Thursday August 12, 2010 6PM! FREE!
JBM 
JBM will be stopping by to play some songs from his new record, Not Even In July, before opening for AA Bondy at the The Loft.
Jesse Marchant, who records under his initials, JBM, was born and raised in his family’s homes in the Adirondacks and Montreal. Classically trained on guitar from the age of 7, he had always written instrumental songs as a means of expression, but it wasn’t until recent years that he began writing lyrics, singing and recording. After a decision to withdraw, he retreated to his family’s home in the mountains, to live in seclusion and fully realize songs that he’d written while living in Los Angeles, in what he’s described as a somewhat strange and solitary three-year existence. After shaping and working an album’s worth of music, Jesse got in contact with Henry Hirsch who took instantly to the demos and the two, with a few visiting musicians, made the record in just two short weeks at Hirsch’s 19th Century church studio in Hudson, NY. Not Even In July is a mostly acoustic venture, textured thoughtfully by Marchant’s atmospheric arrangements, lyrical purity and unaffected baritone— that is as grand in its haunting restraint as it is in its emotional vitality. “Years,” a lulling, finger-picked instrumental slips into “Cleo’s Song,” a ghostly reverie on loneliness and despair, while “Ambitions & War” targets Los Angeles, in a shuffling indictment of greed and inhumanity. “July on the Sound” crashes delicately and darkly through scenes of death, love and life; “From Me to You and You to Me” weaves a lazy, spiraling plea; and the resolute beat of “Friends For Fireworks” swings from the optimism and beauty of sunset to the dark finality of night. The album closes with “Red October” and its piano-drenched memories of a love lost, and “Swallowing Daggers”, a hopeless declaration of concern for a loved one gone off the rails. JBM Myspace Saturday August 14, 2010 - 6PM! FREE!
Doug Burr "O Ye Devastator" Vinyl Release Party with Birds & Batteries 
Monday August 16, 2010 9PM!
Good Films: Music Movie Mondays --- Sponsored By Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas! FREE!
Flaming Lips - Blastula (Exclusive Showing)
The short documentary (21 mins.) was directed by George Salisbury and Wayne Coyne during the recording of the band’s 2009 album, Embryonic. The documentary will cover “a series of long, improvised sessions” at Steven Drozd’s empty, ‘for sale’ house, which eventually become Embryonic. 
Flaming Lips - Fearless Freaks
Director Bradley Beesley's revealing documentary THE FEARLESS FREAKS fashions an insightful portrait of eccentric Oklahoma City rock band the Flaming Lips. Shot over a period of ten years, Beesley's film achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy due to his longtime friendship with the band, whom he first met in 1991 when they needed a filmmaker to shoot their music videos. Over the ensuing years, the Lips allowed Beesley to document not only their ever-evolving musical career--which grew from punk-drenched psychedelia to Brian Wilson-esque orchestral pop--but also the personal lives of band members Wayne Coyne, Steven Drodz, and Michael Ivins in their most private moments, including the death of Coyne's father and, most hauntingly, Drodz's ongoing heroin addiction. Culled from over 400 hours of footage, THE FEARLESS FREAKS blends Super-8 home movies, candid interviews, live performance footage, music videos, and outtakes from the feature film CHRISTMAS ON MARS into a compelling narrative that transcends the rockumentary genre to become a heartfelt meditation on personal growth and transformation. Juliette Lewis, Beck, Liz Phair, the White Stripes' Jack White, and Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue make cameo appearances.
Monday August 23, 2010 9PM!
Good Films: Music Movie Mondays --- Sponsored By Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas! FREE! 
Mogwai - Special Moves
The finest moments of one of the most individual live bands of our time are perfectly captured in the grainy close-up film 'Burning' with tracks such as: ‘Like Herod’s wall of noise; the dreamy ‘New Paths to Helicon pt 1’; ‘Mogwai Fear Satan’ (speaking of Bernard Hermann, there’s a shock worthy of Psycho in this song); the funereal ‘Scotland’s Shame’; strident finale ‘Batcat’.Yet this is only half of the package. It also includes Special Moves, an eleven-track (seventeen if you get the vinyl or download versions) live album. For a band who come to such epic, monumental life in the live arena, it might be surprising to some that this is the first official live compilation they’ve ever released.
Monday August 30, 2010 9PM!
Good Films: Music Movie Mondays --- Sponsored By Lone Star Beer, The National Beer of Texas! FREE! 
Scott Walker - 30th Century Man
A percussionist slams his fists into a slab of raw meat; Scott Walker records the sounds from the control booth. The thumps will overlay his strangled vocals and menacing strings on his long awaited 2006 album, THE DRIFT. This scene from the documentary 30 CENTURY MAN highlights both the grimly primordial thrust of Walker's music and also how far he's strayed from his days as a 1960s heartthrob. As the frontman of the English sensation the Walker Brothers, the American-born singer swaggered before screaming teens belting such classic pop melancholia as "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore." But when he embarked on a solo career and incorporated the bleak librettos of Jacques Brel, Walker's music took a far more experimental turn: magnifying the psychic unease only suggested in the echo-laden backdrops of Phil Spector. Walker's old fans abandoned him and the singer went into seclusion, but a whole new generation of musicians eventually discovered his enigmatic, boundary-pushing songs--among them David Bowie, Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, and Radiohead (all of whom appear in the documentary). Known for masking himself in sunglasses and a ballcap, Walker comes across in the film's rare interviews as thoughtful and frank--if less than effusive. Rapid editing and performance footage propel viewers through Walker's life, but the film's greatest value is its portrait of an artist's evolution--resculpting his own sensibilities and discovering new pathways for expression without deference to the culture at large.
Friday September 10, 2010 - 2PM! FREE!
Tegan & Sara 
Sunday September 19, 2010 - 11AM! FREE!
Super Yoga Palace in Deep Ellum Presents: Super-Good Yoga. 
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