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Top Show Annoucements: Record Store Day, Limp Bizkit, Styx, Kid Rock, Matchbox Twenty and More

It's a little strange, but I don't know what's happening with all of the show announcements that have been pouring in this week: Limp Bizkit, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls and Kid Rock? It feels like 1999 all over again. Well, in 2013 news, Good Records just announced a kick-ass local lineup for Reco ... More >>

The Seven Best Concerts In Dallas This Week

Nas and Lauryn Hill Monday, October 29, at the Palladium Ballroom, $54.75 This pairing is an inspired one, and especially notable for fans of Lauryn Hill, who have been wondering where the follow-up to 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has been hiding. That (hopefully) comes with the release of ... More >>

House of Blues' Chris Spinks: "Venues Should Be Able to Help Each Other, Rather Than Fight Tooth and Nail"

Chris Spinks' folks raised him on a strict diet of classic rock. His friends upgraded that diet to all things Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords when he got a little older, starting with Social Distortion's Live at the Roxy. From there, he played in a pop-punk band or two, landed a gig at the Vans store, ... More >>

Bro Fest, St. Patrick's Day Concert, DXDW & the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

​In case you haven't read almost every item on DC9 at Night for the last two days, South By Southwest music festival is happening in Austin this weekend, and we're reaping all the benefits. Actually, some of us are missing the whole damn thing. Thankfully, Parade Of Flesh has the cure. Bro Fest 20 ... More >>

Erykah Badu Is Sold Out, But There's Loretta Lynn, The Boom Boom Box and More

​Ah yes, it feels like we're finding our footing, 2012. You started off slow, but this weekend's concert list proves you're finally on track. Erykah Badu & The Cannabinoids at the Granada Theater tonight probably tops the list of shows to see, but we already talked about that show in this week ... More >>

Crushed Stars Announces New Album, Shares Music Video

​The last time Frisco's Crushed Stars released a record, 2010's Convalescing in Braille, singer Todd Gautreau -- the man behind the moniker -- only played one show. It happened on a Thursday night at La Grange and that was it.Now, fans can expect the same as Crushed Stars announces plans to releas ... More >>

Good Friday Thursday: Christmas Weekend Edition

​Hey, remember that best local hip-hop post we ran the other day? The one that mentioned A.Dd ? Well, the aforementioned duo, along with the help of DJ Sober, put out a special WADD Radio Holiday Podcast, featuring classic holiday hits, hilarious between-song banter, and they even took phone calls ... More >>

Bobbo Byrnes of the Fallen Stars Talks Making Music with His Wife, Firing Vegetarian Drummers

​ The Fallen Stars are an Americana outfit out of Orange County, California that features the talents of husband and wife team Bobbo and Tracy Byrnes. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, the pair decided to head to warmer climes in 2000. The Byrnes decided to expand from a duo and soon va ... More >>

Carissa Hughes Went From Local Music Fan to Label Rep to Her Current Gig at the AAC.

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.Carissa Hughes​At the moment, Carissa Hughes works for American Airlines ... More >>

The 10 Best Moments at This Year's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

Mike BrooksMind Spiders on the rooftop of The Bone.​ It's tough to look back on an event like Saturday night's Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and try to come up with a conclusive best-moments list. With 52 bands playing 10 stages over the course of a ten-hour period all throughout Deep Ellu ... More >>

Longtime Deep Ellum Talent Buyer Scott Beggs Officially Teams Up With La Grange

​Turns out the announcement last month that Deep Ellum venue La Grange was going up for sale isn't the new only development at the bar/venue/restaurant: Today, the owners of the room, Rob and Stephanie Schumacher, have announced that they've officially brought area promoter and talent buyer Scott ... More >>

Winspear Opera House's Petite Sandwich Redefines "Petite." And "Sandwich."

