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Daltry and guitarist Pete Townshend will be joined by Townshend’s baby brother Si- mon on guitar, Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey on drums, Loren Gold on keyboards and University of North Texas alumnus Jon Button on bass. The concert will be offer The Who’s many classics and songs from their most recent album, WHO. The Who have been known to for their live per- formances since 1965 when Paul McCartney called them “the most exciting thing around.” You won’t get fooled at this one. DAVID FLETCHER Coldplay 7 P.M. FRIDAY, MAY 6, AT COTTON BOWL, 3750 MIDWAY PLZ., $47+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM When Coldplay released its debut album Para- chutes in 2000, alternative music was really all over the place. The album was released the same year as Tori Amos’ Strange Little Girls, Björk’s Vespertine, Fatboy Slim’s Halfway Be- tween the Gutter and the Stars and Radiohead’s Amnesiac. Those were the five albums nomi- nated for “Best Alternative Music Album” at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards, and though it was nominated along with veteran music acts doing some of their best work, Coldplay took home the Grammy that year. Since then, Cold- play has subsisted on its romantic songs and otherworldly soundscapes as they redefine what it means to be an arena rock band. Last year, the band released its ninth studio album Music of the Spheres, Vol I.: From Earth with Love and announced a world tour whose North American leg kicks off in Dallas Friday night. DF 20 Turnstile 7 P.M. SATURDAY, MAY 7, AT AMPLIFIED LIVE, 10261 TECHNOLOGY BLVD. E., SOLD OUT Turnstile came out of the Baltimore hardcore punk scene about a decade ago but was never expressly a hardcore band. Always pushing the genre forward, Turnstile fearlessly incorporated elements of pop and hip-hop into their hardcore foundation. With their late-summer release GLOW ON, Turnstile once again broke main- stream boundaries, showing just how melodic and adaptive their brand of hardcore could be with its seamless introduction of funk, soul and even Caribbean sounds in the mix. At a time when music consumption has, by necessity, been confined to the home on machines that can access absolutely anything, Turnstile con- firms that the walls that separated genres have eroded, that genre labels can be quite meaning- less and that you can slow dance in the pit. The band’s Saturday night show may be officially sold out, but you can still find tickets from online resale companies. DF Boyz II Men 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY, MAY 8, AT TEXAS TRUST CU THEATER, 1001 TEXAS TRUST WAY, $39+ AT AXS.COM What could be better than seeing the group that gave us the Babyface-produced single “A Song for Mama,” on Mother’s Day? The song brought the Soul Food soundtrack to the No. 4 position on the Billboard 200 and was the last Top 10 single Boyz II Men had before they faded out of the bright light that had shined on the group throughout the ’90s. Along with Bell Biv DeVoe, Boyz II Men was central to the rise of new jack swing, which hit airwaves and eardrums with a drum-heavy sound with multi-layered sampled backdrops in the summer of 1991. From then until 1998, with mega hit singles like “Motownphilly,” “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “On Bended Knee,” “Water Runs Dry” and “4 Seasons of Loneliness,” Boyz II Men could do no wrong. After their label Motown Records was bought by Universal Music Group, Boyz II Men was never quite able to regain that hit-making magic but remain every bit as soulful to this day. DF Bikini Kill 8 P.M. MONDAY, MAY 9, AT THE FACTORY IN DEEP ELLUM, 2713 CANTON ST., $45+ AT AXS.COM Debates about influence and inspiration can be as tedious as they are passionate in the punk community, but you would be hard-pressed to find anyone to disagree with the notion that Bi- kini Kill completely changed punk rock music and helped change the country. Along with bands such as Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Slant 6 and Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill ushered in the underground feminist punk movement, riot grrrl, which was critical to shaping the third- wave feminist ideology around diversity, individ- uality and sex positivity. At a time when Texas leads the way in tearing apart reproductive rights, singer Kathleen Hanna recently told the Observer that she has no interest punishing fans because of where they live, knowing that our fine state is not of one mind: “Texas isn’t all women-hating, trans-hating racist bigots. It’s also a lot of really interesting, awesome fucking progressive people.” DF Bikini Kill t Music performs on Monday. MAY 5–11, 2022 DALLAS OBSERVER CLASSIFIED | MUSIC | DISH | CULTURE | UNFAIR PARK | CONTENTS dallasobserver.com
