Fine Line: September, 2006

Carlin says:

I’m now booking into November & December (possibly January) for New Music Tuesday at Club Dada in Dallas.

Nov 7 – The Enemies List & Stag Film, need 1-2 acts
Nov 14 – BoySkout (San Francisco), Beauregard & Plexus Loom, could add 1 more act
Nov 21 – MrandMrsMays (Austin), need 2-3 acts
Nov 28 – Open, need 3-4 acts
Dec 5 – Open, need 3-4 acts
Dec 12 – Program & Tzar Bomba (Houston), need 1 or 2 more acts
Dec 19 – The Politics (Austin), need 2-3 acts
Dec 26 – “Christmas Hangover” night…check back for details, may need a few acts
Jan 16 – Brass Bed (Lafayette), need 2-3 acts

Please contact me, if you’re available & interested to play. I mainly book indie, garage, rock, experimental , alt-country & some acoustic. Pass the word to anyone touring through as well that needs a Tuesday show. Thanks!

x, Carlin w/Callithump, LLC

Our boys in The Hourly Radio made the “Hot List” cut in the latest edition of Rolling Stone. T’ain’t too shabby, eh!

The boys are touring the midwest and east coast at this writing, but will be back in DFW, performing at the Wreck Room in Fort Worth on November 10th. You prolly should mark your calendars so’s you don’t ferget.

First you go to the Gypsy Tea Room tonight for:
Ratatat / Panther / Envelopes
In the Tea Room
Doors at 8 PM – $10.00

Then you go to The Cavern for one wicked-awesome, kick-ass after party hosted by Chris Cantalini (Gorilla vs Bear) and Garrison Reid (IndieInterviews.com) along with The Black (includes members of Voxtrot / Knife in the Water / And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead) and more more more Ratatat!

It’s free with your Gypsy Tea Room ticket or $5.00 if’n you ain’t got one. Doors at 9 PM.

Also, don’t forget to tune in to Gorilla vs Bear on Sirius Satellite Radio tonight at 9 PM CST.

So…so…so…sick…

I logged on just long enough to see WSJR beat us to the punch with this divine little piece on the local DJ scene. We’ve got something in the works here too, complete with video, audio and interviews…that is after I stop coughing and hacking and sneezing and…blah…back to bed…

…Go read what WSJR says…

At work. Boss in town. Can’t blog. Go see WSJR or Wee Demon as I trust their show suggestions implicity…gotta run…

No, I ain’t at no Club Dada. No, I ain’t at no Cavern. No, I ain’t at no Tania open mic at Bend.

I just completed 3 loads of laundry and one load of dishes whilst my Tivo hung on to every second of the season premiere of The Office…teehee…wheeeeeeeee…I’m going to turn off this cracked-up laptop and go look-see…and don’t even bother wth comments on how the BBC version so so much more “intelligent and witty…” I’ll just delete ‘em…

Speaking of the splendid Pinebox Serenade, I just took note of a fantabulous show this Saturday, September 23rd Friday, September 22nd at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton. Dunno what time. Dunno how much. Perhaps one of the fine gents in Pinebox Serenade or Spitfire Tumbleweeds or 100 Damned Guns will hip us to the specifics. A show this good just might tempt me outta my cave…

UPDATE: Scott says they’ll start around 10ish Weeds/Guns/Pinebox in that order. Prolly 5-measly-bucks.

Meantime enjoy these tunes as much as I do…

“Streets of Righteousness” by Pinebox Serenade

“Put Me in the Ground” by 100 Damned Guns”

“Dead Skunk” by Spitfire Tumbleweeds

NOTE: Hipcast (holds our audio/video) has been screwy all day, so if the above tunes don’t work, just wait a few and try, try again.

DJ Tiger Bee will spin’it’good tonight at Counter Culture in Deep Ellum for the Ryan Thies exhibit, Cartoonism.

It’s like all free and stuff – 7-10 PM – All the cool kids will be there.

So I’ve got this day job, over on the side of town where 16-year olds drive BMW’s and neighborhoods are demolished in order to make room for a parking garage for said 16-year olds to park.

Many, many, many days, the polished, slim, well-dressed mommies will enter the day job doors with their “adorable” tykes in tow, only to let the little supercilious darlings roam the store freely as if it were a big cage of balls after a tasty Happy Meal.

