20 OctOber 2 - 8, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Lukas Nelson 8 P.M. THURSDAY, OCT. 2, MAJESTIC THEATRE, 1925 ELM ST. $51+ AT AXS.COM Dwelling in the shadow of a living legend like Willie Nelson cannot be easy, but his son, Lukas, makes seem as simple as breathing. Shouldering the legacy of his father’s prodigious output and immense influence — often literally, as Lukas now frequently joins his father at center stage to bolster the 92-year-old’s performance vocally and instrumentally — the younger Nelson has also carved a path for himself as a formidable troubadour in his own right. The Grammy Award-winning 36-year-old is hitting the road after a summer spent touring alongside his dad to support his debut solo album, American Ro- mance, produced by the tireless Shooter Jen- nings. (Nelson’s prior band, Promise of the Real, went on hiatus last year.) Laci Kaye Booth will open. PRESTON JONES Don Felder 10 P.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 4, BILLY BOB’S TEXAS, 2520 RODEO PLAZA, FORT WORTH. $28+ AT AXS.COM Listen, co-write an indelible guitar riff like the one animating “Hotel California,” and you can pretty much cruise for the remainder of your career — your legacy is etched in stone. Florida native Don Felder did just that, although he was unceremoni- ously bounced from The Eagles in 2001, after hanging in through the initial stratospheric ascent in the 1970s and the first reunion in the early 1990s. With all the legal back-and-forth long ago settled, the now 78-year-old guitarist has settled into a solo career, which finds him often collabo- rating with fellow fretboard enthusiasts like Peter Frampton, Richie Sambora and Joe Satriani, as he did on 2019’s American Rock ‘n’ Roll. Now, he’s back with a new LP, The Vault — Fifty Years of Mu- sic, and will make his Billy Bob’s debut in support of the project’s release. PJ Jon Batiste 8 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 5, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $54+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM It would be faster to list all of the aspects of American life that musician and composer Jon Batiste is not involved with. The former bandleader for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, Batiste has also earned half an EGOT, taking home an Oscar and Grammy for co-composing the score for Pixar’s Soul, in between serving as the creative director for the National Jazz Mu- seum, appearing in the 2023 documentary American Symphony and collaborating with everyone from Ed Sheeran to Mavis Staples. Somewhere in all of that whirl, the gregarious, classically trained Batiste has also maintained a prolific solo career, the most recent example be- ing his new album, Big Money, which dropped in August and serves as the catalyst for his current American tour. With Diana Silvers and Andra Day. PJ Garbage 8 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 7, THE BOMB FACTORY, 2713 CANTON ST. $41.75+ AT AXS.COM Should you be on the fence about whether or not to catch Garbage on this trip through town, let the alt-rock act’s peerless front woman Shir- ley Manson sway you: “If the truth be told, it is unlikely we will play many of the cities on this tour ever again,” Manson wrote in an August Ins- tagram post. “We are going out in style and we hope you will join us.” During a recent show in Washington, D.C., Manson expanded further, ac- cording to multiple reports, saying, “Thanks to the thievery of the record industry ... touring [is] very, very difficult.” Therefore, it is safe to say, this current promotional jaunt across America in support of the rockers’ eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (which dropped in May), is functionally a farewell to ap- pearing in person on the country’s many stages. Plan accordingly. With Starcrawler. PJ Wet Leg 7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8, SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM, 1135 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD. $48+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM British indie rock quintet Wet Leg — Rhian Teasdale, Hester Chambers, Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki and Ellis Durand — continues the grand tradition of synthesizing American sounds and selling them back to us with a soupcon of superiority. Exploding into consciousness via a self-titled 2022 debut, which graced the world with the immediately indelible single “Chaise Longue,” Wet Leg quickly became a critical darling on both sides of the Atlantic on the strength of its songs and its kinetic live shows. The group wasted little time hammering out a follow-up, dropping sophomore effort Moisturizer earlier this year (which, because the Brits just have a knack for this sort of thing, led to a run of live Stateside dates called “North American Moistourizer”). Mary in the Jungle and INOHA will provide support. PJ Alice Backham British indie rock quintet Wet Leg comes to South Side Ballroom on Oct. 8. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music OFF THE RECORD AMBER ALE D AVAILABLE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST AT 3110 COMMONWEALTH DR., DALLAS, TX 75247 OF EACH BEER SOLD GOES BACK TO SUPPORT THE OBSERVER'S NEWSROOM $1
