Concerts and Tours

Percussionist Nick Hennies Brings Meditative Percussion to CentralTrak's Ex Mus

Last November, CentralTrak debuted Ex Mus, an experimental concert series, featuring Denton musicians Andrew Jordan Miller, Jonathan Jackson, Chaz Underriner and Martian Back reinterpreting Greek composer Anatassis Phillippakopoulous. It was an ambitious first show, and set the tone for the quarterl ... More >>

The Postal Service are Coming to Dallas: Presale Starts Tomorrow

Update, 2/20, 9:50 a.m. The pre sales have started for East Coast dates. The link goes live to the right of the date, where it currently says On Sale Soon. Once you click, you get put in a queue for tickets, so I'd try and click as close to 10 a.m. as you humanly can. As in, start refreshing your br ... More >>

This Week's Top Show Announcements: Beyoncé, She & Him, Tim McGraw and More

Beyoncé Saturday, July 6, at American Airlines Center Tickets go on sale Monday for the "Mrs. Carter Show" world tour, with stops in more than forty cities worldwide. The North American dates kickoff in L.A. on June 28. If Queen Bey's Superbowl half-time show this past weekend was any indication of ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Will Headline This Year's Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert

The city of Dallas wants this year's St. Patrick's Day festivities to be a little more "family friendly." It's in that spirit that we make this important announcement: We're bringing Snoop Dogg to the party. The Doggfather will headline the annual Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day concert on the af ... More >>

Lights All Night

Saturday, December 29 & Monday, December 31, in Fair Park

Preservation Hall Jazz Band's Creole Christmas

Friday, December 21, at Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge

Ab-Soul and Jay Rock

Friday, September 7, at the Prophet Bar

Hot Wet Mess

Saturday, September 1 at North Texas Fairgrounds

Eight of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Patio Sessions, DJ Klever and More

Patio SessionsEvery Thursday in the fall at AT&T Performing Arts Center, FreeIt's time for cooler weather again, and with it comes the AT&T Performing Arts Center's free outdoor concert series, Patio Sessions, which is sponsored by DC9 At Night. They've put together a fantastic lineup for th ... More >>

Elemental Souls

Saturday, August 4, at Sandaga 813

Schoolboy Q - The Door - 6/30/12

Schoolboy Q The Door Saturday, June 30 On a night defined by sweat and hype, Schoolboy Q showed that sometimes you can be too good. Taking the stage after a litany of local artists, Q stalked the stage and effortlessly shifted gears between songs, taking control of style after style, showing exactl ... More >>

Float Comes To Lake Lewisville Memorial Day Weekend: Are You Ready To Party On A Boat With Ray Wylie Hubbard?

So, you can probably already tell this summer is going to be rough, right? Like, "Fireballs From the Sky" b/w "Heat Gusts From Hell." Enjoy that breeze while you can. With that in mind, the Observer, Spune and Dan's Silverleaf have partnered up for a concert series that actually puts you on a boat ... More >>

Spoon's Eric Harvey: "The Worst Show I Ever Saw Was Also One Of The Best. The Band Was Called Shadow Church..."

It's been too long since Spoon has played Dallas, but tonight, they return to the Granada for a sold-out show. Keyboardist Eric Harvey lives here and you might have seen him at shows as big as Wilco at Fair Park Music Hall or as small as the final Annex House show. Harvey recently put out an excell ... More >>

Other Lives, The Relatives and The Best of This Weekend's Shows

​Lots of big shows are happening this weekend -- several on the Good Records stage -- including Stillwater, Oklahoma's, Other Lives. The band, who will be joined by Dallas violinist Daniel Hart, is making a quick stop at Good Records just before they open for Radiohead on Monday. The biggest show, ... More >>

Local Singer-Songwriter Ronnie Fauss Signs With New West

There have been some notable record deals inked among North Texas artists in recent years -- Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights on Atlantic and Midlake on Bella Union pop to mind -- and as of February 10, Dallas-based singer-songwriter Ronnie Fauss joined the ranks of regional artists with serious ... More >>

Yelawolf - Trees - 2/18/12

Yelawolf Trees Saturday, February 18 Yelawolf went on stage at 11:30 p.m., a pretty average start time for a Saturday show, but those assembled were chanting his name for so long and so aggressively that it felt like ages before he finally hit the stage. If this wasn't the experience of everyone at ... More >>

UPDATE: Red Hot Chili Peppers Reschedule Dallas Date For October

​In the days leading up to Friday night's How The Edge Stole Christmas, KDGE 102.1-FM The Edge's annual holiday music festival at Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre, the radio station talked up a big concert announcement that was to be made sometime during the show.Turns out it was a pretty big annou ... More >>

Boo-Hoo: Adam Ant's Dallas Date Canceled

Bummer for folks of a certain age and musical disposition: Adam Ant's upcoming tour dates have been postponed due to circumstances beyond his control -- i.e., his new album being delayed. The tour has been rescheduled for the fall. (Update: The Dallas show has been rescheduled for September 21.) M ... More >>

True Widow Does Violitionist Session

​It's been a busy year for Dallas stonegaze three-piece True Widow, who have recently returned from a tour in Europe.With the release of two records this year, As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth and I.N.O., the band has been inched even further int ... More >>

Concert Foul No. 4: The Front Row Beer Mule

Don't be a jackass.​It's a big night. One of your favorite bands of all-time is in a venue small enough to where you can be closer to them than you had ever imagined. You're not up front, but damn it, you're close enough and you're ready for the show to begin.Sure, rock shows can be rowdy, and you ... More >>

