You may have noticed there is no list today. Or maybe you didn't. Either way, I was trying to go to the FOE and I completely forgot about it. My apologies. I am also taking this opportunity to let my fellow contributors know that I will do the Thursday It List.
Got some bueno schwag for you in the next couple days kicking off with a sweet NNMT a little later in the evening. For now... Sarah Jaffe | Seryn (Dan's)
Wow. Ten dollar cover for the local release of your latest album? More power to you.
The life span of a Rubber Gloves in house DJ has to be one of the shortest around. We will see if newcomers DJ Tanner & DJ Matchmaker can break the curse.
Tonight is the three year anniversary of Cool Out At The Cavern, which is actually quite hard to believe. This has always been a unifying event, where even the most anti-DJ, anti-dance night people wind up getting tipsy together with the usual club friendly crowd, and end up being in some unfortunate party pic that we all regret. If you've been too many times, or you've never been, it seems like tonight is a better night than ever to experience this upbeat and laid back Dallas staple. And this is coming from a guy that hates "upbeat" and "laid back."
TUE: Sarah Jaffe/Seryn (Dan's) WED: Fang Island/Hollerado/Zlam Dunk (Rubber Gloves) THR: The Gates of Slumber/Maleveller/Mammoth Grinder (Double Wide) FRI: CCR Headcleaner/End of a Year/Dark Forces/Kampfgrounds (Majestic Dwelling of Doom) SAT: On After Dark/Bad Design/Cocky Americans (Hailey's) SAT: Tribute To Vic Chesnutt/Will Johnson/Brent Best (Dan's) SAT: Converge, Coalesce/Gaza/Black Breath (Trees) SUN: Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now/Darktown Strutters (Hailey's)
Museum Creatures | Moira Scar | Vulgar Fashion (The Amsterdam): This seems like an unlikely venue for this show, however, when we hosted a show here a couple of years ago, it was a really great setting and a favorite experience of being involved with the site.
This "all duo" lineup features three couplets all pushing in various directions, ranging from extremely understated and sparkling synth pieces, willfully "off" and deceivingly obtuse minimalist costume rock, and dark, noisy dance chaos. Fuck, isn't describing music stupid?
Not surprisingly, this show was booked by Joshaa Flores, who has long been the undisputed champion of creative booking in DFW for years.
Caddy Whompus | County Lines | The People Men (1919 Hemphill): The People Men is a new surf duo featuring Rick Vee who runs 1919, and I imagine it's pretty good since I heard the best surf record ever at 1919 that wasn't The Ventures: Live in Japan or anything by The Smashchords. Perhaps one of their kind volunteers can refresh my memory.
Stinking Lizaveta | Akkolyte | Abuse Tactics (Lounge) Legendary Philly instrumental trio Stinking Lizaveta continues to shatter the myth about "female drummers" so prevalent in the male-dominated rock community, and is as equally comfortable with metal chug breakdowns as they are open-ended free form passages. An equally tough opening lineup help to make this a show well worth seeing.
Jacuzzi Boys | Fergus And Geronimo | Fungi Girls (The Cavern) Can someone send me a rough copy of the Fergus And Geronimo full-length that I've heard has been completed? I really want to hear it. I promise not to play it for anyone, and I won't upload it to some elite message board, honest.
The first time I heard the Jacuzzi Boys, I dismissed them as yet another melodic garage rock band, but the more I've heard them the more I realize they have a certain amount of 60's psych influence, like some forgotten track off of a Collectables Records comp, and they're better than I thought.
Throw in the Fungi Girls, and you have a pretty solid lineup, featuring two of the best local groups I know of writing catchy, memorable rock music, minus all the "ists" and the "isms," as a great man once said.
Naxat | Diamond Age (Tradewinds) Cool lineup with the daringly complex Naxat, as well as the much more mood-based, Diamond Age, who are no less interesting, even with far fewer notes. Of course, anyone playing with Naxat is playing far fewer notes.
ADD:
Don't Look In The Basement featuring "Santa Sangre" and "The Brood" (J&J's Pizza) Event is free and starts at 8 pm.
Howdy kids. Our buddies at over at Granada Theater have generously donated a pair of tickets to see Talib Kweli tonight and we're gonna give them away to a random human that emails us at weshotjrtix@yahoo.com by 5pm today with their full name in the body and "Talib Kweli" as the subject. Good luck ya'll!
Video Rehab - Night Flight / I Want my MTV Night (Tradewinds Social Club)
A 5 hour block of vintage 80's cable TV. If you are too young to remember Night Flight it was a late night cable TV show that featured wicked music documentaries along with cutting edge and counter culture shorts. Ever seen the clip with Ronald and Nancy Reagan discussing their love for drugs? That was Night Flight. I don't know how the crew culminated all this "cream of the crop" videos but it's definitely something you won't see too often. I wish my mom wouldn't have thrown away all my 120 minutes recordings (I had about 40 tapes full) or I would throw my own party.
Another off site House of Tinnitus fling featuring the harsh sounds you have come to expect from Rob & Co's booking preferences. Show starts at nine be sure to get there on time so you can check out the aforementioned Rob in his new solo project Filth.
Tusk is visiting us all the way from California and seem to be a perfect companion piece to Drug Mountain. Tusk have a jazzier feel to them, not quite as harsh as Drug Mountain but hey what is? Cola-Cola | Kampfgrounds | Stew! (Boiler Room)
Or if you don't want to go see what the Continental Gin building is in person, you can read this virtual tour I just came across.
