21 April 3 - 9, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Amyl and the Sniffers 8 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, HOUSE OF BLUES, 2200 N. LAMAR. $81+ AT LIVENATION.COM You’ve gotta hand it to Melbourne’s self-de- scribed “pub rock” quartet Amyl and the Sniff- ers (vocalist Amy Taylor, guitarist Declan Mehrtens, drummer Bryce Wilson and bassist Gus Romer). As provocative, memorable band names go, that one is near the top of the heap. Befitting an act with such a charged, buzzy name, Amyl and the Sniffers unleashes a brand- new set list every night, customizing the sonic chaos for each city on the tour itinerary. In less than a decade, the rowdy rockers have made an impression, led by the live-wire Taylor, who has name-checked everyone from Dolly Parton to Cardi B as an influence, and thanks to a trio of studio albums. The latest of them, 2024’s Car- toon Darkness, is the impetus for the current tour. Sheer Mag will open. PRESTON JONES Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 8 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, TULIPS, 112 ST. LOUIS AVE. $27+ AT SEETICKETS.US Journey back with me, won’t you, children, to an age when music writers concerned themselves with a now-obscure genre known as “blog rock.” The early 2000s were a tumultuous time for the music industry, grappling with fin de siècle anxi- ety and the fallout from the rise of file-sharing, which gave way to the internet’s swift devouring of the entirety of the business. One of the acts seemingly omnipresent in that era was Brook- lyn-based indie rock foursome Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, whose self-titled 2005 debut was championed by the likes of David Bowie as it was ecstatically cheered on sites like MySpace and then-nascent outlets like Pitchfork. (Writing all of that made me feel spectacularly old.) Time marched on, as happens, and now, the band is on the road, celebrating the 20th anniversary of that debut. Babehoven will kick off the evening with an opening set. PJ Jessica Pratt 8 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, TEXAS THEATRE, 231 W. JEFFERSON BLVD. $32.50+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Although San Francisco-born and Los Angeles- based singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt is nomi- nally associated with the psychedelic folk wing of modern music (freak folk if you’re nasty), her sound and sensibility are far more expansive than that label would suggest. Growing up, the 37-year-old Pratt was exposed to everything from Tim Buckley to X, cutting her teeth as a guitarist to T. Rex’s Electric Warrior. Her fourth studio album, last year’s Here in the Pitch, feels like a gorgeous artifact from some alternate ver- sion of the 1960s. The opening track, “Life Is,” undulates on a bongo-greased groove, as Pratt’s sweet vocals, buried deep in the mix, practically radiate an analog glow, while “World on a String” evokes an LSD-dosed Petula Clark, in the best way. In short, show up and expect the un- expected. Merce Lemon opens. PJ St. Vincent 8 P.M. SUNDAY, APRIL 6, THE BOMB FACTORY, 2713 CANTON ST. $54.50+ AT AXS.COM In the not-quite four years since Annie Clark last passed through her old stomping grounds as a headliner (she popped up in 2022 as an opening act for Roxy Music at the American Airlines Cen- ter), the Dallas-bred artist better known by her stage name, St. Vincent, has experienced quite a bit of life. Not least among all that change was the revelation after this year’s Grammys cere- mony that Clark is married and a parent. “We’ve kept it under wraps,” Clark said backstage at the ceremony where she picked up three trophies, including best alternative music album (for her latest studio effort, the superb All Born Scream- ing) and best rock song. The 42-year-old Clark also ventured into bilingual rock stardom, re-re- cording Screaming in Spanish, a tribute to her fans in various Latin American countries: “They were so giving of their spirit and so unabashed in their love,” she told the Observer last year. “And I thought, ‘Well, OK, so if they’ve been coming to me for this many albums, maybe I can try to meet them halfway and sing in their lan- guage.’” With Glass Beams. PJ Khruangbin 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, TEXAS TRUST CU THEATRE, 1001 PERFORMANCE PLACE, GRAND PRAIRIE. $39+ AT AXS.COM Attempting to describe, in any succinct way, precisely what Houston trio Khruangbin (pro- nounced krung-bin) sounds like is generally an exercise in futility. I gave it a stab four years ago, reviewing the band’s sold-out 2021 appearance at the Bomb Factory, and could only muster the following: “The band excels at crafting and sus- taining a mood to which you can’t help but suc- cumb. Musically, it’s a gumbo of funk and soul and disco and Latin pop and jazz and rock and psychedelia, stirred and stretched and spilled in all manner of fascinating directions.” Regardless, Donald “DJ” Johnson, Laura Lee Ochoa and Mark Speer conjure a sound like no other group in modern music. That facility with mood is the engine of its latest LP, A La Sala, Khruangbin’s fourth studio effort. Helado Negro will provide support. PJ Houston band Khruangbin doesn’t sound like anyone else. Mike Brooks | LET’S DO THIS | t Music
