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Rachel Behring Tells Rock Star Hospitality Stories and Explains her Love for Local Music

Ever been backstage at House of Blues Dallas? Rachel Behring painted the cool murals you see on the walls back there of some of rock and soul's legends. But hell, that's just her showing she loves where she works ... and who wouldn't? Behring spent a good stretch of time managing backstage at HOB, a ... More >>

Riot Fest

Saturday, September 22, at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Into It. Over It's Evan Weiss Talks Being Fed Bullshit, Plus Five Warped Tour Recommendations

If you've seen No Room for Rock Stars, a recently-released documentary on the Warped Tour, it might be hard to imagine someone like Evan Weiss fitting in. Weiss, the mastermind behind Into It. Over It, isn't a tatted-up singer in a metalcore band who's missing his daughter back home. He isn't drivin ... More >>

Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self Indulgence: "People Hear Us and Say, 'Where the Fuck Do They Come From?'"

Bands that mash up several genres can produce some amazingly unique music as well as some unadulterated shit. New York's Mindless Self Indulgence is quite capable of doing both within the same song. For nearly 15 years, Jimmy Urine and crew have created what they like to call industrial jungle pussy ... More >>

Freaks and Geeks: Tool Rocks the Verizon Theatre

Brantley Hargrove​Tool Verizon Theatre Friday, January 20 Hitting a Tool show is a little like stepping back into the mid- to late-'90s, in all the best ways. As we threaded a packed Verizon Theatre lobby before the sold-out Friday night show in an herbally-induced state of euphoric nostalgia ... More >>

Girl Fight: Steven Soderbergh and His MMA Star Get Their Kicks And punche

And punches and kills in a spy thriller.

400 Blows' Skot Alexander On Punk: "It's a Clothing Store in The Mall Called Hot Topic."

​Talking to Skot Alexander of the Los Angeles-based punk act 400 Blows is like conversing with your drunken uncle. It can be pretty funny, but also a little frustrating: One moment, the guy expresses a well thought out opinion about the sterilization of punk rock; the next moment, the guy can ... More >>

Last Night All Day Yesterday: Warped Tour Kicks Off Its 17th Summer-Long Tour in Dallas

Warped Tour LaunchGexa Energy Pavilion June 24, 2011 Better than: spending all day on traffic control at the new In-N-Out Burger. Rachel ParkerThe crazy kids today and their crowd-surfing ways.​Let's address the elephant with the pink tutu standing in the corner: Sure, there were doubts about t ... More >>

Trees Moves Beyond Its Hard Rock Reputation.

Dallas PD's St. Paddy's Day Do's and Don'ts

From Angela Hunt's 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade and Party slideshow​It would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick's Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further th ... More >>

The Problem With... Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"

For every good idea that Lady Gaga has, she also has a bad one. Bad enough, even, to make you reconsider how good the original idea was in the first place.This even applies to her image. Hey, I'm all for creating fantastical characters -- they're inseparable with popular music culture, from Bob Dyla ... More >>

A Field Guide to Dallas Wildlife

For Fans Who Want to Belly Up to the Bars and Those Who Inhabit Them

Last Night: Escape the Fate, Alasana, Motionless is White, Get Scared and Drive A at South Side Music Hall

Escape the Fate, Alasana, Motionless is White, Get Scared and Drive ASouth Side Music HallJanuary 24, 2011Better than: taking my kid to Hot Topic. Escape The Fate​The crowd at South Side Music Hall looked as if every secondary school in the area had bused in any kid who looked even remotely punk o ... More >>

Best Coast Evoke The Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer.

The Biggest Local Music Stories of 2010

Over the Weekend: The Dresden Dolls at the Granada Theater

The Dresden Dolls The Granada Theater November 19, 2010 Better Than: Watching a midnight screening of Cabaret at the Granada, which, hey, might not be that bad of an idea...Mattie StaffordCheck out more photos after the jump.​ Amanda Fucking Palmer - as she introduced herself to the crowd earlier ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Joanna Newsom at The Granada, Paddy Keenan at Poor David's, A Skylit Drive at The Prophet Bar and Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa at Rubber Gloves

This is, by far, the oddest quartet of shows I've mentioned with this thing.

At Stonebriar Centre Mall, Ladies Young and Old Got Very Hot (Topic) For Ian Somerhalder

Photos by Danny Fulgencio​On the other side is Danny Fulgencio's recap from a Saturday evening spent, yet again, at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco -- this time, with recent Entertainment Weekly co-cover boy Ian Somerhalder, star of The Vampire Diaries. (So I'm told.) Me, I liked him just fine in The ... More >>

The Secret Handshake Comes to Grips With Adulthood

Park Chan-wook Gets Aboard the Vampire Train with Thirst

Suburban tweeners rock out to mall punk, DFW's hottest musical export. No, really.

The Secret Handshake

My Name Up in Lights (Triple Crown)

Punk Ages Gracefully

The Secret Handshake Continues To Confuse, Buzz, Overhype the '90s

I'd be lying if I said I totally "got" The Secret Handshake, the widely regarded indie/dance emo-pop project of Dallas' own Luis Dubuc. One the one hand, I don't really see what makes him so different from the throngs of other like-minded acts around town, or why he's gotten so much love from vario ... More >>

Well, Actually, This Is A Little Refreshing: Forever The Sickest Kids Enters The End-Of-Year List Game

Listen: We've done our fair share of Forever The Sickest Kids dogging here at DC9 over the past 12 months or so--sometimes for good reason, and sometimes because, well, we were just bored.But, fact of the matter is, these guys had themselves a hell of a year: They released their debut, Underdog Alma ... More >>

Good Friday: The Halloween Weekend Edition

In Dallas, a Meeting of Methodists, With SMU and Bush Library on the Agenda

The Trinity River Committee's Got a Lot on Its Plate This Morning

Be Your Own Pet Flips Off "Mom-Approved Punk"

Handshakes and Highfives Sign with Nightmare Records

Geek Chic

No More Heroes is hip, bloody and indispensable.

Bits: Old 97's New Year's Plans, Shorelines End Album Update

The Melvins, Big Business

Thursday, October 18, at the Granada

Independence Day

What's indie rock? Who cares? Here are 10 great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition.

Onward, Christian Soldiers

Look out, evil Madison Avenue, these Jesus warriors have a battle plan for you

Like Star Trek With Worms

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin.

Letters

Crapped in the Closet

Today's most popular radio serial drama is thanks to R. Kelly... and some guy named Rufus

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.

Refuse to Lose

Musician Christy Darlington could have—and perhaps should have—quit years ago. So why didn't he?

To the Limits

Elvis tanks, the Pixies rock and other tales from the 2004 ACL Festival

The Queers

Friday, September 3

Life Preserver

Deep Elm Records looks out for those Too Young To Die

Forty Winks

February 4-6

Turn Up the Volume

Check out Robot Monster Weekend, the best new band we've heard in a while

Conference for Cynics

SXSW offers up dreamchasers, diatribes and some darn good music, too

Tiger Trap

With so many other things to ask Le Tigre about, who's got time for music?

Herald and Mod

My First Mister proclaims the transcendence of a pretty young freak

Le Tigre

From the Desk of Mr. Lady EP
(Mr. Lady)