Dallas Music Blog

Tonight at J&J's Pizza in Denton, Bad Sports will celebrate the release of its debut full-length--a few days in advance, even. Though the self-titled album won't technically be released by Douchemaster Records until next Tuesday, the label made sure the band got its box of LPs in time for tonight's show.

Admittedly, this album release kinda snuck up on us--even though, last we heard, the recording was finished back in the summer.

This afternoon, we called frontman Oville Neeley to have him explain why the album's release was delayed.

"'Cause we're lazy," Neeley says with a chuckle. "We were dragging our ass on getting the art work done."

Thankfully, we've already been enjoying a good chunk of these songs since Bad Sports handed out a few CD-Rs after its killer performance at this year's DOMAs. One of the songs we've been blaring? It's the same as one the band's kindly letting us offer up as a free download for your listening pleasure, "Nothing But Agitation." Grab it after the jump.

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In many ways, this record is a logical follow-up to the band's debut, Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes. And for the better, the now seven-piece sounds like a fully-fledged and fully-realized band.

Mark Scott

Seryn

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In January, the first time I stumbled across Nathan Allen of Seryn , he was playing his guitar while walking on Fry Street. At the time, Allen said he was working on some solo-acoustic material.

Well, as mentioned in this week's North of the Dial, after adding several more members to the mix, his solo material ended up spawning Seryn. Six months and a dozen shows later, Denton's Seryn has quickly catapulted out of Denton's house show scene, landing in bars, clubs and, um, records stores in Fort Worth and Dallas.

The band's been steadily composing new material, and agreed to send our readers the group's very-recently-recorded/released effort, "We Will All Be Changed," which until very recently I think the band called "Beach Song." Check it out after the jump.

Gloria Levario

Your favorite local rapper's favorite local rapper.

As Nic Hernandez explains in this week's dead tree version of DC9, the full-length solo debut from Dallas raapper Chucky Sly is some 15 years in the making. And ir's all the better for it, Hernandez explains: 

The feel-good hip-hop popularized by groups such as A Tribe Called Quest gets a prominent nod, sure, but so too does a smattering of dub influence, funk samples and even soulful singing (Sly himself belts out a few lines on "Until You Get Home"). As a result, the final product stands as one that excels in several disciplines. His confident delivery and thought-provoking lyrics exude the aura of a true thinker, a welcome shift from the recent, expected recipe for success for locals in the more radio-friendly line of the same work.

Indeed, this isn't your favorite local urban radio station's hip-hop. Sly's brand is more of the thoughtful, narrative variety--and, as such, his The Unseen Mechanism album stands as one of the more surprising, exciting releases in what has already been well-established as a banner year for DFW music.

After the jump, check a cut from Sly's record to see what we're getting at on this one...

Steve Visneau

Binary Sunrise and the Good Records family.

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"[My wife Julie and I] just kept sitting with [the song] and sitting with it and listening to it all the time," DeLaughter says. "So we said, 'Let's help this guy and put it out, 'cause, otherwise, it's just sitting here with us.'"