Three Days To Rise || March 30-April 1, 2007
The Short Version: Denton's Secret HQ (across the street from Dan's) has two really great showcases this weekend. If you've yet to visit, both Friday (Current Leaves / Red Monroe) and Saturday (100 Damned Guns / Brent Best) serve up some of the area's best, most accessible live acts for $4 and $3, respectively. BYOB, shows start around 8 p.m. As for the rest of the weekend...
FRIDAY
Granada Theater: Peeping Tom / Dan the Automator
Peeping Tom is Mike Patton's best work in years. For all of his many bands' personality disorders, the man still has an incredible knack for twisted, catchy rock, levels above and beyond that of his days in Faith No More. You should strongly consider this one.
Dan's Silverleaf: The Bottle Rockets
The location's perfect for a quick walk after Current Leaves' set, and it's a sensible segue as well, seeing as how Missouri's Bottle Rockets have instilled quite a Mellencamp/Thorogood whallop into their alt-country take for years now.
FYI, The Happy Bullets' 2-hour set tonight at Lee Harvey's has been cancelled. Rain shmrain.
SATURDAY
Rubber Gloves: The Nouns Group
Denton post-punk with equal parts industrial, mechanical grit and avant-jazz overtones; it's hard to tell from only two song samples on the site how well their violinist fits into the whole mess, but their samples still sound better than I expected. Two other equally young Denton bands open, Angry Businessmen and Christian! Teenage Runaway, but they sound like turds scraping against a snare drum. No thanks.
Maximedia Studios: Saboteur
A bit pricey at $10, but this all-ages local post-emo explosion is a shitload better than most of the teen-friendly stuff you'll find around Dallas this weekend. Click here for more.
Double Wide: The Great Tyrant
I've yet to see Daron Beck's new band, the one that has drawn considerable raves from the JR posse, and I have a bad feeling I'll miss this show as well. The Laptop Deathmatch bunch will be on hand to perform non-competition laptop-beats sets as well, along with Mwanza Dover's 412th band, War Wizards.
The Cavern: Glen Reynolds
Former Liquid 3 and Chomsky lead guitarist performs his first-ever full-band "solo" show tonight. This stuff is the polar opposite of the high-wire antics he pulled off in Chomsky; Reynolds' songwriting is strictly for the Blur and Smiths addicts in Dallas, whose ranks I come nowhere near, frankly.
SUNDAY
Murray Street Coffee: Zac and Friends
As an official and last-minute farewell to his failed mayoral bid, it only makes sense that Zac Crain gathers some of the musical friends who helped him with his well-publicized Crain for Mayor Benefit CD. The stripped-down set is being held at the campaign's favorite Deep Ellum coffee shop, and it will include members of Shibboleth, Sorta and Pleasant Grove. From what we're hearing, there might be a special guest or two...or three.
88.7 KTCU: The Good Show
Hogpig guests on Sunday night's broadcast of the area's best weekly radio show. Acoustic session? Don't count on it. Tune in.
FRIDAY
Granada Theater: Peeping Tom / Dan the Automator
Peeping Tom is Mike Patton's best work in years. For all of his many bands' personality disorders, the man still has an incredible knack for twisted, catchy rock, levels above and beyond that of his days in Faith No More. You should strongly consider this one.
Dan's Silverleaf: The Bottle Rockets
The location's perfect for a quick walk after Current Leaves' set, and it's a sensible segue as well, seeing as how Missouri's Bottle Rockets have instilled quite a Mellencamp/Thorogood whallop into their alt-country take for years now.
FYI, The Happy Bullets' 2-hour set tonight at Lee Harvey's has been cancelled. Rain shmrain.
SATURDAY
Rubber Gloves: The Nouns Group
Denton post-punk with equal parts industrial, mechanical grit and avant-jazz overtones; it's hard to tell from only two song samples on the site how well their violinist fits into the whole mess, but their samples still sound better than I expected. Two other equally young Denton bands open, Angry Businessmen and Christian! Teenage Runaway, but they sound like turds scraping against a snare drum. No thanks.
Maximedia Studios: Saboteur
A bit pricey at $10, but this all-ages local post-emo explosion is a shitload better than most of the teen-friendly stuff you'll find around Dallas this weekend. Click here for more.
Double Wide: The Great Tyrant
I've yet to see Daron Beck's new band, the one that has drawn considerable raves from the JR posse, and I have a bad feeling I'll miss this show as well. The Laptop Deathmatch bunch will be on hand to perform non-competition laptop-beats sets as well, along with Mwanza Dover's 412th band, War Wizards.
The Cavern: Glen Reynolds
Former Liquid 3 and Chomsky lead guitarist performs his first-ever full-band "solo" show tonight. This stuff is the polar opposite of the high-wire antics he pulled off in Chomsky; Reynolds' songwriting is strictly for the Blur and Smiths addicts in Dallas, whose ranks I come nowhere near, frankly.
SUNDAY
Murray Street Coffee: Zac and Friends
As an official and last-minute farewell to his failed mayoral bid, it only makes sense that Zac Crain gathers some of the musical friends who helped him with his well-publicized Crain for Mayor Benefit CD. The stripped-down set is being held at the campaign's favorite Deep Ellum coffee shop, and it will include members of Shibboleth, Sorta and Pleasant Grove. From what we're hearing, there might be a special guest or two...or three.
88.7 KTCU: The Good Show
Hogpig guests on Sunday night's broadcast of the area's best weekly radio show. Acoustic session? Don't count on it. Tune in.
17 Comments:
Rock on, Jasun Lee. Nouns Group is not from Denton. The other two bands playing are the highlight of this night. Thanks.
Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets once sang "I'll puke if that jukebox plays John Cougar one more time." And George Thorogood?! That's just f'n ridiculous, man.
Don't forget Brothers and Sisters Saturday night at Sons.
Yer violinist is from Denton, at least. Care to offer a correction?
whoa.
how did my name get pulled into this?
i mean, i love to rock on and all, but...
I thought only Mr. Lee posted with the different font sizes. Our violinist does go to school in Denton but I don't know if that constitutes a band's hometown or place of origin. You could always ask, I guess. We're from the Metroplex or DFW. Definitely not Denton. A lot is implied with that categorization. I'm sorry you have such bad things to say about the other acts but that's okay, I appreciate the fact that you posted the links correctly. God knows you've seen a bad band or two...hundred in your time. But I'm going to go now, I know you take issue with other people having an opinion on your blog.
Dude, if you're from Plano or Euless, it's okay. It happens. At any rate, thanks for the clarification.
And since you brought it up, I take back my pissiness about Silence Productions posting a shitload on here...honestly, it's good to have someone active on the comment boards, even if I don't necessarily agree with him at all times. Sorry 'bout that.
I am from East Plano. Proudly. Beats Highland Park.
I'm not from Denton :(
and neither is Nouns Group. Is anyone actually "from" Denton? I always figured everyone was just on loan here for college.
I'm really not touchy about hometown bs, but you asked for an explaination...
This is a great example of why I continue to hate myspace.
you know, i kinda dig Nouns Group's insistence with not being from denton and not having a myspace.
Thanks Hansford.
I've been thinking and I've figured out what bothers me most:
By asking NG to "offer a correction," you are actually suggesting that you know more about me than my own band/very good friends because you saw my myspace page. That's fucked up.
I swear, I'm a nice person and I don't know you either so I'm not trying to attack you personally. But there is a lesson in this: don't use myspace to make stupid f'kin assumptions. Try human interaction instead.
And yes, CTR and Angry Businessmen will be the highlight tonight. I cannot wait.
Okay, im usually on board with anyone who has something negative to say about sam, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.
WE LIKE YOU NOUNS GROUP!
sorry for the inaccuracies, maybe you should get a myspace.
kisses-
JL
how does nouns' violin player fit into the "mess"? she fucking rules. both on the recordings and live, her playing is amazing. they've played plenty of shows recently and i can't help but think you should've checked them out already.
Personally, MySpace saves me tons of time when it comes to checking out/communicating with bands. Sure, it would be nice to hunt down every band's contact informtaion and be able to call them or email them directly, but who the hell has time for that? I certainly don't. And while MySpace may not be perfect and may not be as "cool" to be on now, it is a free and valuable tool. I get annoyed when a band doesn't have a MySpace account. Sorry, but I'm just being honest.
comrade plays right @ 8pm at the Granada tonight (sat.)
PS-You actually didn't post the links correctly.
dirty cha cha:
i understand what you're saying but if you're writing a music blog? kinda your job to thoroughly check stuff out.
the nouns/ctr/angry businessmen show last night was one of the best i've seen. the sarcastic description involving the word "turd" is seriously fucking annoying and tells me you gave them a 20 second listen on myspace and gave up. at least tell us why you dislike someone. too bad you wouldn't give those bands a chance because christian! teenage runaway turned out to be pretty awesome. nouns was amazing as usual.
Yes, I do see your point. None of my jobs include any journalism of any kind. The only writing I do is for Observer ads and MySpace bulletins...which I occasionally manage to fuck up somehow anyway.
I just needed to throw my 2 cents in about MySpace because it makes my jobs infinitely easier.
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