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Dallas' punk bands resurrect the spirit of the '70s
Riot Squad breathes old life into a rotting corpse
Riot Squad breathes old life into a rotting corpse
Four years after its debut, Slowpoke makes its major-label bow on Geffen
July 9 - 15, 1998
Drew Phelps finally gets Round To It; The Meat Helmets decay away
Danger is John Freeman's middle name
Musician Christy Darlington could have—and perhaps should have—quit years ago. So why didn't he?
Friday night's show at Rubber Gloves featured one of the best local bills I've caught this year. An album-release show for Teenage Cool Kids' Foreign Lands, the evening also featured Cleburne's Fungi Girls and, more importantly, the phenomenal debut performance by Denton-based Brit-punk/hardcore act ... More >>
​OK, Dallas: If in the last three months you hadn't yet found time to drive to Denton to catch one of VIDEO's sets, and you aren't planning to see them in Austin tonight, then tomorrow night will be your first chance to catch the band considerably closer to home. As we told you yesterday, VID ... More >>
​With Pete down in Austin attending to all things SXSW, it falls to me to come up with some show recommendations for our area. And there's a lot of stuff going on. Tomorrow brings a Dillinger Escape Plan show to The Granada Theater, and Sunday is especially busy with 97.9's Car Show in Fair Park ... More >>
The trio behind Alkaline Trio? Well, that's just Matt Skiba, Dan Adriano, and Derek Grant. And their latest, This Addiction, is their first for Epitaph Records--quite the change, after putting out records on Asian Man, Vagrant, and Epic prior. With a sound that mixes the best of The Misfits, The Dam ... More >>
Alkaline Trio, Cursive, The Dear and DepartedPalladium BallroomMarch 27, 2010Better than: Paying good money in hopes of seeing Georges St. Pierre knock out Dan Hardy in the first round of UFC 111.Eric GrubbsMatt Skiba and Co. at the Palladium on Saturday night.​At this point in its career, Alkalin ... More >>
Drive A​Drive A is a relatively new rock quartet with solid punk leanings. Led by appropriately snotty lead vocalist/guitarist Bruno Mascolo, Drive A hails from Los Angeles and is happy to harken back to the classic hardcore punk days of Orange County when bands like Black Flag and the Adolescents ... More >>
Ra Ra Riot​October is shaping up to be a pretty solid month for great acts passing through Dallas. Already, we've got Vampire Weekend, The National. And now we can add Ra Ra Riot to the mix. On Thursday, October 28, at Granada Theater, the bouncy, excitable indie-pop act will be passing through in ... More >>
Ra Ra Riot​October is shaping up to be a pretty solid month for great acts passing through Dallas. Already, we've got Vampire Weekend, The National. And now we can add Ra Ra Riot to the mix. On Thursday, October 28, at Granada Theater, the bouncy, excitable indie-pop act will be passing through in ... More >>
Green Day, AFI Superpages.com CenterAugust 26th, 2010(Way, way ) better than: reading Marc Spitz's book, Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day.Marina ChavezGreen Day​How is it possible to put on a three-hour arena rock show that doesn't lag or feel self-indulge ... More >>
Tomorrow night at Sons of Hermann Hall, Titus Andronicus comes to town supporting The Monitor, its second full-length release, which, it just so happens, also stands as one of the best releases of the year.Visceral, and vehemently angry, the disc is in many ways a middle finger to the trivialities t ... More >>
Another Wednesday rolls around, and there are a number of intriguing musical options with it...
Hagfish​In this ironic edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain writes about several local band break-ups in 1999 with an emphasis on Hagfish. Seems that less than a year after their split, Hagfish had already reunited for a show booked at Trees. ... More >>
Sunday, October 31, at the Southside Music Hall
Trick or treat! It's Halloween weekend, folks, and we have an extra special giveaway this time--to not one, but two shows. A real treat, for sure. Here's the deal: There are two pretty awesome shows going on at the Gilley's Complex on Halloween night, and the folks over there are hooking five DC9 re ... More >>
Black Stone Rangers​A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn't much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we do, and we c ... More >>
Edie Brickell​Certainly not the biggest, but the most notable show coming to town is Heavy Make-Up at The Kessler Theater on Friday night. The group features Edie Brickell, fellow New Bohemian Kenny Withrow and Spin Doctors drummer Aaron Comess. This improvisational band is certain to recall th ... More >>
A solidly packed Monday evening of music awaits those who don't mind stepping out on a cold winter's night...
