(Contributions from SR and DL)

Whats the deal with Sunday being the shit this weekend?

FRIDAY

Black Mayonnaise | A Fail Association | TEF | SDS | Church Of The Apocalypse | Brokenizer/Goat/Blast Beat (House of Tinnitus)
Almost overwhelming lineup of varying degrees of extreme at Tinnitus tonight. Black Mayonnaise released a record on the venerable Emperor Jones label and are at times even more accessible than I expected. The music is crawling atmospheric doom-sludge with drum machines, bass rumbling and distantly ominous vocals. I read a review comparing it to Sleep if their production had been done by DJ Screw. Imagine that. The rest of the show features some of Texas' brightest sound manipulators. A Fail Association has some real ear-gouging insanity on their page with some impressive stop/start work occasionally rising from the din. SDS employs short-wave radio for their creations. I've even heard that a member of Denton's Burnt Sienna Trio will be participating which is somewhat surprising considering BST is about as far from noise as you can get. Hopefully, that will get some of the uninitiated out to Tinnitus. When one of the group descriptions is simply "all out war", you can at least count on not being bored even if noise isn't usually your thing. Don't be afraid.

Record Hop | White Drugs | How Hard (Secret Headquarters)
Record Hop's last show with their current drummer, which is a shame because he was excellent. White Drugs had the opening track on our Projection comp. last year and I hear they're a good dirty live experience.

Mugzu | Shaolin Death Squad | Knee Pad | The Timeline Post (Rubber Gloves)
Mixed feelings about this one. Mugzu is definitely a solid metal band and they will be missed as they have been around forever, are locally respected, and this is their last show. So that alone is reason to witness this performance. However, if you can somehow avoid seeing the tragically awful Shaolin Death Squad, please do. I mean, it's great that they can play their instruments well. That does display a certain amount of intelligence. Ted Kaczynski was intelligent. Don't use your skill for pure evil. I don't mean pure evil in a cool headbanger way. I mean it in the worse-than-a-war crime cheese prog novelty metal kind of way. Yeah, please don't do that.

Tame...Tame and Quiet | Radiant | The Paper South (Hailey's)
Yet another show where Tame...Tame considerably outclasses the rest of the bill. The Paper South features members of American Analog Set for fans of that band.

SATURDAY

Wild in the Streets will be doing a set of classic French pop at the DMA (In the Atrium) from 10-1130.

Silk Stocking | Warren Jackson Hearne(J & J's Pizza, Denton)
J & J's Pizza on the square in Denton celebrates its 10 year (!) anniversary with two of the darkest acts in North Texas. Makes perfect sense.

Stumptone | History At Our Disposal (Secret Headquarters)
History At Our Disposal is a somewhat hushed and sometimes experimental rock group that has mostly been a recording project and has played out sporadically. Stumptone is a psych influenced big guitar band that has one of the most ubiquitous logos in all of local music.

The Theater Fire (The Chat Room in Fort Worth)
A great place to catch The Theater Fire. I'm not a huge fan of hanging out in bars but I never mind spending an evening at The Chat Room. It's so comfortable and you can check your e-mail and read all the hateful letters and anonymous comments while sipping a Long Island Iced Tea. Paradise.

SUNDAY

Of Montreal | Elekibass (Gypsy Tea Room)
You know what? If Gypsy is actually going to close down at the end of March and transfer the balance of its events somewhere else, this show might be one of your last decent opportunities to head out there and say your good-byes (if you're the kind of person that likes to say goodbye to inanimate objects). And actually, it should be more than decent. Say what you want about a lot of Of Montreal's earlier work (much of it is less than great), but Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?, their latest, is pretty exceptional. Kevin Barnes has obviously grown into a complex and unique songwriter, and the new record does quite a good job of capturing the inherent contradictions that make Of Montreal shine when they are at their best. The exuberant indie pop elements of their music might be a turn off for some, but when you consider the interplay and push/pull between the compelling electro/synth and bad trip psychedelic paranoia that set them apart from many of today's fashionable popsters, you start to discover the uniqueness and worth of their sound. I'd give the new record a shot, even if you haven't dug their previous stuff, and if the past live perfomances I've caught from them are any indication, the show should be well worth your time.

Kevin Barnes will also be playing a solo set at Good Records.

Danny And The Nightmares (Daniel Johnston) | FishboyHappy Bullets | Two Star Symphony (Granada)
One of the few artists to make the It List that would be considered a "legend". It's been a personal goal of mine to see Daniel Johnston and I'm glad to get another chance for the first time in years. Two Star Symphony is a string quartet and they had some enjoyable staccato-tinged instrumentals on their page. The bands getting to open this show should consider it an honor.

