Tonight: Darstar Album Release Show at La Grange

Do folks in Dallas no longer find celebrating a band's album release reason enough to come out to a show? Tonight when Darstar unveil their crisp debut full-length at La Grange they've promised everyone in attendance free koozies, not to mention everyone who buys Tiny Darkness will be entered in a raffle to win one of their "rock 'n roll-defending owls". It is awesome, sure, but is it really necessary? Are we DFW folk really to the point where we ask "what's in it for me?" and when the answer is just "kick ass live local music" it just isn't enough? Hopefully this isn't the case.

Rocketarm and Here Holy Spain also perform.

About the disc:

Darstar produces an easily digestible electro-grunge sound via low-end distortion, out-of-this-galaxy synth effects, and hard-hitting drums. Lisa Hardaway’s sweet-sounding larynx conflicts with this heavy grunge noise in creating a cacophony of musical elements whose final product ends up being somewhat of an anomaly: Dark Pop-Rock.

Darstar's debut album Tiny Darkness, was co-produced by John Dufilho (Apples in Stereo, Deathray Davies) and Casey Diiorio (Bowling For Soup, Midlake, The Crash That Took Me). Casey Di iorio recorded, engineered, and mixed the album at Valve Studios in Dallas, TX. The album was mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music studio in New Windsor, New York.

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