OK, so it's been open since late last year, but I hadn't been to the reopened Lakewood Tavern since, so I decided to check it out last night. It's in the space next to Matt's Rancho Martinez, where the new owner, Steve, used to work. We were the only ones there, which led Steve to close early, but he said they get a good crowd on weekend nights.
It looks very similar to the old Lakewood Tavern, but one difference is that it's a nonsmoking bar. Steve said they would have had to put in a new, pricey air filtration system, so it just wasn't cost effective to allow smoking. He said anyone who's wanted to smoke there has had no problem with chilling outside on a bench. I think eventually this could be the case for all Dallas bars, like New York, so the Tavern might be doing people a favor by getting us used to it!
Oh, you thought Hot and Fresh Week was over? Silly you. From today's Liner Notes:
We'll be debuting a clip of a song from local nu-wave band Black Tie Dynasty that will be on forthcoming album Down Like Anyone. The 10-song follow-up to 2006's Movements was recently recorded during a two-week session with producer John Congleton at his Oak Cliff studio. Black Tie lead singer Cory Watson says the group will play the new album in its entirety on Saturday at the Granada, despite the fact that the album may not hit stores until fall. "We spent a lot more time on this one than we did Movements, and are very excited about the new stuff," Watson told us in a phone chat. "We've got strings all over the record, trumpets, even a dulcimer. And very different song structures this time around."
Watson told me the track you'll hear a snippet of, "100x," is "the most straightforward song we did for the new album."
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