Alexander RobotnickBrooklyn Jazz CaféAugust 13, 2010Better than: seeing the bad guy from the Sonic the Hedgehog games in a live concert. Well, maybe.Fresco has been putting on parties in Dallas for years, bringing to town legends of electronic music such as Larry Heard, Ron Trent, Theo Parrish (the list goes…
The city of Dallas has never been a very vocal champion of electronic dance music. Apart from the infamous “club kids” and the days when MDMA was sold at bars in Dallas, the city hasn’t ever really been known for its electronic music culture–not in any important or globally relevant…
For a band that has only had one release to date, doesn’t play out often and has never really toured, White Drugs is nonetheless a relevant name you hear tossed around from time to time in Denton. Assuming people aren’t talking about actual white drugs when dropping their name, the…
If you see a gentleman cruising around in a large sky-blue Cadillac with a smile on his face, listening to anything from Whitney Houston to Mike Dunn to Giorgio Moroder, chances are it’s Noah Jackson. You probably won’t see him around that often, though, and that’s the point. Jackson’s propensity…
Not too many people know about Denton’s Cuckoo Byrds. They’ve played live only twice (in front of small crowds), and their noisy style of hard-to-classify rock can be hard to stomach. “We like to play loud,” says David Townsend, the band’s guitarist and keyboardist. “It’s kind of hard to pull…
If a tree falls in Denton and there are no music blogs around to cover it, will it make a sound? See, we’ll never know, because that’s now impossible. Failing some sort of catastrophic World Wide Web meltdown due to a solar storm or supervolcano or some other apocalyptic scenario,…
An A Train connecting Dallas and Denton has been the dream of students, venue owners, musicians and showgoers alike since its conception in 2002. But the current reality for these folks could turn out to be a letdown. Currently, plans call for trains to run from a station near Denton’s…
The 8th Continent. Wisconsin. The Majestic Dwelling of DOOM. Whatever you call that small house off Mingo Road in Denton—the one with the all-too-convenient gravel parking lot right across from it—it’s one of the city’s most important DIY venues. The shows all take place in the house’s basement—an architectural rarity…
Shiny Around The Edge’s Michael Seman knows what he’s talking about: “I have a friend,” he says, “that always says, ‘In the city of Denton, people are into their music like other cities are into baseball.'” But one needn’t boast Seman’s Peter Gammons-like knowledge of Denton’s music history to see…
Something new is growing in Texas. It’s a lump in the ground that’s swelling little by little, feeding off the decomposing remnants of ancestors. This groundswell, which amounts to a loosely connected community of synth enthusiasts with a deep understanding of electronic music history, has begun to take shape across…
Midlake, John GrantHaileys Club, DentonJune 5, 2010Better than: some other folk bands, probably. When John Grant, former frontman for The Czars, took the stage to open for Midlake’s homecoming show at Hailey’s Club in Denton, he really did set the tone for the entire night. He sat down, somber-faced and…
Denton’s Sundress is not one of those bands whose members jump around yelling, “Look at me!” They don’t clamor excitedly for attention in conversation, talking over one another and cutting each other off mid-sentence. Nor do they do it in song. They’re not a band, like many others, whose personality…
Sitting in what amounts to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ executive suite, the members of Denton’s Record Hop abruptly pause their conversation to watch a truck pass by on the railroad tracks, hauling with it multiple boxcars. “That truck has a train horn on it!” exclaims Ashley Cromeens, lead singer and…
Long tables strewn with stencils and blank T-shirts of all colors and sizes were displayed at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ Dead Week Print Show presented by Pan Ector and Gutterth Saturday night. Behind them, young men were busy at their craft, printing the words Florene and Melting Season onto the…
FUR’s Bryce Isbell is a prolific producer. Even hearing him recite the list of releases he’s had since early 2008 is a bit shocking. 2010, however, seems to be the year where all the work is beginning to pay off. The addition of Gray Saint Germain Gideon, a regular contributor…
Denton’s Andy Bostick, of Andy’s Bar fame, once threw a bone to a stray. It’s been following him around ever since. Try as he might, he just can’t seem to shake the little sucker. Its name is Metal. “We get 100 e-mails a week from metal bands wanting shows,” Bostick…
In Buddhism, a Foe Destroyer is one who achieves Nirvana and is no longer subject to rebirth. That’s a strange name for a band born only a month ago in the wake of Oso Closo’s breakup, not to mention one that boasts fewer than a dozen songs to its name…
