Friday, August 30, 2013

Show notes, 2013 so far

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These are the notes I recorded on my phone during the shows. In some cases, I added my tweets from that night. The usual caveats apply: I...

Show notes, 2012

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These are the notes I recorded on my phone during the shows. In some cases, I added my tweets from that night. The usual caveats apply: I...

Show notes, last half of 2011

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These are the notes I recorded on my phone during the shows. In some cases, I added my tweets from that night. The usual caveats apply: I ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

3/20/11 - Maps & Atlases, Rural Alberta Advantage, Miniature Tigers

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...at The Loft.  Miniature Tigers. Awesomeness. Great start. Lead singer: Win Butler, Jr, in a poncho Lead from Rural Alberta Advan...

3/12/11 - 35 Conferette, Day 2

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!!! - Dancing of lead reminds me, strangely, of Napoleon dynamite  Portugal. The Man  - meh. Decent enough, but I've seen dozen...

3/11/11 - 35 Conferette, Day 1

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Land Mammals - great start Dr. Dog, featuring Chris Johnson - awesome Ella Minnow - always great The Orbans  - ditto Baruch th...

2/21/11 - Heartless Bastards, Record Hop, The Cush

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..at Dan's. The Cush (Ft Worth) was up first. Slow, trippy, twangy at times, nice harmonies. But ultimately? A tad boring. I swe...
Friday, March 25, 2011

2/12/11 - Orange Peel Sunshine, Les Americains

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...at the Doublewide. Don't remember a whole lot aboot this show. Recorded on my iphone: "Les Americains: all plaid, all the time. ...

1/23/11 - The Moondoggies, Quiet Life, The Naptime Shake

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Aaaah, so awesome to be back inside Club Dada, where it really all began for me. So great to smell the fresh lacquer, see the amazing renova...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

1/8/11 - Novaak, Peopleodian, Eyes and Ears

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...at Hailey's. Eyes and Ears (Denton). Two dudes - guitar & drums - plus a gal painting ( Eyes and Ears , get it??). Mostly ins...

1/1/11 - lalagray, Sundress, Comrade

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...at City Tavern. Comrade (Austin?). Seen these guys a few times now, and described them as "slightly weepy". I'm stickin...

12/14/10 - Mini Mansions, Man Factory, New Fumes

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...at The Cavern. New Fumes (Dallas). One dude, plus laptop, guitar, autoharp. Wore a strange badger mask, on backwards. Had a projector du...

12/5/10 - Sundress, Final Club, Land Mammals, River Mouth,

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...at Hailey's. The River Mouth (Denton) opened. 3-man band, two of them long-hairs. Stereotypical bluesy southern psych rock with supe...

12/2/10 - Mr. Gnome, The Baker Family, Dim Locator

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...at the Dee-dub, with Knuckles and the Piledriver. Dim Locator (Denton) - one guy with slide guitar, plus foot-operated drum-type accesso...

11/24/10 - Stew!, Geronimo

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...at The Curtain Club, with Knuckles. I don't remember much about this night, but here are three things i learned: one - Knuckles thoug...
Friday, November 12, 2010

11/6/10 - Margot & the Nuclear So & So's, Jookabox, ???

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...at The Loft, where i seem to be spending an alarmingly increasing amount of my income... Um, I have no idea who opened. The Burnt Ones we...
Friday, November 5, 2010

10/19/10 - Frightened Rabbit, Plants and Animals, Bad Veins

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...at the Loft. Started out thinking the Studio Bar & Grill (below the Loft) had the weakest pour in Dallas. Ended up knowing it didn...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

10/6/10 - Local Natives, Love Language, Union Line

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...at the mother-EFFing house of blues. Have I mentioned how much I HATE the mother-effing house of blues? Who else can turn a $12 ticket in...

10/2/10 - Skunk Ape, Oh Lewis, Extraordinaires

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At RGRS. Skunk Ape (Denton). OK, let me say up front - i am NOT a fan of punk. At all. And Skunk Ape is a punk band. Why, they're the ep...
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8/23/10 - Delta Mirror, Grassfight, Phantom Caste

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At Haileys. Phantom Caste (Ft Worth) - Pretty standard but solid echo-y rock. Nice falsetto on lead. Overly phallic stand for keyboard. Hair...
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9/16/10 - Western Giants, MATAS

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At Lochranns in Frisco. Western Giants (Denton) were up first. Just for fun, i thought I'd share the "conversation" my intrepi...