(By SR and DL)

FRIDAY

Angry Businessmen | Koji Kondo | Trifle Tower | Heart Rapers | Sparlin, Jessels | Bill Stewart's Dance Band/Teenage Cool Kids (715 Panhandle in Denton) This looks like a show and a half at a place I've heard good things about but have yet to visit. As soon as I saw this lineup, I knew that had to change. Angry Businessmen rose from the now defunct and very missed Tyrannosaurus X. This group is considerably less aggravated though by no means less powerful than that late group. There is some humor mixed in to their short blasts of bass and drum accompanied rants about everything from how stomach-churningly polluted Galveston is to why Barq's is not true root beer. A live experience like no other. Koji Kondo was discussed in a show review earlier this week and they can play comfortably on someone's floor as they prefer. Their avant rock disjointedness combined with the monsoon-like crush of their rhythm section might just take your head clean off. Trifle Tower plays more dramatic and complex hardcore with very busy drumming and scream to screech vocals. Heartrapers is somewhere along those lines but less serious and with more traditional Rock and Roll showmanship. Bill Stewart's Dance Band is an improv group with performances featuring everything from old Dixieland to free jazz. Sparlin, Jessels is understated acoustic singer/song-writer fare that is heavily influenced by Magnetic Fields and similarly upset gentlemen. Teenage Cool Kids, I know almost nothing about except that their music has been repeatedly described as "90's Alt Rock" which is a pretty brave description. That's obviously the new "80's Retro" so I guess we all better get with it.

Alex Atchley Experience | Plid | Girls Rise With Heat | Sydney Confirm | Lazer (Rubber Gloves): This show is subtitled Electroshock 1: Rise of The Robotniks and is a thematically combined group of artists that feature electronics and digital beats in their music. The lineup includes the notorious Lazer, Houston's new wave influenced Plid, and the bizzare Sydney Confirm. Alex Atchley and Girls Rise with Heat standout since they tend to take a spastic and unpredictable approach to performing live.

Burnt Sienna Trio | Cartright | South Austin Jug Band (Dan's Silverleaf)
This show is the polar opposite of the first two shows we mentioned and includes three groups much more influenced by folk, blues and country. Cartright and Burnt Sienna tend to infuse their American Roots leanings with rock dynamics and both are known and widely respected as live acts. South Austin Jug Band was a little too 95.3 The Range for me but your mom might think it's cool.

SATURDAY

ADD: How could we be dumb enough to forget the legendary Jonathan Richman at Gypsy? To be honest, I don't know much about what he's been up to lately, but even if the answer is nothing, the $12 cover is worth it just to see him on a stage.

Hot Flash w/ Stephen R and Schwa (Fallout Lounge)
Don't know if you've had a chance to go to one of the Hot Flash parties yet, but this monthly event has gained a rather large following quite quickly, and there's good reason for it: the atmosphere and tunes at the past two parties have been fantastic, and this time will probably be even better. Stephen tells us that this weekend's set will include a healthy dose of classic acid house and new rave tracks as well as the usual dose of funk, disco, hip hop and whatever else they decide to spin. The place usually gets packed after midnight, so get there early if you need to be drunk in order to dance.

Midlake | Tacks, The Boy Disaster | St. Vincent (Granada Theater)
Don't let indie rock trendsters bring you down too much, ok? Yeah, I know its really annoying to hear people tell you that being influenced by Fleetwood Mac and 70's soft rock is "the new coolest thing," because lets face it: no amount of irony will ever make Bread or America cool. That being said, Midlake's latest record was one of the most cohesive local releases of 2006, and I found it to be quite enjoyable as a whole, despite the easily marketable trend that some people tried to create around it (of course, it is entirely possible that this all occurred exclusively in the Weshotjr spam email folder). The few times I've seen Midlake perform live haven't completely blown me away by any means, but one of those times was last year at SXSW when they played right after a larger than life surprise set from the Flaming Lips, so its probably unfair to judge them based on that. And besides, Denton bands are so hot right now, and you might be curious to check out Gorilla vs Bear favorite St. Vincent, who I've actually grown to like a bit myself.