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010
Turtle Creek Artists The Andelon Gallery 3737 Atwell Street, Suite 204, Dallas, TX 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
While I appreciate the fact that Andelon Art Gallery is "celebrating art today in Dallas, Texas", this is unfortunately one of the saddest collections of artist samples I've seen in an online Dallas gallery portfolio. I'm fairly certain "Blue Horse" was already painted by Franz Marc, at least once. "Fishermen" looks like a Gauguin except the natives are wearing jams circa 1989. At least "Taylor Pollock" isn't even trying. Be sure to check out the floating red chairs, as well. To add to the melancholia, the photographs of the works are terrible. I can't find out much of anything about this gallery or the owners except that it's kind of in Highland Park near Love Field.
Also, the Dallas Museum of Art is staying open all night Friday: "The Museum will stay open round-the-clock, offering half price ($8) exhibition tickets to see The Lens of Impressionism from midnight until 10 a.m. Saturday morning." I saw this show a few weeks ago. It's a interesting combination of early French photography techniques and a sampling of impressionist pieces, set against a narrative of the development of tourism along the Normandy coast in the mid-19th century, once the railroad started going out there from Paris and rich people could leave town. Some of the photographs are unbelievable, especially when you read about the technology involved.
Soular Power will be spinning selections from their potpourri of high class wax during half price burger night at Lee Harvey's starting around 8pm. Sounds like a nice night out in these economically challenging times.
Our pal Tommy Boy, who was nice enough to do an exclusive WeShotJr mix for us last year (or was it 2008? I can't remember), is clearly moving on to bigger and better things these days-- he was recently asked to submit an original mix for Viceland.com, and he came through in a big way-- click right here to check out Tommy Boy's all Texas Vice mix, featuring locals such as Darktown Strutters, Corporate Park, Phantastes and George Quartz, among other Texas favorites. Track list:
1. George Quartz - “Coconut” 2. Phantastes - “Flight of Stares” 3. Darktown Strutters - “Silver Bullet” 4. Indian Jewelry - “Same Mistake Man” 5. Corporate Park - “Intimate Precision” 6. //TENSE// - “Versus Man (TX Love Remix 2010)” 7. Seth Nemec - “Count Zero” 8. Jake Schrock - “Trigon” 9. E.R.P. (aka Convextion) - “Frozen Volatiles” 10. DYX - “Lips in the Darkness (feat. Press-On)” 11. Submersible Machines - “Riding Theta Waves” 12. Missions - “Phantasy” 13. Medio Mutante - “Transit (Demo)” 14. MVSCLZ - “Fascination (Across The Nation)” 15. R9 - “Dreamdance” 16. edrupt - “M-U-S-I-K” 17. betdat - “Nex (Radio Edit)” 18. MKF KÜNST - “Venga (TX Love Remix 2010)” 19. Berliner Eins - “Nite Life” 20. Twisted Wires - “Hell” 21. Low Red Center - “Historic Edition” 22. S U R V I V E - “White Clouds” 23. Future Blondes - “NIGHT ANALYSIS (Oppenheimer Analysis “Behind the Shades” RMX)” 24. Psychic Violence - “U is Moon” 25. How I Quit Crack - “Gone Away” 26. xix - “1111(v7)
Stoned Men | Kampfgrounds | Geistheistler | Lechugillas | Drink To Victory | Modern History Duet | Forbes Young Gonzalez/Billington Hart | Zanzibar Snails (Little Guys Warehouse) Since moving to Chicago about eight months ago, I've seen more shows than I can possibly count, and most of them have consisted of bands I'm either not familiar with or barely familiar with playing at DIY spaces for free. It's been pretty fantastic-- off the top of my head, I could probably name 10-20 excellent bands that I hadn't ever heard before seeing them at this or that venue in Chicago, and I can honestly say that I've been more pleasantly surprised by music more often since I've been here than I had in quite a long time back in Texas. In fact, I've seen so much that the thought of writing about some of it has been a bit daunting due to the fact that I still feel like I have a bit to learn about some of these groups before I can speak about them with any kind of intelligence or insight.
The place I've probably frequented the most over the past several months has the Mopery, a cavernous warehouse spot on Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Inhabited by a group of (mostly) ex-Dentonites, including Mike Forbes and Andrew Young, the place has become one of my favorite places to see a show, perhaps ever, and a lot of people in the area seem to agree with me-- at just about any given performance, no matter who is playing, a few hundred people always seem to turn up to see everything from local noisepop girl groups to out of town cold wave to Wolf Eyes side projects. This evening, in addition to an extraordinarily solid Metroplex line up at Little Guys, two Chicago bands consisting of Mopery residents and their close friends will be in the house. Many of you are obviously familiar with the arrestingly intense work of Mike Forbes and Andrew Young from their various Texas based projects, but seeing them develop as Tiger Hatchery, featuring Chicago's Ben Billington on drums, has been quite a treat. Whether blowing your fucking ear drums out with screaching sax and thundering bass or confusing the shit out of punk rock kids with quiet, abstract percussion heavy pieces, Tiger Hatchery is one of the most exciting bands in a city with a lot of exciting bands, and you can catch its various memebers playing in several different projects this evening. Lechugillas, which features former Dentonites Mike Hart and Jason Camacho (as well as Chicago's Bill Satek), is a relatively new group that has quickly developed into a live force-- I caught them at their tour kick off show here in Chicago last week, and they put on one of the loudest and nastiest performances I've seen from anyone in quite some time. With songs that always seem to teeter on the brink of falling apart all together, Lechugillas's rhythm section always keeps you guessing as the group pummels the audience with overwhelming harshness and Hart's fierce vocals. It all works so well together as a whole that it just has to be seen. So stop by this show this evening and/or their performance at Hailey's tomorrow and decide for yourself. This is starting at 7PM roughly, so get over there!
