29 OctOber 5–11, 2023 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Death Grips 8:30 P.M. FRIDAY, OCT. 6, SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM, 1135 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD. $45.50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM It’s hard to imagine that a group that infamously put on shows through a television set — yep, fans would show up just to see a pre-recorded video of the band playing on TV — would be inviting audi- ences to spend an evening watching them live, but that is exactly what’s happening Friday night in The Cedars as the South Side Ballroom hosts An Evening with Death Grips. In those early days, Death Grips was more of a conceptual art piece — driven by the paranoid and confessional rhymes of MC and the production of Zach Hill — than it was a traditional band. In the 2010s, the group released six albums, five EPs, three non-album singles, an instrumental album and a mixtape, but since 2019, the band has spent more time focusing on its live show at festivals and on its current tour. There will be no opening act for Death Grips on this tour. In- stead, the band will be playing roughly 30 tracks from across its massive catalog and possibly even something new. DAVID FLETCHER The Breeders 8 P.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 7, TANNAHILL’S TAVERN AND MUSIC HALL, 122 E. EXCHANGE AVE. STE. 200. $45 AT TICKETMASTER.COM Even if you don’t know that The Breeders is the longtime side project of now-ex-Pixies member Kim Deal, even if you don’t know that Kim Deal’s twin sister Kelley is also in the band, even if you don’t know the band’s iconic album Last Splash is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, you know the opening bass line to the band’s best-known song “Cannonball.” The Breeders have been touring the anniversary of the album for the past two months with opening acts such as Horsegirl and Screaming Females. But as the band’s Dallas show happens in the middle of The Breeders opening for Foo Fighters for a couple of South- west shows (and before the band does the Austin City Limits Music Festival), The Breeders have no scheduled opening act for its Fort Worth show this weekend. This kind of break in a band’s nor- mal tour schedule often makes for a really fun show and possibly a surprise or two. DF Dead Boys 9 P.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 7, SUNDOWN AT GRANADA, 3520 GREENVILLE AVE. $22.50 AT PREKINDLE.COM CBGB was the birthing ground of New York punk. It’s in that famous club that bands such as Ra- mones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Television and Patti Smith all got their start. Clearly, that was back when punk was more of an umbrella term, encompassing the kinds of music we refer to to- day as “indie.” There was one CBGB band that would set the tone for what we know today as hardcore or street punk, and that band was the Dead Boys. One of two bands ever managed by CBGB club owner Hilly Kristal, Dead Boys burned loud and bright from 1975 until 1979 when the band dissolved into side projects. Today the band consists of original bassist Cheetah Chrome, for- mer Dead Boys tribute band singer Jake Hout and some touring musicians, but for those who have seen this iteration of the band, it is clear that the intensity that always defined the group has remained. Glam band The Midnight Devils from Omaha, Nebraska, opens the show. DF Janelle Monáe 8 P.M. MONDAY, OCT. 9, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $61.50+ AT LIVENATION.COM In these past five years, Janelle Monáe has made a bigger name for herself as an actor playing lead roles in films such as The Glorias, Antebellum and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — all roles she played with great power and command. But just when you thought Monáe was going to com- pletely leave her singing career in the past, she went and released a new album centered on Afro- beat music. There wasn’t a whole lot of lead-up to Monáe’s new album, The Age of Pleasure, but days before the album dropped on June 9, the singer announced a U.S. tour, which will be kicking off its final week here in Dallas. The tour will also include opening acts from the world of Afrobeat music, in- cluding Monáe’s collaborator on The Age of Plea- sure, Nana Kwabena, who played percussion on most of the album’s tracks. TikTok star Dreamer Isioma will also be there in support. DF The All-American Rejects 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM, 1135 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD. $45+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM This is the kind of concert you hoped for in high school, circa 2005, wearing all your Hot Topic gear and hoping you looked as cool and as edgy as you felt. The All-American Rejects will be mak- ing those teenage dreams come true when the band’s Wet Hot All-American Summer Tour comes rolling into town with New Found Glory, Motion City Soundtrack and The Get Up Kids. Sure, one way to look at that lineup is that it is backward, but the way that the bands are or- dered actually makes the concert a kind of his- tory lesson in which the most influential bands lead into the most influenced. The Get Up Kids were a major player in the formation of Midwest Emo — a sound that bands New Found Glory in Florida and Motion City Soundtrack in Minnesota would attempt to capture in their work. A few years later, The All-American Rejects would use the sound as a foundation for its anthemic, power pop hits. It should be a fun history lesson. DF Jeff Fasano Punk legends Dead Boys play Sundown at Granada Saturday night. | 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 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH • ENERGY SQUARE PLAZA
