Coldplay

David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

New Fumes Covers Gary Numan's "Observer"

Today, we mark Gary Numan's 54th birthday with a Covering Tracks homage by Dallas' own New Fumes. The godfather of synth-pop is still going strong, touring extensively last year, performing 1979's The Pleasure Principle in its entirety and providing guest vocals on the Battles track "My Machines." W ... More >>

Big K.R.I.T. Reps the New Southern Hip-Hop Underground

Are people still using PlayStations? If the brand is looking for a charming accomplishment via their product, they need look no further than Big K.R.I.T. As a resourceful teenager, Justin Scott used PlayStation's MTV Music Generator to form his first beats, and that entrepreneurial spirit guided hi ... More >>

In Defense of... Gavin DeGraw "Not Over You"

I've never been into bluesy piano rock played by guys wearing fedoras over casual clothing. It just seems like something made specifically for impressionable young women or those married couples that spoon at concerts. I'm neither of those, so that's probably why I never heard of Gavin DeGraw u ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Eisley at the Granada Theater

Eisley, The Narrative, Christie DuPreeGranada TheaterJune 4, 2011Better than: the band's Good Records in-store performance a few months back.Two-thirds of the way through Eisley's 70-minute, Saturday night offering at the Granada Theater, the band, which had already performed a mostly tight, swirlin ... More >>

Before He Celebrates 17 Years of Hosting The Adventure Club, Josh Venable Looks At Its Past

Josh Venable​Halfway through our talk with KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge radio host Josh Venable, he excuses himself from the conversation."Hold on for one second, I've got to do a break real fast," he says, before pausing to clear his throat as the last notes of Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says" play in th ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Los Lobos at The Granada and Needtobreathe at House of Blues

A bit of a slow hump day evening, but at least one legendary band is playing our region tonight.

Eisley Has The Battle Scars to Prove Their Coming of Age.

Staff Trax: Happy Birthday, The Walkmen, Stars, Sarah Jaffe, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and, uh, Rammstein?

​Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend dominate our coverage. Consider this a chance to get some more insight into our personal tastes. And a chan ... More >>

Thrice Returns To The Form It Never Really Left

Heavy on the Cheese

Veggie Guy: Bengal Coast

​The only thing worse than listening to Coldpay is listening to Coldplay on the sitar. Unfortunately, that's the kind of crap you'll hear while dining with your hot date at Bengal Coast.Yes, vegans can score hot dates, too...sometimes.Bengal Coast is a South Asian fusion restaurant located on the ... More >>

Today In Music News: The Get Up Kids Apologizes, Billy Joel Is Sick and Coldplay Heads To Springfield

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 28, 2009... The Get Up Kids have formally apologized for a nation full of eyeliner and tight jean-wearing emo kids. Thank you, it's long overdue. Billy Joel and Elton John's Face 2 Face tour has been forced to cancel a few shows because Joel ... More >>

Amadou and Mariam Break Out Of World Music

World Music Must Die

AMADOU AND MARIAM BREAK OUT OF A FLABBY, GENERIC GENRE

Live Nation Keeps The "No Service Fee Wednesday" Train Going With Deals Today On 4-Packs. Also, A Giveaway!

Just as it did last Wednesday and the Wednesday before that, national booking/concert promotions conglomerate Live Nation is back today with another "No Servive Fee Wednesday" promotion, this time removing all service fee charges on its 4-Pack ticket bundles, which allow ticket-buyers to save 17 pe ... More >>

Patriotic, Not Platonic

Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles ... More >>

Green River Ordinance Signs With EMI/Virgin

Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, not to be confused with Mark Arm and Stone Gossard's recently reunited Sub Pop band, will release its major label debut early next year on EMI/Virgin, according to a press release from EMI music. Out Of My Hands, the follow-up to the band's independent 2006 re ... More >>

Am I Supposed To Treat The Jonas Brothers Like They're Locals Now? Well, For This One Post... OK, I'll Bite.

British Sea Power

Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)

Nada Surf

Lucky (Barsuk)

How to Be a Good Cover Band

NPR Wonders If Dooney's Saggin' Pants Rap is Also Homophobic. Um, Well ...

Fair to Midway

Maybe we should stick some of the bands in the deep-fryer

Prince

Planet Earth (Sony/BMG)

Arresting Development

You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse

Fagen It

Naked Lunch reels in the years

DJ Shadow

The Outsider (A&M)

Norah Jones Will Rock Your Lame Ass

After the Wall

Over 80 bands later, this weekend's Spune Productions fest left listeners elated...the few who endured it, anyway

Odds & Ends

A local band gets its big break on MTV. Excuse us while we yawn.

Pop Rocks

The shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz

Keane, Regina Spektor

Saturday, June 18, at Nokia Theatre

Odds & Ends

The Polyphonic Spree on MTV, a benefit for Deep Ellum beating victim,and Snooping the Snoop

Goodwin, Tripp Fontaine, Love Vs. Hate, the Bomb Almighty

Thursday, June 3 at the Hard Rock Cafe

Strung Up

CMH Records is having a classical gas with every band, like, ever

Deathray Davies, Chomsky, OHNO and Envoy

December 31

Hilary Duff

Metamorphosis (Buena Vista/Hollywood)

Sum 36

DV8 could be the standout at the North Texas New Music Festival

The Heavenly States

The Heavenly States (Future Farmer)

The Old 97's and Eisley

August 9

Perfect Timing

Eisley to headline Buzz-Oven shows

Third Eye Blind

June 15

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Bottle the Spin

The "40 best artists making music right now?" Nah.

Coldplay and Ron Sexsmith

January 31

Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys; the Black Heart Procession; Joseph Arthur

October 22-24

Various Artists

Sounds Eclectic Too (Palm Pictures)

Clinic

March 16