1. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
3. The Black Angels - Passover
4. Jel - Soft Money
5. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
6. Flaming Lips - 20 Years of Weird: The Fearless Freaks
7. Bibio - Hand Cranked
8. Mates of State - Bring it Back
9. Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
10. Half-Handed Cloud - Halos & Lassos
11. Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
12. Ambulance Ltd. - New English EP
13. Quasi - When the Going Gets Dark
14. Metric - Live it Out
15. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
16. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
17. Magic Numbers - Magic Numbers
18. Angels of Light/Akron Family - Akron Family/Angels of Light
19. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
20. Deadboy & the Elephantmen - We are Night Sky

Frank will play a song by Prayer for Animals tonight, along with a bunch of the bands that will be appearing at next weekend's Wall of Sound Festival in Fort Worth. We'll do a little preview of the fest as well some time this week.

Looks like theres gonna be a Vice Records Party tonight for the release of the second CD in the Run the Road series, a compilation of the latest in UK grime (haven't heard it, but the first CD was fantastic). Its at the Home Bar (which I've never been to) near the corner of Greenville and Dyer St. DJ Nature will doing a set there along with several others that will focus mostly on grime, dancehall, dubstep, Bmore club and reggae. Its a Vice thing, so be on the look out for people that LOOK way cooler than they actually are. Should be a good time.

We were gonna do a really funny April Fools trick today, but we don't have the time or energy. It would have been like super awesome though! Anyway, here is some stuff to do tonight. As a side note, we saw Lord Henry play last night at Yellow House. We have to say that they sounded really good and put on an energetic and tight live show. Its just that their music seemed to be little more than a good version of stuff we've been hearing all over the place for the past couple of years. Poppy, new wave dance rock with live and electronic beats mixed together. If we would have seen this show three years ago, we'd probably be raving about it right now. Maybe that is a bit shallow, but its hard to get excited about something, even if you like it, when you have been overexposed to it for a long period of time. It just felt a bit tired, even if it was well done. Anyway, here we go:

1. Undeniable Records Party (Tah Dahs, Happy Bullets, Theater Fire @ Doublewide)
It will be nice to hear what Theater Fire might have up their sleeves for the new record, which I believe will be released by Undeniable some time this year. They go on first, probably around 10, so get there early if you're into that sort of thing.

2. Mathstorm | Man Factory | Washing Machine | My Heart is a Machine (Rubber Gloves-Denton)
This should be a really good show. Mathstorm sounds decent on their Myspace, and Washing Machine sounds pretty fantastic. This show provides a good sample of some of the bands that might be really bigon the local scene in about a year or two. See for yourself. Someone said that Voot Cha Index might be playing as well, but we really can't confirm that.

We do happen to like some of what Franz Ferdinand does, but we refuse to mention their show with Death Cab for Shitty tonight. Well, I guess we just did. But only to say that Death Cab is about as exciting as watching paint dry, and we can't understand what people see in them, even if it is mostly 14 year old girls and yuppies that like em..... however, there isn't a WHOLE lot going on tonight, so get in where you fit in:

1. Yellow House Party (Denton)
We forget the address, but its right near the corner of Mulberry and Fry St. across from UNT (next to where Rick's Place used to be). A couple bands will be playing tonight (we don't know who yet other than the Lord Henry, so check back later for the full line up), and then flashlight party will be playing some good dance music for yins to finish off the nigth. Should be the shit. Its FREE, Its BYOB, its cramped, its hot, and its a great house party. Thats all.

2. Strange Boys (UTD Radio Party, UTD campus)
Run on up to Richardson to visit our new friends at Radio UTD as they host the UTD internet radio showcase. Blackheart Society and Johnny Blackmouth will also play. Johnny Blackmouth sounds pretty damn good from what we hear on their Myspace page, so you might want to show up around 8 or 830 to catch them. Really, give them a listen. They're pretty interesting, which means they don't sound like they are from Dallas.

