Def Leppard

Dallas' Glen Reynolds Sings on the New Talib Kweli Album. Listen to His Solo Album Now.

Glen Reynolds certainly has a lot of momentum behind him these days. He recently released his second solo album, Breakbeat Ice Beneath Me, but this time, he's using the moniker of Grey. While the album is a departure from the Weezer-meets-XTC vibe of his earlier material, it certainly represents whe ... 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 >>

10 Of This Weekend's Top Events: Ruby Jane, Schoolboy Q, Track Meet vs. Hot Flash and More

Ruby JaneFriday, June 29, at McDavid StudioRuby Jane, the 17-year-old fiddle phenom, lives in Austin but got her start right here in Dallas. It's hard not to love her. Even Willie Nelson has chimed in with praise for the young country singer, who just released her latest album, Celebrity (Empire of ... More >>

Rock of Ages Posits Tom Cruise as a Hair-Metal God and Hair-Metal as Something Un-Awful

Townhouse Kitchen Bar Now Open at the Galleria (Photos)

​ Imagine walking into a restaurant to the sounds of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Now imagine walking into a restaurant to the sounds of Lady Gaga's latest hit. Were they the same places? Of course not. Which is why it may behoove Townhouse Kitchen Bar at the Galleria to recons ... More >>

Good Friday: Def Leppard, The Romantics, and the Best Shows of This Weekend

Def Leppard​This weekend offers a pretty decent selection in the concert department. And if you'll notice the exciting red and black signs just up above this blog and over to the sides, yes, Def Leppard and The Romantics are coming to the Gexa Energy Pavilion on Saturday.But if you need your drumm ... More >>

Adele and Def Leppard Reschedule and Other, Equally Important Show Announcements

Adele​A few weeks ago, we were sad to announce the postponement of Adele's House Of Blues show due to an illness. However, the British singer has announced that she'll be back, only this time it'll be at the much bigger, and probably more suitable Verizon Theater on Friday, October 21. All ti ... More >>

Ten Songs To Get You Through International Kissing Day

​According to the people I follow on Twitter, today is International Kissing Day. How annoying is that? As if Valentine's Day wasn't bad enough, now we have International Kissing Day to annoy the pants off anyone who doesn't have someone to smooch on. Apparently, Kissing Day was dreamed up as an a ... More >>

Show Announcements: Primus, Real Estate, Ha Ha Tonka, Titus Andronicus, Motley Crue, Poison, New York Dolls, Def Leppard, Matt and Kim, Del The Funky Homosapien, Fishboy, Rooney, Das Racist & More!

Les Claypool of Primus​Among the many arguments that dominated our corner of the high school cafeteria was the topic of world's best bass player. One kid was confident that Flea was the greatest. Another kid was a really big fan of Dave Matthews Band, so he thought that guy was really good. But in ... More >>

Pyromania vs. Pyromania: Def Leppard Tribute Band Feud A-Brewin'

Pyromania found their drummer, apparently. ​A heavy metal feud is brewing between California and Dallas. Seems Southern California's Def Leppard tribute band is pretty pissed off at Dallas' Def Leppard tribute band, according to Spinner and NME. Perusing the Huntington Beach-based Leppard tribute ... More >>

Billy Corgan's Got Some Problems With Today's Music Industry.

Q&A: Cincinatti's 500 Miles To Memphis Talks Working With John Pedigo of The O's, Offers Up A Free Download

500 Miles to Memphis​500 Miles to Memphis may not be a local Dallas band, but five of the band's 36 listed upcoming shows will be played in the region--three this weekend, then one more in August and yet another in October. The Cincinnati-based rock country punk band has been connected with Dallas ... More >>

28 Songs That Should Have Been On the Twilight: Eclipse Soundtrack

Twilight: SoggyHey are we vampires? Cool, just checking.​The Twilight Saga's soundtracks have been mostly impressive. You can say what you want about the movies sucking it hardcore (vampires playing baseball, really?), but the soundtracks feature some surprisingly good tracks from bands like Fanfa ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 10: DJ Red Eye

