Tune In Saturdays: Ghosthustler

It's hard to get tired of good local DFW music as of late. As you may have noticed around here, my good local band cup overfloweth. Yes, overfloweth. Denton, TX boys Ghosthustler actually broke on the national scene before playing a single show. After a few blogs and college radio stations picked up the song Parking Lot Nights (mp3) with the support of an awesome music video, their star has been rising quickly. Any fan of Nintendo and the 80's will fall in love with the video directed by Peter Ohs, host of fantastic music blog, the Anchor Center. They might remind you of another ghostly TX band and tune in alumni, Ghostland Observatory.

From the Dallas Observer:

"Ghosthustler is a band from Denton. The oldest member, Grey St. Germain Gideon, is 24; the youngest, Alan Palomo, is 19. Shane English and Noah Jackson round out the young crew. They met when Palomo, who is what you might call the Primary Ghosthustler, matriculated last year at the University of North Texas as a radio-television-video-film major. Ghosthustler does not have a publicist, a Web site, a label or even a record. What they do have is attitude, luck, the Internet, one hell of a video and one hell of a song. From all this they have garnered more buzz than a bee hightailing it to the pollen. And the story around Ghosthustler is more than just about a good song. It's about the culmination of a number of pop traditions, and how the future of music—via software, Internet communication and, oddly, looking to the past—is now."

Ghosthustler - Busy Busy Busy (mp3)
Ghosthustler - Parking Lot Nights (video)