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Thirteen Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 9-15

We've got some pretty awesome shows happening in your city this week, and you wanna know what else? Of the twelve concerts listed below, some of the musicians in these bands have be involved in some crazy antics, including the following: 1. Got his/her eye pissed into by a bat, and had to be tested ... More >>

DJ Woodtronic Knows a Good Oddity When He Sees One, and He Sees Plenty in DFW

Photo by Allan Hayslip Known for his sophistication as a DJ, Reid Robinson (a.k.a. Woodtronic) gets groovy, laid back gigs spinning at spots like the Perot Museum and outdoor shows in Dallas Arts District. Not to say he can't pump (and punk) it up if needed...you can also see him spinning pretty reg ... More >>

Title Fight's Shane Moran Totally Played Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

Pennsylvania's Title Fight come to Dada on Tuesday, November 13, with Pianos Become the Teeth, Power Trip and Single Mothers, in support of latest album Floral Green. Guitarist Shane Moran took time out to share the band's musical influences, his first show, and remind us Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! ex ... More >>

Our 34 picks for 35 Denton

Here Holy Spain remembers the Galaxy Club, among other first shows

​ With plans for a follow-up to this year's acclaimed Division, 2012 looks good for pop-punk trio Here Holy Spain. To tide you over, they have a song on this year's Idol Christmas compilation called "God-Damn This Christmas." As the band wraps up the year, all three recently shared with us t ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Classic Rock, Covered in King Biscuit Flower Hour

​George Gimarc confirms what I thought I remembered: Early on the King Biscuit Flower Hour aired on KZEW, before, some time in the early '80s, it jumped over to Q102. Makes sense: Blondie's 1979 KBFH appearance, recorded at the original Palladium, and mid-'70s Clapton, with Freddie King at the Dal ... More >>

Roky Erickson, Fort Worth Music Festival, Rocktoberfest and More Weekend Shows...

Roky Erickson​It's difficult to pick the top show this weekend. There's just a lot going on. All over the place, too. For instance, if you take the elevator up to the thirteenth floor, you'll probably run into troubled genius, Roky Erickson, who is headlining at The Kessler Theater tonight. Howeve ... More >>

Blondie, Nico Vega

Saturday, October 1, at the Granada Theater

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: God Save the Longhorn Ballroom From the Sex Pistols

Via.​Seeing as how C.J. Ramone's in town tonight, I'd hoped this recording of the Ramones at the Fair Park Band Shell from July 26, 1990 (password's "gle-gle.blogspot.com," if you're so inclined), would be at the very least listenable. Only, it sounds like it was recorded from someone standing in ... More >>

Last Night: Paul Collins' Beat, Bad Sports and Occult Detective Club at Rubber Gloves

Paul Collins' Beat, Bad Sports, Occult Detective ClubRubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, DentonJune 9, 2011Better than: a night filled with powerless pop.Paul Collins​Power-pop, generally, is a young man's game. It takes a certain vigor, a certain snottiness and a certain youthful energy to pull off ... More >>

Gini Mascorro Sneaks Local Acts Into KXT's Rotation, But Knows She Can't Please Everyone.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Gini Mascorro​Gini Mascorro's humble musical beginnings came as a shy East Fort Worth junior high ... More >>

Novaak

I Am, You Are (Self-released)

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Talking Heads Go to a Palladium on Fire in 1978

​And speaking of Chris Frantz ...Happy Almost Anniversary! And where were you on December 11, 1978? The Palladium, perhaps? (The original, that is to say -- near Abrams and Northwest Highway. You know, the Agora.) Lucky you -- that was the night the Talking Heads played Dallas for the very first t ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Novaak -- "Marnie"

Novaak​ Tomorrow night, the normally alt-country vibes of City Tavern will turn decidedly electronic as the venue hosts a quadruple-bill of three bands that DC9 readers are already long familiar with and a fourth that they've likely never heard, but should--and soon. Joining Hoyotoho, Darktown Str ... More >>

Q&A: Peter Case Wig!s Us Out

​One-time street musician Peter Case has come a long way since entering the San Francisco music scene way back in 1976. Case's first band, The Nerves, had a regional hit with "Hanging on the Telephone," a song Blondie would later make famous. Case's next band, The Plimsouls, did a bit better with ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 19: Lucy Wrubel

​Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. "I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music." Wrubel says, "After spen ... More >>

For Your Long Weekend Listening Pleasure: Frank Zappa, Blondie Do Dallas Way Back When

​With an extra day this weekend, an extra night: Blondie on December 1, 1979, from an unspecified Dallas venue; and Frank Zappa at the Dallas Convention Center Arena on October 17, 1980. Both, revolutionary in their own right.They're both flawless recordings -- Blondie because it was for radio. As ... More >>

What It Was Like: Eighteen Bands In Twelve Hours.

Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day.​ The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>

Gig Alert: The Ettes, THe BAcksliders, The Demigs Tonight at Rubber Gloves

It's always a good sign for any scene to have shows where the local opening bands have just as much to say as the out-of-town headliners. Based out of Los Angeles, The Ettes is a charismatic trio that has previously been described as "trashy, disposable fun." And who am I to argue with that? Bits of ... More >>

Remember: Tomorrow, Dreaming is Free

"Dreaming," Jamal Vrno/Art MoCo​Just a quick reminder for those in need of Saturday-morning plans: Tomorrow at 9:30 is the West Dallas "dreaming session" at the St. Mary of Carmel Community Center on Vilbig Road. Actually, since last we discussed this date, the event -- featuring "the man who buil ... More >>

The Early Republic Is Dallas' Latest Retread

The Clint and the Dead

See the Man With No Name at the Inwood

Aging Musically

Blondie's frontwoman is still stage-worthy

Just What You Needed

Blondie drives in with some New Cars

Rooney, The Sounds and Paloalto

September 17

Various Artists

The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC Video)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Fever to Tell (Interscope)

No depression

With a new album, Radney Foster isn't so "heartbroke and then some" anymore

Love hurts

Arthur Lee was the mastermind of one of rock's most influential -- and most forgotten -- bands. Today he's in prison, and for the first time, he's talking.

Letters

Out There

The oldest story in the world

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

School daze

Susan Skoog's Whatever is long on '80s atmosphere but short on impact

Broken Fever

The hardest thing Nick Brisco ever did was grow up

The great Pumpkin

With Adore, Billy Corgan has finally made a record as good as he thinks it is

The LeAnn Rimes of mariachi music

Talented and determined, Nydia Rojas is forging a pop career while remaining true to her roots

The rise of Auntie Christ

Exene Cervenkova throws down the gauntlet

Beercan boys

Pop punkers Pansy Division love sex, so they sing about it. A lot.

Big balls

For those about to rock, we salute AC/DC

Between the cracks

Surprise--David Garza grows up in public and survives

Roadshows

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor