Thursday, November 16, 2006

It List: Thursday 11/16/06

Lots of stuff going on tonight so we'll get right to it:

Assdroids/Chief Death Rage/Christian! Teenage Runaway (House of Tinnitus-Denton): This would be a good and very cheap chance (donations requested) to see what you think of this week's feature band, C!TR. Its hard to tell what to think from the poorly recorded songs on their Myspace page, but from what I have been able to gather about them, I'm willing to bet that they are far from boring at the very least. And hey, if you don't like noise rock, you should really check out the Assdroids too! I don't exactly know what to make of their loopy free form electro noise, but it sounds like its either going to kick my ass or drive me crazy in a live setting. And thats the kind of bet I'm usually willing to take. There are a lot of goofy moments throughout the songs I've heard, but there are also many moments that seem to hit you across the face in just the right way. We'll see.

Strange Boys/Teenage Symphony/ Lindby/ Wild In the Streets (Rubber Gloves): Although they sound nothing alike, the Strange Boys and Teenage Symphony seem to be a great pairing for a live show. I guess the fact that both of them are so heavily influenced by the 60's is what does it, but the huge differences in their respective sounds just seem like nice compliments to one another. Add Wild In the Streets into the mix and you've got a great night. Lindby is a teenage indie pop band from Flower Mound that I don't think I've ever heard before... and despite how terrible that sentence makes them sound, they actually sound pretty good to me for what they are. They're obviously pretty decent songwriters, and I doubt from the sound of things that they'll really piss you off, even if you hate indie pop.

My Morning Jacket/Wax Fang (Gypsy Tea Room): The first of what I'm sure will be two really good shows. I've seen My Morning Jacket live before and they're very very good. Wax Fang is a band I don't know much about, but I like the little bit I've heard from them.

The usual stuff: Zoo upstairs at the Cavern, old school hip hop at Slip Inn, and Metro will be starting a new night at Monkey Bar.

And finally, Chelsea's birthday party at Doublewide will feature a couple good bands, and all the proceeds will go to Amnesty International, which is obviously a good thing. We'll let you guess who the good bands are: Record Hop/Lions/Saboteur/100 Damned Guns

92 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ASSDROIDS is most Def. Noise Rock,its like lightening bolt with electronics...

4:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Record Hop and 100 Damned Guns.

What do I win?

4:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Teenage Symphony is over-rated.

4:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Its hard to tell what to think from the poorly recorded songs on their Myspace page"

Why don't you just come out and admit that you are letting your girlfriend DL promote her riot grrl friends' band on your blog?

4:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ok, I'm just curious. Do you guys spend a lot of time listening to or going to see a band before you write about them? I'd say just hearing their myspace page is not a good indication of how a band is. The second step would be going to see them live and or listening to their album. Theres so many of these just popped up fly by night kitsch bands that it really is an overload. How about dedicating some space to those who've actually accomplished something? Maybe recorded something? Something other than just "hey we're here and we're a new band that does quirky shit onstage".

4:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

and if so whats wrong with that.. Christian Teenage Runaways rule.. better entertaintment and music than most all the shit going on in denton right now... and i also would not simply call them riot grrl either there much much more...

4:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

established and "recored" and accomplished artists are exactally what is wrong with music so fucking boring... theres much more and better things out there...

4:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"recored"
?

4:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

recored hop?

5:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey - quit jumping the shark - all of you.

5:01 PM  
Blogger stonedranger said...

um, I didn't write about CTR, DL did. And I believe that DL saw them three times before writing about them. The reason I bring on more writers is to get different points of view, which means that I don't necessarily have to be a fan of a certain band before one of the other writers writes something about them.

I try to see as many live shows and listen to as many albums as I can, but sometimes a band is playing and I feel like I should say a little something about them even if I haven't seen them live. But, as you can see, I always note that it my statements about those bands.

I really appreciate you advise on how to run a music blog, but I think I've got it.

5:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your comment is boring and not well stated. Let's overhype some bands who've done nothing yet but played some shows. It's becoming a little American Idol around here.

5:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Local blogs are in the toilet

5:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

every one is posting so fast with out checking spelling! even stonnedwranger! LOL THIS RWKS!

5:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thats how every band gets started is'nt it???

5:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

253 and 255... Let me guess...
There's a Violent Squid/House of Tinnitus/Underground because we are not really that good of players connection...

5:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FUK spelling

5:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everything has changed so much now that Fine Line is gone.

5:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BEST COMMENTS SECTION EVER

5:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow, your'e right, I can't believe the fine line bit the dust and WSJR didn't even pay their respects.

5:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Look, people. If you want to, what's it called... Have fun? Drink beer? You know, all old school and shit where some people plug in guitars, and turn it up really loud, play songs that they've worked on, and enjoy it in the company of people that are not retarded or artsy or looking to prove something, I was suggest going to the doublewide

If you, on the other hand, are broke or misunderstood or want to show off your knowledge of obscure music in a kitchen and you don't like country/rock/non-ironic music and really hope to find a chick to fingerbang after a deep discourse of everything that's wrong with traditional american rock and roll, then house of tinnitus

if you are smart, have a good job, a car, and are normal, and you have a friend in a band that you haven't seen in three weeks, my morning jacket. which is where I will be.

Get a job, you slacker idiots.

5:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i wonder how many girls i'm going to finger-bang at house of tinnitus tonight?

love,
a-train

5:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Best. Post. Of. The. Day.

5:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3:18, that is.

5:25 PM  
Blogger stonedranger said...

I'll be finger banging the shit out of tons of girls not matter which concert I go to!

5:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oops I was typing so fast I meant Barely Legal


Do any of you who are ridiculing XTIAN even know them? If not you are a waste and if so well then you are the worst kind of organism.

PS I love you Violent Squid and H.O.T.

In the meantime in an attempt to bring some unity to this forum I invite all of you to visit me at:

http://www.pornnation.org/images/Ron%20Jeremy2.jpg

5:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3:18 are you that character from that 80s movie who has a pink polo sweater, boat shoes, drives a porsche and date rapes girls underneath your rich republican father's desk in a room with a framed picture of ronald reagan?

5:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also, same guy here...

It really boils down to this.

If you are 25 and up, you are more likely to enjoy the Double Wide show. You probably have some, "these kids these days" action going on, and also would not enjoy the Tinnitus show in any way other than an anthropological way. You would blow it as soon as you pulled up with, say, The Band on your car stereo.

If you are 24 and under, Tinnitus is the place to be, where you can look forward to bashing older people who "should just give up", random moments of innocent self-importance, and you will more than likely talk about this blog, or your own. Other exciting talking points include a. where to get more beer and b. how your classes are going/this really amazing thing you learned at school (while attempting to claim that you learned it on your own in a book). It should be a fun party, because you can still get high on resin. Just don't burn your fingers.

I will be drinking expensive beer, dressed warmly against the elements, entertaing young women who have decent jobs, and then I will choos one, take her back to the house that I own, have sex in clean sheets, wake up and cook a nice breakfast that does not involve a wrapper, and then call in sick to work knowing full well that they won't care, and that I am not easily replaced by another person that would replace me easily due to the only job requirement being the ability to fit into an apron.

5:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3:35, I might be. I just might be.

That's cute! You must get a lot of free rentals at the video store where you work!

5:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But hey, you know, revolution and everything. Go for it or whatever.

5:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

StonedRanger is a lawyer!!!!!!! Ask him about Reagan!!!!!!!!

5:44 PM  
Blogger stonedranger said...

I think he's the guy from American Psycho

5:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No Patrick Bateman had style.

5:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually I am a MIT graduate. I just moved to Dallas to assist a development team in nanotechnology research. I was 20 in the 80s, I know your type. You went away in the 90s. But you have come back with a vengeance this decade. Welcome back Carter.

PS
You should come to the House in Denton tonight and try to pick me up. Try.

6:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

20 in the 80's? I don't like old women. but it's awesome that you moved to Dallas at such a later stage in your life to be a scientist and that you enjoy commenting on a local music blog. Very non-trad. You'll fit right in with the other people at tinnitus. Fakes should always hang together.

6:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, sweet and now it's just "The House"...
"You going to the House tonight?" "Hell yes I am. It's going to be amazing! Fuck the Drams and Baboon! I'm SO glad I moved here from the Woodlands! My dad is so pissed off about it!"

6:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3:35...
how does it feel now that u'v become 'that guy'

p.s. i'm probably of your peer group..

teri: are you doing research at UTD? if so what group?

6:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was right you are a pedophile. I had a friend who graduated from Devry do you know her?

6:08 PM  
Blogger stonedranger said...

what in god's name is going on here?

6:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

4:12 PM..
i had a m3 when i was 20.. and i still happily parked in front of squat houses to watch shows..

this being said.. i think at this point your just trolling, and we're fanning the flames..

6:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SR gets post of the day.

6:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the fine line fought the shark and the shark won.

6:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am a rep. for the Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology, which UTD is a part of. However, I work for a private research co. that is funded through the USAF. Yes, I am in my 40's. Some boys do not like mature women. I do like art and music and have found the House of Tinnitus to be an enjoyable experience. To Mr. 80s Republican: I am glad you have a job. I am glad that you have confidence as well. Too bad you are immature.

6:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yup. makes total sense, you are clearly a real person. A 40 year old defense contractor.


On the blog.



At the House.


Very real.


But then again... POSSIBLY... I am simply trolling. And MAYBE... you guys keep responding.

6:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

why wouldn't we?

6:24 PM  
Blogger DTC said...

maturity is wildly overrated.

6:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

funding through the USAF does not necessarily mean.. defense contractor..

p.s. i'm not teri.. i'm just sayin

6:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

See that wasn't me!

6:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes it was!

6:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

okay it was

6:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

was too?

6:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

toot... toot... toot... toot... toot... toot... toot...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Get it? GET it?

6:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

who is going to the hardrock cafe tonight?

6:34 PM  
Blogger tystamp said...

wow. wtf. btw. most everyone involved in VS know how to play their instruments really well. when you've PLAYED music long enough you tend to enjoy the vacation of getting to PLAY once in a while. it doesn't mean you can't PLAY. AND i don't think anyone @ H.O.T. is talkin trash on baboon...maybe the drams. :) and the people that live there aren't kids and neither are most the people that attend the shows.. for the most part it's always been pretty different. just get'n drunk in a kitchen meeting people while music blasts from the living room. i like it. it's the only place in denton i know of that reminds me of the fun places in denton that were around just a few years before that had moved on.
and also i think ASSDROIDS is a kick ass band name. highlarious. besides when else are most you 'tards gonna hang out in south east denton that shit RULEZ.
OUT!

6:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's the only place in denton i know of that reminds me of the fun places in denton that were around just a few years before that had moved on.


Grow up, dude. And learn to put together a proper sentence, you drug-addled, burningman burnout. I haven't seen you in a couple of years, but you're still talking the same fucking bullshit. Isn't your fucking horizon broadened already? Enter a new stage.

6:42 PM  
Blogger tystamp said...

wow we all seem to know each other so well....

look people i got it all figured out and people with this hair cut hang out over there and people with this tenis shoe hang out over there. know your boundries and don't think that everyone doesn't know EXACTLY what all of you are going to do tonight. because in dallas WE'RE ALL SO PREDICTABLE! is that it? i don't know.

6:50 PM  
Blogger tystamp said...

wow who are you? why do i care. am i turning this shit in for a grade? wtf is wrong with you? if you wanna be up close and personal why don't you just tell me who you are and we can get personal. i doubt you knew me that well or know me that well to even have an understanding of how any of my bahavior could be different or the same if you feel that strongly about me.

6:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

at least mr.stamp has the decency to let you know who he is, instead of some parasite claiming to know him but is too much of a shit to give his name.

6:55 PM  
Blogger tystamp said...

ps. i like the demons of hades. this dude ain't one of them. he/she is FALSE!

7:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FALSE they are

7:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

violent sperm whale, keep in mind the fact that you are posting in a comments section of an anonymous blog.

7:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That was great! I post something totally retarded just to rile up the comments section and insanity ensues. Love it. Thanks for the laughs.

7:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this blog has jumped the violent sperm whale.

7:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

5:09 PM
um.. thats how the whole internet works.. you did nothing special..

7:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"i got on here and now i'm sceared [sic]..."

7:15 PM  
Blogger tystamp said...

anon 5:06 ironic yep. BUT the people that do this blog aren't using the anonymity to SLANDER any individual. that's wrong.

7:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

5:21 gets post of the day!

7:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you know its really funny to read this and know that eveything "assumed" about the house of tinnitus and the people who live and run it, is completly wrong...
people talk shit and assume things without ever being there, knowing who even lives and runs the place, how old they are, what they do, and what kind of people they are.... its realy funny to be someone who knows them and see people be completly ingnorant like this with no leg to even stand on.

ps. they dont care either... they dont even bother with this blog, though they are thankful for the press..

7:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HOT is cool.

7:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

coming soon: leaked photos of stoned ranger checking p.o. box mail!

8:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

madeleine,

what makes you think you can come into this message boards and try and sell us airfare? what the hell?

9:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Madeleine was trying to tell everyone to take a flying leap and get a life.

9:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Teri nano barks at the moon in the pale moonlight

As the violent sperm whale stampeth

He makes the best filmz.

10:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

7:18, you don't even KNOW Madeleine. wtf is wrong with you? if you wanna be up close and personal why don't you just tell me who you are and we can get personal.

10:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

was that Reagan 80s dude really real???? Somebody from the breakfast Club needs to put an angel-dust booger in his coke

10:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

me & dennis rodman gang-banged maddy in the men's room at the village in 1995

11:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

New Science Projects (first full band show!) was amazing tonight at J&J's!!
Daniel Folmer, Ryan Thomas Becker, Miss Celia and David Ray were also awesome.
This was a great free show that was not to be missed.

1:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

deathray davies played on my cock last night..you missed out!

1:54 AM  
Blogger Defensive Listening said...

I love all of you equally. You're all really cool. Peace.

2:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

New Science Projects: I don't care if you have a spit on your cheek, your songs still smell like a teenage bedroom.
My Morning Jacket: Boring/untalented as shit and incapable of playing the 14-minute solo's they heard Dwayne Allman play on their tour-bus ipod.

10:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Review from Texas Gigs:

Concert Review: The Strange Boys, Chief Death Rage, and Pink Spiders @ The Double Wide

By Jesse Hughey

The Strange Boys’ set at the Double-Wide last Friday was a great example of how important context is when experiencing music.

Forty years ago, the Dallas four-piece would have been an average band with an irritatingly toneless singer. They’d have gone nowhere unless they managed to squeeze out a payola-boosted novelty song. But the infectious melodies and tailfeather-shaking rhythms in their gritty-yet-tight pop songs make them one of the best of Dallas’ handful of ‘60s revivalist rock bands. Their refusal to play self-indulgent psychedelic jams and the absence of contemporary musical reference points make them unique compared to other area mod acts.

When I saw them a year ago, The Strange Boys were a raw-power garage-rock trio, with sloppy blues guitar licks that set them apart from other Dallas indie-rock bands. With the recent addition of keyboardist Greg Enlow, they sounded even more like the mid-‘60s mods they costume themselves as. Enlow’s blues piano on songs like “Who More Fitted or Right” and subtle organ flourishes on others blend perfectly with Matt Hammer’s funky, spastic drumming for a churning rhythms; the fact that nobody danced says more about the audience of self-conscious white hipster males than it does about the band. Ryan Sambol has toned down his distinctive ear-splitting screaming, and he’s moving away from the band’s earlier jagged, distorted guitar with cleaner, poppier tones for new songs like the slow-dance R&B number “Author Author.”

The band’s cover of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” was an appropriate closer. Sambol approximated the song’s signature organ melody on guitar while Enlow added tasteful organ chords in the background. They neither radically reinterpreted it nor stayed note-for-note faithful to the original. They just did it their way. Forty years ago, they’d have been just another rock band covering a recent pop hit. Friday night, in the shallowest city in Texas, in an indie-rock club decorated with redneck kitsch for the amusement of people who’ve never set foot in a real mobile home, it somehow sounded fresh.

Chief Death Rage’s opening set of sludgy stoner-metal was a nice start. Singer Aaron Marshal bashed out childishly simple drum parts while Orville Neely III and Shane English drowned out his reverb-soaked vocals with heavy, slow riffs.

While they struck some annoying generic punk-rock poses onstage, Nashville’s Pink Spiders weren’t as slick and polished as the high-calorie, zero-substance songs on their MySpace page hinted. But even if they weren’t the sickeningly radio-desperate poseurs I expected, their hook-filled pop-punk songs didn’t merit staying until the end.

10:38 AM  
Blogger Rj said...

Record Hop melted the faces off some old fucks last night, including myself.

10:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

100 posts! Does this mean we all get free Taco Bell?!?

11:43 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Extra Red Sauce!

12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

that's it! thanks everybody. we are strident zend and we'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitress....

1:17 PM  
Blogger fuzzbuzz said...

I've got the Strange Boys slated for a Lollipopper with The Shapes, we'll see who's not dancing then! Snow ball fights highly encouraged.

2:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

THAT'S gonna be on!

3:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

THAT'S jumping the sh@rk!

4:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm only a harmless dolphin...

4:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

everytime you say that it makes me want a tuna sandwich

5:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pics from Double Wide
http://www.flickr.com/photos/headwoond/

5:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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5:08 PM  

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