No Fold

...at Recycled Books.

1) Record Hop - Record Hop
Stumptone - Gravity Suddenly Released LP (& CD)

2) Brave Combo - Kick Ass Polkas
Midlake - Bamnan and Silvercork
Oso Closo - Rest
Record Hop - Pareidolia
Shearwater - Theives
Snarky Puppy - World is Getting Smaller
Teenage Cool Kids - Remember Me 7"

Just in this week:

Delmore Pilcrow - Worn to the Weft
The Orange - "Lalaland"
Mistress/Calavera split cassette

Good to see Record Hop is still up there at the top. I also recommend the Stumptone album.
You can pick up most local CDs at Recycled Books (on the square) or Strawberry Fields (at Oak & Bonnie Brae).

sans friday night, since I'm just now getting a chance to post this...

There are other things going on this weekend as well, so I'll have more for you tomorrow. Be sure to check the DRC's main page for any festival updates.

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Saturday, April 26

Jazz Stage

10 a.m. — Ron Jones Quartet

11:30 a.m. — James Gabriano

1 p.m. — UNT Faculty Jazz Ensemble

2:30 p.m. — Ross Penderson Group

4 p.m. — John Adams Group

5:30 p.m. — Tribute to Marchel Ivery, with Eric Scortia, Clint Strong and Shelly Carrol

