Next No Doves Fly Here is Wed., May 16!

May 2 was a blast. Hard to believe the next No Doves is coming up fast, on May 16. And we will have guest DJ Malediction, who you may know from San Antonio's monthly 1313 night and from Austin's Deathrock Disko, spinning!

The Facebook RSVP/event page is HERE!

Speaking of 1313, on Saturday, May 12, No Doves' own DJ Death Church will be guest DJing there; DJs Detra Munster and Malediction will also be DJing, as always. Call it the No Doves/1313 DJ exchange program. As always, 1313 will be at the Thirsty Camel in the Olmos Park area at 5307 McCullough Avenue, zip 78212. No cover.

1313 is Saturday, April 14 in San Antonio!

As we just updated, Deathrock Disko is happening Friday, April 13.

On Saturday, April 14, 2012, our friends at 1313 in San Antonio will be throwing their shindig again at the Thirsty Camel in Olmos Park. DJ Malediction and DJ detra Munster. No cover, 21+, 10PM-2AM. Here is the flyer:

TONIGHT, Friday, April 6, at Swan Dive they're having Exquisite Corpse, with an Alien Sex Fiend theme. $5 if you are dressed for the night, $7 if you are not. The Facebook even page for this is here.

Also, Ely/DJ Malediction and me (Oliver/Death Church) are working on http://www.deathrocktexas.com. Be sure to stay tuned, although the site right now is under heavy construction.

No Doves Fly Here: The Interviews (so far)

You all know No Doves is a twice-per-month event night where we play deathrock, postpunk, and gothic rock (for free). We all love old school positive punk, anarcho/peace-punk, and goth-punk, and we explore the overlaps between these niches in our playlists. We've so far put out one CD-R sampler and another one is coming up; our two stipulations when doing this is that we put only currently-extant bands on the CD-R, and we get their permission to do so. They're not mix CDs.

But you may not know that we also interview bands exclusively for this website, part of our building relationships with bands that we play at our event nights. These are some of the interviews we've done so far. More are on the way.


1. Interview with California dark punk band CIRIL.

2. Interview with LA deathrock band CHRIST VS WARHOL.

3. Interview with the singer of 80s UK goth-punk band PART 1.

4. Interview with LA deathrock band FANGS ON FUR.

5. Interview with Portland goth-punk band DEATHCHARGE.

6. Interview with deathrock DJs Johnny Bubonic (of Funeral Drive) and Ely Bat/Malediction (of 1313, deathrock Disko, etc.)

No Doves Interview with DJ Ely Bat/Malediction

This is part of a small series of interviews we're doing with DJs we consider to be important dark punk/deathrock/dark postpunk DJs. See our previous interview with DJ Johnny Bubonic (of the belated Funeral Drive in Dallas -- the weekly (!) deathrock night that ran from about 2001 'til 2004 in DFW), for example. 


Ely recently DJ-ed at the January 18, No Doves Fly Here.

NO DOVES FLY HERE: As far we are concerned, you are currently THE deathrock/dark postpunk DJ in Texas, bar none. You and DJ Munster bring it. I mean, you could be playing any type of music in the world as a DJ, like stuff that "packs the dance floor" in the most cynical and moneymaking way, i.e. dance-y stuff like Ke$ha -- or bad EBM, like Spock, bands and music that people and Djs at other clubs relentlessly try to promote and foist on people as being what they need to understand is great. So, in spite of that, why do you love and choose to play deathrock and dark postpunk, regardless of this?


ELY MALEDICTION: I grew up on metal and punk as a kid and quickly latched on to stuff like Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Misfits, Sex Pistols, and the Stooges. For me Deathrock has the dark element of some of the groups I loved as a kid, and it brings with it the kick in the teeth of punk rock. 

Come out to No Doves Fly Here on January 18 w/ DJ Malediction!

The next No Doves is Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Guest DJ Ely Malediction from San Antonio will be spinning with DJ Damage Done (and maybe a surprise guest DJ or two). The Facebook event page for this night is here. As always, no cover, 21 and up, 10PM 'til 2AM, and at Chain Drive, every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.

Before our January 18 night, you can catch DJ Malediction at Deathrock Disko on Friday the 13th in Austin (which we've posted about before here, and here) and also on Saturday,  January 14 at 1313 in San Antonio with DJ Munster (which we've also posted about and support!). See the links for details!