| LET’S DO THIS | t Music Fea 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, at Rubber Gloves, 411 E. Sycamore St., $10 at the door San Antonio Chicana punk band Fea is a band steeped in the riot grrrl tradition that sings flu- ently in English and Spanish. The band returns to Denton to play at Howling Mutt Brewing after last year’s September show at Killer’s Tacos. The band released its sophomore album No Novel- ties on Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records in 2019. Fronted by singer Letty Martinez, Fea is backed by the rhythm section from the now-defunct Girl In A Coma — Jenn Alva on bass and Phanie Diaz on drums. Fea has also been searching for a permanent guitarist for quite some time (tell your guitarist friends in San Antonio), but Adrian Conner who plays with an all-female AC/DC tribute band Hell’s Belles, will be filling in on gui- tar. Be sure to get there early for Fea’s opening act Thursday night, The Wee-Beasties. The brass punk collective will be recording crowd shots for a new music video for an unreleased song from their upcoming album. Those who are interested in being in the video should show up no later than 7 p.m. DAVID FLETCHER Mitski 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, at The Factory in Deep Ellum, 2713 Canton St., $100+ at axs.com Japanese-American singer-songwriter Mitski may not be on your musical radar just yet, but that will likely change in the coming year as Mitski tours her universally acclaimed new al- bum Laurel Hell. The singer has given her live performances the highest priority. For the tour making its way through The Factory in Deep El- lum Friday night, the artist worked with perfor- mance artist and choreographer Monica Mirabile while studying various works of theater, honing her live show to perfection. All the work has paid off with her live show drawing praise from Roll- ing Stone, The Guardian, and New York maga- zine. Mitski’s art-pop style and emotionally vulnerable lyrics have earned her a rabid, cult- like following of fans rivaling the intense fandom of BTS or Taylor Swift. That’s probably the rea- son why Mitski’s show has sold out while other shows at The Factory this week still have plenty of seats. You can still find tickets through AXS’ official resale site, but it’ll cost you. DF Helium Queens 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, at The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis St., $22+ at prekindle.com Winner of the 2019 Dallas Observer Music Award for Best Live Act, the Helium Queens are back with their critically acclaimed live experience: Helium Queens: A Space Opera. Performing a full theatrical production Friday night at The Kessler in Oak Cliff, Helium Queens bring an im- mersive, illuminated spectacle around the story of a matriarchy beset by spirits that only the He- lium Queens can stop. Made possible with the Arts Activate grant from the Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, A Space Opera was a truly engag- ing intergalactic experience for all who attended its debut at Artstillery last August. The produc- tion is set to have live music, dancers and Day- Glo colored costumes. The show’s cast of characters includes a veritable who’s-who in North Texas music with Chelsey Danielle of Pearl Earl, Poppy Xander of Polyphonic Spree, Sarah 1 PROFESSIONAL TATTOO SUPPLY FOR PROS ONLY Call for your appointment or design commissions today! HAND BUILT NOT BOUGHT. COME ON DOWN! FRANKLINS TATTOO AND SUPPLY 469-904-2665 • 4910 COLUMBIA AVE, DALLAS, TX 75214 Ebru Yildiz Mitski Ruth Alexander of the Tiger D radio show on KUZU, avant-pop singer Nicole Marxen, Brianne Sargent of Skinny Cooks and Nick Earl of The Deathray Davies. DF Erykah Badu 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at The Factory in Deep Ellum, 2713 Canton St., $59.50+ at axs.com Dallas neo-soul queen Erykah Badu will be cele- brating her birthday Saturday night at The Fac- tory in Deep Ellum, and there are endless reasons why all of North Texas should join in the celebration. Badu changed everything in 1997 when Baduizm took the world by storm. Never had soul, jazz and hip-hop converged into something so smooth and so cerebral. The al- bum created a new music market at the same time it created its own universe. The album would earn Badu two of the four Grammy awards she has received through her career— one for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and the other for Best R&B Album—and that was just the start of a music career that has in- fluenced countless others. She has even changed the English lexicon. Merriam-Webster cites Erykah Badu’s 2008 song “Master Teacher” from New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) for defining the expression, “stay woke,” as be- ing “self-aware, questioning the dominant para- digm and striving for something better.” DF Earl Sweatshirt 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, at The Factory in Deep Ellum, 2713 Canton St., $45+ at axs.com Co-headlining a tour with Action Bronson, Odd Future alumnus Earl Sweatshirt has been some- thing of an enigmatic figure in the hip-hop world since his teens. The rapper was sent to a Sa- moan reform school after his mom found out about his involvement with the hip-hop collec- tive, and he returned a changed musician. The rapper’s debut Doris surprised many critics with its intensely introspective songwriting and gritty production, noting that his voice, more subdued than the featured guests from the Odd Future collective, stood out in its emotional density. By the time the young rapper released his second album I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, he had completely left his past with Odd Future be- hind him. During the pandemic, Sweatshirt went to work on his latest album SICK!, a short, 10- song meditation on the global chaos surround- ing the coronavirus. DF WE ARE OPEN! BEST KRATOM IN TEXAS! CURRENT STORE HOURS: MON-THUR 10AM - 10PM FRI & SAT 10Am - 11pm • SUN 10Am - 10pm of Smoking Accessories and more in DFW! puffnstuffsmokeshop.com THE BEST SELECTION & PRICES WE CARRY CBD! 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