Lewd Acts | Scumrush | Dark Forces | Trifle Tower (Exploding House) California's Lewd Acts are a surprisingly harsh and instrumentally impressive new school hardcore scream group that sounds sure to put on the kind of live show that you'd like to see at Exploding House, even if they aren't exactly "your thing." The rest of the line up, all local, follow suit. And props to Dark Forces for one of the most goofily cool logos I've seen in a while (pictured to the right).
Doug Burr | Daniel Folmer | Burntsienna Trio | Glen Farris (Hydrant Cafe, Denton) Daniel Folmer, the Dallas Observer's favorite indie "songwriter," has a new full length record coming out, as does the widely acclaimed Doug Burr (who received a set of solid reviews from respected publications for his last release), and both will be hosting this joint CD release tonight at a place in Denton I've never heard of. I'm guessing CDs will be available for purchaes if you're into that sort of thing.
Musee Mecanique | C. Johnson from Telegraph Canyon (The Chat Room) Free show featuring the cinema obsessed, pillow-soft sounds of Portland's Musee Mecanique.
Lost Generation with Wanz Dover plus Farah | Slackbeat (The Lounge) Wanz has a new strategy for Lost Generation where he is going to start hosting different guest live acts and DJ's along with his own sets. He has some pretty interesting lineups scheduled with acts such as Big Elf, Rooftop Vigilantes, and local record collector and ex-Robo-Gnostic member, Jason Cohen. He also used to run Forbidden Books, and according to my dealer at one of my favorite hidden-gem record shops, he was just a few hours ahead of me on a recent record-shopping excursion in middle-of-nowhere, Llano, TX, one day after New Year's. Definitely a coincidence but, man, I hate competing with fellow North Texans in my sweet spots.
Tonight's show is a great start to Lost Gen's new set-up with the always great Farah, and Denton's Slackbeat, an unpredictable mix of acoustic instruments, turntable clicks, noise, and other random surprises. They rarely play in Dallas so definitely make it out.
Movie Premier: Macaframa at Angelika Film Center (Dallas) I know a lot of people have been excited about this movie focusing on the world of fixed gear and track biking. Film at 7:30.
Faust - So Far (1972, Polydor) I'll start off by saying that the opening song on this album, 'It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl,' is one of the best opening songs ever. Put it up there with Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia," AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," the Stones' 'Rocks Off," or Budgie's "Breadfan." Damn, I may make a compilation of best first songs on records...
Faust actually got their start as an experiment conducted by german producer Uwe Nettelback for Polydor Records. He hand-picked the musicians, built a studio and started rolling tape. Never satisfied with conventional rock, Nettelback and Faust constantly pushed themselves to be innovative in both their recording and songwriting techniques. Nettelback once said of the group "The idea was not to copy anything going on in the Anglo-Saxon rock scene – and it worked..."
'So Far' was their second and final release for Polydor, who were kinda pissed that they refused to make any commercially viable music. Nettelback then signed the group with an upstart British label, Virgin Records, where their debut (the Faust Tapes) sold over 100,000 copies (at a price of only 49p!) in just a few weeks in the UK. The group also recorded the critically acclaimed 'Faust IV' for Virgin before calling it quits in 1976. They did get back together in the mid 90s and have toured and released several albums since then, including one in 2007 with Nurse with Wound.
Before we get started, I want to point out how great these two covers are for the upcoming 7-inch releases from Teenage Cool Kids. They are watercolors, beautifully painted by TCK member, Andrew Savage. The first one, "Speaking In Tongues," is available for pre-order here, at Copper Lung Records. All pre-orders come with a free T-shirt. The second record, "Poison Sermons," will be available soon through Michigan-based Leroy St. Records.
Disqo Disco (Fallout Lounge) Special guest tonight is DJ Teenage Wolf, founding member of The Culnsweet Collective that regularly throws parties in Austin and Mexico, and I can only imagine what a party in Monterrey is like, but according to the DJ, it sounds like an experience. Teenage Wolf also helps run the highly trafficked Tejano Bounce blog and more info available in this Central Booking interview.
Aside from the Cool Out and Paul Slavens at Dan's Silverleaf, nothing much seems to be going on tonight, which is good because it's supposed to ice over (95% of native Texans will cry and refuse to go anywhere). Luckily for you, we'll get to spend this evening working on features, and you might even see one posted later on, so hold your breath until it's up!
FRI: Tapes N Tapes/Wild Lights/I Love Math (Club Dada) FRI: The Party (Zubar) FRI: Broken Social Scene/Lymbyc System (House of Blues) SAT: The Hex Dispensers/Fungi Girls/Occult Detective Club (Bunker Hill, 2614 N. Elm St., Denton) SAT: Mount Righteous/Drug Mountain/Fishboy/Mr. Troll (Rubber Gloves) SAT: Los Campesinos/Titus Andronicus (Club Dada)
First of all, swing by this Vice post that links to a blog started by a rather sleazy associate of We Shot JR, and while you're there please feel free to have a few laughs at the parade of douches you'll find and the captions below their pics. Even though this is NOT a local blog, you might even recognize a couple of them! We can't reveal her identity, but that makes it more fun, you know? Now for shows, hos (and sorry we're late and short today, but without our jobs, we couldn't pay to go to all these shows and cover them for you, you know? Oh wait, we never pay to get into anything. sowwy)
FRIDAY
Fungi Girls | Electric Vengeance | Scoff (Cleburne Skate Center) I know you probably aren't going to drive to Cleburne for this, but considering that Fungi Girls have received more national press than any other local band so far in 2009, we had to put this up here, right? Apparently these dudes got played yesterday afternoon on XM satellite radio, which is just the latest in crazy things that have happened to them over the past couple weeks. Anyway, if you're interested, Fungi Girls go on at 715 PM apparently.
Akkolyte | Vorvadoss | Fighting Change | Scumrush | Enemies of Inertia | Blood OV (Reno's) Pretty brutal show at a pretty brutal venue. In the first instance, brutal means fierce, harsh and fun. In the second, it means "Why am I in Deep Ellum on a weekend night? Get me the fuck away from this rockabilly convention." JK guys, Akkolyte and Vorvadoss are worth braving most shitty crowds in order to see.
Matthew and the Arrogrant Sea | RTB2 | The Beaten Sea (1207 Annex Ave., Dallas) Now that Swiss House is more or less gone, Dallas pretty much has a total of zero regular locations for house shows. Maybe this could end up being the first.
Some Jerk Off | Orange Coax | Geistheistler (Majestic Dwelling of Doom) You know what the best part about being me is? I can tell you that two really great bands are playing at Majestic Dwelling of Doom on Sunday, and then I can just ignore the other crap that may or may not be occuring at the same place around the same time. Way to go Potato, your publicity scheme worked like a charm!
