Aaaaah, once again great minds think alike - or at least one great mind and one sort of so-so. Sam Machkovech writes in this week's Dallas Observer:

"I'd rather not start a discussion about Denton's Fry Street with an overemotional plea...but it's tempting. As GlobeSt.com's Connie Gore reported on May 5, Bellaire, Texas, real estate developer United Equities Inc. acquired 3.7 acres of retail in the heart of central Denton--essentially, the 100 block of Fry Street, home to locally owned restaurants and shops like The Tomato and Texas Jive. Think the dozen-plus businesses will survive the deal? The article doesn't.,," Read it all as it also contains more on the ridiculous removal of Frank Hejl's Frequency Down Show.

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Michael Alan Goldberg chats-it-up with Derek Fudesco (Pretty Girls Make Graves) - a little about music - a lot about food:

"Juicy chunks of fresh lobster,lightly bound together with mayonnaise and served on buttered, toasted bread. Spicy, bubbling étouffée laid out over a bed of steaming white rice. Succulent Chinese dumplings stuffed with garlicky pork, floating in a rich vegetable broth. Fucking delicious. That's according to Derek Fudesco, anyway--the Pretty Girls Make Graves bassist, co-founder and primary spokesman sounds like he's drooling as he describes these dishes over the phone from the band's tour stop in Providence, Rhode Island. And now, as the proud proprietor of the new food blog, www.fucking-delicious.blogspot.com, he'll be detailing his coast-to-coast culinary finds for everyone to read..." Read the rest.

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Darryl Smyers writes about local greatness, Todd Gautreau:

"With his nondescript, boyish appearance, local multi-instrumentalist/ producer Todd Gautreau talks about his music with a casual enthusiasm, discussing his art with the same demeanor he might use in talking about his day job as a graphic designer. "I think what I do reflects a struggle," he says. "I try to get across a vulnerability that, hopefully, others have felt."

"The 37-year-old is nearly as soft-spoken as his intricate and achingly pretty compositions. Yet this Louisiana native's relaxed nature should not be interpreted as dispassionate. Like so many others who express their emotions quietly, bitterness and anxiety brew underneath Gautreau's calm exterior. Much of that subconscious spite is channeled into his second album under the Crushed Stars moniker, Obsolescence, an opus of romantic gloom, and a dreamy, whispered collection that presents the dichotomy of soft music/hard feelings as succinctly as any manic-depressive can..." Read baby - Read

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Jesse Hughey was at J&J's Pizza last Saturday for The Theater Fire / Emil Rapstine / Chris Flemmons

"The perfect setting for the Theater Fire's blend of rustic Americana and Southwestern music would be under a full moon on some sweltering backwoods back porch, where listeners slap mosquitoes on their sweat-slicked skin, pass around XXX-embossed jugs of hooch and laugh when the hounds howl along with the performance. For the band's Denton CD release party, $1 Lone Stars and floorboards creaking overhead in the hot basement of J&J's Pizza had to suffice..." You know what to do

The Theater Fire Live at Good Records.mp3

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Jesse Hughey also picks the one *fer-sure* show that I personally plan to hit this weekend at Club Dada:

"Don't dillydally on the way to Dada, because Voot Cha Index's early set will be the highlight of the night. Singer Neil Sanzgiri has some grating vocal quirks--his voice couldn't have dropped more than a few months ago--but with such pretty melodies and creative arrangements of piano, accordion, banjo and power-pop guitars, that's easily forgiven. The Plano pop quintet's songs about penguins and shouts of "Let's go!" might be annoying if they weren't so earnest and enthusiastic..." Click here silly

Be on the look out for audio performances, interviews and what-nots here from the Saturday, May 27th Show w/ Voot Cha Index / Blackheart Society / B-Minor Harmonic / The Shim Shams

Voot Cha Index Live at Good Records.mp3

Blackheart Society Live Interview/Performance in the TexasGigs.com Studio

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Check all the rest of this week's music section

Cindy now blogs at The Fine Line.