Weekender

FRIDAY

Akkolyte/The Genuine Imitations/Summer Salt/The Gravestones/Gorge/Rocket for Ethiopia (Carrolton Plaza Arts Center): The always fierce Akkolyte headlines this suburban punk rock show organized by members of the excellent Rocket for Ethiopia and some of their crew from Carrolton. Be sure to check out RFE's quality new material on their Myspace page.

Hieroglyphics (Granada Theater): Hip hop crew founded by Del Tha Funkee Homosapian in the early 90's makes an appearance at the Granada this evening. The group had a HUGE influence in late 90s underground rap circles, and you can hear this loud and clear in their music. You could maybe call this stuff a bridge between Tribe and Guru and later backpack heroes suck as Jurassic 5. Some of this stuff might sound a bit plain and watered down to today's hip hop audience, but shit is pretty solid.

Febrifuge CD Release Show with The Fuzzy Coos (Art 6): We'll have more on Denton's Febrifuge next week, but for now we can tell you that they'll be celebrating the release of the debut Febrifuge full length this evening. It's a pretty interesting CD too.

Beauty School Drop Out with The Fire Nation/Sticky Buns/Small Town Ruffians/Swamps of Sadness (Rubber Gloves): Last minute show put together by Promohomo that will apparently help him pay to go to Beauty School or something. Fuck Darfur man, THIS is charity.

Paper Jam feat. Schwa (Public Trust): This thing goes from 6-9pm and features a big sale of prints, some up to 40% off.

Brothers and Sisters/Faceless Werewolves/Bridges and Blinking Lights (Hailey's)

Time Bandits Party (Time Bandits): This party at one of Denton's quality botique stores (they focus on vintage fashion and a fantastic little vinyl collection) will feature free beer and vegan food, as well as 20% off clothes. Goes from 7-11 pm.

Nasher Sculpture Center Friday Night Films (Nasher): They'll be playing 80's classic Big this evening. The website is unclear as to when exactly it starts, but it says 6-11, and I'm guessing the movie will begin at sundown, right around 9pm.

SATURDAY

Dub Assembly 2 Year Anniversary feat. Hatcha (Green Elephant): The highlight of the weekend for us here at WSJR HQ. As Mundo discussed in our interview with him today, Hatcha is one of the original English dubstep pioneers, and could probably be considered a visionary within the genre. He is often credited with compiling and releasing the very first dubstep compilation mix (Dubstep Allstarts Vol. 1), and was a major force at Big Apple records in London, which served as the epicenter of the movement at its inception. Not only that, he was a regular on the legendary London pirate radio station Rinse FM, as well as a resident at Club Forward >>, which is widely considered to be the first club in London to concentrate on the bass heavy dubstep sound. Basically, you couldn't have this music without this guy, and it's a real privilege to have him here in town.

Marked Men/Birthday Suits/Wax Museums/Bad Sports (Rubber Gloves):If you've ever wanted to see the Marked Men, definitely make it out, as this is their last show for two years and it could even be longer than that due to guitarist and singer Jeff Burke's move to Japan. Arguably Denton's most successful punk export besides The Riverboat Gamblers, The Marked Men have made quite an impact with the diehard garage extremists that swear by distorted barre chords and two minute sing-alongs while absolutely hating everything else. That's somewhat of an exaggeration but the proud mood will be elevated, and this is the perfect lineup to send The Marked Men out on a locally supportive high note.



L'Antietam/Pools/Mako/Sinister Ghost (1919 Hemphill)


That's What's Hot (Fallout Lounge): After hearing a 20 minute Italo/synth pop/space disco/acid house mix from That's What's Hot like six months ago (it is not posted on their Myspace page), I've been wanting to hear more from these guys ever since. Tonight's free performance at Fallout is certainly one worth checking out, especially if you want to try dancing to something new-- which in this case is very rare old school dance tracks. No one else in DFW is doing quite the same thing these guys are.

Jerry Seinfeld (Fair Park Music Hall)

My Education/Zanzibar Snails/Hotel Hotel (Hailey's)

Animal House 2 with The Kul/Damaged Goods/Sydney Confirm/Uzoy/Rayne/Prince William/Fishr Pryce (Doublewide): Quality local hip hop heavy show this evening featuring several of our favorites, including Prince William and Damaged Goods, who contributed an excellent track to our most recent Projection Compilation. Sydney Confirm's dance oriented electro pop and The Kul's fairly straight forward dance rock add a bit of spice to the mix. The Kul is pretty heavy on cheese and recycled riffs, but shit, this show is solid pretty much all the way through.

Dallas Observer Music Awards (Various locations, Greenville Ave.): Well, the one thing the Observer might have done right is selling all access passes that get you into all the showcases. This will help make it easy to catch the scattered few quality acts while helping patrons avoid sitting through one of these horribly planned shows in full.

SUNDAY