Austin

Garden Café Hosts Dinner and "Viva Les Amis" Screening Tonight

Tonight at Garden Café there will be a screening of the movie "Viva Les Amis," a documentary about the funky, small coffee shop in Austin, Les Amis, that was part of the actual real weird movement prior to everyone figuring out 1) Austin was, in fact, a little weird and 2) weird is "okay," despite ... More >>

Seven Cheese Things That Must Really Annoy Good Cheese

If I were Actual Cheese, I'd be super annoyed by all the cheese poseurs in the grocery store these days. I bet Actual Cheese looks at Cheez Whiz in exactly the same way a 60 year-old dude from Austin looks at all the college kids who moved to Austin last year and constantly complain about the touris ... More >>

Balmorhea

Friday, February 8, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton

Crooks

Friday, November 9, at Magnolia Motor Lounge

The Sword

Tuesday, October 30, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

Nakia Found His Voice on The Voice. Now What?

If you've heard of Austin-based singer Nakia, it might have been from his stint on The Voice last summer, when he reinterpreted Cee-Lo's "Forget You." His voice is a force of nature, raised on soul and blues, and of course it turned heads. He made it to the quarter finals before being voted off, but ... More >>

Terminator 2, Lechuguillas, Bludded Head - Rubber Gloves - 4/10/12

Denton label and all-around art/music enthusiasts Gutterth put together a furiously energetic noise show last night at Rubber Gloves. Brent Best of Slobberbone fame and Batey Ray of popular Denton punk trio The Swedish Teens were drink-slinging behind the bar, handling the packed house with an antit ... More >>

Coming Down the Mountain: 35 Denton Announces SO MANY BANDS

And by so many we mean 111, including a wealth of locals. It's sort of a dream lineup: A.Dd , Old Snack, Legsweeper, the Angelus, the Blurries, Video. Must ... stock up on ... 5-Hour Energy. Wait, never mind. I learned my lesson two SXSWs ago. That shit is nasty. Check out the video, soundtracked ... More >>

Giveaway: Who Wants A Free Pair of Three-Day Passes To Fun Fun Fun Fest?

​By now, you should know a lot about the 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. There's the fact that the Austin fest will take place this year on November 4, 5 and 6. Also: That it's moved out of Waterloo Park and over to the bigger Auditorium Shoes. And Slayer will be there. Spoon, too. Public Enemy a ... More >>

Spoon, Black Lips, Cannibal Corpse and Others Join Still-Growing Fun Fun Fun Fest Bill

​Further proof that Fun Fun Fun Fest is making a serious run at Austin City Limits as the go-to Austin-based music festival this fall: Today, rather unexpectedly, the three-day, Transmission Entertainment-promoted event has added a few more names to its bill, including Austin heroes and ACL vets S ... More >>

Slayer Is The Latest Act To Join The Increasingly Impressive Lineup For Fun Fun Fun Fest '11

The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest's biggest offering yet. Who's the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or " ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Starts Leaking Lineup, Announces Odd Future, X, M83 Performances

We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>

Tomorrow, ACL Announces Its 2011 Lineup. Today, We Share Our Best Guess On The Bill.

​Tomorrow, we've been promised, the folks behind the Austin City Limits Music Festival will unveil the lineup of bands playing their 2011 offering, which, this year, for its 10th anniversary, will take place in Austin's Zilker Park on the third weekend of September.And credit where it's due: The o ... More >>

Contest: Win One Pair of Tickets To Libertine Bar's March Beer Dinner Wednesday Night

​As mentioned last week, the Libertine Bar's March beer dinner is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, and will feature the greatness of Austin brewery Jester King. The dinner sounds tasty (menu available here), and should also be a great opportunity to try some very interesting beers. Boxer's Reve ... More >>

Rain-Dancing DISD Super Michael Hinojosa Invokes Popeye at Save Texas Schools Rally

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa was among those who spoke Saturday in front of the guesstimated 12,000-plus parents, educators and students amassed in front of the state capitol building in Austin. His brief remarks are above. They am what they am. Dalton Sherman ... More >>

The Sword's Having More Fun Than You Think

Band of Heathens, The Trishas, Charlie Shafter

Tuesday, December 28, at the Granada Theater

Giveaway: Another Free Pair of Fun Fun Fun Fest Passes

​We did this once before to big results, so, as promised, here it is again: The fifth incarnation of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, this year taking place at Waterloo Park on November 5, 6 and 7 and featuring the likes of Weird Al, among many others, is looking like the festival's most promising offer ... More >>

It May Be Called "Moonshine," But The Brunch Is Totally Legit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ventoetc/Moonshine plate o'brunch​There is a magical land filled with sun and alcoholic beverages and easy living. A place with ready-made campsites where all you have to do is pay an exorbitant rental fee, build your fire and spend the rest of your life riding bikes, ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Show at The Loft with Shearwater, Wye Oak and Hospital Ships

In this week's forest-killing version of DC9, one Cory Graves handles the task of catching us all up to speed on Austin's Shearwater, which comes to town tomorrow night with Wye Oak and Hospital Ships in tow for maybe the best top-to-bottom bill we'll see all weekend. Turns out Shearwater just dropp ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Leftovers

Patrick Michels​Three days after getting back from Austin, I've still got a good post-festival buzz. With all apologies to NX35, it was by far the most fun I've had at a Texas music festival. Oddly, the rain didn't bother me all that much. It made things messy and uncomfortable, but it also kind o ... More >>

Owen Temple

Dollars and Dimes (El Paisano Records)

Festival News from Austin City Limits: Bands Wanted

​The lineup for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival is being set and worthy bands are being encouraged to sign up for something called The Sound and The Jury competition.Here's the scoop that got sent to me via email this morning: "Round One is live now and bands can upload their music a ... More >>

Sweep the Legs! It's Gonna Cost More -- and Take Longer -- to Get Rid of Reunion Arena.

