22 September 7 - 13, 2023 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Sam Smith 8 P.M. THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, DICKIES ARENA, 1911 MONTGOMERY ST. $35+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM This past February, Sam Smith was all anyone could talk about. The singer’s performance at the Grammys ignited a firestorm of right-wing blowback because of the overtly sexual perfor- mance of a nonbinary person and a trans woman, Kim Petras. On the left, everybody could not get enough of that performance’s fe- rocity or how historic it was to see Smith and Petras win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Unholy,” making Smith the first openly nonbinary artist to win a Grammy, and Petras the first openly transgen- der artist to win a major-category Grammy. Two months later, Smith began their third headlining world tour, GLORIA the tour, in support of the artist’s fourth studio album Gloria. The tour will be making its penultimate U.S. stop in Fort Worth with Canadian R&B singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez before Smith heads on to Central America, Asia and Australia. DAVID FLETCHER MANÁ 8 P.M. FRIDAY–SATURDAY, SEPT. 9–10, AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER, 2500 VICTORY AVE. $49.50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM From the mid-1970s until 1983, singer José Fer- nando “Fher” Olvera, guitarist Ulises Callero and bassist Juan Calleros played together in the Latin pop rock band Sombrero Verde. After two relatively unnoticed albums, Abraham Calleros and Gustavo Orozco left the group and Som- brero Verde disbanded. The remaining three members placed an ad in their local Guadalajara newspaper seeking a drummer to complete the new band they were putting together, and 15-year-old American Alex González responded and was asked to join the group. Today, MANÁ is the highest-selling Latin American band in the world, having sold over 25 million albums and winning a wall full of awards. The band’s México Lindo y Querido Tour is MANÁ’s first tour since 2019. The band will be stopping for two nights in Dallas this weekend and playing hits from across its entire catalog. DF Dance Gavin Dance 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, THE FACTORY IN DEEP ELLUM, 2713 CANTON ST. $39 AT AXS.COM Sacramento post-hardcore icons Dance Gavin Dance return to North Texas, playing Saturday in Deep Ellum. Promoting their latest album Jack- pot Juicer and new single “The Ghost of Billy Royalton,” the band comes to town with Japa- nese alternative metal band SiM, Slovenian met- alcore band Within Destruction and fellow Sacramento post-hardcore band Rain City Drive. Released last summer, Dance Gavin Dance’s new album has five previously released tracks filled with unusual melodies and electronic sounds. The band released the new single on Aug. 24 with a desire to play the song live. Aside from al- ways being a band that pushes beyond the boundaries of whatever genre you might pin on it, Dance Gavin Dance has been known for put- ting on intense live shows that keep fans coming back for more, and Monday night’s is sure to be no different. DF Matt and Kim 7 P.M. MONDAY, SEPT. 11, GRANADA THEATER, 3524 GREENVILLE AVE. $30 AT PREKINDLE.COM This Monday night on Greenville Avenue, Matt and Kim present THE MATT AND KIM TOUR featuring Matt and Kim. Forgive the repetitive- ness, but it would appear that Matt and Kim have titled the tour as such to reassure fans that they, Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino, will indeed be performing together as Matt and Kim and not as Johnson and Schifino’s latest project, PG14, which is still just Johnson and Schifino, but PG14 is a synth-garage punk duo while Matt and Kim is an indie electronic alter- native dance duo, you see. PG14 released its first EP, YES PLEASE, this past April, but Matt and Kim have not released anything since its string of three singles in 2021. But, rest assured, Matt and Kim and not PG14 will be playing Monday night on Greenville Avenue with LA powerpop band Vaguess. DF King Krule 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, HOUSE OF BLUES, 2200 N. LAMAR ST. $85+ AT LIVENATION.COM Few artists can manage the distant cool that English songwriter Archy Marshall has com- manded under the moniker King Krule. Krule’s first album, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, came out in 2013, and the artist amassed a cult following in America after performances on Conan and the Late Show With David Letterman. By 2017, with the release of The Ooz, King Krule was packing U.S. concert halls, drawing in audiences with his dark baritone voice, drunken-poet lyrics and brooding performances. Marshall’s music borrows from and blends together genres. On June 9, King Krule released his fourth album, Space Heavy, which is as bleak and ambitious as Marshall has ever been. His show Wednesday night will have opening support from his Ameri- can counterpart LUCY (Cooper B. Handy). DF Carley Elsey King Krule performs Wednesday night at the House of Blues. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music 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
