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A Spune Christmas

Friday, December 14, at Dan's Silverleaf

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Madonna Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21, at American Airlines Center, $48.50-$358.50 Get your outfits ready, Madonna is upon us. When she kicked off her world tour back in May, thus began her gigantic seven-month, 89-date trek through Europe before hitting North America, and she'll event ... More >>

Index Festival - Trees - 10/5/12 & 10/6/12

Index Festival Trees Friday, October 5 & Saturday, October 6 Since the beginning of 2012, the music festival landscape has included 35 Denton and its Labor Day weekend Hot Wet Mess, Memorial Day weekend's Homegrown Music & Arts Festival in the heart of downtown, KXT's Summer Cut in early June, and ... More >>

Six Acts to Catch at this Weekend's Index Festival

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Astronautalis, Friday, October 5, at Granada Theater This time last year, former North Texas rapper Astronautalis had just released his 11-track gem, This Is Our Science. This Friday, he opens for Flobots, a Denver-based prog hip-hop group signed to Motown Records. On his website, Astronautalis enco ... More >>

Six Acts We're Excited For At This Weekend's Index Festival

With the arrival of fall, we're knee-deep in festival season, and Spune Productions is testing its fest powers in the heart of Deep Ellum with this weekend's first-ever Index Festival. The roster features a handful of locals (Yells At Eels, The Cush, Datahowler, The Angelus, Telegraph Canyon, A.Dd , ... More >>

Five Awesome Food and Drink Events, September 5 to 9

Round 'em up, we have some of the best deals and treats this city's food and drink industries have to offer. From a meet and greet with one of the city's best craft brewers to food for fashionistas and an indie rock/indie beer extravaganza, here's where it's happening in food this coming weekend. ... More >>

Eight of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Patio Sessions, DJ Klever and More

Patio SessionsEvery Thursday in the fall at AT&T Performing Arts Center, FreeIt's time for cooler weather again, and with it comes the AT&T Performing Arts Center's free outdoor concert series, Patio Sessions, which is sponsored by DC9 At Night. They've put together a fantastic lineup for th ... More >>

Martin House Brewing Company to Pour at Video Art Series, and Details on Two Upcoming Fests

The Dallas-area beer scene is growing almost too quickly to keep track of, with news of another brewery coming almost monthly and enough beer festivals in the near future that hardcore suds lovers should consider opening a liver-transplant savings account. Fort Worth's Martin House Brewing Compan ... More >>

This Week's Show Announcements: Perfume Genius, Bryan Street Tavern's Anniversary and More

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Nine of This Week's Show Announcements: Public Image Ltd, Why?, The Sea and Cake and More

Public Image LtdThursday, November 1, at Granada TheaterBefore the group hits Fun Fun Fun Fest, Dallas gets its own intimate show. It will be cool to see what John Lydon does best: walk around the stage in clown pajamas.

This Week's Top 11 Show Announcements: Beach House, Animal Collective, Grimes, Air Supply and More

Beach HouseFriday, September 21, at Palladium Ballroom, $22/$25Would a Beach House fan go buck wild if I said their new album, Bloom, sounds pretty much the same as its predecessor, Teen Dream? I'm not saying Teen Dream isn't an immaculate record, or that the band's previous performance in Dallas at ... More >>

The Best Five Dallas Venues to See a Show for Free

In these economic times, the live music budget in many households is one of the first to go. When things get tight you either need superior finagling skills or a place to see free shows. Of course, there are tons of free shows in town. In fact, if you head over to Potbelly right now you'll catch a g ... 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 >>

DOMAXXIII: Announcing Your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Winners...

Stephen MaskerErykah Badu headlined last night's DOMAXXIII. More photos in our slideshow: Scenes from the 2011 Music Awards ​Another year, another Dallas Observer Music Awards season down the drain. Gotta say, though, this year's season felt especially epic. Many thanks to the Toadies, the Old 97' ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Experimental/Avant Garde Act, Best Talent Buyer, Best Local Music Advocate

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant G ... More >>

Spune Roster Books Show To Help Bring Lance Yocom Back To North Texas

Lance Yocom​Good news and bad news on the Lance Yocom front today. The good news? After showing positive signs last week, Yocom, who has been suffering from severe pneumonia for going on three weeks now, is awake and responsive in his Arizona hospital bed, answering yes/no questions, and appearing ... More >>

For Two Weeks Now, Spune's Lance Yocom Has Been In a Coma in an Arizona Hospital

Lance Yocom​While vacationing in Arizona a couple weeks back, Spune Productions owner Lance Yocom checked himself into a Flagstaff hospital with flu-like systems and a fever of over 100 degrees. Almost immediately, doctors determined that Yocom was the victim of some sort of viral infection. Probl ... More >>

The Conversation: How Do Newcomers To The Region View The Music Scene in North Texas?

