Denton is still in my opinion one of the gems of Texas, though many people will disagree, I think they may hold it to an unreachable standard. Nonetheless the music out of this city is incomparably eclectic and dense with talent. Keeping to this ideal Texas’ own Play Pinball! Records, who you may know for putting out the Fungi Girls LP, have recently released a compilation honoring this city’s musical virtuosity. The comp titled Denton Denton USA! features medley of bands formed in the town; the comp includes cuts from Uptown Bums, Video, Bad Sports, The Secret Bangs, Wax Museums a “secret track” and unreleased tracks from Teenage Cool Kids and Fergus & Geronimo, check out the tracklisting below. You can purchase this vinyl in the limited “Lone Star Blue” or black here and on top of the F&G song below there are five more tracks up at the Play Pinball! myspace. The Fergus & Geronimo track ”I May Be Poor” is a semi-exclusive track that you’ll only find at WTD or the vinyl of course (well, until Pitchfork gets ahold of it) and features the unique vocal stylings of Jason from F&G rather than Andrew. The track contains one of the stickiest riffs Ive heard in awhile and definitely adheres to the comp’s shibboleth of “the sound of rock and Shiner Bock“.
Fergus & Geronimo – I May Be Poor
Tracklisting:
Teenage Cool Kids – Slave/Master
The Uptown Bums – Throw Your Money Away
The Pumpers – Shut Down
Wiccans – Endgame
Chief Death Rage – Riff Craft
The Secret Bangs – Violent Love
The Wax Museums – Billy’s Room
The Influence – Rambunctious Nosferatu
Bad Sports – Your Timin’ Just Ain’t Right
Fergus and Geronimo – I May Be Poor
Fungi Girls – Thanks For Following Love
Video – Bookstore
Bleach Boys – Lazer Jam
The Teenage Bees – I’m So Down
“Secret Track”
This entry was written by , posted on January 6, 2010 at 2:42 pm, filed under New Tunes, local music and tagged bad sports, denton, Fergus & Geronimo, lone star, play pinball records, shiner bock, Teenage Cool Kids, the secret bangs, tx, uptown bums, video, wax museums. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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
This entry was written by , posted on October 14, 2009 at 8:20 pm, filed under New Tunes and tagged Deer Tick, denton, fat possum, neil young, Teenage Cool Kids, thomas function, velvet underground, wax museums. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’ve loved all the great garage bands to come out of the area in the last few years, namely Denton ; Wax Museums, Uptown Bums, Bad Sports, etc… Here is a band from the far-off Minneapolis scene, a two-piece band known as Birthday Suits shred loud, fast, and high-strung songs that last about 2 minutes – no more, no less. What catches my interest is how close the vocal harmonies are for such a fast-paced band, I mean sure its easy for the Raveonettes to pull that off playing slow indie pop, but I digress. Recently Birthday Suits put out a great split 7 inch with the legendary locals Marked Men through Nice & Neat Records entitled 7 Inches For Your Ex, below a wonderful sample is presented to you in all its 2 minutes of glory.
Birthday Suits – It’s About Time
This entry was written by , posted on August 4, 2009 at 10:35 pm, filed under New Tunes and tagged bad sports, birthday suit, denton, marked men, minneapolis, uptown bums, wax museums. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
