Kelly Dearmore

The 15 Most Original Band Promo Photos in DFW

Here at the Observer, we come across hundreds of photos a week. You'd be surprised how often styles are repeated. You've all seen the cliche band in a wintered field photo, or the antique furniture set outdoors photo. Well, here are a group of photos that don't fit the mold; they're completely origi ... More >>

The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Live Acts In DFW

Every day, thousands of bands play in every corner of the globe -- it takes a lot to stand out from the crowd. Here is a list of 10 DFW bands who you'll never forget seeing, according to the esteemed live music lovers at DC9 at Night. Our panel of experts on this particular one includes Jaime-Paul F ... More >>

Home By Hovercraft's Grandiose New Album: Preview

In this week's feature, Kelly Dearmore tells the story of Home By Hovercraft, a band inspired by The Polyphonic Spree and its members' own theater backgrounds. That tells you a lot about what kind of sound they're headed for; they do it well. You can listen to "Zoo Lion" below for the gist. See al ... More >>

Busking with A.Dd and The Relatives

Earlier this week, Kelly Dearmore showed you a video of Austin up-and-comers Sons of Fathers playing an acoustic song outside the Granada Theater. The Frisco-based video company, Globe Trek Productions, responsible for the video actually produced three in conjunction with Homegrown Music and Arts Fe ... More >>

I Called George Ducas' Hit 'All That's Wrong with Country Music', and He Invited Me to Have a Few Beers

George Ducas has a regional country hit with "Cowtown." But it is, by his own admission, far from his best work. In this week's music feature, Kelly Dearmore explains how he called out Ducas on Twitter for what he viewed as a bottom-feeding song and how an online back-and-forth with the singer ended ... More >>

Ten of This Weekend's Top Shows: Brutal Juice, Stockyards Music Festival, America's Most Slept On Tour and More

Every Thursday, we bring you the ten best shows you absolutely, positively can't miss this weekend. As always, you can find even more to fill your long weekend via our concert calendar. Mind Spiders, Nervous Curtains, Diamond AgeThursday, August 30, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal StudiosThis solid tripl ... More >>

12 of This Weekend's Top Shows: Tenacious D, Arkansas Bo and More

Tenacious D Friday, July 20, at Palladium Ballroom Lots of frat boys expected to turn out for the D tomorrow night. Lots of mind bullets, too.

The Best Texas Country/Red Dirt Songs of the Past 15 Years

This Weekend's Goings On: Summerland Tour, Gigamesh, And So I Watch You From Afar and More

Summerland TourSaturday, July 7, at Billy Bob's TexasThis tour consists of bands that have, at one time or another, annoyed the hell out of everyone in the Western world. The lineup -- all platinum selling artists -- consists of Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit and Marcy Playground.

Guns N' Roses, We Were Promised Jetpacks & the Best Shows in Town This Weekend

Axel Rose​Welcome to the jungle! The one comfortably located just inside the walls of the Gexa Energy Pavilion. After carefully parking your car on someone's lawn, you'll be ushered into said jungle if you purchased your tickets to see what's left of Guns N' Roses -- Axel Rose and some dreadlocks ... More >>

Chromeo Postpones House of Blues Gig, But It's Still a Crazy Busy Wednesday Night of Shows...

Sad news out of Paris yesterday, as French electronic producer Dj Mehdi died at the age of 34 after a roof collapsed in his home. The Ed Banger Records-backed DJ had collaborated with a number of big names over the years, including works with Daft Punk and Chromeo (see above). Tonight, Dallas will f ... More >>

Nico Martini Ditched Football For Theater and Somehow Worked His Way Into HD Radio

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Nico Martini​ Although we normally only see Nico Martini in his trademark short-bill painters' ... More >>

O'Death's David Rogers-Berry Drove Hours To See The Violent Femmes For His First Concert

O'Death​Back in March, our own Kelly Dearmore was among the many who caught New York band O'Death's stunning set at the 35 Conferette (now 35 Denton). He loved it, as you can see form what he wrote:As Josh T. Pearson and his beard watched on, New York's O' Death began their set and immediately im ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Joe Pug at The Loft

