It's October Yayyyyyyyyy!! It's all nice and shit outside and Halloween is coming up! So this weekend starts a month full of a massive amount of awesome bands coming through as well as all our fave local bands playing often.
Start your Thursday off with the first edition of Boomnanza!! Oil Boom plays the Basement Bar for free with War Party. Go ahead and prep for the following editions of Boomnanza where Oil Boom plays with Birds of Night on the 18th (omg!! two of my favorite songs of all time this year picks in one place) and The Longshots on Nov. 1st.
Or at Lola's you can checkout Solo Sol, Mailman, and Siberian Trap.
On Friday ish really starts to get cray in Dallas with Index fest. A two day festival that includes an insane amount of bands: Heartless Bastards, Portugal the Man, Cold War Kids, Grimes, Surfer Blood, Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr., it's almost overwhelming. Plus a good chunk of our local talent: Blackstone Rangers, Datahowler, Air Review, The Cush and they may not be considered local but one of the best live acts in Texas, Quiet Company. One day passes are $28 or you can get two day passes for only ten bucks more.
There is one non music event I would recommend checking out this weekend. You know those sweet videos of chicks doing those really super complex pole performances. Well Friday and Saturday Miss Texas Polestar competition is going on at Lakewood Theatre and I personally think it looks cool as hell. You can see the competition as well as attend work shops to have the most ridiculous core of anyone ever.
If you want to hang with me Friday I will be at the Lola's seeing what's been dubbed "math rock night" with Babar, Feuding Fathers, Boyfrndz, and Cleanup. Cleanup has undergone some lineup changes so I'm anticipating seeing what they're like now.
On Saturday I'm planning on going to the Big D for Bryan Street Tavern's big Anniversary party. This event also boasts hella bands and it's free: Fungi Girls, The O's, Turbo Fruits, White Mystery, Royal Bangs, Those Darlings, Spookeasy and that's just a few. Frigging ridiculous. Did I mention there's no cover. Yea. Wth
Finally on Sunday if you aren't exhausted from any of this prior awesomeness Quaker City Night Hawks , Big Mike Box O Rock, and Secret Ghost Champion are playing Wild Rooster.
Speaking of Secret Ghost champion a couple of weeks ago they posted this gem on Sound Cloud. Listen to it yo.
Also St. Vincent and David Byrne will be at McFarlin Auditorium which should be an amazing performance.
Alright childrens I hope there's something in there that you end up going to. And whether you go to any of these or not make sure and show your local music support by voting for all your favorite locals in the Dallas Observer Music Awards. Several of my favorites are nominated.
This week I'm abandoning my local music obsession in favor of an album I've wrapped myself up in the last few days. I've listened to the new Stars album repeatedly this week A. because it is pretty damn amazing and B. because I'm reviewing it for another blog I'm going to start contributing to: http://www.feedmewithyourkiss.com/ So check out my twitter feed or FB for when I post that later this week.
In the mean time here's one of my favorite songs off the album: "Do You Want to Die Together". I'm not usually one for morbid love songs ( ughhh that "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" song is so creepy) but I am all for this song. It starts out sounding like something from a 50's prom and then moves into these booming drum beats that emphasize the intensity of the lyric "Do you want to die together". Love love love.
Heyyyyyyyyy!! There's like ya know some stuff going on this weekend. Also, did you guys miss me because I missed you. So here are some of my top picks for the weekend. Well by weekend I mean mostly Saturday because there are a million things to do on Saturday. Like all the things.
But if you need somewhere to go on Friday I would say in Fort Worth head to Lola's for what I think they dubbed and "All a billy" line up with: The Paychecks, Convoy and the Cattlemen and Two Tons of Steel. It's a countrified but rockin line up.
In Dallas Texas Theatre is screening Annie Hall and there is an Annie Hall Look a like contest, but more importantly Safety Not Gauranteed is playing right before at 7. It stars Aubrey Plaza which Parks and Recreation fans might get stoked about. I just want to see it because I get to see that cute guy from The New Girl without having to see Zooey Deschanel (Sorry Zooey. I used to love you but watching New Girl followed by the Cotton commercial followed by the Siri commercial just pushed me over the edge. Also, YOU KNOW IT'S FUCKING RAINING!!!). But seriously watch this preview it looks pretty flipping good.
And then there is Saturday. Holy Crap.
Start the day off with Untapped fest. Something about a bunch a fancy beers but most importantly a grip of great bands are playing: Birds of Night, Blackstone Rangers, Burning Hotels, (all the bands that begin with B) J Charles and the Train Robbers, Zhora, The Antlers and Givers. and it's only like 20 bucks. Plus it starts at noon so there's time to go elsewhere.
If you'd rather stay in Fort Worth, Fall Gallery Night is upon us. This is one of my fave events because ( and I know I've talked about it before) all the galleries are open and there is usually free beer or wine and sometimes grub. It's the best. My two fave galleries are Brand 10 and the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts. I saw the Contemporary exhibit a couple of weeks ago and it is pretty amazing. Make sure and check out the red telephone in front of the building. Most galleries are open from 2 to 9.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti is playing The Granada Theater which is kind of a big deal because there's been quite a buzz about his album Mature Themes. I think he sounds like Ween if the lead singer was the lead for the Greenskeepers ( the "It puts the lotion on it's skin" song dudes) which is fine by me.
Popular twitterer Rob Delaney is doing stand up at Sons of Herman Hall as part of Parade of Flesh's foray into booking comedy acts.
