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San Antonio Current » Music
15h ago
Norteño heavyweights and Bad Bunny collaborators Grupo Frontera are hopping into San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on Saturday, Aug. 17, as part of their Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada Tour. Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday on LiveNation’s website ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
15h ago
This week's live music offerings in San Antonio run the gamut from instrumental masters — jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington and pioneering rock guitarist Uli Jon Roth — to crowd pleasers such as timeless singer-songwriter Chris Isaak and classic country band The Texases. Let's check out the options and get ready to treat our ears. Wednesday, May 15 ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
1w ago
Junior H, one of key architects of the corrido tumbado sound, will bring his $ad Boyz Mania U.S. Tour to Frost Bank Center on Friday, Aug. 2. For his latest tour tour, Junior H will visit 20 U.S. cities and perform tracks from his album, $ad Boyz 4 Life II, which has racked up 1.4 billion streams since its release five months ago. The LA-based performer has dominated the urban Mexican music genre with a style that blends hip-hop with traditional corrido instruments such as tuba and Latin percussion ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
1w ago
Grammy-winning blues musician Cedric Burnside — known for mixing gritty North Mississippi blues with contemporary influences including soul and hip-hop — will perform this Saturday at the Carver Community Cultural Center's Jo Long Theatre. The son of blues drummer Calvin Jackson and the grandson of singer-guitarist R.L. Burnside, the the younger Burnside began touring as a drummer in his teens and has performed with artists ranging from Jessie Mae Hemphill and T-Model Ford to Widespread Panic and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. He also learned from revered bluesman Junior Kimbrough, a f ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
1w ago
This week, San Antonio music fans can savor some slow-cooked midweek blues courtesy of the Reverend Shawn Amos then go crazy later in the week as punk pioneer Handsome Dick Manitoba and riff wranglers Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol push the meters into the red. Let's run it down ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
2w ago
The opening riffs of Seattle-based rock band Heart's "Barracuda," "Crazy on You" and "What About Love" are among the most recognizable on classic-rock radio. Appropriately, the group, formed in 1973, hit up San Antonio‘s Frost Bank Center Wednesday for nearly three hours of rock that was as familiar as it was energizing. Show openers Cheap Trick kicked the evening off with a sampling of its big hits, including "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
2w ago
Who knew the Boerne High School Marching Band was also a metal militia? Metallica recently gifted $15,000 in musical instruments to the Greyhounds' marching band for its winning performance in the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' For Whom the Band Tolls contest ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
2w ago
Music duo Night Club's aesthetic may be best summed up by a chorus from its 2020 LP Die Die Lullaby: "I want to die in the disco." The electronic goth-pop act's blend of darkness and danceability isn't just summed up pithily in its own work, it's caught the ear of alt-rock icon Maynard Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
2w ago
San Antonio's live music options this week span from arena rock to ukuleles — and just about any spot you can imagine in between. Let's dive in and take a look at the diverse sounds Alamo City music fans have to pick from ..read more
San Antonio Current » Music
3w ago
Fiesta may be going full swing, but there's no letup in San Antonio's live music scene. This week, fans will be able to check out the resurrection of the La Semana Alegre festival, have their ears punished by high-volume experimental rock band Swans or take in Saint Motel's more sedate indie-pop at Stable Hall ..read more