It List: Wednesday

This Will Destroy You/Mom/Shapes Stars Make (Granada Theater): This Will Destroy You. Shapes Stars Make. These are the kinds of band names that should trigger alarms to anyone with a pulse, as they seem to signify groups who are into expressing their emotions and "experimenting" with "atmospherics" and long, loud instrumental build ups and other stuff that Explosions in the Sky does. It's "earnest" music, and it usually sucks. San Marcos' This Will Destroy You recently released a split EP with Lymbyc System, which sounds like its probably pretty boring, and although their music is admittedly "well crafted" and often relaxing and nice and all that, I can honestly barely tell the difference between them and local openers Shapes Stars Make, and its hard to find a single compelling reason to dig deep enough to find descriptors other than "Post-rock" to share with you. Of course, that's probably too complimentary-- a lot of this stuff sounds like Coldplay without the vocals, if you want to get right down to it. And as a side note, apparently Mom has changed their name to Sleep Whale in an effort to, uh, I don't know.... Isn't there already a guy named Chase Whale? I wonder if he's pissed?

ADD: Detour feat. Show Me Tiger/Keith P (the Cavern)

Get Fucked Wednesdays with Mikey Rodge/Killtron/Whack a Tone (Fallout Lounge)

Lost Generation with DJ Mr. Rid/Redsean/Blixaboy (The Lounge)

And for those interested, we have an update on a new Dallas DIY venue in the news section, new pictures up in the photos section, and yes, after some problems over the past 24 hours, our show calendar is up and running again (although we are still doing some work on it here and there).