​ DJ Red Eye has been DJing professionally for 20 years and was exposed to the art of spinning at an early age. "My uncle was a big disco DJ in Austin back in the day," he says. "His record collection always fascinated me as a kid. I've always leaned toward electronic music as well. DJing was just ... More >>

Good Friday: Lions, Dustin Cavazos, Faster Pussycat, Daniel Folmer, Dove Hunter, Leon Russell

​Feels like this week has flown by, but maybe that's because I'm back in the saddle again here at DC9. Which means, yep, it's on me again to put together your weekend show list. So, without further ado, here it is. First, the show's we've already brought to your attention--and there were a bunch o ... More >>

Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Poison

Friday, August 21, at Superpages.com Center

Giveaway: One Pair of Tickets To The Fray PLUS HOT DOGS AND DRINKS

As part of Live Nation's continuing No Service Fee Wednesday (now going by the initials NSFW, which caused me to open the press release quite a bit quicker than I might have otherwise, I'll have to admit), Live Nation is once again offering tickets for select shows at an "all-in" ticket price of $29 ... More >>

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 >>

Live Nation Drops Lawn Prices For Select Shows

They're doing it again. Live Nation is offering $24.99 (and, in a couple cases, $19.99) lawn tickets for select Starplex (I still refuse to call it Superpages.com Center) shows today only during this week's installment of No Service Charge Wednesday. Until 11:59:59 tonight, lawn tickets purchased at ... More >>

Last Night: Regional Air Guitar Championship at The Loft

Air Guitar Regional ChampionshipJune 11, 2009The LoftBetter than: sitting at home praying it doesn't rain anymore.Patrick MichelsAh, the wankery going on at The Loft last night...Plenty more photos in our slideshow.Though it was brutally long at nearly five hours, last night's Regional Air Guitar Ch ... More >>

Live Nation Pulls Back Service Charges, Offers DC9 Readers A Giveaway

Last week, Live Nation, the national concert booking and promoting conglomerate that books to Superpages.com Center and other large venues throughout the region, offered up the concert-going public what it thought would be a nice little respite to the recession: One day (Wednesday) in which service ... More >>

The Bomb Squad: Some Suggestions for Your AFI Dallas Film Fest Saturday Sked

Jeremy Renner will be in attendance at tonight's Dallas debut of The Hurt Locker, at the Magnolia at 7:30.Last night at the AMC NorthPark, where he accepted the AFI Dallas Star Award following a screening of Chinatown, the film's writer, Robert Towne, spoke of how films were once the place where aud ... More >>

How To Put Together A Valentine's Day Mixtape

After 25-plus Years of Debauchery, Al Jourgensen Has Decided to Shut Down His Ministry

Too Much Time on Our Hands

The transcript of a conference call that never was—maybe

Test My Balls of Fury

Answer all correctly and win a Def Leppard album

Singles Going Steady

High-Class Broads

Singles Going Steady

What's Hot on iTunes

Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

Blinded by Ambition

Thomas Dolby continues searching for science and some overdue respect

Sketchballs

Pop Rocks

The shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz

Odds & Ends

Laptop demolition, band self-destruction and the Eagle flies again (sort of)

Spanking New

The Spree set off fireworks, Corn Mo might be a giant and more

Party Bard-y

Shakespeare's greatest guffaws and ha-has

Board Games

Jon Comer's doing what's Never Been Done

Day Jobs

Four Day Weekend wants to second that emotion

Wayne's World

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne defines "epic but gentle"

Bad Ideas, Inc.

The Bone rocks The Merge right off your FM dial

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a Rock Star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it

Pyramid Songs

Nile is the sole practitioner of "Ithyphallic Metal." Grab a dictionary.

Crit and Shap 2000

The worst of the worst

Candy corn

Or: What do cake walks, the Backstreet Boys, and Jon Cunningham have in common?

Free Radish

Mercury Records will be making a huge mistake if it doesn't release Sha Sha

Out Here

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Every which way but loose

The Dallas scene flourishes beneath the chaos

Let's get rocked

Def Leppard tries to change its musical spots

Aged in the can

Vanity, thy name is cheese

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway