21 February 6 - 12, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Chris Janson 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY, FEB. 7, WILL ROGERS AUDITORIUM, 3401 W. LANCASTER AVE., FORT WORTH. $17.98+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM A fixture of Fort Worth’s music and cultural scene each year is the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, which brings largely country-centric art- ists from across the country to the fourth largest city in Texas for a fortnight filled with entertain- ment. The 2025 edition of the Stock Show & Ro- deo is winding down for this year, but before it does, singer-songwriter Chris Janson will head- line the final weekend, bringing with him his hits such as “Fix Me a Drink,” “Good Vibes” and “Done,” pulled from across his 16-year career and his five studio albums, including his most recent effort, 2023’s The Outlaw Side of Me. As is often the case in Nashville, the Missouri native has also carved out a side gig co-writing tracks for some of Music City’s biggest names, such as Tim McGraw and Hank Williams Jr. PRESTON JONES Bone Thugs-n-Harmony 8 P.M. FRIDAY, FEB. 7, HOUSE OF BLUES, 2200 N. LAMAR ST. $45+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM With enough time passed, what was once men- acing or unsettling can mellow into a pleasant plunge into nostalgia. Take Ohio-based gangsta rap ensemble Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The quin- tet broke out in the 1990s on the strength of grim, supernaturally charged tracks like “Tha Crossroads” and “Look Into My Eyes” before weathering a tumultuous string of events, not least of which was intragroup squabbles, one of the members, Flesh-n-Bone (aka Stanley Howse) spending almost a decade in prison, and in 2023, Krayzie Bone (aka Anthony Henderson) nearly dying after coughing up blood. Despite all of that, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony has persevered, touring regularly and recording (its most recent LP was 2017’s New Waves). With Warren G. PJ Yonder Mountain String Band 8 P.M. FRIDAY, FEB. 7, LONGHORN BALLROOM, 216 CORINTH ST. $30+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Colorado collective Yonder Mountain String Band bills itself as both “authentic” and “pro- gressive” purveyors of bluegrass, which, espe- cially within that genre, are not mutually exclusive qualities. Founded in 1998 by Dave Johnston and Jeff Austin (the latter of whom departed in 2014), the five-piece band has cranked out nearly a dozen studio albums over the last 25 years, all of which have been released on Yonder Mountain String Band’s own inde- pendent Frog Pad label. “One of our biggest in- fluences is the Grateful Dead,” guitarist-vocalist Adam Aijala told The Bluegrass Situation in 2024. “In the years between their albums … they evolved in different ways, but always stuck to a similar blueprint no matter what musicians hap- pened to be around them. Similarly, you can still hear elements of what we did on our first few al- bums today.” Mountain Natives will kick off the evening with an opening set. PJ Jason Wade 8 P.M. SATURDAY, FEB. 8, KESSLER THEATER, 1230 W. DAVIS ST. $28+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Love it or hate it, Lifehouse’s “Hanging by a Mo- ment” is one of the more durable earworms of the early aughts. An anthemic, expansive slice of alt-rock that peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song is fueled, in part, by singer-songwriter Jason Wade’s husky growl, which he’s kept limber over the ensuing de- cades. In the years since, he’s admitted the song was cranked out with little forethought in about five minutes’ time. Lifehouse is effectively on hi- atus for the time being, as Wade pursues his solo career, which encompasses a pair of solo al- bums (the most recent of which is 2021’s Ode to Silence), as well as a side project called ØZ- WALD with Lifehouse guitarist Steve Stout. For this trip through town, Wade will confine himself to acoustic guitar and construct a set list from “Lifehouse’s greatest hits, fan favorites, and songs from his solo records,” according to press materials. PJ The Moth Project 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, WYLY STUDIO THEATRE, 2400 FLORA ST. $35 + AT TICKETS.ATTPAC.ORG Get a little science in your music with this fasci- nating performance. The Moth Project — McAl- len-born and Juilliard-trained violinist Whitney La Grange and Grammy-nominated musician Peter Kiesewalter — invites audiences to con- sider the parallels between the humble moth and humanity itself. Performing against a video screen displaying, according to press materials, “macro photography, slow-motion video and dynamic motion graphics,” the pair perform a head-spinningly eclectic blend of Bach, Joni Mitchell, KISS and original compositions that en- deavor to connect “migration, seduction, death and transformation.” If nothing else, The Moth Project promises to be like little else you’ll see cross a North Texas stage this year. PJ | LET’S DO THIS | t Music Ethan Miller/Getty Images Bone Thugs-n-Harmony come to House of Blues on Feb. 7.
