My Bloody Valentine

The Power of Dallas: Erykah Badu Gives Tyler a Bump and Bill's Old Friend Makes the White House

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Tyler, The Creator features several artists on his new album, and according to CD Source owne ... More >>

My Bloody Valentine's Website Crash Shows What it Means to Be Indie in 2013

My Bloody Valentine released a new album over the weekend, and by all accounts it's very good. There are a lot of thick, quavering guitars on it, you can't really hear the vocals, and nothing goes much like you expect it to, which is to say that if you enjoy My Bloody Valentine, you'll enjoy m b v. ... More >>

Farewell to Fallout Lounge

Marina was her name. She had a short, dark mod haircut, and knew how to bring out her blue eyes with layers of teal scarves. We were Myspace friends. Still are, I think. But I never knew what became of her. Last I heard, she went north to try her luck in New York. Some of the best times of my life h ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2012, The Wrap-Up: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper, Skrillex and Bouts of Vomiting

See also: Bonnaroo Thursday See also: Bonnaroo Friday Do not, under any circumstances, forget to bring earplugs to a Mogwai concert. Thank the concert gods I didn't learn this lesson the hard way during their Saturday evening set at Bonnaroo, having just bought a pair from some high-schoolers rais ... More >>

Blackstone Rangers Make You a Summer Mixtape

In preview of the release party for debut EP Into the Sea, tonight at Bryan Street Tavern, we asked local trio Blackstone Rangers to give us a few of their favorite summer songs. Not necessarily songs about summer, but ones that they associate with the season. Derek Kutzer, guitar Weezer," Surf W ... More >>

Allen Epley of The Life and Times Talks Barbecue and Setting His Amp to 12

Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, trio The Life and Times makes a wonderful racket while creating dense, sonically challenging compositions -- real rock songs hidden under waves of noise. Speaking from his home in Chicago and in anticipation of tonight's show at Dan's Silverleaf, frontman and ... More >>

Ten Performances Worth Seeing at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin This Weekend

​Yes. Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend in Austin, and judging by the eclectic-as-ever line-up, the name continues to become even more appropriate with each passing year. Celebrating its sixth birthday, the bash will take place on Auditorium Shores, which marks a step into more of a big-time, desti ... More >>

Sundress

Sundress Self-released

A Place to Bury Strangers' Oliver Ackermann Names The Five Loudest Shows He's Ever Seen

That's Ackermann, front and center, with the rest of APTBS.​As we've already discussed a bit this week, A Place To Bury Strangers have about as much a problem turning up the volume knob as Rick Perry does seeking hair product. Which makes this recent, surprise announcement all the more awesome: Ol ... More >>

20 Years Later: The 15 Best Albums of 1991

​In last week's edition of our regular feature, The Conversation, Pete Freedman and Daniel Hopkins debated on whether 1991 or 1994 was the greatest music year of the '90s. It was an interesting read for sure. And, since this week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of both Nevermind and The ... More >>

A Place to Bury Strangers: "Everything [We] Get Involved With Seems to be Related to Death."

New York's A Place to Bury Strangers has been around for nearly a decade, and, in that time, the band has garnered a solid fan base for its unrelentingly loud slabs of noise. The band's sophomore record, 2009's Exploding Head, which the band is still touring behind, found APTBS exploring interesti ... More >>

The Conversation: 1991 Was a Damn Good Year, But Was It The Best Music Year of The '90s?

​Something happened this week 20 years ago, and music hasn't been the same since: Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the lead single from Nevermind, which would itself come out later in the month. With the song came a new movement in music, a new era. But plenty of other influential acts ... More >>

Listomania: Seven Debut Albums Not Worth Being Saved By God

You're going to do what with my blood?​We're already started on a big weekend, folks. Earth Day and Good Friday are both happening now. Plus, Sunday is Easter. Oh, and Passover ends next Tuesday. Which brings us to this post. In the original passover story, Jewish families would sacrifice a lamb t ... More >>

My First Show: The Demigs' Guyton Sanders Explains The Thought Process Behind Buying His First Ever Concert Shirt On INXS' Kick Tour

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. The Demigs plan to take off... eventually.​Guyton Sanders is literally a drummer about town. Whether he's ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to See Blonde Redhead at Granada Theater Tonight

New York's Blonde Redhead is fresh off the release of their eighth studio album, Penny Sparkle, which sees the band forging ahead into new musical territory, and passing through Dallas at the Granada Theater tonight. And while the new album has been compared to Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and ... More >>

Giveaway: A Free Poster and A Pair of Tickets for Tonight's Kurt Vile Show at City Tavern

​In this week's dead tree edition of DC9, Doug Davis wrote a little preview for tonight's pretty phenomenal bill at City Tavern, featuring Kurt Vile & The Violators, Purling Hiss and Dallas' own True Widow.It should be a great show, for sure, given the recent successes Vile has had. Writes Dav ... More >>

Kurt Vile & The Violators, Purling Hiss, True Widow

Friday, November 19, at City Tavern

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, September 20, 2010.

​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 a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Amy Cook (Austin, TX)Let the Light In (Root House)It's easy to assume that Dall ... More >>

Autolux Gets Back on Track

Staff Trax: Röyksopp, Trippple Nippples, Ride, Jawbox, Buffalo Tom, Wilco and Toto

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 >>

Over The Weekend: The Big Pink and A Place To Bury Strangers at the Granada Theater

The Big Pink, A Place To Bury StrangersGranada TheaterApril 9, 2010Better than: Tinnitus, but only by a little.Kevin TodoraThe Big Pink went loud at the Granada on Friday.​Heading into Friday night's show at the Granada Theater, you had the feeling it was gonna be a special night. Electro-rock act ... More >>

The Big Pink,A Place To Bury Strangers,Darktown Strutters

Friday, April 9, at the Granada Theater

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Granada Theater Show With The Big Pink, A Place To Bury Strangers and Darktown Strutters

Tomorrow night, The Big Pink, whose 2009 debut, A Brief History of Love, made it into my top 10 list of albums from last year, will stop by the Granada Theater for a gig that finds the bombastic duo playing alongside the equally loud A Place to Bury Strangers from Brooklyn and Dallas' own outsider p ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Colm C'iosoig Returns To Dallas With Hope Sandoval

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," " ... More >>

Little Black Dress

Snow in June (Exploding Plastic/Idol)

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 ... More >>

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

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, wh ... More >>

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 (anothe ... More >>

Jack With One Eye

The Bad Sleep Well (Obsolete)

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 ... More >>

Shoe Strung

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

Jazz It Up

Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

Jazz It Up

Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

Diagramming Modern English

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

Guiding Big D's Sonic Pilgrims

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

Minus the Bear, Helio Sequence, The Vipers

Sunday, October 21, at the Palladium

The Animal Collection

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

Comet

Feathers From the Wing (EP)

Yo La Tengo

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

Stars

Set Yourself on Fire (Aquarius)

Tree Wave

Cabana EP+ (Made Up Records)

Liars

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute Records)

Out & About

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Out Here

Everything's just fine

Coming down with the Dandy Warhols

Dour times

Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality