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I took some photos from the Joe Lally show last night at Rubber Gloves.
None of Edie Sedgwick, sorry. I gave them a good listen but I just can say I'd ever be a fan. I'm working on a better slide show solution, but for how here's one from the No Fold Flickr pool:

If for some reason you can't see the slideshow above here's the direct link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofold/

Rubber Gloves (411 E. Sycamore 9pm, $8)
Joe Lally
Edie Sedgwick
Tre Orsi

If you don't love Fugazi I'm not so sure you and I can hang out.
I mean, I'll do that little "What's up?" head nod thing when we pass on the square, but yeah... what's wrong with you, man? I thought you were cool.

Anyway, with Fugazi in an extended hiatus bassist Joe Lally has been busy on his own, conjuring up new material and collaborating with a decent assortment of musicians. He's on tour now, and he'll be at Rubber Gloves tonight. I can't imagine a better place in Denton to catch his act.

Here's the official Dischord promo hype:

Joe Lally has played bass in Fugazi since the band's inception in 1987. In 2003 the members of Fugazi decided to take an indefinite hiatus from recording and performing. Since then Joe has continued to write and perform new material both solo and in collaboration with various musicians and friends. Joe's first album, "There to Here", was released in October 2006 and featured guest performances from Fugazi-mates Ian Mackaye, Guy Picciotto and Jerry Busher as well as many others. In the last year he has toured extensively, playing everything from Jazz festivals to rock clubs, in the US, Europe, and Brazil, often accompanied live by members of The Melvins, Capillary Action, Zu and others. “Nothing Is Underrated”, like Joe's first album, was produced by Ian MacKaye at Dischord House and was mixed at Inner Ear Studios. Joe has again collaborated and recorded with many fellow musicians, including: Ben Azzara - drums (The Capitol City Dusters, DCIC), Andy Gale - drums (Haram), Eddie Janny - guitar (Rites of Spring), Sam Krulewitch - kayboards (Capillary Action), Ricardo Lagomasino - drums (Capillary Action), Ian MacKaye - guitar (Fugazi), and Guy Picciotto - guitar (Fugazi) and Devin Ocampo - drums (Medications). Joe will be touring extensively, both nationally and internationally, in 2007 and 2008, including dates in the USA, Japan, Europe and more.

I can't say much about Edie Sedgewick aside from I pretty much hate what I've heard so far. Might be one of those bands that's more interesting live.. or maybe the band you miss so you can go stand in line at the bar. We'll see...
Tre Orsi is Denton's answer to what Fugazi might have been like if they had started fifteen years later and blew off that whole "straight-edge" thing. I'll be getting there early for them.

I'm about to head over to Dan's Silverleaf for the Industrial Street block party.
Should be music & food going on all day, but I'm heading over early just for the debut of Meat Guns, the brainchild of local bbq master and literati Aaron Anderson. The man has a way with a smoker.

You can find more on the day's events here:

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/entertainment/dentontime/stories/DRC_Industrial-strength_0221.146e044f.html

Tonight I may split time between Dan's for 100 Damn Guns & Spitfire Tumbleweeds and Rubber Gloves for a final farewell to one of my favorite Denton bands, Kneepad.

Our brothers-from-another-Belo-Mother over at Quick have set up a little voting bracket type Battle of The Bands included some of Denton's own, as well as many great acts from DFW. Go check it out and vote, and while you're there be sure to check out as many band links as you can.

http://www.quickdfw.com/bands08/

Didn't have much time to make a show list this weekend, so I'll defer to my friends at We Shot JR and Fine Line Live, who both have extensive lists for this weekend:

We Shot JR
Fine Line Live

We all have our particular tastes and areas of interest, but we all have the same goal here, which is to get you out of the house & in front of a great band.

Also two noteworthy shows they haven't mentioned, Bubba Hernandez y Los Super Vatos @ Dan's Silverleaf, & The Spectacle @ Rubber Gloves.

After several years in the making, Shiny Around The Edges released We Lost The Signal In The Hills as a free download from their website today.

Here's the "official blurb", as the band calls it:

We are pleased to present our new release, "We Lost the Signal in the Hills," as a free download for you on this Valentine's Day. We worked with many people over the last few years on this project and really enjoyed the process; we hope you enjoy the outcome. We will now be heading back into the studio with our friend Matthew J. Barnhart in order to capture the heavier, live experience of us as a quintet. We promise it won't be another two years before that sees the light of day.

Happy downloading.

Dan's Silverleaf tonight, Jeremy Bueller opening.

Should start around 10.

I've got some more stuff coming up for you, like previews for Deep Snapper's newest record & info on Pinebox Serenade's upcoming cd release on their new label, Devil's Ruin Records.

Here's the decent sized list of Denton bands (and semi-Denton bands) that scored a showcase spot at South by Southwest in March:
Bowling for Soup
Brave Combo
Doug Burr
Centro-matic
The Drams
Faux Fox
The Feds
Fishboy
Daniel Folmer
Ghosthustler
Robert Gomez
Marked Men
Mom
Quebe Sisters Band
Record Hop
Stanton Meadowdale

And just a few of the acts with Denton roots:
Astronautalis
Best Fwends
Corn Mo and .357 Lover
Faceless Werewolves

The whole, exhausting, subject-to-change list itself is here: 2008.sxsw.com/music/festival/alphalist. It'll make your eyeballs swim, trust me.

Will Johnson
Sarah Jaffe
Dan's Silverleaf, 103 Industrial
Doors at 8

Miss Jaffe is the best thing to happen to Dallas music since DARYL's Ohio dropped, in mio opinione.

If you like Jesse Sykes' sultry country-folk and listen to a lot of torch singers, you should come out Friday.

If you don't ordinarily swing that way, watch the preview for this documentary produced by the Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer David Leeson of The Dallas Morning News. (Click "Trailer 2"in the Trailers section.) That's Sarah's song "Swelling" you hear over the footage.

Then come out Friday.

The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a traveling show of sorts that tours the country in hopes of educating young musicians in the ways of the music industry.
A "Battle Of The Bands" has been scheduled to coincide with its arrival, and if you're in the right age group it looks like it would be a good thing.
If you've spent any time in the greater DFW music scene you have most likely been approached to play a "Battle of The Bands". Some guy you've never met magically found your "myspace" or "purevolume" or (for the older rockers among us) your mp3.com page and thinks you've really "got what it takes". All you had to do is pay a $50 entrance fee and sell 5 million tickets to the show & you were totally in, and hey, they couldn't make any promises but maybe some big time A&R guy might drop in.

It's rare that something legitimately designed to benefit and educate young musicians comes along.
So here's your chance, high school rockers. At least five of the six bands selected for this one will get in based purely on your music. The sixth one, the "People's Choice" can be that one band that seems to have ten thousand friends even though they've never played a show. Or hey, maybe they're awesome. I dunno. But still.
Here's the official article that will appear in today's Denton Record-Chronicle, details included:

The Texas Music Project is a non-profit organization that works with the state’s music industry, Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Texas Coalition for Quality Arts Education to help strengthen and restore music education to Texas schools.

As an aside, while discussing this event with some of my peers it occurred to me that the "High School Bands" I once knew are probably well into college by know. So if you ever wonder why you never see anything about your band on this blog it isn't because I'm some sort of elitist snob... it's because I didn't know you were out there.
Say hello some time.