Nick Cave

The Black Dotz Are a Band, Dammit

Over the Weekend: Puscifer, Carina Round at the Majestic Theater

Over the Weekend: Puscifer, Carina Round Majestic Theater Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 Better than: A Perfect Circle's set at the Verizon Theatre earlier this year. A scene from Puscifer's "Conditions of My Parole"​ If you wondered what Puscifer is about, well, their 75-minute performance o ... More >>

Your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Performers

A closer look at all 52 acts playing this weekend's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase in Deep Ellum

The Best National Album Releases of 2010

A closer look at all 52 acts playing this weekend's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase in Deep Ellum

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 8: Wanz Dover

​This week's DC9er presents readers and listeners with not one, but two very different mixes from seasoned area musician, dubstep producer and DJ, Mwanza Dover. And not by accident, either. Dover voraciously admits that there was no way he could "really make one mix that would make sense for what ... More >>

New Addition

​This week's DC9er presents readers and listeners with not one, but two very different mixes from seasoned area musician, dubstep producer and DJ, Mwanza Dover. And not by accident, either. Dover voraciously admits that there was no way he could "really make one mix that would make sense for what ... More >>

The Road: Neither Horrific Nor Disasterrrific, Cormac Mccarthy Adap Takes The Path Of Least Resistance

​This week's DC9er presents readers and listeners with not one, but two very different mixes from seasoned area musician, dubstep producer and DJ, Mwanza Dover. And not by accident, either. Dover voraciously admits that there was no way he could "really make one mix that would make sense for what ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Bonnie "Prince" Billy at the Granada Theater

Bonnie "Prince" BillyGranada TheaterJune 6, 2009Better Than: The George Strait concert at Cowboys Stadium, or pretty much anything else any of you suckers were doing on Saturday night.Noah W. BaileyOpening with a ramshackle version of the Stanley Brothers classic "Nobody's Darling on Earth," it was ... More >>

Building Leonard Cohen's Backing Band

Bonnie "Prince" BillyGranada TheaterJune 6, 2009Better Than: The George Strait concert at Cowboys Stadium, or pretty much anything else any of you suckers were doing on Saturday night.Noah W. BaileyOpening with a ramshackle version of the Stanley Brothers classic "Nobody's Darling on Earth," it was ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' W ... More >>

Spector 45's Frankie Campagna Isn't Shy About Speaking His Piece

The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' W ... More >>

Dirty Talk

Twenty years later, the godfathers of grunge in Mudhoney still remember their roots

'Assassination' Anatomy

Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in an epic movie that's as stylized as it is insane

Andre Ethier

Secondathallam (Paper Bag)

The Lost Generation

Longtime local rocker Mwanza Dover hates Dallas--so much, in fact, that he helms six music projects in town simultaneously.

Word of Mouth

Longtime local rocker Mwanza Dover hates Dallas--so much, in fact, that he helms six music projects in town simultaneously.

The Falkon, with Silk Stocking, This Damn Town and The Starlite Desperation

Sunday, August 8, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Nice Pussy

A killer cat steals a wonderful movie from a kindly ogre

2003 Dallas Observer Music Awards

A killer cat steals a wonderful movie from a kindly ogre

Multiple Artists

Our writers clean out the CD bin

Out & About

David Sanborn

River Guides

Why Austin isn't as cool as it used to be and a Texan in the White House might not be cool at all, according to Knife in the Water

Scene, Heard

Counting down the days 'til February

Pall Bearers

The Black Heart Procession insists that things aren't as bad as they seem. Really?

Out There

The Black Heart Procession insists that things aren't as bad as they seem. Really?

Not fade away

Two garage-rock compilations raise The Esquires, Irving's psychedelic-rock greats, from the dead

When the well runs dry

The vitality stops, but the music just keeps on comin'