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Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Best Electronic, Experimental and None of the Above Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Best Electronic Act Black Market Pharmacy This la ... More >>

Dream Theater at Verizon Theatre

Monday, July 9, at Verizon Theatre

Baruch the Scribe - Dan's Silverleaf - 3/2/12

Baruch the Scribe Dan's Silverleaf Friday, March 2 In what seemed like a battle for most effects processors and pedals, Denton's Baruch the Scribe headlined Dan's on Saturday night with the Coves, Botany and the very slick, very talented Gold Beach out of Austin. Their new seven-song LP, Intentions ... More >>

Between the Buried and Me

Kaleidoscopic prog-metal goes conceptual

Jeff Jacobs Went From Playing College Bars to Rocking The Keys on "We Didn't Start The Fire."

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. Jeff Jacobs​Jeff Jacobs, a fairly recent transplant from Chicago, spends ... More >>

Les Claypool On Being Too Good For Metallica. Also: Climbing Mount Everest in a Speedo!

Les Claypool​As the leader of the geeky power trio Primus, Les Claypool somehow managed to turn his love of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart into a tangible career in rock music. Indeed: For the better part of three decades now, Les Claypool has stood tall as one of the strangest ducks in the roc ... More >>

Three Shows You May or May Not Want to See Tonight

If you're a fan of dub step, heavy metal or a little Puerto Rican reggaeton, tonight's musical offerings are right in your wheel house.

Tonight, Tonight: Lady Gaga at the AAC, The Small Ponds at Dan's, The Lonely Forest at Dada, Muffalo at The Double Wide, Babar at Rubber Gloves and Milktooth at La Grange

Eek! It's time for SXSW spillover, the yearly event in which the hoards of bands heading to Austin collect a little gas money by playing our fair area. But I'm not one to complain: Good music is good music, no matter where or when it's played.

Jonathan Richman and Four Other Criminally Underappreciated Talents

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

The Symbolyc One Powers The New The Social Network Spot--But He's Not The Only Area Musician Involved in the Facebook Film.

If you've been paying attention, then you've long known that Dallas' own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West's inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling "Power." And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track--it's currently being used in the as-seen-above-and ... More >>

Check The Artwork For Kanye's Just-Released "Power" Single, Produced By DFW's Own Symbolyc One.

​ Earlier this week, we showed you Kanye West's performance of his new Symbolyc One-produced single, "Power," at the BET Awards on Sunday night. Well, this morning, DFW-produced single earned its release via an exclusive iTunes arrangement. And it's doing OK, too, currently sitting at No. 5 on iTu ... More >>

Watch: Kanye West Performs The Symbolyc One-Produced Power To Open Last Night's 2010 BET Awards

Last night's 2010 BET Awards kicked off with a band, featuring Kanye West standing atop a mountain set on stage, performing "Power," the lead, already-leaked single off his much-anticipated fifth release, Good Ass Job, which is currently set for a September release. Not a bad performance either. Whi ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Keith Emerson and Greg Lake at The Granada Theater

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake Granada TheaterApril 30, 2010(Barely) better than: Listening to ELP's three-album live set Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends over and over.Two-thirds of these dudes played the Granada on Friday.​Let's get one thing straight: As a kid, I liked Emerson, ... More >>

Q&A: Greg Lake Talks ELP Reunion, Playing Hits and Promoter Assumptions

Greg Lake's resume reads like a who's who of classic rock. If only Lake were known as the first singer/bassist for King Crimson, his iconic status would still be secure. But Lake chose to leave King Crimson and form a trio with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer. ELP went on to sell over 30 million album ... More >>

Staff Trax: Hot Chip, LCD Soundsytem, Caribou, King Crimson, Johann Johannsson and Meat Loaf

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 our ow ... More >>

Metal Gig Alert: Between the Buried and Me, Cynic, Devin Townsend and Scale the Summit Tonight at The Prophet Bar.

Between the Buried and Me... and You.​Quite the progressive metal conglomeration tonight down in Deep Ellum at the Prophet Bar. Headlining the deal? North Carolina's Between the Buried and Me. And even though any metal band that takes its name from a Counting Crows song is deducted satanic style p ... More >>

Gig Alert: Allan Holdsworth at Dan's Silverleaf

Allan Holdsworth​Legendary British guitarist Allan Holdsworth appears tonight at the intimate confines of Dan's Silverleaf. Perhaps best known for his work with the progressive '70s outfit UK, Holdsworth has also played with Level 42, Gong, Soft machine, Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson) and m ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Cursive at Hailey's Club

Cursive, Capgun Coup, Old Canes, The Timeline PostHailey's ClubNovember 27th, 2009 Better than: realizing that the Black Friday deal you got was a Black Friday bust. Cursive​Watching the four-band bill on Friday was like watching many Dallas Cowboys' wins: Everything came together in the last ... More >>

Gig Alert: Brian "Head" Welch Tonight at The Prophet Bar

Bryan "Head" WelchAlthough never a big admirer of Korn, I can appreciate guitarist Brian Welch's decision to leave the multi-platinum band behind and dedicate himself to his chosen religion. The guy was baptized in the Jordon River and has built several orphanages in poverty stricken areas of India, ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' W ... More >>

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

Remembering Jerry Wexler

A friend recalls the legendary record man

Quintet For The End Of Time Is Recording, Mixing New Material And Heading To Italy

THe BAcksliders

You're Welcome (Self-released)

Minus the Bear

Planet of Ice (Suicide Squeeze Records)

Asia

Fantasia: Live in Tokyo (Eagle)

John Vanderslice, St. Vincent

Saturday, May 5, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton

Unclear on the Concept

Prog rock lives on--like a zombie

Blast Beats, Dark Harmonies and Monstrous Melodies

The Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of 2006

Paul Brill

Harpooner (Scarlet Shame)

Adrian!

Prog-rock legend Belew powers up the Granada

2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Wright Amendment

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

Robert Fripp

Love Cannot Bear (Discipline Global Mobile)

Adrian Belew

Sunday, August 28, at The Granada Theater

The Mars Volta

Frances the Mute (Universal)

Shatner, Transformed

After years of being a musical punch line, Captain Kirk sets his new CD on stun

Real Whirled

Plus: New Entries in the Dallas Dictionary; “Oh, Laura”

Radiohead | Christopher O'Riley

Hail to the Thief (Capitol) | True Love Waits (Sony Classical)

Lost in Space

Meet the new radio, XM. It's big. It's bad. It's nationwide.

Three Axes to Grind

The California Guitar Trio is a band that really does deserve the labels of "eclectic" and "synergistic"

Out & About

Prince

Life is a carnival

The musical midway of Citizen Lane

Music to watch cave paintings by

Ohm taps the roots of cosmic rock

Blood on the tracks

A former Chili Pepper embraces his demon

Out Here

Two-drink minimum

The Enablers take Nino Rota and Dick Dale out for cocktails

UFOFU and your mother

From New York to Dallas comes a classically trained punk-pop band