Pixies

The Seven Best Songs for Earth Day

Today marks the 43rd Earth Day, and to celebrate, we over at DC9 at Night put together a list of some of our favorite songs about the large, luscious planet we call home. Make sure to add any favorite environmentally-themed songs in the comment section below. Happy Earth Day!

The Cheap Bastard For The Win: The Week in Unicorn Farts and Dallas Food

The weekend is here, and it promises to be a good one with the Big Texas Beer Fest offering craft brews for the masses. I'm sure you guys want to get it started as much as I do, but first there's a week to wrap. This week I reviewed Company Cafe. The restaurant has some great qualities and will hop ... More >>

Buxton's Top Five Movies That Make Us Feel Terrible

If it seems as though we've been discussing emerging New West Records signees or inventive bands who know how to artfully blend folk, rock and country together lately, it's because we have. So why don't we continue that trend right here, yes? OK, good. Buxton, a five-piece from Houston, has just ... More >>

All-Time Top Five: The Devil Makes Three's Favorite Albums

It's not inconceivable to figure that curious folks of the next few decades will look into the music and movements that surged just beneath the surface of the glossy mainstream in this millennium's first decade. Those would-be students of music history won't have to dig through too many virtual copi ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: A Brief Musical History of the Toadies (Slaphead!)

Via.Clark Vogler and Todd Lewis at Trees in '97​The Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Concert is tonight in Deep Ellum, with Sarah Jaffe, Centro-matic, the Old 97's and the Toadies scheduled to play the outdoor stage beginning 'round 4:30, when Jaffe goes on, whilst some 50 others play surroun ... More >>

Ten Signs Your Favorite Band Is Past Its Prime

​Earlier this week, Weezer announced plans to partner with Carnival Cruise Lines to arrange the first ever "Weezer Cruise." The four-night voyage from Miami to Cozumel will also feature sets by the likes of Ozma, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves and loads of others.Never mind how awesome we think all this sou ... More >>

Bad Design

Bad Design (Self-released)

Playlist: Orange Peel Sunshine

Orange Peel Sunshine (Self-released)

The Demigs

Cities Can Wait (Self-released)

Today In Music News: You Get a Gaga Halloween Costume, Garth Brooks Gets His Benefit On and the Pixies Give Away a Recording.

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 29, 2010...If you still haven't found that perfect costume for Halloween, might I suggest a meat dress inspired by Lady Gaga? It's only $100,000.Garth Brooks has decided to headline a timely benefit concert for Nashville flood victims.The P ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Analog Rebellion -- "Your Wife, Your Kids, Your Family, Your Friends"

Analog Rebellion​ We've shared more than a few Analog Rebellion tracks with DC9 readers over the course of the past year. Can't help it, really. Dude just keeps putting out tracks that make our black, Pixies-loving hearts jump--and at a startling pace, too. Even though the artist formerly known as ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Sleepy Sun, Sundress and True Widow at The Loft on Sunday Night

It's a shame, really, that this show has to come on Sunday night. Seriously: If pretty much anyone else other than the Pixies were playing on Sunday, we'd be dragging our asses to The Loft, for sure. Instead, we're just gonna be crossing our fingers and hoping that the show at the Verizon Theatre st ... More >>

35 Songs Hollywood Needs To Stop Using

"Somebody Once Told Me The World..." SHUT UP​Dear Hollywood, We know it's hard to cut trailers, and you want to the maximum possible appeal. It's understandable, and we all know the game. Unfortunately, you've recently achieved critical mass on one subject: overused, hackneyed trailer songs. Some ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Toadies Look To MTV For A National Breakthrough.

A photo lifted straight from our March 5, 1992 archives.​Gilbert Garcia covered a busy week for the Toadies in the March 5, 1992 edition of the Observer, in an article detailing the band's upcoming trip to the finals of an MTV-hosted battle of the bands. Aimed to help get unknown bands get some na ... More >>

The Edge's 20th Anniversary Reunion

Friday, July 3, at the Lakewood Theater

Dude Food: The Idle Rich Pub

The Idle Rich Pub2614 McKinney Ave.214-965-9926Dude Factor: 7, or "Mr. Burns," on a scale of 1 ("Donald Trump") to 10 ("Bruce Wayne")As much as I love The Old Monk, I hadn't really thought of it or its sister bars (The Dubliner, Blackfriar Pub and The Idle Rich Pub) as Dude Food destinations--partic ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

Last Night: Tapes 'N Tapes, Wild Light and Les Americains at Club Dada

Tapes n' Tapes, Wild Light, Les AmericainsClub DadaFriday, January 30, 2009 Better Than: Watching Ghostbusters on the big screen at the Inwood? Maybe. Download: We had a couple photographers at this show, so expect a slideshow by Monday. Before the Minnesotan indie-band Tapes 'n Tapes sta ... More >>

Jay Reatard

Record Hop

Record Hop (TXMF)

What It Was Like: Monotonix, The Breeders, Ra Ra Riot (again), Kid Sister, Chromeo

Harp Compilation Features Old 97's Rhett Miller

The Octopus Project

Hello, Avalanche (Peek-A-Boo Records)

Waging War on the Digital Jukebox

Celebration, Fog, Dragons of Zynth

Saturday, November 3, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

Pirates of the Council |Hardee Har |Past Tense |And Finally

Frog Eyes

Thursday, May 10, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Waking Ashland

The Well (Immortal)

Tapes 'n Tapes Press Pause

Indie buzz band on the three steps for breaking big

Jay Reatard

Blood Visions (In the Red)

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 7

Blood on the Wall, Psychic Ills, Fra Pandolf

Saturday, May 13, at Hailey's

Ashlee Simpson Is (Well, Was) Sitting Behind Me...

Night Riders

Local musicians play Cupid, offer sexy song suggestions for V-Day

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names

#3 (Labrador)

Another Look at a Legend

Charmed Garden

Pinky Swear

A music critic's resolution for 2005

Mark Sandman and Morphine

Sandbox (Hi-N-Dry)

Art? Rock!

The Mink Lungs are Brooklyn's hippest export without even trying

David Bowie

Heathen (ISO/Columbia)

Scene, Heard

Just in case you missed it

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Ashlee Simpson's Sitting Behind Me...

Out Here

Roadshows

Out Here

Roadshows

Roadshows

UFOFU and your mother

From New York to Dallas comes a classically trained punk-pop band