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The Antidote to Dallas' Love Affair with Shiny New Things

In a town that pays actual respect to the glitteriest, shiniest new thing on the block, it's easy to take the classics for granted. I generally regard my distaste for nostalgia as a positive thing, but the test of time is not easy to pass and must therefore be honored. Like a worn-in t-shirt or a f ... More >>

This Week's Best Concert Posters: a Big Folkin Festival in Deep Ellum

Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we'll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. Deep Ellum will be hosting it's second annual Big Folkin' Festival at The Prophet Bar this ... More >>

This Week's Best Concert Posters: Clint Niosi and the Gut-Churning Hawk Vs. Dove

Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the city of Dallas through music flyers. Each week we'll spotlight our favorite posters for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. This week's crop includes a brain-sick poster designed by Hawk Vs. Dove. Their new album was released January 16t ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, January 17-20

Stalley, Ace Mitch, Dustin Cavazos, Nice Major, -Topic, KO Boyz Saturday, January 19, at The Prophet Bar, $18 Maybach Music Group rapper Stalley was busy in 2012, mostly with the release of his popular mixtape, Savage Journey to the American Dream, featuring heavy-hitters like Rick Ross, Curren$y, 2 ... More >>

The Gritz Sunday

Sunday, January 13, at Sandaga 813

Five Local Rappers to Watch in 2013

As a city, we've been developing culturally and economically at a rapid pace over the last few years. Built around a scene of prominent weekly events like Beauty Bar's Big Bang Thursdays and Prophet Bar's Wednesday night open mic jam sessions, local rap artists get the chance to interact and network ... More >>

The Overserved's Guide To Dallas During Fun Fun Fun Fest

I haven't always been a festival person. Managing the stages and sets of so many performances, trying to balance the experience with both previously loved artists and the opportunity to experience something new is fulfilling, but can be overwhelming. One great thing about being the bratty cousin to ... More >>

Ab-Soul and Jay Rock

Friday, September 7, at the Prophet Bar

Listen To This: Arkansas Bo's Natural State of Mind

LA Weekly music editor and Southern hip-hop encyclopedia Ben Westhoff brought Marlon Jennings, aka Arkansas Bo, to my attention a few months ago, and pointed me in the direction of this profile from 2010. I've been jamming last year's Natural State of Mind on and off since then, and was pleasantly s ... More >>

Schoolboy Q - The Door - 6/30/12

Schoolboy Q The Door Saturday, June 30 On a night defined by sweat and hype, Schoolboy Q showed that sometimes you can be too good. Taking the stage after a litany of local artists, Q stalked the stage and effortlessly shifted gears between songs, taking control of style after style, showing exactl ... More >>

Jonquil's Dominic Hand on Falling Asleep at a Jet Concert

Four-piece Jonquil hails from Oxford, England, and while they've played the states before, they've never played Dallas.They land at The Prophet Bar on Monday, April 9, opening for Keep Shelly in Athens, and touring behind their debut LP, Point of Go. Drummer Dominic Hand took some time out to share ... More >>

Young The Giant, The David Mayfield Parade and This Weekend's Best Shows

​It's a weekend full of some pretty good shows and some pretty bad ones too. One of the biggest bills is Young The Giant and Grouplove at The Prophet Bar. If you didn't already get tickets, it's sold out. Check the print section for previews of Pinkish Black and Nervous Curtains at Lola's and Ed S ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Young the Giant at The Prophet Bar

Tomorrow night's Young the Giant show at the Prophet Bar is waaay sold out. So what's the deal with this band? Are they cute? Are they the "new hotness"? The name is a little cringe-worthy, but they do have some pretty songs. Oh, yes, Google image search verifies they are cute. Scott Spooner, who ... More >>

Preview: South by So What?! at QuikTrip Park

Saturday, March 17, at QuikTrip Park, Grand Prairie

Starfucker Aim For Head and Hips at The Prophet Bar

Starfucker, Painted Palms and Alexico The Prophet Bar Friday, January 13 An interesting sampling was in attendance at Friday's sold-out Prophet Bar show, one that spanned teens, 20, 30 and 40-somethings. Monterrey-based one-man band Alexico's computer-assisted performance was, at first, an acquired ... More >>

Tom May of The Menzingers Talks Joe Biden, Being Irish and Playing Pure Punk Rock

On the Impossible Past, Philadelphia quartet The Menzingers' new third effort, is a wail of an album. Angry, passionate and, best of all, literate, the songs resonate with the kind of pure punk spirit that made bands like Black Flag and The Misfits so important to the American indie scene. Speaking ... More >>

Gig Alert and MP3 Dig: Flatworld's "Sailing" Takes You Away... To Deep Ellum

Arlington trio Flatworld recently hit the studio, and the result of those sessions is Ether Sunday, a 14-song full-length that features a wild mix of punk, garage rock and folk. In anticipation of Flatworld's headlining gig this Saturday night at the Prophet Bar, the band was kind enough to offer ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Darstar and Sea Lion at Prophet Bar

