21 August 10-16, 2023 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Boy George & Culture Club 7 P.M. THURSDAY, AUG. 10, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 1818 FIRST AVE. $20+ AT LIVENATION.COM Along with Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and The Smiths, Culture Club emerged out of the U.K.’s New Romantic movement in the early 1980s. What set the band apart from others in the movement was its charismatic and androgynous frontman, Boy George. George’s sexual ambiguity and fluid sexuality shocked the mainstream press at the time, making him and the band lightning rods for the tabloid press. The band also stood out from the pack musically by incorporating elements from reggae and calypso music, giving its sound a lighter and smoother vibe than the dark, brooding atmosphere created by its counterparts. The band released four albums in the ’80s, but it has toured and released new material sporadically since 1986. The band’s last album, Life, was released in 2018, which was the last time the band toured North Texas. Culture Club’s The Letting It Go Show tour will have opening support from Howard Jones and Berlin. DAVID FLETCHER Foreigner 7 P.M. FRIDAY, AUG. 11, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 1818 FIRST AVE. $29.50+ AT LIVENATION.COM Led by guitarist Mick Jones since 1976, Foreigner was crucial in the development of the arena rock sound that came to define the late 1970s and ’80s. Its songs were massive both in sound and sales. Fronted by singer Lou Gramm, the band scored massive hits with “Jukebox Hero,” “Cold As Ice” and “Hot Blooded” among others, but the band is perhaps best known for its power ballad, “I Want to Know What Love Is.” The band continued to re- lease material into the ’90s, but it came to a halt in 1997 when Gramm underwent a surgery to have a brain tumor removed, and anyone who has seen Foreigner’s Behind the Music episode on VH1 will remember how close the singer came to dying. Gramm left the band in 2003 after attempting to tour while his medications weakened his singing voice. Since 2005, singer Kelly Hansen of Hurri- cane has provided vocals for the band. Loverboy opens Foreigner’s Historic Farewell Tour. DF Mudvayne 5:30 P.M. SATURDAY, AUG. 12, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 1818 FIRST AVE. $35+ AT LIVENATION.COM Like a nu metal dream, The Psychotherapy Ses- sions Tour passes through Dallas Saturday night. The concert will be headlined by Mudvayne, who were known for bending the music standards of the genre, particularly the complex bass lines by Ryan Martinie. Mudvayne was one of the most popular metal acts of the 2000s, but went on hia- tus in 2010 as singer Chad Grey and guitarist Greg Tribbett turned their focus on heavy metal super- group Hellyeah, which was founded in Dallas in 2006 by late Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul. Mud- vayne returned from hiatus with its classic lineup still intact in 2021 to co-headline the Freaks on Pa- rade tour with Rob Zombie. For its first headlining tour in 15 years, Mudvayne gathered an incredible list of bands to set the mood for the night: Coal Chamber on its second reunion tour, theatrical shock-rockers GWAR, underrated metal band Nonpoint and metalcore band Butcher Babies. DF The Offspring 7 P.M. SUNDAY, AUG. 13, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 1818 FIRST AVE. $29.50+ AT LIVENATION.COM Regardless of how “punk rock” you think The Off- spring may or may not be, the undeniable truth is that if the band hadn’t released Smash in 1994, there probably wouldn’t be an Epitaph Records as we know it. That album, along with Green Day’s Dookie, brought punk into the mainstream, and it was the first album from an artist on Epi- taph’s roster to go platinum, and it remains the highest selling album for the label. It’s easy to write The Offspring off as the band that plays “Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)” and “Why Don’t You Get A Job?” but let’s not forget that this is also the band that plays “All I Want,” “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” and “Gone Away” (if you haven’t heard the piano version of “Gone Away” from 2021, you’re seriously missing out). Fans in attendance will get to see Dallas’ own Brandon Pertzborn in his hometown debut with the band when the Let the Bad Times Roll Tour with Sum 41 and Simple Plan comes through. DF The Smashing Pumpkins 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, AUG. 15, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 1818, FIRST AVE. $32+ AT LIVENATION.COM There was a time in the mid-’90s when The Smashing Pumpkins was the most important band on the radio. The band’s epic 28-song dou- ble album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was a defining album for Generation X with its highly conceptual song list chronicling the cycle of life and death. The album birthed four of the band’s biggest hits, “1979,” “Zero,” “Tonight, To- night” and the album’s lead single, “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.” The opening lyrics of that lead single are where the band got the title for its cur- rent The World Is a Vampire Tour, but that’s just a clever name. Rather than another album anniver- sary show, fans can expect to hear songs from across the Pumpkins’ catalog including its most recent album Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, which is a sequel to Mellon Collie and 2000’s Machina/Machine of God. Interpol and Rival Sons open the show. DF Mike Brooks | LET’S DO THIS | t Music The Smashing Pumpkins return to Dallas Tuesday, Aug. 15, at Dos Equis Pavilion. 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 NEW LOOK SAME INDEPENDENT LOCAL JOURNALISM
