LCD Soundsystem

How a Sports Talk Station May Also Be the Best For Music Fans: A Report From Ticketstock

There is one radio station in DFW that takes the time to play an interesting mix of music every day. This same station also takes the opportunity to discuss and explore music in ways that all the other stations are sorely lacking. The thing is, this station just so happens to be the area's number on ... More >>

A Road Trip Through Texas, And The State of Dallas Radio

In the last few months, research for a project has taken me across the state and, more recently, into Mexico. It may be something sentimental in me, or this weird notion that road trips are meant to be soundtracked by where you are and not by a list you cultivated online, but I noticed what was popu ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, our indefatigable music critic staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests, to down-right lame. Below, you'll find their submissio ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Friday 3/16/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music editors have selected t ... More >>

Grieves & Budo, K. Flay Lace Up House of Blues

K. Flay​ Last Night: Grieves, Budo, K. Flay House of Blues December 14, 2011 Better than: Hip-hop in a suburban church. This suburban triple-header brought out a crowd of 150 or so to the Cambridge Room at House of Blues, and the almost exclusively white 20-something crowd was treated to a ... More >>

Holy Ghost! Frontman Alex Frankel Talks About Being Labeled a Singles Band

Holy Ghost!​Brooklyn-based electro-pop act Holy Ghost! had both an instant and gradual rise to fame. The electro-pop duo Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser began releasing remixes of acclaimed indie songs such as MGMT's "Of Moons, Birds and Monsters" before debuting their first piece of original mat ... More >>

MP3 Premiere: Ex-Ishi Players Release "Sunset," Their First Single As Zhora

Zhora​Just a little more than two months after the announcement that vocalist Taylor Rea and guitarist Rob Bastien were leaving the adored area electronic act Ishi to start a project of their own, the twosome is ready to unveil their new sound.Called Zhora, the group's sound picks up at a place no ... More >>

Last Night: Donald Glover/Childish Gambino at South Side Music Hall

Donald Glover/Childish GambinoSouth Side Music HallMay 2, 2011Better than: open mic night at the Dallas Comedy House.Kevin TodoraMore in Kevin's slide show, the many stage faces of Donald Glover​There's no doubting the popularity of actor/comedian Donald Glover and his maybe-not-moonlighting-gig a ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Kills at the Granada, A-Trak at Trees, The Builders and The Butchers at Double-Wide and AgesandAges at Swiss House

Lots of musical action happening this evening. Kinda feels like half of the Pacific Northwest is in town tonight.

Toadies To Put Out LCD Soundsystem Cover As Part of Special 7-Inch, Record Store Day Release

​Back in early March, you may recall, we pointed your attention toward this oh-so-incredible acoustic performance by the Toadies of their song "Tyler," filmed and recorded on location at last year's Dia de Los Toadies festival. Greatness. Meanwhile, in another world, LCD Soundsystem performed its ... More >>

Shinsei's Jason Czaja: Should We Worry About a Chef Whose Fave Movie is Soylent Green?

Dana DriensleyShinsei executive chef Jason Czaja​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Jason Czaja, executive chef at Shinsei. Today, we asked Czaja to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. I was raised in...Born on the Indiana side of Chicago. Mom, Dad, litt ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Girl Talk at the Palladium Ballroom

Girl Talk Saturday, January 15, 2011 The Palladium BallroomBetter than: Listening to a bunch of actual girl talk. All photos by Kevin TodoraCheck out more photos in the slideshow.​ Whether you can dance or not, you know you want to. You just need a good excuse and, in some cases, a little lubri ... More >>

Royal Bangs Ready A New Explosion.

Bite It, Big Apple

​Again, something with which to occupy your time while we wait on return calls ...This time, it's a New York Post piece that ran a couple of days back from a local scribe of note who writes that no way, no how would he move to New York City, even if they do have real bagels. It's been e-mailed and ... More >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Daniel Rodrigue Finds Something Happening About LCD Soundsystem's Promised Swan Song

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.​ Former ... More >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Music Editor Pete Freedman Finds Plenty Beautiful About Kanye West's Dark Twisted Family

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.​Music ed ... More >>

The Best National Album Releases of 2010

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Catherine Downes Hails Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine Re-Release

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.​The mind behind our DC9er mixtape ... More >>

A Blow-by-Blow Field Report From Austin City Limits 2010.

Menudo, Menudon't at the Hill Country's Las Comadres

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourMenudo! Donde esta Ricky Martin? Il n'est pas ici. Nein.​Like many of my fellow Dallasites, I spent this weekend in Central Texas. But I never gave a single Flo-Max laden Eagles fan directions to the Port-A-Potties. Nor did I cut any rugs to LCD Soundsyst ... More >>

ACL '10, Night Two: Muse, Matt & Kim and M.I.A. Muster Might, Magic and Meh.

​Night fell down on Austin Town and it figured it'd be a busy night. And with The xx and Temper Trap setting the table for LCD Soundsystem, Gogol Bordello, Monsters of Folk, Deadmau5, Matt & Kim, MIA and Muse, Saturday did indeed set it self up to be remembered as ACL 2010's strongest.Except f ... More >>

Night Moves: The Strokes and Hula hoops, or Night One at ACL 2010

Caity ColvardProbably the best thing you could see during Phish. Check out more in the slideshow.​After the Strokes surprisingly brief (but crisp and solid as a big ol' apple) set, a wave of dude bros and hipsters made their way back through through Zylker (or on to Sixth Street) to catch the end ... More >>

ACL Day One Recap: Hipsters, Hippies and The Poor Schlubs Stuck In Between.

