21 OctOber 31 - NOvember 6, 2024 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Marc Anthony 8 P.M. THURSDAY, OCT. 31, DICKIES ARENA, 1919 MONTGOMERY ST., FORT WORTH. $66.90+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Singer-songwriter Marc Anthony has — apart from a brief flurry of hit, English-language sin- gles near the turn of the century — built an ex- traordinary career outside the awareness of most English-speaking pop music consumers. To overlook Anthony because you might mistake him for a one-hit wonder from the late 1990s is your profound loss: The top-selling salsa artist of all time is a force of nature in concert and has maintained a steady clip of albums over the de- cades, earning four Grammys along the way. The Puerto Rican salsero’s “Historia” tour, nominally in support of his recently released album, MUEVENSE, will mark his first North Texas ap- pearance in four years. PRESTON JONES Rod Wave 7 P.M. FRIDAY, NOV. 1, AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER, 2500 VICTORY AVE. $79+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Born Rodarius Green, the trap-soul-popularizing rapper, singer and songwriter Rod Wave has quickly left his mark in less than a decade. He’s made an impression — more than 65 million dig- ital copies sold in the United States alone in that time — thanks to a flurry of albums, the sixth and most recent of which is Last Lap, which de- buted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart upon its release earlier this month. Rod Wave has also shown a knack for left-of-center sam- ples — Paramore, Hank Williams Jr. and New Edition turn up in his tracks — which mirrors his mix of influences: Adele, Chingy, E-40 and Ed Sheeran are among those he’s cited in inter- views. Moneybagg Yo, Toosii, Lil Poppa, Dess Dior and Eelmatic will open. PJ Morrissey 8:30 P.M. SATURDAY, NOV. 2, MUSIC HALL AT FAIR PARK, 909 1ST AVE. $79+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Heaven knows he’s miserable now. Well, maybe more miserable — Steven Patrick Morrissey has been a case study in despondency for the better part of the last 40 years, first as the petulant frontman of beloved British rock act The Smiths and later as a solo artist, whose appetite for both provocation and pettiness have grown ex- ponentially as he’s aged. When he’s not busy lobbing passive aggressive insults at former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr in the press, he’s complaining about record label machinations and “idiot culture” preventing the release of his 14th studio album, Bonfire of Teenagers, first an- nounced three years ago but trapped in limbo ever since. This trip through town — provided he doesn’t cancel at the 11th hour, as is often his wont — will mark his first headlining turn on a North Texas stage in five years. PJ Pink 6:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, GLOBE LIFE FIELD, 734 STADIUM DRIVE, ARLINGTON. $50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Next year will mark singer-songwriter Pink’s third decade in the pop music business, and she’s working as relentlessly now as she did when she first broke through in the late 1990s. Powered by the combination of her muscular contralto and gob-smacking feats of aerial der- ring-do in concert, Pink’s anthemic hits blend with her wise-ass wit to create a singular experi- ence. This trip through North Texas has not been without its challenges for Pink — this date will actually be the third time she’s tried to perform here. Originally scheduled for September 2023, it was pushed to November 2023 and ultimately delayed nearly a year, by which time it will have been five years since she last appeared here. (Also, let’s overlook the cognitive dissonance of attending something billed as the “Summer Car- nival” tour just a couple weeks before Thanks- giving.) With Sheryl Crow, Noga Erez and KidCutUp. PJ Pokey LaFarge 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, KESSLER THEATER, 1230 W. DAVIS. $24+ AT PREKINDLE.COM There is a pleasantly disconnected sensation when listening to the music of Pokey LaFarge (born Andrew Heissler in Illinois) — as if you’ve somehow dialed into frequencies from half a cen- tury ago. Pulling from Americana, jazz, ragtime, Western swing and folk music, among other in- fluences, LaFarge conjures a sound which feels purely American, a distillation of all the many styles and inspirations which course through this country’s original music. His latest LP, Rhumba Country, is his first in three years, following 2021’s In the Blossom of Their Shade. “The more you lis- ten to music from around the world, you realize everybody’s got their form of country music,” La- Farge said in a statement. “It goes back to why I named the album Rhumba Country in the first place: it’s poking fun at the futility of boxing ev- erything into a few genres.” With The Tailspins. 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