Gutterth Records just keeps turning out the jams. Six-song EP Small Spaces from Summer of Glaciers, the project of Angelus bassist Ryan Wasterlain, is the Denton label’s latest genre-bender. Living in San Francisco no doubt influenced Wasterlain’s softly pulsating electronic and psych tones, created via guitar, drum machine and computer…
The No Walls Ministry sits on the back side of a long strip mall in South Dallas, the hum of the overpass competing with the streetlight buzz peppering the massive gray parking lot. No Walls’ windows are decorated with signs that read “Jesus Paid It All” and “God Loves You.”…
Look, we know you don’t want to think about summer after the non-winter we had. Yes, there will probably be fireballs raining down on us for 128 days straight and some sort of locust invasion, but KXT’s bringing a pretty great lineup to Gexa Energy Pavilion on June 1 to…
On “Circumambient,” a track from 23-year-old Claire Boucher’s latest album, Visions, she sings, “Oh baby I can’t say/That everything is OK/Cause I have problems/And I don’t know how to solve them.” The Montreal musician’s third full length and first for 4AD navigates body and mind in order to solve those…
After scrolling through Erykah Badu’s Twitter feed last night, it seems the concert scheduled for today has been canceled after all. She held a press conference in Kuala Lampur earlier to address the issues that lead up to the cancellation, and beyond the bigger issue of art, religion and where…
A special Leap Day concert Erykah Badu was scheduled to perform in Kuala Lampur tomorrow was temporarily canceled, after a local paper ran this promo photo of her, which shows one of her (temporary) tattoos spelling out the Arabic word for “Allah.” It apparently violated the Central Agency for the…
Ben Piché of Darstar designed this poster for tomorrow night’s show at Rubber Gloves, using tarot cards as his influence. He didn’t have them read, he just literally wanted the poster to look like a tarot card. I’m not sure what this particular pipe-smoking centaur releasing a falcon represents in…
When a vibrator mysteriously ended up in my mailbox recently, I got scared. I checked my apartment for video cameras and recording devices. I asked friends if they were pulling a prank on me. Had I “accidentally” ordered one in the early morning hours and “forgotten” about it? (Very possible.)…
Eric Grubbs talks with Mark Ryan of Mind Spiders about Meltdown and his first shows. I spoke with Aaron Barker about graduating from ice cream college. North of the Dial checks in with Denton experimental supergroup Violent Squid. Plus recommendations for Big K.R.I.T., Blackstone Rangers and Diamond Age, Texas Theatre’s…
UPDATE: The After the Great Cupcake Flood of 2008 and the Cake Ball Frenzy of 2010, the baked goods wave seems to have slightly receded in Texas. There’s only so many times you can hear “red velvet cake” before you want to stab someone with a spork. However, among the…
Yeah, I know there was that “attempt” at the World’s Biggest Soul Train line a few weeks ago, but anyone who has ever fantasized about joining a Soul Train dance line or studied its intricacies knows intimacy is the key. In honor of Black History Month and to commemorate the…
Think the lineup for this all-local show sounds like a sci-fi novel? You’re not the only one. Headliners Blackstone Rangers are working their way to a new full-length, and the four-piece brings with them some rarefied distorto-pop, and possibly that riotous cover of the Breeders’ “Cannonball.” Diamond Age’s solo drone…
After the Great Cupcake Flood of 2008 and the Cake Ball Frenzy of 2010, the baked goods wave seems to have slightly receded in Texas.There’s only so many times you can hear “red velvet cake” before you want to stab someone with a spork. However, among the many niche food…
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Granada Theater Tuesday, February 21 There was a noticeable difference between the Jicks of last night and the reunited Pavement I saw at Stubb’s in Austin in 2010, mainly in that the Jicks looked happy to be there. Stephen Malkmus walked onto the Granada stage…
Yesterday, various social media outlets were literally on fire with the news of Centro-matic singer Will Johnson’s “supergroup” with the Kadane Brothers and Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan. That almost made us forget about his other other band, New Multitudes, which features Jay Farrar, Anders Parker and his former Monsters…
Check out this new track from A.Dd+ if you’re hungover, hungry, awake, alive, a human being. It’s been on repeat in the DC9 bunker all morning…
We know this promo photo might get some of you fetishists fired up, but it’s not what you think. The Dallas trio, who we profiled this week in preview of their excellent new album, Fake Infinity, just laid down a Violitionist Session, featuring two album tracks and an inspired cover…
Local duo Magnificent Beard produced this little nugget of sunshine for the Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks show on Tuesday, illustrating what cats do best and adding to the overall tightness of their graphic art science. I like to think Malkmus retires to his study after a long day of…
Julie Garcia of the Granada just sent over this pic of their marquee, thanking Big Daddy Cuban for reaching into his pot of gold and saving the Greenville St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Does this mean Cuban will be King of the Parade this year? Is that a thing? In other…
Denton’s own Jessie Frye tackles the latest installment of 35 Denton’s cover series with perhaps the most Texas-referential one yet, reinterpreting the Mountain Goats’ “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton,” off 2002’s Emperor Jones LP, All Hail West Texas. Gone is John Darnielle’s small-town story about metal bros…
You’re so pumped to see the Polyphonic Spree at Sons of Hermann Hall tonight, aren’t you? Have you picked out your outfit? Fresh off a two-week tour of the South, the Spree, multi-taskers they are, were also running a video contest on the road, asking for different fan interpretations of…
I chat with Sean Kirkpatrick about Nervous Curtains’ new album, Fake Infinity. Kelly Dearmore talks to Neurosis’ Scott Kelly about going solo. Checking in with Midlake’s booze den, the Paschall Bar. A review of Juicy the Emissary’s latest sample sale. Plus recommended blurbage for Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Yelawolf,…
