Johnny Marr

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

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 >>

The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One

Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix's set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found out that members of the ... More >>

One Man's Search for the Perfect Instrument

David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

Atoms for Peace is Dallas' Favorite Band This Week

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Lance Price, CD Source owner, says a recently turned solo artist with a classic sound is makin ... More >>

Morrissey feuds with Paul McCartney, Jimmy Kimmel, Staples Center, et al, But it's a Great Career Move

Like most Smiths fans under 30, I think I heard about Morrissey being pissed off for some reason or another before I'd heard him croon over a single perfect Johnny Marr riff. He's a self-consciously difficult figure to ignore once he's wedged himself into the news, a stout British guy with a volumin ... More >>

Coachella Lineup 2013: Old Legends Going Solo and a Double Dose of Nick Cave

The 2013 Coachella Lineup is here! In case this is your only source of music information (what else could you possibly need, really?), the headliners are The Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Why yes, we do live in a world where New Order gets out-billed by Phoenix. Check out ... More >>

My First Show: Trashcan Sinatras Recall Seeing The Smiths and The Clash For The First Time and Share Memories Of Their Own Debut, Too.

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. Trashcan Sinatras​If you were involved with a college radio station in the 1990s, or casually listened to "The Adventure Club" on K ... More >>

Today In Music News: Drake Love Him Some Kanye, Johnny Marr Gets His Ax Back And Xiu Xiu Love You In That Special Way

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 23, 2010...Drake says the new Kanye West album will be "the best hip-hop album of the last 10 years."  Sounds like someone has been drankin' the Kool-Aid!Johnny Marr got his prized guitar back after it was stolen 10 years ago.Xiu Xiu ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Cribs at The Granada Theater

The CribsGranada TheaterJanuary 22, 2010Better than: Missing the show entirely. I clearly need to pay more attention to the Granada's useful day-of-show set-time tweets.Hal SamplesCheck out more of Hal's shots from the night in this here slideshow.​Friday night at the Granada, there was a lineup o ... More >>

Good Friday: Shapes Stars Make, The Slack, Forever The Sickest Kids, The Slow Burners, Bobby Fisha, Telegraph Canyon, Nicholas Altobelli, Daniel Folmer, Coot Out, RTB2 and This Old House

We do what we like, and we like what we do.​Many apologies for the slow blog day today--hell the slow blog week, really. Things have been especially hectic this week, for reasons I won't bore you with. On the promising front, though, the weekend is here--and when the work-week kicks back up on Mon ... More >>

New Addition

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to Friday Night's Granada Theater Show with The Cribs, Adam Green and The Dead Trees

In this week's dead tree edition of DC9 (out tomorrow in certain hotspots around the Metroplex!), you'll be able to read Doug Davis' profile on The Cribs, in which he and band bassist/vocalist Gary Jarman talk about the recent changes in the band's sound--and namely the recent addition of Smiths gui ... More >>

Show Announcements: Cheech And Chong, Laser Spectaculars And More

​Ever notice how those angel sculptures on the exterior of Bass Hall sorta look like they're chiefing on enormous brass one-hitters? No? Well, here's betting that Cheech and Chong will make that observation when they perform at the Fort Worth performing arts hall Friday, April 30, 2010. The dope d ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Ménage à Trois

Dallas hosts a weeklong trifecta of tunes

Modest Mouse

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Sony)

Always a Bridesmaid

The Stereophonics never made it big. That doesn't mean they never made good.

Rock for Choice

Local musicians pick their favorite albums of 2004

The Star Spangles

Bazooka!!! (Capitol)

Johnny Marr and the Healers

Boomslang (ARTISTdirect)

Marr Attacks

Inside ex-Smith Johnny Marr's new band, the Healers

Coldplay and Ron Sexsmith

January 31

Scavenger Hunt

The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

Pet Shop Boys

June 1

Doves

Lost Soul (Astralwerks)

Mercy beat

Earl Harvin joins Matt Johnson's ever-changing band, The The

Reed Easterwood and Junky Southern

Secret Power (of You) (Self-released)

Getting a Big Head

The London Suede leaves behind its heart for Head Music

Perfect, now

Built to Spill makes a record too good to Keep It Like a Secret

Warm guns and weathered souls

Psalm 69 gets out of the grey