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The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

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. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

Your Comprehensive Guide to Band Names as Food

Using the Schrodinger equation, in conjunction with a quantum harmonic oscillator to efficiently fuse two non-sentient objects together, we here at DC9 at Night have created a  giant-ass list. Please be cautious when reading, as prolonged exposure can lead to headaches, extreme diaphragm tensio ... More >>

Get Stoked (And Stoned) For These 420 Events

If you attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, subscribe to High Times or frequent The Flying Saucer's commemorative 420 glass​Gas Pipe, you're well aware that today is the official holiday for devoted fans of Phish and the Grateful Dead, better known as 420. Spend the day hugging you ... More >>

Listomania: The Ten Best Bands That Might Actually Be Cults

Listen: When you all wear the same uniform, people are gonna accuse you of being a cult.​There are plenty of bands over the years who have used the word "cult" in their names. From '70s hard rockers Blue Oyster Cult to '80s Brit rockers The Cult to '90s art rockers Cloud Cult to current indie darl ... More >>

Listomania: What Scents Would Be Most Appropriate For The Future Perfumes and Colognes of Today's Biggest Music Icons?

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

A Blow-by-Blow Field Report From Austin City Limits 2010.

ACL 2010 So-Far Superlatives: The Best Performers, Songs and Movements of Days One and Two.

Here we are, final morning of Austin City Limits, and we're getting all wistful and whatnot. It's a busy day ahead filled with North Texas connections like whoa: 15-year-old Dallas-born fiddle wunderkind Ruby Jane kicks the entire day off with her 11:15 a.m. set; Midlake will somehow have to physica ... More >>

Do It Live: Austin City Limits 2010, Friday

All photos by Patrick MichelsPhish fans gathered at the Budwesier Stage​Cool-weathered Austin City Limits has finished day one. Night one, too, and there's something in the air, aside from shoe dust and absurd amounts of pollen. What, you ask? Oh, well, it's the lines that define generations. Frid ... More >>

Night Moves: The Strokes and Hula hoops, or Night One at ACL 2010

Caity ColvardProbably the best thing you could see during Phish. Check out more in the slideshow.​After the Strokes surprisingly brief (but crisp and solid as a big ol' apple) set, a wave of dude bros and hipsters made their way back through through Zylker (or on to Sixth Street) to catch the end ... More >>

ACL Day One Recap: Hipsters, Hippies and The Poor Schlubs Stuck In Between.

Patrick MichelsJulian Casablancas wears his sunglasses at nights.​ Well, Austin City Limits, you redeemed yourself. After a slow start to the festivities, things picked up very quickly, as predicted, and, by three o'clock, things were in full swing. But Night One--despite names like Miike Snow, Gi ... More >>

Picture Show: And So Austin City Limits Begins...

All photos by Nick RalloThe fans are already shirtless, dancing for GIVERS.​So it begins. Austin City Limits 2010 kicked off its heels this morning with Asleep at the Wheel, GIVERS and Charlie Mars. Thanks to the crisp, clear weather, we can show you some beginning pics. Of course, they'll be ... More >>

ACL '10: So Far, So Not Very Impressive. But Things Are Gonna Get Better Real Soon.

​It's the very early goings in the 2010 installment of Austin City Limits, and, apologies to all you die-hard Blues Traveler fans, but, so far, nothing's really blown us away. Well, nothing except Those Darlins, who we already knew we loved.Oh, and the weather, which indeed is proving to be the sm ... More >>

10 Most Memorable Fans (One Semi-NSFW?) from Austin City Limits, Friday

All photos by Nick Rallo​Of course, we're just getting started down here at ACL. There is much more to come. Spoon, The Strokes, Ryan Bingham, Vampire Wekend and Phish are all on there way, and the sky's clear as a bell. In the meantime--oh my, the crowd. While Pete was out there bringing-in-the ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To See The Gourds Tomorrow Night at the Granada Theater

First time I interviewed The Gourds' Kevin Russell I asked him, of course, about his band's "Gin and Juice" cover. I think it's a requirement actually. Fair enough: The band's had some great moments--and probably more musically impressive ones--over the course of its career, but there's little doubt ... More >>

Austin City Limits Announces 2010 Lineup...