Last Night: Scattered Trees and The Alternate Routes at Prophet Bar

Scattered Trees, The Alternate RoutesProphet BarAugust 8, 2011Better than: a band in a mismatched room on a quiet Tuesday.Drew ReynoldsScattered Trees​ The four members of Chicago's Scattered Trees took the stage at the Prophet Bar for a modest audience of perhaps 50 when they started their headli ... More >>

My First Show: Chance Morgan of The Burning Hotels On One of the Bronco Bowl's Last Shows

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Mindy ByrdChance Morgan​Chance Morgan and Matt Mooty, friends since childhood, are the masterminds behind one of Fort Worth's finest ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival at the Granada Theater

Gorilla Vs. Bear FestivalGranada TheaterJuly 23, 2011Better than: being in a confined space where an actual gorilla and an actual bear are fighting.Mike Mezeul Grimes was a highlight among Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest's offerings. For more photos from the night, check out our slideshow.​On Saturday night ... More >>

Good Friday: Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival and the Rest of the Weekend's Shows

Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival​If you've been keeping up with DC9 in any capacity over the last few weeks, or if you've seen the cover story of this week's Observer, then you know we're pretty psyched about Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival this weekend. Not only is there a carefully curated handful of brillia ... More >>

Good Friday: Analog Rebellion, C.J. Ramone and the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

While definitely not the biggest show this weekend, we thought the above concert promo video for tonight's show at Dada deserved a view. If only we had a "Concert Trailer of the Week" feature on DC9...Oh well. Still pretty cool, though.But if the above lineup featuring Analog Rebellion, Gallerycat, ... More >>

Five Bands Expected To Draw Big Crowds at Warped Tour

Over The Weekend: The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun and True Widow at The Loft

The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun and True WidowThe Loft May 21, 2011Briana PurserThe Black Angels​Sure, Saturday night's particularly droney  triple-bill of The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun and True Widow may have taken place inside The Loft. But it hardly felt that way, instead feeling more like a s ... More >>

Q&A: Warpaint's Theresa Wayman Wonders Why There Aren't More All-Girl Rock Bands

In 2008, Los Angeles noise pop quartet Warpaint released their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse, an effort that earned the band massive amounts of attention -- enough so that the band was asked to open for several high-profile acts, including Akron/Family and the nationally sold-out tour from The xx. Now, ... More >>

Here Holy Spain

Division (Idol Records)

The Kessler Theater and City of Ate Team Up for a Musical Food Interlude

Forgive us a little bit of self-promotion here: The Kessler Theater and City of Ate have teamed up to offer the monthly "Supper Club at The Kessler," a series of food and music events featuring a mix of some of the area's most talented chefs and musical performers. The Kessler's main room will be ... More >>

My First Show: Elkhart's Travis Hopper Shares His Memories Of Seeing The Jacksons, Guns N' Roses and The Hold Steady For The First Time.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Travis Hopper​You might have seen him play with The Americanos, J.D. Whittenburg or as a solo act, but, these days, Travis Hopper s ... More >>

Today In Music News: You Get a Gaga Halloween Costume, Garth Brooks Gets His Benefit On and the Pixies Give Away a Recording.

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 29, 2010...If you still haven't found that perfect costume for Halloween, might I suggest a meat dress inspired by Lady Gaga? It's only $100,000.Garth Brooks has decided to headline a timely benefit concert for Nashville flood victims.The P ... More >>

The Grand Theatre, Volume One, Earns Old 97's The Highest Billboard Chart Position of Career

​Good news out of Old 97's camp today, as the band has announced that The Grand Theatre, Volume One, has earned the band its career high marks in Billboard chart position. In its first week on the charts, the disc placed at No. 83 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, No. 25 in the Rock Chart, No, 15 ... More >>

Q&A: N*E*R*D's Pharrell Williams Talks Social Commentary, T.I.'s Recent Arrest and Producing The Game's New Disc.

It may not seem like it, but N*E*R*D has been around for almost 10 years now, playing their genre-defying style of urban crossover rock. Featuring Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley, the band brings its experiences from the mega-successful Neptunes and puts it into a unique rock experience ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to Tonight's Guided by Voices Show at the Palladium Showroom

Quite the treat tonight down at the Palladium where Robert Pollard and the rest of his classic Guided by Voices lineup are reuniting and kicking off their U.S. tour for one of just two dates the band will play before performing at Matador Records' 21st anniversary party in Las Vegas on October 3.And ... More >>

Over the Weekend: KISS, Daughtry, Pat Green, Drowning Pool, The Academy Is . . ., The Envy, Revengeance at Pizza Hut Park

KISS, Daughtry, Pat Green, Drowning Pool, The Academy Is..., The Envy, RevengeancePizza Hut ParkSaturday, September 18, 2010(Way) better than: getting drunk and watching KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. Roger Caldwell"How 'bout a little Kiss?"​It was the same old KISS that showed up on Saturday ... More >>

Jaap It Up

Tell Me Whatch Gonna Do

Sharpen Your Axe

Blizzard's A-Comin'

Boy In the Hood

Pickin' Circle

Video Pop

Atari warps into the Meyerson

More Than Dusty Sail

Bop and Awe

Kneel at the altar of the Doodlebops

Ma-ya-ya-ya-beh

Candlebox treats you oh so bad

Hey Casanova

Take Stock

This Here Utopia

Raise some funds for the Kinkster's keepers

And The Band Played On

Take one Last Waltz at the Inwood