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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 >>
Coming down with the Dandy Warhols
Coming down with the Dandy Warhols
Coming down with the Dandy Warhols
DeRogatis' Top 10 Reasons for Living in 1999
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 >>
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute Records)
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 >>
The Bad Sleep Well (Obsolete)
A Place To Bury Strangers isn't shoegaze. Or is it?
Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern
Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern
With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock
Enough with the turkeys, now for a little locally baked dessert
Sunday, October 21, at the Palladium
The first five A.C. albums rated from one to four paw prints
Feathers From the Wing (EP)
Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 (Matador)
Set Yourself on Fire (Aquarius)
Cabana EP+ (Made Up Records)
There's more to ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead than wrecking stages. No, seriously.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Do What You Want (Foodchain)
Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality
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 >>
Snow in June (Exploding Plastic/Idol)
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Friday, April 9, at the Granada Theater
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 >>
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 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern
Friday, November 19, 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 >>
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 >>
We're only days away from Menkena's highly anticipated debut album, With You I'll Travel, which will earn its release on Tuesday, January 18. Lead Singer Jimmy Menkena, whose name the band bears, built quite a buzz for himself in 2010, playing impeccable, loud shoegaze all over town. His band's s ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Sundress Self-released
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 >>
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 >>
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, frontm ... More >>
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