Our pal El Tocadiscos will not be able to attend to blogging duties for the next couple of weeks, so our new pal Richardson Heights will be taking over until Discos' return. RH is planning some new stuff for you as well, so look forward to being offended by that too. Here we go (SR)

THURSDAY

Lost/Found - A Collection of Visual Fragments (Reel FX Creative Studios)
Opening Thursday, July 10, 7-10 pm
Artwork and interactive installations from Dallas artists Danny DelPurgatorio (good web site) and Limbert Fabian (out of date website with potential to be good).

FRIDAY

Lisa Nersesova and Ma Teresa Gomez-Martorell
(The Fort Worth Community Arts Center)
Opening Friday, July 11, 6-9 pm
I saw Lisa Nersesova's stuff for the first time a few weeks back in a group show at Brooke Berman. The paintings were super colorful and vibrant, kind of reminiscent of Chad Hopper at his most abstract, minus the social commentary. She also included a really neurotic set of ink drawings she evidently did in the car while commuting between Dallas and Denton. However, is that really her name? Anyone?

Shane Pennington (HCG Gallery)
Reception Friday, July 11, 6-9 pm
This is a dual exhibit with Michael Ledoux that half-opened last week. I have an explicit quote via email that this is "going to be good". Evidently Shane is an artist with artwork, but his site runs solely on Flash and has some long-ass introduction, and I had important things to do today, or something.

There's some show Friday night at Goss Michael Foundation featuring UK artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster that looks potentially interesting, but seriously. I refuse to look at another artist or gallery site that runs solely on Flash. Get the word out. At least do your basic navigation in html.

SATURDAY

Jack Kilby: The Eye of Genius (Meadows Museum)
I've always been more of a Gordon Teal fan, but evidently the guy who invented the integrated circuit was also an avid photographer, leaving behind over 18,000 negatives when he died. Quote from the curator via the D.M.N.: "He eagerly captured people at work, cityscapes and industrial landscapes, and he also used various photographic processes to experiment with abstraction. In particular, he took a keen interest in laborers and their occupations, and photographed them from many trades and locations." Holy crap, you can also donate money towards a giant bronze statue of Jack Kilby handing a little boy a microchip in Great Bend, Kansas.

BAD ARTIST STATEMENT EXCERPT OF THE WEEK
[game points are in bold]

"Who am I? I deny that I am a photographer or even an artist. The fact that I would even attempt an artist statement is an odd paradigm for me. Despite the fact that I deny being an artist I can not deny the fact that I indeed create works of art. I do not know what it is that drives me to create. What I create comes from deep within my soul, that which yearns to escape."

Score: 4.5 points (an extra .5 for denying being an artist twice)

Respect to El Tocadiscos.

Photo courtesy of Lisa Nersesova

Fancy Fist | Jessie Mayeux | DJ Baby Ruthless | DJ Ronin with Dance Your Face Off Upstairs (The Cavern)
We're kind of worried that our friend Sally Glass, aka Fancy Fist, is going to get too big for us soon and leave us to drown our sorrows with bad beer and dumb opinions on local music as she enjoys the kind of fame and fortune that we could only dream of. After just a couple introductory gigs around town last month, Sally's calendar is now packed with upcoming shows, and she is just returning from her debut Austin performance last night at the Mohawk. I'm not sure how it went because I haven't heard from her yet today, but I'm not worried-- I'm pretty sure WSJR will always be on her speed dial. Right? Right guys? Sally? Hello?

Burning Brides | Middle Class Rut | True Widow (Club Dada)
We've been pretty big fans of John Iskander's Parade of Flesh shows ever since we interviewed him last year, but I'm not sure I really get this one. Burning Brides are one of those bands who actually list The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins as influences on their Myspace page, and I usually try pretty hard to stay away from groups that do stuff like that. However, in the interest of not being a total dick, I spent some time with some of their music this weekend, and after several songs I realized that I was right all along-- this basically sounds like modern cock rock to me. And I mean "modern" like "alternative" here. Same goes with Middle Class Rut, making locals True Widow the automatic highlight here with their DGC era Sonic Youth meets shogaze, britpop and Brian Jonestown Massacre sound. Some fairly decent stuff here and there. Anyway, there is a reason we expect more than this from Parade of Flesh shows, and Iskander's upcoming birthday party at Club Dada with Health provides a pretty good example of what we're used to from him.