Quest Love | Yameen Allworld | Sober | Select | Neva Dug Disco (Minc)
This will probably be one of the most packed shows all weekend so go early. Sober, Select and Questlove. That might be the best lineup I've ever heard of at Minc.

Akkolyte | Tolar | Man The Conveyors | Expresion Clandestina (1127 N. Clinton Ave. Dallas, TX)
I saw some intense footage of Akkolyte playing Snake Eyes Vinyl in Austin from last week that made me even more excited to catch this house show than I already was. Grindcore/hardcore isn't for everybody but Akkolyte has earned many admirers that usually wouldn't attend a show like this through their almost unbelievable ability and diversity. A band that Dallas should be proud of. They did the bass and drums duo thing long before it was cool. Note: Show starts promptly at 6PM and ends sharply at 10PM.

denton has one of the healthiest music scenes around yeah i say this because i have lived here for a while. its good. its good to have music aroundbetter than a bunch of cops and military and shit

music=good
people=equal the best technology ever


praise all

saytan

Bands who play videos of Kung Fu movies while they are playing onstage, wear kung fu robes, and attempt some sort of theme/show rather than boring us with the same old horrible shtick, are good in my book. At least they TRY.

Gee, I'd hate to see a We Shot Jr slogan on optical surgery.
Oh, wait...I wouldn't be able to read it anyway! HA!!!

Bands who play videos of themselves while they are playing onstage are douches. It's gay! It's so gay!

well, that does go along with the we shot jr slogan: "anyone that knows more than two chords on guitar is a douche."

i agree with cockranger and i am grateful he has brought up this crippling issue.

it is a fact that the intelligentsia anti-learn their musicianship and reproduce unique/complex music that is more inline with what we can all comfortably agree is acceptable. i don't know if daniel johnston is a true anti-musician, but his music is certainly appropriate for your girlfriend, fun times at the party, or for coffee at the book club meeting in the wholefoods cheese court.

for shaolin death squad to find a comfortable fit in our world, or to ever hope to sell even one retro baby-tee at urban outfitters, they should start forgetting a few guitar chords and hold hands with their more successful peers in denton.

i am just sick and furious about this. there are just too many notes and sometimes i nod my head but i can't tell what is going on and then there is a keyboard and all these people are singing at the same time and the drummer just hits his drums over and over and over and then the smoke is everywhere

WHY CAN'T THEY JUST PLAY SLOW AND DRONING AND BLACK SABBATHY LIKE THE BANDS MY FRIENDS ARE LISTENING TO

please pillage them from the great denton scene before i stop being gay and accidentally enjoy them

barbara or laura bush?

tapes or 8 trax?

so do indie

major record labels suck

In regards to Stonedranger's comment about the Shaolin Death Squad show, I think that he feels that it is very pertinent for musical society that, just in case they happen to be able to play they instruments well, they should at least PRETEND that they don't. This will be the right kind of evil for Stonedranger to be able to bang his head to, as opposed to the "tradgically awful prog-metal novelty" kind. I'm not sure if Stonedranger is a musician himself, but from now on we solemly swear to use our Ted Kaczynski type skills however he wants us to because...he...is...da...MAN!!!

if anybody cares, the of montreal show was a big, sweaty yawn. It's like they saw the scissor sisters (and I'm not giving them any kudos by saying this), and got jealous of their costumes. eh voilà!

how can a band that I've liked so long on recording be so fucking boring EVEN WITH VIDEO SCREENS, SEQUINS AND SILLY DANCING FANS be so boring live?

grody!

damn shame it was such an early show, cos I heard the openers were really good.

high light of the night? BABY GRAMPS at double wide! HOLY SHIT!

actually, 12:44 is more on the right side. I'm an old timer know nothing and I gotta say, I ain't having a bunch of peoples in my house makin' noise and spillin beer. fuck a bunch of that. unless my parents pitch in. that would RULE!

I know reggie white enjoyed a small cup of apple sauce on sonday morning around 11 or so whilst sipping upon frank wrights left brow of happiness.

THis blog is SSSSOOOO FUNNY !!! its hilarious to see how many people will anonymously post shit with out knowing an ounce of facts...Fucking funny

time for cookies and grapejuice!

friends,

please do not dignify 12:44 with a response.

do not feel angered by the blatant stupidity and pointless blathering.

if you respond to this tripe, you are only succeeding in perpetuating it.

thank you.