George SteinmetzShow us to the music!​We here at DC9 are deeply entrenched in the local music scene. Among the in-house writers alone, we've got at least a collective 60 years of experience in North Texas music.It's also safe to assume that a good portion of our readers have been going to shows si ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To See Heartless Bastards at Dan's Silverleaf on Monday Night

In 2005, after Heartless Bastards, the garage rock band lead by Erika Winnerstrom and her soulful, bluesy voice, caught the attention of Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, they got the break of a lifetime, the chance to record and release their first album, Stairs and Elevators, for Fat Possum Reco ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See Peter Wolf Crier and Retribution Gospel Choir Tonight at Hailey's

Not a bad bill tonight at Hailey's -- something that we haven't really been able to say of late, to be honest -- thanks to a couple of touring, up-and-coming acts out of Minnesota stopping through Denton for the night.Aside from the whole both being from the Land of a Thousand Lakes tie-in, though, ... More >>

Good Friday: A Spune Christmas, How The Edge Stole Christmas, Drowning Pool, Justin Townes Earle, Cheap Trick, John David Kent & The Dumb Angels, Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World, Sundress, Will Johnson & More!

​It doesn't feel like the holiday season yet, but Spune Productions is ushering in the holiday spirit with its sixth annual Christmas Party tomorrow night at Hailey's Club in Denton. The festivities will include free (Christmas?) tacos, free wassail, and, of course, music. Telegraph Canyon is head ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to Lochrann's Oysterfest on September 25

​Frisco's inaugural Oysterfest on Saturday, September 25, at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery is just a few weeks away. As we've mentioned more than a few times before, the lineup for this shindig, which includes Rhett Miller, Efterklang, Bowerbirds and about 15 of the area's best bands, is prett ... More >>

Show Announcements: Dawes, The Soft Pack, Glen Campbell, Magic Kids, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, GWAR, Earl Harvin, Aaron Neville, Archeology, Gaslight Anthem and More!

The softer side of The Soft Pack​Just north of Dallas, in Frisco, something is brewing at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery. The bar's enlisted the help of Spune Productions to help diversify the music scene, who, so far, has done a bang-up job. More proof: On Thursday, October 14, garage rock ac ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Puro Instinct, and Magic Kids Tonight at Hailey's Club

The guys over at Spune Productions have teamed up with Gorilla vs. Bear to promote what they're calling "The bill of the summer of 2010." And that's fair enough: Tonight, the much talked about Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti will be at Hailey's Club in Denton, and with him, Pink will have Puro Instin ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Midlake's Saturday Night Show At Hailey's Club in Denton. Also: A Limited Edition Copy Of The Band's Acts of Man 12''.

Back in December, in the months leading up to the release of Midlake's The Courage of Others, perhaps the most important release in Denton history, clips like the above, which finds the band's "Acts of Man" set to the 1927 silent film, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, started making their way onto the ... More >>

Watch: WeDentonDoIt Chats It Up With Dosh

More choice footage this week from the folks at WeDentonDoIt. Yesterday, the Denton-centric blog posted the above interview and performance clip featuring Dosh, who, as you recall, played Hailey's Club up in Denton at month's start as part of Spune Productions' 2k10 Finals Bash. Back when we preview ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Ticket to Tomorrow Night's Danielson Show at Hailey's

Last time we caught a Danielson show in town, the band got upstaged by a little Grapevine outfit called Mount Righteous--so much so that the writer of that review even got inspired to try out for the band, which, yup, he went ahead and did. Hmmm.Hope that doesn't happen again tomorrow night--we can' ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To See A.A. Bondy Tonight At Lola's Sixth in Fort Worth

We've written plenty about A.A. Bondy over the past couple of years. Most recently, Darryl Smyers praised the singer-songwriter for his "relaxed demeanor,"  which Darryl finds "says mouthfuls about his confident embrace of all the things that make roots music worthwhile."High praise, no doubt. ... More >>

