[Editor's Note: Never mind the above byline; this review was penned by Observer contributor Daniel Hopkins.]Margot and the Nuclear So & So's, Telekinesis, and Everything, Now!Hailey's Club, Denton May 22, 2009Better than: Sitting at home trying to come up with a more ridiculous band name than Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sThere's a popular old saying, "Less is more." On Friday night at Hailey's, Margot and the Nuclear So & So's forcibly flipped that
Quite the bill at The Cavern tonight as Vivian Girls, who Daniel Hopkins caught up with in this week's paper, stop through town for a gig that also features area favorites True Widow and The Uptown Bums. If there's a common theme for the show, which kicks off at 10 o'clock, well, that'd be sludge, something featured in the sounds of all three of these acts--in Uptown Bums' retro-punk, in True Widow's dirge rock and in the headlining act's retro-pop. So, yeah, it should be quite the show. And if