San Antonio music followers shouldn’t let the latest precipitation hold them indoors.
This week’s choices embody nation icon Dwight Yoakam, Grupo Frontera’s arena-sized regional Mexican social gathering and sufficient crushing doom metallic to make neglect the dampness altogether.
Thursday, July 16
Hemisfair Summer time Setlist: DJ Illkat
Regardless of its checkered previous, witnessing the rebirth of Hemisfair Park has been heartening. Apparently, the town desires to make this work. A part of the continuing activations in Hemisfair has been their Summer time Setlist sequence, the place native distributors and meals are paired with a neighborhood, typically extremely danceable, musical part. The most recent installment features a set by DJ Illkat, a registered nurse who saves lives by day however cranks out infectious dance-floor jams by night time. DJ Illkat brings the social gathering, and dancing like a maniac on Hemisfair’s Nice Garden sounds superior. Free, Hemisfair, 630 E. Nueva St., hemisfair.org. — BB
Saturday, July 18
Dwight Yoakam
Singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam has at all times existed as his personal man within the nation music world. His fondness for bluegrass, rockabilly and the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens set him aside from his more and more slick showbiz friends of the late Nineteen Eighties. Some have known as Yoakam’s work alt-country, however he’s extra a throwback to the influences which have formed his distinct model. Count on him to showcase the whole vary of his catalog on this efficiency. $65.10-$157.38, 8 p.m., Whitewater Amphitheater, 11860 FM 306, New Braunfels, (830) 964-3800, whitewaterrocks.com. — DC
MC Magic & Paul Wall
Mexican-born and Arizona-raised rapper MC Magic is teaming up with H-City’s Paul Wall for a present dubbed “The Summer time Love & Swangaz,” which reunites the 2 artists who collaborated on the romantic hip-hop ballad “Favourite Woman” earlier this yr. MC Magic is understood for rapping in each English and Spanish and rose to fame within the ’90s as founding father of NastyBoy Data and frontman of the group NB Ridaz. $75.00-$144.00, 7:30 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s, (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — DC
King Pelican, Fausto Faustito
Sure, it’s a two- or three-hour drive to the ocean from San Antonio, however that doesn’t matter. Surf rock is a vibe and an perspective — and King Pelican has each in spades. The trio performs groovy, quick, catchy, exact instrumental rock drenched with loads of reverb. The band additionally injects loads of San Antonio taste alongside the way in which, that means one ought to count on blues, Tex-Mex and polka to be effortlessly infused, as a result of that’s simply how we do it right here. $10, 11 p.m., Lonesome Rose, 2114 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 455-0233, thelonesomerose.com. — BB
Sunday, July 19
Grupo Frontera
After going viral on TikTok shortly after its 2022 formation, Grupo Frontera landed on the Billboard charts that very same yr. Since then, the South Texas natives have since gained awards — together with a number of Latin Grammys — for his or her regional Mexican sound and collaborated on songs with Dangerous Bunny, Christian Nodal and Maluma. $75.15-$1,023.75, 8 p.m., Frost Financial institution Heart, 1 Frost Financial institution Heart Drive, (210) 444-5000, frostbankcenter.com. — BE
Air Provide
The duo of Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock has a myriad of causes to have fun their partnership as Air Provide. The pair dominated the ’80s airwaves with soft-rock hits together with “Misplaced In Love” and “Making Love Out of Nothing At All” and left an enduring legacy. Air Provide is on tour in anticipation of their new album A Matter of Time, its first new work in 15 years. $60.39-$374.50, 7:30 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-5700, majesticempire.com. — DC
Monday, July 20
Conan
Conan the English metallic band — not the Arnold Schwarzenegger film or the red-haired TV host — is crossing the pond in help of its 2025 album Violence Dimension. Sludge and primal down-tuned riffage are a lot a part of the band’s sound that it’s been described as enjoying “caveman battle doom.” It’s a unclean, distorted and finally compelling model the band’s caught with for 20 years. In different phrases, they’ve received it right down to a fucking artwork. $21.36, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — BE
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