​Last night the Winspear Opera House played host to Kathleen Edwards, a Canadian folk and country singer, and Bon Iver. The opera house, a marvel of modern architectural and sound design, makes for a life-shifting experience when the music is good. I wish I could say the same for the food a ... More >>

Brian Roberts of Ha Ha Tonka Names The Five All-Time Greatest Acts From His Native Ozarks

While there's practically an infinite number of ways a band can generate great word of mouth for themselves in this age of social networking, digital distribution and the star-making blogosphere, it seems as though good, old-fashioned touring is as reliable a generator as any. Springfield, Missouri' ... More >>

DOMAXXIII: 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Tickets Now Up For Sale

​ It's coming up on two weeks now since we dropped the above bomb on you and announced that we'd somehow cobbled together the above four bold-faced names -- Toadies, Old 97's, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe -- to headline our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase on Saturday, October 15, in Dee ... More >>

Picture Show: A Friday Night on Elm Street...

All photos by Mike Brooks / commiebike.comMickey Avalon at Trees​Friend of the Program Mike Brooks was out and about in Deep Ellum on Friday night, toting his trusty camera along as he bounced around from venue to venue, snapping up shots of all things visually interesting and arresting. In partic ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Night Doug and Glen and Danny Swapped Songs

​Had a few other things in mind for this work-week wrap-up; maybe I'll get to 'em tomorrow morning ... if you're really that eager for a couple of Reunion Arena shows, one I attended in '83 and another I wish I'd gone to in '89. But whilst looking for something unrelated this morning on Archive.or ... More >>

Frank Hill Runs His Own Company, Manages The Likes of Fair to Midland and Ha Ha Tonka

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.Frank Hill​Frank Hill's story is essentially that of a music scene kid wh ... More >>

Good Friday: The Actual Good Friday Edition

Those Darlins perform at Rubber Gloves tonight.​We've already had a busy week of shows, but that doesn't mean the weekend's shows will be spare. There's actually quite a few nice choices this weekend. Let's start by re-capping the oneswe've been mentioning all week.Tonight, Those Darlins will brin ... More >>

Novaak Makes Something Out of Nothing

Watch: Deep Ellum Comes Together, Remembers Adam Carter

Danny FulgencioAdam Carter was 27.​If there's a good thing that's come out of the recent spate of local musician deaths -- and, yes, this is a stretch, practically inherently -- it's the positivity that's come out of Deep Ellum and the music community as a whole, as these groups have joined togeth ... More >>

Trees Moves Beyond Its Hard Rock Reputation.

A New, Free Monthly Concert Series at Jack Daniel's Saloon: DC9 at Night's Locals Only

​On Thursday, April 21, we here at DC9 will be launching something that we're pretty darn excited about -- a new, monthly concert series with our favorite local bands, fittingly called DC9 at Night's Locals Only. Working in tandem with the folks at the Gilley's complex (Palladium Ballroom, South S ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Here Holy Spain -- "Can't Control"

Today marks the release of Dallas punk trio Here Holy Spain's sophomore album, Division, a disc that Daniel Hopkins called in this week's paper, a "blistering, driving and tearing" release. And that was just in the lead. He also had this to say: [They] paint a pretty clear picture of what their live ... More >>

Memorial Concert For Adam Carter Set To Take Place On Wednesday Night at The Bone

Allison V. SmithAdam Carter​I'm really torn with how we should be handling coverage of Spector 45 bassist Adam Carter's recent suicide. Adam was a sweet guy, a great sound man, a heck of a musician (in addition to his role in Spector 45, he played in a number of other great bands, including The Ma ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Astronautalis at Club Dada, The Extraodinaires at Rubber Gloves, Diafanes at La Grange and The Royal Heist at Lola's

As is typical for this time of the year, SXSW backwash results in a nice slew of bands hitting our area tonight...

