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George Quartz's The Last Resort Performance Art Triptych Concludes this Saturday

By Jonathan Patrick
May 30, 2014

Sand blankets a warehouse floor in west Dallas, a space aglow with the fluorescence of artificial tree-life. There's three bikini-clad women bathed in blood. An audience convulses like spirits locked in exorcism pangs. On the horizon sits the Dallas skyline, shimmering and stoic, like massive sticks of studded jewelry. At...
Heart Byrne Recreate the Thrill of Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense

By Aaron Ortega
May 23, 2014

Tonight, the Granada Theater stage will play host to two very distinct conventions of typical performance abandonment. One will be intricately oddball. The other will revisit a quintessential performance by one of the most revered and unapologetically adorable new-wave bands of the '80s. The rare occurrence of witnessing, nay, experiencing,...
Good Luck Karaoke at Double Wide Is Dead, But It'll Be Right Back

By Gavin Cleaver
Apr 23, 2014

Updated with a response from the Double Wide below. One of Dallas' most beloved recent institutions, Good Luck Karaoke at the Double Wide, is no more. This weekly festival of alcohol and bad singing to great tunes, heavily assisted by the two men in charge and their refusal to ever...
The Final Countdown

By Jamie Laughlin
Dec 26, 2013

Don’t force New Year’s Eve. That’s a rookie move. If you apply too much pressure to an evening’s plans, you’ll smother the thing and it’ll die on the vine. Here’s how you do New Year’s like a champ: Get a cab with your favorite people, then drink in excess. Make...
Our Underbelly’s Freaky Pretty

By Luke Darby
Nov 21, 2013

As much as Dallas may like to pretend it’s buttoned-down and well-coiffed, that everything is fancy cars on slow overpasses and unscuffed designer cowboy boots, deep down there’s a counterculture, all riled up and progressive. For the past year THRWD Magazine has been wading into that current and scooping up...
Five Great New Year's Eve Parties in Dallas to Ring in 2013

By Deb Doing Dallas
Dec 21, 2012

OK, it's almost here. Time to slip into that annual existential crisis and wonder just WHERE IS YOUR LIFE GOING? Look, there is no real answer to that question. Also, you can totally contribute to where your life is going. But before we swim through the waters of your put-off...
George Quartz, Midnight Movie, At Night - Double Wide - 12/8/12

By Rachel Watts
Dec 10, 2012

George Quartz', Midnight Movie, At Night Double Wide Saturday, December 8 In a last-minute switch-up, The Atomic Tanlines, who were slotted to open the three-act bill at Double Wide Saturday night, were replaced by a local electronic band called At Night. It was a pleasant surprise though, as the well-groomed...
Nervous Curtains/George Quartz

Friday, December 7/ Saturday, December 8, at Double Wide

By Audra Schroeder
Dec 6, 2012

Double Wide's been pulling double duty since the closing of LaGrange a few weeks ago, and taking on their orphaned shows. This isn't one of them, but it's a solid weekend of locals, starting Friday night with Nervous Curtains, Blackstone Rangers and Skeleton Coast. Saturday sees that cad George Quartz,...
Definitely Not in Kansas Anymore

By Merritt Martin
May 31, 2012

If you watch the Texas Theatre premiere of Panos Cosmatos’ Beyond the Black Rainbow, chances are you’re going to need the premiere afterparty. If you don’t watch the film but are meeting up with people who did, you’re going to need the premiere afterparty. Rainbow tells the story (sort of?)...
Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to This Weekend's Urgh! A Music War Screening

By Audra Schroeder
May 23, 2012

I feel like Oprah! We can't stop giving stuff away! Today, we have two pairs of tickets to this weekend's screening of Urgh! A Music War at Texas Theatre. Friday night, after the film, stuck around and see Peopleodian, Nervous Curtains and After Hours With George Quartz. Nervous Curtains just...
10 Local Acts You Should Know

By Rodrigo Diaz
Dec 22, 2011

Here's a list of 10 locals you should have heard of in 2011 even if you didn't. 10. Juve Aaron Mollet of Florene has taken trap and screw influences and warped them with dark synth overtones to create Juve. It's always nice to see someone take modern rap music seriously...
Over The Weekend: After Hours with George Quartz, Live at the Texas Theatre!

