Jim Morrison

Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist for The Doors, Has Died

Way back in 1965, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and some hippie poet named Jim Morrison formed The Doors. The Doors would go on to become one of the most popular and iconic bands of the 60's. Mazarek's keyboard playing was a large part of what distinguished The Doors in the first place. Sadly, Mazarek p ... More >>

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

Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers Talk Translucent Blues and Some Other Crazy Stuff

At 72, keyboardist Ray Manzarek has just about done it all. Best known at the keyboardist for the Doors, Manzarek has stayed busy as a performer and producer for the past three decades. Joining forces with renowned slide guitarist Roy Rogers in 2008, the duo have recorded two critically acclaimed ... More >>

Ten Musicians' Ghosts That Still Stalk The Earth (And How To Dress Up As Them For Halloween)

​Now that the calendar has official turned to September and the back-to-school fervor is over, we've come upon that special time once again when big-box retailers to start rolling out their Halloween merchandise. Since we here at DC9 love Halloween, we think it's never too early to begin planning ... More >>

Download Soviet's DOOM Full-Length For Free

Soviet​We've been high on fresh-faced local garage-punk upstart Soviet since, well, pretty much the second we first heard of them. And our appreciation of the band's aggressively slackerish approach has only increased in the weeks since, bolstered by the band's fiery, and sometimes confrontational ... More >>

Night Three of 35 Conferette: A Joyous Night of Rump-Shaking, Art Rocking and Flute-Playing Performances Brings The Fest To Its Highest Point Yet

​After a bumpy start on Thursday, with things then smoothing out a bit on Friday, it shouldn't have been terribly shocking that Saturday made for some clear sailing. Seemingly everything went off without much trouble. Of course, any night of concerts that starts with a stage full of rap video-st ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

Buzzing Over The Brews At Buzzbrews

Jesse Hughey​Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials. Where: Buzzbrews, 4334 Lemmon Ave., 214-521-4334 When: All day Monday, 3 to 7 p.m. ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Cult at House of Blues, Miss Marcy and Her Texas Sugar Daddies at Pearl, and Becky Middleton leads Songwriters in the Round at Opening Bell Coffee

Another Monday comes around just in time to spoil all those good feeling brought on by the Cowboys finally winning a game. Not to worry, though: This evening's musical offerings are decidedly eclectic and one shouldn't have too difficult of a time finding some kind of ear candy.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Doors' Farewell at Fair Park in December 1970

​Back in April I interviewed Ray Manzarek for When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's doc about The Doors. I thought I'd lost the transcript till earlier this week, when I stumbled across it in a virtual file folder buried amongst the clutter kept in this creaky computer's dark, musty recesses. There i ... More >>

Tom Sawyer Vs. L.A. Woman

A Mexican By Any Other Name: How Many Slurs Does America Have For Our Neighbors To The South?

Today In Music News: Jim Morrison's Ghost Is Caught On Film, The Flaming Lips Re-Do Pink Floyd and Diddy Loses His Ring

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 19, 2009...The ghost of Jim Morrison has allegedly been caught on film. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but what better band to do it: The Flaming Lips have recorded a track-by-track "reimagining" of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The ... More >>

Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past: Matthew Mcconaughey Is Scary Bad

Opening A New Doors

Wild Child takes over House of Blues

The Summer After

The Summer of Love got all sorts of coverage on its 40th Anniversary. So where’s the love for 1968?

Dallas-based Psychic Contributes To Upcoming Book On Jim Morrison and Michael Hutchence

Wrinkled Old Lizard

See the fake Doors at HOB

Why do Mexicans like the Doors?

Heck, why does anybody?

Otep, Hellyeah

Wednesday, November 21, at the Palladium

The Cult

Born Into This (Roadrunner Records)

Myth of Sid

Will we remember Carter Albrecht, Darin Archer as they were?

Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Mink

Friday, August 24, at House of Blues

Doors to Nirvana

Jimi, Janis, Jim and Kurt haunt the Granada

Chopper Fooey

4050 skips the chophouse boilerplate

The Living '60s

Austin's Black Angels fly high with a gust of drone 'n' roll

Quack Addicts

Where does Ryan Adams fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

Killer Green

Audrey II eats up the stage

Miss Independent

Annie Leibovitz makes a permanent mark

Summer Reruns

Before we talk football--go, fight, win!--one last look at the boring sports

Mag Light

Today's music magazines suck up to celebs--and just plain suck

Almost? Not Even.

Penny Lane grows up and looks kind of like her mom--no, her Sister

Incubus

July 4

Lift To Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

The Strokes/The Walkmen

The Modern Age (Rough Trade/XL/Beggars Banquet)/The Walkmen (StarTime International)

Tippling Tips

Can you please solve all our alcohol-related mysteries?

Fatboy Slim

Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

Don't Touch My Jimi!

Belonging only to history

Cardboard tombstones

In the wake of the Ellington 100, lesser zombie boxed sets walk among us

Out There

Roxy redux

Local artist leaves us something to remember him by

Unlikely hybrid

The cocktail country of the Lucky Pierres proves to be the right mix

Roadshows

Musician, heal thyself

A Denton shrink plumbs the murky psyches of self-destructive rock artists and concludes they don't have to die young, drunk, and depressed

Out There

Events for the week

Roadshows

Letters

Reviews

Myth, martyr, musician

With each passing day, the ghost of Selena looms larger over the mainstream