Party Ends Midlake After-Party with The Laughing | Prayer for Animals | The Lemurs | Flashlight Party (The Cavern)
Rockin' blog dudes over at Party Ends have put together this after party at the Cavern with a few of Austin's more buzzed about indie bands and DJ appearances from Flashlight and one of the dudes from Midlake (sorry, don't remember which one.) Anyway, this this is FREE with your Midlake ticket stub, and five bucks otherwise. You know we've been Prayer For Animals fans for a little bit, and although I'm not completely amazed with the tracks I've heard from The Laughing or The Lemurs, both sound like they could be a lot of fun live, meaning that taking your drunk ass to this show might be a pretty good idea.

Zanzibar Snails | Great Tyrant | Harry Has A Head Like A Ping Pong Ball (Secret Headquarters)
Impressive lineup that even includes a band that I thought had broken up. Bands are like soap opera characters sometimes. Zanzibar Snails has members of Idi*Amin but their sound is somehow even freer and less defined than Idi's music. There is still Sinewave generator as well as the nervous interplay between sax bleats and scratchy guitar, but the lack of drums tends to let the music wander to previously unexplored places in sound. Great Tyrant's devastating goth-prog might just be too huge for this little room but I still hope to be in the rubble if that's the case. Harry Has A Head Like A Ping Pong Ball sounds like the backing band for a John Zorn project with many tempo and even genre changes in a given song. Note: Earlier in the day Zanzibar Snails will also perform at: Counter Culture Vintage Factory in Deep Ellum, 2701 Main Street, Dallas at 4PM.

And/Or Show #8: Opening Reception featuring work by Chad Hopper + John Michael Boling and Javier Morales (And/Or Gallery in Dallas)
Chad Hopper has long been one of my favorite artists in the state. I've spent way too much time over the years on his website, which is a beautiful combination of art and music. His collage work and paintings make many subtle and intelligent comments on consumer culture and I've laughed out loud many times at the barely hidden brilliance of his visual messages as well as his lyrics. This show also features rising video and New Media collaborators John Michael Boling and Javier Morales.

Divided Like Saints | A Childlike Fear | Nathan Browningham (Rubber Gloves)
Divided Like Saints is a Georgia duo that plays what some call "Regressive Rock" based on preserving the immediacy and excitement of live performance by practicing as little as possible. The resulting music is actually pretty good and doesn't sound like you might imagine. Either they practice more than they let on or it proves my theory that most bands practice too much. A Childlike Fear plays quiet almost introspective music with random background sounds and drum machines. Nathan Browningham sounds like a song playing in the background of an episode of Hunter or Miami Vice. I don't care how ironic you are, please...don't.

SUNDAY

SR EDIT: Guess I forgot to mention the Laptop Deathmatch at Doublewide, which I believe gets under way at about 9pm... this is really a great chance to see the most eclectic line up of electronic performers that you'll find anywhere in the DFW area... some not as good as others, but the cream of the crop at LTDM make the whole thing more than worth it. They'll only be doing a couple of these this year apparently, so catch them while you can.

http://jonofdeath.blogspot.com/2007/02/great-tyrant.html

Oh yeah, forgot to say that the showcase at The House of Tinnitus is on Saturday. I'm sure there's something really interesting going on on Sunday too, but I think i'm gonna' be too tired after Fri./Sat. to want to do anything else.

-2:44 PM

Hey 9:32 AM, how can I be a windbag if i'm sitting here typing with my mouth closed? Anyways....i'm not going to argue on here anymore. There are too many good things to talk about. What a great weekend coming up girls and boys! Faux Fox/Bobby Conn at J&J's on Friday.....Super Showcase at The House of Tinnitus. This is the kind of D/FW/Denton(CAN'T leave out Denton) that I like to see. Reminds me of how it was around here back in the early/mid 90's. Fun times!

The Dan's Silverleaf show was Cartwright, not the band Cartright. Sorry for any confusion.

Jonathan Richman was great; a musician who has completely stood the test of time. Can you really say the same for The Strange Boys or Midlake? Perhaps not Midlake but the Strange Boys are utterly disposable.

