20 January 19-25, 2023 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Ballista 7 P.M. THURSDAY, JAN. 19, RUBBER GLOVES, 411 E. SYCAMORE ST. $15+ AT EVENTBRITE.COM Somewhere in the Venn diagram of death metal and hardcore sits Dallas metal band Ballista. Vocal- ist River Elliott has one of the most formidable voices in all of North Texas metal. A Black trans- gender woman, Elliott’s voice has such intensity and raw power that if you arrive to the show early enough for Ballista’s sound check, you can feel it from outside the venue. Ballista released its first single in 2017, and since then, has been building a hardcore fanbase on the foundation of a high-en- ergy live show that is as emotional as it is physical. Around this time last year, the band released its first full length album, Ballista Territory, an album whose force will certainly blow your speakers out if you’re not careful. The band kicks off a short Southwest tour Thursday night in Denton with friends and tourmates Kurama and deepincision. DAVID FLETCHER Steaksauce Mustache 7 P.M. THURSDAY, JAN. 19, THREE LINKS, 2704 ELM ST. $15 AT SEETICKETS.US It’s hard to describe exactly what you’re getting into when you get into Medford, Oregon’s Steak- sauce Mustache. To call them a metal band would be far too generic a term. The band itself describes its sound as mathcore on Bandcamp, but math- core carries with it a sense of progressive metal precision and complexity that Steaksauce Mus- tache just doesn’t have. Really, any known label that you could put on Steaksauce Mustache would never fully capture the breadth of the band’s ab- surdity. With songs such as “Bad Boy Donkey Is- land,” “Floppy Disk Function” and “Gossip Banshee,” Steaksauce Mustache’s 2022 album, All Juice, No Noise., may perhaps be the band’s most serious effort yet. Yes, it’s metal, but it’s metal that is painfully aware of how serious metal is and therefore refuses to be that. Fans of absurdist the- atricality are in for a full night of antics with San Francisco’s Big Gorgeous, Milwaukee’s Nasty Boys and Denton’s Wee-Beasties along for the party. DF Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol 9 P.M. SATURDAY, JAN. 21, DOUBLE WIDE, 3510 COMMERCE ST. $12 AT PREKINDLE.COM Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol may have a silly name, but the hard rock band from Austin is re- sponsible for some pretty serious music. Accord- ing to the band’s bio, it “taps into a ‘genus’ of rock styles,” which feels like an accurate description when listening to the band’s latest album, DOOM- WOP. A portmanteau of doo-wop and doom metal, two genres on opposite ends of rock ‘n’ roll’s emotional spectrum, the music on the album is neither. Instead it manages to be a bit of all that’s in between. Heavy, trippy, bluesy and steamy, Rick- shaw Billie’s Burger Patrol captures a little bit of everything that brings people to the table of rock, and serves it up just right. Perhaps a band name reminiscent of a favorite food truck isn’t the silliest after all. In celebrating all things rock, Rickshaw Bil- lie’s Burger Patrol will have opening support from Los Angeles punk band Sweat and local support from Dallas indie noise rock band Partaker. DF Durry 7 P.M. MONDAY, JAN. 23, HOUSE OF BLUES, 2200 N. LAMAR ST. $30 AT LIVENATION.COM Back in the early days of the pandemic when we were all told not to leave the house and many of us actually heeded the warning, quarantined siblings Austin and Taryn Durry began making music to- gether in Burnsville, Minnesota and started posting it on the quarantine era’s favorite pastime, TikTok. By the time 2021 rolled around, the duo’s career had taken off thanks in large part to their song “Who’s Laughing Now” going viral on the plat- form. Durry’s music harkens back to indie’s second wave in the mid- to late-2000s when the sound expanded from garage rock revivalists to incorpo- rate the heartfelt rhythms of folk. While Durry has yet to release a proper album, it has released a full album’s worth of singles since the summer of 2021. You can catch this brother-sister rock combo Mon- day night in the Cambridge Room at the House of Blues with local support from Dallas indie rock band The Black Velvets. DF Angel Olsen 7 P.M. TUESDAY, JAN. 24, THE STUDIO AT THE FACTORY, 2727 CANTON ST. $32.50 AT AXS.COM Even before Angel Olsen firmly planted her feet in the world of indie music, she was turning heads. In November 2010, Bonnie “Prince” Billy played an unannounced show in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a group called The Babblers as his backing band. Wearing fleece pajamas, a singer known as Angela Babbler was highlighted in reviews for her blood-curdling screams in the faces of the front row. Angela Babbler turned out to be Angel Olsen, so by the time she released her first album, the music world was already waiting. Olsen has been known for her dramatic vocal range and thought- ful wordplay throughout her music career. As haunting as it is sublime, Olsen’s voice is the stuff of daydreams and nightmares, sending listeners to the heights of imagination or the darkest depths of introspection. Olsen’s latest album, Big Time, is a foray into country music, and as such, Nashville folk singer Erin Rae opens the show. DF Mike Brooks Angel Olsen plays Tuesday night at The Studio at the Factory in Deep Ellum. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music
