Jon Brion

Best Coast's Bob Bruno On Working With Jon Brion and Why Everyone Wants To Sing About California

Every few years there's a new it girl, and Best Coast's leader, Bethany Cosentino, is one of them. That's not to say the talented California native, who has a new line of clothing to her name, is an empty vessel who just happens to play guitar. Cosentino and her multi-instrumental partner in crime, ... More >>

Saturday's 35 Denton Review: Bun B, Best Coast, Rain and Rap

Live your life like it's one in, one out. That's a motto I've started living by this weekend. Last night especially, as the rain upon Denton reached Biblical proportions. I imagined a scenario in which Denton flooded and hundreds of drunk, high fans were washed away in the most epic fashion. But the ... More >>

10 Albums That Cure a Bad Hangover

LA WeeklyOh, sweet relief!​There are few things that cure day-after-drinking hell better than a Bloody Mary. It's got to be a salad in a glass for the really bad ones, when you feel heavy at the forehead like a sledgehammer. Obviously, there's a number of additional things you can do for yours ... More >>

Ten Goosebump-Inducing Movie Score and Soundtrack Moments Not From John Williams

A scene from The Royal Tenenbaums.​Hey, it's almost Oscar season! Well, kind of. This much is sure: The summer's about to crest and the shitty movies will finally wash ashore like a dead, bloated whale. Then, the good films will come! You know the Hollywood drill -- and, often, it involves Hollywo ... More >>

Rhett Miller Shares The First Two Songs (One Never Before Released) He Wrote After 9/11

Stephen MaskerRhett Miller​Considering that this upcoming September 11th will serve as the ten-year anniversary of the day the Twin Towers fell, the fact The Atlantic is using its September issue to look back on 9/11 isn't all that surprising. The fact that the highly regarded publication asked Ol ... More >>

Kiddrae's Beautiful Video of Mavericks Fans Celebrating a Title. And: DART's Parade Plans.

MAVS in 6. from Kiddrae on Vimeo.I've been sitting on two videos with which I'd planned to end the day. But Dallas Area Rapid Transit just sent its rather lengthy list o' travel plans for Thursday morning's Mavs title parade, so I thought I'd share one -- Kiddrae's gorgeous short "MAVS in 6.," set t ... More >>

Q&A: The Old 97's Rhett Miller Talks The Grand Theatre, Accepting The Band's Alt-Country Tag and The Trouble With Releasing Double Discs.

Piper FergusonThe Old 97's are looking sharp once more.​In tomorrow's print issue of DC9, I take a long hard look at the Old 97's eighth studio release, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, which earns its release on Tuesday, October 12. And I find, as we've been saying since we first heard the disc bac ... More >>

Rhett Miller Talks To Billboard About His Upcoming Solo Disc

Speaking of the 97's, news comes today via Billboard that Rhett Miller's fourth solo record will see release on June 9. The self-titled affair, which Miller recorded over the past two months at Salim Nourallah's Pleasantry Lane studios, also features a whole bunch of familiar names backing the 97' ... More >>

Odds and Sods: Of Michaels, the Meadows Foundation and the Eternal Sunshine of Downtown Dallas

While we wait for Sam to post from the city council briefing -- where, for the first time, the entire council will discuss the smoking ordinance -- a few random notes. First, a Friend of Unfair Park points us toward the latest earnings report from Irving-based arts-and-craft emporium Michaels Stores ... More >>

Q&A: Going Ga Ga with Spoon's Eno

Wait No Longer, Spree Fans

Going on a Polyphonic Spree Spree

Our critics' top 10 albums

Neil Diamond

12 Songs (Columbia)

Glen Phillips, Blue Merle

Saturday, April 16, at Trees

Fiona Apple

Extraordinary Machine (Unreleased)

Chris Holt

Wednesday, March 9, at the Barley House

Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison (Anti-/Nave)

Move Over, Flickerstick

A Dozen Furies wins Battle for Ozzfest

Jon Brion

I Heart Huckabees Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Milan)

20 Bands 7 Days

For one week, Sarah Hepola saw every band that invited her. God help her.

Evan Dando and the New Amsterdams

October 1

All Aboard the Wagon

Evan Dando is back from rock star excess hell. Don't expect apologies or explanations.

The New Boss?

Pete Yorn on Bruce, bongs and “Burrito”

Rhett Miller

The Instigator (Elektra)

Miller's Crossing

Rhett Miller's The Instigator isn't the wreck of the Old 97's. It's just what he does.

Jay Bennett and Edward Burch

June 5

Checking In

Old 97's guitarist has a new solo project in The Scrap Hotel

Sara Hickman

February 15

Rumor Mill

Old 97's breaking up? Who told you that?

Shelby Lynne

Love, Shelby (Island Def Jam)

Miranda Lee Richards / Paula Frazer

The Herethereafter (Virgin) / Indoor Universe (Birdman)

Method Men

The Crystal Method's Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland come back from their lost Tweekend

Jon Brion

Meaningless (Straight to Cut-Out)

The weak in rock

Oh, Mann

Three years and one bad record deal later, Aimee Mann returns -- with two wonderful records

Out There

Fiona Apple

The oldest story in the world

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

The million-dollar record

Four years after its debut, Slowpoke makes its major-label bow on Geffen