In the modest, 700-square-foot headquarters of Denton’s NX35 festival, an immense dry-erase board lines the length of the office’s north wall. The whiteboard has been gridded off like a gigantic calendar, charting the 100-plus bands, artists and speakers scheduled to participate in nine venues near downtown Denton. Its purpose: allowing…
As far as blissed-out free shows go in Denton, tonight’s Gutterth Productions event featuring Florene, Power Animal, Lite Brite and Sunnybrook will be hard to beat. The show’s gonna be in the Old Dirty Basement at J&J’s Pizza, and the event, dubbed Rivers/Tides, is scheduled to start at either 8…
When it comes to dance floor-filled DJ nights in Denton, Hailey’s Club has handily kept the market cornered for the last couple of years—especially after DJ Nature left his weekly at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, taking The Party further south down Interstate 35 to Dallas. But in the last month,…
“Punk’s not dead!” the Exploited shouted at the world back in ’81. But that was then. Punk just turned 30. For sure, being a punk has never been easier. Suppose your mom throws your fave Bad Religion T-shirt out with the garbage or you simply need a new spiked wrist…
If, as the saying goes, image is everything, then the satanic-disco duo of Darktown Strutters has everything firmly planted on the prongs of its pitchforks. The terribly talented twosome’s oft-discordant dissonance can be blatantly diabolical at times. And while the sinister songs and soundscapes the pair creates certainly won’t suit…
A few weeks back, we told you about a soon-to-be-released digital compilation album of (mostly) Denton-based acts that Shiny Around The Edges’ Michael and Jennifer Seman had assembled for the indie label Sounds Are Active. Well, 20 Bands/74.4 Minutes! is now up for download right here. In the accompanying liner…
Meeting with Matthew and The Arrogant Sea’s Matthew Gray to chat about the new artists’ collective he’s put together in Denton, the last thing I thought was that he’d be asking the first question of the interview. “So…I’m curious,” Gray offers, before I can pose my first query, “how did…
As mentioned in this week’s North of the Dial, Nana & Popo are scheduled to perform at The Bee’s Fifth Collective’s first official event, which will be held at J & J’s Pizza. But, March 20 is still a ways off, so, we contacted Nana & Popo to see if…
Over the weekend, Teenage Cool Kids’ new full-length LP, Foreign Lands, was made available for pre-order. Like the Denton-based indie rockers’ debut full-length, Queer Salutations, the new record is being released on the indie-label Protagonist Music. But, unlike Queer Salutations, which was released on CD, Foreign Lands will be pressed…
North Carolina’s The Ox Magnolia posted its new album up as a free download over on the band’s MySpace page on Wednesday. And, I’ll be damned if I haven’t plopped down $14.95, or more, for albums that were no where near as good as the stunningly, breathtakingly beautiful Only Some Place…
Expect tonight’s “Diff’rent Strokes” event at Fallout Lounge to be as crowded as a fire sale at an American Apparel store. Not that the Thursday weekly featuring Billingham’s Defense System’s half-vinyl, half-digital DJ sets aren’t already hopping – ’cause they are. But, if I wasn’t still broke, and was a…
Above the dance floor at Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair—instead of the customary disco ball—a rotating, mirrored chandelier hangs, casting flashes of red and blue light over the barstools, walls and patrons of Denton’ s only gay bar. But the chandelier is a new addition to the nightclub,…
From prenatal yoga to organic baby food to avoiding advice from “sanctomommies,” Mother Load takes audiences along as one woman makes the transition from trying to get pregnant to trying to be the perfect parent (of three children under the age of 5–yikes!). Written by sitcom-veteran Amy Wilson, the one-woman…
And the first single off Kari Jobe, “I’m Singing”, has already been getting airplay at radio stations locally and around the country. While it’s definitely not something that I’d probably ever, ever put on my mp3 player, well, I’ve heard far worse stuff that’s been cranked out of the Rube Goldberg apparatus that produces…
As in past years, this year’s Lumberjack Festival at Dan’s Silverleaf boasts a brawny lineup (see poster, pictured right). But also of note about the festival: In addition to being a release party of sorts for Spitfire Tumbleweeds’ new Pope Crow album, the show is rumored to be the Denton…
north of the dial Like many folks in Denton, I just bought my textbooks, which, yes, has left me quite broke. Still, I managed to scrounge up $5.85 between my coin jar and the floorboard of my car last Thursday night, and with that money, I decided to find out:…
Attention fans of quirky folk-pop: Joey Kendall of Mount Righteous will be playing a free show at the Boiler Room in Denton tonight. But, even if Mount Righteous’ acoustic marching-band-style pop music isn’t your thing (read: you hate them), don’t write Kendall off. Sure, he’s the guy credited with coming…
Next month, Denton’s own Shiny Around the Edges’ “debut album” Holy Roller will be released on Sounds Are Active–the same indie-imprint that’s released material by I Heart Lung, Castanets and The Weird Weeds. In anticipation of that release, the band was kind enough to send us the mp3 for “Come…
Looks like it was Broken Social Scene founder Kevin Drew who was so ill last Friday that the Canadian indie-baroque-pop act was forced to cancel its show at the House of Blues. In fact, it seems Drew was so sick with the flu that he was deemed “illegal”–or too sick…
The “official” “deadline” for bands to submit their application to play NX35 came and went last Thursday, and, according to the festival’s mastermind, Chris Flemmons, the first-year conferette managed to spread the word and nab enough submissions to fulfill their contractual obligations with Sonicbids.So, bands that didn’t send in their…
north of the dial The sidewalks surrounding the University of North Texas were teeming with people last Tuesday at about 9 p.m. as nearby restaurants, bars and clubs at the intersection of Fry and Hickory streets started filling up with students. That morning, while the spring semester began at Denton’s…
Answer: That AwkQuarius gig at Rubber Gloves that we told you about in last week’s Good Friday. Of course, we didn’t tell you about the Dallas-based hipster-hop outfit known as galleryCat that opened for Pikahsso and Tahiti–mostly because we didn’t know them at the time either…..