7 p.m. — Annagrey

9 p.m. — Delbert McClinton

Festival Stage

10 a.m. — Crownover/McMath Jazz Fiddlers

11 a.m. — Lifeline Church Band

11:45 a.m. — Ryan High School Strutters

Noon — Dallas Tap Dazzlers

12:30 p.m. — Denton Celtic Dancers

1 p.m. — Music Theatre of Denton

1:30 p.m. — Denton Ballet Academy

1:45 p.m. — Syncopated Ladies

2:15 p.m. — Calhoun Middle School Jazz Band

2:45 p.m. — Denton Dance Conservatory

3:45 p.m. — Denton City Contemporary Ballet and Denton Youth City Ballet

4:15 p.m. — Leil Nahar Mid-Eastern Dance Troupe

4:45 p.m. — Dance Fusion

5:30 p.m. — Denton Community Theatre’s Denton Theatre School

6 p.m. — UNT African Percussion Ensemble

7 p.m. — Laura Lynn and Friends

8 p.m. — Frontier Drum and Bugle Corps

8:30 p.m. — Frisco Pioneer Heritage Middle School Jazz Band

Celebration Stage

9:50 a.m. — Denton Community Band Jazz Ensemble

10:50 a.m. — UNT Jazz Singers

Noon — UNT L5 Guitar Ensemble

1 p.m. — UNT Zebras

2 p.m. — UNT Jazz Repertory Ensemble

3 p.m. — UNT Three O’clock Lab Band

4 p.m. — UNT Two O’clock Lab Band

5 p.m. — UNT Latin Jazz Ensemble

6 p.m. — UNT U-Tubes

7 p.m. — Ryan High School Jazz Band

8 p.m. — PS150 Christian rock band

Roving River Stage

10 a.m. — Sweet Harmony

11 a.m. — Dean Strickland

Noon — Doc’s Dixieland

1 p.m. — Lico Reyes

2 p.m. — Rhythm Tribe

3 p.m. — Winston Triolo

4 p.m. — Eric Bailey

5 p.m. — Joe Tucker

6 p.m. — Rebecca Hendricks

7:30 p.m. — Dave Zoller and Genie Grant

Center Stage

9:30 a.m. — Ryan Elementary World Wranglers

10 a.m. — Evers Park Elementary Choir & Chimes

10:45 a.m. — Strickland Middle School choirs

11:45 a.m. — Handbells at Strickland

12:15 p.m. — Houston Elementary Singers Choir

12:45 p.m. — Accordion Fusion

1:30 p.m. — Wilson Elementary All-Star Choir

2 p.m. — Ginnings Elementary choirs

2:30 p.m. — Denton Bell Band

3:15 p.m. — Denton Childbloom Guitar Ensemble

4 p.m. — Pecan Creek Elementary Bear Tones

4:30 p.m. — The Music Academy

5:30 p.m. — McNair Elementary Commander Choir

6:30 p.m. — J’anelle Avery

7:30 p.m. — TWU Signing Connection

8 p.m. — Hawk Elementary Maverick Ringers

Courtyard Stage

10:30 a.m. — Tenacious Root

Noon — Racina

1:30 p.m. — Yancey Stevens and the City Slickers

3 p.m. — Canta Rhythm & Brass

4:30 p.m. — Up All Night Blues Band

6 p.m. — Bonnie & Nick Norris

7:30 p.m. — Pops Carter & the Funk monsters

Sunday, April 27

Jazz Stage

10 a.m. — Jim Shannon Quartet

11:30 a.m. — Steve Story Quartet

1 p.m. — Wayne Delano

2:30 p.m. — Cindy Horstman and Mike Medina

4 p.m. — Tom Braxton

5:30 p.m. — Fingerprints

7 p.m. — Brave Combo

Festival Stage

11:15 a.m. — Charis Music Studio

Noon — Conte de Loyo Flamenco Theatre

12:30 p.m. — Dianne Cole Johnson School of Dance

1 p.m. — Mariachi Aguilas

2 p.m. — Isis and the Star Dancers

3 p.m. — Green Space Dancers

4 p.m. — TWU International Dance Company

4:45 p.m. — Outstanding Balance Dance Company with Jay Contrino Quartet

5:30 p.m. — Krum High School Jazz Band

6:30 p.m. — Nike Odunaiya

6:45 p.m. — Ponder Junior High Cheerleaders

Celebration Stage

11:20 a.m. — Joel Reese, children’s program

11:40 a.m. — Kinfolk

12:20 p.m. — Joel Reese, children’s program

12:40 p.m. — Dennis Scott, children’s program

1 p.m. — Twisted Dixie

1:40 p.m. — Joel Reese, children’s program

2 p.m. — Andrew Tinker Band

2:40 p.m. — Joel Reese, children’s program

3 p.m. — Burton Tyler Live

4 p.m. — 3 Strands

4:40 p.m. — Dennis Scott, children’s program

5 p.m. — Northpointe

5:40 p.m. — Miss Polly and Her Tiny Big Band

Roving River Stage

11 a.m. — Chisholm Trail Cowboys

Noon — Razzmajazz

1 p.m. — Michael Harrison

2 p.m. — Drums du Jour

3 p.m. — Charlie Lee

4 p.m. — Linda Atwell and Mike Garvey

5 p.m. — Joe Pat Hennen

6:30 p.m. — Chris Watson Band

Center Stage

Noon — Sweet Harmony

1 p.m. — Mister Joe & Friends

1:45 p.m. — Denton State School Drum Band

2:15 p.m. — Argyle Hilltop Elementary Soaring Singers

2:45 p.m. — Young at Heart

3:45 p.m. — Strictly Dixie

4:45 p.m. — Three 4 Jazz

Courtyard Stage

10:30 a.m. — Gary Granger Trio

Noon — Panhandlers Steel Drum Trio

1:30 p.m. — Big Chill Second Generation

3 p.m. — Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks

4:30 p.m. — Naked Lunch

6 p.m. — Brian “The Beerman” Houser

Last night we hit Rubber Gloves. The big hit of the night was the opening of Record Hop's set, where a video (provided by Martin Iles) projected behind the band showed a drum set in a field being shot to pieces by a machine gun, which bled into the first song for Record Hop & set the tone for the rest of the set. It's been a while since I've seen a crowd that large and that excited facing down a hometown rock band. A night like that does my heart good.

Tonight I'll most likely split my time between the show I'm playing and Dan's Silverleaf, hopefully scoring a little BBQ while I'm over there.

Check the post below for everything going on tonight.

So much going on some bands are playing twice, even in the same night..
in one case they're re-arranging and playing a second set in the same place.
No way am I gonna even try to provide links to all of this stuff, this should be the
only link you need. Just put in the name of any of these venues or bands & the word "denton" and you're sure to find what you're looking for.