-WO

daniel johnston is lame

suckers

Granada sound was bad? Who knew since the opening bands were so horrible. Missed the first band but then came Brian Adams followed by some indie Jad Fair/Trackenburg copy followed by a Beatles tribute band.
Thank God for Danny and The Nightmares. Daniel seemed really into it and I thought it was a great show. Decent crowd too.

The house of tinnitus (pile of shit) will go down once mommy and daddy figure out where all of the tuition money is going. You guys suck.

Maybe one day you can move out of a house and play music for people. That will be sometime after you learn how to play, hopefully.

i know this was a few million comments ago but i had to go to pete's dueling piano bar recently for a work reunion thing. the one in addison no less! it was the worst night of my life.

The sound at Granada was terrible last night. And the Nightmares probably made it worse.

if you can't tell, whip out yer mom's barry manilow records and get out the SCEEEEEENE

double yawn. pushing to new levels? give
me
a
break.
playing with broken lightbulb pieces is what passes for ingenious musicianship these days?
appocalypse come now please.

yawn.

We are excited, and very thankful for the support!

-R

the fact that people are passionate enough over music to actually squabble over people twisting knobs kind of excites me.
-g

what is the difference between twisting a knob on a delay pedal or pushing, twisting, pulling, stroking, strumming anything else to produce a sound to make music?

real musicians don't get pissed about fake musicians getting accolades. conversely, fake musicians talk shit about real musicians. inversely, the truth always comes out about who can really "push the envelope" and who is twisting a knob on a delay pedal.

steve hill was in one of the actual john zorn cobra performances. or maybe more than one, i don't know.

was that cobra preformance actually sanctioned by zorn or was it one of those shitty denton preformances that shouldnt have happened?

I think the people that are arguing in favor of what you do are doing so because they like it and get annoyed when people make those stupid arguments about "adults" and "learning to play instruments" and stuff like that. The fact that people are vocal about their support for the shows you put on should be exciting to you, shouldn't it?

thanx for all the support, and kind words but HOUSE OF TINNITUS does not need people posting as us and arguing for us.. we have never post anything on this site...we do not boast or dis. We just do what we do. If people dig what we do, awesome and thank you and if people hate what we do, im sorry.

Rob- HOUSE OF TINNITUS

it's not too surprising for sinevil of burnt sienna trio to be involved in this stuff. he's been on a lot of violent squid projects, and he was also in lily's version of zorn's cobra thing. plus he has always been known to tinker with stuff. BST is chalked full of a noisy background. JC plays around with sound a lot. both past and present. and steve hill played in one of zorn's cobra performances.
:)

thanks everyone!

check out our calendar!

www.myspace.com/houseoftinnitus

what a bunch of fuckholes. you tards should be locked in a room with farah.

It's the snobbery... Both sides... "New level?" You say it all.

OK lets get some things straight...why dont you come to one of their shows and see for yourself if "they can play" or not. You have no idea what you are talking about.. just because they dont use conventional instruments and chose to push the limits of music and experiment dosent mean they cant play instruments... most of the bands that do/DID play at H.O.T. use real instruments as well as peices of metal, pedals, synths, home made machines, 12 string fucking basses, drum machines, guitar,real drums,and high tech gear ...you obiviously do not know what you are talking about.. id like to see you play some the stuff that was being done there, Mr. "i can play a guitar, bass or drums really well".. well so can they, they just choose not too in the traditonal form because they choose to take it to a new level!! most noise bands and peopel into noise are also into other music, prob even dig the music you like or make, so you shouldent be so ignorant and diss people that may dig the same exact thing that you are into as well.. your just to lame to accept that there is other music out there that is pushing it a little farther than conventional rock or metal music... That show was the heaviest and most brutal metal looking and sounding show iv ever seen. any fan of metal or heavy music would have agreed!!!

Quit bitching and go start your OWN band!

That tinnitus house shit is not metal. It's for retards who are afraid to learn how to play. That's cool though, you have to have a daycare for morons, they need their fun too.

the show at house of tinnitus was the most "METAL" show ever.. fucking fantastic!!!

Old Of Montreal > New Of Montreal

Kicks its ass by far. Crisises just can't compete with happy yellow bumblebees.

But I still wouldn't miss their new record concert for the world.

