benefit for tommy atkins: final schedule and lineup
A final reminder, along with some new details:
Parking and entrance in the back of The Kessler Theater, which is located at 1230 W Davis St. in Oak Cliff. Cost is ten dollars with all proceeds being donated.
Bosque Brown | Tre Orsi | Sabra Laval (Majestic Dwelling of Doom) Very solid lineup at one of the most consistent DIY spaces in the area over the past couple of years. Say what you want about Bosque Brown's latest record, but I've always thought they were one of the few truly solid indie folk groups in the area. Tre Orsi's national profile has also just increased quite a bit thanks to their inclusion in Matador's mostly Austin compilation Casual Victim Pile. And this is no way directed at Tre Orsi's music, but man-- is that the best Austin has to offer these days? This mostly brainless lifestyle garage music? I've said it before and I'll say it again-- Denton has more solid bands that Austin right now. Hands down, actually.
The Clientele | Vetiver | This Old House (Granada) The Clientele are a band we interviewed here several years ago, back when they were getting ready to play in front of about 30 people at Hailey's. Now they're headlining the much larger Granada Theater after several very consistent and enjoyable records. I still don't think anything touches "Suburban Light," their early singles compilation, but that's only because its one of my favorite records of the past ten years or so. Highly recommended.
Never was a fan of The Paper Chase, the band or the movie. In fact anytime I hear The Paper Chase or see one of their shirts I kinda want to throw up. Nervous Curtains seems to be much more up my ally after sampling the myspace tracks. Hope it's good cause the album cover is pretty cool. So Darktown Strutters, when is your album release going to be? Word on the street says it will definitely drop before summer. We are all waiting.
Akron/Family sound alot like Matthew and the Arrogant Sea but I think MATAS sound much better. And lookey here they are on the same bill so you can decide for yourself. Also might be a good show to go to if you are working on picture book about long unkept beards.
Very, very sorry to hear this. More info as it's available. (We had originally disabled comments on this post but I figured that some friends, etc. might want to share stories and information, so comments are back on for now. Anything disrespectful will be deleted. Thanks)--SR
VIDEO REHAB PRESENTS: C A T F I G H T: WOMEN IN CAGES (Featuring Sexploitation CLIPS, DIPS, CHAINS, WHIPS //MAIN FEATURE: "REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS(Tradewinds, Oak Cliff) Starts at 9pm.
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.
Horrible MOR music from a former horrible alt-rock artist. Merle Haggard (Bass Performance Hall)
Also wanted to point out that the Thin Line Film Festival begins this week in Denton. This is the second year for the documentary film festival. You might see me at the screening of Beaches of Agnes an autobiographical documentary by one of my favorite film makers Agnes Varda. Other highlight include The Most Dangerous Man in America, Burma VJ and the archival footage mash-up Clandestine.
I realize that this is the third or fourth live recording that I've posted in a row, but there isn't much else to work with when it comes to Sonic's Rendezvous Band. During their five year existence, the band managed to record and release a lone 45, and conflict within the group limited that release to only one song, their signature tune (and a goddamn barn-burner if I've ever heard one) 'City Slang' in mono on one side and in stereo on the other. Thankfully several of their live shows have seen bootleg releases over the last 30 years and a few have even been released officially.
Sonic's Rendezvous Band was made up of Detroit scene veterans Scott Morgan, of The Rationals, on guitar, The Up's Gary Rasmussen on bass, former Stooges timekeeper Scott Asheton and the group's namesake, the late Fred 'Sonic' Smith, who cut his teeth as half of the MC5's monumental twin guitar attack. Smith and Morgan shared songwriting and singing duties. The fact that they rarely played outside of the Detroit area combined with a lack of recorded output and (half of) the band's undeniably legendary pedigree give the SRB the rare distinction of being a 'nearly forgotten supergroup.' I-94 Bar has an extensive history of the band with several first hand accounts from the surviving members and friends, including Deniz Tek, who is credited with taking the Detroit sound 'down under' as a founding member of Sydney's Radio Birdman.
The show featured here is actually disc 4 of Easy Action's SRB 6 disc set that was released in 2006. It is easily my favorite disc of the six, although it is an incomplete set. I'm pretty sure that a 2cd version of the entire show exists, but I haven't had any luck finding it. That small complaint aside, this recording is a defining example of a Rock and Roll band that REALLY has their shit together. I know that's a lame description, but big college words won't do this shit any justice-- just turn it up, push play and have a fucking great time!