Listen: Doug Burr -- "Mirror Ball"

Brandon Lesley​Kinda been an all-over-the-map day here at DC9. Not sure exactly what we're supposed to make of it, either. All this D-Town Boogie and mall punk news? Plus high schoolers and Willie Nelson? Hey, I guess we had some sort of hand in making this bed. Might as well lie in it.Fortun ... More >>

Picture Show: A Spune Christmas

Mattie StaffordSeryn at Hailey's Saturday night.​Spune Productions, with a little help from DC9 At Night, helped drum up some holiday cheer in Denton at Hailey's Club Saturday night. A Spune Christmas featured Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Glen Farris, Seryn, and plenty more.We've got more shots fr ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To Tonight's Show at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with Alela Diane, Marissa Nadler and Bosque Brown

There's a lot to like about tonight's show at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth--so much so that the unique location of the show (in the museum itself) falls pretty far down the line. First of all, there's headliner Alela Diane, of whom Falling James writes in this past week's paper:Her rustic fo ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Tonight's Sea Wolf Show at The Cavern

A great show stops off at The Cavern tonight as Sea Wolf, Port O'Brien and Sara Lov pop through town on tour. All in all, a fine touring bill, but the real highlight here is Sea Wolf, as Roy Kasten explains in this week's paper:Were it not for his big canvas collaborations, [Sea Wolf frontman Alex ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets to Catch Throw Me The Statue Tomorrow Night at The Cavern

The Cavern's concert calendar has been a little bit dry of late, but that changes somewhat this weekend with Saturday night's lineup of Throw Me The Statue, The Brunettes and Nurses rolling through town as part of an impressive touring triple-bill. In this week's paper, contributor Chris Parker cha ... More >>

The Guardian on Bosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller: "Quite A Voice."

Annie GunnBosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller gets some serious praise from The Guardian.​ Looks like Telegraph Canyon's not the only Fort Worth-based act garnering some serious praise from a respected out-of-town outlet today: This morning, the UK-based daily The Guardian honored Bosque Brown as its " ... More >>

North of the Dial

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To Saturday's Telepathe Show At Hailey's In Denton

If there's one thing that's for certain about Brooklyn's Telepathe, it's that the girl-fronted electro-dance act sure has it's finger on the pulse of what the kids are digging today. The above single, "So Fine," pretty much cuts its '80s influences from the same cloth as many of the other popular am ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair Of Tickets For Charlie Louvin At Lola's Stockyards Friday

Almost as funny as the Louvin Brothers Satan Is Real cover.Tomorrow night Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin, who sang with late brother Ira as the Louvin Brothers from the 1940s until the band's 1963 breakup, will perform at Lola's Stockyards in Fort Worth. Thanks to the fine folks at Spune ... More >>

Show Announcements: Metallica, B.B. King, Lucero, Ben Kweller, more

Not a big list of announcements this week, but think of it as quality over quantity. In venue news, watch out for the Hydrant in Denton. The coffee shop snuck its way into this post two weeks in a row--and it looks as if it's working with Spune Productions to bring more shows to its cozy confines. ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To AA Bondy at Lola's Stockyards Tonight

Since those Hank III tickets went so fast, let's re-up real quick with our other giveaway for the day...AA Bondy, former frontman for the band Verbana (an act Chris Parker expresses much love for in his preview of tonight's show, which ran in this week's paper), has made quite a name for himself as ... More >>

After the Wall

Over 80 bands later, this weekend's Spune Productions fest left listeners elated...the few who endured it, anyway

Another Brick in the Wall of Sound Preview

Odds & Ends

Someone actually took our advice--hear why K104 Uncut is good for local rap

Spoonful of Sugarlight

We went to the Dallas Music Festival expecting to eat humble pie. We were served something much worse.

Odds & Ends

If you thought you'd find safety and assurance at the Sanctuary, think again

Odds & Ends

The holiday spirt begins with gifts from The Feds, Good Records and Texasgigs.com

Odds & Ends

Group encourages electronic music in Dallas; an update on the Lizard Lounge burglary; notes on the Van Cliburn competition

Wall of Sound Festival

Hailey's, Saturday, April 9

Spune Christmas

Sunday, December 12, at Gypsy Tea Room