It List: Thursday 7/8/07

The Beatdown/Minx Burlesque/Christian! Teenage Runaway (Dan's Silver Leaf)

Not the kind of show you see at Dan's everyday and I don't mind one bit. There will be two bands and a burlesque troupe so it's actually an uncommon show for most venues. The Beatdown plays throwback soul-rock and I've enjoyed the songs on the page, so this is a good chance to see if the magic translates live. They feature members of S-1 Committee, Pointy Shoe Factory, Denton County Revelators and a handful of other bands that escape me right now. Christian! Teenage Runaway have only improved upon something that I didn't think could get any better. This is probably the coolest Dan's show since Our Band Could Be Your Life back in October.


Chief Death Rage/I Kill Cars/The Daily Beat (J & J's Pizza)

Chief Death Rage have really honed their sludgy aesthetic to an impressively devastating extreme. If you close your eyes and just suck in all the reverb and riffage, it's like a Budgie bootleg blasted from an overdriven PA. All the more fucked up when it's bouncing off of the concrete floors and wooden ceilings of J & J's tonight. I Kill Cars sound like pretty good slop-punk. The Daily Beat on the other hand take a much more melodic and sing-song approach to the stigmatized genre.



Lost Generation with DJ Wanz Dover (Fallout Lounge)

Wanz will be showing highlights from the Fela Kuti documentary: Music Is The Weapon from 1982. Sounds rad.


DJ G (Hailey's)