Above all I will say Tim Cushing’s music is charmingly understated. Cushing folk songs can easily draw comparisons to Daniel Johnston, Jeff Mangum, and more recent artists The Tallest Man On Earth, Deer Tick and in a strange way his delivery is similar to Yoni Wolf’s; yet Cushing does not let his influences paint a picture of his music, but rather a mural. His most recent album Telephone Lines brings to mind mid-century beat culture and the traveling aesthetic associated with it and namely Kerouac. Cushing’s music is at once sorrowful, uplifting and enjoyable to the last chord.
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Thomas Function is certainly not a new band, but they first time I heard of them was almost exactly a year ago when they came through Denton and played a house show with Denton’s own Wax Musuems and Teenage Cool Kids. Flash forward a year and coincidentally enough I was having a conversation about this band at our show last week which naturally steered towards a description of their sound and the only band that could be manifested in comparison was Velvet Underground. I’ll expand on that by saying the band has a very strong influence from the southern-hometown-rock genre: Neil Young and more recently Deer Tick. This record, In The Valley Of Sickness, was released on Tuesday and is available in CD or LP format through the always wonderful Fat Possum Records.
Thomas Function – How Does it Feel
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Low is playing Dallas tonight! And we get an interview!!
Slow start to the week of live music in DFW, with the exception of the always amazing Abe Vigoda at The Cavern last night. I hope someone went. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it. I’ve seen Abe Vigoda at least three times, and not only do they put on a fantastic show, they’re also super nice guys. The very promising Seattle art-punk trio Talbot Tagora, who I’ve never seen live, opened the show. Their upcoming album Lessons in the Woods or a City, is out July 21 on Hardly Art. As for the rest of the week…
Thursday, July 9
Minimalist. Slow tempo. Beautiful two-part harmonies. Shut up and listen. And for fuck sake, stop calling them slowcore.
Friday, July 10
Raw. Rootsy. Rock.
Strange Boys / The Coathangers / Bad Sports @ The Lounge on Elm Street
Watch out. The Coathangers girls spit. A lot.
The Paper Chase / Matthew and the Arrogant Sea @ Dan’s Silver Leaf
Two local bands. Denton’s own Matthew and the Arrogant Sea have a new record called Family, Family, Family Meets the Magic Christian out on Nova Posta Vinyl October 28.
Saturday, July 11
Matt & Kim @ House of Blues Dallas (Cambridge Room)
This was supposed to be a free Bacardi show with Major Lazer. Don’t know what happened. Very cool of Matt & Kim that they’re still coming to Dallas. You won’t see two happier people on stage. Such a fun show!
This entry was written by , posted on July 9, 2009 at 5:33 pm, filed under Shows and tagged abe vigoda, bad sports, Deer Tick, Low, Major Lazer, Matt & Kim, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, strange boys, Talbot Tagora, The Coathangers, The Paper Chase. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