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Trevor Keith and the guys in Face to Facce​For those dis ... More >>
Face to Face, Strung Out, Blitzkid, The Darlings Granada Theater June 5, 2011 Better than: punching a hole in your TV after the Mavericks' game. Face to Face​Face to Face didn't hit the stage until late in the evening (five minutes after 11, to be exact), but the large crowd that gathered in the G ... More >>
Fans of punk, emo, classic funk, alt-country and even food will all find plenty of options on tonight's fairly busy -- ahem -- menu.
The Coathangers, Leg Sweeper, Catching Chloe and Chicken & Whiskey Bryan Street Tavern Friday, July 15, 2011 Better than: Staying home and getting yelled at by my wife The Coathangers​A hot and bothered collection of punks and other assorted riff raff made their way down to old East Dallas F ... More >>
Curren$y​Louisiana' Curren$y's been around for nearly a decade at this point, but it's only been in the last few years that the rapper really seen his stock rise. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he's released more than 14 mixtapes since 2007? Probably. Anyway, he'll be coming to to ... More >>
Nick 13​Best known as the leader of the psychobilly outfit Tiger Army, Nick 13 took a bold step by releasing a solo album of traditional, old-school country back in June. No longer content to wallow in the retro-rock and punk stew of his own band, Nick apparently decided to go way back and li ... More >>
Hank Williams, III​Last week, Hank Williams III released four CDs of new music -- songs that he had written over the span of six months. Sure, a lot of the ideas have been percolating in Williams' brain for a while as a nasty spat with his former record label has worked itself out. But the sh ... More >>
Cymbals Eat Guitars​We've really been getting a kick out of learning what many artists consider to be their all-time top five things of various topics are since we kicked off this recurrign feature a few months back. It's a simple enough concept: For the most part, we look to connect a top five li ... More >>
The Misfits' Michale Graves​Nothing pisses rock fans off worse than the lead singer of their favorite band being replaced. This happens across genres, but it's most common within hard rock -- pop, country and R&B vocalists' departures are usually a precursor to their solo efforts; very rarely ... More >>
Austin's little fest has grown big and sponsored--and that's fine by us
In various incarnations over the course of three decades, New Jersey's The Misfits have made a mark in the history of punk rock. Starting way back in 1977, singer Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only had a vision of combining punk rock's roar with imagery from horror movies. What they did was creat ... More >>
Shigeo Jones Kikuchi: Photo AssassinThe Misfits.Last Night: The Misfits, Juicehead, Hood Rat, Electric Vengeance, The Hammercocks Trees November 14 Better than: carving Crimson Ghost jack-o-lanterns with Evilive on. The Misfits might have delivered a much more satisfying set last night than ... More >>
With plans for a follow-up to this year's acclaimed Division, 2012 looks good for pop-punk trio Here Holy Spain. To tide you over, they have a song on this year's Idol Christmas compilation called "God-Damn This Christmas." As the band wraps up the year, all three recently shared with us t ... More >>
On the Impossible Past, Philadelphia quartet The Menzingers' new third effort, is a wail of an album. Angry, passionate and, best of all, literate, the songs resonate with the kind of pure punk spirit that made bands like Black Flag and The Misfits so important to the American indie scene. S ... More >>
Evan Dando is not made of plasticIn honor of Evan Dando and his band The Lemonheads being at the Prophet Bar tonight, I thought I might share with the readers of DC9 some of the pitfalls of being a music writer. Sure, there are tons of positives: free shows and CDs and access to cool people ( ... More >>
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