Years of touring with Florene have given Denton’s Gavin Guthrie a good feel for what it takes not just to be a touring band, but also to book one. Guarantees, travel costs, schedules, agents and everything else a band has to deal with can be difficult to get a handle…
The A-Train began its Denton-Carrollton service on June 18, much to the delight of many North Texas commuters. In a boon for the Denton economy, business has already picked up in the shops, restaurants and bars in and around the city’s downtown square. An increase in foot traffic is obvious…
After prolonged lull in Denton’s DIY music and art scene, the Bolivar Arts Collective has emerged as the most visible entity in the town’s homemade art- and music-show world. For the past five months, the collective, spearheaded by Trey Wright, Jamie McGuiness, Tony Letts and Jordon Jenson, has been putting…
As if Michael Briggs and Brent Frishman hadn’t already established themselves as the foremost curators of Denton music, they went ahead and took it a step further. The men behind Gutterth Productions, organizers of many a showcase and former hosts of the Gutterth podcast, changed the podcast in January into…
The whole fuzzy, distorted, pedal-laden and ambient electronic music thing is hard to pull off. Fact is, it’s really easy to get it wrong amidst the growing stacks of undulating effects. It’s far too easy to be excruciatingly stripped-down and downright boring. When a band can pull it off, though,…
Located just southeast of the square in downtown Denton, Simone Lounge is a new bar that is carving out a niche for itself among the more established music venues in the area. Part restaurant, part bar and part art gallery, Simone’s goal, according to owner Sebastian Urschel, is to provide…
Denton’s Sans Soleil have spent their two years in existence as a Denton band playing at Gutterth Productions showcases, recording at Echo Lab and generally doing the types of things bands here do. As of August, though, they will become an Austin band, and the cycle of acceptance, inclusion and…
Proof the Denton music scene has ample room for more than just bands: The weekly Denton bass-music event known as Pubstep has been in existence for just more than two years now, and it continues to be one of North Texas’ best-attended dubstep weeklies. Held every Wednesday at The Abbey…
Nathan Allen and Trenton Wheeler were on the way back from the grocery store one day in March of 2009 when they got an idea. “Let’s start a band,” said Wheeler. “I can sing, and you can play the guitar.” Allen was a little hesitant. “We can do it on…
Last time Denton’s Sundress released a disc, they were a band in flux. Having recently undergone a name change and a lineup shuffle, the band was just beginning to get acclimated with its members and its sound. So, in many ways, this sentiment from frontman Ryan McAdams is no surprise:…
In 2008, the DIY space in Denton called House of Tinnitus reached its peak. With growing interest across the whole metroplex, the house, owned and booked by Rob Buttrum, was even becoming one of the national hotspots for touring noise bands. “People were traveling way out of their way to…
Walking into The Labb on Oak Street, just off Denton’s Courthouse-on-the-Square, you’d hardly guess that the space is a music venue. A space for DJ nights, maybe. But never a place for bands to play, much less touring ones. Enter Bryan Denny. The main talent buyer for Rubber Gloves Rehearsal…
Though the band is coming off a three-month hiatus, people in Denton should be quite familiar with Peopleodian by now. The band, after all, has performed around the region under its name for more than two years at this point. And, after the additions of lead singer Ally Hoffman in…
Novaak have only been around for about a year at this point, but things are already picking up pretty quickly. Initially conceived at South by Southwest in 2010, the idea of Novaak was one that envisioned guitarist Blake Panter and singer Jessi James as an electronic music duo. Beyond that,…
In the latter half of the previous decade, Denton was a pretty great place to be a musician. With several DIY venues running simultaneously, bands, DJs and other projects had places to play out and audiences to play in front of. There was a cross-pollination of rock, electronic music, DJ…
Without question, Sextape has more momentum than most acts in Denton. The duo of Marcus Webb and Jennifer Wohlrab has created some pretty organic stirrings with their mere two song releases to date, “Lubricated Intimacy” and “Parsimonia,” and their live performances have only helped their cause. Sometimes compared to Dallas…
Dan Deacon1 a.m., Rubber Gloves Rehearsal StudiosRubber Gloves, the way its creator meant for it to be — swimming with the flailing appendages of sticky college students, the air clammy and thick with the palpable stench of dozens of human bodies excreting gasses and liquids, feeding into a stagnant air…
How To Dress Well1 a.m., Hailey’s ClubLooking over the densely packed 35 Conferette schedule, Saturday night’s show at Hailey’s Club in particular stood out. Festival performers How to Dress Well and Blissed Out, both performing on this stage, have each reached nationwide acclaim, and are, however fortunately or unfortunately, generally…
Cut Chemist1 a.m. at Hailey’s ClubBilled as the first hip-hop event of the 35 Conferette, Thursday night’s show at Hailey’s was the most illustrious lineup Denton has seen in the genre for a very long time.And, given the festival’s proclivity toward indie rock and folk music, it was possible that…
Three years into its existence and, finally, 35 Conferette organizer Chris Flemmons is seeing his dream of a walkable music festival in downtown Denton turn into a reality. We’ve seen shades of the festival shaping up this way for a few years now. The obligatory backstory: After a drunken conversation…
Damon G. Riddick, aka DâM-FunK, is a modern funk producer and session musician from Los Angeles who stands as one of this generation’s most vocal champions for funk music. Ever the showman, his synthesizer-heavy live show and rare vinyl-heavy DJ sets have earned much acclaim from fans and critics –…
As time goes on, the list of venue casualties in Denton grows. Really: The places where one can go expecting to hear live music in the city have dwindled to a handful, and the Abbey Inn Underground, although by no means free of live music, has similarly been forced to…