ADD: And how could we forget: Earth, Wind and Fire are at Nokia. I've been jamming to their 1983 album Powerlight like all summer basically. And David Banner is at House Of Blues.

It's What We Get feat. Yeah Def (Hailey's)

Taxi Fare (Zubar)

So if you've ever seen anything we've written about Dallas based dubstep producer Jason Mundo and his monthly Dub Assembly parties over the past year and a half, then you've probably recognized that the theme of  these writings can be summed up in one word: underappreciated.  As a producer and a DJ, Jason Mundo has received a good deal of international critical praise over the past couple of years, but you'd never know it if your only source of info was mainstream local media.  We'll have a lot more to say about all of this coming up in the next week or so as the Dub Assembly crew prepares to celebrate their second anniversary on July 18th at the Green Elephant, so for now, we'll give you a little taste of what they're all about with this live mix, pulled from a recent Mundo and Lifted MC performance at Dub Assembly.  All of the tracks are either original Mundo tracks or Mundo remixes, and they provide a bit of insight into what is going on at Dallas' live dubstep events.  Here is the download link, and here is the tracklist:

Admiral Bailey - Jump Up (Mundo Remix)
Cutty Ranks - Limb by Limb (Mundo Remix)
Mundo - Hear Youts (from Dub Assembly 007)
Mundo - Whose Gonna F**# With Us
Mundo - Tempest
Mundo - Sound Go Dead
Mundo - Punisher
Rayvon - No Guns No Murder (Mundo Remix)
Mundo - Foundation
Mundo - Souljah
DJ SS - Lighter (Mundo Remix)
Mundo - R3LOD 91
Cutty Ranks - Stopper (Mundo Remix)
Mundo - Gunshot Corrosion
Mundo - Drum Machine Funk
Pendulum - Tarrantula (Mundo Remix)
Santogold - Les Artistes (Mundo Remix)
Dawn Penn - No No No (Mundo Remix)
Barrington Levy - Here I Come (Mundo Remix)
Sister Nancy - Bam Bam (Mundo Remix)
Bun B - Draped Up (Mundo Remix)

Cougar Den | Pools | Planets | Mans | Healers | Division Of Power (1919 Hemphill)
Mostly screamo-styled hardcore show, and I should mention that Pools will be a releasing split seven-inch with Cleric this weekend.

Dirty Water Disease | Verulf | Gifts From Enola | Magnets (J and J's Pizza)
Dirty Water Diesease is the improvisation based project of Gutterth founders, Michael Briggs and Brent Frishman. Gifts From Enola is on tour all the way from Virginia, and Magnets is a local band, but they share post rock/instrumental similarities. Some of Magnets' busier pieces are pretty interesting.

Disqo Disco (Fallout Lounge)

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with T. Bone Burnett (Nokia Theater)
Well I can't say I was shocked to find that Plant and Krauss' record was produced by T. Bone Burnett (who's most famous recent production credit is the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack) because what I've heard from their release sort of reminds me of the aforementioned soundtrack in the sense that it comes off as "authentic American music" for people who drive Volvos and shop at Whole Foods. The Plant/Krauss collaboration album received almost universal rave reviews from traditional music media, however, and the brief time I spent with some of its tracks wasn't completely dismal-- it's just that I can't imagine having fun seeing this live, and the fact that this annoying middle aged guy in my office hasn't figured out a way to shut the fuck up about this show all day long hasn't helped either. Fans should consider themselves lucky that this concert is taking place at Nokia as opposed to a larger and more oppressive venue such as American Airlines Center. One thing I think you can say about Nokia-- for a venue its size, the sound is quite solid.

Cool Out (The Cavern)

ADD: Giuda | Giraldo | Rocket for Ethiopia(Bar of Soap)
Just heard some solid new tracks from Carrolton's Rocket for Ethiopia-- pretty nice example of the kind of slop garage meets bonehead hardcore that I dig. The tracks are posted on the Myspace page if you want to check them out. Anyway, they'll be opening for Italian hardcore band Giuda.

