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Artwork Courtesy of the Boy-Child

I’m off down I-35 this weekend to haul the girl-child back to Austin and get her settled into her new digs. So no shows fer me, but plenty for you...

Double Wide
Thursday - The Jungle Rockers / Sawed Off Sick
Friday - The Heelers

Fallout Lounge
Thursday - Lost Generation w/Wanz Dover
Friday - The Fever w/DJ El Macho & DJ C MacPhie

City Tavern
Thursday - Taylor Davis
Friday - Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos / Mike Mathis Band / Band of Annuals

Opening Bell
Thursday - Derisory, I Am
Friday - Fate Lions / Elle / Annabella
Saturday - Fishing for Comets / Billygoat Brink (wish I could be at this show)

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Tim Miller - “Adelaide”

I can’t recall precisely how I first met Tim Miller, but I do know ’twas awhile back. Cuz one time I was doing a live audio stream at the Green Room for Kirtland Records, and like I ran into Tim there and I particularly remember that night cuz Cary Pierce was performing and he asked me to watch the door for him while he changed…heh.

Anyhoo, Tim’s got a spankin’ new album just out, Adelaide, and he’s gonna drop it like it’s hot this coming Saturday, May 31st at The Loft.

Joining Tim on stage that night, the amazing Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights and Electric Touch. Es muy bueno, like buttah.

Recorded onto tape, Tim Miller’s Adelaide is an example of emotionally- charged, mature songwriting. Produced by Chris Bell (Erykah Badu, Polyphonic Spree, Eagles) and mastered by Adam Ayan (Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Phish, Ani DiFranco), Adelaide features Tim Miller’s honest and soothing voice performing melodic folk rock songs in a style similar to singer/songwriters, James Blunt and Ari Hest. Out Of The Box (2004) established this Dallas based singer/songwriter as an artist with a raw, honest approach and since Miller’s music has been licensed by MTV’s My Super Sweet 16, Real World, Road Rules, and The Challenge, and Tom Green’s film Shred II.

Adelaide is a collection of meaningful, slow-medium folk rock songs. While listening to this album, you get the feeling that any of these songs could easily be in a soundtrack during the turning point of a film. Miller’s guitars and vocals blend together effortlessly while the organ and piano perfectly compliment the basic folk rock sound of the album. Instead of keeping with the usual acoustic guitar and piano set-up that most folk rock musicians use, Miller brings in an organ on some songs, which makes the album stand out and creates an overall fuller sound. “Say Hello” is one of the album’s faster-paced rock songs that showcase this full organ sound, in addition to a melodic bridge and break down of electric guitar and voice. “Let’s Go” and “Another Day in the Life” are two additional solid, medium-tempo rock songs that move the album along nicely with catchy rock guitars and strong vocals. The rest of the album is slower-paced, folk rock ballads, including “Whom Am I,” an emotional song with dreamy acoustic guitars, dramatic piano and introspective lyrics. “Man Overboard,” another slower-paced rock folk song, features one of the album’s most catchy guitar riffs. In “Let us End,” Miller sings colorful harmonies, creating a soulful feel that reveals the depth of his vocal abilities. “Four Leaf Clover” brings in the mandolin and steel guitar to give the listener a taste of country. “This Life” features both a catchy piano and keyboard that give the song an ambiance of driving through the country at sunset.

Adelaide is an album of listenable instrumentation and dynamic songwriting. Tim Miller is definitely here to stay and I wouldn’t be surprised if very soon we start hearing his songs in more mainstream outlets.

~Erik Bruno - Muzik Reviews

The Loft
Friday - Treasure Fingers / Kill the Noise
Saturday - Tim Miller CD Release / Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights / Electric Crush

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Poor David’s Pub
Friday - Randy MacAllister
Saturday - Brice Beaird / Mark Wayne Glasmire / Elizabeth Wills

Lee Harvey’s
Thursday - DJ MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Friday - DJ Sista Whitenoise / Oliver’s Army
Saturday - DJ Sista Whitenoise / Boys Named Sue
Sunday - DJ EZ Eddie D

House of Blues
Friday - Local Music Showcase w/Kristin Leigh / Meridain West / Calhoun / Odis
Saturday - Old 97’s / Hayes Carll

The Cavern
Thursday - Scarily Terrible / Peace Corpse / Falkens Maze / Farah
Friday - The Frontier Brothers / Orange Peel Sunshine / The Ramonalisas / Ian Axel
Saturday - The Hope Trust / Leo Rondeau / Heidi Leigh Spencer
Sunday - Ricki Derek

Zubar
Friday - The Party / Cultura Fina

Granada Theater
Thursday - Black Angels / Brothers & Sisters / True Widow
Friday - Cory Morrow / Rich O’toole / Mo Robson
Saturday - Eleven Hundred Springs / Big Smith / The King Bucks

Lakewood Bar & Grill
Friday - Catdaddies / Aranda / Brian Wright / Sally Jaye / Macon Greyson
Saturday - Dustin Morris & Greenstar Band / Mike & the Moonpies / Somebody’s Darling / Salute

Tipperary Inn
Friday - Bandmates

Green Elephant
Friday - Funk Dirtyy
Saturday - Dub Assembly

Hank’s
Thursday - Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Friday - Doug Moreland
Saturday - Mark David Manders

Obzeet
Thursday - Colin Boyd

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I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay…

Yup, it’s that time again. Lumberjack Fest IV will rock yo’ ass all day and into the night on Saturday, May 31, 2008. I’m quite p.o.’d that I ain’t gonna be in town…but don’t let that stop you’ns.

It’s goin’ down at Dan’s in Denton and starts ’round 2 pm. See below.

Proceed will go to the Denton Humane Society and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk!

