P.J. Harvey

Cold Specks - Dan's Silverleaf - 11/13/12

Cold Specks, Doug Burr Dan's Silverleaf Tuesday, November 13 It was a fascinating mix of old, weird folk last night, as Dan's Silverleaf hosted Cold Specks with opener Doug Burr. And while both acts feature deeply spiritual music, they come from two somewhat different perspectives. Burr is deeply i ... More >>

Shiny Around the Edges on Death Grips and Patti Smith

See also: Oil Boom on the magic of Donnie and Joe Emerson See also: Vinyl Fantasy's Nathan Johnson on Sunn O))) We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't ... More >>

Andy Lester on Bad Religion, PJ Harvey and Playing "Jazz" with the Blurries

Dallas five-piece The Blurries are riding high from the accolades of last year's Paper Cuts. With upcoming appearances at Dada and 35 Denton, bassist Andy Lester took some time out to talk about the first shows he saw and played, including when PJ Harvey scared him. What was the first show you rem ... More >>

Mixtape Monday: Tired of Hearing About Lana Del Rey? Listen to These Ladies

After listening to Lana Del Rey's Born to Die over the weekend, I have to say, as usual, Sasha Frere-Jones nails the thinkpiece so we don't have to. I felt the need to give this woman, who's already been unnecessarily dissected, a chance. She does have a great voice, I just don't know if she'll ever ... More >>

This Week's Obsession: Ghostpoet

About the middle of last month, the unavoidable "best of" lists for every conceivable cultural endeavor began sprouting in major media outlet and fringe blogs around the world. Truth is, I'm a sucker for these when it comes to the music category. Part of me wants validation that, once again, des ... More >>

Chef Tell: Savory's Finale a Little Sick, Sweet's Premiere a Little Sour

​First of all, let's get something out of the way. We all need closure. After our lovely Tiffany Derry packed her knives and came home to Dallas to get hitched, I didn't recap the finales. Partly because I was heartbroken they sent Kelly home over Kevin or Angelo on Part 1 and partly because, well ... More >>

Listomania: The 30 Best Songs About Genitalia

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

Staff Trax: Shawn Chrystopher, Autolux, Drew Kennedy, Karen Elson, The Gaslight Anthem, Great Northern and The Psychedelic Furs.

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 >>

28 Songs That Should Have Been On the Twilight: Eclipse Soundtrack

Twilight: SoggyHey are we vampires? Cool, just checking.​The Twilight Saga's soundtracks have been mostly impressive. You can say what you want about the movies sucking it hardcore (vampires playing baseball, really?), but the soundtracks feature some surprisingly good tracks from bands like Fanfa ... More >>

Staff Trax: Sparklehorse, Priestess, Amelia Curran, and The Delfonics

​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. It's a chance for you readers to get more insight into our own persona ... More >>

Our Critics List Their Fave Discs of '09

Shiny Around the Edges

Holy Roller (Sounds Are Active)

Record Hop

Record Hop (TXMF)

Guiding Big D's Sonic Pilgrims

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

Gogol Bordello Offers Bizarre World Harmony

The band is open to all

PJ Harvey

White Chalk (Island Records)

Adult, Parts & Labor

Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton

Sybris

Sybris ( Flameshovel)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Show Your Bones (Interscope)

Rainer Maria, Scout Niblett

Sunday, March 19, at the Ridglea Theatre

Back to Africa

Live 8 makes some noise. Hopefully, eight world leaders were listening.

Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison (Anti-/Nave)

Last Call

In which we discuss the highs, the lows--and all the crap that came between

Rockin' Around

Holiday gifts for the music lover in your life

Same Ol', Same Ol'

A report from the North Texas New Music Festival

Lollapaloozers

This summer's best concert just got canceled. So what happened?

PJ Harvey

Uh Huh Her (Island Records)

Rasputina

October 27

Shannon Wright

May 28

A Loss for Music

Dallas says goodbye to DJ Rich Soul

Josh Alan Band

Josh Alan Band (Black Cracker Music)

A Taste of Kiki & Herb

Playing to the "bothered" community

Five for Fighting

Selected Notes on Music, 2000

Just Beautiful

A year so good, not even Sleater-Kinney makes the Top 10

PJ Harvey

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island Records)

Out There

Shellac

The show-me slate

DeRogatis' Top 10 Reasons for Living in 1999

Girl trouble

Rock and roll is still a man's, man's, man's, man's world

Throw your hands in the air

Beatin' down hip-hop in 1998 like a stepchild

More Top 10 lists, sort of

Listen up

1998 was not a very good year, but it's still worth the bother

Out There

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Out There

Out There

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Gimme, gimme truth

Jay Farrar and Dave Grohl don't owe you anything

Roadshows

Out there

Reviews