Subject: My Bloody Valentine

• Gift List: Under The Radar Ideas For The Snobbiest Of Indie Snobs In Your Family

  Only 20 more shopping days until Christmas, so we at DC-9 wanted to help you find some ultra-cool, deep indie CDs as stocking stuffers for the music elitist in your family.These titles are so goddamn esoteric that you'll need extra time for googling and waiting for the damn thing to come in the mail. But each one is a guaranteed good time, full of inventive music by folks that you will, hopefully, hear more from in the future.

  December 5, 2008

• Explosive Plastic Records, The New Sub-Label From Idol Records, Names Little Black Dress As Its First Signee

  Just about a month ago, we first passed along word of the creation of Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records sub-label that plans to focus primarily on putting out records from a more artsy crop of artists than Idol normally backs. And, today, the label has confirmed what sub-label head Dylan Silvers (of The Crash That Took Me) had hinted to us on the down-low a few weeks back: The label's first signing is Toby Pipes' (of Deep Blue Something) and Nolan Thies' (who collaborated with Pip

  January 6, 2009

• Fifteen nailsin the coffin

  December 14, 1995

• BJ's Rocket

  August 21, 1997

• Everything's just fine

  October 2, 1997

• Out Here

  December 18, 1997

• Last Night: Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells and Darktown Strutters at Hailey's

  Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells, Darktown StruttersHailey's Club, DentonJune 3, 2009Better Than: Sulking at home last night while poking around on Craigslist and eBay for those Animal Collective tickets you should've bought months ago... Paul HeartfieldSchool of Seven BellsTurns out there weren't any "Quadrophenia-esque rumbles" in Hailey's parking lot after Black Moth Super Rainbow and School of Seven Bells wrapped up their sets last night. But, before the show started, plenty o

  June 4, 2009

• Out Here

  September 10, 1998

• More Top 10 lists, sort of

  December 24, 1998

• The show-me slate

  December 30, 1999

• What It Was Like: School of Seven Bells, Skibunny

  Jesse HugheySkibunnyI was delayed in getting my night started, thanks to some setbacks I'd rather not go into. Let me just recommend that if you're at SXSW, don't carry a pocketknife. But I still caught a few interesting acts. Hopefully today will go more smoothly. Act: School of Seven Bells (another take). Where: Buffalo BilliardsWhat it was like: I don't think I was quite as impressed as Pete Freedman was in his review, but enjoyed the set enough to stick around till the end. Ally and Claudia

  March 19, 2009

• Liars

  February 26, 2004

• Exploding Plastic Prepares First Release: Little Black Dress

  Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records art-pop imprint, is almost ready to go with its first release, Little Black Dress' Snow In June, which is set for a May 5 release.You may recognize a few members of Little Black Dress' lineup--namely frontman Toby Pipes, also of Deep Blue Something, which, actually, popped up in the most recent issue of Blender in a bracket-style competition for the worst band names of all-time. Way to be, fellas!Anyway, find the full press release and a short band

  April 13, 2009

• Jack With One Eye

  The Bad Sleep Well (Obsolete)

  February 19, 2009

• A New Artist Collective In Denton

  February 19, 2009

• Torche Tries a Slow Burn

  The Florida metal act takes the generic element out of its metal

  November 20, 2008

• Brightblack Morning Light's Nathan Shineywater Smokes Some Pot and Answers Some Questions

  October 30, 2008

• The Magnetic Fields Turn Down the Volume

  Stephin Merritt uses Distortion to protect the Magnetic Fields from mothers everywhere

  October 9, 2008

• Shoe Strung

  A Place To Bury Strangers isn't shoegaze. Or is it?

