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Epic rock band Tool adds Dallas to spring 2024 tour with stop at AAC

Rock band Tool is coming to Dallas.

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Rock band Tool is on the road and that journey will take them to Dallas in 2024. The quartet has added a new round of dates in a U.S. tour that includes Friday, February 2, 2024 at American Airlines Center.

Tickets are on sale this Friday, Oct. 13 at 10 am.

Things have been epically good for Tool since the 2019 release of their critically-acclaimed album, Fear Inoculum, which earned them a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for “7empest."

They've completed multiple, sold-out tours of both the U.S. and Europe and headlined a slew of festivals including Bonnaroo, Power Trip, Aftershock, Welcome to Rockville, Louder Than Life, and the Sonic Temple Arts & Music Festival.

Their shows always garner rave reviews such as a recent one by Loudwire dubbing the performances as “a masterclass of immersion, sound and stage design, musicianship... and levels of ungodly tightness.”

The band - Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass), Adam Jones (guitar), Maynard James Keenan (vocals) - formed in 1990, and has released five studio albums and won four Grammy Awards.

Keenan is also on a separate "Sessanta" tour in spring 2024 with his side bands A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, joined by Primus, that will hit Toyota Music Factory in Irving on April 12 and Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on April 13.

In advance of the forthcoming on-sale, Tool Armyhas opened additional memberships, with pre-sale tickets available exclusively to members from October 11 at 10 am through October 12 at 10 pm.

A limited number of VIP packages will also be initially available to Tool Army members, with remaining options, including premium tickets, soundcheck access, exclusive merchandise and more, available to the general public as the on-sale begins on October 13. Visit Toolband.com for ticketing links and additional information. Elder opens on all 2024 dates.

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1. More than a dozen Dallas restaurants earn Michelin Guide awards. The winners of the first Michelin Guide awards in Texas have been revealed, with 117 restaurants earning some kind of nod, including 15 one-star establishments. More than two dozen restaurants across Dallas-Fort Worth earned some kind of nod or another, but only one won a star. Then, oops, there was a goof on Michelin's list.

2. Reducetarian Summit had to be unlikeliest convention in Dallas ever. Dallas likes to promote itself as a great place to host conventions, but one of the most unpredictable would have to be the Reducetarian Summit, which took place at the end of October at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas, where 500 people from around the world met to brainstorm on ways to reduce consumption of animal products.

3. Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 hot new restaurants for November. This month's installment of Where to Eat is bursting at the seams with newcomers and spinoffs. For November, we've got a vast range of cuisines, from Asian to seafood to the beloved Dallas staple, the Irish pub. To find many cuisines in one spot, there's also a new food-hall near downtown Dallas.

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4. Beloved Dallas restaurateur Al Biernat dies at 69 after ALS battle. Beloved Dallas restaurateur Al Biernat, founder of the acclaimed local steakhouse Al Biernat's, passed away on November 13, following a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease; he was 69.

5. Pluckers Wing Bar opens first Dallas location in a decade in Mesquite. A Texas wing staple is bringing the wings to Mesquite: Pluckers, famous for its wings in many flavors, is opening at 1340 N. Peachtree Rd., in the old Joe’s Crab Shack space. According a marketing spokesperson, it's opening in mid-December.