Artwork Courtesy of the Boy-Child

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Surely there’s at least ONE SHOW that looks good below. Do yourself a favor and get outta the house and go see one (or all) of our amazing bands/musicians/artists.

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Where you’ll find The Fine Line – Live Webcasting, of course… Perhaps not…car is in the shop and the mechanics are acting as though I can’t get her back until tomorrow…sigh…

The Melissas are throwin’ a shindig, and it’s going to be so dang fun that you’ll still be talking about it next year…

Friday, July 11th
SPACE
Mount Righteous / The Unbearables / Magicfly
Doors at 9 pm – $5.00 – BYOB
Live Webcast on The Fine Line

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Adair’s
Friday – Speedtrucker
Saturday – Speedtrucker

AllGood Cafe
Friday – Tommy Hale Band / Boys Named Sue
Saturday – porterdavis

Bar of Soap
Thursday – Name / Rise of Caligula / The Dajjal Persona
Friday – The Ray Gradys / Rats in the Attic
Saturday – Rob Chop’s European Tour Return Party

Club Dada
Thursday – The Frenz / The Flying Eyes / Sean Kirkpatrick
Friday – Forgotten Space / Escort Service / RTB2 / The Slack
Saturday – The Lashouts / Kansas City Faggots / The Dead City Shakers / The Advance

The Door
Saturday – Dance Gavin Dance / A Static Lullaby / Four Letter Lie / Secrets & Whisper / Lower Definition

Live at Mokah
Friday _ Katie Mariah / Leah Marr

The Prophet Bar
Thursday – The Pin Show – It’s very fashionable
Friday – mewithoutYou / Maps & Atlases / Gasoline Heart (in the Big Room) – The Atlantic Messenger / Delta / The Property of Steve / Leatherwood / Melodic Calamity (small room)
Saturday – The Orange / Wonderfool / Stavely / Aftertraces

Double Wide
Friday – Hellgoat / SuperHeavyGoatAss / Blood of the Sun
Saturday – Rose County Fair / 500 Miles to Memphis / Kasey Musgrave

Fallout Lounge
Thursday – Lost Generation w/Wanz Dover
Friday – The Fever w/DJ El Macho & DJ C MacPhie
Saturday – HOT FLASH w/DJ SCHWA, KILLTRONIX & GUESTS

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Thrift Store Cowboys – Photo by Becca Elliot

Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby….nice weekend at City Tavern. Most ’specially Friday night with my darling Thrift Store Cowboys and friends! Siiiiigh…these kids, along with The Lonelies, made me wanna jump in to this music thang, fully clothed and head-first…in fact, cuz I’m go’n be elsewhere on Friday night, I’m thinkin’ ’bout driving to Austin to see ‘em live tonight. Yeah. They’s that good.

City Tavern
Thursday – Jones
Friday – Austin Collins / Sleepy Horses / Thrift Store Cowboys
Saturday – Somebody’s Darling / Tim Miller / Band & Hymns

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Opening Bell
Thursday – Chris McGuire Band
Friday – Tim Miller / Demi Human / Jordan Martin
Saturday – Kristy Kruger / The Beaten Sea

Poor David’s
Friday – Patrice Pike / Ginger Leigh
Saturday – Brave Combo

Lee Harvey’s
Thursday – DJ Sista Whitenoise
Friday – DJ Chikki G / Shibboleth
Saturday – DJ Sista Whitenoise / Big Guns
Sunday – DJ EZ Eddie D

The Cavern
Thursday – The Dirty Sound / The White Walls / Sammy Strittmatter – ZOO: The Video DJ Upstairs
Friday – Viva L’American Death Ray Music / Golden Bear / It’s Unamerican to be Sad – DJ Red Eye Upstairs
Saturday – Blue Tortillas / DJ Wolf / Clint Brown – ZOO: The Video DJ Upstairs
Sunday – Ricki Derek Upstairs

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Lemme hip you kiddies to somethin’…if you ain’t done experienced a live Junior Brown show, then ain’t done experienced his greatness. Seriously, even if you ain’t much of a Country music lover, a Junior Brown show will change all that…add in Blacktop Gypsy and The King Bucks…well, just go.

Granada Theater
Thursday – Bob Log III / Scott H. Biram
Friday – Kill Hannah / The Medic Droid / Innerpartysystem / White Tie Affair – All Ages
Saturday – Junior Brown / Blacktop Gypsy / The King Bucks
Sunday – Bryce Isbell / The Drams / Macon Greyson (also highly recommended)

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Green Elephant
Thursday – C&W night with Brian Hughes and Friends

Barley House
Friday – American Werewolf Academy / The Cut*Off
Saturday – Calhoun / Smile Smile
Sunday – Calamity Magnet

White Rock Coffee
Thursday – Christopher Ames / Tim Miller
Friday – Bo Armstrong
Saturday – Michael Earhart

Obzeet
Friday – Drop-Top Rockets
Saturday – Pete Barbeck & the 7th Son

Hank’s
Friday – Back Porch Mary
Saturday – Gary Kyle

Andy’s
Saturday – Veloura / The Paper Moon / Joey Kendall

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Hell to the yeah! Pinebox Serenade offers-up another gem (I’m assuming, I haven’t heard all of it yet, but they’ve never, ever let me down to date). You simply must attend the CD Release Extravaganza for Pinebox Serenade’s, Let the River Take Them Home. You can take a sneak-hear over on their MySpace page.

