Wiving

We're back with another organasm. The last one we did was a little over six years ago (not much to see), but we're bringing it back to focus on some of the best new shit here in sync with the shows. Stuff I love and since we're still in soft mode, we're going to do it slowly.

To put things in context, I used to have a bunch of CDs years ago, and I'm not talking about garbage music either, which is hard to believe being that I collected then as impulse buys in the 90's.

Good taste is like a good guitar; if it's built with a dovetail joint, it can be repaired for durability, but if it's a hastily put together glue job then good luck on making that last. Eventually, you're just gonna have to buy a guitar with a dovetail joint. You get what I'm saying here?

My collection had some hard-to-find stuff, including the only one compilation that Tess records ever released called Aria. Well, to my knowledge and apparently the internet's from what I can tell. It hardly left my car's CD player and kept me company on long drives to rural parts of town.

Dense on atmosphere, a low lying cloud at night made this stuff even better and Wiving captures that experience in vivid detail. Check out bodytalk below and tell me that doesn't do something to you. For the time being, download that and go take a drive.

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Only they know if they're living a lie, but I doubt it. The article we referenced makes their sexual preference pretty clear, and shame on you for assuming too much, so we don't want to dwell on it. But they can't deny, they're the only ones doing that. So Wiving has been a long time coming and I love the shit out of them. I'm just glad we have them and you don't!

It takes a special type of mindset to pull off this darkwave. You've got to know your shit, and Pleasure Principle sure as shit do. They'll be with Wiving tonight, performing with touring band Curse (Baltimore).

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Pleasure Principle

These guys will also be sharing the stage with Wiving, Curse, and the already very well known Pinkish Black. This is going to be big and grey in epic proportions and PP isn't overkill.

I mean, look at the dynamics here. Pleasure Principle has more a pop oriented approach but they... oh shit! For a second, they remind me of Electric Hellfire Club and front line assembly! So maybe they have a more industrial feel for their sound, and while these soundcloud files try to give you a better feel for what they're like, it looks more like it's a project you have to see live.

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/55701312" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] And you thought Texas was all about shit-kickers and Bibles. Pffft. Stay tuned for more info on all of these guys.

Alright guys. Start making plans to see them tonight at Rubber Gloves. Click this link for details. If you already know, then move along.

Q&A w/ Kenny Uptain (Foxtrot Uniform)

[bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=3078706150 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5] This Wednesday Foxtrot Uniform played their first of a series of shows at the Sundown next to Granada. I asked my mom to get out of my room and leave me alone, and then I told her she was ruining my life. Then I probed Kenny Uptain for information, to make sure he couldn't see what I was thinking through my tin foil sombrero.*sighI don't really have one. I'm a fraud.Anyway. Since Wednesday nights are 1/2 whiskey nights at the Sundown, I figured I would ask about his drink preference.

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: What's your drink of choice and how does Dallas' drink drunk crowd look from the stage?

KUThis guy's the real deal. No preference, huh? Foxtrot Uniform used to hold more members from different bands but since they're down to a trio, I wanted to see what Kenny thought about turn over.

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KUHe's out there, with the people. Being that I haven't left my apartment in months, I wanted to know if the bearded hipster-Ozarkians are still out there.

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KUEnough about society. Time to get to the topic of the aural arts...

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: Sometimes I feel pressure to get out new material, but to me it's done best when I feel like I have something to say.... and my place in the world.

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: What's your impression of this guy sending you cheesy questions via email? (oh yeah, forgot to tell you, I'm a dude: deep voice)

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: Good punctuation.I'm thinking in terms of that mindset where musicians are trying to 'make it big'.

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: I'm going to assume that the our society has changed in such a way that you don't have to float a job in let's say, construction and a band at the same time these days. As a musician with a very real band, image and songs. Would you say that you're any closer to living the life of a working and well-respected musician than you might have been a decade or more ago?

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: Sure. I'm not positive what it was like a decade ago but somehow we found a way to exist and make money as a band, I'm sure that it was never easy. I couldn't help but think that bands and musicians are aiming for something that isn't there.

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: Is the music scene just an illusion or is it very real?

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: It's 100% real. We've played for years and was never recognized and supported until the "music scene" did. I take the rotgut anytime.

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: Are you too good for saloon well whiskey, the kind where they add turpentine to it for color?

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: Hell no. I prefer it. Where does all that music come from?

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: What about your musical influences? Who are/were you thinking about when you first wanted to write songs and what are you listening to now?

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: I was big on blues, old country, soul, southern rock and more. As far as when I first started writing songs, it was lyrically influenced the most by Lynyrd Skynyrd & Jimi Hendrix. Now, I'm still into everything mentioned with a greater knowledge of bands and techniques. What are Kenny's priorities? You know, the stuff we all take seriously.

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: What's your feeling about life right now and what you see for foxtrot in the near future?

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: My feeling towards life is sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. That's just life. As for Foxtrot, I see it continuing to grow and it will forever be a steady working band as long as we're able to do it. I figured, why not bring up Star Wars?

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: What would you say if I told you that my actual first star wars theater experience was The Phantom Menace? And what would you say If I told you I was legitimately excited?

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: We'll this tells me two things. First, you're not old. Second, you're not crazy. We were all excited.Right on Kenny. Right on. Now. Whether you're in Dallas or anywhere else, get dressed and GO SEE SOME SHOWS!