Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Layer Cake Somberly Triumphant in Possible Final Performance


My review of Layer Cake’s farewell show at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios is up now via D FrontRow, the official arts and culture blog of major Dallas-Fort Worth monthly D Magazine. Here I wax nostalgic about my time in Denton, Texas, and mourn the loss of one of the most exciting pop acts to emerge from the area in years.
I want to tell you that Layer Cake’s farewell show at Rubber Gloves on Saturday night was not a somber event, but I can’t. Endings, especially untimely ones, are rarely happy occasions, but I was somehow hoping to leave the show with a feeling of optimism—and, who knows, maybe I can generate that by the end of this piece—but I’m not going to lie: Saturday night was a stone cold bummer.
[Read the full review at D FrontRow.]

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