Death Cab for Cutie

The Best of Coachella: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... 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 >>

The Jealous Sound's Blair Shehan Remembers his First Guitar: A Black and White Epiphone

In honor of the Jealous Sound's third appearance in the DFW area in 12 months (they play in the House of Blues' Cambridge Room tonight), we caught up with frontman Blair Shehan on how he got into playing guitar, hardcore punk, and where the band is now. What drew you to playing guitar? I grew up ... More >>

Ten Indie Artists Poised for Pop Stardom in 2013

We now live in a world where major corporate radio routinely features songs by Phoenix, M83, The Black Keys, Passion Pit, The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon and Macklemore. These were largely independent artists who for the most part built critical acclaim over the years by producing quali ... More >>

The Long Winters' John Roderick Talks Christmas Music, Becoming Mayor of Seattle

Back in 2006, The Long Winters released Putting the Days to Bed, one of that year's best efforts, but various personal issues resulted in frontman John Roderick taking an extended leave of absence. Since then, he's appeared as a sideman on efforts by Death Cab for Cutie and Nada Surf, but a new Long ... More >>

West Windows' Brandon Butters on Rush: "They Played At Starplex And Had Rotisserie Chickens Behind Them"

Brandon Butters drums for two of Dallas' most promising new bands, The West Windows and Things of Earth. The West Windows debuted earlier this year to a packed Double Wide and are gearing up for an opening slot with The Jealous Sound. Things of Earth have yet to play live, but their scorching debut ... More >>

12 of the Week's Best Show Announcements: Index Music Fest, Indian Jewelry, Ray Price and More

Index Music Fest w/ Portugal. The Man, Washed Out, Grimes & MoreOctober 5, 6, at Trees, $32Last week, Spune announced Index Festival at Trees, which puts them back in the festival game again. If you remember their Wall of Sound Festival in the mid-Aughts, this lineup is an update, built around a ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Octopus Project & Analog Rebellion at the Kessler Theater

Octopus Project, Analog RebellionNovember 12, 2011The Kessler TheaterBetter Than: Having Octopus Project play at your house party and having to clean up the mess. Mike BrooksOctopus Project​If limited to a single word regarding the live performance of Austin's Octopus Project, that word wou ... More >>

John Dufilho to Release Album With Vocals From Ben Kweller, Chris Walla and More

John Dufilho​John Dufilho is a busy man. Always has been. When he's not playing in his band Deathray Davies, he's drumming in Apples In Stereo and producing records, including local act Sealion's next one.But, sometime early next year, he plans to release his most interesting project to date. Dufi ... More >>

Dntel: Brought To You By The Postal Service

For Decades, DJ Merritt and DJ Jeff K Have Snuck Local Electronic Music Onto The Edge

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.DJ Jeff K and the Old 97's at a Dallas Stars game.​In 2011, both DJ Merritt and DJ Jeff K remain s ... More >>

Last Night: An Horse at The Loft

An HorseThe LoftMay 22, 2011Better than: Tying me kangaroo down, sport.An Horse​Australian duo An Horse rode into town on the leading edge of last night's storm system for a show at The Loft. The storm was a likely contributor to the smallish turn-out -- 80 people, maybe. Blame the band for the we ... More >>

Good Friday: The Walkmen, Alejandro Escovedo, Trashcan Sinatras, The Virgin Wolves, Young The Giant, The Hope Trust, Nmperign, Sundress, Randy Travis, Remy Le Boeuf & More!

The Five Amigos or The Walkmen​After kind of a dud last weekend, we've got a pretty solid list of shows to see this weekend. And topping the list for some of us here at DC9 headquarters is The Walkmen concert at The Granada Theater on Saturday night. In this week's paper edition, we ran a piece ab ... More >>

The Secret Handshake Comes to Grips With Adulthood

Last Night: Cadillac Sky, Seryn at House of Blues' Cambidge Room

Cadillac Sky, Seryn House of Blues July 8, 2010 Better Than: a hoot--it was a hoot and a half.Cadillac Sky performing "Born Lonesome" last night at the House of Blues.Cadillac Sky guitarist David Mayfield took a sweaty pause from his emphatic playing to  patiently teach the crowd at the Hou ... More >>

Check Out The Lineup For How The Edge Stole Christmas 2009. Then Proceed To Groan.

Last year's logo was pretty awesome...​It was a couple weeks back now that KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge announced the lineup for the 2009 version of its annual How The Edge Stole Christmas show. And, uh, you'll have to pardon us for missing the announcement when it first came to pass. For pretty obvious ... More >>

PlayRadioPlay! forms an Analog Rebellion

Good Friday: Tre Orsi, The O's, Eleven Hundred Springs, Pet Hospital, Record Hop, Hendrick, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Yppah, John Lefler, 100 Monkeys, August Burns Red, Rick Springfield, Devildriver, Toby Keith, Ellotio Levin Trio, Charlie Daniels Band

The weekend's finally here, boo-yah, and it's a deceptively crowded one music-wise, actually. You should already know about the weekend shows we've already discussed here and in the print edition, but, in case you forgot, well, let's recap. Well, now that I think of it, pretty much every show we've ... More >>

North of the Dial

Taking it to the Streets | Classic Schlock | Roadkill

Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... More >>

The Libertine's Weekly "Local Yokel Show" Expands To Include Live Bands

What? Wrong Libertine? Nothing like the announcement of a slow news day to jumpstart the late afternoon news items, I guess. For instance? This fun bit o' news for Simon McDonald, owner of The Libertine, the best damn bar in town...With the bar's weekly Monday night "Local Yokel" event (where DJ Dee ... More >>

Some Coal For Local Radio XMas Shows

Crapping Out

What happens when a music journalist listens to Bryan Adams' newest release, 11, on loop for 11 straight plays?

Charming Man Josh Venable, Back in The Adventure Club on The Edge

Weekend Roundup: Ruthie Foster, The Gourds, Vanilla Ice, Death Cab for Cutie

Denton's Last Men Impress with Fugazi-Influenced Hardcore

Also: Eric Pulido and Robert Gomez start new label

Nada Surf

Lucky (Barsuk)

Wintertime

John Roderick puts the days and rock criticism to bed

Wait No Longer, Spree Fans

Surf's Up

The men of Nada Surf are finally OK with being popular

Exquisite Corpse

Finally, zombies get some respect in Stubbs.

Trick or Dog Treat

Rain or Shine

We drove to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in ponchos, but we left wearing surgeon's masks

Odds & Ends

Local friends of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown pay tribute to the late musical legend

Television Tunes

Area bands get in on the TV show soundtrack action

God Save the Scene

Plus: Smells Like Indie Spirit

Trend-spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top 10 music stories were all about winning the popular vote

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Smells Like Indie Spirit

Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

Rockin' Around

Holiday gifts for the music lover in your life

Various Artists

Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk Records)

Paradise Found

The Velvet Teen might have been stars. They'd rather be a great band.

Kind of Like Spitting

September 27

Off Our Soapbox

Let SXSW stay in Austin. We're OK with that.

The Ties That Bind

The Top 10 musical ties of 2002

Over Easy

After hatching a new plan with The Egg, Shiner continues to scramble its sound

Be Here Now

The And/Ors don't need a past as long as they have a future

Five for Fighting

Selected Notes on Music, 2000