Museum Creatures | Moira Scar | Vulgar Fashion (The Amsterdam): This seems like an unlikely venue for this show, however, when we hosted a show here a couple of years ago, it was a really great setting and a favorite experience of being involved with the site.
This "all duo" lineup features three couplets all pushing in various directions, ranging from extremely understated and sparkling synth pieces, willfully "off" and deceivingly obtuse minimalist costume rock, and dark, noisy dance chaos. Fuck, isn't describing music stupid?
Not surprisingly, this show was booked by Joshaa Flores, who has long been the undisputed champion of creative booking in DFW for years.
Caddy Whompus | County Lines | The People Men (1919 Hemphill): The People Men is a new surf duo featuring Rick Vee who runs 1919, and I imagine it's pretty good since I heard the best surf record ever at 1919 that wasn't The Ventures: Live in Japan or anything by The Smashchords. Perhaps one of their kind volunteers can refresh my memory.
Stinking Lizaveta | Akkolyte | Abuse Tactics (Lounge) Legendary Philly instrumental trio Stinking Lizaveta continues to shatter the myth about "female drummers" so prevalent in the male-dominated rock community, and is as equally comfortable with metal chug breakdowns as they are open-ended free form passages. An equally tough opening lineup help to make this a show well worth seeing.
Jacuzzi Boys | Fergus And Geronimo | Fungi Girls (The Cavern) Can someone send me a rough copy of the Fergus And Geronimo full-length that I've heard has been completed? I really want to hear it. I promise not to play it for anyone, and I won't upload it to some elite message board, honest.
The first time I heard the Jacuzzi Boys, I dismissed them as yet another melodic garage rock band, but the more I've heard them the more I realize they have a certain amount of 60's psych influence, like some forgotten track off of a Collectables Records comp, and they're better than I thought.
Throw in the Fungi Girls, and you have a pretty solid lineup, featuring two of the best local groups I know of writing catchy, memorable rock music, minus all the "ists" and the "isms," as a great man once said.
Naxat | Diamond Age (Tradewinds) Cool lineup with the daringly complex Naxat, as well as the much more mood-based, Diamond Age, who are no less interesting, even with far fewer notes. Of course, anyone playing with Naxat is playing far fewer notes.
ADD:
Don't Look In The Basement featuring "Santa Sangre" and "The Brood" (J&J's Pizza) Event is free and starts at 8 pm.
Howdy kids. Our buddies at over at Granada Theater have generously donated a pair of tickets to see Talib Kweli tonight and we're gonna give them away to a random human that emails us at weshotjrtix@yahoo.com by 5pm today with their full name in the body and "Talib Kweli" as the subject. Good luck ya'll!
Video Rehab - Night Flight / I Want my MTV Night (Tradewinds Social Club)
A 5 hour block of vintage 80's cable TV. If you are too young to remember Night Flight it was a late night cable TV show that featured wicked music documentaries along with cutting edge and counter culture shorts. Ever seen the clip with Ronald and Nancy Reagan discussing their love for drugs? That was Night Flight. I don't know how the crew culminated all this "cream of the crop" videos but it's definitely something you won't see too often. I wish my mom wouldn't have thrown away all my 120 minutes recordings (I had about 40 tapes full) or I would throw my own party.
Another off site House of Tinnitus fling featuring the harsh sounds you have come to expect from Rob & Co's booking preferences. Show starts at nine be sure to get there on time so you can check out the aforementioned Rob in his new solo project Filth.
Tusk is visiting us all the way from California and seem to be a perfect companion piece to Drug Mountain. Tusk have a jazzier feel to them, not quite as harsh as Drug Mountain but hey what is? Cola-Cola | Kampfgrounds | Stew! (Boiler Room)
Or if you don't want to go see what the Continental Gin building is in person, you can read this virtual tour I just came across.
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010
Turtle Creek Artists The Andelon Gallery 3737 Atwell Street, Suite 204, Dallas, TX 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
While I appreciate the fact that Andelon Art Gallery is "celebrating art today in Dallas, Texas", this is unfortunately one of the saddest collections of artist samples I've seen in an online Dallas gallery portfolio. I'm fairly certain "Blue Horse" was already painted by Franz Marc, at least once. "Fishermen" looks like a Gauguin except the natives are wearing jams circa 1989. At least "Taylor Pollock" isn't even trying. Be sure to check out the floating red chairs, as well. To add to the melancholia, the photographs of the works are terrible. I can't find out much of anything about this gallery or the owners except that it's kind of in Highland Park near Love Field.
Also, the Dallas Museum of Art is staying open all night Friday: "The Museum will stay open round-the-clock, offering half price ($8) exhibition tickets to see The Lens of Impressionism from midnight until 10 a.m. Saturday morning." I saw this show a few weeks ago. It's a interesting combination of early French photography techniques and a sampling of impressionist pieces, set against a narrative of the development of tourism along the Normandy coast in the mid-19th century, once the railroad started going out there from Paris and rich people could leave town. Some of the photographs are unbelievable, especially when you read about the technology involved.
Soular Power will be spinning selections from their potpourri of high class wax during half price burger night at Lee Harvey's starting around 8pm. Sounds like a nice night out in these economically challenging times.
Our pal Tommy Boy, who was nice enough to do an exclusive WeShotJr mix for us last year (or was it 2008? I can't remember), is clearly moving on to bigger and better things these days-- he was recently asked to submit an original mix for Viceland.com, and he came through in a big way-- click right here to check out Tommy Boy's all Texas Vice mix, featuring locals such as Darktown Strutters, Corporate Park, Phantastes and George Quartz, among other Texas favorites. Track list:
1. George Quartz - “Coconut” 2. Phantastes - “Flight of Stares” 3. Darktown Strutters - “Silver Bullet” 4. Indian Jewelry - “Same Mistake Man” 5. Corporate Park - “Intimate Precision” 6. //TENSE// - “Versus Man (TX Love Remix 2010)” 7. Seth Nemec - “Count Zero” 8. Jake Schrock - “Trigon” 9. E.R.P. (aka Convextion) - “Frozen Volatiles” 10. DYX - “Lips in the Darkness (feat. Press-On)” 11. Submersible Machines - “Riding Theta Waves” 12. Missions - “Phantasy” 13. Medio Mutante - “Transit (Demo)” 14. MVSCLZ - “Fascination (Across The Nation)” 15. R9 - “Dreamdance” 16. edrupt - “M-U-S-I-K” 17. betdat - “Nex (Radio Edit)” 18. MKF KÜNST - “Venga (TX Love Remix 2010)” 19. Berliner Eins - “Nite Life” 20. Twisted Wires - “Hell” 21. Low Red Center - “Historic Edition” 22. S U R V I V E - “White Clouds” 23. Future Blondes - “NIGHT ANALYSIS (Oppenheimer Analysis “Behind the Shades” RMX)” 24. Psychic Violence - “U is Moon” 25. How I Quit Crack - “Gone Away” 26. xix - “1111(v7)
