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1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

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Reef's herbal remedy

Another sign of the end of the Brit-pop invasion?

The nutty professors

Has the science of Stereolab gone too cool for its own good?

Risky business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Nuclear family

The Terror Couple try to launch a revolution from the 'burbs

Fair game

Feminism posing as trend, profit masquerading as activism, and a bunch of really bad songs: Why Lilith Fair isn't so fair at all

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

A real pain

Mo Wax founder James Lavelle tries to explain UNKLE, the sort-of band behind one of the year's most flamboyant albums

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Mo Wax founder James Lavelle tries to explain UNKLE, the sort-of band behind one of the year's most flamboyant albums

Out There

Mo Wax founder James Lavelle tries to explain UNKLE, the sort-of band behind one of the year's most flamboyant albums

Out Here

Mo Wax founder James Lavelle tries to explain UNKLE, the sort-of band behind one of the year's most flamboyant albums

Nathaniel Merriweather Presents...

Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)

Paul Oakenfold

Bunkka (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

Tricky

Vulnerable Brown (Punk/Sanctuary)

Bosque Brown Gets Its Baby Pitchforked...

Annie GunnKeep your head up, Mara Lee Miller.Over on Pitchfork this morning, Bosque Brown finds itself getting reviewed and such. The good news? Unlike the band's friends in the Theater Fire, Mara Lee Miller and Co. didn't have to wait seven months to get the treatment.The bad? Well... it's a 4.6. A ... More >>

2008 Should've Been The New Year's Year

One thing you can't expect every new year? Another record from Dallas' own The New Year—which is just part of why The New Year is such a crowning achievement.

Funky Big J Rocks the Party

One thing you can't expect every new year? Another record from Dallas' own The New Year—which is just part of why The New Year is such a crowning achievement.

Siouxsie

Mantaray (Decca Records)

Living Large

We love it when you call us Big Poppa

Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation

Mighty Rearranger (Sanctuary)

Bleep Bloop

Mighty Rearranger (Sanctuary)

Days of Future Passed

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was

Only a Mountain

Pleasant Grove prepares for its next challenge: the rest of the country

Various artists

Rock Against Bush Vol. 1 (Fat Wreck Chords)

Tweaker

2 a.m. wake-up call (Artist Direct BMG)

Just Can't Get Enough?

The most exhaustive--and exhausting--Depeche Mode collection ever

Scavenger Hunt

The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man

Out of Season (Go Beat)

Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys; the Black Heart Procession; Joseph Arthur

October 22-24

106.1 KISSmas Jingle Ball

December 7

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Press On

Remember the Factory Press? Calla and Mercova do

Out There

Broadcast

Cibo Matto

Broadcast

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Solex

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Who gives a Hootie?

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

Dour times

Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality

Today In Music News: Them Crooked Vultures To Hit Austin, Beak> Releases Debut and Your Sad Sack Mixtape

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 2, 2009... Supergroup Them Crooked Vultures has announced a small US tour and an ACL Festival appearance. Catch 'em while you can... Portishead's mastermind, Geoff Barrows, is set to release an album with side project Beak>.&n ... More >>

Dallas-based Techno Artist Convextion Gets Named To Fact Magazine 's Best Albums of the '00s List

​British-based Fact Magazine recently released it's best albums of the decade list (everyone's doing it!) and here's an interesting inclusion of note: Coming in at No. 21 on the taste-making mag's list is Dallas-based electro artist Gerard Hanson, who scores with the 2006, self-titled album he rel ... More >>

Today In Music News: Courtney Love Adds To The Crazy, The RZA Has A New Movie And Portishead Set For New Album

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 1, 2010...Another day, another Courtney Love meltdown at a show...Is it just me or does it look like the RZA's new kung-fu flick look like it was shot on free weekends for $50... and really, really bad.Well, at least we won't have to wait 11 ... More >>

Staff Trax: Matt & Kim, Dutch, Jimmy Eat World, Uncle Tupelo, The Verve, John Cale,

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 >>

Novaak Makes Something Out of Nothing

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 >>