Oh, and don't forget, The Shapes are at the Cavern tonight with The beatdown and a band called the Dark Skies, which, um, doesn't sound very good. But what can you do?

Someone in one of the comment threads on this site used the term "new weird Denton" recently to describe, well....something. Dare I say a "scene?" Even if I don't dare, I can tell you that the most interesting rock in North Texas is being played in Denton right now, and Beauty and the Beast vol 1, a self described "free folk/noise festival" taking place on July 1st at Rubber Gloves, is collecting many of the better Denton bands for a day of performances. So far, the fest is scheduled to feature Fra Pandolf, Hotel Hotel, You Are the Universe, Shiny Around the Edges, iDi* amin and Notes From Underground. Should be a pretty interesting day (or night). We don't really have any more information on it right now, but go be Myspace friends with these people and learn more about it.

Some good stuff to do tonight (don't have time to figure out all these links, but check back after five and I'll have them)

1. The Alexander/Fra Pandolf/Knee Pad (Darkside Lounge)
Fra Pandolf were one of the winners of the "Best New Band Award" here at We Shot J.R. Go see what the minor buzz is about.

2. Metrognome Collective (Fort Worth)
Stumptone/The Harpeth Trace/ Shiny Around the Edges: Shiny Around The Edges is really one of the best bands in Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton right now. Go see this. Its at a great venue, and its five bucks.

3. IDI* Amin/ Unconscious Collective (J & J's Pizza)
This one is FREE. IDI* Amin is one of the interesting experimental noise bands out in Denton these days, and Unconscious Collective is a free jazz/punk/freak out thing featuring former Sanctuary Studios resident Aaron Gonzalez. Should be a good one.

4. Hip Hop Night (Slip Inn) Yes it sounds lame, but no, it really isn't. And although we called it "old school" last week, someone suggested that it wasn't old or new but middle school. Fifth grade like junior high. I really hate the fucking Bloodhound Gang. But really, you WILL have fun at the Slip Inn tonight.

Its about 14 hours after the Dinosaur Jr. show at Gypsy, and I'm just now recovering from thoroughly getting my ass kicked. What a fucking show. It was easily the best concert I've been to all year, which is sort of sad when you consider the fact that J Mascis looks like a roadie for Country Joe and the Fish these days (even though Lou Barlow looks about, um, 25.) But aesthetics aside, Mascis and company were somehow able to mostly transcend 90's nostalgia (which will probably be trendy in a couple years) and put on a show that seemed about as relevant and timely as possible for a band that hasn't put out any new music in almost a decade.

They stuck to early, Barlow era Dinosaur material, playing all the hits ("Freak Scene," "The Wagon," etc.) and some rare gems that I didn't expect. The sound was tight, loud, and powerful, and Mascis was as flawless and inspiring on guitar as I imagined he possibly could be, not to mention the fact that Barlow played really well and Murph completely rocked the place on drums. Like I said yesterday, I wasn't exactly sure what to expect from this show. Would it feel like a "Greatest Hits" tour, something that was a tad out of step with times, worth seeing only for the memories that you associate with the band's past glory? It easily could have been, but it wasn't. At all. Sure, the songs they played were all more than fifteen years old, and yes, a lot of really crappy bands that have emerged since that time have taken little pieces of the Dinosaur sound and turned it into, well, crap. But that didn't matter one bit to me and the slightly too old for a rock concert crowd. It also didn't seem to matter to the surprising number of younger people there (as in uncer 21), proving that the kids have slightly better taste than they are normally given credit for. Dinosaur's songs are big and sprawling, sloppy and massive, and have pretty much nothing to do with the 80's retro post-punk thing that is getting too old to even mention these days. It was refreshing to hear these songs again, and even more refreshing to be reminded that I still like them, and that there still aren't very many bands on the "indie" circuit that can hold a fucking candle to these guys.

I think this was probably the one and only chance I will ever get to see these guys play live, and I am thrilled that I shelled out the 20 bucks to do so. Anyone that went to that Jenny Lewis show instead made a HUGE mistake.