Point taken for the hundredth time. Congrats, you are officially a windbag.
We went to Jonathan Richman and then on to The Strange Boys. What a great time.
To bad windbag went to see The Birthday Party cover band. Good riddance.

For 10:35 AM. A band's attitude affects my wanting to be around them, which in turn affects my wanting to go to one of their shows. Their attitudes may not effect their musicality, but i'll be damned if I want to see them play. Besides, The Strange Boys music is God awful, so it doesn't matter anyways.

No.

Anyone have thoughts on the St Vincent / Tacks / Midlake show?

Other than all the d-bags that didn't go but will still comment anyways about "Midfake" (c'mon now, admit it - in retrospect, that was the dumbest diss of all time. Right? You're ashamed aren't you? Are you the same guy who wouldn't go out because it was too windy?)

DOG HATES ICE!..........brah.

meth is the 00's drug. don't you watch dog the bounty hunter?

Well, this has all been very fulfilling. So... Where's my Monday Morning Rock?

I didn't realize that we were basing musicality on the attitudes of the musicians. oh shit! well now I know why I sounded like such an idiot for thinking that morrissey was so good. you know, because he's such an asshole and all...

Oh yes, these Strange Boys...Are they actually boys, sans their leader, who is in fact a baby? Was he hurt? Is their gimmick smearing their faces with the contents of his Pampers? Is the baby-man kept within the confines of a cage, crib, or coffin until "show time"? What in Heaven's name? This truly sounds strange and I must behold it with my own jaded eyes...

-R. Javelinn

""because lets face it: no amount of irony will ever make Bread or America cool."

truer words have never been spoken on here."

You can take your shots at Bread all day long, but America? Come on! No one can capture that long-lost feeling of gliding, head full of acid, on that warm post-60's west coast vibe...and with so much harmony! Give them a chance and you will be hooked, I promise.

Cool? Maybe not? Enjoyable? Like a twinkie!

-R. Javelinn

Who would wanna hate on Baggins? He's a genuinely nice kid. And his Jew-fro is quite tasteful.

"It's funny that irony is so casually asserted as a negative in this stab, when many, many of the performers this blog recommends are short on the kind of confidence that keeps them from embracing gimmick and costume... show me when a mask or "outfit" onstage is sincere and I'll show you Zorro. Fiction."

This coming from someone with an anonymous post...

"Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth."
-Oscar Wilde

Costume has always been a part of entertainment and has no direct correlation with irony, per se. Even if you appear on stage in an untucked Ely shirt and scruffy beard, you're still in costume...and can be just as ironic or insincere as Zorro...you silly Gay Blade, you.

-R. Javelinn

baggins is rad you pud!

There's no drug of the 00's, which is a VERY GOOD THING.

High Schoolers.

" Anonymous said...

That dude from Koji Kondo with the Jew-fro is a stuck up little shit."

Seriously? Did I treat you wrong? Why do strangers on the internet hate me?!
-baggins/stuck up little shit

http://www.wowgold-sale.com/

i wanna nu drug

goals

ha! no. really. pot is so 60's. heroin was so 70's. coke was so 80's. x was so 90's. now....what is so 00's?

yes. save the pot for after you accomplish your goals. then smoke a lot of pot.

Which is a BAD thing. Don't you actually want to be motivated to accomplish your goals in life? Don't you want to back up your opinions with action? Yes? Then QUIT SMOKING POT.

Marijuana neutralizes you.

That dude from Koji Kondo with the Jew-fro is a stuck up little shit.

how waz shq

Happy Bullets; Tacks, the boy disaster; Bosque Brown (full band) tonight (Sun, 2/25) at Haileys, 9pm. All Ages, $6 cover.

the lead singer of Current Leaves has man tits.

prayer for talent

marijuana's great. i've never understood the appeal of other humans

hahaha, so the laughing were really bad. but it was nice to see prayer for animals, even though they fucked up a lot. still even with their mistakes the at the very least wailed, but jesus, the laughing, not a good band. They should break up. It was really not worth stay for. If I had the choice to go back in time, I would've left the second I saw them put up that fucking lame neon sign. lame, lame, lame.

when are you gonna come down?
when are you going to land?
i should have stayed on the farm, i should have listened to my old man.