By Laura Mann
Aug 1, 2011

After Hours with George Quartz, Live!Texas TheatreJuly 39, 2011Better than: watching that Kings of Leon guy throw the world's least exciting hissy fit and quit the band onstage. If KoL had beat the crap out of each other Brian Jonestown style, it might have been worth it. We think George...
George Quartz To Take His Cable Access Show Bit to The Stage at the Texas Theatre on Friday

By Laura Mann
Jul 27, 2011

Dallas has always had a collective soft spot for cable-access weirdos. The Big D is, after all, the home base for the Church of the Subgenius, that irascible '80s collective of local weirdos based out of a ramshackle house in East Dallas, who put out books, videos, and 'zines (and...
So: Which Of After Hours With George Quartz's Two "Last Summer" Videos Do You Prefer?

By Pete Freedman
Feb 1, 2011

George Quartz is no stranger to obscure, oddly alluring music videos made with odd '70s and '80s stock film footage -- we've a number of such clips from the oddball pop performer here on DC9 in the past. No surprise then, that, for his most recent clip, which goes with...
DIY Hub DOOM Meets Its End

By Rodrigo Diaz
Oct 21, 2010

It's widely known by now that Denton's once-venerable Majestic Dwelling of DOOM—not only a favorite place for acts of all kinds to play, but also by many accounts the area's most important DIY venue—has shut its doors after a successful two-year run. On September 27, a fight broke out just...
Video: Nervous Curtains -- "All Yesterday's Parties"

By Jesse Hughey
Jul 29, 2010

Nervous Curtains "All Yesterday's Parties" from Liberal Media/Charlie Tango on Vimeo.Sean Kirkpatrick just sent an amazing music video for one of the best tracks off Nervous Curtains' Out of Sync With Time, which we wrote about in a March feature. Not only does it feature one of Dallas' best bands...
Bonus MP3: George Quartz -- "Coconut"

By Pete Freedman
Jun 16, 2010

If you listened to the phenomenal Texas Love Triangle Mix created by Oak Cliff's own DJ Tommy Boy for Vice UK when it was released back in May, you were no doubt captivated by the mix's lead song, a cover of Harry Nilsson's "Coconut" offered up by one George Quartz...
Download: DJ Tommy Boy's Texas Love Triangle Mix for Vice.

By Pete Freedman
May 10, 2010

Funny how fast the Internet can move. Earlier today, a mix featuring a bevy of Dallas-based acts (and, OK, some Houstonites and Austinites, too) started making its way around the Internet. Created by Dallas' own DJ Tommy Boy, the mix was commissioned by the folks at Vice Magazine, which apparently...
Watch: George Quartz -- "Butterscotch" (Possibly NSFW)

By Jesse Hughey
Feb 16, 2010

The Fader already posted the above video version of the woozy synth track "Butterscotch" by Faux Fox frontman George Quartz, but it's worth sharing nonetheless. Besides, Fader writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd took Quartz at his blog's word that he's from Seychelles; someone has to point out that he sure has...
Time To Add One More Win To The List of Personal Victories With George Quartz...

By Pete Freedman
Dec 1, 2009

Ran into George Quartz not too long ago and came away from our brief conversation knowing two things: 1) Faux Fox, Quartz' beloved, grimy, electro-dance outfit is pretty much completely done, and 2) He's really getting into the work he's doing in his new outfit called Personal Victories with George...
Faux Fox Frontman George Quartz Offers Up Three Free Solo Tracks

By Pete Freedman
Apr 2, 2009

Over on his La Maladie Tropicale blog, charismatic Faux Fox frontman George Quartz has offered up three solo tracks for download: an instrumental track called "Butterscotch"; a simple but catchy dance track called "Pentagram," and a short, somewhat bittersweet female-sung (don't know by whom, though) organ-synth jaunt called "Theme From...
Behind the Curtains

A weird weekend in Deep Ellum: names were changed, CDs were released, and two bands supposedly called it quits

By Pete Freedman
Sep 11, 2008

The band onstage is called Nervous Curtains, and I guess you could say that this is its first gig. In a way, it kinda is. For the past couple of months, the group has performed around the region as the more obviously (and more boringly) named "Sean Kirkpatrick (with full...