Eisley | Marksmen | Christie Dupree
Sunday 4/ 1 @ Granada Theater
Composed of four siblings and one cousin from the DuPree family of Tyler, Texas, Eisley take their name from the spaceport town that's home to a dingy, intergalactic dive bar in Star Wars. Their sweet pop tunes are cleaner than anything you'd hear in that seedy establishment, with vocalists Sherri and Stacy trading wistful, ringing harmonies over shimmering spaghetti-western guitars....
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Today @ Verizon Theatre
To say Lenny Kravitz is talented is a massive understatement. The man is a legend. He's written hits. He's won awards. He (re)introduced "American Woman" to a whole new generation. He's received the Order of France. He rocks a nose ring. Oh, and he also acts (check him out in The Hunger Games). Long story short, Lenny Kravitz is the man. Further proving this, his opening act this evening is the headline-caliber Raphael Saadiq.
Today @ Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Glenn Ligon is a puncher. Not because he's occasionally treated punching bags like canvasses, but because he relentlessly puts out work that slaps you upside the head, or simply leaves you dazed and impacted. The artist is probably best known for stenciled, text-heavy work that references everything from slave narratives to Richard Pryor jokes, but in his "mid-career" retrospective, we see a full range of ambitious works. There are painted doors; huge neon works like "Negro Sunshine;" sculptural packing-crate pieces like "Henry Box Brown;" coal-dust drawings; and more recent works from the Colorings series. Then there are those punching bags that are metaphors for American society and black men. It lands like boom.