I'm merely a story teller.

Trux has one really good album called Thank You that's worth a listen.

Hey Kwanza's Over.. you should have a business card that reads "When fame slips right through your hands."

royal trux is great. i love their lyrics.

SR,DL-

block anon posts. for the love of god.

"is the great tyrant really worth all the talk?"

Was that really worth typing?

The Great Tyrant would rather talk about Christopher Cross.

Fick ip? Are you retarded or something?

Wow, jonofdeath. You are one pathetic loser. I'd like to see you do something 1/23 as creative or entertaining as Royal Trux.

I once heard about a Pavement show that the Royal Trux opened up for. RT was playing and everyone was just staring at them. At about three songs in and no one really applauding, someone walked up to the stage and said really quietly (but everyone in the place heard him), "You guys are weird."

Thank you, stonedranger, for your input. Now that we know you don't like royal trux, that means we won't like them either. Now go smoke a doober and get neutralized you little rat turd.

Never understood the appeal of marijuana.

Isn't titubation a great word, Lisa? I wanted to use to word tittilation, but i'm not sure if I am spelling it right and i'm very anal-retentive and I wouldn't want to get ripped on by all of the professors on here.

titubation: A stumbling or staggering gait characteristic of some nervous disorders.

See, you learn something new every day! :)

well i guess its not too windy now but i am still not going out

never understood the appeal of Royal Trux.

first of all, titubation? cool.

secondly, wanz, laptops,strange boys and faceless werewolves are all ok by me. but then again i'm partial to liking many things. one of my first boyfriends once got angry cause i liked all the bands he played for me. he asked 'are there ANY of the bands i've played for you that you don't like?' ..at the time i yelled 'Royal Trux' but now i frkn like them too. but i honestly think a lotta shit's crap, i just choose not to whine about it..
-lisa

"...its also too windy to go anywhere..."

WHAT? Really? That's an excuse to not go out?

Unbelievable.

555, 645,

EXCUSE THE FUCK OUT OF MOI, losers! goddamn, if you're going to be so fucking picky-be at least thankful that somebody remembered to mention it. I could have just mentioned the only acts I knew.

and ps, I'm sorry I didn't happen to have my mouth attached to joe's peen the moment he cancelled, so I'm afraid I didnt' know.

I'm just not that hip or in the loop, as you are, I suppose.

awwwwww! I'm SAD NOW!!!!

Actually I have about 40 personalities, so i'm hardly one guy. I'm also not a guy, so you're wrong there too, faggot.

great tyrant is pretty boring but i only saw them once and it was their first show--nothing looks good tonight --as for the strange boys they are even more boring boring for my eyes and ears --its also too windy to go anywhere -- if i was forced to do any of those things tonight it would probably be shq and give the great tyrant another go

I think they're worth "all the talk" as you put it. I think they are the best band in D/FW, actually.

you mean worth all the talk that one guy is giving them?

probably not.

but they are good.

is the great tyrant really worth all the talk?

Every time some one anonymously bashes another band and then promotes the Great Tyrant a clown laughs himself to death.

I just meant you should delete so the assholes can't use it against you, but fuck 'em.

HA! It's so funny that you guys(or girls for 4:33 PM) are talking about The Strange Boys. Less than 10 minutes ago, me and my friends were just talking about how stuck up and boring those idiots are. Just completely worthless snobs. Did you know that their parents buy them all of their gear? Props to 3:19 for bringing this up. This is one band I have no guilt talking shit about, mainly because it doesn't seem like shit talking when it's the truth. Is the lead singer a little slow in the head? Honestly. He seems kind of retarded. He also sings like a baby that's being stabbed to death.

Yes. Do go to Great Tyrant......definantly THE show of the night.

how do you know it's not miss anon, sexist!

I'm in no way jealous of The Strange Boys. I actually just want to beat them up because they are always pricks to me. I could care less if their music stinks. I don't think their being assholes makes them popular at all by the way. I don't think they're really that popular as well, at least not in my circle of friends....and it's a pretty big circle, I assure you. I think you will see how very unpopular they are when you witness the massive turn out at The Great Tyrant show tonight.

