Fans of scorched psych, noise rock and atmospheric metal can catch an earful of all three this weekend — and without even paying a cover charge. Pagoto, the new project from Ellie English of L.A. Witch fame, will headline a bill at Vice Versa Coffee & Music this Saturday. L.A. Witch achieved success with its reverb-drenched garage rock via hard touring and a string of acclaimed albums on Suicide Squeeze Records ..read more

Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitarist Al Pitrelli found a way to describe his longtime touring group this summer when he was reading a biography of conductor Leonard Bernstein.  “He had a quote in there: ‘True art needs to be accessible, but never ordinary,’” Pitrelli said. “It kind of lit me up, and I read that passage a bunch of times, over and over ..read more

Latin music superstar Don Omar is coming to San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center March 24 as part his Back to Reggaeton tour, according to venue officials. Tickets for the show go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. via Frost Bank Center’s website and Ticketmaster. Presale access is available by signing up for the Frost Bank Center’s All Access Newsletter and clicking on the “Latin” genre ..read more

Album rock hitmakers Def Leppard and Journey will bring their Summer Stadium Tour 2024 to the Alamodome in August with the Steve Miller Band in the opening slot. General tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 15, while several presale ticket options begin as early as 10 a.m ..read more

The run-up to the holidays often means a slowdown in San Antonio's live music options. Not so this week ..read more

Salsa superstar Marc Anthony will shake it at San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center next spring as part of his Viviendo Tour. Tickets for the March 2 performance go on sale at 10 a.m. this Thursday via Frost Bank Center’s website and Ticketmaster. Fans can also get presale access by signing up for the venue’s All Access Newsletter and selecting the “Latin” genre. The "Vivir Mi Vida” singer’s Alamo City stop follows his successful 2023 tour of Mexico and Central America, according to tour organizers ..read more

Performances by Grammy Award-winning musician and songwriter Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller have become such a holiday tradition that it's almost hard to imagine that the group once was credited for revolutionizing Christmas music. For its current tour, the ensemble will perform Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, the classic holiday album that's reverberated for nearly 40 years with fans ..read more

Longtime rock journalist and author David A. Ensminger will celebrate the release of his new book Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History with appropriately raucous musical accompaniment this Sunday at San Antonio's Flagship Records. In the book, Ensminger — an instructor at Lee College in Baytown — explains how punk merged with roots music styles ranging from country and blues to reggae and jazz to form a diverse, multicultural movement that forced a "reimagination of the American songbook." Issued by University Press of Mississippi, the book is presented as a people's history and in ..read more

This week, San Antonio music fans have the chance to check out a couple of OG practitioners of their respective subgenres. On Friday, the Meteors, one of the first and most influential psychobilly bands will bring its mix of rockabilly, punk and horror imagery to Vibes Underground, while Dallas-based alt-country trailblazers the Old 97's will bring its "Holiday Hoopla" show to Gruene Hall that same night. Someone needs to invent a time machine so anybody who's a fan of both can witness both shows ..read more

Sure, there were rumors. But for most fans, the announcement last August that San Antonio's beloved alt-punk trio Girl in a Coma would reunite for a brief series of "closure" shows came as a total shock ..read more