One such afternoon, after helping a mommy measure a large mirror, I rounded the corner of the main desk only to find her little mop-top-turd banging on my laptop screen with a large heavy pig statue he had picked up in the store. Mommy said, “now Parker, be careful with the lady’s computer.” Be careful??? How’s about getcher grimy little mitts off the lady’s computer and since you cracked the screen, sitcherass down while I write this lady a check to cover the broken screen….yeah..right.

So I took my broked-baby over to CompUSA this morning and scared the crap outta the tech when I literally SCREAMED when he quoted me $960.00…NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS! The damn laptop didn’t even cost that much…sigh…dammit…

…Somebody quick, throw me a benefit concert and post haste, this crack has now become more crack less screen…dammit….

Crap. Don Walser passed away yesterday after years of health problems. In case you don’t know…

Country music is one of the most popular and commercially successful forms of music in the world. Ironically, it is this same commercial success and intense marketing spotlight on the contemporary that has obscured the music’s roots in the small towns and rural regions of the American heartland. Cowboy song, popularized on the silver screen in the 1930s and 1940s, and Texan country swing modeled after Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys were two essential ingredients in the evolution of country music.

For veteran Texas country musicians who preferred to “stay home” rather than to follow Nashville’s faddish lead, Texas country roots music is as alive and contemporary as it was in its commercial heyday.

Don Walser was born in 1934 in the small Texas Panhandle town of Brownfield and grew up in nearby Lamesa. His mother died when he was 11, and his father worked nights as a cotton mill superintendent. To fill the solitude of the daylight hours, he listened to the music of West Texas plains on the radio and watched the early cowboy crooners at the movie theater. He began to sing as a young boy, learning the songs, style, and yodeling skills of his musical models.

He joined the National Guard at 15 (claiming he was 17), married his wife Pat at 17, and raised a family of four children. Instead of leaving West Texas to pursue his musical career on the road or in Nashville, he stayed home to devote himself to his family, playing clubs, VFW halls, and honkytonks at night and on the weekends. After 45 years with the National Guard as a mechanic, a superintendent, and an auditor, he retired.

He was one helluva musician and a really great man. RIP my friend.

Lessee whaddup ’round town, shall we?

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NPR’s World Cafe featured my never-coming-back-across-the-pond darlings, Midlake yesterday. If’n ya missed it, you can still take a listen cuz dat der is da beauty of da Internet.

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Where the hell did Bobby Ewing go?

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I love Lindsay Graham. There. I said it. Sure there is some lust in the mix, but hey, I’m a dirty old woman. Although the rooms over dconstruction have been eerily quiet over the last few months, I still go there regularly in hopes that either Robert or Lindsay or both will toss me a bone.

Leave it to good ol’ J.R. to throw open the doors and lure Lindsay back into the blogosphere…

…Like it or not (and I often don’t), We Shot JR is the vibrant, throbbing, irreverent-yet-relevant source for discussion of local music. The tastes run, uh, eclectic and the discourse is often rancid, foul-mouthed, ego-fueled puffery. Reading the strings of comments is commonly painful, and I’ve more than once shut down my browser, mid-comment, in disgust. Despite the caustic tone, misguided derision and in general poor behavior of the commenters (or perhaps goaded on by them), the site itself – the authors of the posts – keeps up daily with a scene that is underrepresented, underappreciated and so fickle and mercurial that we lost pace back in February…

…heh…

What Lindsay is trying to say is, he luv J.R. Actually, so much so that he helped the WSJR boys(?) put together one helluva decent mix-CD that you can, not only download fer free, but they are making promises about free distribution at Good Records sometime soon.

You can Click here to download Projection and you can go here to check out the playlist and read some words by J.R.

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Cody over at The Fold promised us “something special” like 21 days ago…still waiting…

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Gorilla vs Bear is still gushing over the Ghostland Observatory performance at ACL.

You kids have a chance to check out Ghostland Observatory live in Dallas at Club Dada on October 7th…thankyekindly Ms. Carlin!

Saturday, October 7th
Club Dada
Tame…Tame & Quiet / Cartright / Ghostland Observatory
All Ages – 10 PM
PUrchase Tickets

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SaMach is getting ready to come back to the states…meantime, he’s blogging about the new state of the Dallas Observer music section.

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No wonder I haven’t heard from my Muffy in the last few days…the boy done up and gone on tour….and I had to hear it from Ken!

My beloved Matt Hembree took off with the Underground Railroad and is keeping us updated via his blog.

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The Wee One tossed-back a few and asked future Dallas Mayor Zac Crain for an interview. It’s here – read it.

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It’s gettin’ really Windy over at Ryan’s crib.

