Indianapolis, IN)
The Fillmore (San Francisco, CA)
The Fillmore Detroit (Detroit, MI)
The Fillmore Minneapolis (Minneapolis, MN)
The Fillmore New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
The Fillmore Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
The Fillmore Silver Spring (Silver Spring, MD)
The Fillmore Charlotte and The Underground (Charlotte, NC)
Fillmore Auditorium (Denver, CO)
The Foundry (Philadelphia, PA)
The Gramercy Theatre (New York, NY)
GLC Live At 20 Monroe (Grand Rapids, MI)
Hollywood Palladium (Los Angeles, CA)
House of Blues Anaheim (Anaheim, CA)
House of Blues Chicago (Chicago, IL)
House of Blues Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
House of Blues Dallas (Dallas, TX)
House of Blues Lake Buena Vista (Lake Buena Vista, FL)
House of Blues Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
House of Blues New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
House of Blues North Myrtle Beach (North Myrtle Beach, SC)
House of Blues San Diego (San Diego, CA)
Irving Plaza (New York, NY)
Marquis Theater (Denver, CO)
Mercury Ballroom (Louisville, KY)
Observatory OC (Santa Ana, CA)
Observatory SD (San Diego, CA)
Roxian Theatre (Pittsburgh, PA)
The Ritz (Raleigh, NC)
Riverside Municipal Auditorium (Riverside, CA)
St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit, MI)
Summit (Denver, CO)
Scoot Inn (Austin, TX)
The Wiltern (Los Angeles, CA)
Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
Theatre of the Living Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Varsity Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
The Van Buren (Phoenix, AZ)

All venues listed for single venue Club Passes will participate in the Multi-Club Pass.

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Vinyl Record News

Dallas record store chain Josey Records spins new 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."