LAST WEEK'S GOOD RECORDS LOCAL SALES CHART

1. Matthew LaBrot - Someday EP
2. Mom - Little Brite
3. Mount Righteous - When the Music Starts

LAST WEEK'S GOOD RECORDS TOP 20 OVERALL

1. No Age - Nouns
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum
4. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
5. Hercules & The Love Affair - Hercules & The Love Affair
6. No Age - Nouns (LP)
7. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
8. Matthew LaBrot - Someday EP
9. Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
10. Steinski - What Does It All Mean?
11. Adele - 19
12. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
13. Black Keys - Attack & Release
14. Wold Parade - At Mount Zoomer (LP)
15. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
16. Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
17. No Age - Weirdo Rippers (LP)
18. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
19. National - Virginia EP/A Skin, A Night
20. My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth

RECYCLED JUNE LOCAL SALES CHART AND NEW ARRIVALS

1. Delmore Pilcrow - Worn to the Weft; Oso Closo - Rest

2. Daniel Folmer - A Leaf; New Science Projects - Crocodile!

3. Bubba Hernandez - Dancing en Fuego; Dust Congress - Egg Tooth; Stumptone - Gravity Suddenly Released LP; Theatre Fire - Everybody Has a Dark Side

4. Kaboom - Bearnation; Sub Oslo - LP

New Arrival this week:

Dove Hunter - The Southern Unknown

SHOWS OF NOTE THIS WEEK

MON: Robert Plant and Allison Krauss/T. Bone Burnett (Nokia Theater)
WED: Earth, Wind and Fire (Nokia Theater)
WED: David Banner (House of Blues)
THU: Sex Vid/Wax Museums (715 Panhandle)
FRI: Actually Huizenga/MVSCLZ/Tommy Boy/Fight Bite (Swiss House)
SAT: Darktown Strutters/Mistress/Florene (Wisconsin, 721 Texas St. in Denton)
SAT: Peter Murphy/Ali Eskandarian (House of Blues)
SAT: Transona Five/Dove Hunter (Good Records)

THURSDAY

Richard Bishop and Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls (Granada)
There is no easy summary of The Sun City Girls' career, though highlights include their noisy start in the skate punk wasteland of Phoenix's early 80's scene, collaborating with Moe Tucker, and their improbable venture into sprawling psyche double-albums loaded with high concept references to the music of Southeast Asia and The Middle East. They have been wildly unpredictable and enigmatic to say the least. One performance had them eating dinner at a Seattle restaurant with a jazz record playing over the house speakers. Tonight's show will be a tribute to late member Charles Gocher, and will feature his video experiments before the live performance begins. The remaining members will then play out of the vast back catalog as an acoustic duo. Highly unique and recommended show.

Fleet Foxes (The Loft)
Riding a wave composed purely of hype saturation all the way to The Loft tonight, the Fleet Foxes have piled up a steady stack of virtual press in the past six months. Their most known track is entitled "White Winter Hymnal," and that's fitting since it sounds like rather cold church music performed by white guys. The reverb, layers, harmonies and Jack Nitzsche-style arrangement make it understandable why people seem to be taking to this group, however some of their tracks sound like the throw-aways between the "Y" tracks on a CSNY album. Hopefully they do better at the Loft than their attention -rich contemporaries No Age did earlier this week.

Vans Warped Tour featuring Angels & Airwaves / Every Time I Die | Gym Class Heroes and more (Starplex)

Rooney | Locksley | The Bridges (House Of Blues)
Locksley should realize that nobody ripped off the Beatles better than The Rutles. All you need to know about Rooney is that they implore you to vote them in a "Radio Disney" chart topping contest.

FRIDAY

Stay Cool Swag School (Block Party + Rubber Gloves)
This two part event starts off with a block party at the intersection of Mulberry and Bernard in Denton and I have not heard a better reason for showing up to an event since I started writing for this blog than this: UNLIMITED FLAVOR ICE. I am ready to get at that, especially blue. Also appearing is DJ Bangs and yeahdef, followed by a "fireworks bike ride" at 9:30. The party then moves on to Rubber Gloves where there will be free champagne, and appearances by Young Doc Gooden as well as the metalcore brutality of My Son, My Executioner, featuring members of Plano hardcore legends, Terms Of Grey. Man, these dudes must all really love 'merica.