Twitter peeps will probably recognize this pic.
Meanwhile the Wherehouse is trying to lure Bill Murray in with that whole Bill Murray can crash here thing which is probably a bunch of malarchy but it's still a rad lineup with or without him: Oil Boom, Fungi Girls,and the Longshots and a bunch of other bands.
Phew that's a lot to choose from for Saturday and the weekend isn't even over.
Sunday Fort Worth shows it true community feel with a big event for Zac Ford who you may or may not know was struck by a car while biking recently. Zio Carlo's is hosting this event to raise awareness and fundage for Zac's medical bills. It all starts at 10:30 with breakfast then a big Bike ride at 11:30. Starting at one The Matthew Show, Foxtrot Uniform, and My Wooden Leg play. Btw I saw Foxtrot Uniform last night and they are pretty rad and they just released a new CD.
Which brings us to Monday when flipping Hall and Oates are here!!! Well in Allen ( you know because of the thriving Allen music scene???). I feel like I've previously posted so many Hall and Oates videos I just don't know which one to pick.
Ok I went with that one and it reminded me of 500 days of Summer and now I'm all mad again so Ima go write an essay about the downfall of my love for Zooey Deschanel. A therapeutic writing session if you will. Or one on the significance of Bill Murray to my generation. Either way have fun this weekend!!
Well apparently posting local bands as my song of the week is my new mo which actually kind of fits so we'll see if I can keep that up.
It's tempting to just post another Oil Boom song as my song of the week since I feel like my girlfriends and I spent most of this week singing "Anywhere I go anywhere I go anywhere I go". I did start listening to this band via an Oil Boom tweet though so there's still a connection. They also come from a similar vein of retro rock.
Denton band The Birds of Night came out with an album at the beginning of the summer and I just started listening to it. The song "Shave Me" is one of my faves, but "Love You on The Weekend" keeps calling me in the middle of the night and forcing me to listen 20 times. I love when the song breaks cray on "Baby can't you hear me screaming". Check the song out here or on my spotify playlist.
You can see them play at Spune's Untapped Fest with a grip of other sweet bands September 8th.
Heyyyy. Song of the week has finally returned BECAUSE OMG I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!!!! Local dudes Oil Boom released their new record on July 31st, Gold Yeller, and I think I've listened to it about 20 times. "The Great American Shakedown" especially gets stuck in your head for hours but my true favorite is "This Girl's Man". It's a perfect mix if lasciviousness and romance. I can't helping loving a rock song about a guy's crush that includes the line "But I'd be satisfied just to hold her hand." I mean come onnn. Swoon!
So listen to it here and also download the album. Or go see them for their CD release party this Saturday at Magnolia Motor Lounge and buy the CD there.
As usual, here is my updated Spotify playlist of all my favorite song blog posts from this year.
Hey hey hey. I don't know about you but I'm still in recovery mode from last weekend's FW Weekly Music Awards showcase. Yeesh. So, I'm kind of glad this week is laid back in the festivities action.
Friday Burning Hotels at Levitt Pavilion in Arlington
Bust out your best picnic blanket and stock a cooler with some Imperials to see my favorite Fort Worth boys play for free. Yes it may seem I've made it my personal mission to tell you every single time Burning Hotels play but that doesn't mean you have seen them yet and if not this is free so you should definitely go. Coolers with beer and wine are allowed but no glass. Oh and food is allowed haha. #priorities
The Blurries and Dove Hunter at The Foundry in Dallas
I
dig both of these bands quite a bit. I feel like The Blurries don't
play super often so this is your chance. Actually Dove Hunter doesn't
play super often either. Up there I linked the description by that Pete
Freedman guy that is better than anything I could tell you. ( Plus I
couldn't find a website for the Foundry : / ) Oh and this is free too.
Whoa
The Blurries yo ( Trippy)
Saturday
I felt I needed a picture here. So hey look a cave
Caves 9th Anniversary party 3-2am
Everyone mark your calendars because this may be the first and last time I tell you to go to Arlington twice in one week. Caves anniversary party is going down all day. BBQ starting at 4 and Jazz outside from 6-10. On the inside is a sweet line up of local bands
Starting at 6
Mills and Company
FTW
Zombie Shark Attack
We're Wolves
The Phuss
Pinkish Black
Apparently they are raffling Passion Pit tickets too. If nothing else at least go see The Phuss and Pinkish Black. I saw The Phuss at Lola's on Sunday and they are pretty rad live. (Side note: I can not find anything to link to the event on the entire internets. So just trust me that this information is correct because someone
gave me all the deets or if you find a link holla in the comments section)
Cure for the Pain: The Mark Sandman Story at Texas Theatre
Oh man how legit does sitting in a cold theatre with a gin and tonic for a couple of hours sound. This is one of three events at Texas Theatre this weekend that interest me. Cure for the Pain documents the life and death of the lead singer of Morphine. It might be depressing as hell but the good kind of depressing. There are only two showings Saturday at 7 and Monday at 9.
Sunday Jurassic Park Live Action Dino Show at Texas Theatre
It's like "Be Kind Rewind" but live and it's Jurrasic Park!! What more do I have to say? Oh it starts at 5
Just stay in your seat after because there's another event at Texas Theatre at 8. Ok to be fair you will have like an hour to kill. Maybe you can go get fitted for a quinceanera dress in that hour to wear to this party.
Raw: Natural Born Artists at Texas Theatre
A crazy extravaganza of activity: Short Films, Music, Fashion and Art. All in one spot. Seriously I 'm just thinking about how they will set that all up in time. I'm lying. I'm just thinking about what color quinceanera dress I would buy.