Dan’s Silverleaf
Thursday - Tenacious ROot / DJ Craig-Mon / Texas Coalition to Abolith the Death Penalty Benefit w/Sara Hickman
Friday - Centro-matic / South San Gabriel
Saturday Lumberjack Fest IV w/The Make Believers / Mauve X / Deep Snapper / Low Dosage / Pinebox Serenade / A.M. Ramblers / PVC Street Gang / Gun Gun / The Heelers
Sunday - Free Music Sundays with Starhead / Dark Valley Harvesters / Fancy Fist
Monday - Paul Slavens

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Hailey’s - The Logic / Hallelucination / Febrifuge
Saturday - DJ G & the Gang

Rubber Gloves
Thursday - Vortexas / Mr. Dibbs / Rob Viktum
Friday - The Night Game Cult / Silk Stocking / White Bitch / Vioent Squid
Saturday - Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s / Matthew & the Arrogant Sea / Red Monroe

715 Panhandle
Friday - Marked Men / Teenage Cool Kids / Total Abuse / Back Sabbath

8.0
Thursday - The Burning Hotels / Chomsky / The Frontier Brothers / Titan Mon - 6:30 pm

The Aardvark
Thursday - Los Super Vatos / 281 South / The Dallahachie / Brothers / Terrible Secret of Space
Friday - Myers Brothers / Matt Cliff / Greg Schroeder / John Guns
Saturday - Asylum Street Spankers / Matt the Electrician

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The Chat Room is the place to be this weekend with a stellar line-up of many FineLineLiveLoved bands.

Now see here…

The Chat Room
Friday - Sarah Jaffe / Robert Gomez / The Heartstring Stragglers
Saturday - The Baptist Generals / Band of Annuals / Matthew & the Arrogant Sea

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The Fairmount
Thursday - Michael Fracasso / Mike Kelley
Friday - Josh Abbott Band / Charlie Shafter Band
Saturday - Dale Watson / Eric Hisaw
Sunday - James Nored / Dave Eaves

Fred’s
Thursday - Scott Copeland
Friday - Fatty Lumpkin
Saturday - Stephen Pointer Band
Sunday - Jenny Kerr

Lola’s
Thursday - Great American Novel / Pretty Baby / Browningham
Friday - Pablo & the Hemphill 7 / Darth Vato / The Me-Thinks / Uzi / Warchild
Saturday - Local H / Lions / Max Cady

The Moon Bar
Friday - Peach Truck Republic
Saturday - Whiskey Folk Ramblers

Scat Lounge
Thursday - Reverend Organ Drum
Friday - The Texas Gypsies
Saturday - Ricki Derek

White Elephant
Thursday - Ed Burleson
Friday - Kyle Hunt Band
Saturday - Kevin Deal
Sunday - Jordan Mycoskie / Kurt South / Houston Marchman

Woody’s Tavern
Friday - Micky & the Motorcars / Stephen Pointer
Saturday - Hazaard / Greg Schroeder

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In-Stores

Bill’s Records
Saturday - The Opium Symphony - 4 pm - free

Good Records
Saturday - Old 97’s - 1 pm - Local H - 3 pm

Strawberry Fields
Saturday - SeeyalaterWestOak Party

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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 Local Show on KDGE 102.1 The Edge with the always hot ‘n hunky Chris Ryan - Tune in at 9:00 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

The artwork and music are not of this world… or are they? Is the surreal nature of dreams and fantasy from another plane of existence, or are they here in plain sight? The artists and musicians participating in Existence Is Elsewhere all explore what may or may not be imagined.

Existance Is Elsewhere is a one night only event featuring raw local talent of artists Nick Bradford, Lets Kish, Jason Barnett, Kunst, Alison Welsh, Larry Carey, Janelle Tohill and Loren V. Era. Music by Yells At Ells and SUBkommander.

Musical performances to begin around 9pm.

Avenue Arts
Saturday, May 31
8 pm

CADD Art Fair May 30 – June 1
333 First Avenue :: Dallas, TX 75227 :: 214.826.0467

threethreethreefirstavenue.com

FAIR HOURS AND ADMISSION INFORMATION

>>PURCHASE TICKETS HERE<<

Friday.05.30.08
7:00-10:00 pm :: Preview Party $45 in advance :: $60 at the door
9:45-11:00 pm :: Austin band, Shapes Have Fangs performing in the pavillion

Saturday.05.31.08
12:00-8:00 pm :: General Admission $10 (good for SAT & SUN)
2:00-3:00 pm :: Keynote Speaker, booksigning featuring
Paige West, author of The Art of Buying Art and founder of Mixed Greens, NY

Sunday.06.01.08
12:00-5:00 pm :: General Admission $10 (good for SAT & SUN)
2:00-3:00 pm :: New Media Panel featuring
Lauren Cornell (Rhizome, The New Museum), Paul Slocum (director And/Or Gallery, artist), Kevin Bewersdorf (artist, filmmaker, musician), Todd Simmons (Austin Museum of Digital Art), moderated by Noah Simblist (SMU)

3:30-4:30 pm :: Care and Conservation Panel featuring
John T. Campbell (The Nasher Sculpture Center), Lyzanne Gann (conservator of photographs), Shannon Phillips and Tish Brewer (The Center for Art Conservation), moderated by Cheryl Vogel (Valley House Gallery)

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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I was most pleased to plop my arse on the sofa, after the Re*Cov*Er shindig on Saturday night, only to find precious Taylor Davis just a’croonin’ away on the Gordon Keith Show.

Check it above. Very nice.

I got to be a fly on the wall for Leah Shafer’s Girl Talk (exclusively on QuickDFW.com) a couple weeks back. ‘Twas pretty, pretty, pretty fun. Tania Rivas hung-out too, for this great’n'fun interview with Laura Carnes and we did the whole video over at Sonic Dropper Studio, under the guidance of studio owner Jim King.

Click here and get a glimpse inside the minds of some hot Dallas gals….

Mememeber last night when the Happy Bullets started playin’ this song, and like I was all like, “omigawd Hunter, I LOVE the Happy Bullets” and you were like all, “yeah, so you’ve said like a billions times,” and I was all like, “I love this song, have you seen the video for this song????”….and you were like all, “no, not yet”…and now I’m all like….here ‘t’is……

TOOOOOTALLY unedited…. Man I had a blast last night…hic…

I think I’ve managed to talk the boy-child into doing a weekly thang here on The Fine Line. For you see, not only is this kid a musician, he’s also an avid concert goer…well, all-ages concert goer.

He’s been ramblin’ on and on about the big weekend at Fat Daddy’s, yes it’s that time again, FATTYFEST! Woohooo!!! Dude.

