Secret Headquarters in Denton will be the place to be next Friday... come join us for:

Tree Wave

War Wizards (debut performance of a new band featuring Lars Larsen, Wanz Dover and Shawn Mauck of Silk Stocking. No one has heard their music yet, but we've seen phrases like "digital hardcore" and "no wave" used to describe it.)

Night Game Cult

Chris Garver

Flashlight Party (before, between and after the sets)

$5 bucks gets you the show and as much of the free keg as you can grab (doors at 7). We highly recommend that you BYOB as well, however, because the keg at Art Prostitute ran out pretty fast. Glad to see we have some drinking problems around here. More details to come...

The Day God Died | The Witty Bastards | Final Fight | Mom (Rubber Gloves)
This show will also feature DJ sets from Chief Death Rage bassist Shane between bands. Mom is the clear highlight here, but we read somewhere that Final Fight, a new Denton band, is supposedly influenced by groups like Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky... haven't actually heard them, but you can take that for what its worth. The Day God Died are a decent metal band from Denton... haven't heard them live, but could be good.

ADD: Flashlight Party is @ Hailey's as well.

First, you should go to Mom's Myspace page and watch a part of their excellent performance at Good Records. The video moves kind of slow (at least it did for me), but the song sounds great. I guess the fact that three of their CDs appear on this week's Good Records Chart indicates that some of the people at the show enjoyed it as much as we did.

And after you finish that, you might want to stop by the Myspace page of Plano's Farah and check out the song "Dancing Girls," which Gorilla vs Bear blogged about just last week. Chris didn't exactly give it a ringing endorsement in his post, but when we learned she was from Plano (and relatively unknown to us), we decided to give it a listen. The music we found on her page was a bit strange to be sure (especially for a local artist), but I was instantly intrigued by the dark, minimal synth production (it kind of sounds like The Knife tricking Alan Braxe and Fred Falke into taking downers and listening to Electroclash) and Farah's lyrical stew of random thoughts, detached teen angst, bizarre journal entries and Farsi. After a few brief Myspace conversations with the singer, we learned that she is currently working with producer Johnny Jewel of Portland's Glass Candy (although its unclear whether he worked on any of the tracks that appear on her Myspace page) and is also collaborating on a project with Wanz Dover. Some of Farah's lyrics struck us as more than a bit silly, but the overall mood created by the contrast between the production, lyrical content and vocal delivery is quite interesting, and at times a lot of fun. Certainly worth listening to.

RTB2 | Matt Whipkey | Brass Bed (Club Dada)

Didn't get a chance to give these acts a good enough listen but I'm somewhat familiar with RTB2 and this was the only remotely interesting show I could find. Be warned that RTB2 is one of those classic cases where the band's Myspace profile has elaborately fleshed out tracks while the live show is just two guys, a guitar, and a drum set. Brass Bed is described as "The Flaming Lips crossing paths with The White Stripes". If I'm not mistaken, didn't that already happen?

I don't know a whole hell of a lot about Alice Coltrane to be honest (other than the obvious), but here is a link to an NPR story about her death, and here is a link to her allmusic page.

And there doesn't appear to be anything happening around town this evening.

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. St. Vincent - Paris is Burning
3. The Octopus Project - One Ten Hundred Thousand Million
4. Pilotdrift - Water Sphere
5. Mom - Today We Find Ourselves
6. A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
7. Tree Wave - Cabana EP+
8. Rickard Javerling - Two Times Five Lullabye
9. Helios - Eingya
10. El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar
11. Red Monroe - Red Monroe
12. Mom - Mom
13. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - #3
14. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
15. Mom - Light Bright
16. Noah Georgeson - Find Shelter
17. Benoit Pioulard - Precis
18. Menomena - Wet and Rusting
19. The Octopus Project/Black Moth Super Rainbow - House of Apples and Eyeballs
20. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light

I know that most of you bros and babes will probably be throwin' down your 56 bucks to see Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley on Saturday, but for those who can't afford to be so fuckin' sweet, heres some other stuff to do (updates this weekend if warranted)

FRIDAY

You might not need to go anywhere other than Greenville Ave for quality entertainment this evening. Never thought I'd say that.

The Octopus Project | Pilotdrift | Treewave | Mom (CJ Davis' Birthday Party-Good Records)
First and foremost, this show is free. Second, there will be free beer. Third, there will be free food. And oh yeah, the line up is great too. I'm not sure if CJ picked it or what, but its probably the strongest we've seen for a Good Records in store and one of the most solid shows to happen anywhere in a while. You probably know enough about all these bands to avoid having to read descriptions, so I won't write any. What I will say, however, is that Mom (clearly the least well known of the bunch) is well worth showing up early to see. They're one of the most interesting bands in Denton these days, and if you're a fan of any of the other bands on this bill (particularly the excellent Octopus Project), I promise you'll dig their fragile, atmospheric instrumental compositions. And by the way, Treewave's Paul Slocum will be playing this show solo. Mom is supposed to go on at 8.

The Party w/ Select, Sober and Prince Klassen (Zubar)
It seems that Austin's Prince Klassen will be filling in for Nature at the Party this week, and based on what we've heard about his sets at the Beauty Bar, he'll be a nice addition to the Central Booking crew.

Ghostcar | Stumptone (The Cavern)
In between the early show at Good and the dance Party at Zubar, you can catch two underappreciated local bands that should be fantastic to see in a small place like The Cavern. We're hoping Paul Baker's visuals will be a part of this show as well, but we're not sure whether thats happening or not.

SATURDAY

Lollipop Shoppe Spy Party w/ DJs Tigerbee, Pandaflower and Stephen R (Avenue Arts)
These Avenue Arts dance parties are pretty hit or miss for the most part, but when theres a good crowd in the house, the typically choice selections of the Lollipop Shoppe DJs can really create an electric atmosphere. Wonder what this one will be like....

Warren Jackson Hearne and the Merrie Murdre of Gloomadeers | Mauve Ed Experience (Secret Headquarters)


Hearne brings his iconic retroisms to SHQ on Saturday. The Gloomadeers are his large backing band that is as well versed as he in spinning various archaic musical threads into a unique and often sinister-sounding take on folk and roots music.

A Hawk and A Hacksaw | History at Our Disposal | ShitCannon Love, Martin (Films of Martin Iles' Choosing) (Rubber Gloves)


Interesting show. A Hawk And A Hacksaw is Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes in a one-man-band project that I hear has to be witnessed live to fully understand his accomplishment of this notoriously difficult feat. And about those films, here's former Good/Bad Art Collective director, Martin Iles:
The thing is in two sections. The first features PAPER RAD, Evangelist A.A. Allen, Naisu No Mori, blind women touching cactuses (Werner Herzog), and an animated Jack T. Chick tract.The second section is a pile of silent video shit that the group History at Our Disposal will accompany.In total it's about an hour of stuff, and very little of it you can rent, or find on the internets.

This sounds like a really great mix of footage. Herzog and Paper Rad in the same night!

The City is the Tower | Koji Kondo | Trifle Tower | The Mad Conductor (1919 Hemphill)
Mad Conductor wins the award for "Most embarrasing ska band we've heard in years." Koji Kondo are the remains of Blonde Girls, part of Druids On Parade, and most significantly, a guy who actually tries to sing into the microphone. Trifle Tower is brutal epic hardcore with high pitched screaming and features the fascinatingly complex drumming of Jared Lawson, from Man Is Mostly Water.

SUNDAY

Can't find anything as of yet. Check back with us this weekend.