Seriously. This needs to be mine.
So This week I decided to try something new and put together a playlist on Spotify for you of what is playing this weekend. it includes the bands playing as well as some music related to the movies. Listen to it here.
OK kids. Stay tuned for next week when I try decide if there's really anything else I want to do besides see Katy Perry: Part of Me ( I doubt it).
Listened to The Local Edge on Sunday and "O Sangeeta" by Daniel Hart has been stuck in my head ever since. Daniel Hart is a violinist that tours with St. Vincent and a few other bands. So here's a video or you can listen to my spotify playlist or you can buy the album here.
Christ on crutches I've had a lot going on this week. So I'm giving you a quick rundown of some sweet stuff to do this weekend. Sidenote: I started writing this and suddenly my day became super duper busy so click on the links because I'm giving you the simplest rundowns ever in the history of ever today. I probably could have just skipped this week all together but that's not as fun.
Thursday- Sunday:
Oak Cliff Film Festival
Random awesome movies playing at a bunch of different locations. New Fumes at Texas Theatre tonight. Wrap up party w/ dranks on Sunday. Woot
My kid acts in this short playing tonight so go see that for sure. ( click on the picture for ticket info)
Rich Girl aka the American Version of Common People
Saturday:
Doc's Records Party Celebration
Free Beer. Free Food. Musics
1pm - Old Snack 2pm - The Treelines 3om - Darktown Strutters 4pm - Pagaentry 5pm - Panic Volcanic 6pm - The Breakfast Machine 7pm - Slumberbuzz 8pm - New Fumes
Solar Powered Music Festival
The Romantics, English Beat, Ishi, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, and Sam Anderson amongst othere playing Panther City Pavilion starting at 3:00
I'm kind of in love with this English Beat video guys
To say I'm in the middle of a shitty day might be the understatement of the year. Therefore this might be the simplest post ever on what to do this weekend. Hope you feel my devotion to you
The only beacon of light for me today is my first time seeing The Flaming Lips is happening tonight at 10 at Starplex. I would prefer a more intimate setting than I might have a freaking heart attack because I love them so much. There are several other sweet bands opening as mentioned in the title as well as locals Telegraph Canyon, Smile Smile, Air Review.
Wild Rooster is an interesting place. I assumed the first time I went there it was some kind of biker bar just by the title. But then every once in awhile they have a really good show. That's where I saw Homegrown Artist Ume for the first time and they blew most of us away. Anyway, Burning Hotel are playing there and obviously I will always recommend going to their shows. Although the way Chance described the gig in that big FW Weekly article it sounds like they are just throwing a bone at the Wild Rooster. Butttt I never really trust the tone of quotes in articles because the quotes might be out of context. If I were famous the press would go crazy skewing my words. I say the dumbest shit and then a week later I don't even believe that statement anymore.
I love telling people about the awesomeness of Fort Worth. ( I mean I started a whole damn blog about it) When I visit other states I feel like I'm an ambassador of Texas in general. The convo usually goes. "oh where are you from?," " Texas," "Ohh I'm sorry," or my favorite "You don't sound like you're from Texas." No I don't sound like I'm from Texas because not all people from Texas are thick accented republicans with a gun and a horse and bible (of course if I get drunk and angry then my accent comes out a wee bit). Then they usually say "well Austin is cool and then I flip them off and walk away." Or I go on a mission to disprove their dumbass stereotype because OMG where's your hackey sac Oregon. Did you lose it at the free range chicken farm?!!
There's a point here and I'm almost at it. ( or you can skip to it) SO Recently I went up to Oregon after the Rainbow Lounge raid. In case you don't know the story I will give you an summary that is only based on my memory of the time. A few years ago on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a pretty huge/ popular Gay bar in Fort Worth was raided and several people were arrested and beaten. The aftermath from Fort Worth citizens was remarkable. People flipped teh fuck out. At least everyone I knew. There was a huge protest people were rading city council meetings. It was amazing to see our little city rally around the LGBT community when stereotypically people think Texans are homophobic assholes. ( To be fair we have yet to pass the marriage equality act so it's not like it's a state wide acceptance.)
POINT BEING there are several screenings for the LGBT FIlm Festival at several locations including: Rose Marine Theatre, The Wherehouse, and T&P Tavern. They are showing a documentary about the raid on Rainbow Lounge on Friday at Rose Marine at 8 if you want more of the story than my vague memory. Also can I note this is the 14th year in a row. So yea put that in your stereotype pipe and smoke it.
Man I feel better now actually. I guess there was a reason I started writing in the first place ay?
Soo I haven't listened to any new music at all really lately. Just old shit that's new to me. I also haven't posted a song in forever so I figured I'd go ahead and post this Wreckless Eric song that I keep listening to. It's not even on spotify which is soooooo annoying. Instead I've just listened to this silly You Tube video. I guess I could actually buy the song. Meh. Well anyway. You've probably heard it but it's worth another listen. I've listened to it about 20 times this week.
Texas Theatre is showing "Urgh! A Music War" and Omg you guys this documentary sounds so effing cool. Concert footage from 1980 of a bunch of different bands: Devo, X, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Dead Kennedys, Oingo Boingo. I could keep going those but just look at the IMDB cast list it's cray. Afterwards Nervous Curtains and Peoplodian play who are both great.
The movie includes performances by The Police. Heyy young Sting.