I'm actually getting married to the hot girl. Don't remember what I was thinking. It was a while ago. I actually didn't even realize that the Faceless Werewolves were still around. I don't think I'm going to see them tonight. Jonathan Richman seems to be the best thing on the list tonight. Then again I've been looking forward to Reno 911: Miami. I usually make my plans about 5 minutes before I do them though. So, whatever.

I 2nd that the strange boys aren't the nicest bunch of guys. In fact, not nice at all. Sadly, all that does is make them more popular, and even sadder, it makes even more people jealous.

Rude? Shy? or just fucking stoned?

i think i'll vote all of the above.

Yeah, yeah.....say what you will about me. But just know that I am RIGHT about Midfake, The Heartless Vampires, and The(Not Very)Strange(At All)Boys.

Great Tyrant: Original, kind, and HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN!!!

I'm sorry, jonofdeath. Have you popped your cherry yet? I think maybe you might just be insecure about your little dick. Yeah....speaking of assholes, Baldomero from The Heartless Vampires...I mean, Faceless Werewolves(Stupidest name of all time? Yes.) has to be one of the most arrogant pieces of shit I have ever met. Just an all-round son of a bitch. Quite the womanizer, I might add, ladies!

Seriously though. Did the girl have a dick? Did she not have a face as well? What the hell were you thinking?

Hi. We're Midlake, and we toe the line of mediocrity with reckless abandon. We make songs that are absolutely unoriginal and we do so as to make money from all of you sheep who are also into mediocre crap.

If you don't go to The Great Tyrant show tonight you are a musical idiot and may God have mercy on your beard.

I once had the choice of going to a Faceless Werewolves show on Valentine's Day and going out with a hot girl. I chose the Faceless Werewolves.

The Strange Boys and The Faceless Werewolves?!! Wow! This show has an asshole rating of about 9.6! Seriously. Does anyone on here NOT think that The Strange Boys are the most stuck up bunch of children in The Metroplex? Poser ass fuckheads. "Look at me! I wear black pants, a black and white striped shirt, AND leather Italian shoes! And check out the incredibly smug look on my face which looks as if I wash it with diaper shit! Weeeeee!!" What a fucking joke.

-Person that will definantly be at The Great Tyrant show

GREEEEEEAT TYYYYYYRAAAAAAAANT!!!!!! RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!

The Double-Wide show was fun last night. And Browningham's cheers about pizza parties and bible studies make me laugh every time.

Tonight at Double-Wide, THE STRANGE BOYS and FACELESS WEREWOLVES.

There will be time to make this after the Midlake show.

wow ! alot of stuff happening !

TONIGHT !

a prince / james brown tribute !

the fabulous sensational sounds of
DICK GRAVY !!!

Tonight 2/24 at midnight
at the
Lakewood Bar and Grill

Papa's got a brand new set of balls!
bouncy ones! Anyone with a purple head band gets in free !

We live in a world of process and convenience and shadows. Your statement is banal and mundane and so common to earthly existence that it deserves a banal response..........................................

PS- I hesitate to contemplate the state of your genitals

PSS-
In outer-worldly news: Straight from the AP Wire:

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?
That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman she regarded as her rival for another astronaut's affections.
It turns out NASA has a detailed set of written procedures for dealing with a suicidal or psychotic astronaut in space. The documents, obtained this week by The Associated Press, say the astronaut's crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary."

I like to rape cats, using soy delicious chocolate decadence soy cream as lube. Those fuckers will claw at you like CRAZY, but if you make sure to wear your chain mail armor, then you won't feel a thing except the best goddamn orgasm of your meaningless life. The cat WILL lose a few of its claws, but that makes it scream and twitch even more on your dick, causing even more titubation/stimulation during the feline pumpathon.

I like soy delicious chocolate decadence soy cream and I love cats. I like the music that Wanz makes as well. I like the fist in the air!

