On the last day of January this year I went and visited The Granada Theater in Lower Greenville in Dallas, Texas. The concert hall reminds me of an old movie theater. It has the big vertical sign that lights up every Friday night and has the set list of bands that have letters which have to be set up by hand instead of electronically. The first thing you see when walking inside of the theater is a bar where tons of people huddle around before the show actually starts. Inside the actual concert room there is a general admission area closest to the stage, and about two hundred feet past the stage is an upper deck with seating. Overall the theater is very small in comparison to other centers such as the Yellow Pages Center or the Pepsi Center.
At the show there were two bands playing. The opener was Times New Viking. Times New Viking is an up and coming new band that joined Matador records early 2008. Their main type of genre is low fidelity which is known for a lot of technical flaws such as distortion and background noise. This gives the band a sort of grunge sound.
The second band to play, the main act, was Yo La Tengo. Yo La Tengo is an older band that has been around since 1984. The band consists of husband and wife, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, as well as James McNew. The band uses many different sounds and often goes from types of songs that are subdued and relaxed to types of songs that seem to scream and make as much noise as possible.
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