I used to cover a wider range of genres, including those metal, hardcore, screamo genres…but let’s face it, I’m too old and far too lame to even try to be a poser. Therefore, the boy has agreed to offer-up his concert picks for all-ages (and/or the genres listed above), since that’s his thang.

We discussed this after bedtime last eve, so I’m sorta on my own this week since he’s off to Lewisville the moment the last school bell tolls, so I’ll just leave it at this, click here if you wanna screamo your hardcore, moshy metal head off.

I can’t believe how many of these FattyFests I’ve attended over the years…oy. Sometimes it’s just nice to sit back and wallow in your old-aged-lameness…

Artwork Courtesy of the Boy-Child

Thursday

Tonight
The Prophet Bar - Deep Ellum Association Mixer

City Tavern - Taylor Davis
Opening Bell - Ronnie Fauss / Evan & Jim / Chad Stockslager / Jesse Robertson
Poor David’s - The Muses
The Palladium - Jaheim
Granada Theater - Scott McCurry / Graham Wilkinson / Paul Renna / Catfish Whiskey
Rubber Gloves - Mark Sultan / The Lash Outs / Bad
8.0 - White Ghost Shivers / 100 Damned Guns
Fred’s - Darrin Kobetich
Lola’s - Lymbyc Systym / Top Secret…Shhh / Florene
The Fairmount - Hayes Carll / Corb Lund
Scat Lounge - Johnny Reno

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Friday

The news that Strawberry Fields lost their old location seems to be getting better and better each day. Like this friggin’ kick-ass weekend wahoo…

Friday, May 23rd
Rubber Gloves
Strawberry Fields Presents: Denton Deluxe 1
Nouns Group / Fight Bite / J. Gray / Florene / Verulf / Violent Squid / Peach Street Gang / RTB2
Doors at 9 pm / $5.00
Check out Saturday’s line-up below…

House of Blues is my li’l dreamtown this weekend with the brilliant Alejandro Escovedo and our own Collin Herring sharing a stage…

“Stardom isn’t Escovedo’s goal. At this point in his creative and personal life, it’s not even a factor in his music making equation. But throughout his lauded 14-year solo career, Escovedo’s artistic aspirations have always aimed as high as the stars. And all along, his work has inspired the sort of rapturous critical praise that is unequalled for a contemporary artist who hasn’t (yet) achieved widespread cultural impact and fame. He has consistently earned a virtual music press thesaurus of acclamation and enjoys an ever-expanding audience as devoted as any in rock’n’roll, thanks to the stunning breadth of his musical vision, depth of his emotional expression, and the sheer quality and musicality of his work. Or in short, the artistry of Alejandro Escovedo is as good as contemporary music gets.”

Adair’s - Tejas Brothers
Double Wide - Crash Vinyl / Goodwin / Darlington
Fallout Lounge - The Fever
Liquid Lounge - Bavu Blakes with the Extra Plairs & D-Madness / Verbal Seed / Element 7D / Pikahsso
City Tavern - Arthur Yoria / Clay & Electronic Cowboys / Romp Almighty
Opening Bell - The Fluid Oz’s / Matt & Dan
Poor David’s - Russell Howard / Blacktop Gypsy
The Cavern - Titanmoon / The Party
Granada Theater - Guy Forsyth / Lonesome Spurs
Barley House - The Slack
Prophet Bar - Here, In Arms / Ella Minnow / April Geesbreght / Blake Bollinger / The Atlantic Messenger
Hailey’s - Aton / Josh Weathers Band
Lola’s - Prophets of Rage / House of Harkonnen / Hello Lover
The Fairmount - The Gougers / Kurt South / Greg Schroeder
The Moon Bar - High School Assembly / The Red Herrings
Scat Lounge - Quamon Fowler Quintet
Woody’s - Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights / Grant Ewing

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Saturday

On May 24th, from 7-10pm, an awards ceremony shall commence at The Prophet Bar, to announce this year’s winners of Re*Cov*er. First place will receive $1000, second place $500, and $250 for third. The Happy Bullets and Baby Ruthless will perform and prepare for a champagne toast. This evening will be free to the public.

Finalists:
* Tyson Summers/”The Cave”/3003 Commerce St.

* Sergio Garcia, Luke Harnden, Mark Nelson/”Untitled”/2631 Commerce St.

* Matthew Orwig & Jo Skillz/”Where Dreams Come True”/2612 Commerce St.

* John Gonzales/”Blind By Love/2513 Main St (frontside of The Door facing Good Latimer)

* Brian Crawford/Deep Ellum Koi”/2513 Main St (backside of The Door facing downtown)

Special thanks to Roy Ivy, Paul Slavens, Mike Graff, and Club Dada for making Friday’s event possible, and also to our sponsors: The Deep Ellum Association, The Deep Ellum Foundation, TW Design, and Eclipse Freight Systems.

Denton Deluxe II
Presented by Strawberry Fields
Rubber Gloves
Kaboom! / Street Hassle / Deep Snapper / Eat Avery’s Bones / Delphi / Zanzibar Snails / The International
Doors at 9 pm / $5.00

City Tavern
C.B.G.B. Benefit
Sponsored by - Made Loud and Yes Go Productions
Proceeds to benefit Cystic Fibrosis & Autism Research

Lineup:
3 pm Allstars (kid rock band from Zound Sound School of Music)
4 pm Children of the Grave (kid rock band from Zound Sound School of Music)
5 pm Deliver us from Moscow (kid rock band from Zound Sound School of Music)
6 pm Dustin Morris Greenstar Band
7 pm The Moncho Ponchos
8 pm The Felons
9 pm Millicent Friendly
10 pm Mic the Tiger
11 pm Escort Service
12 pm The Dirt Blazers