​What's the deal with owls, am I right? They're everywhere. No, really, they are. And it's weirding me out. If I ever saw a bunch of owls congregating on power lines like I see birds do every evening, around 5 p.m., I'd head for my underground bunker. The "owls have it" (sorry, so sorry) t ... More >>

MP3 Dig: New Analog Rebellion

​"Oh, he's just a baby!" This is actually something I yelled at the computer while listening to Analog Rebellion, because I am apparently a 73-year-old grandmother and would pinch Daniel Hunter's cheeks if I saw him. A few listens to the 21-year-old's brand new Evaders EP points to some majo ... More >>

Checking in on Dallas Beer Week

​Midway through the first official Dallas Beer Week, you could say things aren't quite going according to plan. But considering how loosely organized and sporadically publicized the week has been, that's not especially surprising, even if the cancelation of Saturday's Dallas Beer Festival is a big ... More >>

Rhett Miller Benefits Cystic Fibrosis Research at The Granada & Other Weekend Shows

Rhett Miller​There are loads of great shows this weekend, but probably the most notable is the Cystic Fibrosis benefit concert at Granada Theater on Saturday night. For the fifth year in a row, Rhett Miller will be headlining, this time with the help of Sarah Jaffe and The O's. If helping people i ... More >>

Ghostland Observatory, Anthrax, Wild Flag and The Rest of This Weekend's Best Shows

Pace yourself this weekend. Lots of good shows to see.​Halloween is on Monday, so there should be a good handful people in costume out and about this weekend -- kind of like the zombies at the Dallas Observer Music Award Showcase. And there will be many opportunities to get out and about this week ... More >>

The 10 Best Moments at This Year's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

Mike BrooksMind Spiders on the rooftop of The Bone.​ It's tough to look back on an event like Saturday night's Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and try to come up with a conclusive best-moments list. With 52 bands playing 10 stages over the course of a ten-hour period all throughout Deep Ellu ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase and The Rest of Your Weekend Shows...

​This is one of our favorite weekends of the year, where a good handful of acts nominated for the Dallas Observer Music Awards perform all over Deep Ellum on Saturday night. The much-anticipated headliners, Toadies, Old 97's, Centro-Matic and Sarah Jaffe will perform on Elm Street in the lot acros ... More >>

Roky Erickson, Fort Worth Music Festival, Rocktoberfest and More Weekend Shows...

Roky Erickson​It's difficult to pick the top show this weekend. There's just a lot going on. All over the place, too. For instance, if you take the elevator up to the thirteenth floor, you'll probably run into troubled genius, Roky Erickson, who is headlining at The Kessler Theater tonight. Howeve ... More >>

HoneyHoney's All-Time Top Five '70s Films

honeyhoney​The duo of honeyhoney, consisting of Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe, is one of those acts that, in recent years, have found themselves just on the cusp of breakthrough stardom. They made some noise in 2008 when their jaunty, edgy single "Little Toy Gun" found its way into the mainstream, i ... More >>

Jamming on Dallas Music History's Doorsteps

DOMAXXIII: 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Tickets Now Up For Sale

​ It's coming up on two weeks now since we dropped the above bomb on you and announced that we'd somehow cobbled together the above four bold-faced names -- Toadies, Old 97's, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe -- to headline our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase on Saturday, October 15, in Dee ... More >>

Spillover: ACL Festival Artists Booked to Perform Shows in North Texas This Week

​There are a good many reasons to skip this year's installment of Austin City Limits Music Festival down in Austin.For starters, the weather is supposed to sunny with a high of 98 degrees on all three days. in a giant field with no air conditioning, teeming with thousands of warm bodies, it won't ... More >>

Last Night: Scattered Trees and The Alternate Routes at Prophet Bar

Scattered Trees, The Alternate RoutesProphet BarAugust 8, 2011Better than: a band in a mismatched room on a quiet Tuesday.Drew ReynoldsScattered Trees​ The four members of Chicago's Scattered Trees took the stage at the Prophet Bar for a modest audience of perhaps 50 when they started their headli ... More >>

Prophet Bar to Debut New Kitchen on Friday, Plans Other Renovations for Near Future

​It's only been a few years since The Prophet Bar started serving booze -- a change that took place when the long-running Christian rock venue The Door changed its name to The Prophet Bar and moved into the space once occupied by The Gypsy Tea Room. The new space for the venue also came equipped w ... More >>

Good Friday: Elton John & Leon Russell, Calhoun, The Orbans, Celtic Thunder, Senses Fail, Bayside, Miniature Tigers, The Dandy Warhols, The Felice Brothers, David Allan Coe, The Derailers, Hed PE and More!