Picture Show: Clint Black and The Best Decorated, Best Behaved Super Bowl Party

All photos by Patrick MichelsClint Black at Samuel Lynne Galleries​Not much chance you'd run into an ET camera crew, an Entourage cast member or Cee Lo at Samuel Lynne Galleries last night. But, then you also wouldn't walk out of the place smelling like Axe.The gallery hosted its $600-a-head Super ... More >>

Good Friday: The Spectre of Frankie 45, Onward We March, Arson Anthemn, Retribution Gospel Choir, People on Vaction, Montonix, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Florene, Menkena, Telegraph Canyon, Salim Nourallah, JJ Grey & Mofro, Mind Spiders and The Phuss.

​Before his death in the early hours of New Year's Day, Frankie Campagna and his bandmates in Spector 45 had only gotten around to booking one single show for 2011 -- a gig to take place this Saturday night at La Grange. Obviously, tomorrow night's show won't feature the late, great Frankie 45. Bu ... More >>

Bonus MP3: The Virgin Wolves -- "Virtue and Vice"

The Virgin Wolves​A few months ago, we ran a piece that outlined the music boom happening in Frisco. Loads of bands were traveling to the North Dallas suburb to play at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery. But, still, we wondered if the city would yield any of its own acts. In a pretty quick answer ... More >>

Watch: Menkena -- "I'm One"

​Excuse us if we've spent too much time covering Menkena in these past few weeks, sharing music videos with you, and giving you free songs off their debut record and all. It's just that, you see, we've been sitting on With You I'll Travel, the full-length debut from the so-called acoustic shoegaze ... More >>

Deep Thoughts On Deep Ellum in 2011 with La Grange's Stephanie Schumacher

Photo by Andrea GrimesRemember the tunnel? Ah, those were the days.​For the last eight months, I've lived within earshot of La Grange, this year's Observer winner for Best Bar 2010, and have come to know owners Rob and Stephanie Schumacher through the drunkest of times and the soberest of times. T ... More >>

The Biggest Local Music Stories of 2010

Good Friday: DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown, The Flowers of God, The O's, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, The Mumbles, Collin Herring, Boys Named Sue & More!

Merry Rockmas​It's a weekend chock-full of holiday parties. The Granada Theater is throwing one, DayBowBow has one in Denton, The O's have one at Sons of Hermann Hall, and "The Orphanage" is hosting their fifth annual Christmas party at the Double Wide on Saturday night. The two slackers who host ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Crushed Stars -- "Eyeliner"

Crushed Stars​ Speaking of Crushed Stars, mastermind Todd Gautreau will be bringing his project to La Grange tonight to showcase his latest material, which, mind you, is mostly the product of his own mind and playing. Aside from some assistance from drummer Jeff Ryan (Sarah Jaffe, Pleasant Grove) ... More >>

Anvil Pub's Hammering Down A Heavyweight Menu

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourAnvil Pub's take on sweet and savory pizza pie.​Since it opened one week ago today, there's hardly been a moment when the Anvil Pub's "OPEN" sign wasn't on that I didn't pass by and see the place brimming ever fuller with enthusiastic patrons overjoyed to ... More >>

Gig Alert: The Ace McNeely Memorial Concert/Fundraiser at Sons of Hermann Hall on Sunday

​Back in mid-September, when the Ace McNeely Foundation was announced as a response to the death of 30-year-old area musician, sound engineer and music teacher Ace McNeely, we passed along word that an eight-hour memorial and benefit concert was in the works, so as to help the fledgling foundation ... More >>

Good Friday: Fall Indie Fest, Matt & Kim, Fang Island, School Of Seven Bells, The xx, Morning Benders, Twin Sister, Cults, The National, Sarah Harmer, Two Door Cinema Club, Gaslight Anthem, Devendra Banhart & More!

