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  The New York Times Is Onto Denton.

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  73 days ago in DC9 At Night · Authority: 64

  Hey, now! The travel section of yesterday's New York Times has sweet little profile of the little d in it, and it gets all "Is Denton the Next Austin?" while namedropping a bunch of local acts and even including a media player with songs from
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  Shorties

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  73 days ago in largehearted boy: a boy, a girl, and his radio · Authority: 388

  For the conservative Christian music fan who has everything, Engadget points out a crucifix-shaped mp3 player. Popmatters interviews Tod A of Firewater. The Philadelphia Daily News previews the 2nd annual Philadelphia Book Festival, held May 19th and
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  DENTON, TEXAS | The New Austin? So Says The New York Times...

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  73 days ago in // PRODUCT SHOP NYC · Authority: 105

  The New York Times' Travel Section has deemed Denton the new Austin.... At last count, more than 100 bands were polishing their sound in the citys dive bars, rooftop spaces and fraternity basements. Even the local record store, a converted opera house
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  Editorial: NY Times Article

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  49 days ago in Sounds Like Austin · No authority yet

  Is this NY Times article about the Texas music scene offensive?  It is about how Denton is the “new Austin” and basically sets Austin and Denton up as travel destinations rather than reporting on newsworthy events in either city.  It’s a travel article so I guess that’s what it’s supposed to do.  Are we a tourist destination for Williamsburg hipsters, I can’t decide if I am okay with that… 
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  Editorial: NY Times Article

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  49 days ago in Sounds Like Austin · Authority: 12

  Is this NY Times article about the Texas music scene offensive?  It is about how Denton is the “new Austin” and basically sets Austin and Denton up as travel destinations rather than reporting on newsworthy events in either city.  It’s a travel article so I guess that’s what it’s supposed to do.  Are we a tourist destination for Williamsburg hipsters, I can’t decide if I am okay with that… 
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  51 days ago in yes please · Authority: 1

  denton
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  The BIg Apple Meets Little D

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  57 days ago in The Musings of Kev · Authority: 3

  I was quite surprised over the weekend when a friend emailed me a New York Times profile of Denton, of all things. Sure, it has a ridiculously cheesy headline ("An Indie Scene That Comes With a Texas Twang in Denton"), but it's not a bad little snapshot of the town that houses my alma mater:WITH its Piggly Wiggly markets and dusty pawnshops, the Texas college town of Denton does not look the part of a Woodstock in waiting. A Romanesque courthouse juts out of the central square, as in that fictional town in “Back to the Future.” And whenever the local college football team plays at Fouts Field, the entire town seems to put on Mean Green T-shirts. [...]At last count, more than 100 bands were polishing their sound in the city’s dive bars, rooftop spaces and fraternity basements. Even the local record store, a converted opera house called Recycled, has a section devoted to Denton bands. The bin dividers read like a Lollapalooza T-shirt: Lift to Experience, Centro-matic, Jetscreamer, Vortexas, Robert Gomez, Stanton Meadowdale, Mom, Mandarin, and Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, to name just a few. Not bad for a college town of 110,000, prompting more than a few music industry insiders to call Denton the next Austin. “There’s this combination of artistic fervor and small town naïveté,” said David Sims, a music columnist for The Dallas Observer. “Artists here don’t know they’re not supposed to be Bob Dylan so when they start a band, they shoot for the moon.”Even the Fry Street situation merits a mention here:STILL, unlike Austin, downtown Denton has no liquor stores or a Starbucks, and it sometimes feels more like a suburb of Dallas than a subcultural oasis. It didn’t help things when a developer last year bulldozed much of historic Fry Street, the former epicenter of Denton’s live music scene, to make way for a CVS (a plan since stalled by a permit issue). All that remains today of the Haight-Ashburyesque strip is a mosquito-infested mud pit and a graveyard of frat bars and head shops. But in a testament to the town’s musical resilience, the night life simply migrated over to the main square. Pick any side street and you’ll find partygoers noshing on tacos, outside a smattering of derelict warehouses that have been transformed into clubs and live music stages.Read the whole thing. Even Jay Saunders (UNT jazz trumpet instructor, director of the Three O'Clock and one of my jazz camp colleagues) gets a quote in here: “These kids are definitely more educated than your average garage band.” Indeed; if only all garage bands were educated in this manner. (Hat tip: Occasional commenter Super Anonymous JP.) Maybe they misread the name as eBaby: A German couple is in trouble for listing their 7-month-old son on eBay for the price of one euro. (The couple insists the ad was a joke, but the kid has been taken away by the German equivalent of CPS.) This guy's old team might as well have listed him on eBay as well: A Canadian minor league baseball player is now on his way to a team here in Texas after his old team traded him for 10 baseball bats.
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  Saturday Afternoon

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  60 days ago in melyssalaree · Authority: 7

  Ten minutes ago I walked out of the end of the movie Prince Caspian. I fall in love with certain genres of fantasy, and I walked out of the movie into a blinding sunlit afternoon thinking, “This can not be reality.” Fantasy does that. The kinds I like make me hope for a deeper, more beautiful life than the grind and pointlessness of everyday. Then I smelled the beach; it must have been in my mind only because there is no way the beach smells could make to north Texas. The sun was so bright, the air so humid, and my skin so warm I could think of no better place to be that in saltwater-clear and cool. Well, maybe laying on the sand after the clear and cool saltwater. Here is a write up about Denton and the Denton music scene earlier this month in the New York Times. Even though I have not contributed one bit, I am proud of this city sometimes. Cheers and sun, Melyssa
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  Music Issue | Cultured Traveler: An Indie Scene That Comes With a Texas Twang in Denton

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  63 days ago in NewsKnock · No authority yet

  Music Issue | Cultured Traveler: An Indie Scene That Comes With a Texas Twang in Denton Denton, Tex., has emerged as a hotbed of alternative music with a lo-fi sound that’s a mélange of Southern twang and experimental indie-rock.
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  Music Issue | Cultured Traveler: An Indie Scene That Comes With a Texas Twang in Denton

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  64 days ago in Technology Tank - Technology, Movies, and Music · Authority: 1

  Music Issue | Cultured Traveler: An Indie Scene That Comes With a Texas Twang in Denton Denton, Tex., has emerged as a hotbed of alternative music with a lo-fi sound that’s a mélange of Southern twang and experimental indie-rock. Music: Death Cab Is Up for the Long Haul “Narrow Stairs,” an unsettling, confident album, reaffirms Death Cab for Cutie as an increasingly rare thing: a career rock band. Rock Star: Brett Dennen Once a guide and counselor near Yosemite, up-and-coming musician Brett Dennen is now taking his backcountry jams to the masses.

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