Not the greatest weekend in the world for shows, but still a few things worth checking out:
FRIDAYLATE ADD:
Fizzy Dino Pop | Dj Ops/Blue Fabric (408 Ponder, Denton)
Yo Majesty | Natalie Stewart (Hailey's)
You might be tempted to lump Yo Majesty in with some of that other hipster hop bullshit (am I the only one who tried real hard but couldn't ever get into that Cool Kids record?), but I've seen the women of Yo Majesty twice and they are pretty much the real deal. By the way, I recently rediscovered Queen Latifa's "Just Another Day." Remember that jam from back in the day? It rules. There is also a picture of a topless memeber of Yo Majesty somewhere on WSJR. Post the URL to win a free prize!
ADD: Teenage Cool Kids | Unicorn Basement | MC.Vl | Division of Power (Exploding House)
Cartright | Circlebirds | RTB2 | Heartstring Stranglers (Fra House)
DL once called Cartright the worst local band, and I had to laugh at that a lot because even though I actually don't mind Cartright much, I can totally see why someone would say what DL did. Fortunately for society at large, however, most people in the world are not like us, and in fact, Cartright, during their time in Denton, had one of the most loyal local followings of any band I've seen around these parts, especially when they played at their home base, the Yellow House. Yeah, I can see how they are a Cetro-matic and Replacements rip off, but I've seen several of their shows over the years and I've never NOT had fun. That might have been due to the settings more than the band, but isn't context EVERYTHING these days?
Uptown Fridays with Select (Zubar)Nervous Curtains | The Make Believers | Followed By Static (Doublewide)
SATURDAYBaptist Generals | Robert Gomez | Doug Burr | Dust Congress (Sons of Hermann Hall)
Sons is an appropriate setting for this show for sure, and in my not-so-humble opinion, Dust Congress are the highlights here, although to quote a WSJR associate, Baptist Generals DID get like an 8.5 in Pitchfork six years ago. JK guys!
ADD: Violent Squid | Sarah Ruth | Echo-Toll (Knight House)
Tame...Tame and Quiet | Shiny Around the Edges | Kaboom (Chat Room)
If you haven't been to the Chat Room yet, it's a pretty great place to see a show, so check it out. Oh, and you just lost Ft. Worth Vegan Scene points. Bummer.
Hot Flash (Fallout Lounge)
The Hot Flash crew tonight will also feature
Genova. Should be the usual hipster meat market at Fallout if you're looking for some, uh, meat. But if you're in the mood to dance, Hot Flash is always fun and relatively douche free compared to the rest of the dance clubs in Dallas.
SUNDAYThree on Sunday with Martin Iles (Dan's Silverleaf)
Martin will be bringing you the following:
HOOLIGANSHIP: ADVENTURE
Hooliganship (Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeri), 2006 (6 min.)
In this animated short, band practice is interrupted by “Donald Trumpet”, who tells the musicians about some of his problems. These problems include pizza, hot dogs, soft serve ice cream, and more.
Hooliganship is the Northwest’s answer to the visual culture of Fort Thunder, Forcefield, Paper Rad, and Dear Raindrop. Using music, animation, installation, and performance, the duo “revel in a hypnotic abundance of digital information”.
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LORD of the UNIVERSE
TVTV (Top Value Television), 1974 (60 min.)
He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to levitate the Houston Astrodome. It was the early Seventies and anything was possible so thousands flocked to his gathering. Follow him from his mansion in New York to the limousines in Houston, listen to his followers and watch the spectacle unfold just as the guerilla documentary collective TVTV did in this long out of print Alfred I. DuPont award winning documentary.
“If this guy is God, then this is the God the United States of America deserves.” - Abbie Hoffman
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NINA SIMONE LIVE
VARA/GRANADA, 1965/1968 (60 min.)
Featuring performances in Holland on December 25, 1965 and on England’s Granada TV on September 14, 1968.
Songs include... Brown Baby, Four Women, The Ballad of Hollis Brown, Tomorrow is My Turn/Images, Go Limp, Mississippi Goddam, Go To Hell, Ain’t Got No/I Got Life, Backlash Blues, I Put a Spell on You, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Why? (The King of Love is Dead).
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