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Lone Star Sounds: Rocket Summer's EP should be enough to launch it
PRESTON JONES
Colleyville’s Bryce Avary, who performs as the Rocket Summer, has an almost preternatural gift for gleaming pop hooks. His songs have an evanescent lift and irresistible punch, leading to the question: Why isn’t this guy in heavy rotation and playing sold-out arena shows? Chalk it up to the glut of similarly positioned, quasi-emo acts that clog the pages of Alternative Press; if the four songs on Avary’s just-released You Gotta Believe EP are any indication, his forthcoming album Of Men and Angels (the follow-up to his 2007 major-label debut, Do You Feel) should catapult him to the next level. Produced by Avary, these four songs, culled from Angels, are nearly blinding in their polish and precision. Highlights include the title track and Light; Avary will air out tunes new and old Nov. 26, with support from fellow North Texans Forever the Sickest Kids, at Dallas’ House of Blues.
Info: www.therocketsummer.com
Quick hits
Skip begging for candy and catch a cool Halloween show instead: The Burning Hotels headline Saturday at the Moon, while the Good Show Live Music Series presents "Nightmare on 6th Street" with the Skin and Bones Drum Cult, the Magic of Ash Adams and Oso Closo; Fort Worth’s Pour House reopens Saturday with a Turning Trixie performance; 95.9 FM "The Ranch" hosts its Ranch Bash on Saturday in Sundance Square, with performances from Charlie Robison, Roger Creager, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses and more. . . . The entrancing Bosque Brown performs at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Wednesday. . . . Denton’s Midlake has set a Feb. 2 release date for its new album, The Courage of Others. It follows 2006’s acclaimed The Trials of Van Occupanther. . . . Keys Lounge is hosting a benefit for Fort Worth singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael "Mace" Maben at 5 p.m. Sunday. Maben, who gigs regularly with Group Therapy, is battling cancer, and proceeds from the evening, which features appearances from Buddy Whittington, Tejas Brothers and Me and My Monkey, will help his fight.
Preston Jones is the Star-Telegram pop music critic, 817-390-7713
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