by David Barnes
Daily Lobo
The Dallas fuzz-rock popsters, the Deathray Davies, will hit town Monday night.
With the band's album, The Kick and the Snare, causing considerable buzz around the country, the group's stop in Albuquerque in support of the reunited Posies, will be a chance for the band to show off their songs, drink copious amounts of beer and catch up with old friends.
The group's lead singer and founding member, John Dufilho, is happy be to playing here again.
"I'm totally looking forward to that show," he said. "We've got a lot of friends in Albuquerque because we've played there a few times, so it should be a lot of fun."
Playing with the Posies is also something Dufilho is eagerly awaiting.
"We're really excited to be playing with them," he said. "I was a big fan of their album Frosting on the Beater, so it's very cool."
The band's dates with the Posies arose from a chance encounter between Dufilho and Posies vocalist and guitarist, Jon Auer, at a show in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music Festival.
"I introduced myself to him and he told me that he had heard about my band and was interested in listening to us," Dufilho said. "I gave him my e-mail address and he e-mailed me the next day, so I sent him a couple of our CDs and a couple of weeks later we were offered this tour."
When the group formed in Dallas in 1998, it was the punk music of the late '70s and early '80s that was his inspiration, he said.
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"I grew up on the Ramones and the Clash and the punk rock stuff before I fell in love with bands like the Who, the Zombies, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles," Dufilho said.
While Dufilho was immersing himself in punk and the British invasion, other members of the band were interested in groups with a far heavier sound, such as Sonic Youth.
Dufilho said the band's earlier tendency toward making elaborate and expansive art-pop records has started to change in favor of a more direct approach.
"We've tried to make something on this record that is more cohesive than what we've done in the past," Dufilho said. "I think that the hardest thing to do is to say the most without complicating things. We don't want to repeat ourselves."
