16 July 3 - 9, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Silverada 10 P.M. FRIDAY, JULY 4, BILLY BOB’S TEXAS, 2520 RODEO PLAZA, FORT WORTH. $18+ AT AXS.COM If the name Silverada doesn’t immediately ring any bells, this one surely will, especially for pas- sionate fans of Texas country music: Mike and the Moonpies. The latter, formed in Austin by singer-songwriter Mike Harmeier in 2007, is now the former — the new moniker, adopted last year as the band released its eighth studio al- bum (also titled Silverada) is meant to reflect the band’s evolution as it steams toward its sec- ond decade in the business. “The alliteration was funny to me; we were drinking a lot and just having fun,” Harmeier told Garden & Gun maga- zine in 2024. “I had no expectations, so it didn’t seem that important.” Whatever you call ’em, the songs are sturdy as they’ve ever been. PRESTON JONES Outlaw Music Festival 4:15 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 5, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 3839 S. FITZHUGH. $55+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Try as you might, there won’t be a better bang- for-your-concert-buck line-up passing through town this week. The 10th anniversary edition of the Outlaw Music Festival, which will be on the road again until mid-September, rolls into Fair Park, with its powerhouse headliners — Texas icon Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan — in tow. Both men seem to be defying nature, growing more potent as artists and live performers as the years advance, and they’ll be joined by a phenomenal roster of artists at this particular stop, including the Avett Brothers, the Mavericks and Tami Neil- son. Any one of these acts alone on a bill would be cause for celebration, but to have them all in one spot over the course of a day feels like an embarrassment of riches. PJ Planning for Burial 7 P.M. MONDAY, JULY 7, RUBBER GLOVES REHEARSAL STUDIOS, 411 E. SYCAMORE, DENTON. $13+ AT SEETICKETS.US New Jersey-born singer-songwriter Thom Wasluck is a literal one-man band, performing under the musical moniker Planning for Burial, and has spent the past two decades refining his particular blend of Gothic-tinged rock and shoe- gaze ambiance. Wasluck is touring behind his eighth and latest full-length album (and his first in seven years), this year’s It’s Closeness, It’s Easy. “I’m making records for myself, first and foremost,” Wasluck told New Noise magazine earlier this year. “It’s a driving record, something that you could throw on, just be flying down the highway, catch little parts of it and be like, ‘Oh, shit; what’s this part?’ But you can also just tune out a little bit too and let it flow through you.” In other words, buckle up. With As the Grass With- ers the Flower Fades, Jet Fuel Soda and Flower- bed. PJ Kesha and Scissor Sisters 7 P.M. TUESDAY, JULY 8, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 3839 S. FITZHUGH. $32+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM If anyone’s got a contest going for most enter- taining tour title of 2025, we’d like to humbly submit Kesha and Scissor Sisters’ co-headlining run for consideration: “The Tits Out Tour.” Singer-songwriter Kesha, her grueling legal or- deal with the disgraced Dr. Luke well behind her, is back in the spotlight with her sixth studio al- bum, Period, which fuses synth-pop, polka, country and power ballads — as one does. She’s joined by the sorely missed Scissor Sisters, a proudly queer glam-pop foursome which was, perhaps, a decade or two ahead of its time. Re- gardless, Jake Shears and his collaborators haven’t been through town in eons, and its un- impeachable self-titled LP turned 20 last year. If that’s not cause for a sweaty, neon-tinged cele- bration, we don’t know what is. With Slayyyter. PJ Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown 7 P.M. TUESDAY, JULY 8, FERRIS WHEELERS, 1950 MARKET CENTER BLVD. $29.38+ AT SEETICKETS.US Rock band Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown was formed in Nashville, but has its roots in north- east Texas, near the Oklahoma state line. That’s because frontman and singer-songwriter Tyler Bryant hails from the tiny town of Honey Grove — the guitar prodigy cut his teeth on the blues, and on the strength of six studio albums (in- cluded last year’s Electrified), Bryant and his bandmates have landed high-profile opening gigs for the likes of Guns ‘N Roses and AC/DC. “I think our band has gotten better because of that,” Bryant told VWMusicRocks.com in 2022. “You can rehearse all you want, but once you walk out in front of 60,000 people and you hit something you thought was gonna work, and it doesn’t work the way you thought it would, you gotta get back to the drawing board, and you gotta get there quick. That’s the way you learn.” With Nate Bergman and David Forsyth. PJ Rachel Parker Can’t stop, won’t stop: Country music and Texas icon Willie Nelson is on the road this summer and stops in Dallas on July 5. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music
