| LET’S DO THIS | t Music Helium Queens will be performing at the Psychedelic Panther festival. Sarah Passon 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 22 Electric Six 7 P.M. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, AT TULIPS, 112 ST. LOUIS AVE., $16 AT PREKINDLE.COM Do you like to dance? Seriously, do you really want to just absolutely let go on the dance floor to the sounds of hard rock, glam metal, surf and who-knows-what? Well, then get ready for a hot and sweaty night with Electric Six at Tulips in Fort Worth on Thursday. Over the course of about 20 years and just as many albums, Elec- tric Six has kept the energy going with songs about fast food, fire, sex, dancing and masculin- ity (with tongue planted firmly in cheek). The band has claimed that most Electric Six songs are really about nothing, and honestly, we will grant them that. Lyrically, there isn’t a whole lot to read into but there is much with which to laugh along. What makes Electric Six a band worth seeing is the absolute spectacle of it all. This is a band that wants each and every single member of their audience up, dancing and hav- ing the best of all possible times. DAVID FLETCHER Pedro the Lion 7 P.M. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, AT GRANADA THEATER, 3524 GREENVILLE AVE., $25+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Formed by multi-instrumentalist David Bazan in 1995, Pedro the Lion began as an entirely solo project with Bazan playing nearly every instru- ment on the band’s first EP and following two full-length albums. For about 10 years, Bazan would play with a rotating cast of musicians to bring the project to life for another two albums and four EPs, but in January 2006, Bazan dis- solved the Pedro the Lion project to pursue his solo work again. The project lay dormant until 2017 when Bazan announced that the project would return with drummer Sean Lane and gui- tarist Erik Walters. The band has released two albums as a trio, including the band’s latest re- lease Havasu, which was released in January. The album is the second in a planned pentalogy, with each album representing a different town in which Bazan spent his childhood. Brooklyn singer-songwriter Oceanator opens the show. DF Escape From The Zoo 8 P.M. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, AT THREE LINKS, 2704 ELM ST., $15 AT SEETICKETS.US Wrapping up its spring tour in support of its first release on Fat Wreck Chords, Houston-based thrash-punk band Escape From The Zoo plays Thursday night at Three Links in Deep Ellum with local support from punk bands Crucial Times and Turd Cutter. The band’s new album, Countin’ Cards, is a fast and loud album that is just as good for moshing as it is for thinking and feeling. The album was created after months of intense self- reflection brought on by the pandemic. Those months of introspection, coinciding with singer Jesse Sendejas’ decision to get sober right before the pandemic, lay the groundwork for deeply ex- istential lyrics that question the political and so- cial constructs that govern our lives. Rather than partaking in punk rock’s long history of didacti- cism in political and social matters, Escape From The Zoo instead focuses on the personal struggle of simply existing in modern times. DF Psychedelic Panther 5 P.M. FRIDAY, 1 P.M. SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 15-17, AT MAIN AT SOUTH SIDE, 1002 S. MAIN ST., $12+ AT PREKINDLE.COM The first festival of its kind in Fort Worth, Psyche- delic Panther is a three-day event boasting 28 lo- cal psych bands playing on two stages at Main At South Side. The event kicks off on Friday with seven bands playing inside the venue and picks up on Saturday with bands playing inside and outside alongside artists and food vendors. Orga- nized by Joe Guzman of psych-fusion band Flow State (which plays Friday at 8 p.m.), Psychedelic Panther will showcase just how many psych bands North Texas has and how diverse the psy- chedelic music can be: whether that be the sludgy garage-psych of Uncle Toasty, the aquatic indie- psych of Phantomelo, the spacey psych-opera of Helium Queens, the dark psych of SEVIT or the straight-up psych-rock of Bruce Magnus. The art- ists who will be showing their works at the event were selected to bring an extra element of psy- chedelia to the atmosphere. DF North By North 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, at Rubber Gloves, 411 E. Sycamore St., $10 at the door Named “Best Out-of-Town Band That Calls Dallas a Second Home” in the 2019 edition of Dallas Ob- server’s Best of Dallas list, North By North returns to Denton with a show at Rubber Gloves on 4/20. The two-piece indie rock band from Chicago has been known to make frequent stops in DFW as guitarist and singer Nate Girard comes from around these parts, but North By North is a road band through and through and on tour for life, spreading their addictive and energetic music across the country with very little time in between shows and tours. The band’s latest release Get Weird arrived shortly before the pandemic brought their tour to a halt in March 2020. A catchy album that is sure to get you dancing, Get Weird finally started to get the support it deserves when the band set back out on the road late last year. North By North will have local support from a host of Denton rock bands plus Fresh Ghosts, New Heroes and Glenda. 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