Subject: John Congleton

• Wait No Longer, Spree Fans

  August 29, 2006

• Now They Are One of Us

  August 4, 2006

• Show Up, 6/6/06

  June 6, 2006

• Hide the Kitchen Knives and Reach for the Sun

  April 7, 2006

• Good Records Announces Official Eighth Birthday Party Lineup

  April 3, 2008

• Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Day One, Off To Abilene

  May 16, 2008

• The Paper Chase Pulls Out Of Saturday Night's Rubber Gloves Show

  Fans of The Paper Chase looking forward to catching up with the band on Saturday night (present company included) are in for some bad news: The band has pulled out of its scheduled show alongside Sarah Jaffe and The Boom Boom Box at Denton's Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, as lead singer John Congleton has, quite unfortunately, lost his voice. Replacing The Paper Chase on the bill is not-local (or is he?) indie rock-rap fusionist Astronautalis, who was previously scheduled as only a special gue

  December 11, 2008

• DOMA XXI: And The Nominees Are...

  This year's trophy will look nothing like the Heisman. Sorry to get your hopes up.A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.  Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were done, more than 80 nominat

  June 2, 2009

• St. Vincent's Actor Set For May 5 Release

  Annabel Mehran 4AD has announced the release date of St. Vincent's sophomore release, Actor, and, as the header to this post implies, we can expect the disc about two and a half months from now. The disc, produced here in Dallas by The Paper Chase's John Congleton, also features North Texas musicians McKenzie Smith and Paul Alexander (both of Midlake) and Jeff Ryan (of Pleasant Grove and currently performing with Sarah Jaffe).No music from the disc appears available yet, but Chris Cantalini of t

  February 19, 2009

• Across the Bar

  April 27, 2000

• Across the Bar

  May 11, 2000

• Even In The Face Of Pitchfork, St. Vincent Remains Adorable

  Over on Pitchfork today, you can read an interview the site has posted with Dallas native Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), whose upcoming disc we're quite excited about 'round here. And, actually, it's quite the lovefest of a piece: Interviewer Ryan Dombel calls Clark a "disturbingly gifted new talent" without even blinking an eye. We'd take issue with that except, um, we're right there with him. Anyway, the always delightful Clark shares some interesting tidbits in the piece. Like how she's not

  March 3, 2009

• Scene, Heard

  October 11, 2001

• Scene, Heard

  October 18, 2001

• Safe at Home

  January 3, 2002

• "A Good Guy"

  March 7, 2002

• What It Was Like: Beach House, The Paper Chase, Tricky, Devo

  Jesse HugheyDevo at Austin Music Hall Friday night. Act: Beach HouseWhere: Cedar Street CourtyardWhat It Was Like: Packed. There were obviously quite a few fans of Beach House's mellow, cheery songs. Also, judging by all the "Who are these guys?" I heard, many badge-holders were taking advantage of a relatively quiet set to talk, text or chill out. Which pretty much defines Beach House for me: they're good background music.Verdict: Good buzzy, cheery songs. I especially like the electric harpsic

  March 21, 2009

• Semester's End Marked by a Great Night of Denton Music

  December 18, 2008

• Our 20th Music Awards

  1988-2008: Two Decades of DOMA

  July 24, 2008

• Ain't No Mountain High

  The musicians behind Mount Righteous' feel-good amp-less ensemble aim to get you on their level

  June 5, 2008

• The Paper Chase, Micah P. Hinson and Shiny Around the Edges

  Friday, February 15, at Sons of Hermann Hall

  February 14, 2008

• Astronautalis' New Disc Features Sea Chanteys and Patriotic Tunes

  February 7, 2008

• Chairmen of the Board

  Erik Wofford and John Congleton on the art of production

  March 29, 2007

• Headcases, Riddle of Steel

  September 6, 2007

• Dallas Stars

  Revisiting the best local albums of 2000

  December 28, 2000

• The Polyphonic Spree's Sonic Bloom

  In 2006, the band's Wait EP helped build A Fragile Army and start a digital revolution

  January 4, 2007

• Polyphonic Spree

  Wednesday, September 13, at the Granada Theater

  September 7, 2006

• Explosions in the Sky

  All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence)

  March 8, 2007

• This Will Destroy You

  Friday, January 26, at the Door

  January 25, 2007

• Daddy-Daughter Day

  The Appleseed Cast makes the best of death and horror in their latest post-emo record

  July 20, 2006

• Devil's Day

  This Tuesday, Satan's gaping black mouth shall spit forth...the new Ice Cube CD

  June 1, 2006

• Wright Amendment

  The industrial-wave insanity of Denton's best underground trio fits somewhere nicely between Satan and Sartre

  April 20, 2006

• Odds & Ends

  Who says you need to go to Austin this weekend for a good concert or four?

  September 22, 2005

• Paper Chase, Make Believe, Chin Up Chin Up

  Sunday, November 28

  November 25, 2004

• the pAper chAse | Will Johnson

  Split 7” (Idol)

  August 19, 2004

• Kill ’em All

  The pAper chAse brings out the knives. Again.

  June 10, 2004

• Come Together

  Local bands unite!

  January 15, 2004

• Scene, Heard

  Disaster strikes. Or does it?

  April 12, 2001

• Baboon

  A Bum Note and a Bead of Sweat (Last Beat)

  March 1, 2001

• Scene, Heard

  Band-related paper cuts and other ironies.

  February 8, 2001

• Scene, Heard

  We've been trying to tell people for months

  December 21, 2000

• Across the Bar

  Adventure Club's b-day bash; "Surreal" multi-act bills; Funland reunited (sort-of); Get a job

  May 25, 2000

• The Paper Chase Avert Disaster with New Disaster Album.

  May 7, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To The Paper Chase at The Granada Theater Tomorrow Night

  Tomorrow night, the local heroes of all things angst and angularity, The Paper Chase, will take to the stage at the Granada Theater to perform a pseudo-release show for its new (and quite fantastic) Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1, a disc Jesse Hughey dutifully and quite capably covered in this week's print edition. Take a listen to the lead single from the disaster-centric disc, "What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning)"...About as intelligently spastic and disturbingly arrange

  May 8, 2009

• St. Vincent

  May 14, 2009

• Poster of the Week: John Congleton and Joey Kendall at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight

  Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf, the brains behind two of the region's most mind-blowing acts, John Congleton (of The Paper Chase) and Joey Kendall (of Mount Righteous), will join forces on a bill that features each of these intriguing minds performing solo sets.The above poster for the show uses an aesthetic not wholly unfamiliar to past posters for some of Kendall's shows, but that doesn't necessarily mean this one's not effective. Using strips of white to cover the eyes of The Wizard of Oz's Dor

  June 11, 2009

• St. Vincent, Pattern Is Movement

  June 18, 2009

• Bonus MP3: Mount Righteous -- "Sing to Me, Tiffany"

  ​It's been almost a year-and-a-half, if you believe it, since Mount Righteous first (quite adorably) burst onto the local scene, immediately charming area music fans with its clever, punk-ish, acoustic, marching band-ish and ever-cheerful sound. Of course, that was just the live show, though. 'Cause, you'll surely recall, we dug on the full-length debut from the band, too, called When The Music Starts--for my money, a top five area release in 2008. Which is why, probably quite predictably, the

  September 16, 2009

• Analog Rebellion (formerly PlayRadioPlay!) Announces New Album Details

  Kolby Schnelli Analog Rebellion's Daniel Hunter​I perfectly understand Daniel Hunter's frustration. Really, I do. As PlayRadioPlay!, the Aledo native did get lumped into the mall-punk scene by a lot of people--us here at DC9 included. But, upon going back and listening to the still super-young 20-year-old's debut, Texas, which was released on Island Records shortly after he was signed as just a 17-year-old, you can hear some real interesting, real promising stuff on there. And, as we've seen i

  October 14, 2009

• Jessie Frye Is Recording Her New EP with John Congleton, Performing Her Birthday Show This Friday

  Frye seems to have the whole "look pensive while sitting out in a field" thing down.​Local singer/songwriter Jessie Frye is in the studio recording a new EP with producer John Congleton at the helm. Seems like an odd pairing at first--especially since Frye's debut EP, The Delve, was such a meticulously mellow affair. But Frye is adamant about expanding her musical horizons and claims the guy behind The Paper Chase is the right guy at the right time."We started recording in July and we are goin

  November 12, 2009