David Bowie

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

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. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

The Power of Dallas: Erykah Badu Gives Tyler a Bump and Bill's Old Friend Makes the White House

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. Tyler, The Creator features several artists on his new album, and according to CD Source owne ... More >>

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 >>

The Young's Hans Zimmerman: "I Remember Listening to Slayer While Getting Tattooed"

Austin's The Young hit Bryan Street Tavern on Saturday night with Young Prisms and Midnite Society, touring behind Matador Records debut Dub Egg. Frontman Hans Zimmerman gave a nice little rundown of some of his musical firsts, including south Texas metal shows, how he got into Matador Records, and ... More >>

Florence and the Machine - Palladium Ballroom - 5/1/12

Florence and the Machine Palladium Ballroom Tuesday, May 1 As I scrolled backwards through my notes from last night's show, I found something I had jotted down a few days earlier, I think from an episode of Parks and Recreation: "Don't half ass two things. Whole ass one thing." I took that as my s ... More >>

Heartbreak on Mars III

Saturday, January 7, at Texas Theatre

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Smells Like Nirvana at the Fair Park Coliseum in '93

​The Legendary Show happened two years and two months earlier at Trees. That one's been well-documented. There's video -- it never gets old. Then there's Jeff Liles's recap, which ran in the paper version of Unfair Park in '05, shortly before a bankruptcy judge closed the club's doors. What a mess ... More >>

Listomania: The 15 Most Unexpected, Unlikely, and Downright Awkward Collaborations of All Time

Beck​Yesterday Beck announced that he had been "recording some tracks" with country singer Dwight Yoakam. And yeah, we guess we could kind of see that, as Beck has run the gamut of styles during his career, touching on hip-hop, electronic, folk, and mariachi. But, even though it makes sense when ... More >>

Food Fight, or: Beginning Your Friday With a Chance to Get Iron Fork-ed For Free

​While awaiting several calls back about items forthcoming, allow me to dispense with these four VIP ducets to Wednesday's Iron Fork event at the Fashion Industry Gallery, where chefs John Tesar and Scott Romano will square off whilst attendees dine on samplings from the likes of Il Cane Rosso and ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Destroyer, War On Drugs, and Nervous Curtains at The Loft on Saturday

Destroyer, the chamber pop group lead by Dan Bejar, also of New Pornographers fame,  will being playing at The Loft tomorrow night in promotion of their latest album, Kaputt, which has received much critical acclaim for its wafting, smooth-jazz feel and heavy horn usage. The album is not of the ... More >>

Maze of Bowie

Listomania: The Five Best and Five Worst Alter Egos in Music

​Tonight, groundbreaking experimental rapper Kool Keith will be gracing The Loft with his presence. And we're hella stoked. Not only is the rapper one of our favorites, but his skill set is undeniable and his advancements in the "horrorcore" and "porncore" genres are fairly irrefutable. Plus. he's ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Rapper galleryCat Talks About Loving The Cure, Taylor Swift and Folk

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.​Dallas rapper galleryCat is known for his multi-instrumental live affairs, which often end up ... More >>

Listomania: Top Five Music-Related Halloween Costumes... For Your Cats.

Keyboard Cat is too easy! Try Cat Garth Brooks, instead.​So, Halloween's closing in, and you have to choose a costume. It's tough, isn't it? The clock is ticking--and if you don't choose something remarkable then the night is a big suck pile.Then, there's your pet. Do you dress it up for the occas ... More >>

Old 97's To Release Covers EP, Mimeograph, Next Week

​Well, this kinda came out of nowhere: Next week--a week from tomorrow, in fact--the Old 97's will release a four-song covers EP, called Mimeograph, via new West Records. The album, which comes before the band's planned double-album release this fall, finds the old Dallas favorites covering The Ro ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: David Bowie and Stevie Ray and the Tour That Wasn't

​I had intended to provide as this week's aural audio the entirety of Beck's redo of INXS's Kick, which features on guitar and vocals none other than Lake Highlands' own Annie Clark, or St. Vincent. (The formerly Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated St. Vincent, Pete asks me to remind you as I d ... More >>

Literary Christmas Bonus: Music-Related Books To Gift This Holiday Season

​Judging by the lines I faced while shopping at Borders this weekend, books are one of the top gift items this holiday season. And what better gift for the music geek in your life than a rock biography? This year, there have been several interesting life stories to hit the shelves. Here are three ... More >>

Halloween Observatory

Today In Music News: Liner Notes To Hit iTunes, The Raconteurs Get Some Country Lovin' and Introducing Heteropoda Davidbowie

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 10, 2009... Finally, I can check out liner notes and "inside-the-sleeve" album art on my iTunes player.  Unfortunately, you still can't roll joints on them. Now some of my family members will finally realize who Jack White is: The ... More >>

Bowie's Maze

Ziggy Jr. In Space

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

Today In Music News: Chasing Pavement, Bowie To Blame

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 14, 2009... It looks like another legendary band could be getting back together--if a promoter can cough up enough dough. Yep, this time it could be indie legends Pavement who could be on the reunion trail. I like to see they aren' ... More >>

It's Not Americana; It's Dress-Up

Don't be fooled by the faded denim and snap-button cowboy shirts

Bite Down

Vampires fight hunger at the Inwood

Shiny Toy Guns

Tuesday, October 7, at The Loft

Heat Rave

Remember when summer was awesome? No? Well, Here are 10 great summers in music history to jog your memory.

Beauxregard

When Balloons Were Sleeves (Lion Dog)

While Trent Reznor Broods, Saul Williams Celebrates Their Music Download Experiment

Bowie and SRV's Golden Year

Songs from Bowie, Stevie Ray's Golden Era

Bowie at the Bell

Some advice for those who dare the unthinkable

David Does Dallas. In 1978.

Just Let Her Go

The Secret Machines are Hunky Dory

Big Fun, Even Small

Best Way to Be Famous and Not So Much at the Same Time

Being a member of The Polyphonic Spree

Rocketman

To boldly go where many have ralphed before

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Best Fit to the T

Casa Loco

Make Love With His Ego

Mars attacks at the Inwood

Various Artists

Music from the Motion Picture Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax)

Mars Attacks

This rock doc puts Stardust in your eyes

Poison

June 2

David Bowie

Bowie at the Beeb: The Best of the BBC Sessions '68-'72

Out There

David Bowie

Bring out your dead

A Yankee photographer moves south and brings the bodies with him

Roadshows

Roadshows

Roadshows