1 MOGWAI Mr. Beast
2 FLAMING LIPS At War With The Mystics
3 MONO You Are There
4 STARLIGHT MINTS Drowaton
5 BUILT TO SPILL You In Reverse
6 LIARS Drum's Not Dead
7 ALOHA Some Echoes
8 TALKDEMONIC Beat Romantic
9 FEU THERESE Feu Therese
10 ELF POWER Back To The Web
11 ENVELOPES Demon
12 BOY LEAST LIKELY TO The Best Party Ever
13 PHILIP E. KARNATS Pleasuresuite
14 SIMON JOYNER Beautiful Losers: Singles And Compilation Tracks (1994-1999)
15 ISLANDS Return To The Sea
16 BRIAN ENO/DAVID BYRNE My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
17 A WHISPER IN THE NOISE As The Bluebird Sings
18 JOSH RITTER The Animal Years
19 FIGURINES Skeleton
20 LYLAS Lessons For Lovers
21 DANIEL JOHNSTON Welcome To My World
22 FINIAN MCKEAN Shades Are Drawn
23 GLISSANDRO 70 Glissandro 70
24 I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS Fear Is On Our Side
25 SHOPLIFTING Body Stories
26 FIERY FURNACES Bitter Tea
27 MADLIB Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes
28 EAGLE*SEAGULL Eagle*Seagull
29 TELEVISION PERSONALITIES My Dark Places
30 DEAD HEART BLOOM Dead Heart Bloom

(Nice to see some Television Personalities up in this piece!)

1. Teenage Symphony (Black Dog Tavern Ft. Worth)
This might be a good chance for Ft. Worth to check out one of the more interesting and surprisingly pleasant bands in the metroplex. Really, give them a listen.

2. Hip Hop (Slip Inn)
You know whats up. Its like listening to those tapes you made off the local rap station in 1989. At least its like listening to the ones I made. People dance, everyone is cool as fuck, and there isn't a guy wearing an ironic blazer and eyeliner within a five mile radius of the place.

3. Zoo (Cavern Upstairs) A new add to the list this week. Nitwit has an amazing selection of music videos that he shows on a screen upstairs at the Cavern. Ok Ok, doesn't sound super awesome or anything. But when we checked this shit out the other week, he was playing really old stuff we had never heard, plus stuff we knew well and liked (animal collective, !!!, Janes Addiction, and did I catch Happy Mondays in there?), and other music videos that I couldn't even describe to you. Zoo should please just about anyone with any kind of good taste.

EDIT: To prevent Bob White and the F Electrics from ending their band forever, we should tell you that they are playing at Metrognome Collective tonight at 10pm. That is all.

Well now we lead this shit 2-0, thanks to another great performance by Dirk Nowitzki and a really good team effort overall. I really liked how all three big men were used to pretty much shut down Pau Gasol. Jason Terry and Josh Howard were also takin care of biz all night.

Next up is the big challenge of the series. Going back to Memphis, the Grizzlies are going to have their home court and their fans, and they are going to be really desperate and pissed off considering that the franchise is 0-10 in its playoff history. They HAVE to win game 3, and they know it. The Mavs are in the best position they could be, obviously, and all they have to do is relax and stay focused, because they are clearly the better team. I think they win the series pretty easily... but I also think the Grizzlies will win one game before its over. Wouldn't it be funny if they didn't?

And in case you were worried that we were turning into jocks and shit around here, we also wanted to let you know that we are teaming up with the dudes at Cowboyriot. They will be taking some pictures at shows and parties and stuff, and we'll be posting some of them on the blog. They take great pictures that make you wish you were at all the places they go, so we think you'll like them.

We'll have an album review and other stuff later this week too, so there.

1. Jana Hunter | Inoculist | Washing Machine (Metrognome Collective- Ft. Worth)
Another good experimental psych/folk show at Metrognome. From the sound of it, not a lot of people have been going to this place so far. I've got a suggestion. You know how you're always trying to be really hip and shit? Well you should go to Metrognome starting now, before everyone starts doing it, so that you can be cooler than them. Oh yeah, its like 5 bucks and BYOB too. Listen to Jana Hunter's "Theres No Home," and tell me that you don't want to check this show out.

2. The Party w/ Dj Nature (Rubber Gloves-Denton)
Nature will be giving out his third mix CD at the party tonight, and he suggests getting there early if you want one. We here at WSJR have both of his other Party mixes, and we rock em like every weekend. Don't go if you aren't into good looking people dancing to good music.

1. The Black Angels - Passover
2. Irving - Death In The Garden, Blood On The Flowers
3. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
4. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
5. Islands - Return To The Sea
6. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
7. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy...
8. Mono - You Are There
9. Elefant - The Black Magic Show
10. Calexico - Garden Ruin
11. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
12. Philip E Karnats - Pleasesuite
13. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
14. Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs
15. The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
16. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
17. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
18. Mates of State - Bring it Back
19. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
20. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Irving? Elefant? Pretty Girls Make Graves? Come on Dallas, we can do better than that can't we?

And whats up with Wolf Parade? OMG, that is so last year that I forgot who they were! LOL sweeties :-)

1. Lost Generation w/ Wanz Dover (Cavern Upstairs)
What Wanz will be doing tonight:

"A special Tropicalia set tonight faeturing stuff like Gal Costa, Tom Ze, Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, France Gall, Jaques Dutronc, Bardot and others. I'm gonna do few 30 minute blocks of this stuff. I also got new Sonic Youth, new Raconteurs, new Arab Strap, new Rapture, Cybotron, Diplo, Gnarls Barkley, Kinga Preis doing polish Nick cave covers and a lot more surprises. You know the score it's Lost Generation......Where great music goes to be found. Come have a drink, Talk shit and Dance."

Go. It starts at 10.

There has been a lot of talk around here lately about alternative venues. It seems that while people do enjoy overpaying for beer, and most aren't completely opposed to club owners making money off of concerts, etc., there is still a feeling that there is something great about places like Metrognome Collective, where art is a little more important and central to the focus, and where something interesting and spontaneous seems that it can happen at any time, providing a little more excitement than the canned fun that you often find at more traditional venues (oh yeah, and BYOB makes it cheaper to get more drunk, ya idiots).

We really need a good D.I.Y. venue like that down here in Dallas since Sanctuary Studios is no more (come on, like one?), but for now we'll have to add yet another reason to go to Denton all the goddamn time to the Reasons to go to Denton All the Goddamn Time List.

This reason would be Secret HQ, the new multipurpose, um, place that will be opening up in the old Art Prostitute space (210 E. Hickory St.) on June 3rd. The space will be open and mostly run by Scott Porter (Record Hop), Cody Robinson (Medicine Window) and Rob Black (Birth to Burial), and will feature an art gallery, a store, and every Saturday night, a venue for early shows.

Each Saturday show will feature two bands for three dollars from 8-10 pm, and from what we gather will be BYOB. Their first show on June 3rd will actually feature three bands and start off at 7pm: Fra Pandolf, the Angelus and Shiny Around the Edges will all be playing. With a solid kick off line up like that, we're kind of excited to see what these guys can do with this place.

They have a lot of other plans for the space as well, but those are like secret and shit. I guess you've just gotta show up to see what else they've got up their sleeves.