Kanye West & Jay-Z, Neon Indian and a Few Other Impressive Show Announcements

Last year, king of the hip hop mountain Kanye West topped year-end lists with the critically acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. When he wasn't hyping his music, he was hyping his lifestyle, name-dropping luxury brands and photos of gold crowns and goblets on Twitter.Now it seems he's taking his...

By Daniel Hopkins

July 27, 2011

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Last year, king of the hip hop mountain Kanye West topped year-end lists with the critically acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. When he wasn't hyping his music, he was hyping his lifestyle, name-dropping luxury brands and photos of gold crowns and goblets on Twitter.

Now it seems he's taking his attention off of Versace sofas and back on his music, which will afford him one of the biggest tours of his career: a six-week stint with Jay-Z, coinciding with the release of the two hip hop heavyweight's collaboration album Watch The Thrown. The tour will land the two stars at the American Airlines Center on Tuesday, October 25. Tickets for the event can be purchased for at Live Nation at 10 a.m. on Monday, August 8. Ticket prices haven't yet been determined, but you can bet it'll be expensive. The gold on that album cover doesn't look cheap.

In other show announcement news, just last week we heard from Neon Indian, who had just announced it's sophomore album Era Extraña, which has a September 13 release date. And just after it hits the record store shelves, the band will perform at Granada Theater on Saturday, September 24. Tickets for the show can be purchased for $20 over at the Granada's ticket website.

Hit the jump to see the rest of this week's show announcements.

Absinthe Lounge
Monday, August 1 - Les Cousins
Tuesday, August 2 - DJ Ramrod, DJ Skippy
Thursday, August 4 - Dub Commision
Friday, August 5 - DJ Mind Control
Sunday, August 7 - Pusher Betty

All Good Cafe
Thursday, August 11 - Trey Johnson, Danny Balis
Saturday, August 13 - Royal Rhythmaires
Thursday, August 18 - The O's
Friday, August 19 - King Bucks, Sueffers
Saturday, August 20 - New Bohemians, Zydeco Blanco
Thursday, August 25 - Chadstock
Friday, August 26 - Trinity River Folk

American Airlines Center
Tuesday, October 25 - Kanye West, Jay-Z

Andy's Bar
Saturday, August 6 - 3 Pill Morning
Saturday, August 13 - The Wee Beasties, The Side Boob Tsunami Babes

Billy Bob's Texas
Friday, September 2 - Jason Boland
Saturday, September 3 - Reckless Kelly
Sunday, September 4 - Chris Cagle
Friday, September 9 - Kyle Park
Saturday, September 10 - Stoney LaRue
Friday, September 16 - Hayes Carll
Saturday, September 17 - Old Crow Medicine Show
Friday, September 23 - Mark McKinney
Saturday, September 24 - Easton Corbin
Friday, September 30 - Robert Earl Keen

The Bone

Thursday, July 28 - Voice Of Addiction, Home Wrecker, Responsible Johnny

Friday, July 29 - Industrial Rockers, The Vail, JudgeMENTAL

Saturday, July 30 - Shund, Responsible Johnny, Exploder

Friday, August 5 - Echelon High, In Search Of Sight, Covet The Creature

Friday, August 5 - Embrace The Embers, Dirty Chemist, Dei Aemeth

Friday, August 12 - Midnight Empire, Dead Beat Poetry, Tweed EQ, Bass Drum

Saturday, August 13 - Bastardos De Sancho, JuJu Beans, 1 Fingered Fist

Saturday, August 20 - Nevermind The Darkness, Over Odds, Drowning Mona

City Tavern
Saturday, July 30 - Here, In Arms, Madison King, RTB2, David Ramirez

Double Wide
Thursday, August 4 - The Black Angels, Sundress, Dove Hunter, Chris Catalena
Saturday, August 6 - Fate Lions, Michael Matician, The Victory March

Fallout Lounge
Friday, July 29 - Art Institute

Gexa Energy Pavilion
Sunday, September 11 - Camila, Del Castillo, Zayra

Granada Theater
Saturday, September 24 - Neon Indian
Wednesday, September 28 - Junior Boys
Tuesday, October 25 - Minus The Bear, The Lonely Forest
Thursday, November 3 - Ra Ra Riot, Delicate Steve, Yellow Ostrich

House Of Blues
Thursday, August 11 - Twice Broken, Dovetail, Hoyotoho, Zoe Ann, Olu Bliss
Saturday, August 13 - Rhymin N' Stealin
Monday, October 3 - Van Hunt
Thursday, October 6 - UFO
Thursday, October 20 - Colbie Caillat
Wednesday, November 2 - Yngwie Malmsteen

Kessler Theater

Thursday, August 18 - Ryan Hamilton

Thursday, September 1 - Ryan Thomas Becker

La Grange

Monday, August 1 - Phlow

Saturday, August 13 - Regatta De Faux, Ten Can Riot

Friday, August 26 - Southbound Lane

Friday, September 9 - Young And Brave, Noonday Morningstar

Muddy Waters
Sunday, August 14 - Blackout Shoppers, Skum City, Not On Your Life

The Rail Club
September 9 & 10 - Hank Williams III

Sons of Hermann Hall
Saturday, August 6 - Kinky Friedman

Trees
Friday, September 16 - Hank Williams III

Verizon Theatre
Thursday, September 22 - Weird Al Yankovic

Will Rogers Memorial Park
Friday, September 30 - Lucero, Meat Puppets, Gene Ween & Others
Saturday, October 1 - Dawes, Telegraph Canyon

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