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Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene) is performing a Good Records in-store this eve at 6 PM. Tasty stuff I tells ya!

From there you can walk over to The Cavern for more Broken Social Scene along with…nnnnnyeeeelllooooo…freakin’ Rogue Wave!
Doors at 9 PM – $12.00 – 18+

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The Granada Theater added a nifty little listening thing-a-ma-jig on it’s website so’s you can listen to upcoming performers…which reminds me, this coming Sunday, September 24th, catch our own divine The Naptime Shake and Ian Moore.
Doors at 7 PM – $10-$14 – Full kitchen
Purchase tickets.

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The Eisley kids are getting ready to head back into the studio to record…pant…pant…pant…a new album. This time they are teaming up with the legendary film scoring producer Richard Gibbs at his Malibu studio.

Before they head west, Eisley is hosting a hometown show:

Friday, September 22nd
Brighten / LuvBeat
Brewtones
Tyler, Texas
$10.00 – Doors at 7:30 PM

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Secret Headquarters in Denton has a store. It shall remain open Thursdays and Fridays 5:30 PM until 10 PM – Saturdays noon until 10 PM.

Go there. Buy stuff.

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I’ve been a little disheartened about everything over the past couple of weeks, about both personal and professional things that have gone on. Plus, I really miss my Hime and my Muffy.

So I’m gonna take a breather from the “scene” until September 30th, at which time I’ll head north to Denton to record one of my favorite events of the year:

Spune’s Back to School Special-Bash-Jam-Blah-Blah-Blah
18+ / NO COVER 21+ / $5 under 21
Saturday, September 30 / Hailey’s (Denton)
12:40 – 2:00 After Show Dance Party Hosted by DJ G & The Flashlight Party
12:00 – 12:40 Black Tie Dynasty
11:00 – 11:40 Sorta
10:00 – 10:40 Deadman
9:00 – 9:40 Doug Burr
8:00 – 8:40 Comrade
7:00 – 7:40 The Paper South
6:00 – 6:40 Sabotuer
5:00 – 5:40 Blood on the Moors
4:00 – 4:40 Warren Jackson Hearne
3:00 – 3:40 Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang
2:00 – 2:40 Glen Farris

DJ G & The Flashlight Party Spin Between Sets & Host Dance Party After Show

Doors at 1pm – The First 50 People receive special treats.
*This show has something for everybody regardless what style of music you like. Come out early, grab a frosty, pace yourself and stay late! We’ll have Pizza at the show as well so you can eat, drink, sleep, watch bands, dance or catch up on some homework. Hell, bring your professors! This will be an all day P-A-R-T-Y! Plus, it’s FREE if you are over 21.

This is always a great event, and should cheer me right up.

Back to School Preview Podcast

Playlist:
Glen Farris – “Don’t Fail Me Now”
Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang – “Cluck Ol’ Hen”
Warren Jackson Hearne – “Ain’t You An Evil One”
Blood on the Moors – “Blood on the Moors”
Saboteur – “Bitchin’”
Doug Burr – “Should’ve Known”
Deadman – “Storms”
Sorta – “85 Feet and Falling”
Black Tie Dynasty – “Tender”

More Spune stuff below:

Spune at Central Market – Thursday Night Concert Series Continues

CHECK OUT THE FALL CALENDAR:
Sept 21 – Titan Moon / Dylan Sneed
Sept 28 – The Gourds / Red Monroe (what an odd, yet wondrous combination)
Oct 5 – Black Tie Dynasty
Oct 12 – The Valentines / Deadman / Olospo
Oct 19 – Eleven Hundred Springs / High School Caesar
Oct 26 – (TCU Homecoming Pre-Party) Radiant* / Auto Escape

Spune has teamed up with friends over at FW Weekly to produce a few shows at our favorite grocery store, Central Market. Now you can not only shop or sip on your favorite wine while you grab a snack, but also enjoy great music Every Thursday! Central Market is quickly becoming a destination stop for live music in Fort Worth. TCU has joined us to help spread the good word. Did we mention the shows are FREE?! Every Thursday from 6pm-9pm. Arrive early to claim your table on the patio for the night.

