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Plano Has Become a Hockey Prospect Factory, Which Canadians Find Very Puzzling

It's been over a decade since the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup and proved, six years after moving from Minnesota, that there was room for professional ice hockey even in football-obsessed, not-at-all-icy Texas. The team's popularity has flagged significantly in recent years, but a generation of ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In DFW This Week, December 10-13

Bloc Party, The Burning Hotels Tuesday, December 11, at House of Blues, $30/$35 Bloc Party are coming to town after the release of their fourth full-length earlier this year, appropriately titled Four. The band reverts back to the guitar-centric sounds of its past, recreating the same feel as their ... More >>

First Round of SXSW 2013 Acts Announced, Including Blackstone Rangers and The Relatives

With the announcement of 35 Denton's initial lineup, it was only a matter of time before you felt that tightening in your chest, aka the first round of SXSW acts. North Texas' Blackstone Rangers, Ronnie Fauss, the Relatives, Somebody's Darling, Sarah Jaffe and Tedashii are all represented. Thurston ... More >>

A Quickfire Interview with Bitchin' Kitchen's Nadia G.

To be quite honest, I've never been a huge fan of Bitchin' Kitchen. It's just that it's an assault on the senses. Loud, busy, with lots of costumes, oiled up half naked dudes and whatnot. It's too much. If you haven't heard of Bitchin' Kitchen, it's a show on The Cooking Channel (AKA The Other Food ... More >>

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Check out more of this weekend's shows via our shiny new concert calendar Afghan Whigs, Centro-matic Sunday, October 14, at the Granada Theater Within the bowels of the '90s reunion machine, Ohio's Afghan Whigs are one of those bands you never really expected to be spat out again. Their 1993 LP, Ge ... More >>

QCinema Fest Celebrates Cowtown Gayness

Wither the Underground: The Strange Resonance of Chloe Lum's Requiem For a Scene

"I've been in bands since I was 17 and I'm now 34. My self image is that of a jammer. A scroungy jammer. If I don't have a band and don't play shows, am I still a jammer? If not a jammer then where do I fit in?" That's a quote from Chloe Lum's recent piece about her time in Montreal trio AIDS Wolf ... More >>

Grimes' Cyborg Visions

Grimes Is Very Comfortable Being a Cyborg, Thanks

On "Circumambient," a track from 23-year-old Claire Boucher's latest album, Visions, she sings, "Oh baby I can't say/That everything is OK/Cause I have problems/And I don't know how to solve them." The Montreal musician's third full length and first for 4AD navigates body and mind in order to solve ... More >>

Foster The People, Eisley and This Week's Show Announcements

Foster The People​If you're thinking, "If I hear 'Pumped Up Kicks' one more time, I'm gonna pull a gun on someone and make them outrun my bullets," then you should definitely not read on. The band responsible for the song, Foster The People, has strategically planned to start selling tickets to it ... More >>

Bro Fest 2012 Lineup and Tickets

Handsome Furs​ If the words Bro Fest and 2012 don't strike fear in your heart, then you're probably really stoked for Bro Fest 2012, Parade of Flesh's fifth annual post-SXSW fest. Sunday, March 18 at Club Dada, thrill to the sounds of Brooklyn thrashers Cerebral Ballzy, psych wards the Entranc ... More >>

Sore Losers and Mind Spiders Among First Round Of Bands Announced For SXSW 2012

​Considering that pre-South by Southwest bash 35 Denton announced its first round of performers last week, I guess it makes sense, then, that the Austin fest would announce its own first round of performers this week -- and that their list is indeed larger than 35 Denton's list of 17 names, clocki ... More >>

Four Other "Big Four" Shows We'd Love To See

​The recent Big Four shows featuring thrash-metal kings Metallica, Megadeath, Slayer and Anthrax were massive, epic spectacles that were barely contained by the huge venues they were performed in -- legendary spots such as the Coachella-approved Empire Polo Club and Yankee Stadium, and some Europe ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert

Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Chomsky Is Ready to Take the Next Step.

