Pop star Jennifer Lopez has scrapped her This Is Me … Live summer tour, including a Friday, July 5, stop at San Antonio's Frost Bank Center, according to statements both from the artist and Live Nation. The tour was to have been the first in five years for the actress, singer and dancer ..read more

Nicki Minaj — the self-proclaimed "Queen of Hip-Hop" — will hit San Antonio on the second leg of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour, which will include 22 additional North American tours, the artist revealed Wednesday evening. Minaj will perform Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Frost Bank Center. General tickets for the performance go on sale at 9 a.m. this Friday via Ticketmaster and Frost Bank Center ..read more

Friday, May 31 Alejandro Escovedo San Antonio native Alejandro Escovedo has decades of creating compelling punk, cowpunk, rock and Americana on his own and as a member of the seminal groups Rank and File and True Believers have made him Texas music royalty ..read more

For those of a certain generation who like their music hard and heavy, the new wave of British Heavy Metal, or NWOBHM, represents a special era. The late ’70s and early ’80s surge in UK-based upstart metal acts leaned heavily into instrumental virtuosity, hooks, riffs and biker-influenced attire such as denim vests and leather. Chief among the acts emerging from this scene are bands including Tygers of Pan Tang, Samson and Girlschool along with better-known standard-bearers such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon ..read more

The Current's San Antonio Music Showcase will return this summer after a five-year hiatus. Scheduled for Saturday, June 22, the 2024 San Antonio Music Showcase will feature performances by more than 50 local acts and DJs across an array of genres, from hip-hop and rock to Latin and Americana. The shows will take place on 10 stages spread between two of the city's nightlife meccas, St. Paul Square and the St. Mary's Strip ..read more

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

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

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

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

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