12/01/17 WEEKEND SHOWS

Flyer for show at MASS today, Dec 1st, 2017

 Friday

Big Heaven/Beauty Parlor (Dreamy Life Records)
https://www.facebook.com/events/166611120601316
Beauty Parlor is the latest project from High Art's Jacob Bruce and Deryck Barrera. The two have consistently been in wildly popular bands, from Fungi Girls to Vacations, and it's been partly because of their very young age upon entry into the music scene. Combine that with the plethora of music knowledge they come with, and an extremely down to earth attitude, and it's been a recipe for success their entire career. Not to mention, the catchy hooks and pop guitar melodies soaked in reverb and fuzz. This project is expected to be more of the same, which is a good thing. Show starts early around 7pm.

Junkie/Blands/Teenage Sexx/King Country (The Holding Cell)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1707291089343157
We mistakenly reported this show as being last week, and we definitely own up to the mistake. Check out our preview of the show here.

Crisis Actor/Sybil/M’Ress (Eight Bells Alehouse)
https://www.facebook.com/events/195489390994485

Drunk Punx Home Invasion DAY 1 (203 S Wood St, Denton, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/events/776132535922069/
It amazes us here at Bad Grammar how unbelievably popular the self-proclaimed "street-punk" scene is here in the metroplex. Walking into one of these shows is an immediate shock into the reality of this untalked about scene. It's very similar to, say, the metal scene in DFW- just lurking in silence but ready to draw hundreds of people dressed in black with usually horribly designed show flyers and 7-string guitars, but in this case, horribly designed flyers and 6-string guitars. Ask around at one of the punk shows, and immediately you begin to hear talkings of suburban neighborhoods as home base, usually littered with talks of Tri-City High Schools (Hurst, Euless, Bedford) and recurring themes of Haltom City. Like most bands and showgoers in the area, the struggle for a place to play a show ends up in Denton, this time at a house. This is day one of a two day event, with the second show being at at a different house.

Couches/War Party/Movie the Band (Main at South Side)
https://www.facebook.com/events/123823911715160/
War Party's Cameron Smith has been on a roll lately, with an article about his new album, Paper Knife, getting a write-up in both the Fort Worth Weekly and the Dallas Observer this past week. Coming off of a short interview in Texas Monthly recently, plus the almost unbearable barrage of coverage of War Party year-round, one starts to wonder if he's just paying off these publications to write about him. Of course, we don't actually think that he is paying them off, but the music definitely comes off to us as somewhere in-between car commercial music, and something that Apple forces you to have on your Iphone the moment you pull it out of the box. We definitely wish the best for the Dreamy Life co-owner/founder. Couches joins the show from the Bay area, California.

Saturday

Tame Tame & Quiet/Cornish Game Hen/The Prof.Fuzz 63 (Division Brewing)
Tame Tame & Quiet has been around for awhile now, with their debut album, recorded by Matthew Barnhart at The Echo Lab, coming out in 2007. The band's sound initially came off as an average, melodic, indie-style band, with hints of mid-west emo. Over the years, the band has changed members, and gets increasingly difficult to pinpoint with one music genre. We're interested in hearing more releases from this band, which may possibly be upcoming on Dreamy Life Records sooner than later. The band is joined by Cornish Game Hen, from Houston, and the terribly named The Prof.Fuzz 63, from Dallas, at a show in Arlington.

Foolish 2/Slackbeat/Demandite/Gay Cum Daddies (Nebulae)
https://www.facebook.com/events/159478794796474
It's a little hard to put a finger on what these acts sound like and what their objective is, so we'll just say this: experimental, a little repulsive, and... Gay Cum Daddies. Yeah, Gay Cum Daddies.

Loco Gringos/The Beaumonts/The Me-Thinks (Fred's Texas Cafe)
Loco Gringos may not ring a bell to a younger music enthusiast, but to an older, 40 something music goer, hearing this band name might just trigger you with nostalgia of a better time in this scene's history, with a heart in Deep Ellum... or so they will tell you. Without question, the band definitely is at the center of this city's late-80's grungy, alternative music history, that paved the way for 90's alternative bands to have a platform, such as Tripping Daisy or The Toadies. This particular band, who don't exactly age well in this new politically correct era, make it even more awkward playing without their main frontman Tom "Pepe" Foote, who passed in 1990. Regardless, a window to a world nearly forgotten is open again, and will be joined by associated acts The Me-Thinks and The Beaumonts at an unusual suspect of a venue, Fred's Texas Cafe.

 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase (Multiple Venues)
This isn't the DOMA ceremony where they will announce the winners- that will take place on Tuesday. This is, however, basically a festival where you will have the opportunity to see many of the bands that were nominated. 50+ bands in total, according to the event page.

Drunk Punx Home Invasion DAY 2 (1509 Bolivar St, Denton, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/events/776132535922069/

Sunday

Mountain of Smoke/Bargoyles/Partaker (Armoury, DE)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1974218906153040/
According to Mountain of Smoke's facebook page, we should be expecting an album from them soon. The band has been steadily growing its stoner-metal fanbase for the past few years now in the DFW area, and we look forward to a new album from them.

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