The Fort Worth Central Market is conveniently located at the corner of Interstate 30 and Hulen in the Chapel Hill Shopping Center. 4651 West Freeway, Fort Worth, TX

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- UPCOMING SPUNE EVENTS -

Saturday, Oct 28 @ Hailey’s – Spune’s Halloween Party
Line Up To Be Announced Soon

Saturday, Dec 9 @ Hailey’s – A Spune Christmas 2006
Line Up To Be Announced Soon

I had real life, non-music bidness to discuss with Jayson Bales this morning…you know he is a genius financial planner as well as a talented artist…anyhoo, he gave me a copy of his forthcoming album, Cruel & Unusual (Pampelmoose)…in fact, I got the very very very 1st copy…and lemme tell ya…this CD is something mighty special.

Jayson is offering up a nice little deal for youse guys…

Poor David’s Pub
1313 S. Lamar – Dallas,TX
Saturday Oct. 21st – w/special guests Household Names

ADVANCE TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW THRU FRONT GATE TICKETS

Why buy advanced tickets and not at the door for $10 less? – For your $20 advanced ticket (+tax/fees) you’ll get:

*A copy of the new CD first!

*An invitation to a VIP only pre-party next door to the club from 7-7:45pm to hang out with Jayson and the band and friends with free food and drinks catered in!

*Priority Seating and first entry into the club when doors open at 8pm.

Or, you can be a dummy and pay a $10 cover at the door(still a great deal) and buy a cd for $15 and get no free food, no free drinks, and not have your first choice of seating. Hmmm……$20 + free food/drinks/bar/priority seating vs. $25 and nothing else?

What are you waiting for? Log onto FrontGate.com right now and buy your tickets!

Cruel & Unusual was produced by Salim Nourallah at his Pleasantry Lane Studio, and features other local greats Chris Holt, Carter Albrecht, John Lefler, Sara Donaldson, Eric Willis and Salim throughout the album, and of course Jayson’s band, The Revival, made up of Trae Doss, Bruce Johnson, Greg Fontanillas. You’ll be hearing lots more about this great new album soon…but first, I gotta go listen again and again….

I started out my little journey into the bowels of the local music scene by booking for The Lonelies 6-years ago. Subsequently that led to booking for venues and other bands. Because I actually do get how this music thing works, I’ve become somewhat increasingly concerned that bands and artists these days are depending solely on MySpace, or even worse, websites that build a page for them with no hands-on control of said page. MySpace and local music sites are tools…they should be used in addition to an official band website…at least in my opinion.

So when my long-time friend and very supportive music scenester launched BandSiteLive.com, and at such an affordable price…well I have high hopes that you musicians will consider using this excellent and affordable service.

BandSiteLive.com officially launched its website creation and management service today which was established to help bands and other musical groups quickly and inexpensively establish their presence on the Web.

“As a website developer and a highly active member of the music community, I recognized that independent artists typically don’t have the budgets for a website with the necessary features to stay connected with their fans. So, we wanted to create an online tool that allowed any independent musician to get noticed, distribute their latest music, and stay connected in an increasingly competitive industry,” said Reagan Judd, Co-Founder of BandSiteLive.com.

For those musical groups who already have sites, transitioning to BandSiteLive.com can help them stay in better contact with their fans and leverage the latest online technologies to introduce their latest releases to the music community quickly and efficiently.

The service, which has an introductory 2-week free trial period, starts at $20/mo and comes with features that include:

~Pre-designed templates

~Email list management

~Email marketing engine

~Mp3 jukebox

~Photo gallery manager

~Message board

~Traffic stats and measurements

~Plus many other features to make managing a site quick and easy

“It’s a no-brainer,” said Trey Carmichael, member of the Dallas-based band Sorta. “The BandSiteLive.com features would have cost us thousands to build using an independent web developer. Instead, we were up and running in a day for just $20.”

About BandSiteLive.com

BandSiteLive.com, a web property owned by Dragonfly Solutions, LLC, was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX. BandSiteLive.com is a leading provider of affordable website solutions to bands and solo artists who are striving to take advantage of the growing importance of the Web in their ability to inform and stay connected with their fans.

For additional information, please contact Reagan Judd, BandSiteLive.com Co-Founder, at (469) 223-5746 or by email at reagan@bandsitelive.com. Additional information can be found online by visiting http://www.bandsitelive.com.

Just a few local (and beyond) bands utilizing this great service/product:
JJ & the Rogues
Sorta
Creede Williams
American Royal
Collin Herring
Travis Hopper
Airline
Clay Pendergrass
Jenn Nabb
Mission to the Sea

You get about 30-seconds (1 minute if you are lucky) to get bookers, promoters, radio producers, et all to pay attention to your band and/or your music. Why not add a great, easy to navigate, chock full of interesting features, inexpensive website to your promotional endeavors? I know I sound like a commercial, but I really believe in what Reagan and his partners have created and I’m plumb sick of MySpace working about 1/4 the time.

