Records and Robots and Demons and Famous Ladies and Art and Puberty 4/19-4/22

There are all kinds of random events this week so let's just dive in and then I'll talk about music at the end:

Well, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer come to Dallas and suddenly the place is filled with famous people.

 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:

Thursday

• Mastodon at Palladium
• 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
• The Reverend Horton Heat plays at Lola's in Fort Worth
• Ben Kweller is playing Granada Theatre
• Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Dada

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.

THE END (of this week)