​You may remember when I mentioned Grand Prairie's upcoming Fall Indie Fest in a story about suburban rock a few weeks ago. Well, Fall Indie Fest is finally here. While it doesn't have quite the same fanfare of the little festival in Austin this weekend, there is still reason aplenty to head out w ... More >>

A View From The Judges Table: Night One of the Shiner Rising Star Semi-Finals

​Shiner Rising Star Competition: Semi-Finals, Night One.Hat Tricks, LewisvilleSeptember 23, 2010After eight weeks worth of first-round performances, and then last week's wild-card round, the semi-finals of the annual Shiner Rising Star contest, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range and Shiner Bock Beer ... More >>

DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 21: Lalagray

As always, we do the YouTube too.It's been a couple months since we served up a live performance video from out at El Sibil, but the release of lalagray's Devil's Nest earlier this month inspired us to get back in the game, if only intermittently for now.Pete's called the album "a confident collect ... More >>

Got Something to Say About Coal Ash Pollution? The EPA Wants to Hear From You Today.

Lower Colorado River AuthorityA new Sierra Club report says coal ash from Central Texas' Fayette Power Plant is polluting the groundwater nearby.​One month since the EPA's stolid road warriors blew threw Arlington to get your thoughts on pollution from gas drilling, the agency's making its triumph ... More >>

Quick! Be Part of Slow Living in Oak Cliff, ASAP.

Sara KerensBikos don't bite. They bike. (Pictured: Jason and Andrea Roberts.)​If you're not presently a Cliffdweller, here's hoping you really like where you live before you read this week's feature, "Greener Acres," about the biking, gardening and quality-of-life-obsessed activists Jim Schutze ch ... More >>

Gig Alert: The Von Ehrics Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary Tomorrow Night at La Grange

The Von Ehrics. No, not the wrestlers.​Around this same time last year, The Von Ehrics released Loaded, the band's third and best effort to date. Filled with actual alt-country hooks to go along with the typical punk roar, Loaded sounded like a hybrid of The Goo Goo Dolls (when that band had somet ... More >>

Bolsa's Bloody Good Brunch

Photos by Andrea GrimesChilaquiles: crispety, crunchety, brunchety.​Sunday brunch was likely a bigger deal than usual for the multitude of music-loving Dallasites who came out to the DOMA showcase this weekend in Deep Ellum -- the whole thing had the feel of a holiday street party, and the drinkin ... More >>

Picture Show: Saturday's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase. (Yes, Again.)

Patrick MichelsEmotion Brown at the Outdoor Stage with Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, before her own set at Reno's later Saturday night.​As Warbeast, Akkolyte and others had their way with Reno's Chop Shop Saloon on Saturday night, those of us sardine-packed and sweating inside La Grange ... More >>

DOMAXXII: The Performers For The July 17 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Are...

​We've been pretty much dying here at DC9 HQ, sitting on this information, just waiting to put it out there for you. And now the higher-ups have given us the green light. You ready? Better be.On July 17, we'll be hosting our the fourth annual showcase for our Dallas Observer Music Awards (the awar ... More >>

Sometimes, Musicians Can Be Funny. Sometimes.

From the "Ever wonder what happens when local musicians have too much time on their hands?" department today comes the clip above, the most recent promo for the variety show John Pedigo (The O's, Boys Named Sue) and Chad Stockslager (The King Bucks, The Drams) and put on every now and then called Th ... More >>

The Belmont and La Grange Promise To Rock This Town With A Late-June Music Fest

​If there was a contest to find the most tricked-up music festival in Dallas this summer, the winner, even on the season's cluttered calender, might be the Rock This Town Music Festival, June 23 through June 27, at La Grange and The Belmont Hotel. Really: The whole thing sounds more like a grown-u ... More >>

Three New Venues Coming To Elm Street?

​On a walk down Elm Street while heading to last week's Slowride Reunion at Elm Street Tattoo, I noticed that the doors were open at 2826, and a few people were buzzing about. The club isn't yet open, mind you--but owner Frank Maldonado, a couple booking agents and some artists who were working on ... More >>

He Was Just Big-Boned