Hells yea Homegrown is here! Homegrown music festival takes place at this pretty sweet park in downtown Dallas, Main Street Garden Park. It's an all day festival starting at 11:30. The line-up includes some pretty big names like Hayes Carll, Octopus Project, Centro-matic and Ben Kweller. Two bands I like a lot that are playing are Ume and Girl in a Coma probably mainly because they are girl fronted groups. By the time you read this tickets will be 25 dollars, but 15 bands are playing so that's like $1.67 per band.
After the show it's the after party (can I get a toot toot). If 9 hours of rocking and day drinking hasn't left you a sunburned, dehydrated mess ( I said pack your sunscreen didn't I ) you should head to La Grange to see Burning Hotels because, as I've said a zillion times, they are awesome. Plus this whole mystery guest business is intriguing. Only 8 bucks if you have a homegrown wristband.
This time you can bring the whole fam (well actually you can bring the whole fam to homegrown too but here they will have more stuff to do) out to the lake to swim and stuff and see some pretty sweet bands: The O's, Grant Jones and the Pistol Grip Lassos, Michael Donner and the Southern Renaissance, Wayne Hancock, James Macmurtry, and Ray Wylie Hubbard. This is the first of the series. There will also be shows 4th of July weekend and Labor Day weekend. I'm excited to see what else is in store.
Again! Bring Sunscreen! Also, don't put your kid in a tanning bed.
Ok I don't know anything about Penguin Prison but Class Actress was pretty rad at 35 Denton and Datahowler is one my favoritedudes so this should be a pretty fun show. Plus it's on Monday so what else are doing? TV's all reruns right now anyway.
So I'm two songs into the Polyphonic Spree show at Lola's and I can't stop crying. It's not like a Terms of Endearment level cry but a constant welling up. This actually isn't the first time I've cried at a Spree show.
I've seen the Polyphonic play since probably their third show ever. We even drove to Austin once to see them open for Granddaddy. The Beginning Stages was my summer anthem the year it came out. This was also the summer I was getting ready to move to Portland. I would ride in my friend Trish's mustang and "I'm ON MY WAYYYYY" would blare out to the streets and Candice would tap me on the shoulder from the back seat and say "That's you. You're on your way". Not just in the literal sense. I was supposedly on my way to a bigger and better life in Portland. Soon after the Polyphonic Spree started moving on to bigger and better themselves. They toured through Portland a few times and I would be so pumped to see my friends and hear my songs from my home. Interestingly once I moved to Portland I rarely went to shows but if a Dallas band came through I was hell bent on getting there.
Then Polyphonic toured with Bowie. I stood in line behind Zia from The Dandy Warhols (who I frigging love and I almost peed my pants with excitement but I of course played it cool in line) to get my tickets. Once I was in my seat emotion hit me like a ton of bricks. My Polyphonic was opening for David freaking Bowie. That day I cried Terms of Endearment style. I felt like I was on that stage with them and I felt like they represented everything I loved about Texas. The good things or at least the showmanship of the good things.
So here I was back at Lola's and the feeling hits me again. Lola's is incredibly packed on the stage and in the crowd. My day started in emotional anticipation because some of my friends are experiencing their performance for the first time and I just wanted to be them experiencing it for the first time. it seems so obvious to say it's a spiritual experience since the band wears choir robes but it's beyond that. It fills you up. All these songs about love and happiness and Tim with his radiant smile involving the crowd in every song with his sweet voice. There's so many different instruments playing you can't even focus sometimes, but when I do I'm just so happy. It fills me up and I feel like I should be floating I'm so full of happiness and we all should be floating and the band will just stay on the stage and we'll watch them from the ceiling. On some songs I'm jumping up and down with excitement so hard it's like I'm trying to get up there. So I'm jumping but still crying.
I cry for the same reasons as at David Bowie concert but this time it's from a place of history. I've been watching this band for ten years. TEN. I've grown up. they've grown up. One of the members I know isn't there because she, like me, has two kids at home and somebody had to stay with them. All the people who were in the band that I knew really well are gone and I miss those people dearly, but somehow it still feels exactly the same as it did back then. We've made it through the ups and downs of living and performing/ watching performances in Dallas. There are bands that have come and gone. Remnants of the past in Dallas of a different time. There are new fantastic bands and a new fresh start but the Polyphonic Spree is my constant. Tim Delaughter is my constant. With Tim comes the history of Dallas and my life there and the first time I heard Tripping Daisy playing live on the Adventure Club in my tiny little room in Cleburne and Tim kept referring to girls as doves and I thought it was the most adorable thing I 'd ever heard. Tripping Daisy was an incredible band and after the sadness of how they ended Polyphonic came and it's not the same. I can't compare the two really. That's like asking a mom who her favorite children are but Polyphonic helped me at least heal part of that sadness. So I cry remembering all of that.
I cry when they sing "It's the Sun," because that was my Portland song and in some sense Portland wasn't all I had hoped but in another sense going there led me back to here and loving being in Fort Worth and my current life and made me appreciate what I missed most when I lived in Portland. I cry because I missed the first two songs. I cry because Tim mentions MCA and oh hell no do not talk to me about MCA right now. My friends are holding my hand like I have mental problems or maybe just because we remember that we love each other. By this point Tim is hanging halfway off the stage over the crowd and he does a call and response with the crowd singing and the band and choir slowly leave the stage. It's just us and Tim and me and I've stopped crying but I'm still happy.
Last week I told you to go to Friday on the Green but it was postponed because of rain and ish so Hey Guys you totes go to Friday on the Green this week with Hannah Barbarians, Quaker City Night Hawks and the Will Callers. Chill on the lawn with some Rahr beers and watch 80 kids begin a new generation of music love.
And if you need to bring a lamp ( like this lady did) then go for it
Saturday from 4-10 head back to Near Southside for Arts Goggle. ( btw Near Southside is sort of lame name. Where is it. Oh it's Near Southside. It's not actually Southside though it's just close oh and btw a shit ton of stuff goes on there so you might have to repeatedly say Near Southside. The area is the best though I'm not dissing that. Point being Ima start referring to it as Little Portland and you guys will know what I'm talking about ok. Glad we had this talk) So I've actually never managed to make it to Arts Goggle but from what I know it's a big huge mish mash of most of the businesses in Little Portland being open and local Artists selling crafts and art. It's like Main Street Arts festival but cooler and more affordable. Btdub attending the event is free. A bunch of local bands are playing at various locations.
The program for Arts Goggle is kind of um well full so let me just list out who's playing and where:
The Supreme Golf Warehouse, 300 E. Dagget />
4 p.m. – Mondo Drummers
4:30 p.m. – The Lofters
5 p.m. – Earth Quake Country
6 p.m. – The Pioneers
7 p.m. – Kenny Uptain/Sam Anderson
8 p.m. – My Wooden Leg
9 p.m. – Hannah & The Barbarians
10 p.m. – The Phuss
Avoca Coffee, 1311 W. Magnolia Ave.
5 p.m. – Bad Creek
6 p.m. – Goodwin
7 p.m. – Sunshine Emery Band
8 p.m. – Pistol Packing Mama
Boiled Owl Tavern 909 W Magnolia
4pm Signal & Alibis
5pm Jacob Furr
6pm Alex Zobel
7pm Doom Ghost
8pm Mora Collective
9pm Joey Gorman and the Longshots
10pm Slumberbuzz
11pm Skeleton Coast
One of the artist at Avoca is my buddy Sarah Zamora so someone tell her I said hey and then buy her stuff because she is awesome.
The Soft opening of Live Oak studios will be during Arts Goggle with Calhoun playing at 6 and Seryn playing at 8. Live Oak's opening is kind of a big deal. If you missed the big article about music in Fort Worth in FWWeekly you should read it here because there are more deets about what should become of Live Oak etc.
Before Art Goggle or on Sunday Comicon Dallas is going down. Almost as exciting as Frightmare weekend. Ok FINNNE it's just as exciting because you can meet FREAKING STAN LEE!!! and Summer Glau ( from Firefly) and Patrick Stewart and the dudes who played Chewbacca and Boba Fett and obviously a bunch of comic book peoples. Plus the people watching alone would be fun. That runs Saturday and Sunday starting at 11 and it's only around 20 bucks. Scoreee.
Stan Lee and Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira) via Elvira's FB page
All I can think about when I envision nerdy dudes meeting Summer Glau is this scene in Big Bang Theory
Saturday night Fort Worth Art collective Homecoming Committee is gracing Dallas with it's presence at Oliver Francis Gallery. Hands on Art Body is actually an art acquisition competition where whoever is the last one standing touching an art piece gets to keep the that piece. Even if you don't want any of the pieces it should be quite entertaining to watch. This Glasstire write up gives all the details and talks about homecoming's upcoming events and where the title came from. Red bull is one of the event sponsors so be prepared to party into the wee hours.
At 35 Denton I went to Rubber Gloves for the first time in probably twelve years. When I was a wee little rocker in 1999 it was this tiny little place where you had to walk around back to get to one of the scuzziest bathrooms ever. The only shows I specifically remember were Cat Power and Molly Mcguire but I'm sure I saw many more. Now it actually has a bar, the bathrooms are inside, and it still hosts some great bands. It was the place to be for the last night of 35 Denton when Peaking Lights played.
This weekend they celebrate their 15 year anniversary with a jam packed line-up starting at 5:30 and it's free (for 21 and up it looks like 5 bucks for under). Here's the line-up yo. It's pretty damn good.
12:15-1:00 Slobberbone
11:30-12:00 C.S. Flemmons ( Baptist Generals)
10:45-11:15 Dove Hunter
10:00-10:30 Pinkish Black
9:15-9:45 Year of the Bear
8:30-9:00 Occult Detective Club
7:45-8:15 Akkolyte
7:00-7:30 Code Talker
6:15-6:45 Bad Design
5:30-6:00 Banos Y Banos
Pinkish Black just put out an album that is supposedly pretty spectacular so they should definitely be worth seeing.
Who's ready to hear about some motha flipping festivities!!!!!
Ok actually this weeks haps are predominately Music oriented.
Tonight starts off with a bang in Dallas or Fort Worth. Almost everyone and their mom is going to see Polyphonic Spree at Lola's. My hunch is most people just want to solve the mystery of how all 20+ memebers of Polyphonic are going to fit on that stage. Even Quiet Company was stretched to the five corners of the thing just to give Taylor room and there are only five of them. Polyphonic shows are usually a magical event so definitely go to there.
I don't know who designed this poster but it is teh rad
Meanwhile in Dallas Tennis is playing at Dada which I referenced in my song of the week yesterday. Local act Bethan is opening which seems like the perfect fit.
This is the Dada link. Ima refer to shows at Dada for two more times so come back here for that ( copying and pasting all three times would actually have taken less time than typing this but I digress.) Here is a review of their show in Austin last night to give you an idea. It also includes a pretty awesome rant about cell phone picture taking etiquette.
