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Blogs
March 29, 2012
Dallas' Pour le Corps Mines Texas' Experimental Underside, Via Vinyl and Cassette
Pour le Corps label has been on my radar for a few months now, mainly because of their limited-edition theory and vinyl/cassette format. I appreciate that approach, as someone who often feels beat down by the fleeting nature of mp3s, and misses the tactile experience of listening to music: opening a ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
How I Learned To Stop Worrying About the Vibrator in My Mailbox and Love Myself
Nancy Drew and the Mysterious Case of the Vibrating MailboxWhen a vibrator mysteriously ended up in my mailbox recently, I got scared. I checked my apartment for video cameras and recording devices. I asked friends if they were pulling a prank on me. Had I "accidentally" ordered one in the ea ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 14: DJG
This week, DC9er takes it's readers behind the booth with Jonathan Graham--or as he's perhaps better known, DJG. Graham started his career as a DJ nearly a decade ago in Austin, then migrated north to kick-start the ever-popular "80's Dance Night" at Hailey's Club in Denton. Since then, DJG has ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2009
Exploding Plastic Prepares First Release: Little Black Dress
Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records art-pop imprint, is almost ready to go with its first release, Little Black Dress' Snow In June, which is set for a May 5 release.You may recognize a few members of Little Black Dress' lineup--namely frontman Toby Pipes, also of Deep Blue Something, wh ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2009
Explosive Plastic Records, The New Sub-Label From Idol Records, Names Little Black Dress As Its First Signee
Just about a month ago, we first passed along word of the creation of Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records sub-label that plans to focus primarily on putting out records from a more artsy crop of artists than Idol normally backs. And, today, the label has confirmed what sub-label head Dy ... More >>
Music
April 20, 2006
Wright Amendment
The industrial-wave insanity of Denton's best underground trio fits somewhere nicely between Satan and Sartre
Music
May 1, 2003
Adult. Swim
Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller don't want to be "easily accessible." But people like them anyway.
Music
February 20, 1997
Fish and microchips
Aphex Twin is the enfant terrible of British electronica