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The Nine Worst Things About SXSW

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you dispatches from the SXSW madness. Here are the nine worst things we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need the Help -The 50 Commandments of ... More >>

What You're Missing at SXSW: Missed Connections and Crappy Free Crap

Awwwww, I know it is a shame you aren't here with us at SXSW in Austin. I can only imagine the aching and longing in your heart for walking aimlessly and standing in long lines for no reason, and sweating through your cardigan to see a band you heard on one of the Twilight soundtracks. You don't w ... More >>

A 12-Year-Old Reviews 'The Dark Side of the Moon'

Hormones on Warren Zevon, Death From Above 1979 and Being "Consistently Erratic"

Locally-based Hormones are a familiar fixture at Bryan Street Tavern. They played the venue's Big Fucking Anniversary show a few weeks ago, and will play there again this Saturday, October 27, with The Gorehounds. They will do two sets: one with original songs and the other with songs by Death from ... More >>

My 12-Year-Old Stepson Reviews The Dark Side of the Moon

My 12-year-old stepson Lewis, whose favorite band is Green Day, had never heard Pink Floyd before. I'm not sure how he's managed this - his grandfather plays in a Pink Floyd tribute band for goodness sake. So I thought we could sit down one rainy evening, have him listen hard to 1973's The Dark Side ... More >>

Joyce Manor's Matt Ebert On What To Do When Your Amp Is On Fire

It's easy to think four-piece Joyce Manor is a local band. They make their third appearance in the area this year on Sunday at Dada with Hate Your Friends, Hop Along and Fairbanks. We caught up with bassist Matt Ebert on his experiences playing in the area, an imaginary show with OFF!, and their wor ... More >>

Southwest Didn't Always Hate Skimpy Clothing. Just Look at Those '70s Hemlines

Southwest Airlines posted a cheeky little game on their Facebook page: Check out these seemingly identical photos of our stewardesses from the 'first hostess class' in 1971 and find the 10 differences (it's sort of fun). Our first thought: Southwest hired go-go dancers as stewardesses? (check out t ... More >>

Tom May of The Menzingers Talks Joe Biden, Being Irish and Playing Pure Punk Rock

On the Impossible Past, Philadelphia quartet The Menzingers' new third effort, is a wail of an album. Angry, passionate and, best of all, literate, the songs resonate with the kind of pure punk spirit that made bands like Black Flag and The Misfits so important to the American indie scene. Speaking ... More >>

25 Years In, The Dwarves Keep Growing

Tonight, Tonight: A Rocket to the Moon at The Loft

Not a lot going on this Tuesday evening. Just five really cute bands rolled into one long show...

What You're Hearing On KXT Isn't Matchbox Twenty. Says Station VP: It's "Natural Growth."

Our author's reaction to KXT's playlist of late.​Yesterday morning, on the way in to work, I flipped the dial, as usual, to KKXT-91.7 FM, otherwise known around town as KXT, the just-over-a-year-old music-only NPR affiliate. What happened next was deeply unsettling: I was mentally transported back ... More >>

My First Show: Taylor Young of The O's Saw New Kids On The Block When He Was Nine.

Taylor Young​Welcome to a new feature here on DC9 called 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.If you've heard Taylor Young and John Pedigo perform as The O's before, you've probably ... More >>

Guilty! Guilty! And: Guilty! The Final Verdict of the Federal City Hall Corruption Trial.

Hey, Don Hill, how many verdicts left to come down in the City Hall corruption trial?​[Update at 10:23 a.m.: The judge's office sends word that Ron Slovacek was found guilty on all three counts of the superseding indictment -- counts 10, 12 and 19, to be specific. More details to come.]The staff's ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: All Time Low at House of Blues and The Campaign at Lola's

Kind of a slow Monday evening as far as music goes. But there's still a few shows worth going out to see, if you're up to it -- if only to toast the fact that the Cowboys actually can win a game.

The Descendents Ascend And Polvo Pulverize To Cap The Festival Weekend

Jesse HugheyPolvo Sunday, November 7, at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin.​I kept repeatedly asking myself the same question on Sunday: "Why can't Dallas do something like this?" Seriously: It's high time Dallas music fans let their Austin friends couch-surf for a change -- we certainly owe them for all ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun: "Weird Al" Gets This Party Started, Nerd-Style

"Weird Al" Yankovic's "Dare to be Stupid" was as close to Devo as Fun Fun Fun Fest-goers will get this weekend.​As cool as the lineup for Fun Fun Fun Fest today and tomorrow may be, the Friday night kick-off party was clearly for the nerds--former and current. Chris Hardwick was intended to be the ... More >>

Listomania: Ten Acts More Deserving Of Playing The Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show Than The Black Eyed Peas

​A week ago today, we passed along word of the still-circulating rumor that the Black Eyed Peas would be the performers at Super Bowl XLV, which, you surely already know, is set to take place at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Sunday, February 6.We've yet to squash that rumor--the closest we got w ... More >>

Staff Trax: Big K.R.I.T., Ian Brown, The Mekons, .357 String Band, AFI

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 ou ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Thursday, April 29, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Meat LoafHang Cool Teddy Bear (Roadrunner)Imagine a cold, snowy evening on the ... More >>

Show Announcements: Robert Plant, Green Day and More

​Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant now has a new band featuring a well-respected female Americana singer, but her name isn't Alison Krauss.Rather, Patty Griffin has been in the studio with Plant--along with Darrell Scott, Byron House, Marco Giovino and Buddy Miller--as The Band of Joy, which ... More >>

MySpace To Host Free All-American Rejects Performance At The House of Blues on Monday, July 13

Myspace has been running a free concert series called The List--a pretty interesting deal in that, if you befriend The List's Myspace page on the networking site, you can get into certain free performances when the company decides to put them on in your city. And it's not just slouches offering up t ... More >>

Franz Ferdinand, Born Ruffians

Friday, April 24, at House of Blues

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Pennywise, Strung Out, Authority Zero, Saboteur

Friday, May 9, at the Granada Theater

Last Night: Foo Fighters at American Airlines Center

Declaring GWAR

Your favorite bloody art stars come to town

Odds & Ends

Time to nominate bands for the Dallas Observer Music Awards

Dance Party

Pennywise

The Fuse (Epitaph)

Odds & Ends

Congrats to Brave Combo, finalists named in Ultra DJ contest, Erykah Badu hosts Jill Scott afterparty

Helping Out

Granada benefit show to help tsunami victims

On the Warped Path

Music, mud wrestling and middle fingers at the Vans Warped Tour

Fresh Meat

Local music police welcome a new chief

New Found Glory

November 17

Getting Louder

Latest Darlington disc is a joyride through the band's recent past

Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant

July 3

Ben Folds, Divine Comedy

March 11

Sum 41

November 23 and 24

Did It Themselves

To Daniel Sinker and those who live on Punk Planet, punk is more than a musical genre

Scene, Heard

Butthole is back

Out & About

Alkaline Trio

On and on

The Muffs' Kim Shattuck doesn't need a major label to be Alert Today

Manifest destiny

The Dictators are not back. They never left.

Manifest destiny

The Dictators are not back. They never left.

Out There

Zac Crain's Top 10 Texas Albums:

Beercan boys

Pop punkers Pansy Division love sex, so they sing about it. A lot.

Roadshows

Out Here

Roadshows