The Dallas band Happy Bullets are the critic’s choice in this week’s Pitch, the New Times alt-weekly in Kansas City. Thanks for the dig, Pitch:
On the other hand, Vice [The Vice and Virtue Ministry, their first album], recorded by Stuart Sikes (the Walkmen, Modest Mouse, White Stripes, Loretta Lynn), is so unabashed in its cheeky intellectualism that you’d expect it would get the band beaten up in its hometown of Dallas – precisely why we’d listen in the first place.
We don’t beat up bands in Dallas. We beat up the people who go see bands.
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