Six Nights At Truliant

The Marquee

The hottest ticket in town this week belongs to a band from Odessa, Texas. Treaty Oak Revival play Truliant Amphitheater on Saturday, September 19 with Wade Forster, on the West Texas Degenerate tour named for the album they put out late last year. It is a 25 city headline run through arenas and amphitheaters that opened in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 5, and it carried them to their first headline night at Red Rocks along the way. The number that tells the story, though, is not the album or the venue. Six different shows land on that same lawn between Tuesday and Sunday, including The Strokes and Wu-Tang Clan, and Treaty Oak is outselling every one of them. That is a real shift in what a young country crowd will fill in this market. If you are going, the Saturday exit out of University City is the slow part of the night, not the way in. Stay in your seat through the last song or plan on sitting in the lot either way.

Around The Neighborhoods

Start with the obvious. Truliant has a show every night this week except Monday, and the run of them barely shares an audience. BABYMETAL open it on Tuesday, September 15 with Halestorm and Violent Vira, four nights into the headline leg of a twenty date world tour that ends at Aftershock in Sacramento on October 3. John Fogerty and Steve Winwood share Wednesday, September 16, one of twelve amphitheater dates the two of them share between September 3 and September 20, so Charlotte gets one of the last. Fogerty is touring Legacy, the record on which he re-recorded the Creedence catalog he spent decades fighting to control.

Thursday, September 17 brings The Strokes to the same stage, two days after Tampa and one day before Shaky Knees in Atlanta, with Geordie Greep opening. Greep is worth arriving for. The former black midi frontman is on his own North American run behind The New Sound, and an amphitheater lawn at seven o'clock is a strange and funny place to hear it. Then Wu-Tang Clan take Friday, September 18 with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, on the second leg of the Final Chamber tour, eight original members plus Cappadonna and Young Dirty Bastard in his father's place. After Treaty Oak on Saturday, the week closes there on Sunday, September 20 with TLC and Salt-N-Pepa, joined by En Vogue on the It's Iconic run, the first time those two groups have ever shared a headline billing.

The Music Factory keeps pace by booking nothing twice. Malcolm Todd opens the block at Skyla on Tuesday, September 15, two weeks into the Do That Again tour behind an album that put all thirteen of its tracks on the Spotify chart. Phantogram take the Fillmore on Wednesday, September 16, back in American clubs for the last leg of the Memory of a Day run. Thursday, September 17 has the week's one piece of homework. Young Thug and NAV moved off the September 18 date and out of Bojangles Coliseum, so the New Generation tour now lands at the Fillmore a night early. Old tickets still work, the room and the date on them do not.

Friday and the weekend belong to the lawn and the club in equal measure. Rainbow Kitten Surprise headline Skyla on Friday, September 18, which is close to a home game. They formed at Appalachian State in Boone and they are touring bones, their fifth record. Downstairs that same night, George Birge has the Underground. Saturday, September 19 splits between Black Veil Brides at the Fillmore with Caskets, Archers and Autumn Kings, and Jet in the Underground, which is a very funny pair of rooms to walk between. Sunday, September 20 closes with Shaboozey and Noeline Hofmann at Skyla on the Outlaws Never Die tour, and PRESIDENT in the Underground with Cenobia and Showing Teeth.

NoDa runs four nights and swings hard between them. The Mars Volta bring the career spanning set to the Neighborhood Theatre on Tuesday, September 15, a tour that started in Ventura on September 8 and arrives with a new live album, their first since 2005. North Mississippi Allstars take Thursday, September 17, Edgehill and Palmer have Friday, September 18, and Jenna Raine closes Saturday, September 19.

Uptown and South End both go small, and it is worth knowing before you buy. South End has one night all week, Hail the Sun at Amos' Southend on Friday, September 18 with A Lot Like Birds, Blight Town and Murals. Uptown has no arena show for the second week running, which is unusual for the middle of September, and its only music is Sainted Trap Choir at the Carolina Theatre on Friday, September 18. That one is worth the walk. A trap choir in a room restored in 2025 after almost fifty dark years is the kind of booking that building was brought back for. Out in northeast Charlotte, the Blackbox has CID late on Saturday, September 19.

The Comedy Card

Duckworth's has the long weekend. Ian Fidance runs four sets on Tryon Street from Thursday, September 17 through Saturday, September 19, doubling up on Saturday night, working new material two years on from his first special. Matt O'Brien then takes the room on Sunday, September 20, which is a quieter night to catch a club this size.

The Comedy Zone gives its whole weekend to Jeff Dye, four shows across Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19. Both nights run a seven o'clock and a late set, and the late one is always the looser of the two.

The biggest comedy room this week is out east. DL Hughley and Don Lemon bring the Anything Goes tour to Ovens Auditorium on Saturday, September 19, a comedian and a news anchor running two hours of unscripted argument. Ovens is the right size for it, close enough that the back and forth still reads as conversation.

Next Week's Radar

Uptown finally wakes up. Gorillaz play Spectrum Center on Wednesday, September 23 with Little Simz and Deltron 3030, touring The Mountain on a 22 date arena run that opens in Orlando on September 17, their first proper pass through North America since 2022. Two nights before that, the shed keeps going, and the night after Gorillaz, Charley Crockett brings Durand Jones & The Indications to Skyla on Thursday, September 24.