RTX | Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast | Bob White and the F Electrics (Hailey's)
Underground legend, fashion icon, RTX's Jennifer Herrema is many things, and though every time I've ever seen her perform it's always been vastly different, I can tell you that she will never be boring in a live setting. Her music and persona has always been both everything cool and everything unhealthy about an extreme obsession with rock and roll. Click on that link to see what I mean.

Mount Righteous | Panther City Bandits | Clint Niosi and more (Lola's)
This is an all day 4th celebration featuring some of Fort Worth's most popular groups.

RTB2 | Escort Service | Backsliders (Lakewood Bar and Grill)
I usually don't post shows at Lakewood Bar And Grill, because I always forget it's a venue. It might have something to do with the fact that to this day, it is the only place that has ever turned me (along with three friends) away at the door. Not Suite, not some exclusive dance club, but Lakewood Bar and Grill. Totally not 'core. I refuse to ever even glance at this place again.

Pat Green (Winstar Casino)
Ever wonder what your personal version of hell will be when you die? Mine will be reincarnation as a cocktail waitress at this event for all of eternity.

Happy Bullets (Lee Harvey's)

The Hudsons | AM Ramblers (Dan's Silverleaf)

Admiral David V | Quitzow | Setting Sun (Andy's)

Grand Funk Railroad (Texas Motorplex)
Their version of "Locomotion" is in the running for worst song ever, top five definitely.

SATURDAY

Ulrich Schnauss | A Shoreline Dream | Soundpool | Experimental Aircraft (Hailey's)
In early 2007, Ulrich Schnauss released his third album, Goodbye, to some pretty solid critical acclaim. However, the buzz surrounding the album seems quite subpar once you listen to it and realize that Schnauss quietly released one of the best shoegaze records since, well, shoegaze was an actually "genre" back in the early 90's. Schnauss' stuff leans closer to Slowdive's elegant atmospherics than to My Bloody Valentine's overwhelming noise assault, but his electronic based ambient interludes actually go a lot farther than most of Slowdive's experiments, and the touches of IDM from this former programmer add an entirely new element into the mix. I have yet to hear any of his new material, but last year's overlooked gem should really be experienced in person. Highly recommended, especially to anyone who has been digging this year's far more celebrated (but arguably less interesting) effort from M83. (SR)

Dove Hunter (Good Records)
Show at 3 pm.

Lollipop Shoppe (Space Studio)

The Crash That Took Me | Here In Arms | The Directory (The Cavern)

Scene Girls | Matthew And The Arrogant Sea | American Werewolf Academy (The Cavern)

Brent Best | Deep Snapper | Starhead | Hand of Onan | Ryan Thomas Becker (Dan's Silveleaf)
This cover-only themed show has been the subject of much debate in Denton this week. Local bands covering other local bands? Cool or not cool? I think it's always best to go with a surprise attack even if it's an entire set. If the crowd is really pissed or really happy at the end, either way, you win.

Teenage Cool Kids | Trifle Tower | Nouns Group | Fancy Fist (715 Panhandle)
This is the tour send-off for Teenage Cool Kids and Trifle Tower, as they make their way up to Lewiston, Maine and back. Though the Cool Kids are much more poppy than their skramz-heavy tourmates, this should be a fun double bill across America featuring two distinct takes on punk. The ever-charming and lone WSJR diplomat Fancy Fist will open the show. I think I almost wept when I saw her perform Madonna's "Borderline" at the Cavern. It was the first time, I like, really "got it."

SUNDAY

Gravy Train!!!! | Harlem | Bridez (Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio)
The only group with more "!" than !!!, Gravy Train are actually kind of trailblazers in the stream of dance pop raunch that's caught on since they first formed. The funny thing is they sound downright conservative compared to a similar group like Punk Bunny.

Mount Righteous | Twin Cats | The Family Minus | French Quarter (1919 Hemphill)

The Casualties | The Scuds | Time Again | The Goners (Fat Daddy's Soundshack)