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Superstar Jennifer Lopez cancels tour, including Houston show

Jennifer Lopez will actually close her tour in Houston on August 31.

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Pop star Jennifer Lopez will return to the road for the first time in five years as part of her This Is Me…Now The Tour, which will close with a Toyota Center show on Saturday, August 31.

UPDATE 5-31-24: Lopez announced on her website that the tour has been canceled, with a note from Live Nation that "Jennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family, and friends." All tickets purchased through Ticketmaster will be automatically refunded.

The 34-city tour is part of a flurry of releases from the 54-year-old singer, including her first new album in 10 years,This Is Me...Now, a Prime Video movie called This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (both being released on February 16), and her appearance alongside husband Ben Affleck in Dunkin Donuts’ Super Bowl LVIII commercial.

The tour will kick off on June 26 in Orlando, Florida, and last for a little over two months. That includes a whopping five dates in Texas, including Austin (July 2), Edinburg (July 3), San Antonio (July 5), and Dallas (July 6). For some reason, she'll move on to other states before going to Houston on August 31 as the final date on the tour.

Lopez will perform a variety of hits from her eight previous albums, as well as new songs fromThis Is Me...Now.

Tickets will be available starting with a JLo Fan Club presale beginning on Tuesday, February 20 at 9 am. Additional presales from Citi Entertainment and Verizon will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, February 23 at 10 am at LiveNation.com.

THIS IS ME…NOW THE TOUR DATES

Wed., Jun 26 | Orlando, FL | Kia Center
Fri., Jun 28 | Miami, FL | Kaseya Center
Tue., Jul 02 | Austin, TX | Moody Center
Wed., Jul 03 | Edinburg, TX | Bert Ogden Arena
Fri., Jul 05 | San Antonio, TX | Frost Bank Center
Sat., Jul 06 | Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center
Tue., Jul 09 | Phoenix, AZ | Footprint Center
Thu., Jul 11 | Los Angeles, CA | Kia Forum
Sat., Jul 13 | Anaheim, CA | Honda Center
Tue., Jul 16 | San Francisco, CA | Chase Center
Wed., Jul 17 | Sacramento, CA | Golden 1 Center
Fri., Jul 19 | Palm Springs, CA | Acrisure Arena
Sat., Jul 20 | Las Vegas, NV | T-Mobile Arena
Mon., Jul 22 | Denver, CO | Ball Arena
Wed., Jul 24 | Tulsa, OK | BOK Center
Fri., Jul 26 | Rosemont, IL | Allstate Arena
Sat., Jul 27 | Indianapolis, IN | Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Tue., Jul 30 | Pittsburgh, PA | PPG Paints Arena
Wed., Jul 31 | Detroit, MI | Little Caesars Arena
Fri., Aug 02 | Toronto, ON | Scotiabank Arena
Mon., Aug 05 | Montreal, QC | Bell Centre
Wed., Aug 07 | Boston, MA | TD Garden
Fri., Aug 09 | Belmont Park, NY | UBS Arena
Sat., Aug 10 | Newark, NJ | Prudential Center
Tue., Aug 13 | Philadelphia, PA | Wells Fargo Center
Wed., Aug 14 | Washington, DC | Capital One Arena
Fri., Aug 16 | New York, NY | Madison Square Garden
Tue., Aug 20 | Cleveland, OH | Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
Thu., Aug 22 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena
Sat., Aug 24 | Raleigh, NC | PNC Arena
Sun., Aug 25 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena
Tue., Aug 27 | Tampa, FL | Amalie Arena
Fri., Aug 30 | New Orleans, LA | Smoothie King Center
Sat., Aug 31 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center

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Houston's interdimensional art exhibit books 4 local acts for summer concerts

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Swimwear Department is heading to Meow Wolf

Things are heating up this summer at Meow Wolf as they host their first ever summer concert series. Four hometown bands will take the stage at the immersive art complex for a series of shows in June and July.

“Houston’s music scene has always been bold, genre-defying, and deeply original, so it felt natural to bring that same energy into our Radio Tave world,” said Aaron Johnson, general manager of Meow Wolf Houston. “This concert series is about celebrating the artists who define Texas' sound and give guests a new reason to experience Meow Wolf in a whole new way.”

Ever since Meow Wolf first opened during Halloween last year in Fifth Ward, the collection of artistic spaces has wowed, delighted, and sometimes confused audiences. Cowboix Hevvven, the venue's "dive bar" with possible links to extraterrestrials, was designed by fifth generation Texan Cole Wilson and features a jukebox of 30 original songs Wilson created in collaboration with other Texas artists. Radio Tave, Meow Wolf's name for the exhibit as a whole, has been a huge critical and popular hit for Meow Wolf, winning two Webby Awards last month.

It's also the perfect place to show off some of the more esoteric bands that make up the Houston sound. The odd four-piece rock band Swimwear Department burst onto the scene in 2023, winning over audiences with their songs about pools and malls as well as a series of stellar music videos shot around the city. Their potent mix of quirk and early-alternative music has made them one of the best novelty acts in Houston.

Meanwhile, The Mighty Orq and Mango Punch have been mainstays for more than a decade. Orq is swamp blues royalty, and always adds a sense of the strange to his concerts thanks to his near-mystical aura. Mango Punch is almost custom built for Meow Wolf thanks to a hectic swirl of Top 40, disco and cumbia.

The schedule for the concerts is below with links to tickets.

Though Houston has never hurt for places weird bands can play, wedding the popular immersive art space at Meow Wolf with concerts is an opportunity to reframe music as performance art rather than just something to listen to while having a drink (though you can still do that at Meow Wolf). Should the summer concert series prove a success, it could quickly become one of the prime venues in the city, at least for groups looking to be a little out there.

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