Thursday in FW Backlot films is hosting a free screening of Spaceballs off of Foch Street.
Friday on the Green's second concert for the year is this week with The Hannah Barbarians, Quaker City Night Hawks, and the Will Callers. I was able to go to the one in April and enjoyed it quite a bit although it seemed the biggest advantage of the event is for parents because you get to let your kids run amok in general safety. I have kids so I'm pumped for this week.
After that The QCNH boys move on to Magnolia Motor Lounge for a live CD release party with Oil Boom and J Charles and the Trainrobbers. For only 10 bucks you get into the show and get a copy of the CD. ( or you can buy it at Friday on the Green for $5.)
Or you can get your metal fix at Lola's with Garuda and a bunch of other bands that I'm assuming are also metal but might not be. Man I sound like I know what I'm talking about don't I? Rock!
In Dallas at Dada Datahowler (omg alliteration!) and Burning Hotels open for Memoryhouse. Memoryhouse is pretty rad. Here's a video.
During the day on Saturday there is a big beerfest in Irving. So ya know beers and stuff. I feel like there is constantly either a food truck fest or a beer fest going on somewhere around here so I'm kind of over it at this point but I also always work Saturdays so maybe I'm just jelly.
That night in Fort Worth Madras, Great American Novel and Cleanup play the Cellar for free.
A bunch of Austin bands are playing the Wherehouse. ( I'm really running out of time at this point so that's all the info you get on that event.)
In Dallas also at Dada (Jesus H everything interesting is going on at Dada this week) you should go to The Ultra Violet Rock show which raises funds for research of Cystic Fibrosis. Several bands are playing starting at 7 with James Porter followed by Ryan Thomas Becker,The Oxen, Salim Nourallah & The Travolta's and Disposable Music.
On Sunday from 10am to 4pm there is a bike festival at Gateway park where Rahr Brewery and Fred's cafe will provide the noms. The event page says live music but I couldn't find a name for any bands :/.
That's all I have for this week ( which is plenty so geez stop pressuring me.) There were a few events that were supposed to be Mother's Day oriented but they all sounded so BORING!!!!!! Last year Lolaspalooza was happening and this year it's all seeing opera's and crap. I'm just going to ignore this being Mother's day and celebrate May 26th by going to Homegrown. As for you well take your mom to see The Avengers or something ( Hey Mom if you're reading this let's make this happen ay) it will be much more fun than get brunch at some busy restaurant. Oh or Spiritualized at Granada Theatre on the 15th. Whoa.
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Tennis is playing Club Dada this week so even though I probably can't go I've been listening to their latest album most of the week. If you haven't heard them they are similar to Best Coast and She & Him but better. This song "Robin" really stood out for me because it's so dreamy and sweet. I imagine all those hipster Disney princess meme's sit around listening to this all day.
You can also hear the song on my spotify playlist of my fave songs of the year so far (hola como esta).
It's Avengers weekend , it's Avengers weekend, it's Avengers weekend ( I hope you can picture me sitting at my desk dancing to this tune btw). So yea The Avengers comes out this weekend. No this isn't a local event per say but this is my milkshake and I can talk about what I want to.
I happened to get to see a sneak preview and it was amazeballs. I'm not techinically allowed to give a "review" but I will say you will enjoy it but only if you like things like: Action, Joss Whedon, Laughing, Samuel L. Jackson, guys with bows and arrows, guys who look like this
I mean with the and the and the mmmmmm sigh
or this
especially if you're a girl and you have a pulse unless of course you're not into dudes really then ummm hello Scarlett Johansson. Speaking of Scarlett Johannson she actually does a decent job of acting in this one as opposed to her completely flat performance in Iron Man 2. It was super weird seeing Colbie Smulders not playing Robin in HIMYM but props to her for making the big bucks now. My only complaint is that it was 3D and I freaking hate 3D. It's super cool feeling like I can touch the stair case or having bullets fly at my face but then a serious part with only conversation comes and you're like wait why are they in the dark oh I'm wearing effing sunglasses in a movie theater. Smooth. So try to see it not 3D. Other than that I would go see it again in the theaters at least twice if not more and I generally hate watching a movie more than once and especially rarely go to the theater.
As far as your best places to go I would go to the midnight screenings on Thursday (In FW we always go to the Rave in Ridgmar to be specific) because the real die hard nerdy fans come out at that time (sometimes in costume). Also Texas Theatre is showing it which should be a blast because that place was basically built by geeks and they have alcohol. Right before I posted this the Observer posted this article about why Texas Theatre would be showing such a mainstream movie. ( I didn't even question it ha!)
In other epic geek news it's Texas Frightmare Weekend!!! It's like comicon but all horror movie/ TV Show people. It's only 75 bucks for the whole weekend or 30 bucks a day. There are several movie screenings including Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies and a guest list which includes a ton of people I would squee over seeing. It's like a dream Dancing with the Stars cast where I would vote for everyone.
For instance:
Flipping Traci Lords
Anthony Michael Hall
Freaking Michael Biehn!!!!!
