Weekender: 5/18/07-5/20/07

We had a lot of links to put together in a short period of time today, so please excuse the lack of description on some of these postings.


FRIDAY



The Party with DJs Nature, Sober, Select (Zubar): DJ Nature is back in town after more than five months away recording an album, playing shows in Puerto Rico, and doing all kinds of things that beat "hanging around in Dallas," which is what we've been doing. Later this evening we'll have more details on what Nature has been up to, and we'll also debut a couple of the new tracks he's been working on recently. Check back some time around 6pm for that stuff. And oh yeah, expect the party to be on full blast tonight like usual. We've talked about the great diversity found at the party plenty of times before, but the last time we traveled to Zubar for one of these gigs, it was the biggest and best crowd we've seen yet. Even if you just like to sit in the corner and people watch, you'll be glad you went.

The Clientele/Beach House/Doug Burr (Hailey's): The Clientele have honestly become one of my favorite bands to emerge from anywhere in the past few years. Their quiet brand of spacey psyche pop is English as fuck, but that doesn't stop their songs from really striking a chord with anyone who cares to listen. Their latest album, God Save the Clientele, isn't quite as immediately striking as most of their previous work (the early singles collection Suburban Light is still my favorite by far), and it contains a bit less of that stoned reverb feel that many Clientele fans love so much. However, the album is still very very good, and the heavier use of strings and generally bigger sound of the record as a whole actually goes a long way to showing that the band isn't hiding behind some cheap tricks. The fact that they're playing with Beach House makes this even better, as I've had the privilege of seeing a couple great sets from them in the past few months. Not sure how crowded it's going to be at Hailey's with all the Rubber Gloves stuff going on, but you should still consider checking this show out.

10th Anniversary Party (Rubber Gloves): Doors are at five, show starts at 5:30, and each band goes on one after the other every 45 minutes to an hour. So, in case you're dumb: band #1 at 530, band #2 between 615-630 and so on and so on. Got it? The line up in order of appearance: Civilian Outbreak/Medicine Window/Handbrake/Violent-Oveo-Squid/Burnt Sienna Trio/History at Our Disposal/Blacksmiths/Chief Death Rage/Stumptone/The Baptist Generals


The Brewers/The XO/How Hard (SHQ Denton)


RTB2/Daniel Folmer/Parata/Sparlin Jessels/Sailboat/Velouria (715 Panhandle):


Silk Stocking/Delphi/Esther Newell/Ribelle Scaltro/Chris Hamlett (8th Continent)

So in other words, Denton will be insane all over the place tonight.


SATURDAY


10th Anniversary Party (Rubber Gloves): The Line up: RTB2/The Swedish Teens/Bridges and Blinking Lights/Lo Fi Chorus/Shiny Around the Edges/Current Leaves/Jetscreamer/Undoing of David Wright/Lords/special guest... Riverboat Gamblers . We're not 100% sure about the Riverboat Gamblers thing because the person we talked to isn't formally connected to the club, but we're, uh, pretty sure.


Daniel Folmer/Current Leaves/Bridges and Blinking Lights (Fra House)


Minx Burlesque/Denton County Revelators/Sidecar Girls (SHQ Denton)


Lolliprom 2007 (Sons of Hermann Hall)


Lions/Red Fang/Amplified Heat (Doublewide)


Ghostland Observatory/Dr Jack (House of Blues): I don't know what Dr. Jack is and I really don't give a shit. Ghostland Observatory are probably fairly close to being one of those watered down Rapture bands that Defensive Listening talked about in his post yesterday, but they aren't quite as bad as that other band, and some of their songs are actually solid takes on the dance rock craze that was supposed to have died down three or four years ago but never did. The Rapture was quite good at the Granada last night by the way, even if it happened to still be light outside during most of their set. "House of Jealous Lovers" was much better live than I thought it would be. I tend to agree with the person in the comments who said that The Rapture owes a lot of their critical acclaim to DFA, but they can hold their own live, apparently.


SUNDAY

Early Lines/Blank Blank/Tyrannosaurus X (Aboca's 100 S Central Expressway #63 Richardson, Southwest corner of Central and beltline): The much loved and respected Early Lines will be reuniting for a quick tour starting this evening at this small pizza/Italian place in Richardson. Strange place to have a show, but then again, those are often the best kind. Its $5, and the first couple dozen people to show up and pay admission will get a free copy of what I believe is the second Early Lines full length. Show starts at 6pm and ends at 9.


YACHT/Tha Bracelets/Hardin Sweaty and the Ready to Go (Rubber Gloves): Yacht is Jona Bechtolt, a guy who has been getting a lot of positive press lately, both at the Yacht and a member of the Pitchfork approved Blow. If you were asked to imagine what a "K Records indie dance group from 2006-07" sounded like, you would probably hum most of the Blow's record. That isn't to say it's predictable or bad, it just sounds exactly how you might think it would, surprises and all. Anyway, it kind of sucks that this show is on a Sunday night after what will probably be a pretty crazy weekend for Denton folks, but YACHT shows are rumored to be highly energetic and a lot of fun. Although "cute pop dance music" might not be an appealing label to you, just go listen to the songs. Yes, you will like it despite your best instinct.

Bad Ghost/Bob White and the F Electrics/Black Wizardz (SHQ Denton)