1. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
2. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
3. The Black Angels - Passover
4. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
5. Calexico - Garden Ruin
6. Editors - The Back Room
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
8. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
9. Philip E Karnats - Pleasesuite
10. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
11. Islands - Return To The Sea
12. Irving - Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers
13. Figurines - Skeleton
14. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy...
15. The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
16. The Sounds - Dying to Say This To You
17. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
18. Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
19. Mono - You Are There
20. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells

Who knew that there were enough cool people in Dallas to chart My Life in the Bush....? Did people start taking AntiDaryl pills or something?

And the Band of Horses album. I've only listened to it twice, but I'm gonna have to say... overrated.

Yeah, so I would really like to talk some shit about Neko Case. They love her at the Observer, she seems pretty annoying and self important in interviews, David Cross makes fun of her, and she really just seems to deserve some bad press... even if she is in fact very hot. I don't know. I just can't truss it.

But the songs on Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, her latest solo effort,make that hard to do because most of them are pretty damn good. Yeah its nothing new, mostly sad reverby country and strings, but she's got a great voice and some obvious talent as a songwriter. Damn it. I really want to piss some people off today too.

Add in the fact that the High Dials, opening for her at the Granada tonight, are really good too... and you've got a pretty boring post for today.

Oh well, at least we can say that the Granada blows or something.

See you tomorrow. Eat a baby jesus egg or something.

1. Black Arm Band | Silk Stocking | Fra Pandolf (The Cavern)
I hope the Cavern can handle the sound explosion that will occur tonight. Should be a great show. Come on Dallas, take a break from Radiant, Christian Emo and the Deathray Warhols and check out something a little different tonight.

2. You are The Universe | Violent Squid | Andrew Michael Hilburn (8th Continent)
The noisy and adventerous side of the Denton scene will be in full effect here tonight. Its at 731 Texas St. in Denton. Google it, bitch.

3. Washing Machine (Club Dada)
Yeah, its in Deep Ellum at a lame club. What can you do? None of us have seen Washing Machine live in concert, but we bet it will be worth it.

4. Smile Smile | Prayer for Animals | Teenage Symphony (Darkside Lounge)
Frank from Frequency Down recently said that Teenage Symphony was one of the local bands that he was getting excited about. Go to their Myspace page and listen.... you will probably get excited too. How they will sound live is anyone's guess, but we really like what we hear on Myspace, especially "Lucky." Sort of like if Spacemen 3 and the Beach Boys started a marching band.

So you were probably sitting around this week going "Hey, I wonder what kind of cool, extraordinarily hip shit the badasses at We Shot J.R. have been listening to lately." We heard your cries, crybabies (and we'll even throw some Mp3s into the mix)



Liars Drums Not Dead (Record of the year so far? Yes.) MP3 "Lets Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack"

Fleetwood Mac Rumors (why this never leaves my record player I'm just not sure.)

Islands Return to the Sea (other record of the year so far? yes.) "Jogging Gorgeous Summer" Mp3

Guided By Voices Bee Thousand

Happy Mondays Pills n' Thrills and Bellyaches

Akron/Family- Angels of Light split

Castanets First Light's Freeze

Ellen Allien Berlinette

Faust IV

Ghostface Killah Fishscale

Great Lakes Swimmers Moving Pictures Silent Film

Jesus and Mary Chain 21 Singles

John Lennon Plastic Ono Band

Manitoba Up In Flames "Track 3" Mp3

Mercury Rev Boces

Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die

Sea and Cake Oui

Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire

Voxtrot Mothers, Sisters, Daughters and Wives EP Title Track MP3

Sly and the Family Stone Theres a Riot Goin' On



(If bands or management want any of these songs removed, please email me and I will take them off the blog ASAP. Thanks.)

Well, doesn't look like a big night for fun around town tonight. But there are a few scattered things that you might want to check out:

1. Centro-matic is playing with Great Lake Swimmers @ The Granada tonight. Of course, you can see Great Lake Swimmers for free tomorrow afternoon at Good Records, but you should check them out one way or another.

2. Pegasus now is playing at Doublewide tonight at 1145pm.

AND

3. Fra Pandolf will be over at the Delta Lodge.

Thats it. If anyone knows of any other shows or big blow out puke your ass off house parties, post in those comments playa.

1. El Aviador Dro | Hi-Fi Chorus/ S-1 Committee (Rubber Gloves-Denton)
So I'm not usually in the business of recommending bands that I haven't listened to more than once, but I'm gonna forget about that rule for today because the last 15 minutes that I just spent listening to Aviador Dro kicked my ass. Think Devo and Kraftwerk in Spanish... and really fucking good. Go to this show unless you're an idiot. And you can go to their website and download some tracks if you don't believe me.

2. Femme Fatality | Peachcake | Undoing of David Wright | Girls Rise with Heat (Darkside Lounge)
Yes, as a matter of fact I am going to keep posting about every David Wright show that takes place until I somehow am assured that every last one of you have seen what is probably the best live band in DFWd right now. And they're in Dallas tonight, so no excuses about having to drive far and cry cry cry. Femme Fatality are a decent synth dance combo thing that will probably be fun live. Peachcake is sounds pretty cool too.

3. Real Live Tigers (Metrognome Collective- Fort Worth)
Haunting folk, very interesting. And its at Metrognome, which is a good place to hang out anyway.

And yes there is other stuff going on tonight, like Bosque Brown for free at the DMA at 7:30, but the three shows above are where you really should be tonight if you can. Oh, and there is no reason not to stop over at the Slip Inn for some good 80's and 90's hip hop after.

Voot Cha sent us an email about their new video on YouTube, and we've decided to share it with you because, well, the song kicks ass. And so does claymation.

Do these guys remind you of a young Mercury Rev or what? And I really like the way the song was recorded too. Good stuff: