Okkervil River

Austin City Limit's 2013 Lineup

Austin City Limits' lineup for 2013 was just announced: Headliners include Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Kings of Leon and noted teenage-girl-advice-givers Atoms for Peace. Tickets go on sale May 7 -- early bird passes are sold out but VIP is available if you just can't wait. See also: -50 Don't ... More >>

Five Underrated Roky Erickson Songs

One could argue that Roky Erickson's entire body of work is underrated. Nevertheless, I waded through his maddeningly inconsistent catalog and picked out five songs that may have escaped notice, either solo or with the 13th Floor Elevators. Please feel free to add to the list, and check out Erickso ... More >>

Crushed Stars Offer Free Stream of New Album In the Bright Rain

​There's a good chance you haven't heard much about Dallas dream-pop act Crushed Stars. Singer Todd Gautreau generally flies below the radar, and the Frisco native plays an average of one live show per album, which, by our calculation, makes six.His bandmates stay pretty busy with their own projec ... More >>

Crushed Stars Announces New Album, Shares Music Video

​The last time Frisco's Crushed Stars released a record, 2010's Convalescing in Braille, singer Todd Gautreau -- the man behind the moniker -- only played one show. It happened on a Thursday night at La Grange and that was it.Now, fans can expect the same as Crushed Stars announces plans to releas ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Roky and the 13th Floor Elevators Were Sump'n Else

Via.​Bud Buschardt has spent the last several years writing a book I've always wanted to read: a history of the Sump'n Else show, the Ron Chapman-hosted rock-and-roll dance party shot at NorthPark Center that aired on WFAA from September 1965 till January 1968 and featured performances from the li ... More >>

Good Friday: TV On The Radio, Broken Social Scene, the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

TV On The Radio​This weekend, Dallas benefits heavily from the Austin City Limits Music Festival spillover effect, which has some of the best bands in the world looking for a place to play in and around town. There are a whole bunch of these shows, as well as a few others, making this weekend an e ... More >>

Slayer Is The Latest Act To Join The Increasingly Impressive Lineup For Fun Fun Fun Fest '11

The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest's biggest offering yet. Who's the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or " ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Starts Leaking Lineup, Announces Odd Future, X, M83 Performances

We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>

Okkervil River, Chromeo and a Ton of Other Show Announcements

One of the many incarnations of Okkervil River​Still fresh from the release of their new album I Am Very Far, Austin's Okkervil River seems to be working quite hard to let everyone know about it. The album is quite solid, thanks in part to the production work of local producer John Congl ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Arcade Fire and Okkervil River at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Arcade Fire, Okkervil RiverGexa Energy PavilionApril 30, 2011Better than: any other show you've seen in 2011.All photos by Sara KerensArcade Fire's Win Butler. For more photos, check out the slideshow.​More than five years have passed since Arcade Fire last played Dallas -- something of which the ... More >>

Can't Decide Between Arcade Fire and Edgefest 21? This Venn Diagram Should Help.

Sure, it's the Canadian Edition. Still.​Kind of a tough choice going tomorrow night here in the Dallas area, as two intriguing concert options go head to head. On the one hand, you've got KDGE 102.1-FM The Edge's Edgefest 21 show at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, featuring performances from Jane's Addi ... More >>

Okkervil River's Will Sheff Talks New Album, Showing Up Arcade Fire and New Music Trends.

For over a dozen years at this point, Austin's Okkervil River has been making intelligent, defiantly lyrical indie rock. And next week, after a few years out of the spotlight, the band will return to bask in it, thanks to the release of their sixth full-length studio effort since 2002, I Am Very Far ... More >>

Our Final SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: So, Who Do You Think Came Out on Top?

To infinity... and beyond!​Gossip, gossip -- if you've been following our daily power rankings of buzz at SXSW 2011 over the past few days, then you know that, yes, indeed, Kanye West has had it all week long at this year's annual festival in Austin.And, after briefly losing the top slot in our ra ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: Odd Future Slips Just Past Kanye, Mostly Because People Are Sick of Talking About Kanye.

Swag!​Well, mercifully, the last night of SXSW 2011 is finally upon us. And, on this final day, in which luminaries such as Kanye West, Perez Hilton and Rachel Ray are finally letting their presence be known, we finally have a new act sitting atop our buzz power rankings.That's right: Later Kanye; ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: Kanye West Stays On Top, But His Lead Is Shrinking...