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we point you in the direction of a piece penned by former Observer music editor Zac Crain that ended up as the cover story back in 2001. The subject of Crain's lengthy story: The pop-rockin' Chomsky, which appeared poised to get their shot at ... More >>

Like Burr, Jaffe and Crushed Stars Before Them, The Orbans Get Some Love From Magnet

​Back in September, we lamented the death of Paste magazine's print edition, partially because we rather enjoyed it's coverage, but mostly because we very much enjoyed the constant love it threw North Texas' way. And we asked the question: With Paste gone, where will our local folkies get their na ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Blonde Redhead at the Granada Theater, Attack Attack! at House of Blues

Pretty sparse musical pickings this Tuesday evening, but at least the couple of things going on tonight are pretty decent.

Tonight, Tonight: Frightened Rabbits at The Loft, Javelina at The Nightmare and Bettie Serveert at The Prophet Bar

Triple-bills are the order of the day on this busy Tuesday evening.

Staff Trax: Suuns, Bobby Bare Jr., Phil Selway, Puscifer, Disfear, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin

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 ou ... More >>

Show Announcements: Of Monteal, Ratatat, Dungen, Yellow Fever, Stars, Los Lonely Boys, AA Bondy, MAE, Maroon 5, One Republic and others

The cover of of Montreal's new record. Also, the cover of my 10th grade notebook​Flamboyant indie-glam act of Montreal has had a busy year. They were just in town a few months ago, and they'll be back at the Granada Theater on Tuesday, November 2, in support of their new record, False Priest. Get ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To See The Besnard Lakes At Granada Theater Tonight.

Good Records has been tweeting up a storm about tonight's Besnard Lakes show at the Granada Theater. With good reason: The Montreal psychedelic shoegaze act is passing through in support of their newest record, Are The Roaring Night, and since Good Records is promoting the concert, the store's siste ... More >>

The Happy Bullets

Hydropanic at the Natatorium (Self-released)

Jo-Jo Laughter

Good Friday: The Party, Preston Grey, James McMurtry, The Fox and The Bird, GWAR, Snoop Dogg and David Cook

After an almost year-long hiatus, The Party makes its triumphant return tonight at The Loft.​Lots happening this weekend--a surprising amount, actually--so let's cut all semantics and jump right into the shows that need to be added to your weekend calendar considerations. First, some reminders of ... More >>

Clearing Out the Mailroom: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Backstreet Boys (Orlando) This Is Us What's left to say about these guys? ... More >>

Sunset Rubdown

Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)

Efterklang, Peter Broderick, Human Highway

Tuesday, March 17, at Hailey's, Denton

Dallas, Do the Rorschach

Friend of Unfair Park Steve Z. sends this link to "the always interesting Strange Maps blog," which, last week, offered "City Maps As A Rorschach Test." The original source for the item is a 1983 Dallas Morning News illustration comparing the sizes and populations of cities across the world, wit ... More >>

Good Friday: The Feds, Astronautalis, King Khan & BBQ Show, The Eagles, Jack Ingram, Dale Watson, Do For It Records' Launch Party, I Love Math, Nouns Group

Kinda an interesting weekend upon us, now that it's the end of the day on Friday and all. While there's a lot happening early next week, the weekend's kinda dry as big, big shows go. Anyway, onto the show's we already told you about... Tonight, there's a big one (Of Montreal and Icy Demons at ... More >>

Ratatat

Tuesday, September 16, at Granada Theater

Biting Back

Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson takes the time to critique the critical responses to his band's new release

St. Vincent on Fire (Well, Arcade Fire, Anyway)

Sorta Winning

The Other Drew

Islands, Why?

Sunday, April 30, at Hailey's

Neko Case, The High Dials

Monday, April 17, at Granada Theater

Islands

Return to the Sea (Equator)

Secret Machines: All You Need is Bono

The Beatdown

Forget hailing the king-- give it up for San Antonio's DJ Jester

Mothers Milked

Mambo Italiano's moms can't believe their boys are gay; Beauty Queen's is off her rocker

Stars

Set Yourself on Fire (Aquarius)

The Arcade Fire

Saturday, January 22, at Trees

Oh, Canada

Big props to the big films of IMAX

Sigur Rós / Godspeed You! Black Emperor

() (MCA) / Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)

Bidder beware

The Red Violin's five tales add up to one good tune

American History why?

Or: Learning about pot-smoking, gas-passing presidents can be fun!

Out There

Events for the week