Goo Goo Dolls

Top Show Annoucements: Record Store Day, Limp Bizkit, Styx, Kid Rock, Matchbox Twenty and More

It's a little strange, but I don't know what's happening with all of the show announcements that have been pouring in this week: Limp Bizkit, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls and Kid Rock? It feels like 1999 all over again. Well, in 2013 news, Good Records just announced a kick-ass local lineup for Reco ... More >>

Happy Birthday to Whom?

The Five Best and Worst Musicians to Interview

In honor of Evan Dando and his band The Lemonheads being at the Prophet Bar tonight, I thought I might share with the readers of DC9 some of the pitfalls of being a music writer. Sure, there are tons of positives: free shows and CDs and access to cool people (some of whom you may actually admire). B ... More >>

Colbie Caillat Tells Us How She Went From The Beach To Overcoming Her Stage Fright

Musicians are undoubtedly influenced by the music they listen to. And an artist's musical selection at any given moment can sometimes even foretell what a next album might sound like. So if you've ever wondered what the artists who grace your stereo are getting funky to, here's your chance to find o ... More >>

Last Night: 40 Minutes In, Kings of Leon's Caleb Followill Drunkenly Pulled Plug on Dallas Show

Kings of Leon, Band of Horses Gexa Energy Pavilion July 29, 2011 Better than: watching a train wreck. About three songs into Kings of Leon's set, lead singer Caleb Followill addressed the crowd: "My voice is shot," he said. "My voice is completely, one hundred percent, gone. But I'm going to drink ... More >>

The Five Best and Five Worst Bands at The 2011 Vans Warped Tour

Rachel ParkerNo one on the corner has swagger like Warped Tour.​In the sweltering summer sun yesterday, punk and metal fans both young and old headed to Gexa Energy Pavilion to catch the annual mass of humanity known as the Vans Warped Tour. Out of the bands that this reporter got to witness at t ... More >>

Tony Edwards Wants To Help Build Your Band's Brand With His Growing Street-Team Company

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.Tony Edwards​Tony Edwards was almost certainly a hummingbird in a past life. He darts, moves, and ... More >>

Fastest Show on Earth

NASCAR's Ringmaster

Tonight, Tonight: Boyce Avenue at House of Blues, FUnk NUg at Hailey's Club, Heartless Bastards at Dan's Silverleaf and Genitorturers at Trees

It's a busy musical Monday with both touring acts and local shows aplenty. Get out and enjoy some good music to go along with the good weather.

Watch: Green River Ordinance -- "Dancing Shoes"

Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance has made fast work of moving on from its split with Capitol Records and putting out new material on its own. Last week, after the band came ahead more than $20,000 ahead of its stated $15,000 goal for donations from fans so it could release a new EP, the band did j ... More >>

Picture Show: Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot and Green River Ordinance at Superpages.com Center

Rachel ParkerTurns out they did want the world to see them.​On Saturday, after watching an episode of Saved by the Bell and knocking back a few ecto-coolers, we sent photographer Rachel Parker over for a seriously-'90s night at the Superpages.com Center with the Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, and Fort ... More >>

Good Friday: KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat's Custom Car Show, Analog Rebellion, Dead Twins, Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, Green River Ordinance, The Budos Band, Tanya Morgan, Brave Combo, More!

​This weekend marks 97.9 The Beat's sixth annual custom car show, which will take place on Sunday, August 22, at the Dallas Convention Center. This year, the event's headliners are Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Plies, Bun B, Trina, Slim Thug and a man who will definitely show off his ic ... More >>

Green River Ordinance Splits With Capitol Records, Asks For Your Help

You might want to sit down for this news, Green River Ordinance.​Not sure if the following news will create as big of a ripple in the music world as the time that Fat Joe left Atlantic Records, but it looks like Fort Worth-based pop-rock band Green River Ordinance has parted ways with Capitol Reco ... More >>

Gig Alert: The Von Ehrics Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary Tomorrow Night at La Grange

The Von Ehrics. No, not the wrestlers.​Around this same time last year, The Von Ehrics released Loaded, the band's third and best effort to date. Filled with actual alt-country hooks to go along with the typical punk roar, Loaded sounded like a hybrid of The Goo Goo Dolls (when that band had somet ... More >>

Q&A: Peter Case Wig!s Us Out

​One-time street musician Peter Case has come a long way since entering the San Francisco music scene way back in 1976. Case's first band, The Nerves, had a regional hit with "Hanging on the Telephone," a song Blondie would later make famous. Case's next band, The Plimsouls, did a bit better with ... More >>

Last Chance to Get $10 Tickets to Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, Green River Ordinance, If Ya Want.

