Hot Water Music

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, March 18-21

Spooky Folk, Babar, New Science Projects, Peopleodeon, Cool Womb Wednesday, March 20, at J&J's Pizza, Free They should rename this show "Musical Chairs of Denton." In celebrating his 20-somethingth birthday, Chris Bryan of Peopleodeon has put together a hefty bill of bands, considering the mere thre ... More >>

Dead Flowers Talk About Bad Tattoos, Heartbreak Songs and Getting the Band Together

If you regularly go to LaGrange, Single Wide or Double Wide, you've seen a member of the quintet Dead Flowers. Earlier in the year, frontman Corey Howe was the opening act for The Revival Tour's stop at Trees, playing alongside Hot Water Music's Chuck Ragan, Alkaline Trio's Dan Andriano, and Against ... More >>

Chuck Ragan on The Revival Tour: "This Is the Original Way Families and Communities Used to Share Music Together"

Chuck Ragan returns to Dallas tonight with the fifth annual Revival Tour, and the co-frontman of Hot Water Music will share the stage with Dan Andriano from Alkaline Trio and Tom Gabel from Against Me!, as well as Mississippi songwriter Cory Branan. In the midst of remodeling the bathroom in his Nor ... More >>

Preview: The Revival Tour at Trees

Thursday, March 20, at Trees

Sealion on Playing Their First Show in Sweaters

You've seen the white and black Sealion sticker at most bars around Deep Ellum. Luckily, the band is worth the attention, and they're even hitting the road with the Toadies at the end of March. Friday, they play "the final Annex House show" at the fabled Lakewood crash pad. All four members of the ... More >>

Red Animal War

Friday, December 23, at Double Wide

Here Holy Spain remembers the Galaxy Club, among other first shows

​ With plans for a follow-up to this year's acclaimed Division, 2012 looks good for pop-punk trio Here Holy Spain. To tide you over, they have a song on this year's Idol Christmas compilation called "God-Damn This Christmas." As the band wraps up the year, all three recently shared with us t ... More >>

Chuck Ragan Knows Good Road Music, Plugged or Unplugged

Scott ToepferChuck Ragan.​Gainesville, Florida's Chuck Ragan is one of those dudes who just can't go wrong. His more-than-a-decade's work with the still-revered punk act Hot Water Music is often cited by younger punk bands as a key motivator for their own punk-ish endeavors. In the more recen ... More >>

Last Night: Agnostic Front, The Hoodrats, The Mongoloids, Naysayer, Powertrip

Agnostic Front, The Hoodrats, The Mongoloids, Naysayer, Powertrip Trees September 18th, 2011 Better than: driving home hungover, sunburnt, and dehydrated from a long weekend at ACL. Agnostic Front​If you needed a reminder of how old school hardcore hasn't been tainted by pandering, last night ... More >>

My First Show: Chuck Ragan Snuck Out of His Parents' House to See Sick Of It All.

Welcome to 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. Jill RaganChuck Ragan​Chuck Ragan may be best known as one of the frontmen of Hot Water Music, but for the past few years, he's tou ... More >>

Hotspots to Fill Up at on a SXSW Day Trip

​With SXSW coming up in just a couple weeks, you might be trying to figure out a way to work a trip down to Austin into your schedule and your budget. I have one answer: Austin on a 24-hour turnaround is not all that hard to pull off. A few years ago, a bunch of us at UNT did just that. We dev ... More >>

Last Night: The Get Up Kids, Steel Train, River City Extension at The Loft

The Get Up Kids, Steel Train, River City Extension The Loft January 23, 2011  Better than: polishing your multi-colored Hot Water Music vinyl records.  Alexander FloresThe Get Up Kids​Aren't you glad when a reunion tour isn't a fluke? Fifteen months ago, The Get Up Kids triumphantly retu ... More >>

Last Night: Green Day, AFI at Superpages.com Center

Green Day, AFI Superpages.com CenterAugust 26th, 2010(Way, way ) better than: reading Marc Spitz's book, Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day.Marina ChavezGreen Day​How is it possible to put on a three-hour arena rock show that doesn't lag or feel self-indulge ... More >>

Last Night: Silversun Pickups, Against Me! and The Henry Clay People at The Palladium Ballroom

Silversun Pickups, Against Me!, The Henry Clay People The Palladium Ballroom Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Better than: playing "Lazy Eye" on Guitar Hero at home.Ally Jayne HoffmanSee more of the Pickups in the slideshow.​The crowd that came out to Silversun Pickups' headlining set at the Palladiu ... More >>

Staff Trax: The Books, Coliseum, Die Antwoord and Low

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 >>

Good Friday: Peter Murphy, Math the Band, Jeremy Fisher, Cas Haley, Solitude Aeturnus, Little Black Dress, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Band of Heathens, Forever Sunday, Brave Combo, Les Americains, Red Collar, Steve Earle, Affliction Summer Slaughter Tour, Chuck Ragan

Weekend's here. Rock 'n' roll and party time. Let's dive right in. First, the shows we've already hipped you to this week...Tonight at the House of Blues, the Meat Puppets will toss you into a "Lake of Fire." Also, up in Denton, there's the Mothfight!, Florene and Red Faced Laughter show at Bee's Ma ... More >>

Dashboard Confessional, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Tom Gabel, and The Prophet Bar are Full of Surprises

A Dashboard Confessional member actually chose to live in Dallas. Also: Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest Brings another Spillover, and—Hey—have you seen the Prophet bar's upcoming show calendar?

Traffic Reporter Eric Grubbs Is Way More Emo Than You Could Ever Be

Line Up Set for Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. Fun? You Bet.

Hot Water Music and Bouncing Souls

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2003 SnoCore Tour

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Hot Water Music

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Warped Tour

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Making Hay

Haymarket Riot struggles to distinguish itself from its heroes, and may yet succeed

Out & About

River City High

Seller's Market

Jimmy Eat World doesn't have a record label, a distributor, or a care in the world

Good to Go!

From Kid Chaos to collective anarchy, Chad Ferman wants us all to just get along

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Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, July 24