John Lennon

The Search for the Perfect Guitar, Part II

Editor: In last week's music feature, Christian McPhate began his search for a guitar. Not just any guitar, but his Trigger, his missing part. In that story, he went north to our weird music utopia, Denton, and came away with nothing. Here, he tries his hand in Dallas. I'll start you with his opener ... More >>

Bill Frisell & Carrie Rodriguez

Saturday, January 14, at The Kessler Theater

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 >>

The Shortest Day

Today In Music News: Ben Harper And Dhani Harrison Join Forces, Lennon Fans Go Too Far And Kanye And Jay-Z Join Forces

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 31, 2010...Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison turn their mutual love of skate boarding into a new band.People are either idiots or they just really love to buy John Lennon memorabilia. Either way, a toilet isn't worth $15,000.Kanye says he and ... More >>

Staff Trax: Crystal Castles, Galaxie 500, BrakesBrakesBrakes, Christina Aguilera Covering John Lennon and The Bouncing Souls.

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 >>

Merry Christmas, Friends of Unfair Park

The freakishly steady snow outside the office, and the absence of a staff inside the office, suggests that perhaps it's time to head on outta here. And so I leave you with this: Polyphonic Spree performing John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" at the Lakewood Theater in '07, during the band's ann ... More >>

Big Bucks's Good "Karma"

​I didn't find out John Lennon had been killed till the morning of December 9, 1980 -- it was all we talked about on the bus ride to Alex W. Spence Middle School as we listened to Double Fantasy blaring from a classmate's enormo jambox. One of our teachers -- the theater-artsy one -- wore a black ... More >>

Johnny 2.0

Short Orders: Agave Tapas

​Agave Tapas2067 Summer Lee Dr.Rockwall214-771-0423Actually, the name includes "grill," "restaurant" and--I think--"bar" in addition to "tapas." And the name says it all.In some ways it reminds me of the time I stopped in a place called Carlos O'Kelly's, a Tex-Mex establishment that may or may not ... More >>

Today in Music News: Rick Astley Kills It, Flaming Lips Double Up, John Lennon Exhibit Gets Bloody

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 13, 2009... When you go to a karaoke bar to belt out drunken tunes, most people don't expect to get one upped by Rick Astley. The Flaming Lips will release a double album follow-up to At War With The Mystics. Wayne Coyne says it sounds like ... More >>

On Hold Time, M. Ward Further Establishes Himself as a Student of Music

Misery Mixtape for Those Bummed by the Recession

Is the recession getting you down? If misery loves company, this mixtape is for you

10 Artists We'd Resurrect for Easter

Included: Freddie Mercury, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline

Fight Song

Happy Xmas, From the Polyphonic Spree

Happy Christmas from Polyphonic Spree

Winter Wonders

2007 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

Give Peace A Chance

See Lennon fight Feds at the AllGood

The Keys to Peace

Goss hopes one day you'll join them

The Walkmen

Pussy Cats (Record Collection)

Shoot the Piano

Merry Xmas, But War Is So Not Over

Primal Scream

Riot City Blues (Columbia)

Just Let Her Go

Grail for Sale?

Smooth Operator

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

The Cutter

The woman behind Raging Bull

John Lennon

Acoustic (Capitol)

Groundswell, Sort Of

Richardson stylist mixes politics and hair

Various Artists

The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC Video)

But is it Art?

Imagine all the people who think so

Oasis

Heathen Chemistry (Epic)

Various Artists

The Osbourne Family Album (Epic)

Super Furry Animals

May 3

Maybe Baby?

Buddy Holly raves on, four decades after he received a second chance

Robert Rosen

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (Soft Skull Press)

Robbie Williams

Sing When You're Winning (Capitol Records)

The ponce

The sort-of true adventures of a kind-of real rock star and her not-made-up boyfriend

Son rise

Julian Lennon knows he sounds like his dad, thanks very much

Mind games

Four-CD Lennon anthology leans too heavily on inferior versions of familiar tunes

Come together

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

Roadshows

Out There

Let it be? Never

The Beatles' Anthology is the first chapter you've never heard

Out There

Letters