FYI
the J&J's anniversary is all month, each Saturday night. Jaime the co-owner hand picks bands to play. Most started playing shows there, some he just likes.
Funny, though, he's not present during the performance.
Just wanted to clear that up so the other bands that are playing anniversary shows don't feel slighted.

Ah, yes. The return of "good music" to the comments section. Tell me, do you also enjoy "live music"?

If you were actually at Tinnitus you would know that it wasn't "hours and hours of deafening feedback". But you weren't there yet you're happy to give us an opinion completely based on ignorance. I'm sure there is plenty of good music not to mention live music in Addison for all of you grownups. Have you heard of Pete's Dueling Piano Bar?

umm.... how about branson missouri

what about shows for grown ups who don't like feedback but like good music?

GOD Damn ..house of tinnitus had a fucking awesome show last night..cant even put into words..just WOW!

hours and hours of deafening feedback? yeah, uh, sounds.... annoying?

ok weird, just got back from secret headquarters and was there last night. what a great weekend! iknow some of you just think denton is so bad but there's a really good thing going on right now. deep ellum is closing, fry street is closing, metrognome os closing, but there is still some shit going on if you look around!!!

Simulpost!!!!

No, but Stumptone was wonderful tonight at SHQ. AND the Trumpet Assassins showed up and were great.
Plus, the redheaded dude that works there was talking about how someone is looking to invest in the spot and expand and improve. It's been really nice just knowing that I could show up and party, no matter who is playing, it's chill... If they get to expand and can still keep the vibe of the place, that would be really awesome.

Did anyone see how much ass Record Hop kicked last night?

Did anyone see the "tragically awful" Shaolin Death Squad last night?

I have to admit: although Ashcroft is one of the most hateable musicians on the planet, I do like quite a bit of what The Verve did, and I think A Storm in Heaven is a pretty decent record.

mc said...
Paper South is really good. Also, they've been known to do a Verve cover off A Storm in Heaven.

6:16 PM

whaaaaaaaaaatttt?!!!!! oh holy crap. anybody? is this blasphemy or a good thing?

oh boy...

the show at HOUSE OF TINNITUS last night was one of the best shows iv seen EVER!!!! no joke.. insane crazy noise moshing, deafing doom metal, crazy machines playing rule-ass tunes,
fist pumping groves..AND insane flourescent light bulb smashing, blood and metal trash can destruction!!!! FUCK the greatest thing to happen in denton in a long time... and the place was packed and involved a rull ass dance party afterwards!!!! DO NOT MISS ANY SHOWS THEY HAVE!!

the show last night at house of tinnitus show was fucking mind-blowing. 12 string basses, smashed flourescent lights, hours and hours of deafening feedback.

you all missed out.

The House of Tinnitus show fuckin' ruled last night!!!

How many We Shot Jr blog persons does it take to screw in a light bulb?

I don't know. Light bulbs suck.

Mexican Cops
Lil' Tedly
Drink to Victory

Fra House
Saturday Night
BYOB

Yes, Knee Pad was awesome last night!!
The whole show was fantastic and there was a really great turnout!
Thanks so much to everyone who came!

knee pad brought it to rgrs last night. only caught the last couple songs, but they brought it no doubt

or hows about the ratio of peoples who like daniel johnston and pat themselves on their bizacks and get an a plus in life?

I'm curious what the ratio of hipsters who've been told they're supposed to like Daniel Johnston vs. actual Johnston fans at the Granada will be.

whoopedeedoo.................

O.K. then...

oh yeah nice list for weekend. We shot jr does not let down.

The Gloomadeers are also playing with Baby Gramps on Sunday. Legend indeed. We played with him in Seattle last summer.

Warren

Sunday you should see Daniel Johnston at the Granada AND Baby Gramps at the Doublewide. Gramps dun played with Akron/Family. He's a fuggin' legend.

also, Wild in the Streets w/guest DJ Mikey Sweetz of Beatdown/S-1 Committee fame on Sunday @ Hailey's, no cover

hey, thx kindly for the mention but the Wild in the Streets/DMA thing is tonight (Friday), not Saturday ...Shanghai 5 will also be performing from 8 to 9 & I hear they'll be covering French classics incl. some by Serge Gainsbourg & Edith Piaf. info on tonight's events -L

Paper South is really good. Also, they've been known to do a Verve cover off A Storm in Heaven.

another weekend of garbage. thanks for the heads up.

i'm so stoked to see daniel johnston. i've never seen him either though i gotta admit that the danny and the nightmares stuff from "the devil and daniel johnston" isn't the greatest. but whatevs. i'm still excited.