Dan’s Silverleaf
Thursday – Band of Heathens
Friday – Allmost Brothers
Saturday – The Allmost Brothers / Pinebox Serenade
Monday – Paul Slavens

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Hailey’s
Friday – Ender / N2nth Cloud / Reflect and Fishr Together / Day Blues / Rehab / Poet
Saturday – The Demigs / Titanmoon / The Watermarks

Rubber Gloves
Thursday – Homegrown Theater w/Enemies
Friday – Broadcast Sea / Exit the King / Cleric / Pools
Saturday – Old Skool Skate Vids

8.0
Thursday – Maren Morris / Malt Country / JZ & Dirty Pool / Dylan Sneed

1919 Hemphill
Saturday – Romans / Royals / Syrens / My America is Watching Tigers Die / You Need New Glasses / Thief Thief

The Fairmount
Friday – Billy Joe Shaver / The Hawkes
Saturday – Back Porch Mary / Whiskey Jack

Fred’s
Thursday – Darrin Kobetich
Friday – Champa
Sunday – T-Richard & The Zydeco Stingrays

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Holy moley do we gots some good albums comin’ out this weekend. I’d gush ’til I puke over Dove Hunter’s first album, The Southern Unknown, but come on….you already know their brilliance, right?

Lola’s
Thursday – Black Tie Dynasty / The Cut*Off / Grassfight
Friday – Josh Weathers Band / Oso Closo / Alpha Rev
Saturday – Dove Hunter CD Release / Telegraph Canyon / Talking Tiger Mountain

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The Moon Bar
Friday – Roustabouts / Cody Spain / The Sideburns
Saturday – Petty Theft

Scat Lounge
Thursday – Johnny Reno
Friday – Ricki Derek & the Vegas Six
Saturday – Jay Clayton
Sunday – Trio Cubano

White Elephant
Thursday – Greg Schroeder
Friday – Owen Temple
Saturday – Don McRay – 2 pm – Rodney Hayden
Sunday – Don Burke / Rachel Stacy / Clubhouse Concerts w/Stephen Pointer / Austin Allsup

Woody’s Tavern
Friday – Zach Huckabee / 500 Miles to Memphis
Saturday – Kurt South / Larry Hooper

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In-Stores

Bill’s Records
Saturday
2:30pm – North Pole Bombers
3:15pm – Trainwreck
4:00pm – Tommy Alverson
4:45pm – Seth Walker
5:30pm – Texas History – Lee Powell – “A Tribute to Roy Rogers”
Free

Good Records
Saturday
Transona Five – 3 pm – Free
Dove Hunter – 4 pm – Free

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Radio…

Friday

89.3 KNON – Rocket Radio – “underground electronic and dark music from the North Texas area and around the world”
Midnight ’til 4 am

Saturday

KTCU 88.7 – Radio Sputnik
Tune in at noon!

89.3 KNON – The Dungeon – hard rock, punk, metal and lots from our local unsigned bands
Midnight ’til 4 am

Sunday

The Adventure Club with the always incomparable Josh Venable. Don’t miss it fool. 8-11 pm.

The Local Show on KDGE 102.1 The Edge our own Ayo – Tune in at 11 pm

The Front Porch on 99.5 The Wolf with the better ‘n buttah Justin Frazell – 6:00 PM

The Good Show on KTCU – 88.7 FM with my fave 3 2 stooges Tom U. Tony Diaz – starts at 9:00 PM.

90.1 at Night with my mentor Paul Slavens – 8-10 PM

Uncut with DJ Steve Nice – The absolute best in local Rap/Hip-hop/R&B 11 PM – K104 FM

89.3 KNON – Pagan Holiday- Open playlist, call in your requests! Lots of Indi and local rock.
Midnight ’til 4 am

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Artsy-Fartsy

Lost/Found: A Collection of Visual Fragments
Where: The Gallery at Reel FX Creative Studios
301 N. Crowdus
Dallas, Texas 75226
www.thegalleryatreelfx.com

Press Release:
~Gallery at Award Winning Reel FX Creative Studios Set to Unveil New July Exhibit,
Lost/Found, Featuring the Work of Danny DelPurgatorio and Limbert Fabian~

DALLAS, TX – June 17, 2008 – The Gallery at Reel FX Creative Studios proudly presents its latest offering, Lost/Found: A Collection of Visual Fragments, featuring the work of Dallas artists Danny DelPurgatorio and Limbert Fabian. The exhibit will open July 10, 2008 with a reception in honor of the work from 7:00-10:00 p.m. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Lost/Found will include illustrations, fine art pieces and interactive installations. All pieces, except for the installations, will be offered for sale during and after the event. The exhibit is scheduled to remain in place through August 31, 2008.
When: Thursday, July 10, 2008
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Friday, July 11th
HCG Gallery
2 Nights, 2 Openings, 2 Artists

This summer, HCG Gallery is proud to bring Dallas 2 Nights, 2 Artists, 2 Openings, featuring two established Texas artists: Michael Ledoux and Shane Pennington. Both artists’ pieces will hang simultaneously the duration of the exhibit, and we will celebrate each man’s work with two special, individual receptions!

Shane Pennington is a Dallas artist who works with many different types of media.

From large expressionistic acrylic on canvas paintings, to video projected onto paintings, to sculpture, to photography mixed with installation, Shane Pennington is a man of many talents.

Barry Whistler Gallery
June 13 – July 26
Robert Wilhite The Bomb – Kirsten Macy New Paintings

Lots more over at Glasstire.

I’m going to defer to my dear friend over at the Sub-Rosa for all your art-going needs. The chick knows her sh*t. Use her site often.

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