26 December 8–14, 2022 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents The Smile 6:30 p.m. Thursday, dec. 8, The FacTory in deep ellum, 2713 canTon sT. $65+ aT axs.com It may not be Radiohead, but The Smile is being called the best Radiohead side project with which any of its members have been involved, perhaps because Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, and guitarist Jonny Greenwood, make up two- thirds of this three-piece band. The Smile’s third member is the relatively unknown jazz drummer Tom Skinner, who first worked with Greenwood performing on his soundtrack to the 2012 film, The Master. Making its public debut at the very beginning of the year, The Smile released its first album, A Light for Attracting Attention, in May. The band’s sound is difficult to pin down, with critics describing it as post-punk, proto-punk, art rock, alt rock and math rock. What critics can agree on is that the band has a more aggressive sound that we haven’t heard from Radiohead since The Bends in 1995. Composer and multi-in- strumentalist Robert Stillman opens the show. david FleTcher Cody Canada & The Departed 7 p.m. saTurday, dec. 10, ampliFied live, 10261 Technology Blvd. e. $10+ aT seeTickeTs.us You may remember singer Cody Canada from his time in the red dirt country band Cross Canadian Ragweed. A year after that band called it quits, Canada started up the country-rock trio The De- parted. Over the last decade, the band has been the creative outlet for Canada as well as former Cross Canadian Ragweed bass player, Jeremy Plato, and a revolving door of drummers. The band has released four albums since 2011 with its most recent album, Soul Gravy 2022, coming out this year over the summer. The album’s title is a nod and a revision of Cross Canadian Ragweed’s 2004 breakthrough release, Soul Gravy. The proj- ect is the start of Canada’s mission to wrestle Cross Canadian Ragweed’s music out of the hands of Universal South, which maintains own- ership of the band’s old music. That means that fans in attendance to Saturday night’s show will likely hear some songs they haven’t heard live in over a decade. dF Shawn Colvin and Shannon McNally 7 p.m. Tuesday, dec. 13, The kessler, 1230 W. davis sT. $38+ aT prekindle.com Performing live on stage together Tuesday night in the last of a three-show mini tour are folk- rockers Shawn Colvin and Shannon McNally. Colvin had her biggest hit in the late ’90s when women folk-rock singers saw a moment of surg- ing popularity with singers like Sarah McLach- lan, Paula Cole and Jewel all finding critical success and heavy rotation on alternative radio — along with the wild success of the Lilith Fair tour. Colvin played on the main stage at Lilith Fair all three years of its existence thanks in large part to her haunting murder ballad with a woman protagonist, “Sunny Came Home,” which was named “Song of the Year” at the 1998 Grammy Awards. Country singer-songwriter Shannon McNally saw moderate success with the release of Jukebox Sparrows in 2002, but has spent most of her career writing and record- ing with country greats like Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle and Terry Allen. dF MÅNESKIN 7 p.m. Tuesday, dec. 13, souTh side Ballroom, 1135 BoTham Jean Blvd. $56.92 aT TickeTmasTer.com Italian glam rock band MÅNESKIN was first intro- duced to a larger audience in the Italian version of the talent competition The X Factor in 2017. The band came in second to singer Lorenzo Licitra in the show’s 11th season, but they have gone on to become an international success. The band only made its American television debut last year, per- forming “Beggin’” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in October of 2021. In October of this year, the band announced that it would be releas- ing its third studio album, Rush!, in January 2023 as the band continues its ongoing world tour into Europe. While there are plenty of tickets left for the band’s show Tuesday night at South Side Ballroom on its first American tour, many of their European dates have already sold out. This will likely be the last time you can see this band in a venue this small with a crowd that has yet to sell out. dF Charley Crockett 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, South Side Ballroom, 1135 Botham Jean Blvd. $35+ at ticketmaster.com Former Deep Ellum busker Charley Crockett re- turns to the Big D in style next Wednesday, play- ing a show at South Side Ballroom in support of his September release, The Man From Waco. The new album is Crockett’s first to enter the Bill- board 200. A prolific singer-songwriter, Crockett has released 11 albums since 2015 under his own name and as Lil’ G.L., a name Crockett uses for his side projects just as Hank Williams would use Luke the Drifter. While Crockett may have got- ten his start right here in North Texas, the coun- try-blues-soul crooner has amassed a nationwide following built on the strength of thoughtful, catchy and foot-stomping songs that defy the audience not to sing along to songs like “I’m Just a Clown,” “Welcome to Hard Times” and “Lil’ Girl’s Name.” The Austin country duo Greyhounds will be there to warm up the audience. dF Rich Fury/Getty Images | Let’s do this | t Music the smile is performing on thursday. 10250 Shady Trail, Dallas 214-358-5511 VIP Party Wednesday, december 21st FREE BBQ 11am - midnight $2 beers & Well drinks 4-8pm
