Friday

Darktown Strutters | Moderne Mathmatiques (Tradewinds)

Pet Hospital | Orange Peel Sunshine (Rubber Gloves)

Saturday

Realicide | Evolve | Nite Shadez | Ascites | Unprotected Sex | Depths (Majestic Dwelling of Doom)

This is going to be a face melting neck snapping good time. Recommended for those of you with some pent up energy to burn.

Screening of "DFW Punk" (1919 Hemphill)

I am loving all the underground movie screenings lately.Luckily we have some people around town with good taste.

Peelander-Z | No Heroes | Stew! (Rubber Gloves)

Mount Righteous | Drug Mountain (Good Records)

Interesting. There will definitely be some cross pollination at the show so hopefully both acts will pick up some new fans. Hopefully Drug Mountain's new t-shirts are ready...

Across Tundras | Vaste Burai | Black Body | Baring Teeth (Phoenix Project)

Away From the Numbers (Fallout Lounge)

Luna Matto | Darktown Strutters | Binary Sunrise (City Tavern)

Hey everybody we have absolutely nothing in the works for the immediate future at all ever. In fact I have programed an application to hyperlink our coolest friends Facebook events automatically to the front page as they are posted then you can vote if they are hot or not. This we way we don't ever even have to look at the front page and we can just dive right into the comments section which of course is the coolest part of this site anyways. Our comments section is now sponsored by RC Cola's new flavor Blogjizz so keep an eye out for some pretty awesome flash ads in the near future. By the way I am really starting to get into The Paper Chase, I can really see what you guys were talking about.

Florene | Kashioboy | My Empty Phantom | Gallery Cat (Dan's Silverleaf)

The Coathangers | Giggle Party | Leg Sweeper(The Cavern)

I enjoyed looking at The Coathangers' pictures on Myspace much more than I did listening to their streamer. Just being honest ya'll.

NAXAT (Tradewinds)

Wild in the Streets (Amsterdam Bar)

April Fools 80s Night: Black Friday w/ Keith P + Anthony Social (Hailey's)

Daniel Francis Doyle | Drug Mountain | Stoned Men/Geistheistler (1919 Hemphill)
This is where I would be tonight if I still lived there-- we're also quite happy about the fact that our first pressing of Daniel Francis Doyle's record SOLD OUT a couple months back. Selling out is the new buying in.

Don't Look in the Basement (J&Js)
The first in what the organizers (Shane English and Jonah Lange) hope will be a regular film screening event, tonight's spaghetti horror double feature will include the films Opera and Stage Fright.

Reiko Kudo - Rice Field Silently Riping In The Night (2001)

Reiko Kudo has been hovering around the Japanese underground music scene since the late 70s in various bizzaro music cults that have been so prevalent over there. I believe some of her best and certainly most accessible work has been recorded solo including this her second album from 2001. The will be a refreshing listen for those of you looking for some sparser, might I even say gentler music that does not get hung up on wimpy sentimentality. Rice Field Silently Riping In The Night takes the same approach to dissonant art pop that John Cale did on his equally bleak Music For a New Society. The album has a sparse and simple sound, the whole thing might have been recorded with one microphone plugged into a karaoke machine. The hypnotic repetition of rapping piano keys is Kudo's choice to accompany her beautiful, paper thin voice. There are a few other musicians present on the recording but only the slightest violin prick or whimper from a cymbal can be heard. The other players seem to walking on eggshells the entire album, as if playing anymore than two instruments at a time might be too much for Kudo's soul to handle. What it lacks in studio wizardry it makes up for with beautiful melodies and earnest musical exploration. Interestingly enough this album sounds VERY similar to The Pastels/Tenniscoats collaboration Two Sunsets which was featured on my end of the year best of for 09'. In case you may have forgotten Stephen McRobbie of the Pastels signed Kudo and her husband Tori Kudo's band Maher Shalal Hash Baz to his Geographic label which you could say attributed to their acclaim reaching outside of Japan. So if any of you actually heard that one and enjoyed it, you can see some of it's very obvious influences here.

enjoy

I would like to take this time to congratulate Gorilla VS Bear and Weekly Tape Deck on their new label venture, Forest Family Records. I think it's a great thing, and I could care less about whether or not they're doing it "for the community," or whether or not they're going to have local bands, or whatever altruistic and noble reasons people try to egocentrically attach to putting out records. You know, it's really hard work no matter whose record it is, or where the artist is from, so I think it's commendable, period.

The thing is, they are actually donating part of the proceeds to the Humane Society, so there's that. A start-up label donating proceeds on their very first record is actually pretty unheard of.

Something tells me that these guys are going to have an easier time than most, and that's going to make any act lucky enough to put out a record with Forest Family in very good hands indeed. Again, congrats to all involved.



Querencia Community Bike Shop Presents Goldsprint/1670 AM (Rubber Gloves)
Interesting description from the Rubber Gloves website:

A Goldsprint is a bicycle rollers racing and social event. Riders on stationary bikes compete against each other in front of a crowd of cheering friends.

While roller racing in general can use any type of bicycle and there are variations on the set-up depending on the type of rollers used and whether the front wheel is engaged or fixed, goldsprints generally use one form of setup. As with roller racing in general, the rollers are in turn attached to a device that measures distance and can display the progress of the riders. Goldsprints also feature modern 2D and 3D visualizations.

Disqo Disco (Fallout Lounge)

90's Night With Yeah Def (Hailey's)

Hi, we have some stuff planned for you this week, but just not for today. Here's an example of what the rest of the week WONT be like:

Canyons | Former Thieves | Big Fiction | Black Body | Ashes and Diamonds (1919 Hemphill)

Cool Out (The Cavern)

MON: Canyons/Former Thieves/Big Fiction/Black Body/Ashes and Diamonds (1919 Hemphill)
WED: Subhumans/Slang/Unit 21 (Prophet Bar)
WED: Daniel Francis Doyle/Drug Mountain/Stoned Men/Geistheistler (1919 Hemphill)
THR: Saboteur/Florene/My Empty Phantom (Dan's Silverleaf)
THR: The Coathangers/Giggle Party/Leg Sweeper(The Cavern)
FRI: Darktown Strutters (Tradewinds)
SAT: Luna Mato/Darktown Strutters/Binary Sunrise (City Tavern)
SAT: Peelander-Z/No Heroes/Stew! (Rubber Gloves)
SAT: Mount Righteous/Drug Mountain (Good Records)
SAT: Across Tundras/Vaste Burai/Black Body/Baring Teeth (Phoenix Project)

By Defensive Listening.

Everyone's freaking out about the new Glass Candy, and I think it's great, but did you also know that Farah has a new single? It's called "Gay Boy." Look it up on her Myspace page and then order the 12". I can not believe that there aren't seven page cover stories about what a genius she is after hearing this thing. She eats Midlake for breakfast and has St. Vincent for dessert. And that's exactly why you and I will never get along, DFW music fans and press.

FRIDAY

Dear Human | New Science Projects | Geistheistler | Handbrake | Babar (Rubber Gloves)
Math Rock, who needs it, right? Anyways, whatever you feel about the genre is going to determine what you think of Dear, Human, and I have to admit: These aren't kind times for math rock fans. It was largely absorbed into the overall sound of hardcore from ten to twelve years ago and then quickly shunned after that, when all of the early 2000's kids learned to dance. Like any genre, it has its moments, and Dear, Human seems as capable as any. 80% of it is being really fucking good at your instrument, and they certainly do that. But Math Rock is kind of like being an Olympic Gymnast. I mean, yeah, everyone here can do flips and shit, but who among them is truly incredible? Who will surpass all expectations and transcend the genre's cliches? There's just so much DAMN PRESSURE. Also, why don't girls have math rock bands? Now some local scene misogynists will tell you it's because girls "can't play" or drum or have "girl rhythm." The real answer is that girls are too smart to play Math Rock. It's true.

Florene | Diamond Age (Tradewinds)
Florene's sound has changed considerably since their inception, and there were times during their recent NX35 set where I wondered exactly who the band on stage even was. They have definitely lost a lot of their original freeform static passages and replaced them with more structured thump and straightforwardly accessible beats. I don't know when these changes came about exactly, but it was definitely good timing when you consider they are on a label now and look, Florene has got some mouths to feed and Daddy has to get paid, ok? One minute your pedals are sliding off of a rickety card table at Eighth Continent, and the next you're counting blog dollaz with your fellow Chillwave and No Fi Dance peers, sipping fancy drinks at Baby Acapulco's.

Nice surprise to see Diamond Age pop up on this bill, which is the very interesting project of North Texas' M. Leer. Let me see if I can break this down, since it's a little confusing. M. Leer is a member of History At Our Disposal and The Diamond Age is his side-project. At some point in the last few years he did a note-by-note reinterpretation of Flaming Tunes, which was a side-project that Gareth Williams of This Heat was involved in, along with Mary Currie. I have been meaning to shed more light on this for years, since it's one of the most obscure reworks I've ever heard of by a local musician. Both the original and The Diamond Age version are great. This show is worth your time and effort.

Stoogeaphilia | The Black Dots | Bastardos De Sancho (Lola's 6th)

SATURDAY

Gordon Grdina Trio/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/Nick Cabrera/Jason Jackson/Stefan Gonzalez (Pheoenix Project)

Lollipop Shoppe 6 Year Anniversary Party (Sons of Herman Hall)

SUNDAY

Tartufi | Darktown Strutters | Telethon | Pinkish Black |Hentai Improvising Orchestra (Kessler)
Great lineup at a great venue as Oak Cliff continues to dominate the Dallas scene.

Kilowatts | Aligning Minds | The Great Mundane (Cold Fusion Lounge)
DJ Killowatts has been making music since the mid-90's and actually hails from Plano, though he's now based in Philadelphia. His is a mix of deep bass, IDM, and ambient sounds, and he's pretty renowned internationally, which is something I never imagined when I remember hearing about him playing a show at Eisengberg's Skate Park. Unfortunately that may be preferable to "Cold Fusion Lounge." Full anonymous disclosure: I distinctly remember arguing about the origins of Industrial music with this guy in fifth period gym class, circa 1996 or so.