Check it out.

I love George Gimarc. While doing a show on TexasRadio1 I tried to get the man on for an interview. While doing my former blog I tried to get the guy to talk to me. No dice. And why should he? I’m just an old gal with a blog…as well as an annoyingly gushy giddy fan of the man since the late 70′s.

Mista “Fingers of Fury” hisownself has loads of great news about the resurfacing of Gimarc…

…If Gimarc needs a re-introduction at this late date, that is because for the last six years or so he has been sequestered away once more reinventing himself and, he hopes, reinventing radio in the process. Finally, after all that time and after having spent “tens of thousands of dollars,” he is prepared to debut his latest project–which, should it take off, could well be the biggest thing to hit the medium since the anything-goes Jack format, since satellite radio, since the proliferation of sports talk…since electricity itself. OK, not so much the latter. Still, it could be a very big deal. What is it? After the jump.

If you go here, you will find a Web site for something called “Radio SASS.” The SASS stands for “Short Attention Span System,” because no song in Gimarc’s new format will last longer than two minutes–no, not even “Stairway to Heaven.” Imagine your favorite song reduced to verse-chorus-verse-adios. No dickin’-around guitar solos. No wankin’-off drum solos. No nothing except the meat of the song, shorn of the gristle. In and out. Wham and bam.

There’s a longer explanation here, but as Gimarc tells it, he hit upon the idea in 2000 when he was driving with a friend, who kept switching stations in the middle of songs he actually liked. Gimarc asked his buddy why he was punching out: Did he hate the song? Was he tired of it? No, said the pal. He just wanted to find out what else was on…

Read Robert.

This is pretty interesting stuff my friends. Leave it to Gimarc to launch something new and fresh…just like the old days, eh?

…um….George…call me?

She’ll do just about anything for a good story. Fertheluvofgawd someone give the girl a raise…

Warner Music Group just released this info…

Warner Music has agreed to make its library of music videos available to YouTube, marking the first time that an established record company has agreed to distribute its content through the user-generated media company.

Under the agreement, YouTube users will have full access to videos from Warner artists like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Madonna. They will also be permitted incorporate material from those videos into the clips that they create and upload to YouTube. Warner and YouTube will share advertising revenue sold in connection with the video content….

Read it all.

Times are a’changin’ and some companies are going about joining the times the right way. Read the rest as it’s quite interesting.

[Found at Frontburner]

Tonight is your chance to, not only become a video star, but also to hang with the divine Doug Burr.

For you see children, Dougie is shootin’ a video tonight at Hailey’s in Denton and he wants you to be a part of it!

No Cover – Must be 21+ – Buck Beers and Wells – 8-10 PM

If’n you wanna make history, then drop Doug an email so’s he can add you to this exclusive list…and Doug says you can bring a pal or 2, but you gotta email him so they’ll know you are coming.

Save the Scene meets tonight, Monday, September 18th, at Club Twist located at 2826 Elm in Deep Ellum…oh man…I used to do a lotta hangin’ at the old 2826…sigh…Misty water-colored memories… 9 PM

Save the Scene is blend of Deep Ellum Residents, Business Owners, Employees, Musicians, Artists, and Friends of Deep Ellum that have come together to rejuvenate our neighborhood. As the neighborhood has begun to quiet down in relation to crime, Save the Scene has been developed in order to assist in reviving our great neighborhood. We are work closely with the Deep Ellum Residents Council, Deep Ellum Association and the City Council. We are always looking for new people to get involved! Our first meeting at the Darkside Lounge was host to over 30 people and received positive reviews from the Dallas Observer. The second meeting was host to over 50 people and we anticipate an even larger crowds as we progress. Our meetings are rotated each Monday in the Deep Ellum district to promote exposure to area businesses and explore what the area has to offer. The Save the Scene meetings are not a public forum for the problems that face Deep Ellum, or a place to rant about them. Save the Scene is a positive organization headed towards issues that we can tackle on our own through fund raising and volunteer efforts as well as event planning. We strive to provide organized meetings with a democratic voting platform on the agenda.

Every once in awhile I’ll go get curious and check our stats. Today there was 1 vistor from Uganda, which I’m assuming is our darling Sam Machkovech…cuz these photos showed up in my inbox shortly after…Elephants and Rhinos and Sam oh my!

SaMach, I know you and Beth are having a blast…but come home soon…