This is why I absolutely love this town:

Friday Night:

J&J's 8pm, free - donations to Relay for Life

Fire Nation
Ella Minnow
Machine Gun Hand

Rubber Gloves - day one of Concernathon (doors @ 7, $6)

Record Hop (w/videos by Martin Iles
Shiny Around the Edges
Bridges and Blinking Lights
Tre Orsi
White Drugs
Handbrake
Last Men

Dan's Silverleaf
Joe Ely, Mary Cutrufello - $20

Haiely's Club = 9pm, $12
Bob Schneider
The Lifters

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Saturday

Cool Beans
Beanstock (2pm, FREE)
Joe Tucker
Final Fight
Ghosts of Texas
The Lads
AM Ramblers
Boxcar Bandits

Hailey's - UFO Fest (6pm, $6)
Violent Squid
Zanzibar Snails
Mad Scientists
Will E Lee
Delmore Pilcrow
Heartstring Stranglers
Mauve X Experience

Dan's Silverleaf
Denton Hardcore Society presents:
Rock n Roll BBQ
featuring:

Lions
We Are Villains
Max Cady
Mescalero
Little Big Horn
Children of the Grave
(plus goodies from Meat Guns bbq)

Rubber Gloves
Concernathon, night 2 (5pm, $6)

Astronautalis
Mom
Haod
Single Frame
Sarah Jaffe
Gazelles
TT&Q
Florene
Grassfight

Strawberry Fields:

Brent Best
Starhead
Will E Lee
Ryan Thomas Becker
The Triggermen

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Sunday

Dan's Silverleaf (on the patio - FREE - 6pm)

The Lads
Mike McConnell & Chris Welch
Cody Robinson
Admiral David V.
Delphi
Sarah Alexander
Chris Garver

I borrowed this one from their myspace, if anyone knows who gets credit I will gladly give it

I'll admit that when I first moved to Denton ten years ago my decision was largely based on second-hand knowledge of the music scene here, most of what I had known at the time was the Dallas/Fort Worth scene, mostly the One-Ton Records acts such as Caulk & Doosu. Not to take anything away from those bands, but after being here for a couple of years a roommate took me to a Paperchase show - and it completely changed the way I looked at music. The sugary rock riffs of the Dallas scene at the time were fine, but I was raised in an area where the radio was all you have - I had never heard music as manic and deconstructed as Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know".

Over the years of seeing them live I've noticed moments of similarities with other bands, but musically there's just not much out there that would be on the same plane. I once told a friend they sometimes remind me of a live act of "The Wall" (the pulpit scene), only much angrier, precise, and demented.
I don't mean like dirty dread locks and crappy makeup demented, I mean the little clean cut guy in the cube next to you storing body parts in his mini-fridge for good luck. Like he suddenly jumped on top of his desk, waving his hands wildly, spewing half-sense and whole truths like they were daggers, making sure to aim them at every last person in the room.
There's a certain urgency in the music, like a frantic pen to paper missive, written in blood and partially running off the paper and written across the desk.
And unlike most bands I've seen in the past few years, every sentiment expressed in the lyrics are evident in his gestures and his face, from sarcastic to saccharine, from defeated to destroyer of worlds.

I could go a little deeper, but we'll just leave it at this:

Tonight (Friday April 11th)
Rubber Gloves (411 E. Sycamore, 9pm, $10_
the pAper chAse (also: fansite here w/music)
Faux Fox
Mount Righteous

1. Record Hop -- Record Hop

2. Warren Jackson Hearne -- Black Heart EP
Mom -- Little Brite

3. nellAnoRe -- DVD & Soundtrack
The Paperchase -- Young Bodies Heal Quickly

On a side note, the The Paperchase's website keeps defaulting to the Gutterth website for some reason. For those who don't know, Gutterth is a Denton-based promotion/record label group that's done a lot for local music, and they seem to be Paperchase's #1 fans.. so it makes sense, just wonder where the original website went...

In the courtyard of the St. Paul Lutheran Church & University Center. Not a venue I'm familiar with, but it's free, I'm told there will be burgers and beer (which also seems odd at a church, but like I said - I know nothing about the place) and the lineup is solid.

7pm: AM Ramblers
8pm: Doug Burr

Not a lot going on tonight that really grabs me, but I wouldn't mind checking out this show at Hailey's: ($12, 10 pm, 122 Mulberry)

So, they say it's not an April Fools' joke.