​It's that time of year, again. The Austin City Limits Festival line-up was unveiled early this morning via the fest's official website. There isn't any question: This year's docket will have people gabbing--whether it's vitriolic hate or nostalgic, warm-fuzzies. Sure, for many, bashing on the cho ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Gig Alerts: Gipsy Kings, Great American Taxi, The Spill Canvas

​Lordy, it's a busy plate of music happening this fifth day of May. Although Cinco De Mayo is not that big of a holiday in Mexico (where is it celebrated mainly in the state of Puebla), here, we've made it into just another reason to drink up and party. In that sense, the beaucoup of touring acts ... More >>

Gig Alert: Red Sparowes and Doomriders Tonight at Lola's

Red Sparowes​Though the band hails out of Los Angeles, Red Sparowes plays music more akin to the cold, concrete landscape of Chicago: Forsaking vocals all together, Bryant Clifford Meyer and crew invest their "songs" with a post-rock/metal vengeance that should thrill fans of acts such as Mono and ... More >>

Built to Spill

There Is No Enemy (Warner Bros.)

Today In Music News: Eddie Van Halen Gets Surgery, Phish Gets Their Own Festival (Again) and Celine Dion Goes On Sale

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 24 2009... Eddie Van Halen is recovering from surgery on his left hand. "Eruption" just can't play itself ya know. Phish is staging a Halloween festival at the Indio polo grounds...y'know where they hold Coachella. Ever wanted to have you ver ... More >>

Blogaroo '09: At Least The Comics Are Keeping Things Light...

As of Friday at noonish, nothing at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has happened the way I've expected it to. Or the way I've thought it should've gone. Or the way Triumph the Insult Comic Dog thought it would either, for that matter.No surprise that there are lines for everything, but th ... More >>

Today In Music News: Natalie Cole Fans Are Hardcore, Steve Martin Is Playing The Opry and Youtube Blocks Music Videos (In Germany)

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 2, 2009... You thought that Phish and Widespread Panic had hardcore fans? Well, Natalie Cole's fans want to give her a kidney Comedian Steve Martin will make his debut at The Grand Ole Opry Yeppers, he's been a longtime banjo picker, and he ... More >>

Today In Music News: NWA Gets Movie Treatment, Ashlee Gets On Melrose Place, Phish Fans Get In Trouble and Perry's Got Lolla's Lineup

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 10, 2009...It looks like biopics with hip-hop icons are now officially in fashion in Hollywood. N.W.A. is the latest hip-hop group to have a biopic based on its story. And it looks like Big Daddy Kane could be next.Former Richardson citizen a ... More >>

Today In Music News: Phish Offers Up Free Concert Bootlegs, No Doubt Offers Free Catalog, Suge Knight Backs Chris Brown and Daft Punk's Scoring TR2N

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 5, 2009...Phish Heads around the country have reason to rejoice this weekend: The band is finally getting back together for a full weekend of music. But, if you can't go, well, you also have reason to rejoice: Free downloads of their shows! ... More >>

Today in Music News: NIN Shares Video, Zeppelin Ain't Performing, Phish Sets A Tour, and Dre Gets Leaked

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 9, 2009... If you have a lot of bandwidth and extra time on your hands you can download HD footage for Nine Inch Nails shows and make your own concert video! I should've joined the high school A.V. Club when I had the chance... I gues ... More >>

Today In Music News: Phish At Bonnaroo, Barenaked Ladies In Boxes, RIAA At Home and Lil Wayne In Trouble. Late Add: Michael Jackson Fighting For His Life?

Your top national music stories for Monday, December 22, 2008: It's never too early to start talking about the '09 festival season: It looks like a reunited Phish may headline two nights at Bonnarroo this year. So you'd better start letting that beard grow out now. But, you still have a few mont ... More >>

Death Cab for Cutie, Rogue Wave

Tuesday, June 17, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Best Bets for New Year's Eve Concerts

The Octopus Project

Hello, Avalanche (Peek-A-Boo Records)

R.I.P., Ray Nasher | Widespread Outrage | The Death of Cool

Widespread Yawning

Pass the bong—and the NoDoz

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball videogame. Really.

Blues Traveler

Bastardos! (Vanguard)

Look East

The Now, The Hundred Inevitables, Grand Champeen

Thursday, December 16, at Double Wide

Guster

Thursday, September 9

It Only Takes 15 Questions to Rock

An interview with Chomsky

The Nokia Unwired Tour

October 21

Entry Level

O.A.R. went from school at OSU to touring the U.S.A.

Gov't Mule, Drive-By Truckers

October 29

Almost Almost Famous

Olospo hits the road to Wu the Midwest

Tenacious D

April 20

In sync

The Dark Side of Oz? Man, that's just the tip of the iceberg

Read? What am that?

The year in rock books which isn't such an oxymoron, really

Letters

Letters

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Letters

Jerry's kids

Jam bands burst into bloom

A fistful of tunes

The Big Gundown squints into the sun, throws its serape over its shoulder, and makes its play

Out There