Double Wide - The Felons / Salute / The Far Star
Opening Bell - Blake & Fallon / David Byboth
Poor David’s Pub - Trueheart Texas / Hannah McLendon
The Cavern - Cosmic Cocks / Magic Fly
Granada Theater - Black Tie Dynasty / The Burning Hotels / The Demigs
Love & War (Plano) - Brian Burns
Love & War (Grapevine) - Randy Hopper
Hailey’s - Ladyhawk / Neva Dinova / Thrift Store Cowboys
Flying Saucer - Pablo & the Hemphill 7
Fred’s - The Dewayn Bros.
Lola’s - Johnny Hootrock / Spector 45 / Rockabetty Burlesque Revue
The Chat Room - Nouns group / The Angelus / Farah
The Fairmount - porterdavis / Lisa Hayes
The Moon Bar - The Illiads / Fate Lions / Nasty Rumors
Scat Jazz Lounge - Red Young / Silvie Rider
Woody’s - Bart Crow Band / Zach Huckabee / 500 Miles to Memphis

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Sunday

House of Blues - Boys Named Sue
The Cavern - Ricki Derek
Love & War (Plano) - Eleven Hundred Springs
Dan’s Silverleaf - Free Music Sundays w/Enemies / Violent Squid / The Mad Scientists
Hailey’s - E.C. Selector / No2self / It’s What We Get / Yeahdef - $1.00 Donation goes to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
White Elephant - Clubhouse Concerts Presents: Mike Graham / Matt Martindale

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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 Local Show on KDGE 102.1 The Edge with the always hot ‘n hunky Chris Ryan - Tune in at 9:00 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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More Artsy-Fartsy

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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I love Fort Worth. Really. I do. Some of my favorite folks live, work, play and perform there, and ’sides, they’s just good people in Fort Worth.

I also like the FW Weekly. Well, sort of. Unless I make the trek to the Fort, I can’t get me grubby paws on a hard copy. That’s really too bad, cuz their website sucks to high Heaven. Not only is it a tad confusing, but they are still running Mariani’s “Hearsay” column without paragraph breaks (oooooh, and the forever question marks). It’s so highly annoying, and gone on so long, that I rarely even take a look-see.

Another highly annoying thing (no, I’m not through bitching just yet) is when every year, the FW Weekly Music Awards nominees are announced…they are via the hard copy only. If you hit the site and click on the Music Awards Ballot side-banner (you might have to refresh several times before you find it), it goes to a…sigh…MySpace page. Still, no nominees listed.

I want to love the FW Weekly again, really, I do. But they make it so darn hard when I can’t even navigate (much less read) the darn site. Oh, and now with the pop-up ads…oy.

Okay, nuff bitchin’.

Here’s what I do know, and a little speculation…

1. The ballot is in this week’s issue on page 18.

2. The Music Showcase is on June 22nd, 2008.

3. Here’s the link to the MySpace page.

4. Mariani aka Hearsay says that the ballot will be up on the site at some point.

5. Mariani, Darling Anthony, still takes great pleasure in taking Dallas potshots…heh…that kid never fails to crack me up…

The only thing different this year is the addition of a new category, DJ, an uber-niche genre about which most of us, I bet, know next to nothing, probably because we live in backwater Fort Worth and not upscale Dallas. Nevertheless, I got enough e-mails over the past year to warrant including our turntablist friends…

6. Five Venues for this year’s event, including 8.0, Bent Lounge, The Flying Saucer, Paddy Red’s, Scat Lounge.

7. I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that the performers confirmed, are also nominees: Black Tie Dynasty, The Burning Hotels, Calhoun, the Cut*Off, Darth Vato, Collin Herring, April Geespreght, Goodwin (who, I’ve been told by a very reliable source, got several nominations), Jefferson Colby, Lifters, Merkin, Pable & Hemphill 7, Stephen Pointer, Pretty Baby, Rivercrest Yacht Club, Stumptone, Tame, Tame & Quiet, Telegraph Canyon, Titanmoon, Whisky Folk Ramblers….and “more.”

I’ll letcha know if anymore info. comes across my desk…meantime make like me and plan to attend.

Thanks to me Muffy, I have the 411…

VOTE!

ROCK
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Black Tie Dynasty
The Burning Hotels
Calhoun
The Cut*Off
Lifters
Tame… Tame and Quiet

HARD ROCK
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Exit 380
Incendiary
Jefferson Colby
The Me-Thinks
Sky Eats Airplane
Spoonfed Tribe
Stella Rose

HEAVY METAL
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Addnerim
Blood of the Sun
Brickfight
The Great Tyrant
Legends of the South
Merkin
One-Fingered Fist
Urizen
Within Chaos

NEW ARTIST
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The Black Bonnets
Frontier Brothers
Panther City Bandits
Pretty Baby
Proud Warrior
Rivercrest Yacht Club
Telegraph Canyon
Whiskey Folk Ramblers

DJ/BEATSMITH
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Buddah
FNKY1
Riot
Sexy9
Soul
Wildhair

LIVE BAND
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The Campaign
Darth Vato
High School Assembly
Holy Moly
The Illiads
Pablo and the Hemphill 7
Sally Majestic
Villain Vanguard

AVANT-GARDE/EXPERIMENTAL
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Alan
Best Fwends
The Bible Fire
Eaton Lke Tonics
Ghoultown
PFFFFT!
Sleeplab
Top Secret .. shhhh
Underground Railroad

ALT-COUNTRY
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Blackland River Devils
Dove Hunter
Collin Herring
Clint Niosi
Panther City Bandits
Telegraph Canyon
The Theater Fire
Whiskey Folk Ramblers

TEXAS MUSIC
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Brad Hines
Joey Green Band
Jordan Mycoskie & the Fire-Breathing Fish
Josh Weathers Band
Kyle Bennett Band
Maren Morris
Magee Payne
Stephen Pointer
Standard Transmission

C&W
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100 Damned Guns
Tommy Alverson
Cadillac Sky
Lost Country
Ginny Mac
Phil Pritchett
Kurt South
Quebe Sisters

ACOUSTIC/FOLK
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Blackland River Devils
Bosque Brown
Daniel Katsuk
PrinceRodriguez
James Michael Taylor
Russ Walton

JAZZ/WORLD
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Amistad
Daymond Callahan
Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra w/Adonis Rose
Jazz Monsters
Jhon Kahsen
Lazzo
Rachella Parks

BLUES/FUNK
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Dirty & Earthy Vibes
James Hinkle
Josh Weathers Band
The Red Herrings
Holland K. Smith
Drue Webber
John Zaskoda

R&B/RAP
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6TWO
8-11 & Ph.D
Immortal Soldierz
PPT
Rivercrest Yacht Club
Smooth Vega
Versatile
Keite Young