Clint Howard ( Ron Howard creepy looking brother that has been in a million moves)
Danielle Harris (ok I actually didn't know she was in any horror movies I just know her as the slutty neighbor on Roseanne which still is awesome to me)
Michael Madsen
Lisa Marie ( as in ex of Tim Burton not Presley)
A good chunk of the cast from "They Live"
including Rowdy Roddy Piper
The ass to ass guy from Requiem for a Dream ( or if you want a less disturbing reference the guy who does the voice over for the pillow/ blanket fort episode of Community. Ok now I've connected the two for you which might be more disturbing uhh sorry)
and that creepy lady with the blue eyes who played Cagney in the first two episodes of Cagney and Lacey. BTW best scene from "They Live":
A huge chunk of the cast of Carrie which is one of my all time favorite movies and I would probably flip out meeting such as
Piper Laurie (OMG I love her so much my Twitter profile is me impersonating her)
Bettie Buckley
Nancy Allen (The other popular chick in the movie that didn't eventually marry Steven Spielberg)
That chick who wears a baseball cap even at prom
The most relevant/ exciting guests are some of the cast of The Walking Dead most importantly Daryl and T-Dog ( maybe you can ask him what he did for most of the season). I would literally just pay the 30 bucks to meet Daryl because he is the best part of The Walking Dead.
Wellll that's about it- oh wait no there's more stuff to do this weekend.
Mayfest is going on all weekend in Fort Worth if you need some family friendly activities: games, face painting, several local bands, food and schtuff.
The Dallas Etsy spring bash is Saturday if you want to go buy something with a bird on it.
My peeps Tiffany Wolf and Christine Bisetto have another show at 500X this time the subject is Crushes and for the opening they encourage you to bust out your old bridesmaids dresses and sachay in.
Are you ready to partayyyy?
I love that movie so much.
As far as local music goes there are several shows as usual my picks are (Ima do some bullet point again bc hey once you get me started on bullet points I can't stop y'all)
In Fort Worth:
Thursday The Synaptic presents is back at Lola's with Driffield, The Skeeves, and Slumberbuzz
Friday Mills &Co. at the Grotto. Taylor Craig Mills (new album has received a lot of positive local press lately. )
Also on Friday at Lola's a blast from the local Texas scene past Bobgoblin is playing.
For Cinco De Mayo there is a big celebration at the Wherehouse with Cleanup, My Wooden Leg, Mobley ( who I've blabbered on about a lot if you read this blog regularly), and Telegraph Canyon
Whiskey Folk Ramblers at Chat Room
In Dallas:
Bobgoblin starts out here on Thursday at La Grange
The Knux who apparently put on a pretty entertaining show are playing House of Blues ( it's only ten bucks though)
Probably the biggest most likely to be attended by evvvverybody show is Sarah Jaffe at the Granada. Her new album came out last week and is fanfrickingtastic. It's already gained national attention. Here's the latest video. Also former Ishi member Taylor Rhea's new band Zhora is opening which should so be fab!
Finally you can get in the way back machine and see The Melvins at Trees on Monday
This week's song of the week post is a little different because it's from an album that just came out today and therefore I have no video to post. I can show you this super short preview clip for the album it is off of Sarah Jaffe's new album "The Body Wins." NPR streamed the album sometime last week and it is totally brill. My favorite song is "Mannequin Woman" which I added to my spotify playlist. I'm also totes in love with "Glorified High" which premiered on IFC last month. Seriously though "Mannequin Woman" even has my kids singing "Just don't just don't know no no."
So listen immediately, then go see her play at The Granada on May 5th, and you can buy the album here and here. If you are reading this right this second (4:30) she is doing an interview on KXT.
There are a shit ton of awesome ladies in town this week.
Judy Blume is doing a talk in Dallas for a series put on by the DMA. So all us girls should go and thank her for writing Are You There God it's Me Margaret because who didn't read that book and feel less stressed about hitting puberty. Starts at 7:30 only 10 bucks.
How rad is this old cover
Meanwhile flipping Carol Burnett is performing at Bass Hall. Actually she's not performing it's "A conversation with Carol Burnett." So two hours similar to the end of the Carol Burnett show where she would open up the floor for questions, do that Tarzan thing, explain the earlobe thing. Of course I'm presuming you were like me and obsessively watched the Carol Burnett show as a kid. Well let me tell you it was badass. She paved the way for all of your favorite sketch comedy actresses Kristen Wig , Amy Poehler, or Tina Fey. Show starts at 7:30.
Finishing out the trifecta of awesome ladies Amy Sedaris will be at Kessler Theatre but it's sold out so
Amy's brother David Sedaris talk at Mcfarlin Auditorium on Sunday is also sold out but damn can I just find out if they're eating together somewhere and eavesdrop on their convo.
Oh Also indie film darling Laura Linney is getting honored with a Dallas Star Award at the Dallas Film Festival which continues through Sunday. You have to have some kind of special pass for that ish though so you can't go to that either.
Isn't it super rad when I tell you about stuff you can't go to. Yeaaaa. Let's move on to places you can go shall we.
Well turns out Laura Linney is doing a free talk at Nasher on Saturday so woot to that.
I just posted this so I had an excuse to look up Mark Ruffalo pictures
oh whoops how did that get there- Oh heyyy Mark.
In Fort Worth everyone and their mom will probably go to the Main Street Arts Festival. You get to see some sweet art. There's a big kid area with face painting etc. and a bunch of bands are playing. Of the "literally 100's" that are playing I've only heard of two: Beatles cover band Me and My Monkey and the Texas Gypsies.
Evil Dead: The Musical is playing in Grapevine (who knew cool stuff happens in Grapevine right?) on Friday. I tried out for this musical once a million years ago. Based on the song I learned. "All the men in my life keep getting killed by Candarian Demons", it's pretty freaking hilarious. This performance will be a marathon actually where the cast is performing repeatedly every two and half hours from 8:30 until they all pass out. Super interesting.
