Superstar Jennifer Lopez cancels 2024 tour including Dallas

Jennifer Lopez will play at American Airlines Center on July 6.

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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 include a stop at American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday, July 6.

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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Dallas record store chain Josey Records spins new location in Garland

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Dallas music maker Josey Records has extended its reach east: The record store chain, whose empire includes one of the largest single independent record stores in the U.S., has opened a location in Garland, at 1005 Northwest Hwy., at the intersection of Centerville Road, where it's selling its trademark assortment of vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, turntables, music posters, new releases, and music accessories.

This is the sixth location and the third in the Dallas area, joining the original in Farmers Branch which owners Waric Cameron and Luke Sardello opened in November 2014. They've since opened locations in Plano, Tulsa, Kansas City, and Vidalia, Missouri.

The original location is a giant place with 16,000 square feet devoted to vinyl, 45s, CDs, turntables, and T-shirts. They do a good job showcasing new releases and collector vinyl — they made CultureMap's list of 5 best places in Dallas to buy vinyl records — and are known to host album release and listening parties such as a recent blockbuster celebrating Linkin Park.

They made headlines in June 2020 when they acquired the vast musical inventory of Bill’s Records following the death of owner Bill Wisener; Cameron and Sardello both worked at Bill’s, and knew the sprawling collection first-hand.

"It has taken us years to even start going through it, but in last two years, we've made some headway," Cameron says. "Bill's has its own audience, so we created a specific Instagram account, just for Bill's Records merchandise called @billsrecordsvault."

They chose Garland because they saw it as an area that was under-served.

"There are very few record stores in that area of northeast Dallas, Casa View, Garland, Rockwall, Mesquite," Cameron says. "We have customers who live over there, so it seemed like a good place for a store."

The storefront they're in was most recently The Music Store, which sold and rented musical instruments and accessories; but coincidentally, it's next to an address that was once RPM Records, a hip record store from the '90s.

The Garland store follows the same model as their others: selling new and used records and merchandise, and buying used goods, as well.

"One thing that's cool is that each location takes on its own identity," he says. "We buy used CDs, vinyl records, cassettes — we're a used resale business — and what we buy from our customers dictates what that store becomes. For example, our Plano store has a lot of classic rock. So we're looking forward to seeing what Garland gravitates to."

Garland does have one thing that the other locations do not.

"Right now, Garland has this incredible collection of jazz," Cameron says. "We bought a great collection of jazz records — someone called and wanted to sell it. We get that a lot, we buy major collections from all over the U.S., we even make house calls. So we saved it for the Garland store."