VOCALIST (FEMALE)
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April Geesbreght
Maren Morris
Elizabeth Wills
Beth Wood
Zayara (Pretty Baby)

VOCALIST (MALE)
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Daniel Katsuk (Katsuk)
Matt Mooty (The Burning Hotels)
Cory Watson (Black Tie Dynasty)
Carey Wolff
Keite Young

SONGWRITER
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Tyler Casey, Nathan Scneiderwent (Titanmoon)
April Geesbreght
Collin Herring
Daniel Katsuk
Tim Locke
Keite Young

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
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“All The Good News” - Telegraph Canyon
“Big Fire” - April Geesbreght
“Denglish” - PPT
“Last of the Great Mississippi Bluesmen - Live in Dallas” - The Blue Shoe Project
“Out in the Wind” - Katsuk
“Past Life Crashing” - Collin Herring
“Rivercrest Yache Club” - Rivercrest Yacht Club
“Texas” - Playradioplay!
“Vinyl Destination” - Joey Green Band
“When the Music Starts” - Mount Righteous

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
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“Calhoun” - Calhoun
“2″ - Goodwin
“Gravity Sunnenly Released” - Stumptone
“Film Black” - Titanmoon
“My Cosmic Self” - Jefferson Colby
“Packaged Up For Beginners” - The Cut*Off
“Public Service Announcement” - Spoonfed Tribe

SONG OF THE YEAR
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“Alibi” - Lifters
“Elephants a Big as Whales” - Playradioplay!
“JennyO” - Josh Weathers Band
“My Mistake” - April Geesbreght
“Punches” - Collin Herring
“To Me Mum” - PPT
“Violent Man” - Pretty Baby

ROCK SONG OF THE YEAR
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“Big House” - The Cut*Off
“Breathe” - Calhoun
“Grace” - Goodwin
“Gravity Suddenly Released” - Stumptone
“Morocco” - Titanmoon

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
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Calhoun
Green River Ordinance
Goodwin
Katsuk
Playradioplay!
Stumptone

COVER/TRIBUTE BAND
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Child O’Mine
Poo Live Crew
Prophets of Rage
Stoogeaphilia
Velvet Love Box

MVP
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Lee Allen
Andre Edmondson
Matt Hembree
Dave Karnes
Marcus Lawyer
Adonis Rose
Bart Rose

VENUE
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8.0 Bar and Cafe
Aardvark
Arts Fifth Avenue
Lola’s Saloon
The Moon
Ridglea Theater
Scat Jazz Lounge
The White Elephant

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
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John Nitzinger
Buddy Whittington
Red Young

Tonight we’ll go live at the Hal Samples Gallery for a very special, very personal tour and story behind Hal’s current installation, “The City of God.”

Live Video Streaming Begins here at 6:30 pm CST.

The event will be a casual evening where you will have the opportunity to hear the story of the installation straight from the artist, Hal Samples. For the first hour of the open house, Hal will lead you through the installation, relating personal anecdotes and stories about the work and his time in Brazil. We will be viewing some video footage, and Hal will end with a brief lecture explaining his mission work in Brazil and his plans for the future. The last hour will be a forum setting where you will have the opportunity to ask Hal any questions you may have about the installation, Brazil, or Hal’s continued work in South America.

Please come and join us for an intimate evening of art, wine, and conversation. We look forward to sharing with you the importance of this work.

Hal Samples Gallery
2814 Main Street
Suite 101
Dallas, TX, 75226
214-334-4481

Rich just announced that Justin Foster just announced that he’s joining the Pugs & Kelly Show. Pretty nifty. He’s been sort of regularly on the show as of late, plus with both Pugs and Kelly gettin’ hitched, they just might need an extra voice.

When they gonna scoop up Dave Little already?

Jeff Liles is the friggin’ gem of this city’s music scene. SOMEONE needs to hire this man to write, DJ, manage a venue, something. If we lose him to LaLaLand again, it’s going to be a huge loss…again.

During the ’80s the building at 2709 Elm Street sat empty.

Huge glass windows in the front allowed anyone to see the ascending staircase that went straight up the middle of the room to the balcony and second tier. The owner always left the light on, and the small glimpse made me wonder about the history of the room–surely it was an elegant ballroom or dance hall during the Depression.

For those of us who promoted concerts and ran nightclubs during the late ’80s, the room seemed too good to be true–probably too expensive to run and turn a profit. Too beautiful to even think about.

When a public relations whiz kid named Jessica Clarke woke me up early one morning in the spring of 1990 and asked if I would meet her for breakfast, I could hear the urgency in her voice.

Over grits and toast at East Dallas’ Goldrush Café, she informed me that a 22-year-old kid named Brian Davis, youngest son of notorious Fort Worth millionaire Cullen Davis Jr., had just leased the Elm Street building. Brian’s father was once accused of murdering the lover of his estranged second wife but was later absolved after a lengthy and controversial trial. Cullen Davis was our OJ Simpson, our Robert Blake, and now his son, flush with daddy’s cash, was stumbling into business in Deep Ellum.

Davis had just moved back from Louisiana and had no experience as a business owner, yet he had tentative plans to open a Cajun-themed restaurant. He’d hired Clarke to handle the publicity for his new venture, but she enlisted me to convince him to use the space as a music venue instead.

Apparently, I pulled it off, because he promptly hired me to book the venue and serve as DJ. We quickly assembled a skeletal staff of close friends, including Davis’ college roommate David Webb, bartender Geoff Lane, manager “Big Steve” Shein, door girl Malina Pearson and an inexperienced sound engineer named Russell Turns (the only one of our group who endured the entire life of the club).

Trees (named for the support beams that looked like tree trunks) was, if you’ll pardon the expression, a more organic enterprise during the early years. The interior was made of bricks and plywood, and the walls were decorated with autographed drum heads. A roll-up metal door directly behind the stage was often left open during concerts.

A raging thunderstorm on Elm Street provided an unforgettable backdrop to a memorable solo acoustic performance by former Husker Du front man Bob Mould. Dozens of kids stood outside on the sidewalk and watched from backstage as Radiohead performed “Creep” in Dallas for the first time. Passersby could see nimbus clouds of secondhand smoke billowing from the club during sets by De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

Because of this open-door design, anything that happened at Trees set the tone for the neighborhood on a given night.