As part of the DIFF Texas Theatre continues being amazing by showing Robocop on Saturday. The Texas Theatre newsletter said w/appearance by Peter Weller but I can't find any other proof of that on the DIFF website or Texas Theatre's website. #mysteries
Saturday throughout the country is Record Store Day. So several bands are playing at Good Records in Dallas and Doc's in Fort Worth to celebrate. There's usually beer and food and stuff which is rad. Go and buy a record and feel all proud of yourself for keeping record stores open.
The lineup at Docs includes The Cush, Fungi Girls, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Stooges cover band Stoogeaphelia and then some. Check out the full line- up on their facebook page here. Bands start at 1.
Lineup at Good Records is incredible including: Skeleton Coast, The Ting Tings, Taylor Rhea's (formerly of Ishi) new band Zhora, Sealion, QCNH, and Stardeath and White Dwarves. Plus a bunch of others - check out the full line-up here. Dallas kicks off at 10:30.
The Modern's newest focus exhibit opens Sunday Ged Quinn- It is super cool and kind of creepy.
Ok we don't have this piece but here's an idea of what the exhibit is like.
Seriously y'all so much to do this week yeesh. Well there's still a significant amount of good shows this week:
Stardeath and White Dwarves, New Fumes, and Hannah Barbarians at the Wherehouse. Earlier this week this weird ass video was released from New Fumes and the Flaming Lips Wayne Coyne you should check that out. (but not at work)
Friday:
The bands from the Wherehouse continue on to Denton and play at Rubber Gloves
Saturday- ummmm you're going to be at Record Store day all day sorry.
Sunday the most legit Edgefest in awhile is happening in Frisco: Black Keys, Garbage, Cake, Arctic Monkeys, The Ting Tings, and one of my all time favorite local bands Chomsky. (omg I love them sooo much). you could be all " omg the Black Keys sold out buhhh." or you can shut your stupid hipster face up and recognize that things are achanging on 102.1 and they are playing some pretty awesome music lately. The changes all around are probably thanks to Josh Venable of the Adventure Club being the Program Director now. I've been listening to the Adventure Club since freaking forever (since it was with Josh and that other dude) to catch the best in new music. So it all makes sense. Anyway here's an article where Josh talks about it. That is my Edgefest rant that I've been doing for the last two months and now it's all out here for posterity.
I'm completely overwhelmed by how much is going on this week. I don't even know where to start.
But I'll forge ahead somehow.
First the big stuff.
On Saturday in Fort Worth: Motha flipping Modern Til Midnight yo! So I work at the Modern in Fort Worth and this event comes along every year and is absolutely my most favorite event to work. The Modern stays open until Midnight for only 15 bucks you get to see 5 awesome bands, tour the galleries, and watch movies in the auditorium. Whoa. This year's band lineup is pretty legit: Skeleton Coast, The Angelus, Calhoun, Air Review, and School of Seven Bells. In the auditorium you can catch four short films from SXSW including Fort Worth's James Johnston's (co owner of Spiral Diner) film "Knife". Bands start at 7 movies at 8. Extra special bonus: I'm bartending out on the lawn where the bands play so you get to see me and I will give you many high fives.
School of Seven Bells:
Meanwhile down on Berry street the West Berry Block Party brings more rocking Friday and Saturday. A ton of great local acts and some from Austin play such as : The Hannah Barbarians, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Quaker City Night Hawks, My Wooden Leg, Mills & Co. Stella Rose, Mobley, Cleanup. Basically almost all of Fort Worth is playing somewhere this weekend. Check out the full line-up in here (p.s. the site is not logophile approved ).
The Dallas Independant Film Festival started Thursday and runs through the 22nd. The festival opened with Josh Radnor's (aka Ted Mosby on HIMYM) 2nd Directorial venture "Liberal Arts" which plays again next Friday. My twitter is aflutter with people excited about the showing of "Andrew Bird: Fever Year" ( this sentence is not intended to be punny at all btw). Here's Central Track's list of top ten movies to go see at DIFF so that will give you a better idea of what to see. There are a ton of other movies playing all week so you should at least be able to catch one.
Other events of note:
Friday
Fort Worth chimes in on the free outdoor shows with Friday on the Green in Magnolia Park or whatever the hell it's called. I'm stoked about The Cush and Mon Julien playing this month. I've seen two different openers listed so I'm not sure what's up with that. Somebody is opening. This is a family friendly event as far as I know.
Frankie Rose ( ex Dum Dum Girl currently awesome girl) is playing Dada
There's a Food Truck Rally in Deep Ellum so that should be rad. My Wooden Leg and Hares on the Mountain are playing.
Frankie Rose:
Saturday
Beeeeeer!!! There's a Beer Fest in Fair Park with a ton of breweries. Beer. The O's and Fish Fry Bingo are playing. Also, Beer.
The Bishop Arts Urban Street Bazaar returns. There should be more etsy like stuff there than at your typical Art bazaar so go buy cute stuff before Urban Outfitters steals the idea and triples the price. ( so the site for the event is pretty vague so here's the link to the Bishop Arts page which gives you directions etc.)
Chairlift is playing at Dada on Monday- I want to go to there so bad!!
Sleigh Bells is playing Granada Theater on Tuesday. It's sold out but I think Granada will post a contest on Twitter soon. ( I'm trying to share great ticket contests on my FB page so keep an eye on that)
There's probably more sweet stuff going on but I'm too busy selling Modern Til Midnight tickets right now.
