20 OctOber 16 - 22, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Turnstile 6 P.M. THURSDAY, OCT. 16, PANTHER ISLAND PAVILION, 395 PURCEY ST., FORT WORTH. $97+ AT AXS.COM Baltimore hardcore punk quintet Turnstile took the slow and steady route to rising stardom, first formed more than a decade ago. In the years since, the Grammy Award-nominated band has dropped five EPs and four studio albums, in- cluding their latest, Never Enough, which arrived in June and built upon the success of their 2021 breakthrough, Glow On. “This record made room just to experience that kind of [hardcore] dy- namic and that kind of [hardcore] energy, but also to embrace moments of stillness,” lead vo- calist Brendan Yates told Pitchfork earlier this year. “In my head, I’m like, No one’s got patience in this day and age to listen to a seven-minute song, but I guess it doesn’t matter if they do or not. ... It kind of just challenged the idea of, why do I need to keep moving? In some ways, there’s an idea of existing as a small speck in a big uni- verse, which can bring peace to perspective.” Amyl and the Sniffers, Speed and Jane Remover will open. PRESTON JONES John Legend 8 P.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 18, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $35+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Somehow, two decades have slipped past since singer-songwriter, pianist and producer John Legend released his debut LP, Get Lifted — he was the first artist signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music (gosh, whatever happened to that guy?), and bagged three Grammys for Lifted, in- cluding best new artist. Twenty years on, Legend is practically a household name, having racked up another eight Grammys (for a career-to-date total of 12) on his way to becoming the young- est-ever EGOT winner in 2018. Legend, married to multi-hyphenate talent Chrissy Teigen, has also made a name for himself on NBC’s long-run- ning singing competition The Voice. “It’s a mo- ment of celebration and gratitude,” Legend told People earlier this year. PJ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 8 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 19, GRANADA THEATER, 3524 GREENVILLE AVE. $45+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Speaking of 20th anniversaries, San Francisco alt-rock trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC to the kids) is on the road supporting the milestone of its breakout third album, 2005’s Howl, which marked a profound pivot from dense, fuzzed-out rock to something al- most pastoral and folky. “We were learning as we go,” bassist-vocalist Robert Levon Been told Spin magazine last month. “We thought it was going to be like a Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska kind of record where we put some reverb on it, and that would be it. And then started experi- menting with different organs and trombone and choir vocals and a lot of things.” Although the band — Been, Peter Hayes and Leah Shap- iro — hasn’t released any new music since 2018, the group has never fully dispersed, and contin- ues to tour pretty regularly. With Humanist. PJ The Cult Death Cult 7:30 P.M. MONDAY, OCT. 20, WILL ROGERS AUDITORIUM, 3401 W. LANCASTER AVE., FORT WORTH. $73+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM The full scope of Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy’s artistic evolution over the course of four de- cades will be on view during the forthcoming The Cult Death Cult tour, which boasts just two Texas stops (Fort Worth and San Antonio). For those unfamiliar with The Cult’s lineage, Death Cult was a prior iteration of the band (formed in 1983), which trafficked in more of a gothic and post-punk sound. It was short-lived — Astbury and Duffy settled on The Cult just a year later, in 1984 — and the sound pivoted along with the band’s name, to something more hard rock-ad- jacent. Billed as “a communal gathering of the tribes,” this expansive evening will provide fans new and old with something Astbury considers very timely, as he told Loudwire last month: “There [were] so many parallels between what was happening socio-politically when Death Cult was being born ... and the world, strangely, auspiciously, feels in a parallel moment.” With Patriarchy. PJ Noah Cyrus 7 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 21, HOUSE OF BLUES, 2200 N. LAMAR. $50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Noah Cyrus — yes, sister of Miley; daughter of Billy Ray — has carved out a music career of her own, quite apart from that of her family members’ respective efforts. The youngest Cyrus, now 25, is out on the road in support of her recently released sophomore studio al- bum, I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me, which includes cameos from Fleet Foxes, Ella Langley, Blake Shelton and Bill Callahan (I’ll just pause here for that extraordinarily eclec- tic list of names to really sink in — talk about range). “A lot of my career has been the jour- ney of finding myself again,” Cyrus told Peo- ple in August. “Now I know my sense of self, and I know what I want to write about and who I want to connect to.” Braison Cyrus will provide support. PJ Atiba Jefferson Baltimore punk rockers Tunstile come to Fort Worth on Thursday. | LET’S DO THIS | t Music