The timing for a new 900-capacity venue couldn’t have been better. Grunge was poised to take over mainstream rock radio, gangsta hip-hop was filtering into middle America and the local music scene in Dallas was in full swing. The Buck Pets, Toadies, Course of Empire, New Bohemians, Rigor Mortis, Funland, Tripping Daisy, MC 900 Ft Jesus and Rev. Horton Heat had signed record deals with major labels, and Trees quickly became their hometown venue of choice.

Jessica and I nurtured an ongoing working relationship with concert promoters Mark Lee and Danny Eaton (former partners of 462 Productions), which meant artists like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, PJ Harvey, Elliott Smith, Afghan Whigs, Guided By Voices and Marilyn Manson all made their Dallas debut performances as “baby bands” at the club.

Trees had its share of trouble, of course.

Mazzy Star unplugged their instruments and abruptly walked offstage four songs into their set after someone tossed a beer bottle at singer Hope Sandoval. Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli almost got his ass kicked for propositioning a woman from the stage while she was standing next to her boyfriend. Cop Shoot Cop bassist Tod A left his gear behind and ran off the stage through the side door in a delirious, dope-sick effort to get a fix.

And who could forget the year anniversary of the death of Loco Gringos’ frontman Pepe Lopez?

Rev. Horton Heat hosted a “séance” which turned into a drunken open-mike confessional featuring “Dookie” (the late, smack-addicted, cross-dressing saxophonist from ’80s Ellum favorites Daylights) and a twisted testimonial from born-again club owner Russell Hobbs.

Things turned surreal as Hank Tolliver from Bar of Soap seized the microphone and drunkenly recited the lyrics to the Gringos’ “Nurture My Pig” while Turns ran his voice through an octave divider and frequency pitch generator. It sounded like Darth Vader channeling The Chipmunks inside Carlsbad Cavern. Chairs and empty beer bottles were thrown, bewildered audience members screamed at the stage and each other, and somewhere, Pepe kicked back with a can of Schaffer’s and smiled down on it all.

Still, none of those ever matched the show on October 19, 1991.

We were offered Nirvana in August of that year. The group was still relatively unknown at the time, but they had established a cult following in the Northwest, and Geffen Records was really excited. Their booking agent was asking for $3,500, which was a lot of money for a new club to be shelling out for talent–we’d have to sell 450 tickets just to break even–so I told Mark Lee I’d get back to him.

That afternoon I called promoters around the country and asked what they had been offered. The buzz was apparently on; in most cases, the amount was between $5,000 and $10,000, so we in Dallas, a smaller market for concerts at the time, were getting a bargain. When I called back a few hours later, Nirvana’s agent already wanted more money, but we worked out a damn good deal.

Two weeks after signing the paperwork, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” blew up everywhere. The agents wanted to move the gig to a larger venue, but I told them it was too late–I had booking exclusivity with Trees, and we had already sent out publicity material to the local press. But most importantly, I was adamant because we needed the show–this would be our first chance at real credibility.

And we got it: There were as many people outside of the club as there were stuffed inside. When the band arrived for sound check that afternoon, Monte, their mullet-headed road manager, went ballistic because there wasn’t a barricade in front of the stage. It was too late to build or rent one, so we put security guards on the stage.

Dave Grohl and Krist Novaselic were really nice, cooperative guys. Novaselic seemed a little tired, but Grohl was on fire, just hilarious. Meanwhile, Kurt Cobain had drunk an entire bottle of cough medicine and was basically being led around by the nose by the local Geffen promo person. He was barely able to walk around or even stand up.

When Trees opened that night, a huge push of people bum-rushed the front door. This sent Monte the Mullet into another panic attack. The line of people stretched all the way down to Good-Latimer Expressway. Cars on Elm Street were honking their horns and blasting Nevermind.

By the time Nirvana took the stage, almost 1,000 people (including the guest list) were packed into our club. The smoke was dense, and it was hotter than hell itself. Five biker-looking bouncers were positioned in front of the band, so you could barely even see Nirvana. Still, lunatic kids managed to climb onstage and jump into the raging mosh pit. There was no controlling this crowd at all.

During the third song, Cobain threw a temper tantrum–he took his guitar off and slammed it into the monitor console at stage right. Kurt had destroyed the console and left the band without a monitor mix onstage, so they couldn’t hear a thing. Creighton Curlee, the monitor engineer and owner of the console, stood there with a look of shock. He had never really heard of Nirvana until that night.

At this point, the security guys had become more sympathetic to Curlee than the band. One of those guys, a tattooed behemoth named Turner Scott Van Blarcum, turned around and looked at Kurt just as he waved his arms and implored the audience to jump onstage. He gave Kurt the finger and yelled, “Fuck you, dude.” The band started playing the next song, and Kurt used Van Blarcum’s back as a diving board to leap into the mosh pit.

As the crowd pulled Kurt in every direction, he motioned to Van Blarcum to help pull him back onstage. Turner was having none of it and pushed Kurt back further into the crowd. Cobain swung his guitar around and slammed it into the side of Turner’s head.

Blood flew everywhere, and the audience finally pushed Kurt back onto the stage. He fell to his knees and struggled to get back up. As he rose, Van Blarcum slugged him in the side of his head, knocking Kurt about 10 feet across the stage. Grohl jumped straight over the front of his drum kit, and Novaselic tried to tackle the guard. There were bodies strewn everywhere, beer bottles flying towards the stage and total mayhem in the audience.

After a few minutes, an off-duty police officer escorted Van Blarcum outside. Novaselic climbed off the stage and went out front to look for the security guard to make sure he was OK. Grohl wandered off toward the back of the club. Cobain stood by himself onstage for five minutes making a screeching and horrible noise with his guitar, seemingly waiting for his pissed-off band members to come back and finish the show.

Finally, he heaved his guitar into the drum set. This was not good. A four-song set is not a full concert, and five more minutes went by before I realized that unless I got the guys playing again, I would have 1,000 very pissed-off audience members. They started chanting: “BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!” I scrambled downstairs and found the shirtless Grohl leaning on the pinball machine. I begged him to get back onstage. He said, “No problem. Find the other guys. I’ll be right there.”

