22 April 4 - 10, 2024 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Bob Dylan 8 P.M. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, MUSIC HALL AT FAIR PARK, 909 FIRST AVE. $59.50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM To call Bob Dylan an influential songwriter would be a massive understatement. You’d be hard- pressed to find any songwriter on the planet to- day who has not been directly (or at least indirectly) influenced by Dylan’s Nobel Prize- winning songwriting. You might say that The Beatles are just as influential, but do you know who influenced The Beatles? Bob Dylan. In 2022, Dylan inked a deal with Sony Music, giving it the rights to his entire recorded catalog along with the rights to future releases. The financial terms were undisclosed, but The New York Times esti- mated the deal was worth at least $300 million. Supporting his 39th studio album in his 60-year music career, Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan’s Never Ending Tour makes its way through the Music Hall at Fair Park this Thursday. No opening act has been announced, but with a performer this legendary, who needs one? DAVID FLETCHER Offset 8 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM, 1135 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD. $43.50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Atlanta rapper Offset has had a rough few years. Last December, the former Migos rapper and wife Cardi B finalized a drawn-out divorce that had been drawn out since 2020. In the midst of all of that, Offset lost his longtime friend and Migos col- laborator Takeoff when the rapper was shot and killed in Houston in the fall of 2022. Even before that, Takeoff and Quavo, also of Migos, had an- nounced plans of doing a duo project, leaving Off- set, well, offset. The rapper put all these trials and tribulations to music in last year’s Set It Off. The al- bum shows a clear attempt at reinvention, moving through many styles and sounds, navigating through the mire of a public breakup and a public divorce and coming out with something new and interesting. The Set It Off Tour will see opening support from Detroit trap rapper Skilla Baby, Kan- sas City drill rapper SleazyWorld Go and Atlanta rapper YRN Mango Foo. DF NOFX 2 P.M. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, PANTHER ISLAND PAVILION, 395 PURCEY ST. $59+ AT PUNKINDRUBLICFEST.COM/FTWORTH Celebrating 40 years by playing 40 songs in 40 cities, pop-punk icon NOFX performs Saturday night at Panther Island Pavilion before heading off to Europe and calling it quits after shows in LA. In many ways, NOFX set the standard for pop-punk back in the early ’80s when punk was declared dead by some and made more hard- core by others. NOFX took a semi-serious ap- proach to the genre, penning hooky songs with humor and cynicism that found an audience in those who took punk seriously. Never signing to a major label, NOFX has released 15 albums un- der its own Fat Wreck Chords label while help- ing launch the careers of many punk acts that went on to sign with bigger labels. On the band’s latest, Double Album, NOFX continues in the tradition it started in the late ’90s, experi- menting with a variety of sounds that may take older fans some time to adapt. The performance will have support from The Vandals, Lagwagon, TSOL, Riverboat Gamblers, Codefendants and Catbite. DF The Black Crowes 8 P.M. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $49.25+ AT LIVENATION.COM The Black Crowes seemed to come out of abso- lutely nowhere in 1990. With a traditional South- ern rock sound at a time when hair metal was dying and grunge was rising, The Black Crowes stood out from everyone else in the pack play- ing rock ’n’ roll like it was something brand new. The band’s tour has been due since 2019, when they first announced they were reuniting and going on a headlining tour. The first show was scheduled for the summer of 2020, when the world was on lockdown for the pandemic, and when restrictions were lifted, The Black Crowes announced they would open for Aerosmith on the band’s final tour. But when Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler injured his vocal cords dur- ing a performance last September, the tour was canceled. Now, after many starts and stops, The Black Crowes will finally be making a North Texas stop on their Happiness Bastards Tour ’24 with Austin blues rock band Amplified Heat. DF Herbie Hancock 7:30 P.M. MONDAY, APRIL 8, WINSPEAR OPERA HOUSE, 2403 FLORA ST. $39+ AT ATTPAC.ORG Now in the sixth decade of his legendary music career, Herbie Hancock still stands at the cross- roads of technology and music. As an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960s, the legendary pianist and composer be- gan his storied career as a member of the Miles Davis Quintet, helping to push the sound and feel of jazz music forward, developing new ap- proaches on his own recordings that he contin- ued to develop in his ’70s solo work. Hancock broke jazz sales records with albums such as Headhunters, which combined electric jazz with funk and rock. In songs such as “Rockit” and “Future Shock,” Hancock moved into electronic dance music in the ’80s. Hancock was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. For this performance, Hancock will be on piano and keyboards with accompaniment from saxophonist Devin Daniels, bassist James Genus, drummer Trevor Lawrence, Jr. and Grammy- nominated guitarist Lionel Loueke. DF | LET’S DO THIS | t Music Alberto Cabello/Wikimedia Commons Bob Dylan plays April 4 at Music Hall at Fair Park. Hottest Latin aduLt CLub in daLLas! 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