Patrick MichelsJulian Casablancas wears his sunglasses at nights.​ Well, Austin City Limits, you redeemed yourself. After a slow start to the festivities, things picked up very quickly, as predicted, and, by three o'clock, things were in full swing. But Night One--despite names like Miike Snow, Gi ... More >>

Do It Live: Austin City Limits, Day Two

All photos by Patrick MichelsGrace Potter​For more photos from Friday, check out our slideshow.  In about half-an-hour, the Temper Trap will cause pelvises to thrust, Monsters of Folk will be thirty minutes from their beastly (two hour) set, and in about an hour LCD Soundsystem will be pluggi ... More >>

ACl Day Two: Zilker Park Is Heating Up...

Patrick MichelsLots of tough choices to make today--like Bear in Heaven (above) or Pete Yorn early on.​ A busy afternoon session in Austin had heads spinning on Saturday afternoon--and that much is still the case, as The XX finishes up its set against the Temper Trap, leading into a three-way deat ... More >>

Is the ACL Spillover Effect Just a Big Myth?

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 24: DJ Redsean

​His popular weekly dance party known as Disqo Disco may be dead now, but Sean Humphrey, who also serves as the frontman of local electro act Sydney Confirm, still spins lively sets around town under his stage name of Redsean.In both his band and in his DJ sets, Humphrey draws a great deal of infl ... More >>

Holy Ghost! Shakes Its Buzz Demons

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 17 revisited: Left/Right Delivers That Mix To Us, As Promised

​Two weeks back we featured Left/Right on our weekly DJ profile, DC9er. However, due to a busy schedule the DJ/producer wasn't able to send over an exclusive mix. Instead, he sent us an excellent mix that he'd already released. Well, this week, Left/Right sent along his new DC9-exclusive "Day M ... 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 >>

That Rhett Miller Makes One Adorable Punk

At some point today, Pete will no doubt post his musings on last night's LCD Soundsystem spectacular-spectacular at the Palladium. I look forward to that. But, alas, poor Pete bailed too soon. There was the after-show, after all, otherwise known as Rock Star Karaoke in the upstairs Loft (where the B ... More >>

Last Night: LCD Soundsystem and Holy Ghost! at the Palladium Ballroom

LCD Soundsystem, Holy Ghost!Palladium BallroomJune 9, 2010Better than: pretending to be too cool for this shit.Mattie StaffordLCD Soundsystem's James Murphy​For someone who's made a career out of his cooler-than-thou persona, LCD Soundsystem frontman and mastermind James Murphy sure is a weird dud ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem, Holy Ghost!

Wednesday, June 9, at Palladium Ballroom

LCD Soundsystem

This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)

Austin City Limits Announces 2010 Lineup...

​It's that time of year, again. The Austin City Limits Festival line-up was unveiled early this morning via the fest's official website. There isn't any question: This year's docket will have people gabbing--whether it's vitriolic hate or nostalgic, warm-fuzzies. Sure, for many, bashing on the cho ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 11: DJ TraDeMarx

​DJ TraDeMarx, aka Chris Johnson (and better known around town as CJ), is relatively new to the DJ game, having gotten his start at spinning just three years ago after a friend asked him to DJ his party. Drawing much of his inspiration from Rio De Janeiro production duo/DJ's The Twelves and Brookl ... 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 >>

Show Announcements: Lady Gaga, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, LCD Soundsystem, More.

Lady Gaga​If you're Lady Gaga on a massive world tour, how do you find the energy to keep up with the fast-paced world of international stardom? A couple of Red Bulls and maybe the occasional 5 Hour Energy? Nah. The answer's celibacy, of course! Just days after announcing her celibacy, Gaga's also ... More >>

Today In Music News: Rap-Rock Could Kill You, Teddy Pendergrass Is Dead And LCD Soundsystem Is Done... Maybe

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 15, 2010... Would you kill to get your old job back? Apparently Incubus' old DJ would, even after 11 years. R&B heavyweight Teddy Pendergrass has passed away.Looks like the next LCD Soundsystem album may be it's last... maybe?

Pitchfork On Neon Indian: "Best New Music"

Psychic Chasm's cover.​Probably should've seen this coming: Today, Pitchfork honored Neon Indian with its much-sought-after "Best New Music" tag, giving the album an 8.6 on its 10-point scale. As for the review itself? It's loving enough, namedropping some pretty heavy hitters--LCD Soundsystem, Da ... More >>

Good Friday: Tori Amos, Tomorrowpeople, CKY, Phoenix Project Benefit, Les Americains, Happy Bullets, Tim Sweeney, Yanari and More

It's Friday! Party time! Excellent! After Tuesday's festivities, it almost feels redundant to have an actual weekend. But there are plenty of musical reasons not to waste the weekend catching up on all the things that hangover kept you from finishing on Wednesday. As for stuff going on Friday, ... More >>

MySpace To Host Free All-American Rejects Performance At The House of Blues on Monday, July 13

Myspace has been running a free concert series called The List--a pretty interesting deal in that, if you befriend The List's Myspace page on the networking site, you can get into certain free performances when the company decides to put them on in your city. And it's not just slouches offering up t ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Febrifuge

A Short Instance Of Separation (Self-released)

Making a List, Checking It Twice

M.I.A., LCD, ACL

The Sri Lankan lady starts the dance, dance revolution

Wild 'n' Out

The latest on summer fests, a CD release and a Party party

The Rapture, Shiny Toy Guns

Thursday, May 17, at the Granada Theater

The Beat Down

LCD Soundsystem doesn't need turntables-- just a big, banging bell

Odds & Ends