No one serious is saying Wanz is not nice or a douche. The fact most, if not all of his bands are emotional train wrecks is a more salient point.

hey scrotch, check out this deuce i just dropped, it's pretty sweet.

wanz is good people

malarie loves me!

i really like rainbows. i saw one the other day. i think wanz is nice as well.

i really like rainbows. i saw one the other day. i think wanz is nice as well.

and silence is truly an artist's friend

browningham is great.

I like Wanz, I'm glad he's around.
-g

already regretting. I really should stop drinking and writing. It's not gonna make a differance anyways.

Dude, you're totally hiding behind your anonymity.

Matthew Pierce

Fuck it, Wanz. A lot of the people on here are just jealous little kids who have probably never even seen you perform. Fuck 'em.

never mind. not worth my time.

mail me personally and give one good reason why.

right on blixaboy.

cheers wanz.

Dude, you should totally delete that.

I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE. I KNOW IAM GONNA REGRET THIS IN THE MORNING.SKIP IT IF YOU SIMPLY DON'T CARE.
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Music is cool. I don't have an ego. You do. I just do what I do. You have the problem dear mr anon. NOt the other way around. Deathmatch has no stars since it's different people every match playing whatever type of music they want. A place for musicians to perform their homemade creations. We've had everything from Black Metal to electro to hip hop to noise to whatever. It's pretty unpredictable and I actually don't battle very often myself. I mostly just run the show. Most of the deathmatchers come from rock bands. The others are professional producers or make music and sound FX for anime and video games. In this day and age even country bands are using laptops in their live shows. It's just technology. Stop being a caveman. We all play instruments. We don't just use laptops all the time.
It's kind of like singer songwriter night except we use laptops instead of acoustic guitars.
==================================
I get attacked on here a lot and that's fine. If you go into public performance you gotta deal with that stuff, but no one actually ever says what I have done to be such a jerk. I may be kind of rude sometimes, but who doesn't have bad days. I went through a real breakdown years ago and really pushed everyone out of my life. I got over it. So should you.

My mom is a librarian so I grew cataloguing every thing. My dad is a political science professor so I'm am stubborn and say what is on my mind for better or worse(My biggest fault). It's a pretty simple formula. I AM NOT A MUSIC SNOB. That's why I try to turn people on to new music every week at my DJ night. I want to share with people. People bring me cd's to check out all the time. Geeking out on music or comics or dungeons and dragons. I hate music snobs. I don't get along with them. I work at guitar center. I can't stand the music I have to put up with on a regular basis( you can't even imagine), but after six years it really does not bother me. I don't judge people on the music they listen to. I don't judge anyone. I have more important things to worry about.

JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE LISTENS TO DIFFERENT MUSIC DOES NOT MAKE THEM LESS HUMAN.

Why don't you do something useful with your time and go see a show. Not my show. Any show from a band you like. Talk about the bands you like. Stop being a bunch of whiny indie hipster snobs. It's just fucking music.

really.

So here is the big question.

exactly why am I an jerk?

If your got a bone to pick. Pick it.
What did I do that was so awful that you have to obsess over harassing me over and over. I really want to know. And the folks that don't agree with these nitwits. Speak up. This should be interesting.

Cheers and Good night.

-Mwanza Nyerere Dover

Hey Defensive Listening. I'm not trying to be mean at all, but how in the world do you have time to do anything else at all other than this? This seems utterly time consuming....as in 24-7, 7 days a week. Do you get paid for it?

oddly enough dude was in Ohm eons ago

Yeah, I gotta agree. The brush-off of browningham was justified. Plenty of other good stuff going on that night.

the Laughing is the muthafucking best.

rayer for animnals is damn great.

the lemurs... meh.

but good god- the LAUGHING!

I happen to like Nathan Browningham, but you have to remember something: we do the best we can with this blog... DL probably just doesn't dig him (I seriously doubt that he hasn't heard him before) but that doesn't mean he hasn't given it a fair listen.... a difference in opinion does not mean that the other side simply doesn't know what they are talking about, and a spelling error doesn't indicate this either.

nasty nate

nasty nate

'ben' dover: laptops ARE supergay, how about a deathmatch between you and your ego instead? my money's on the ego.

katey with an 'e' - typo i copied and pasted. sorry katey!