Strand of Oaks, Joe Pug The Loft April 2, 2011 Better than: any "new Dylan" comparison you could dream up. Joe Pug's Twitter Feed​ A year ago, in the low-lit underfloor that is J&J's Pizza in Denton, Joe Pug played a set for a tiny, but dedicated crowd at NX35 Conferette. The Flaming Lips ... 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 >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Kelly Dearmore Champions Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Its Non-Hip-Hop Ways

In this week's paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers' choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn't run all of our writers' lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we're doing just that, right here.​Mailroom cleanser and resident he ... More >>

A Funny -- And Also Gross -- Story From Friday's Monotonix Show At The Loft...

Danny FulgencioThis lady had a night on Friday...​Perhaps you read Kelly Dearmore's earlier recap of Friday night's Monotonix show at The Loft and thought to yourself, "Hey, I wonder if there's more to the story about the drunk woman who went to town on the drum kit before Monotonix took the stage ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To See Monotonix and Joan of Arc at The Loft Tonight

Yes, Monotonix is that crazy.​Israel's Monotonix have been known around these parts to throw crazy concerts that really do  demonstrate just how crazy the Middle East can actually be. And we at DC9 have loved it, going as far as to calling the trio's live shows "one of the best." But that doe ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets to See A.A. Bondy at The Loft Tomorrow Night

A growing trend among indie-folk musicians these days is going out to the woods by themselves, living off of the land for an extended time, and writing a weirdly brilliant album. Bon Iver frontman Jason Vernon is probably the most notable, but years before he got the notion, A.A. Bondy spent some ti ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Fate Lions -- "Calendar Girls"

Fate Lions​A few weeks back, Kelly Dearmore gave Fate Lions' recently released Good Enough For You a few spins and offered up his thoughts on the offering from the Dallas-based quintet. In short: He liked what he'd heard. Wrote Dearmore:Over the course of its thirteen songs, Good Enough For You ne ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Shoot Low Sheriff -- "The Western Life"

Shoot Low Sherriff​Featuring members of long-running North Texas country outfits Cowboys & Indians and Texas Gypsies, Shoot Low Sheriff recently released its debut album, an album called The Mockingbird Sessions, which, as Kelly Dearmore described a few weeks back, finds the scene vets trumpet ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Delmore Pilcrow -- "Unsigned Letter"

Delmore Pilcrow's Chris Garver​Earlier this month, in a review of Delmore Pilcrow's sophomore release, Keep An Eye, Kelly Dearmore got to the heart of the band's sound right at the start of his take:If The Strokes are considered a garage-rock band, and Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears are re ... More >>

Breweries Whose Best-Known Beers Are Also Their Least Interesting

​Ask for a Shiner in any Texas bar and you're almost certain to get a Shiner Bock without any need to clarify, despite the array of other brews offered by the Spoetzl brewery under the Shiner name. In fact, Shiner Bock is so synonymous with Spoetzl that many casual beer drinkers may not even be aw ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Harlem Show at City Tavern

In this week's paper, Kelly Dearmore yucks it up with Michael Croomer and Curtis O'Mara of Austin's Harlem while trying to get the band past the garage rock tag it doesn't really dig:"We like to call it gay disco grunge magic," [O'Mara] says while laughing, but not admitting to the self-appointed l ... More >>

Bonus MP3: John Grant with Midlake -- "Chicken Bones"

​It was back in February when we first caught wind of Midlake's supporting role on the new, debut solo effort from John Grant, former frontman of The Czars. Called Queen of Denmark and released on April 6, the album was recorded in Denton while Midlake was on breaks from its recording its own rece ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Nicholas Altobelli -- "Wooden Floors"

Alisha Hurt Nicholas Altobelli​In this week's paper, Kelly Dearmore holds Nicholas Altobelli's latest, The Regulator, up to the light for a closer look and comes out finding the disc "rather agreeable" and a fine step along the artists "continued development." It's a fair take on the disc, actual ... More >>