Spinal Tap

Today In Music News: Contest Winner Has Big Opening Week, Beth Ditto Over-Shares And Jethro Tull Claims To Be Spinal Tap's Muse

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 30, 2009...It's amazing how established artists sell 200,000 units in their first week on the charts and contest winners move twice that.Beth Ditto should understand there is such a thing as too much information.Ian Anderson said his band J ... More >>

Last Night: Mutemath at Palladium Ballroom

Mutemath, As Tall As LionsPalladium BallroomOctober 29, 2009Better than: Watching Spinal Tap's Experimental Jazz Odyssey... well, almost better.​It was clear that when Mutemath started its set that it would be playing new songs--lots of 'em. And it was clear that the band was going to have to work ... More >>

The Bigger the Cushion, or: Why the Winspear Opera House Really Has Those Wide Seats

Patrick Michels​At 8 p.m. tomorrow, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House gets its proper christening with performances by mezzo-soprano Denyce Grave, baritone Thomas Hampson, Morphoses choreographer Christopher Wheeldon in a piece commissioned for the AT&T Performing Arts Center's opening ... More >>

Picture Show: Spinal Tap Unwigged and Unplugged

Rachel Parker Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer of This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind and plenty of other music-heavy ensemble favorites over the years, played the Nokia Theater during the Saturday night downpour, out at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie.Photographer Rachel Parker ... More >>

The Guys Behind Spinal Tap Return, Unwigged and Unplugged

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.Friday, April 24, at Hailey's Club, Denton

Friday, April 24, at Hailey's Club, Denton

The Bleach Boys' Gimmick Won't Wash

What It Was Like: U-N-I, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Funeral Party, Efterklang, Yelle, The Pack A.D., Bosque Brown, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Bobby Bare Jr.

Patrick Michels Yelle turned her Emo's performance into an all-out dance party on Saturday night.Act: U-N-I, a backpacker hip-hop duo from Inglewood, California.Where: SpeakeasyWhat It Was Like: Stumbling into a nice surprise. There's a high energy feel and definite grittiness to U- ... More >>

Today In Music News: Motley Crue To Feel Good, Sublime To Get New Singer, Spinal Tap To Unwig

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 4, 2009... Somewhere, the seventh grade me is jumping up and down with glee: Motley Crue has announced that it will play Dr. Feelgood in its entirety on its upcoming Crue Fest 2: White Trash Circus tour. No word at this time whe ... More >>

Sound Bytes: Roy G. and The Biv Offer Download, Spinal Tap To Play Nokia, Tool Man Hocks Wine, Jodeci Cancels, and, Somehow, There Are More George Strait Tickets Now Available

Nikki LoehrRoy G. and The Biv have a new song for you to hear.Kinda a slow day round the way here at DC9. Not too too much going on. Actually, that's not true. There's a lot, but not necessarily enough to constitute entire blog posts. Also, our blogging system was down for a bit before. Oh well. On ... More >>

Today In Music News: Lux Interior Dies, Spinal Tap Returns, Plant & Krauss Not Going Away

Theresa K. Lux InteriorYour daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 5, 2009... Lux Interior, lead singer for the seminal psychobilly band The Cramps, has died at age 60. Without The Cramps there probably wouldn't be a Reverend Horton Heat, folks. Probably. Time to turn your ... More >>

Last Night: AC/DC at American Airlines Center

AC/DC, The AnswerAmerican Airlines CenterJanuary 23, 2009 Better than: Watching Spinal Tap for the hundredth time while smoking crack in a trailer park in Balch Springs.   In front of a sold out crowd at the American Airlines Center, legendary hard rock icons AC/DC delivered nearly ... More >>

Eagles of Death Metal, Klopek, Austin Brown Sounds, The Couture

Friday, December 12, at The Door Dallas

Sarah Palin’s Real Life Top 10: Dinosaur Rock

Tiger Moth

Tiger Moth EP (Self-released)

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

Music for the Eyes

A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

Brave New Christmas

Alternative holiday jams

Drums & Tuba

Wednesday, September 6, at the Cavern

Honey, You Need Some Knights Like These

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 1

All Things Sexy

Eagles of Death Metal take their music as seriously as their universal 'stache

Venom

Metal Black (Sanctuary)

Drawn Together

Learning to Bend

No smokes, no shoes--but yoga instructor Ally David teaches musicians to be flexible

Train Kept A-Rollin'

In a vault for 30 years, the Festival Express was put back on track

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Best Late-Night Look-Back

Midnights at the Inwood

House Happy

Bear is at home onstage

Beatle It

These films are AllGood

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11

Mighty Mediocre

Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders

Paradise Lost

Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves

Remembering (Barely) SXSW

We've vowed never to do it again--but we can't wait till next year

Snoop Dogg

June 6

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Just Good Enough

A great 1999 made it just a decent 2000 in theaters

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

Life's a Bitch

Christopher Guest frolics with a pack of neurotics and their dogs in Best in Show

Mock Speed

Spinal Tap is still on the right side of the fine line between stupid and clever

The final cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

Stop the music

In The Suburbans, one-hit wonders reunite for no-laugh movie

Motörhead

How Strange Fruit got its groove back

For those who are about to rock, Still Crazy salutes you

Out Here

Amateur hour

Standing center stage, Guffman salutes and satirizes small-town America

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Rushes