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My First Show: Best of 2012 Edition

We decided to check back in with some of the people we interviewed this year for My First Show, and ask about favorite concerts, records, and most-wanted Christmas gifts. Bad Design's Steven Altuna takes the cake for best answer for a Christmas wish. What was the best show you saw this year? Evan ... More >>

Playing Fugazi's Repeater For My Kids: "I Like When They Shout Things"

See also: Why every album you love should be ripped apart by a 19-year-old I've tried to walk the line between imposing my tastes in music on my kids and letting them discover music they enjoy on their own. My tastes are all over the map, so they've gotten a little of everything. My 14-year-old da ... More >>

J. Edgar: Mama's Boy

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on the original G-man.

Michael Rapaport Talks A Tribe Called Quest and His New Documentary on the Group

​On July 8, actor Michael Rapaport's directorial debut, a documentary called Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, will earn its release theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Later that month, on July 28, the film will begin a run locally at Dallas-area Angelika Theat ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: "The War Across The Alley"

[Editor's Note: This is the last time we'll be running Echoes and Reverberations as a regular feature here on DC9. Will we see future installments? Don't know yet. But in the meantime, a big thanks to Jeff Liles for the past 30 installments of the series. It's been fun.]Shallow Reign, performing at ... More >>

Dem Souhernfolkz's Incredible Message

Echoes And Reverberations: Speed Dating With Rush

Seeing a Ghost

Yeah, Grandmaster Flash graced the ones and twos at Ghostbar this weekend. But who cares? The people there didn't seem to.

Still an Aryan Blood Brother

Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

Soulja Boy: Crankin' the Chain

No one understands the world of major-label rap better

Prom Is for Suckers

Lollipop Shoppe is bringing groovy back

The King and I

Grown men dressed in spandex: What does it all mean?

Ready to Blow

With Terrell Owens, which comes first--the Super Bowl ring or the explosion?

The Fab Fifty

Where would we be without these powerful peeps? In the fetal position, craving sports.

Bloody Reign

Slayer forgoes the usual midlife crisis. Who needs fast cars when you have speed metal?

Fretting

"We have mortgages, high cholesterol, and I swear I have arthritis in my fingers. Our sixth CD is due out this summer."

Last Call

The career of Dallas sportswriter Jim Dent was skyrocketing, then booze and bad behavior caused a hard landing

Mag Light

Today's music magazines suck up to celebs--and just plain suck

True Dat

A Run-act play starring the Simmons brothers, Russell and the Rev

Falling Rock

The Avalanches are hard to pin down but easy to love

Spider Webs

Mark Griffin resurrects MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Way Out

For Hydroponic Sound System, mixing hip-hop with everything else is just Routine Insanity

Good fences

Don't always make good neighbors, especially in exclusive Flower Mound, where a nasty feud between the mayor and a newspaper publisher has blossomed into all-out war

War of words

Morning News reports of a charity's ties to terrorism spur Muslim protests

Man with the Plan

The Dismemberment Plan's Travis Morrison talks about major labels, modern R&B, and...Steely Dan?

Live from New York?

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

My Adidas

Limp Bizkit are the new kings of rock. Why?

Paying her debt

You know the music business stinks when Kathy McCarty, Texas' best singer-songwriter, can't catch a break

Man at the top

The General adroitly animates real-life Irish crime boss Martin Cahill

Oedipus hex

Portrait of the psycho as a young man

Beat down

Dallas' hip-hop scene is more vital than ever, but you'd never know it: no clubs, no radio, no major-label deals. But the musicians, some of this city's best, refuse to give up.

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

He got lame

Spike Lee tosses up a brick with his bleak He Got Game

Rap gets puffy

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs fathers a return to hip-hop pop

Arts and craftsmen

After the Beasties and Beck, the Dust Brothers strike out on their own

USA Film Festival

The Dr. is out

Dre and Snoop Dogg, the boys who cried wolf, cancel yet another Dallas show

Gettin' the Shaft

'Black Moses' emerges from the bulrushes with two albums and a broken heart

Case dismissed

Judge tells the Nightcaps that ZZ Top aren't "copycats"