Everybody knows he's a motherfucking monster.​Thursday at SXSW 2011 has come and gone -- but Kanye remains solidly in his spot atop our buzz power rankings, as determined by chatter we're hearing on the street. His lead is shrinking, though -- Odd Future is hot on his tail, proving once again that ... More >>

140-Character SXSW 2011 Show Reviews: Yuck, James Blake, Josh T. Pearson, John Vanderslive, Sun Airway, The Cave Singers, Small Black and Okkervil River

​Because nothing is more happening at SXSW than Twitter right now -- or so we can only assume by all the people we're seeing with eyes fixated on their cameras instead of their phones -- we present to you reviews of the shows we caught last night, in standard, 140-character form. In all, we caught ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: Kanye Is On Top For Now... And Pretty Easily, Too.

You can do it, put your stinger into it.​South by Southwest is a static thing -- both in theory and in practice. It's a chance for bands to fans to see the established acts they've been wanting to see and for new, up-and-coming acts to try and make names for themselves. And that latter part very m ... More >>

As Roky Erickson Preps Brand-New Album, a Federal Lawsuit Over His First Solo Record

​As Pete mentioned a few weeks back, Roky Erickson's got a brand-new album forthcoming -- True Love Cast Out All Evil, due in April and featuring as his backing band Okkervil River. Hard to keep track of Roky's comebacks at this late date, but this one appears ready to stick -- thank God. And yet, ... More >>

Dallas-born Roky Erickson To Release First Album Of New Material In 14 Years. And He'll Be Backed By Okkervil River.

Roky Erickson​Wilonsky swears Roky Erickson was born in Dallas, and, hey, that's enough of an excuse for me to pass along this fine little bit of news this morning: For the first time in 14 years, the Father of Psychedelic Rock will release an album of new material. The album, called True Love Cas ... More >>

Norah Jones

The Fall (Blue Note)

Hear The First Single From Norah Jones' The Fall

​"Chasing Pirates," the first single from Norah Jones' upcoming The Fall, started making the rounds on the Internet this morning. Check it out right here.It's no "Don't Know Why," but given the list of collaborators Jones has enlisted to help her with this release (Ryan Adams, Okkervil River's Wil ... More >>

Norah Jones Announces A November Release For Her Next Album

​According to a press release that apparently went out to every media outlet in the world today, Dallas' own Norah Jones has a new album coming out in November--her fourth overall, and first in two years. After the jump, the press release in full, since it features some Jones quotes on the new, as ... More >>

The Nervebreakers Prove Old Punks Never Die

They just re-form their legendary local acts to play around town every 15 years or so

SXSW In Pictures, One Day at a Time

Patrick MichelsWhile most of the DC-9 crew enjoyed SXSW's offerings at a safe distance from the stage, note-taking and reflecting on the music, some of us did battle up by the stage to get concert shots, throwing elbows and telephoto lenses.We've got a handful of band photo slideshows, along with so ... More >>

The Winners and Losers of ACL Fest 2008

Okkervil River

The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)

Road Show: Shearwater's CD Release Party in Austin

Car Stereo (Wars), Sydney Confirm, Genova Vs. Indo

Saturday, May 10, at The Cavern

Austin City Limits Music Festival Announces Lineup

Good Friday: Ghosthustler, The David Allor Benefit, Hal Samples' SPACE Opening, Black Joe Lewis

Meanwhile, Black Joe Lewis Is Out to Rock The Vote.

Walled In

The Wall of Sound undercard examined

Frog Eyes

Thursday, May 10, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Chairmen of the Board

Erik Wofford and John Congleton on the art of production

Bands on the Run

Amid the SXSW cacophony, there was good stuff to be found

Okkervil River, Pleasant Grove

Friday, August 18, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Austin City Limits: You Read It Here First

John Vanderslice, Laura Veirs

Friday, May 5, at the Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Newness Begins

At this weekend's Wall of Sound Festival, the New Year resolves to play its first local gig in two years

Wall of Apathy

Be Our Guest

If only some great Dallas festival was flagging down southbound SXSW drivers right now...

Akron/Family, Mi and L´au, Shearwater

Tuesday, January 24, at Andy's Basement Bar & Grill, Denton

Odds & Ends

If you thought you'd find safety and assurance at the Sanctuary, think again

Our critics' top 10 albums

Fishboy

Little D (Business Deal)

The Black Sheep

How Okkervil River's Will Sheff turned the proverbial outcast into a concept album

Shearwater

Sunday, February 20

Okkervil River, The Elected

Friday, January 28, at Hailey's

Okkervil River

May 28

From Me to You

A mix CD for 2003