Cleburne youngsters (is it even still fair to call them that anymore?) Fungi Girls have a BandCamp page now where you can listen to all their previously released material. Even better? You can stream their upcoming full length, Some Easy Magic , which will be released on Hozac in the next month or so. Download a couple of free tracks too while you're at it. MP3: Fungi Girls - Velvet Days =w=
Back in March John Congleton told DC9 about a new project, Nighty Nite, that he was working on with his Paper Chase bandmate Jason Garner on drums, as well as members of Austin's Shearwater and New York's Slow Six. He also hinted at a then-still-in-process EP that at the time had no release date. If Nighty Nite's Soundcloud page is to believe, that album looks like it will come out June 21st. We shall see. Until then check out the band's first MP3 offering, "Dimes in Their Dimples," which is admittedly pretty Paper Chase-esque. [...]
The Donkeys are coming to Denton--or more specifically to Dan's Silverleaf--on June 3rd. Their PR Co. calls them 'an intersection between Pavement and Byrds' but I hear more a cross between 1996 Collective Soul and 2001 Modest Mouse. Either description should be a can't lose, but for me the jury is still out. The slick lo-fi video is all the while trying it's darndest to sway my feeble opinion. MP3: The Donkeys - Born With Stripes =w=
It was back in December when we reviewed Shake the Baron's self-titled debut and although the Brooklyn based band hasn't made its way down to the D/FW area for a show their video live sessions will hold us over until they do...if they do...which they should do. The band performs two songs off their last album, the first video "Rest of Reaction", and one new song released May 30 titled "Any Direction". The videos were filmed in a day at the Grand Street Recording in Booklyn with the help of engineer Justin Gerrish (Vampire Weekend, Weezer, [...]
A certain Michael Azerrad book I was reading last Spring had an interesting commentary on the early 1990's lo-fi art punk movement, regarding the way in which bands would intentionally choose cassettes as their medium of choice, despite the fact that they widely acknowledged the inferiority of tapes to compact discs, knowing that the snobby masses (whom they didn't really care to have as fans of their art in the first place) would never make an effort to listen to them. They would record with low fidelity to make listening to their music hard, to make sure only the worthy [...]
We found out earlier this week that Henry Rollins joined the masses on Twitter, ( username @henryrollins ) and surprisingly so far hasn't said anything yet that has made us question the remaining shreds of his punk credibility, or like him any less for that matter. In fact, thus far we've quite enjoyed following the former Black Flag frontman. Earlier he mentioned his love for the new Thee Oh Sees record, which reminded us we too have been digging it but have yet to post anything about it. Furthermore, we remembered a few other MP3's we've been sitting on like [...]
Latest video from the most mysterious, reclusive musicians in the Metroplex. His latest ally has created a video unit more highly intense and professional than previous offerings. Presented here for your enjoyment, if nothing else. =w=
After posting Brainstorm's "Lonely Ghost" MP3 a couple weeks ago the band sent me a link to their latest 2 song EP which is available via their Bandcamp page .The new tunes continue their habit of writing multifaceted songs with sections ranging from intimate percussion and vocal sections, to bouncy tuba pieces, and onto the highly rhythmic interludes that blend tribal beats with math-rock precision. Most importantly their MP3's somehow manage to brilliantly capture that magical feel of their live shows. Speaking of which, my favorite memory of their semi-impromptu 35 Conferette street performance outside of Gio's [...]
It's not uncommon to find a dozen guest musicians listed in the liner notes of any given Joan of Arc record. 2008's Boo! Human , for instance, featured 14 different players. On their newly released Life Like, however, they took a bit of a different approach. This time around the songs were honed on the road and recorded at Chicago's Electrical Audio studios with Steve Albini 2 days after returning from the European leg of their tour. As such, the four members of the touring band are the only four musicians on the record. As Joan of [...]
In the past week I've become quite the avid follower of the @DentonPolice Twitter account, which is basically just mugshots and arrest records of people taken into custody in Denton. However, unlike it appears on the surface, the account is maintained by a UNT photography student to draw attention to how much info is being made available online. The potentially embarrassing photos and records, of course, as the account's background image reminds its followers, are made available upon booking, despite the subjects' status as pre-trial inmates who are presumably innocent (until proven otherwise at least). Some [...]
Everyone seems all a'buzz over Tyler the Creator right now with the release of his Goblin LP today, but just between us this new Death Grips Exmilitary mixtape is where it's at. For reals, this shit goes hard. I don't know much about its creators yet, but sometimes I prefer not to. Like how I was initially really blown away by OFWGKTA, but slightly cooled on them once I realized their satanic brand of shock rap was not much more than schtick for publicity. This way I get to keep pretending Death Grips is [...]
Here We Go Magic will be coming to Club Dada on the 24th with the Caveman. Their PR group even confirms them as "the best live bands on the road right now", I mean really, how could you miss it? But in all seriousness check them out live. They will be touring with new material from their album that comes out today called The January EP . A six track EP recorded live to an analog tape in a band-built living room studio. Which was also apparently recorded during the sessions from their second album [...]
This upcoming Saturday marks the second annual Homegrown Music and Arts Fest in Downtown Dallas. This year boasts a gigantic lineup featuring 13 of the biggest and brightest acts to have ever been associated with the Metroplex (hence the name). So we caught up with John Solis and the rest of the Homegrown team to find out just what separates their fest from all the other local area music fests. SubEx : Why was Main Street Garden Park chosen as the location rather than somewhere more obvious like a Deep Ellum? [...]
There are about a million gigantic shows happening Saturday (Edgefest, Arcade Fire, Yelawolf, etc.) but the two best punk bands in town ( who you may remember played the last show we presented at Club Dada ) are involved in two of Saturdays better shows . We gush about Soviet enough around here you'd think we were in the band, or at least their publicist or something. But really we just dig their slightly goofy antics and ear-splitting, throw [...]
Mysterious. Intense. Has the gall to call itself 'avant'. Me likey. =w=
Our other favorite local album releasing this week comes from another SubEx pal, AnonymousCulture . His full Alive album ( offered up for free over here ) is a little hit and miss, but that is to be expected of just about any 19-track LP. Among the high points are our two favorite selections, "I Do My Thang" and "Crappy Together". The first time I heard "I Do My Thang" was at Anonymous' 35 Conferette showcase at Hailey's. I swear at the time I heard him say it was from an upcoming mixtape. The hook [...]
DFW electronic artist and SubEx pal LehtMoJoe drops his sophomore album today. Grab it on iTunes or his bandcamp page , where all sales made today will be donated to Salvation Army Japan to help with tsnuami relief. Read the full release below. LehtMoJoe has upped his game on his sophomore solo album, Aisle7 , which sees the producer confronting the seemingly difficult challenge of pairing the nostalgic synth-pop from his youth with the more updated polish and electro sheen fans of his music have come to expect. [...]
Do we do anything but post videos of rock duos anymore? Not from the looks of everything we've posted thus far this week. But RTB2's latest video is just too cool to break the trend. Just like their "When Hammer Hits Stone" video we get another sweet analog-feeling visual befitting their latest single "Goon". And just like we end every RTB2 post we'll again ask, "These guys are not world famous yet, why?". MP3: RTB2 - Goon =w=
Lately I've kind of stopped believing in coincidences. Nowadays whenever I have those little moments where I hum a song and then turn on the radio to find it already playing I chalk it up to being *winked at by a higher power. A miniature chest bump, if you will, by the big guy upstairs to kind of remind us all that everything in the universe is connected and we're all a part of this collective conscious. To me, posting about Two Knights yesterday and then finding their Violitionist Session in my inbox the [...]
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