18 February 13 - 19, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Chat Pile 8 P.M. FRIDAY, FEB. 14, TREES, 2709 ELM ST. $25+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Oklahoma City foursome Chat Pile first roared out of the country’s midsection six years ago. The pseudonymous musicians — vocalist Ray- gun Busch, guitarist Luther Manhole, bassist Stin and drummer Cap’n Ron — signed with experi- mental San Francisco-based label The Flenser, and, in short order, punched out a pair of albums which turned heads across the country. The lat- est of these, 2024’s Cool World, refines what the band considers “noise rock,” and what multiple critics have classified as “sludge metal.” (The very name of the band alludes to the byprod- ucts of lead-zinc mining, often found on the ground in northeastern Oklahoma.) “With all of it, we very consciously try to express and repre- sent the feeling of living in the Southern plains,” Stin told New Noise Magazine in 2022. “Even the more Beavis and Butt-Head, ‘90s alt-metal mu- sical leanings are meant to evoke a sense of place. It’s very culturally ingrained here.” Gouge Away and Nightosphere will open. PRESTON JONES Alan Jackson 7 P.M. SATURDAY, FEB. 15, DICKIES ARENA, 1919 MONTGOMERY ST., FORT WORTH. $454+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Not quite three years ago, country great Alan Jackson performed what he called his final show in Dallas, as part of his “Last Call: One More for the Road” tour, undertaken because the now- 66-year-old singer-songwriter is grappling with the chronic, degenerative Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy condition, which affects his muscle function, balance and movement. Now, five years after his last trip through Fort Worth, he’s returning to the city to say one more goodbye. It’s an emotionally charged experience, as I wrote of his 2022 Dallas farewell: “It was hard not to fight back tears watching Jackson lean slightly on a stagehand as he steadily ambled off stage, the roar of the crowd at his back … a chance to pay proper tribute and give thanks for an artist who, more or less in plain sight, helped redefine country music.” Zach Top will kick off the evening. PJ Faye Webster 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $76+ AT LIVENATION.COM Atlanta-born singer-songwriter Faye Webster has confidently blurred the lines between multi- ple genres across the expanse of her decade- long (and counting) career. Hailing from a musical family — her grandfather was a blue- grass musician, while her mother played guitar and fiddle — the 27-year-old has released five albums over the last 12 years, the latest of which is 2024’s evocatively titled Underdressed at the Symphony. She cut the 10-track effort, along- side producer Drew Vandenberg at the famed Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, smashing together indie rock, country and R&B sounds to create an ar- resting new whole. Evidence of Webster’s genre-indifferent range could be found in the fact she dropped a single, “Lego Ring,” which featured rap visionary Lil Yachty alongside “But Not Kiss,” another single Webster characterized as reminiscent of English garage-rock favorites Arctic Monkeys. With Mei Ehara. PJ Helmet 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, TULIPS, 112 ST. LOUIS AVE., FORT WORTH. $32.50+ AT SEETICKETS.US New York City alt-metal group Helmet burst onto the scene in the early 1990s, a sophisti- cated, unconventional rock band whose ap- proach all but guaranteed it would be destined to be a critical favorite. The Paige Hamilton-led quartet scored a few high-profile successes dur- ing its time on Interscope Records, including its breakthrough 1992 LP Meantime and 1994’s Betty, which Helmet — currently composed of Hamilton, Kyle Stevenson, Dave Case and Dan Beeman — will perform in full during this trip through North Texas. Although the band has continued to write and record since reuniting in 2003 (its most recent LP was 2023’s Left), its legacy is truly its first few records, and the le- gions of artists, from Papa Roach to Deftones, who have modeled themselves after Helmet. With Slomosa and War on Women. PJ Lime Cordiale 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, CAMBRIDGE ROOM AT HOUSE OF BLUES, 2200 N. LAMAR ST. $36+ AT LIVENATION.COM Lime Cordiale — anchored by an Australian pair of brothers (Oliver and Louis Leimbach), and whose sound is as fizzy and refreshing as the band’s name — will make its Dallas debut with this performance. Formed in 2009, the quintet released its debut in 2017, and just last summer, dropped its third album, Enough of the Sweet Talk. The record is “structured as though it’s tak- ing us through the course of a relationship in chronological order,” the band told Rolling Stone Australia last year. Critics embraced the candied approach to such sour subject matter, as Broadway World called the LP “a tour de force that showcases how much Lime Cordiale both continues to remain tied to their roots and evolve exponentially.” PJ Preston Jones Country great Alan Jackson will bid Fort Worth an emotional farewell on Saturday. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music