  August 14, 2008

• Plano Skatepark is Becoming a Live Music Venue

  Eisenbergs Skatepark was never meant to host music, but that hasn't stopped it

  April 3, 2008

• Jazz It Up

  March 13, 2008

• My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields Talks his Band's Past, Possible Future

  April 16, 2009

• Diagramming Modern English

  With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

  November 29, 2007

• Guiding Big D's Sonic Pilgrims

  Enough with the turkeys, now for a little locally baked dessert

  November 22, 2007

• Minus the Bear, Helio Sequence, The Vipers

  October 18, 2007

• Retro Nothing

  The Papercuts' Jason Quever is quintessentially modern

  February 22, 2007

• The Ataris

  Thursday, September 13, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

  September 13, 2007

• D vs. d

  July 19, 2007

• The Animal Collection

  The first five A.C. albums rated from one to four paw prints

  May 24, 2007

• Substitute

  Placebo's Stefan Olsdal finds U.S. reaction hard to swallow

  April 12, 2007

• Comet

  Feathers From the Wing (EP)

  April 21, 2005

• Yo La Tengo

  Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 (Matador)

  April 7, 2005

• Stars

  Set Yourself on Fire (Aquarius)

  April 7, 2005

• Tree Wave

  Cabana EP+ (Made Up Records)

  July 15, 2004

• The Wild Bunch

  How to interview Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Or maybe how not to.

  April 15, 2004

• Break Away

  There's more to ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead than wrecking stages. No, seriously.

  March 28, 2002

• Out & About

  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

  August 23, 2001

• Garageland

  Do What You Want (Foodchain)

  February 1, 2001

• Here and There

  Ten from Dallas and England and all points in between

  December 28, 2000

• Book 'em

  Separating the wheat from the chaff in this year's crop of rock-and-roll tomes

  December 23, 1999

• Dour times

  Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality

  April 6, 1995

• Josh Pearson To Open For My Bloody Valentine

  Josh T. Pearson will open for My Bloody Valentine in Austin tomorrow and in Dallas Wednesday.Austin Music Hall's web site listed former Denton outfit Lift To Experience on the bill as an opening act for My Bloody Valentine tomorrow night, but the set will actually feature frontman Josh T. Pearson's solo project, says a source close to the musician. Though the Palladium Ballroom web site doesn't have any opening acts listed for Wednesday's MBV show, Pearson, or "Creepy Guy No. 1" in Doug Burr's "

  April 20, 2009

• A Cure For Tinnitus at UTD?

  May 21, 2009

• Little Black Dress

  May 28, 2009

• Over The Weekend: The Helio Sequence at The Loft

  The Helio Sequence,The LoftJune 5, 2009Better Than: Being in the registration line at SMU, which is the only other place I've seen this many undergrads.The Helio SequenceThe best concerts aren't always the ones that you've been excited about for months--you know, the ones where you repeatedly refresh your browser on the Ticketmaster site the minute the tickets go on sale, and you take every opportunity to listen to band's entire catalog in preparation. Sometimes the best shows happen when you de

  June 8, 2009

• Tree Wave Posts Free 'Virtual 45 RPM 10-Inch'

  ​Paul Slocum may be heading for New York, but he is leaving Dallas fans (and anyone with an Internet connection) with a parting gift: four free MP3s from his Tree Wave music project. Go to Tree Wave's web site and you'll be redirected to an FTP where you can download four new tracks, "onewordb," "realaudio9," plentyc" and "time29." The four songs make up a "Virtual 45 RPM 10-Inch," except you don't have to bother with flipping the record. They're great tracks, with an even more pronounced My B

  July 28, 2009

• Wavves Is Out Of Control--In A Good Way

  October 8, 2009

• Colm C'iosoig Returns To Dallas With Hope Sandoval

  October 15, 2009

• Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To Tonight's Hope Sandoval Show At Sons of Hermann Hall

  Hope Sandoval​ In this week's print edition of DC9, you won't see an interview with Hope Sandoval. Rather, I think, you'll see something a little more interesting: an interview with the Mazzy Star singer's current musical and household partner Colm O'Ciosoig, better known to many as the drummer of My Bloody Valentine. Written by Observer contributor Doug Davis, the story focuses not on the shy Sandoval so much as it does on the similarly shy O'Ciosoig's work with her--something that's a far cr

  October 19, 2009

• The Crash That Took Me Readies Its Sophomore Release

  November 6, 2009