​When last we saw Reunion Arena, it looked like "a coffee table from 1974." Or, "that carport thingie that's going up in the Arts District." Turns out, it'll stay that way a while longer -- like, oh, till at least January of next year. How come?Under the arena's exterior plaster finish, there is a ... More >>

Good Friday: The Felons, Joe Ely, Peacemaker, Telegraph Canyon, Sleep Whale, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Daniel Francis Doyle, Little Black Dress, Record Hop

Weekend's here and I'm sure we're all eager to get it launched. So, without further ado, let's get right into it. First, the shows we've already talked up...Tonight, Ben Kweller stops in for a homecoming gig of sorts at the Granada Theater, Cryptacize stops by Rubber Gloves for a set with Fishboy an ... More >>

Centro-matic To Tweet Tomorrow Night, Whilst Rocking Your Robin.

As I retweeted just moments ago (check out our Twitter-log in the right-hand column on this page...and follow me, too, if ya want), Centro-matic's got a gig tomorrow night at the Granada Theater with the fine fellows of The Crash That Took Me and Austin's The Monahans. And while that's fine and goo ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to Catch Lymbyc Systym At Hailey's Tomorrow Night

Austin's Lymbyc Systym sure makes some purdy instrumental ambient electro, as the above video shows quite capably. And tomorrow night, when the band hits the stage at Hailey's with experimental Denton instrumental duo Florene, it should make for a pretty trippy time. Maybe not as trippy as the abov ... More >>

Dude Food: SXSW Edition

Patrick MichelsRoppolo's Red River "location" did big business at SXSW.I spent much of the last week in Austin for SXSW, so rather than hipping you guys to some local jewel this week, I've decided to give a play-by-play commentary of how I vittled down in the Live Music Capitol of the World.Comprehe ... More >>

South By On A Dime: Wednesday

With the music industry, print media and the economy all struggling (to put it mildly), I imagine there are a lot of people in Austin trying to pinch pennies however they can. At least, I am. Now, I don't want to be a piker when it comes to bringing home music and souvenirs, but as for the essential ... More >>

My Bloody Valentine To Perform At Palladium Ballroom As One Of Just Four Stateside Post-Coachella Dates

It's been pretty widely reported already this morning, but it's definitely worth pointing out again, in case some of you might've missed it: Seminal shoegaze act My Bloody Valentine is coming to town for a Palladium Ballroom performance just over a month from now, on Wednesday, April 22. It's one o ... More >>

The Nervebreakers To Reunite For Austin, Club Dada Shows

The Nervebreakers are back. While Zac Crain is geeking out over on Frontburner today about a Sex Pistols cover band playing the Longhorn Ballroom next month (my how the mighty have fallen...), he was able to touch on some interesting news that I'd missed earlier today...(Thanks, spam filter!)...name ... More >>

The Ideas Behind The No Idea Festival

Ten Years On, Office Space Returns!

Patrick MichelsFrom left, Office Space stars Gary Cole, David Herman and Stephen RootFans and cast members filled Austin's historic Paramount Theater last night to honor the 10th anniversary of one of Texas's greatest gifts to the global zeitgeist: the Mike Judge classic Office Space. With its offic ... More >>

Dotty Griffith's Top 10 Things I Miss About Dallas

Just about three years ago, the damn near legendary Dallas Morning News food critic Dotty Griffith decided to hang up the notepad and head down to Austin. Now, the UT grad and unrepentant Texan (who once said "barbecue is the most American of foods; to hell with apple pie") spent plenty of time in a ... More >>

Better Late Than Never: Airline Wins Competition To Play RedGorilla Fest

Jason UpshawI guess maybe I should've posted this on Monday morning, as I knew the news then, but for whatever reason, it slipped my mind: Congrats are in order for Airline, who, on Saturday night at Club Dada, beat out Sunward and Hendrick in an audience vote to determine which act gets to perform ... More >>

Blockdot Goes on the iPhone Apps "Gold Rush" With Chicktionary

The latest issue of Newsweek IDs the latest and greatest way to make money since Ponzi schemes: iPhone applications. Says one Austin-based developer, "It's kind of a gold rush." Which, nice segue, leads us to the media release that landed in the in-box a couple of days back from yet another Dallas-b ... More >>

Scenes from the White Rock Marathon

Dylan Hollingsworth was out at the Dallas White Rock Marathon yesterday, gathering photos for our slide show. The event, though, was been overshadowed by the death of Erin Lahr, a 29-year-old newlywed from Austin whose mother tells the Austin American-Statesman today that she was "really positive an ... More >>

Rabbis Give Texas State Board of Education the Hebrew Hammer

The Texas State Board of Education's meeting in Austin about, among other things, whether the board ought to revise the state’s science curriculum to allow for, ya know, the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Which is why three rabbis, two from 'round these parts and one of whom hail ... More >>

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Dead Twins

Friday, November 7, at Club Dada

ACL, Meet DC9

Dallas benefits, again, from being near Austin City Limits

Look at all the concerts ACL is leading our way this weekend (while ignoring the ugly side effects)!

Dallas and Those "Scary" Chemtrails

One of These Things is Not Like the Others on Texas Book Fest Schedule

Poster of the Week: HEALTH

I've Had Dreams Like This

Boston Phoenix Names Greatest Bands, Solo Artists and Current Acts For All 50 States

Green Memories

"All right. All right. All right."

Road Show: Shearwater's CD Release Party in Austin

Punk Act Warcola To Split Single With Austin's Spitting Bullets

Bavu Blakes Gets XXL Magazine Nod