| LET’S DO THIS | t Music Phoenix 7 P.M. THURSDAY, OCT. 13, SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM, 1135 BOTHAM JEAN BLVD. $24.75+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Despite more than a decade of recording and touring in North America, French synth-pop band Phoenix had very little commercial success here until 2009. That’s when Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix took indie stations by storm with huge singles like “1901” and “Lisztomania.” Between appearing in all the major music festivals, making the talk show circuit and having a song featured in a Super Bowl ad, Phoenix was at the very peak of its game in 2010. Since then, the band has re- mained a darling of the indie music world, and though its last two releases didn’t quite manage to capture the same cultural spirit as its break- through release, Bankrupt and Ti Amo were met with much critical acclaim. The band’s new al- bum, Alpha Zulu, will hit shelves and streaming services on Nov. 4, but fans can look forward to hearing the new material firsthand Thursday night after an opening set by New York synth- pop band Porches. DAVID FLETCHER GWAR 6 P.M. FRIDAY, OCT. 14, AMPLIFIED LIVE, 10261 TECHNOLOGY BLVD. E. $30 AT SEETICKETS.US We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, GWAR is a band that any live music fan abso- lutely must see at some point in their life. Sure, you might not be that big into metal, but that really is OK. You have to think of a GWAR show as more of an interactive B-movie. With a really GWAR performs Friday. Shawn Stanley loose plot revolving around some sci-fi thing or another, the members of GWAR play the heroes (or something like that) who fight against, um, creatures of some kind. Somehow this involves playing a rock show as well. Honestly, it’s not going to make a whole lot of sense to the unini- tiated, and any GWAR fan who tries to explain it to you is going to come off sounding like a crazy person. But it doesn’t matter. GWAR puts on an incredibly fun show filled with characters, crea- tures, bad jokes and fake blood. Crobot and fel- low character-driven metal band Nekrogoblikon open the show. DF Disturbed 4:45 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 16, DICKIES ARENA, 1911 MONTGOMERY ST., FORT WORTH. $35+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Well, 97.1 The Eagle may be gone as we knew it, but the station (now called The Freak) will host its annual Freakers’ Ball festival as planned be- ginning Sunday afternoon. The show will start with a couple of local acts, Dallas heavy interga- lactic rock band Mothership and Fort Worth metal stalwarts LockJaw. The day will also see performances from woman-led alt-metal bands New Years Day and Dorothy before another lo- cal favorite, Drowning Pool, opens for the night’s headliners. First up is Asking Alexandria, the longstanding British band whose sound has grown up quite a bit from the band’s metalcore origins to something that is just good hard rock. Alt-metal band Disturbed closes out the night ahead of the release of its eighth album, Divi- sive, which is due out Nov. 18. DF Flipper 7 P.M. MONDAY, OCT. 17, THREE LINKS, 2704 ELM ST. $25 AT SEETICKETS.US Back in the early ‘90s, Flipper caught many eyes around the country when Kurt Cobain sported his homemade Flipper T-shirt in many photo shoots, while performing and in the Nirvana video for “Come As You Are.” Many Flipper fans made their own shirts, and Cobain counted himself among that list, which also included Henry Rollins, Moby and Eric Avery of Jane’s Addiction. The band was the quintessential underground band of its time, influencing just about everyone who came into contact with it and inspiring the grunge move- ment that came after it. The band has reunited in various forms since the death of original singer Will Shatter in 1987, with guitarist Ted Falconi and drummer Steve DePace staying on as original members for the duration. While the band has had its share of singers and bass players fill in for the past three decades or so, they finally found both in Minutemen bassist and vocalist Mike Watt, who’ll perform with the band Monday night after getting some local support from SUMPP, Mean Motor Scooter and Calculated Chaos. DF The Black Keys 7 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 18, DOS EQUIS PAVILION, 1818 FIRST AVE. $34.50 AT LIVENATION.COM Of all the bands that emerged during the garage rock explosion in the early 2000s, The Black Keys have been the most enduring., steadily releasing album after album, year after year to more and more critical acclaim. At the center of it all are drummer Patrick Carney and multi-instrumental- ist Dan Auerbach, who have also produced all the band’s albums except for 2008’s Attack & Re- lease, which was produced by the duo’s frequent collaborator, Danger Mouse. The band’s latest, Dropout Boogie, was released in May to positive reviews, drawing criticism for being, perhaps, a little too consistent. The band has been on tour with opening act Band of Horses since July, and it will close out the tour Tuesday night in Dallas. DF VIP Party Wednesday, OctOber 19th FREE BBQ $2 11AM - MIDNIGHT beers & Well drinks 4-8pm 10250 Shady Trail, Dallas 214-358-5511 10250 Shady Trail, Dallas | 214-358-5511 21 dallasobserver.com CLASSIFIED | MUSIC | DISH | CULTURE | UNFAIR PARK | CONTENTS DALLAS OBSERVER OCTOBER 13-19, 2022