Green River Ordinance​A few weeks ago, we gave you a head's up about Superpages.com Center's "$10 Tickets for the Last 10 Days of June" thing. Just to recap, here's how it works: Superpages.com Center picks an upcoming concert, and offers lawn seats for that show for $10 at LiveNation.com for a 24 ... More >>

Staff Trax: Roadside Graves, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimi Hendrix, Little Dragon, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Alice in Chains, Fan Death and Beth Orton

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 to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Show Announcements: John Mayer, Owl City, Yeahdef, Pixies, Toadies, Aerosmith, Goo Goo Dolls, Kenny Rogers and others

Even John Mayer Is Sick Of His Own Music​John Mayer is getting old. His music is getting old. His fans are getting old. His public image is getting old. In an apparent attempt to get some younger fans, someone over at John Mayer headquarters had the bright idea to book teen sensation Owl City as t ... More >>

Green River Ordinance Postpones June 19 Date To Tour With... The Goo Goo Dolls?

...not from Fort Worth, unfortunately.​Just got an email from a promotions representative from EMI telling me that my interview with Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance has canceled--or at least postponed. Seems the same is going to be true for the band's scheduled appearance in Dallas on June ... More >>

Idol Rich: The NTX2 Prove Not So Inspirational

​It's a big week in Idol World. Tonight marks the almost annual star-studded Idol Gives Back charity episode, and, no matter how hard-hearted you are, you have to admit that the show is an emotional, feel-good, do-good piece of prime-time. Celebs of every level will grace the stage and screen with ... More >>

Blind Pilot, Low Anthem

Wednesday, October 28, at the Granada Theater

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 >>

The Von Ehrics Wrestle With Their Identitiy

Next Week Gig Alert: Tommy Keene at The Cavern

Sometimes I just hate promoters. A couple of months back, I was sent the new album by Tommy Keene, In the Late Bright. The album is great of course, like almost all of the shimmering power pop Keene has released over the past 25 years. Anyhow, I asked the promo guy at the label to let me know when K ... More >>

Green River Ordinance

Out Of My hands (EMI)

Dinner And A...Play

Theatre Three stages a dressed-down affair

Ryan Cabrera

The Moon Under Water (Papa Joe)

Man Factory Talks Street Fighter, Picks Fight With Steve Jobs

Goo on You

D vs. d

Sour Puss

Evan Dando's still a Lemonhead

Various artists

Music From and Inspired by Spider-Man 2 (Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax)

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

Thursday, June 3 at the Hard Rock Cafe

Talented Success

The Mermaid Purse is a supergroup, sort of?

Sugar Ray

June 21

Ahoy, Oh Boy

Treasure Planet reveals an embarrassment of riches

Scene, Heard

Music heals, now more than ever

Clumsy

Center of Attention Deficit Disorder
(Idol Records)

100 Bullets

MTV and Rolling Stone pick the 100 greatest pop songs ever, "from The Beatles to the Backstreet Boys." We demand a recount.

The dead Zone

The Zone merges into a new format. But does it matter?

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Bastard of middle age

Paul Westerberg digs intoa deep, dark place and makes a brilliant, horrible record

Letters

At a Toad's pace

No, the Toadies haven't broken up. They're just taking their own sweet time

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

Bastard of young

How the Hebrew school bully got the Perfect gig with a Replacement

Love indie style

The new Caulk album signals make-or-break time for Aden Holt's One Ton label

Uncle Whopelo?

Slobberbone is the dumbest name for the best new band in town