For those who don't know, A Storm of Light is a Neurot Recordings band from Brooklyn, NY fronted by Josh Graham of the terrifyingly powerful Neurosis, and although I hadn't had a chance to listen to them until recently, I've been digging what I've heard from them so far. In any event, they'll be playing at Rubber Gloves this evening (Wednesday the 24th), and our friends at RGRS were nice enough to give us a pair of tickets to give away to one of you. If you'd like to win them, simply email us at weshotjrtix@yahoo.com or re-tweet for your chance to win before 3pm today. We'll pick a winner at random. So I guess there's at least one venue in town that doesn't h8 us after all....
Later on today Twin Cheeks will be dropping Not New Music Tuesday and I will be posting my first local record review. Which one of you lucky souls might it be? Find out later.
ADD: Evan Dando (Prophet Bar) My favorite thing about The Lemonheads is probably the fact that 1992's It's a Shame About Ray is a mostly quiet indie folkpop album that happens to be about smoking crack with a supermodel. Sounds like a good movie roll for Joe Dallesandro or something, doesn't it? Anyway, I like that record a lot more than I probably should, although it might be mostly for nostalgic reasons considering how dated it sounds every time I put it on, which is at least a few times a year. Oh well, its better than Alice in Chains and a bunch of the other shit that was on the "college charts" at the time. (SR)
Pretty & Nice are a jittery power pop trio from Boston. Lighthearted fun but a little too youthful for my taste. Title Tracks is the project of former Q and Not U drummer John Davis .
Zanzibar Snails | Horaflora | Peace,Loving also Barton Carroll | Will E. Lee (J&J's) There seems to have been a confusing situation regarding the booking at J&J's tonight, but anyways, you have a couple of singer songwriters that will open the show, one from Seattle and one from Denton, followed by three willfully "weird" acts, albeit in different ways, and depending on the crowd you run with, not very weird at all.
Peace, Loving is from Massachusetts and they sound like a bastardized Gamelan project started by some art school buddies, mixed in with drone along with some other little rhythmic ornaments. They've put out a live tape (pictured above), so maybe you can pick one up and let me know how wrong I am in this description.
Astroblaque's Soular Power:Debut Live set from The Black Dots (Fallout Lounge) The Black Dots are Wanz Dover's latest group, and I honestly haven't had a chance to listen to them yet, so for now I'll just have to go by the very positive word of mouth I've heard regarding the group and advise you to check them out.
Vulgar Fashion | Orange Coax | Corporate Park | After Hours with George Quartz | DJ G (Rubber Gloves): Completely solid lineup from DJ to opening band, and you can't say that very often, that's for sure. One of two shows in one night for George Quartz? Pimpin' ain't EZ.
Ishi | Missile | Dirty Little Mouth | Saboteur | Leg Sweeper | George Quartz (Trees) Did you guys know Ishi invented "folktronica?" Neither did I. You can still learn so much on Myspace.
Top Notch with DJ Sober (The Cavern) So Sober emailed us last night to let us know that this would be his last weekly Top Notch performance before heading off for a month long paid gig DJing on a cruise ship, which inspired visions of Big L taking over the dance floor at Club Med. When he gets back he'll be re-starting Top Notch as a monthly thing, and we wish him luck on his journey.
D.R.I. | Hit and Run | Warcola | Electric Vengeance | Maleveller | Screaming Red (Trees) Remeber when the re-opening of Trees was supposed to be a big deal? Well I don't know if people are actually hanging out there or if the club is making any money, and I don't really care-- one look at the schedule reveals that the best show they have booked for the next month or so is Ying Yang Twins, so that should probably tell you all you need to know about how relevant this place really is these days. Anyway, thrash punk legends and gutter idols DRI invade the space this evening, which actually makes this one of the better shows Trees has hosted since its re-opening. A notable band that I'm not all that interested in.
In order to provide you with more photo coverage of all different kinds of music/art events, we've added a few new photographers to our arsenal so that Steph doesn't have to be in eight places at the same time.
The prodigal son Sally Glass returned from her far off adventures in Israel some time ago, and luckily for her she's finally passed all necessary WSJR Homeland Security checks and will now be permitted to once again do a bunch of work for free:
I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago Wayne White (interesting bio!) Marty Walker Gallery 2135 Farrington Street, Dallas, TX 75207 Reception 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
This looks potentially titillating:
MODERN RUIN February 20-21, 2010 Reception: 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
On Thursday, September 25, 2008 the U.S. Government took over Washington Mutual, selling most of it to JPMorgan Chase.
Roughly a year earlier, at the height of a frenzied economic bubble, Washington Mutual began building a new 1 million dollar branch at 5030 Greenville Avenue, just south of Lovers Lane. Just after its completion, the government seized WaMu, and JPMorgan Chase decided not to occupy the building.
The new building was never opened, never used, and has sat as an empty shell for more than a year.
On February 20, 2010, Modern Ruin-a two-day exhibition organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer-will open. The two-day exhibition will be the only use for the million-dollar building before the demolition process begins the following week. The bank building is a truly modern ruin - a building that never met its purpose, and only existed as potential activity, potential economy, and hoped-for growth.
Seeking to take advantage of the space-its social and cultural connotations, its materials, and its presence as direct and immediate evidence of the current economic condition-15 artists will create work inspired by and in dialogue with the building. Some artists will alter the building's materials and corporate interior, while others will stage actions and interventions within, and still others will use the background of the space as context for their work.