Lumberjack Festival III

12:45-1:30 – Spitfire Tumbleweeds

11:50-12:30 – jetscreamer

11:00-11:35 –Current Leaves

10:10-10:45 – RTB2

9:20-9:55 – Pinebox Serenade

8:30-9:05 – Chris Flemmons

8:10-8:30 – Katy Margolis

7:30 – 8:00 – Stanton Meadowdale

6:45 - 7:15 – Isaac Hoskins

6:25 – 6:45 – Jason Ashbaugh

5:45-6:15 – Big ol Bastards

5:25 – 5:45 – Jeff Moore

Saturday, February 24th @ Dan's Silverleaf. 7 bucks.

quote: "It's Nathan BrowningHAM, not Nathan "Browning".

If this typo is any indication of the amount of attention you lent to his profile and sound, then the brush off is to be expected (running out of time and patience by the end of your list I guess).

It's funny that irony is so casually asserted as a negative in this stab, when many, many of the performers this blog recommends are short on the kind of confidence that keeps them from embracing gimmick and costume... show me when a mask or "outfit" onstage is sincere and I'll show you Zorro. Fiction.

I mean come on, you write an entry mentioning the word "Electroshock", "Robotnik", and the "notorious Lazer" with no sense of the cringe-inducing feelings one would feel if they knew any better? (... and you should.) Talk about irony.

I don't know Nathan Browningham, but I have seen him perform and he often ups the ante for the lesser acts that follow. He's a Fort Worth native, and he's been making his sounds for a long time, pre-dating many of the trends that seem to foster such devotion on this blog. It's fun shit and he's a talented guy.

I choose to not agree with your lack of attention, and I recommend others follow suite."

Sorry about the error. I didn't name the Electroshock event. T-shirt and Jeans is an outfit too. Wasn't this solved decades ago? The Browningham music samples were as I described them. He names Billy Ocean as an influence. The music was at least memorable. That's more than I can say for many artists.

"because lets face it: no amount of irony will ever make Bread or America cool."

truer words have never been spoken on here.

the austin museum of discarded crap? not so much. yo, love the hate, suck it!
p.s. you put on shows???

It's Nathan BrowningHAM, not Nathan "Browning".

If this typo is any indication of the amount of attention you lent to his profile and sound, then the brush off is to be expected (running out of time and patience by the end of your list I guess).

It's funny that irony is so casually asserted as a negative in this stab, when many, many of the performers this blog recommends are short on the kind of confidence that keeps them from embracing gimmick and costume... show me when a mask or "outfit" onstage is sincere and I'll show you Zorro. Fiction.

I mean come on, you write an entry mentioning the word "Electroshock", "Robotnik", and the "notorious Lazer" with no sense of the cringe-inducing feelings one would feel if they knew any better? (... and you should.) Talk about irony.

I don't know Nathan Browningham, but I have seen him perform and he often ups the ante for the lesser acts that follow. He's a Fort Worth native, and he's been making his sounds for a long time, pre-dating many of the trends that seem to foster such devotion on this blog. It's fun shit and he's a talented guy.

I choose to not agree with your lack of attention, and I recommend others follow suite.

The Doublewide show is gonna be a blast tonight.

Deathmatch is going to be better than you think. If you have not made one you really should check it out. It's a real good vibe all night and a seriously wide variety of genres by a very talented group of musicians. Several of the guys will be representing Dallas at the SXSW Laptop Battle sponsored by the Austin Museum of Digital Art.

yo!!!
stop the hate.
Go see a show.
Cheers!!!

SHQ 2/23/07:
The Always Already
Bob White and The F-Electrics

Pretty boss if you ask me.

tell me how important it is, 5:49. especially since the artist you mention's band canceled.

Laptop Deathmatch on Sunday @ Doublewide. There will only be four matches this year.

you totally forgot! TONIGHT!
DOUBLEWIDE:

Sparklepussy Barbie
the winter of our disco intent (JOE BUTCHER!)
nathan browningham
the dutch treats.

do you people not understand how important this show is?!?!?!!!

despite half the band being sick, hardin sweaty and the ready to go are gonna rock the shit out of the wreck room tonight.

SHQ show looks awesome!