22 February 29 - March 6, 2024 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Indigo Girls 6:30 P.M. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, LONGHORN BALLROOM, 216 CORINTH ST. $35 AT PREKINDLE.COM Thanks to last year’s Barbie movie and its won- derful use and re-use of Indigo Girls’ “Closer To Fine,” the longtime duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have seen renewed interest in their song- writing partnership. The duo have known each other since grade school and began performing together as high schoolers in Decatur, Georgia, in the early ‘80s. The two parted ways after high school; Saliers went to Tulane University in Loui- siana and Ray to Vanderbilt University in Ten- nessee. Both grew homesick and returned to Georgia, transferring to Emory University in At- lanta in 1985 when they began performing as In- digo Girls. That lifelong shared bond really shows in Indigo Girls’ music. Roots Americana and honest to its core, Indigo Girls’ songwriting has always explored the nuances of identity and emotion, never bending in its integrity. Southern gothic singer-songwriter Kristy Lee opens the show. DAVID FLETCHER Jenny Lewis 7 P.M. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, SOUTH SIDE MUSIC HALL, 1135 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD. $42+ AT AXS.COM Indie goddess Jenny Lewis comes to town this week on her Joy’All Tour with avant-garde mu- sician Hayden Pedigo. Lewis had a long career as a child actor in the ’80s and ’90s before starting Rilo Kiley with fellow child actor and then-boyfriend Blake Sennett of Salute Your Shorts and Boy Meets World. In addition to playing with Rilo Kiley, Lewis would also con- tribute background vocals for bands Cursive and The Postal Service. Lewis had started doing solo work before Rilo Kiley officially disbanded, releasing Rabbit Fur Coat with the Watson Twins in 2006 and Acid Tongue in 2008. For those albums, as with her next two, The Voy- ager and On The Line, Lewis would stick close to the indie-rock genre that has gotten her this far, on Joy’All, however, Lewis has gone more in an avant-country direction that is at once famil- iar and foreign. DF Ariel Pink 7 P.M. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, GRANADA THEATER, 3524 GREENVILLE AVE. $32 AT PREKINDLE.COM Ariel Pink is nothing if not a controversial figure in the music world. Seen as both the godfather of lo-fi hypnagogic pop and chillwave as well as a glib speaker who has said more than his share of problematic things in interviews, Pink has es- tablished himself as one of those figures whose life and music is an extension of a larger artistic project. Pink’s work with The Haunted Graffiti from the late ’90s through the ’00s repurposed the sounds and techniques of decades past, but also generated the feelings that kind of music evoked. Pink’s first two studio albums in 2010 and 2012 would bring this kind of musical hauntology to the masses before Pink dropped The Haunted Graffiti band and began exploring art rock in all of its directions. Pink will have opening support from Period Bomb, Psychic Love Child and Semiwestern. DF Sleater-Kinney 7 P.M. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, THE STUDIO AT THE FACTORY, 2727 CANTON ST. $41 AT AXS.COM Sleater-Kinney formed in 1994 in Olympia, Washington, when Corin Tucker of riot grrrl band Heavens to Betsy and Carrie Brownstein of Excuse 17 joined forces, creating one the most important and influential bands to come out of that time and place. Taking its name from Sleater Kinney Road, in Lacey, Washington, the band combines feminist and progressive politics with punk-infused indie rock, playing sharp, hard-driving music that’s had a profound influ- ence on women like St. Vincent and Beth Ditto as well as men like Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance and Patrick Stickles of Titus Androni- cus. Sleater-Kinney released seven albums be- fore going on a 10-year hiatus in 2005. Since 2015, the band has released four more, including Little Rope, which came out in January. Indie- rock singer-songwriter Black Belt Eagle Scout will provide the opening support. DF KRS-One 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, TREES, 2709 ELM ST. $35 AT AXS.COM “Woop-woop! That’s the sound of da police.” KRS-One is back in town with a show in Deep El- lum Wednesday night. The legendary rapper made his debut in 1993, helping to popularize the “boom bap” sub-genre of hip-hop, named after the kick-snare pattern used primarily in the East Coast style of hardcore hip-hop. Before that, KRS-One had been one-third of the hip-hop group, Boogie Down Productions, where he first incorporated a Jamaican zung gu zung melody — a rapping style made famous by Yellowman — into American hip-hop. Over the years, KRS-One has maintained his prominent stature in hip-hop culture, not just as an early music influence, but as a philanthropist and a philosopher concerned with pushing forward hip-hop music and the cul- ture from which it originates. No opening act has been announced for the show. DF Mike Brooks Riot grrrls Sleater-Kinney play Tuesday, March 4, at The Studio at The Factory. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music Hottest Latin aduLt CLub in daLLas! Free Menudo all day sunday Happy Hour everyday 11aM-7PM hours: sun-thur 11aM-2aM // Fri-sat 11aM-4aM 11044 Harry Hines boulevard // (214) 206-3820 chicasbonitas.business.site
