TUE: Mumiy Troll/Run Run Run (The Loft) THR: Hormones/Sir Name and the Janes/Bulletproof Tiger (The Cavern) THR: Nails/Kill the Client/Big Fiction/Humanerror (The Nightmare)* FRI: Curvette/Violent Squid/Peopleodian/Kaboom (a Barn in Denton) FRI: Female Demand/Final Club (house show, Denton) FRI: Hentai Improvising Orchestra/Violent Squid/Tony Sims (1919 Hemphill) FRI: Autolux/Gold Panda (The Loft) FRI: Designer Drugs/Yeah Def (Granada) FRI: Maria Bamford (Sanders Theater in Fort Worth) SAT: "Cats & Dogs Denton Humane Society Benefit" Greg Ginn/Shiny Around the Edges/Dust Congress/Brent Best/Chris Flemmons/Dim Locator/Dear Human/RTB2/Spooky Folk/Record Hop/Video/New Science Projects/Delmore Pilcrow/Sabra Laval (Rubber Gloves) SAT: Something Fierce/Bare Wires/Static Mind (The Nightmare) SAT: Maria Bamford (Sanders Theater)
*I noticed on the Parade of Flesh website (yes I do visit John!) there is a memorial to the comedian Robert Schimmel who passed away in a car wreck last week. PoF list Schimmel as being best known for TV Funhouse when in reality TV Funhouse is the creation of SNL writer Robert SMIGEL, easy mistake I guess. Robert Smigel also played Adam Sandler's dentist brother in law in PT Anderson's Punch Drunk Love and is still alive.
Amandla is the musical project of Ween drummer Claude Coleman Jr. The guy makes some pleasing neo-soul with psychedelic flourishes that help shape the music instead of serving as novelty kitsch. Think an un-ironic Freedom of 76'.
Best show in Dallas on a very crowded night. This will be the Dallas debut for Frank favorites Cuckoo Byrds, hope the regulars are ready. Fiskadro come from Houston and feature ex-Indian Jewelery member Travis Kerschen. The sound is reminiscent of early PiL or a lounge-ier Liquid Liquid. Fiskadoro's Hypnotic and dubby sound should be a nice come down after the frenetic jitter of Marriage Material.
This month's installment of the proto/glam/shoegaze extravaganza helmed by the able crates of DJ Gabriel and Telegram Sam seems to have a Brian Eno theme according to the online postings. Sounds good to me. I once saw a Brian Eno cover night in Austin sometime in the early oughts which consisted mainly of dudes that looked like they were slinging gear for Eno in the early 70s. There was only about ten people there but one of those was none other than Britt Daniel from Austin's own Spoon. I was a never a big Spoon fan but the dude new alot about Eno and his autograph scored me some major significant other points.
Kiki is pretty hi profile electronic artist out of Germany and on the b-pitch label. Probably the show of the night for electroisseurs but not worth noting to the rest of the population.
This is a CD release for Dallas based 3 piece Missile who are either very tongue in cheek or very eager to star in a sequel to Scorpio Rising. Too bad the straight ahead garage rock sound doesn't match the campy facade. The high production values of the Myspace tells me these guys mean business.
Peopleodian | Dear Human | Baruch The Scribe | Western Giants (Rubber Gloves) So we've already discussed a lot of these local groups in recent months, particularly the awfulness of Baruch the Scribe and the surprisingly intriguing sounds of Peopleodian, an interesting project with one of the worst names ever. Dear Human play an effective brand of instrumental math rock that isn't and probably won't ever be my thing, but fans of the genre will likely appreciate much of it.
