​What's the deal with owls, am I right? They're everywhere.

No, really, they are. And it's weirding me out. If I ever saw a bunch of owls congregating on power lines like I see birds do every evening, around 5 p.m., I'd head for my underground bunker.

The "owls have it" (sorry, so sorry) this Saturday night at Prophet Bar. Ben Piche designed this borderline-creepy poster, and he also plays in Darstar, whose Tiny Darkness LP was one of last year's sleepers.

Fellow local punks Sea Lion also play!

​Yep, this poster by Justin Blanks pretty much sums up a Devin the Dude show: The holy trinity is right there at the bottom. See for yourself Saturday at the Granada, and don't miss local openers the Mohicans.

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​Taylor McClure of Pan-Ector designed this poster for Gutterth Production's bi-annual Dead Week Print Show, which goes down tomorrow night. Datahowler, Botany, Summer of Glaciers and Juve perform at Rubber Gloves, while the print portion of the show is on display at Meme Gallery, with work from the Printmakers Association of North Texas Students.

It's sort of like one of those Magic Eye posters you have to stare at for a while before a pattern emerges. I stared at it for 60 seconds and saw renowned American actor Abe Vigoda. What do you see?

Bonus: Botany just recorded a dreamy Violitionist session, which you can watch here.

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Well, John Jurik's poster for Roxmas 6 certainly puts holiday cheer in perspective. After pushing through lines of screaming children (and adults) at Wal-Mart and enduring Mariah Carey's version of "All I Want For Christmas" 50 times a day, who wouldn't want to thump Santa with a shovel and put him six feet under?

Still, there's something calming in the imagery. Maybe it's the symmetry - the round moon, the triangular pines, the perfectly square grave. Add to that the lineup for Roxmas 6, which takes place Saturday, December 10 at Deep Ellum spot 2826 Arnetic: Hardin Sweaty, Soviet, (A) Therapeutic Smile and Little Birds.

A folk eulogy for ol' St. Nick. Pour some nog out for him. $8.

​This week's poster comes to us from artist Scott Spooner, who sends us a quirky take on a Christmas party.

Spune Productions throws some great parties year-round, and the poster for their Christmas party, which will take place on Sunday, December 11, at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton, manages to capture the feeling of the holiday season nicely.

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​This week's selection for Poster of the Week, created by Daniel Hughes, comes to us from Parade Of Flesh, who are promoting tonight's Real Estate show at Dada. The reason it was selected? Pretty simple, really.

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​There's a good reason this two-sided poster, designed by Tractorbeam's Daniel Führer, has topped the list of this week's poster submissions. It's for a good cause, and it offers a glimpse into man's circulatory system that no other concert poster has yet.

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​There are two really good reasons why this poster, designed by Stephen Speir and Hillary White for Joe Lally's Parade Of Flesh-promoted November 6, performance at Bryan Street Tavern, topped the list of poster submissions this week. Fugazi, the band Lally played bass in, is awesome, and so is our own True Widow.

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​Technically, this show's still a week off from today, but listen: A show featuring the lo-fi, Cleveland-based power-poppers of Cloud Nothings, as well as performances from fast-rising locals Soviet and Sealion, at the awesome Deep Ellum DIY venue The Canton Co-Op gets announced -- and for the low price of a suggested $3 donation -- it's cause for notice.

Plus, the poster, designed by Taylor McClure of Denton's awesomely versatile Pan Ector Industries for show promoter Parade of Flesh, is pretty awesome, too.

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