Man, a pretty slow weekend around these parts. If any of you were cool, I'd invite you over to my house to smoke salvia and watch Home Alone 2, but you aren't, so I won't. Shows:


FRIDAY

The Party (Zubar)
We've been hearing rumors about The Party morphing their sets and focusing on some material that is a bit different than their bread and butter for the past year and a half. We have a review of the new mix below from one of our new contributors, and we're looking forward to seeing what these guys have in store next.

Broadcast Sea | The Great Tyrant | The Dead See | Teenage Cool Kids (Rubber Gloves)
Broadcast Sea's music is a complex and brooding mid-tempo style of rock with rhythmic traces of Chicago Post Rock and the seriousness of DC hardcore. The band will have copies of their new album available tonight, and they've secured quite an opening lineup to mark the occasion. Pluto Records label-mates The Dead See are an epically powerful metal band from Lubbock with members of now defunct hardcore groups, Skyscraper and Dolores. Their sludgy rhythms and massive riffs are along the same lines as Neurosis, minus the introductory seven minutes before Neurosis finally decides to start rocking. And I can't say enough about how great it is to see Teenage Cool Kids and Great Tyrant on the same bill.



Cluster Fuck Art show @ 1919 Hemphill



Matthew and the Arrogant Sea (Chat Room, Ft. Worth)

Fu Manchu | Burning Bridges (House of Blues)
One of the original SoCal "stoner" or "desert" rock bands of the early 90's, Fu Manchu released their debut on Bong Load Custom Records, the same label that put out Kyuss. I still don't really care about these dudes, sorry.

SATURDAY

Mom | Shiny Around the Edges | Dust Congress | Malise (Rubber Gloves)
Big show featuring some critically acclaimed local groups. We have a running joke around WSJR HQ that Mom are one of the only local bands that booking agents and promoters find acceptable to book as an opener for "indie bands on national tours." You know, like "hey, Fiery Furnaces are kinda weird. Who should open for them? Oh wait, Mom is kinda weird, and weird goes good with weird, so lets book the fuck outta Mom for this show." Cool. That isn't a dis on Mom at all, but it does happen to be funny. As Mom continues to get better and better, I'll continue to be happy that they land such great opening slots. Dust Congress will be joined by a bassoon player for this show, which is weird because I'm pretty sure that I barely even know what the fuck a bassoon sounds like in the first place. Guess I'll find out bassooner or later.

ADD: Due to some miscommunication, we forgot to mention that Unit One will be hosting another Dub Assembly @ Green Elephant tonight featuring Caspa, who recently released his Fabric 37 mix, and the rest of the Dub Assembly crew.  Should be great.

Hot Flash (Fallout)
Denton's It's What We Get will be guest DJing at Hot Flash tonight, and in case you haven't read it here before, they are really great DJs.

Florene | Violent Squid (Strawberry Fields)
Florene apparently has copies of their new CD up for sale at Recycled, each of which includes handmade artwork pictured (in part) above. They were nominated for "Next Big Thing" in the Quick Awards this year, which, surprise surprise, have made the Dallas Morning News look like Wire when compared with the pathetic shitstorm that was last year's Observer Awards. Violent Squid has 8 million CDs available for sale at every place in Denton I think. Should be a good show, as usual, at Strawberry Fields. And speaking of good shows at Strawberry Fields, Psychedelic Horseshit, who played our SF show with Times New Viking a couple weeks back, have a fairly entertaining interview in Vice this month in which the discuss their newly coined genre "shitgaze." So whether you were aware or not, all you in attendance at that show were listening to shitgaze.

Aceyalone | 88 Keys (The Loft)

SUNDAY

Dengue Fever | Pablo and the Hemphill Seven (Lola's)

Violent Squid music/visuals were intense, it was a good show.

Violent Squid put on a fantastic performance tonight.

for excellent bassoon work check out lindsay cooper's work with henry cow....or the hook to 'tears of a clown' by smokey robinson

mom's not bad. i think we hate EVERYTHING on this blog. hate makes the blog go round!

Mom is brilliant. Shut up.

wait, aren't puns SUPPOSED to be bad? isn't that the point?

tonight at avenue arts venue . tickets are only $5.

come out and check us out you'll have a great time here!!

2 great dj's tons of visuals and just the right enviroment to get your creative juices flowing!!

Music: Plutonium Jukebox

DJ: Ineka Guerra (Electro,Techno)

Live Video Artists: Eddie Ruiz, Robert the 16mm Kid & Richard Reed

Avenue Arts Venue
820 Exposition
10pm-2am
$6

$1 off tonight with a Haiku!

Bring your original and written haiku and give it to the door person at RGRS tonight for $1 off admission!

Times for RGRS tonight...

Mom: 12:45
Shiny Around The Edges: 11:45
Dust Congress: 10:50
Malise (CD Release): 9:45

a note on the strwbrry flds show. It starts at eight with the Heartstring Stranglers, closely followed by Florene and Violent Squid at nine and ten. early show so you don't have to choose between it and another (say rubbergloves?). come to strwbrry flds, see a full set, go to rubbergloves, see another full set. go home and play final fantasy 7.

SHITGAYS

i wish i would have left the "love britches" comment. cute name.

you don't know shit about britches ok?

he just loves them cubs.

Dear love britches: you sound like a whore.

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell's up with Mom fans. They weird me out. Cheesedick.

Malise's new album "Strajecca" will be released tomorrow night at RGRS.

I don't like Mom, but I was at a show they played at J&J's which was freakin' full to the brim with kids who seemed to think differently.

Saturday night 3/29 at the Liquid Lounge The Slack is playing. Land Mammals first, Beauxregard, then Pet Hospital. Gonna be a pretty great show.

for 5:09

Starting today is the AFI Dallas Film Festival. A few musical films are being shown, one on Sonic Youth and one on Lou Reed. Those are later next week, but you may want to buy tickets before the day of.

Dear Stonedranger,

You are a piece of shit. And your puns are bad.

no laptops are used in the mom band.

We've probably mentioned Florene at least ten times in all honesty. Check the archives, yo.

I can't believe it took you this long to finally mention Florene....about time.

it felt like shitgaze too.

yes, i can firmly get behind that bassooner or later comment.

and coming from an ex-band nerd, bassoons have a deep but squeaky tone... kinda dark, kinda cool, kinda annoying. that being said, i like the way they sound.

it surprises me that so many people like boring-ass laptop movie-score bullshit

not bridges.

"Guess I'll find out bassooner or later. "

Zing! Excellent.

It surprises me that more people don't like Mom.

basoons are the ones with the red butts right?