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The Theater Fire

June 23rd, 2006

The Theater Fire
Everybody Has A Dark Side

[Undeniable Records; 2006; Pop/Alt-Country]

While DJ Jester was representing for San Antonio, the Undeniable crew is still holding it down for us here in the DFW and Denton area with the release of The Theater Fire’s new record. And it’s also strange that I would pick this up to listen to yesterday considering we had one helluva theater fire in Dallas the night before when the landmark Arcadia Theater went up in flames. The theater, built in 1927, had seen everything from vaudeville theater to The Cramps, operas to variety shows and even police raids over the screening of Deep Throat in 1973. So I’m sure from now on when Dallas heads hear “the theater fire”, they’ll think of the Arcadia instead of these guys, but no need to change your name fellas… just look at The Ruby Room and Lee Harvey’s.

Anyway, all hometown pride aside, these guys bring influences to their music that are as far reaching as bluegrass (and maybe even a little jug band), zydeco, mariachi, country, folk and rock. Their alt-country-ish sound lends a much needed variety (and a forlorn feeling) to modern pop music - not entirely unlike Lylas’ record that we talked about recently. It’s neither lo-fi nor glossy, but lands somewhere in the middle. Like a high quality live recording of campfire sing-a-longs that defy genres, or define them. Maybe post-country? Southern chamber pop? Nu-Americana? Regardless of what you call it, these tales of wanderers, lovers, soldiers and pals hold a restrained beauty full of horns, pedal steel, violin, accordion, mandolin, xylophone and banjo and should appeal to fans of everyone from Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen to The Decemberists* and Architecture In Helsinki*.

I need to get out and see these guys and if you’re around Dallas, I suggest you do the same.

tonight (6.26.06) at Sons of Hermann Hall for a Kinky Friedman benefit
6.25.06 - Fort Worth - at the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards
6.29.06 - Dallas - at the DoubleWide with Peter and The Wolf
6.30.06 - Denton - at Dan’s Silverleaf with Peter and the Wolf

*if you add a fistful of country to the mix.

Download these now.
Kicking Up The Darkness
These Tears Could Rust A Train
Dark Side
and Ne’er Too Late from their 2003 self-titled debut

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Entry Filed under: Pop / Electro-Pop, Americana / Folk / Country