Elton John & Leon Russell​The biggest show coming to town this weekend is, without a doubt, Elton John and Leon Russell at the Fort Worth Convention Center on Saturday night. The two piano-playing legends of yesteryear have teamed up on a new album called The Union. And with producer T-Bone Bu ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets to See Senses Fail and Bayside at The Prophet Bar Tomorrow

New York based emo-rock act Bayside have been around for a while--since the year 2000 to be exact. But that doesn't mean their new music has lost any of the angst of their earlier records. Its members are just taking a different approach from many of the bands in the emo community, of which they ar ... More >>

Bonus MP3 and Gig Alert: Check Out "Mouthbreather" by The Bled and Catch the Band at The Prophet Bar Tonight.

The Bled​Tuscon's metalcore heavyweights The Bled stop through town tonight for a gig at The Prophet Bar, and these guys incorporate just enough of the classic sludge/noise from the likes of Mudhoney and The Jesus Lizard to keep the indie folks interested.Also, seeing that our weather has taken a ... More >>

DOMAXXII: The Performers For The July 17 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Are...

​We've been pretty much dying here at DC9 HQ, sitting on this information, just waiting to put it out there for you. And now the higher-ups have given us the green light. You ready? Better be.On July 17, we'll be hosting our the fourth annual showcase for our Dallas Observer Music Awards (the awar ... More >>

Shallow Reign, The Cush, Mike Graff

Saturday, June 19, at the Kessler Theatre

Watch: This Is The Good Fight -- "Broken Hearted"

Speaking of new music videos, the above one from local emo-rock outfit This Is The Good Fight for its song "Broken Hearted" was released last week. It's a pretty entertaining clip shot around various Dallas locales--but, I'll warn you, if you're one of those kids who got seizures while watching Poke ... More >>

Picture Show: "Heartbeats for Haiti" Benefit at the Prophet Bar

Spike JohnsonA.J. Houston at the mic at the Prophet Bar Sunday night​ On a weekend stacked with Haiti benefit shows around the country, the Prophet Bar played host to a local fund-raising effort, the "Heartbeats for Haiti" show with Brave Combo, Spoonfed Tribe, and a grab bag of world music acts f ... More >>

Haiti Benefit Concerts Scheduled In Austin And Dallas, And Paste 'Songs For Haiti' Downloads Include Fort Worth Band

Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels are among the artists available for download once you donate to Paste Magazine's Songs For Haiti.​Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy char ... More >>

Picture Show: Theatre Gallery Reunion at the Prophet Bar

Melissa Davis HenningsThe Bat Mastersons onstage Saturday night at the Prophet BarMuch ink has been spilled on this blog to relate the significance of Saturday night's Theatre Gallery reunion show at the Prophet Bar. With Shallow Reign, Decadent Dub Team, The Bat Mastersons, Graceland and more, it w ... More >>

Picture Show: Dead Prez Pops Into The Prophet Bar Jam

Gloria LevarioDead Prez's stic.man at The Prophet Bar on Wednesday night.​As promised, Dead Prez stopped in to perform at the Prophet Bar and participate in the Deep Ellum venue's phenomenal weekly Wednesday night hip-hop jam session this week. No, really, we've can prove it--in the form of a slid ... More >>

Distant Gig Alert: Dead Prez at The Prophet Bar on October 21

Dead Prez​Back in May, we told you about the greatness that is the weekly, Wednesday night, R.C. Williams-led Prophet Bar jam sessions, where local hip-hop and funk musicians gather to create beats on the fly, sometimes with the help of touring acts like Bun B and Raheem DeVaughn.Still haven't ven ... More >>

(Kinda) Announcing DC9 at Night Presents: Deep Cover

​Perhaps you've seen the above ad in the past couple issues of our dead tree publication about a new monthly happening down in Deep Ellum, brought to you by seven of the neighborhood's venue's, one of its art galleries and us here at DC9? Yeah? Well, as the above image implies, the deal's called D ... More >>

Good Friday: Peter Murphy, Math the Band, Jeremy Fisher, Cas Haley, Solitude Aeturnus, Little Black Dress, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Band of Heathens, Forever Sunday, Brave Combo, Les Americains, Red Collar, Steve Earle, Affliction Summer Slaughter Tour, Chuck Ragan

Weekend's here. Rock 'n' roll and party time. Let's dive right in. First, the shows we've already hipped you to this week...Tonight at the House of Blues, the Meat Puppets will toss you into a "Lake of Fire." Also, up in Denton, there's the Mothfight!, Florene and Red Faced Laughter show at Bee's Ma ... More >>

Dallas' Best-Kept Secret: The Prophet Bar's Weekly Jam

Oh, And Tonight's Ice Cube Show? Canceled.

  Hope you watched Barbershop on Comedy Central this afternoon (no joke, it just finished up a few minutes ago), as that's the closest you'll get to seeing Ice Cube today. The Prophet Bar's Web site is now reporting that the show has been canceled. No word yet on any reschedules. --Pete Freedm ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Trouble With Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Is The Prophet Bar Backsliding? Potentially! Or So Says New Part-Time Booking Agent

D-Notes: On Thursday, February 14

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum