School of Seven Bells

School of Seven Bells Does Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Kiss Them For Me"

Strangely enough, we have our second Siouxsie and the Banshees cover in this edition of Covering Tracks, turned in by the New York-by-way-of-Dallas duo School of Seven Bells. Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza recently headlined Modern 'Til Midnight at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, a homeco ... More >>

It's Friday the 13th, So Watch This Video For The Angelus' "Crimson Shadow"

If Paul Thomas Anderson is indeed making a sequel to There Will Be Blood, as has been rumored, he needs to cast Angelus singer Emil Rapstine in it somewhere. The Dallas trio's new video for single "Crimson Shadow," directed by Jake Wilganowski, formerly of Bridges & Blinking Lights, contains various ... More >>

13 Shows To See This Weekend (Because It's Friday the 13th)

School of Seven Bells, Air Review, Calhoun, The AngelusSaturday, April 14, at Fort Worth Modern Art Museum It's hard to deny this show as being one of the biggest this weekend. Kind of strange, though, that School of Seven Bells' last three trips to the Metroplex have only seen one show in Dallas -- ... More >>

School of Seven Bells at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Saturday, April 14, at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Watch the Video for School of Seven Bells' "Lafaye"

It's a big day for School of Seven Bells. The band's third and most industrial-influenced album, Ghostory, is released today. The band, located in New York, was formed when longtime Dallas musician Benjamin Curtis (UFOFU, Tripping Daisy, Captain Audio) was on tour with his band Secret Machines, open ... More >>

Listen to School of Seven Bell's New Single, Between Notes Film Earns Release & More

​Just a few weeks ago, shoegaze duo with local ties, School of Seven Bells, announced that their third full- length record, Ghostory, would be released at the beginning of 2012. Today, Pitchfork reports that the album's official release date will be February 28, 2012.With the news, the band went a ... More >>

The Second Homegrown Festival Pulls A Nice Crop

BREAKING NEWS: The Secret Machines Haven't Broken Up. Quite The Opposite.

It's a fair question: With Brandon Curtis off playing in Interpol, Benjamin Curtis long gone and in his own School of Seven Bells project (who'll play the Homegrown Fest in Dallas this weekend), Josh Garza reportedly spending his 2010 working with members of Elefant and Monster Magnet, and, as of t ... More >>

HomeGrown Festival Announces Set Times, Free Shuttle Service to Saturday's Event

HomeGrown's getting all futuristic on our asses.​Some cool news coming out of the HomeGrown Music and Art Festival's pipeline today -- and not just the performance schedule, which, you'll see after the jump, finds the day starting off a little bit country and ending off a lot electronic.The second ... More >>

Neon Indian To Debut New Material at the May 14 Homegrown Festival in Downtown Dallas

Discovering new music is fun, ain't it?​ Given the news we shared with you back on 4/20 (nyuck, nyuck), perhaps this shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Nonetheless, thanks to a post on Neon Indian's Facebook page, we can now confirm it: The band will be debuting new material from their upcoming ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To The Homegrown Festival on Saturday, May 14

Perhaps you recall the folks behind the Homegrown Festival's attempts at viral video promotion for their inaugural deal last year? Well, no surprise, they're at it again this year, as you can see in the clip above, which stars festival co-hosts Grant Jones of the festival-performing Grant Jones &am ... More >>

New School of Seven Bells Song Included On Benefit Album For Recovery in Japan

​Musicians releasing songs to benefit those in need is not a new phenomenon -- look no further than 1985's "We Are the World" charity single, by the supergroup USA for Africa, featuring Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, and strangely enough, Dan Aykroyd. And let's not forget the awesomely awful Haiti rem ... More >>

Neon Indian, School of Seven Bells, Riverboat Gamblers and Slobberbone To Headline 2011 Homegrown Music and Arts Festival on May 14

Neff ConnerA scene from last year's inaugural Homegrown Music and Art Festival.​After a successful launch in May of 2010, the open-air, downtown Dallas-hosted Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will return again in 2011, this time taking place on May 14, and once again at Main Street Garden. And th ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Spooky Folk Mines A Hatred For Its Members' Bible Belt Upbringing at No. 2

[Over these last few days of 2010, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 2 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump for a stream the track. Also after the jump, ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Orbans' Music Rings True at No. 6

[Over these last few days of 2010, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 6 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to watch its accompanying music video. Also a ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Beaten Sea Recalls A Forgotten Time and Cures Our Ills at No. 7

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 7 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream of the track ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Old 97's Drum Up Some Of Their Old Magic at No. 8

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 8 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream the track. Also after the jump, check ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Leg Sweeper Does It For The Weekend at No. 14

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 14 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab a free download of the track. Also after the ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Lalagray Offers A Confident Introduction, But Leaves Out The Hard Part, at No. 16

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 16 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream of the track. Also after the jump, c ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas, 2010: Sundress Unleashes A Hypnotic Plague at No. 20.

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 20 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab the song as a free download. Also after the ju ... More >>

The Best Songs In Dallas Music, 2010: Damaged Good$ Calls Out Its Haters (Even If The Rest Of Us Didn't Realize There Were Any) at No. 25

[At the end of each of the last two years, we spent the final few weeks of the year counting down the best music that the local scene has had to offer. This year's no different -- well, except that, this year, our original list of songs to be included for consideration was significantly larger than ... More >>

Video: Check Out the New, Slightly NSFW Video for School Of Seven Bell's "I L U"

Ena YanaiAlejandra Deheza​School Of Seven Bells are still going strong despite the recent departure of their third member Claudia Deheza. They just announced an upcoming tour with Interpol, which kind of brings the band back to their origin. See, as Alejandra Deheza explained in a recent article i ... More >>

DC9atNight and WeDentonDoIt Present: School of Seven Bells

Welcome to a new joint venture between DC9 at Night and the folks at We Denton Do It, aimed at introducing local audiences to up-and-coming acts they may have missed during recent stops through town. They're the kind of acts we think you're gonna want to know--and right away.School of Seven Bells ... More >>

Claudia Deheza Leaves School of Seven Bells--Meaning The Band is Now Half-Local! (Yay?)

Guillermo HerrenSchool Of Seven Bells​School of Seven Bells is no longer a family affair.The trio comprised of former Dallasite Benjamin Curtis and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza were mid-tour when the latter Deheza's absence at Austin City Limits Music Festival raised a lot of question ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to See School of Seven Bells Friday Night at Hailey's

As we announced a few months back, School of Seven Bells is coming to Hailey's on Friday to promote their new album, Disconnect from Desire, which debuted in the Billboard 200. And the folks over at Hailey's were nice enough to give us two pairs of tickets to give away to two lucky DC9 readers.&nbs ... More >>

Good Friday: Fall Indie Fest, Matt & Kim, Fang Island, School Of Seven Bells, The xx, Morning Benders, Twin Sister, Cults, The National, Sarah Harmer, Two Door Cinema Club, Gaslight Anthem, Devendra Banhart & More!

​You may remember when I mentioned Grand Prairie's upcoming Fall Indie Fest in a story about suburban rock a few weeks ago. Well, Fall Indie Fest is finally here. While it doesn't have quite the same fanfare of the little festival in Austin this weekend, there is still reason aplenty to head out w ... More >>

An Awkward Past Fuels School of Seven Bells' Bright Future

Watch: School of Seven Bells Keeps The Acoustic Thing Going, Offers Up "Windstorm" Take

A big tip of the hat to the very underrated locally based music blog Douchebag Face, which earlier today posted the above clip of School of Seven Bells, who come to Denton for a gig at Hailey's on October 8, performing an acoustic take of their Disconnect From Desire song "Windstorm" for the web ser ... More >>

Watch: School of Seven Bells Goes Acoustic

Well, this above clip is a nice treat. Featuring Dallas' own Ben Curtis and his School of Seven Bells bandmates the Deheza sisters, this nicely shot piece shows the New York-based three-piece on tour Down Under, going even farther under, performing an acoustic take of its song "Dust Devil" in a Sydn ... More >>

Watch: School of Seven Bells -- "Windstorm"

School of Seven Bells' sophomore effort, Disconnect from Desire, earned its release last month after the early leaking of two singles from the disc, "Babelonia" and "Windstorm." It's the latter of those two early leaks that's earned the official single release treatment from band management, though, ... More >>

Video: School Of Seven Bells Discuss The Making Of Disconnect From Desire

We've been doing a lot of talking about the critically acclaimed -- and frankly, badass -- new record from School Of Seven Bells, Disconnect From Desire, which was just released on Tuesday, July 13. The above interview piece features Dallas' own Ben Curtis and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deh ... More >>

National Public Radio Names School of Seven Bells' "Windstorm" As Its Song of the Day.

Abbey DruckerSchool of Seven Bells​ We've made no secret of our in-house excitement for School of Seven Bells' sophomore full-length, Disconnect From Desire, which earned its release this week. Ambient, grandiose and a little wistful, too, the album's an almost-prefect summer companion. And, turns ... More >>

Just Trust Us On This And Go Stream School of Seven Bells' Upcoming Disconnect From Desire In Its Entirety. Like Right Now.

We've made our adoration of School of Seven Bells abundantly clear in the past--many times, in fact. So, yeah, no surprise here: We're pretty stoked for the band's upcoming disc, Disconnect From Desire, which will earn its release on July 13. Have been ever since DFW native Ben Curtis gave us the sk ... More >>

School Of Seven Bells Announces Fall Tour, Includes Stop at Hailey's Club in Denton

In hometown-boy-done-good news, we just received a press release announcing School Of Seven Bells Fall headlining tour in support of their forthcoming album, Disconnect From Desire, which drops on July 13. Ben Curtis (formerly of local bands Captain Audio and Secret Machines) and identical twins All ... More >>

School of Seven Bells Announces Release Date For Sophomore Full-Length

School of Seven Bells​When we caught up with former Secret Machines- and UFOFU-er Benjamin Curtis at Austin City Limits this past fall, the current School of Seven Bells member gave us some insight into the sophomore release his band was working on at the time:"It's a bigger sound," he said. "It's ... More >>

Today In Music News: Katy Perry Wants To Quit Her Job, Filipino Prisoners At It Again And School Of Seven Bells Are Coming

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 28, 2010...Katy Perry says she'd ditch her day job to be a full-time judge on American Idol.  It'd be a lot cooler if she'd ditch the job and boyfriend and come over to my house.The Filipino dancing prisoners now have a new dance rout ... More >>

Tracklist: The Local Hang With Playlister P, Vol. 3

Sooner or later, I'll get a real logo.​Many, many, many thanks to all those who showed at The Libertine last night for the third installment of my little first-Monday-of-every-month residency there called The Local Hang with Playlister P. It was quite the grand ol' time. And a successful one, too- ... More >>

School Of Seven Bells' Alpinisms Set To Get Deluxe Reissue Next Week

​Speaking of reissues: School of Seven Bells, one of our favorite bands from the past year or so (local tie or no), is set to receive the deluxe reissue treatment next week for its phenomenal debut release, Alpinisms. Out October 13 on Vagrant Records, the reissue of Alpinisms will feature nine ex ... More >>

ACL '09 in Photos: The Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Dr. Dog and More from Friday Onstage

Photos by Patrick MichelsThe Avett Brothers share a family moment Friday afternoon.​Along with Pete's takes on some of Friday's biggest sets here at ACL, we already brought you shots of Phoenix, Raphael Saadiq and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- so before we head on out for another day in the front row (fo ... More >>

ACL '09: So Can We Get This Party Going Already, Or...?

​Pretty sure I'm in Austin right now--seems it at least; there's a whole bunch of young people running around acting like there's something going on. I dunno, this is a pretty early wake-up call for me. But I digress: I'll be here all weekend long, along with Observer Web editor and photogra ... More >>

ACL '09: School of Seven Bells Starts Day One Off On A High Note--And Offers Us Some Details On its Next Release.

Sorry if this post comes off as a little, I dunno, off. As I write this in the ACL press tent, Daniel Johnston's giving an on-air interview to my right, School of Seven Bells is giving a web chat interview to my left, and Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights are talking up a print report ... More >>

The Secret Machines,...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Tuesday, September 29,at the Granada Theater

Last Night: Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells and Darktown Strutters at Hailey's

Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells, Darktown StruttersHailey's Club, DentonJune 3, 2009Better Than: Sulking at home last night while poking around on Craigslist and eBay for those Animal Collective tickets you should've bought months ago... Paul HeartfieldSchool of Seven BellsTurns out ... More >>

School of Seven Bells, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Darktown Strutters

Wednesday, June 3,at Hailey's Club, Denton

School of Seven Bells Shows Off All Angles For Its New Video

Since we've already directed your attentions to one new music video from an act with area ties, really, what's another at the start of the work week? (Welcome back, by the way.)This one comes from former UFOFUer and Secret Machine member Benjamin Curtis' new Brooklyn-based project, School of Seven B ... More >>

Stream School Of Seven Bells On NPR's World Cafe

School of Seven Bells If there's one--and, I think, justifiable--problem that I have with local NPR affiliate 90.1 KERA-FM, it's that there isn't enough music on the station's regular programming schedule (Paul Slavens aside). As stands, only two of the station's weekly 168 programmed hours are regu ... More >>

What It Was Like: Pete Tong, Late of the Pier, Peter Bjorn & John, Angus & Julia Stone, School of Seven Bells, Zee Avi

Pete Freedman School of Seven Bells' Benjamin Curtis at Buffalo Billiards.The first night of SXSW saw four pretty major draws around town--Echo and the Bunnymen at Emo's; The Decembrists at Stubbs; St. Vincent, Department of Eagles and M. Ward at the Central Presbyterian Church; Peter Bjorn & ... More >>

What It Was Like: School of Seven Bells, Skibunny

Jesse HugheySkibunnyI was delayed in getting my night started, thanks to some setbacks I'd rather not go into. Let me just recommend that if you're at SXSW, don't carry a pocketknife. But I still caught a few interesting acts. Hopefully today will go more smoothly. Act: School of Seven Bells (anothe ... More >>

The Year-End List Extravagana Continues: Even The Curtis Brothers Are Gettin' Some Love!

It was only officially released in late October, but one album that I've found myself returning to a couple times in these waning months of 2008 is School of Seven Bell's Alpinism.The ethereal electronic rock act School of Seven Bells--or SVIIB, as the kids apparently abbreviate the act--you'll reme ... More >>