A week from now, or a week ago, people would be staring. The suit-clad, tie-loosened 9-to-5ers bellied up to the bar at the other end of the room would give each other getaloadofthesefuckinguys smirks and elbows in the ribs. The out-of-towners looking for a little companionship and maybe a bowl…
There’s a weird moment toward the end of Warning, Green Day’s sixth album and first since 1997’s Nimrod. Well, it’s not weird so much as unexpected, and that still doesn’t accurately describe the moment in “Jackass” when an honest-to-goodness, blow-Big-Man! saxophone solo turns off E Street and crosses the bridge…
Mandarin’s debut, Driftline, hits stores this week (October 1, to be exact) courtesy of Two Ohm Hop Records, but at least one member of the band is too absorbed in another project to notice. Well, that’s probably not entirely true, but guitarist Brian Smith is pretty busy these days, about…
Dean Fertita had lots of time to kill and plenty of willing assassins; he was, after all, in a record store. A drop of the needle could either chase the blues away or invite them to stay awhile, depending on his mood and which Stones record was on the turntable…
While we still can’t believe someone forgot to stage a reenactment of Turner Van Blarcum’s infamous beatdown of Kurt Cobain at Trees (there’s a video file of it somewhere on the Internet), we have to say that the club has gone out its way to throw a kick-ass 10-year anniversary…
There’s a long pause–20, maybe 30 seconds. Maybe longer. Rivers Cuomo, Weezer’s notoriously press-shy front man, is in Tulsa, a couple of hours before his band is set to take the stage at the legendary Cain’s Ballroom, “the house that Bob”–Wills, that is–“built.” The doors have just opened, and the…
When Prize Money releases its new CD, All Eyes On the Prize, on September 19, it will mark a new beginning for both the band and one of the labels helping to release the disc, etherStream. Prize Money is essentially a retooled and recharged version of Slowpoke, back in business…
After countless bass players, a few guitar players, a handful of name changes, more tattoos than most cell blocks, and at least a couple of years teetering on the brink, Darlington is no more. Stevey Stress (also known as Steve Visneau) and Brigitte Darlington (no telling what he’ll also be…
Weezer The point of previews like this, if there is one, is to give readers a chance to become listeners, maybe convince someone to go to a show they hadn’t considered, or warn them away from one, perhaps. That’s what they tell me, anyway: I always thought they were for…
Lucy Pearl How long before Lucy Pearl’s self-titled debut reminds you its members–Raphael Saadiq, Dawn Robinson, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad–made their names with other bands, specifically and respectively, Tony Toni Toné, En Vogue, and A Tribe Called Quest? Oh, about two seconds. As his guitar noodles along “Lucy Pearl’s Way,”…
From the musicians that brought you Weener (two of them, at least) comes Bluh, a band dedicated to the music of Blur. Well, that’s what we think it’s called, anyway; it was late, we’d bellied up to the bar a few too many times, and we have ears worse than…
“We’ve got the AC/DC collection, if you want it,” Toadies guitarist Clark Vogeler says as he glances at the disc in the stereo’s CD player. “It’s basically the same record.” Vogeler laughs as he and drummer Mark Reznicek take seats across from each other in the cramped rehearsal space. Reznicek…
Rick’s Place–the anchor of Denton’s Fry Street for years and home to more drunken frat boys (‘scuse us, fraternity members) than a South Padre Motel 6–suffered an estimated $100,000 worth of damage following an early morning fire on August 16. Of course, it wasn’t quite as bad as some had…
DarlingtonLive Dallas 1999(Mutant Pop Records)Todd DeatherageTodd Deatherage(Self-released)Todd Deatherage and Darlington’s Steve Visneau and Christy Darlington have been buddies for years, beginning when they were part of the group of friends that used the now-defunct Orbit Room as their personal clubhouse, hanging out regardless of the occasion. More than a few…
Expect to see more bands perform at Smirnoff Music Centre than ever before, now that the Pierre Smirnoff Company has taken over title sponsorship of the venue from Coca-Cola. Reportedly, Smirnoff agreed to pick up the sponsorship rights (the company assumed them in June) only if the owner of the…
Scene, heard After months of waiting, by him at least, Todd Deatherage’s new five-song CD is now available for purchase at Deatherage’s regular Wednesday gig at Lakewood Bar & Grill. But it’s not the record Deatherage has been waiting to put out. This disc is more or less a stopgap…
Scene, heard The New Year will perform its first two Texas shows on August 25 at the Gypsy Tea Room and August 26 at Austin’s Mercury. The band–featuring Bedhead’s Matt and Bubba Kadane, Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine), Mike Donofrio (Saturnine), and Legendary Crystal Chandelier’s Peter Schmidt–recently finished recording in Chicago…
Kid Chaos Love in the Time of Scurvy (Vile Beat Records) I didn’t know much about Kid Chaos prior to receiving a copy of their new album, Love in the Time of Scurvy. About two or three years ago, I’d seen the band at Rick’s Place in Denton, show No…
Elastica The Menace (Atlantic Records) In retrospect, it would have been better if Elastica had never been heard from again, if they disappeared inside a recording studio and didn’t come out until the world didn’t care anymore. Well, they actually did do part of that (save for blood relatives, does…
Despite the media attention that has surrounded U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s decision to close Napster’s file-sharing system last week, it’s clear that not everyone cares about the case. “Ahhh, I’m not staying around for this shit,” said one employee at the Gypsy Tea Room after learning that…
I can see Clearview now Occasionally, when we pat someone on the back, we hit a little harder (and maybe closer to home) than we intend. For example, when we gave Uzigato drummer Joey Salerno credit for the improving slate of touring acts stopping by Club Clearview (the recent Murder…
A day that will live in infamy? Nah It wasn’t planned that way–not, at least, as far as we can tell–but on July 29, pretty much the entire spectrum of Dallas-Denton-Fort Worth bands will be on display in some form. Obviously, it’s not all of the groups in the D-D-FW…