A couple of minutes later I saw Novaselic come back through the front door, his body covered in Van Blarcum’s blood. He told me to call an ambulance. I begged him to get back onstage and that I would make sure we would take care of our employee. Krist was pissed at Kurt, but he was willing to finish the show anyway.

Now where the fuck was Cobain?

I looked everywhere, wading through the hundreds of arms and legs and bodies sprawled all over the place, and finally found him in a closet upstairs in the very back of the club. He was in there with this long-haired creep who was trying to give him smack. Kurt was trying to hand-roll a cigarette, but he could barely move. I took it out of his hands, rolled it in about three seconds, then put it in his mouth and said, “You come with me.”

I dragged Cobain through the crowd and pushed him back onstage. The three band members stood there looking at each other for more than five minutes. Nobody wanted to start playing. I made it back up to the DJ booth, where Robert Wilonsky from the Dallas Observer was waiting for me. “Man, what are you gonna do?” The crowd was getting anxious. It was almost as if the band had brought them there to take their money and insult them to their faces.

We both spied my CD copy of Nevermind. Wilonsky was thinking the same thing that I was thinking–whatever it takes to get this train back on track.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” came blazing out of the PA at full volume. The crowd went bozo–throwing bottles and chairs, people diving on top of each other, all kinds of crazy shit. Monte the Mullet came running into the DJ booth.

“WRONG SONG, ASSHOLE. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?!”

I looked him and said, “I think the question is, what the fuck are you doing? That guy has already destroyed a monitor console, attacked one of our employees and now they’re just going to stand there and make fun of the audience? MAKE THEM FINISH THE SHOW, MOTHERFUCKER.”

He ran back down the stairs, climbed onstage and begged the band to start playing again. Somehow, they got it together. The rest of the show was great, and the audience stumbled out of the building feeling like they had witnessed a real once-in-a-lifetime event.

Still, there was the matter of getting the band out of the club.

Van Blarcum was waiting for Cobain outside and was hell-bent on beating his ass. I called a taxi service and told the dispatcher to have a car come to the back door of the venue. The taxi was there less than five minutes later, and I shuffled the band into the back seat (Grohl and Novaselic still shirtless from the show). I told the driver, “Get these guys the fuck out of here,” and they took off down the alley behind Trees.

Monte the Mullet chased after them.

“They don’t know what hotel we’re staying at! They don’t know where to go!”

Fuck.

The cab stopped and made a left into the parking lot by the side of the building. The driver was oblivious as to what happened inside the club and pulled up right to where, holy shit, Turner was standing. Van Blarcum spotted them and broke the glass out of the cab’s back window with his fist.

By the time I ran over there the three guys in the back seat were freaking out, covered in jagged shards of glass, and the driver was screaming, while trying to pull Van Blarcum away from his cab, “Who is going to pay for this?” By this time, there was a huge mob of people watching it all go down. It took an improvised police escort to get them out alive.

Van Blarcum went to Baylor Hospital to get his head sewn back together. Mullet Monte had to extract the cost of a new monitor console (about $5,000) out of the band’s pay that night, so he wasn’t very happy as he left the building. I found out later that this type of thing had happened a number of times on the tour.

I’ve run into Grohl a bunch of times since then, and it’s always, “Dude, even if I retired tomorrow, I’ll always have that show at Trees to tell my kids about.” So will everyone else who made it inside 2709 Elm that night.

During the ’90s, Trees was the heart of the neighborhood. The club was never tied to one particular style of music, so the audience was filled with fresh faces every night. Shein had always instructed our staff of security people (before the Nirvana show, anyway) to treat every customer gently and humanely. Jessica Clarke did an incredible job of creating a public profile for the club in the local media and later became the manager for House of Pain, DJ Shadow and Cypress Hill.

Other club employees went on to start their own record labels, music-driven Web sites, jobs at recording studios and even bands of their own. Trees was the place where we got on-the-job training that inspired us to make a music career for ourselves.

Davis eventually sold Trees to Entertainment Collaborative owners Brandt and Brady Wood. This turned out to be a horrible mistake on their part. Besides putting them into competition with themselves–Gypsy Tea Room is also a 900-capacity venue a mere block away–it left the Wood brothers exposed and adherent to the success or failure of their other businesses.

When a former skinhead named Jesse Chaddock attacked and permanently disabled David Cunniff at an Old 97’s show at the Gypsy, Cunniff’s civil lawsuit against the owners of the club forced their hands–and indirectly put Trees in its last death throes.

One less venue for local bands to play, and 15 years of memories tarnished and banished to history, because of a drunken skinhead with a chip on his shoulder? What had started with money that Cullen Davis had stashed in his son’s bank account may now end because of a bankruptcy proceeding tied to a random act of unsolicited violence.

It is sad to drive down Elm Street and see 2709 empty once again, but we can feel good about the experiences we had there. We should thank Jessica Clarke for having the foresight to want to change Brian Davis’ mind about opening a seafood joint there instead. We can give props to the people who worked, played, drank, bled, danced and fought there–they gave the neighborhood its character. We can thank them for rejuvenating the local music scene and for living up to the long-standing heritage and subversive reputation of the Dallas creative community.

- Jeffrey Liles

Beginning today, WRR listeners will hear some new voices on the air. The new line-up reflects the station’s commitment to keep the classical format exciting an engaging.

“The station has aggressively recruited the best announcers to complement each
air shift,” Greg Davis, WRR General Manager said. “The trio of new voices brings varied, but highly professional, backgrounds to WRR, and with existing announcers, creates perhaps the most dynamic on-air staff in recent station history.”

The new line-up includes:

Kevin Pytcher assumes the duties as host of The Going Home Show (3-7
p.m. weekdays). He comes to WRR from El Paso with an extensive radio and television background. He has spent the past several years working in television in the Sun City, as promotions manager for the PBS affiliate and a broadcast and internet producer/writer for the leading news station. But
his first love is radio, where he got his start after high school as an announcer and as classical music director of KTEP-FM. Along the way, he earned a degree in communication from the station’s licensee, U.T. El Paso.

