Preston’s picks: Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour at American Airlines Center; Tegan and Sara at Majestic Theatre

Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour at American Airlines Center

The swift passage of years can make some reunions seem unbelievable: It’s time for [fill in the blank] to get back together already?! File the Bad Boy Family Reunion under the “Where Does the Time Go?” header, as pop-rap patriarch Puff Daddy has gathered up those who once ruled the top of the charts in the heady days of the late 1990s — save, of course, for the dearly departed Notorious B.I.G., the enormous (and preternaturally talented) beating heart of the Bad Boy roster — and embarked upon a nostalgia-drenched victory lap across the country. (Ever the pragmatic businessman, Puff Daddy has also overseen a five-disc distillation of Bad Boy’s output, in stores now.) With 112, The Lox, Total, French Montana, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Mase and Lil’ Kim.

8 p.m. Wednesday. American Airlines Center, Dallas. $29.50-$150.

Tegan and Sara at Majestic Theatre

Canadian sister act Tegan and Sara Quin fell head-over-heels for the sleek synths of 1980s pop on 2013’s Heartthrob, and returned three years later with a sonic sequel to that superb record, this year’s Love You to Death. The gleaming, atmospheric songs are ideally suited to the Quins’ angular, emotive vocals — a song like Boyfriend all but insists you head out onto the floor for a couples’ skate — which first turned heads in the early ’00s with a series of intense, folk-inclined albums. It’s rare for an act to successfully embrace a wholesale shift in approach so deep into a career, but Tegan and Sara have more than pulled off the pivot from earnest, guitar-toting troubadours to drum machine-pounding party-starters. With Shura.

8 p.m. Thursday. Majestic Theatre, Dallas. $29.50-$35.

This story was originally published September 6, 2016 at 5:55 PM with the headline "Preston’s picks: Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour at American Airlines Center; Tegan and Sara at Majestic Theatre."