Ed Blaylock is the new evening host (7 p.m.-midnight weekdays).
Blaylock is a graduate of the University of North Texas with a degree Radio, TV, and Film. His radio experience began on campus at KNTU FM where he hosted a classical music program. He is an actor who has appeared in stage productions, children’s’ educational theater, summer stock theater, industrial videos, played character roles in independent feature motion pictures, and appeared in local and national television commercials.

Matthew Erikson joins the WRR team as the evening host on weekends
(7p.m.-midnight Saturday and Sunday). A recent Texas transplant and “passionate” music lover, Erikson was The Fort Worth Star-Telegram classical music critic from August 2006 to January 2008. A native of New England, he graduated from Amherst College and has a Master’s degree in piano performance from the Hartt School in Hartford, Conn. Prior to coming to Fort Worth, he was an arts writer for The Hartford Courant. His articles have also appeared in The Boston Globe.

They join WRR’s announcers:
· Christopher Hackett, host of The Morning Show,
· Adriana Bate, host of mid-day music on weekdays including Classic Café
· Karen Moyer, mid-day host on weekends, and
· Peter Van de Graaff, host of Music All Night.

Kurt Rongey, who split his time between programming duties and hosting The
Going Home Show, now will focus strictly on overseeing all operational functions at WRR.

In addition to the on-air staff changes, WRR also is revamping some programming features. In an effort to provide more localized programming, WRR has discontinued several syndicated symphony series, such as the Chicago and San Francisco symphonies, and has reworked several locally-produced
programs. Main Event, a WRR-produced show featuring new CD releases of classical music, will now air from 10-11 p.m. on Fridays, Command Performance, a program featuring listeners’ requests, will air Sundays from noon - 1 p.m. and the programs, Music of the Metroplex and Theme and Variations have
been discontinued.

Licensed on August 5, 1921, WRR is Texas’ first commercial radio station and the second oldest in
the United States. WRR FM has maintained its classical format since 1948. Broadcasting 24 hours a
day from historic Fair Park in Dallas, WRR’s 100,000-watt signal can be received throughout North
Texas. The station “streams” its terrestrial broadcast signal on the Internet at wrr101.com

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WRR to broadcast live from the Fort Worth Opera Festival May 25

The Fort Worth Opera Festival is capturing the imagination of opera lovers around the world. And, WRR Classical 101 is pleased to bring a taste of this tantalizing festival to its listeners. It is with great excitement, that WRR announces the live broadcast of a matinee performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. This historic broadcast will be 2 p.m., Sunday, May 25 live from stage of the Bass Performance Hall. Considered by many to be the greatest of the Italian Romantic operas, Lucia di Lammermoor is based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott.

The epitome of romantic opera in spite of its tragic ending, Lucia di Lammermoor demands incredible vocal and acting skills from the singers. And the Fort Worth Opera delivers with two of the hottest singers today, Elizabeth Futral (Lucia) and Stephen Costello (Edgardo). Both performed these roles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Kurt Rongey, WRR’s operations manager, said “The wealth of dramatic music makes Lucia appealing to modern musical theatre audiences, as well as the most devoted opera fan.

“WRR listeners are in for an incredible afternoon of opera on May 25. The live broadcast is part of WRR’s commitment to bring more live, localized programming to our listeners,” Rongey said. “In recent months, WRR has broadcast the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra live from Carnegie Hall and we are currently working on several other projects with major arts groups, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.”

This special live broadcast is sponsored by UNT Health Science Center, The
Dallas Opera, Museum Place, Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau and Metroplex Cadillac Dealers.

The Fort Worth Opera Festival runs May 16-June 8. For additional information, visit fwopera.org.

Ed. Note: Check out the spankin’ new Deep Ellum Media site. Lots of cool stuff a’comin’ over there.

Next Meeting Tonight at Amsterdam Bar - 831 Exposition Avenue - 9 pm
Live Video Streaming on The Fine Line (ah…perfect. The boy-child “just remembered” that his project is due tomorrow. Sigh…no live webcast…I’m gonna guess…until school’s out for summer…eff…)

Central Division Crime Watch

* Third Tuesday Crime Watch June 17
* Need to notify the residents and businesses
* discuss updates/changes

Email Blast

* What works; what does not?
* Pictures Banner ads
* Pass the hat

Extreme Sports Event & Music

* Day long event put on by Drop Out Dreams
* Venue Needed
* Marketing Support

Mayor Tom Leppert speaks to Deep Ellum Town Hall

* Tentative - Last week of June - plan for day time
* How can DEEP contribute
o Inform & Publicize
o Organize community
# Restaurants & Clubs
# Galleries & Retail
# Residents

Future Projects and Events

* Movie Night
* PR campaign for the neighborhood
* Studio Fling “Live Long Day”
* Concert to End Slavery

Updates about the Neighborhood and what others are doing

* DART meeting last Tuesday
* Informal meeting with Meadows
* DEA meeting
* DEF meeting

News:

DART, told us last week that the 75 on-ramp should be back in action by early July and we can expect the old 75 exit to be operational by the end of August. We can still expect construction but this should make it much easier on those trying to get to Deep Ellum. (oh & click on the DART link, fix a drink and enjoy the press conference… apparently they gave up on Deep Ellum in 1956)

Also, for those of you sad to see Darkside Lounge go, looks like you weren’t alone… this e-mail just came over to D.E.E.P.’s myspace from The Lounge on Elm St. “We recently took over the old Darkside Lounge space located @ 2810 Elm st. We are in the process of giving it a little face lift while we wait for the liquor licensing to go through. Assuming everything goes as planned we should be open mid to late July. We are going to be looking for bartenders and a waitress or two.” Glad to see it, you can expect a DEEP meeting soon.

Stuff happening out & about:

May 21 Grand opening of Excuses
May 22 Deep Ellum Association Mixer hosted by Print Electric at Pawn Gallery
May 24 Re*Cov*Er Mural Competition followed by Awards Ceremony at Prophet Bar at 8 pm with Baby Ruthless and the Happy Bullets.
May 24-25 ArtFest in Fair Park
May 28 Dallas Symphony free concert in Exall Park
May 29 MC Rad, Fronts