Stevie Nicks

The Eight Bands Most in Need of a Senior Citizen Ticket Discount

So the Rolling Stones have announced their first large tour in 6 years, and their "50 And Counting" jaunt will see them stop in nine cities across North America. This is borderline amazing considering that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are 69 and CHARLIE WATTS IS 71 FREAKING YEARS OLD. Can you imag ... More >>

David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

The 12 Best Things About SXSW 2013

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you only the greatest moments from last week's SXSW madness. Here are the 12 best shows and moments we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need t ... More >>

Ice Eater on Street Cats and Mr. Freeze

Fort Worth's Ice Eater have played around the area for the last few months, but Thursday's set at Dada will be their Deep Ellum debut. We caught up with members Jordan Kline and Zach Edwards about the first Ice Eater gig and who plays a better Mr. Freeze. You guys are playing Dada tomorrow. Do you ... More >>

Lindsey Buckingham at Cendera Center

Friday, August 24 at Cendera Center

Chromatics' latest album is a killer

Nikki McKibbin on American Idol, Paula Abdul and Singing About a Dog Named Germs

You might have seen Nikki McKibbin in the national media these days, recalling her time with Rodney King on Celebrity Rehab 2, but she's still singing around the DFW area in two bands: No Rest for the Wicked and Love Stricken Demise. The latter has a new EP, Psychotrip, and will support Warrant, Tri ... More >>

Florence and the Machine - Palladium Ballroom - 5/1/12

Florence and the Machine Palladium Ballroom Tuesday, May 1 As I scrolled backwards through my notes from last night's show, I found something I had jotted down a few days earlier, I think from an episode of Parks and Recreation: "Don't half ass two things. Whole ass one thing." I took that as my s ... More >>

Starck Contrast

Another new documentary on the Starck Club revisits the storied Dallas nightclub of the '80s

The Five Best and Worst Musicians to Interview

In honor of Evan Dando and his band The Lemonheads being at the Prophet Bar tonight, I thought I might share with the readers of DC9 some of the pitfalls of being a music writer. Sure, there are tons of positives: free shows and CDs and access to cool people (some of whom you may actually admire). B ... More >>

The Conversation: Is Playing Other People's Songs Respectable?

Dallas disco cover band Le Freak​A well-timed cover can be just the thing to take a band's live performance from good to great. But if the execution of the song is off, it could blow the whole set. On the flip side, although playing a cover is a risky move, sometimes the rewards can make an artist ... More >>

Good Friday: Death Cab, Rock The Bells, Torche, Trae and The Rest of Your Weekend

Death Cab For Cutie​There was a time when Death Cab For Cutie would have Centro-Matic in the support slot of their regional shows. But those days are long gone. On Saturday, Death Cab will be at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie with Frightened Rabbit. But if a Centro-Matic-less Death Cab doesn ... More >>

Ketchup, Uptown's New Burger Bar, Follows the Trends to Feed the Trendy

For Your Holiday Weekend Listening Pleasure: Fleetwood Mac's '78 Cotton Bowl Landslide

​At last night's Gasland screening, an environmentalist activist of some note noted how much he enjoyed reading Unfair Park ... for the Friday musical offerings, many of which were echoes of shows he'd once attended. Then, this afternoon, a request from another Friend of Unfair Park: Steive Nicks ... More >>

Last Night: Emmylou Harris at the Winspear Opera House

Emmylou HarrisWinspear Opera HouseJune 23, 2011Better than: Sipping lemonade on the porch swing on a breezy afternoon in May. Emmylou Harris​ Dressed like Stevie Nicks, if Nicks had been a flapper (black headband and all), Emmylou Harris literally danced her way onto the stage at the AT&T Per ... More >>

TV On The Radio, Broken Social Scene, Ben Folds and More Show Announcements

They've got faces for TV On The Radio.​This week's show announcements come to us in the form of a one-two punch. TV On The Radio are fresh off the release of their brilliant new album Nine Types Of Light, and Broken Social Scene pretty much haven't released a bad album to date. Now, the two h ... More >>

Listomania: What Scents Would Be Most Appropriate For The Future Perfumes and Colognes of Today's Biggest Music Icons?

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

Visiting Jubilee Park and Greenville Avenue During Today's Plan Commission Liveblog

Just remember: If and when that Lower Greenville Ave. PD passes, this is what you'll get next summer. Ish.​Put down your Angry Birds Seasons, it's time for the City Plan Commission public hearing! Today the big item on the agenda is the rezoning of Lower Greenville into a Planned Development Distr ... More >>

Beach House Grows Into A Teen Dream

Interesting Quartet: Who's Your Pick?

​Didn't see much at'tall of The Grammys. But I see that Beyonce won six awards and Lady Gaga is an alien and Taylor Swift took the evening's biggest prize: Album of the Year. Swift also, however, apparently sang horribly on a "Rhiannon" duet with Stevie Nicks. Which c ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.01.09

And then one day, just to keep his readers on their toes, the demented blogger stood Whitt's End on its head ... *For those inclined toward auditory masochism, I'll again be the analyst for Time Warner Cable/Metro Sports Channel 185's upcoming telecasts of the Texas Brahmas minor-league hockey ... More >>

Last Night: Fleetwood Mac at the AAC

Fleetwood MacAmerican Airlines CenterApril 30, 2009Better Than: Seeing a Fleetwood Mac cover band at an AARP Convention.Seemingly every MILF in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area made their way to the American Airlines Center last night to catch a truncated (but still powerful) version of Fleetwoo ... More >>

USA Film Fest Unspools New Titles, Rare Favorites, Worthy Tributes, Starck Club Doc

Good Lord, was Blood Simple really 25 years ago, USA Film Festival honoree M. Emmet Walsh?A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year's shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the t ... More >>

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 >>

Octogenarian Christmas: The Five Best Rock CDs Made By Older Folk In 2008

In all these year-end, best-of lists, I'm seeing little respect given to the over 50 crowd. So, since I'm heading that direction myself, I thought I would be the one to share some AARP Holiday Cheer. 1. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws The Fleetwood Mac guitarist/singer finally incorporates som ... More >>

Heavy Duty

The Inwood rocks out the Heavy Metal

The Blues Period

Tough Breaks

Presenting the best breakup albums of all time

Tegan & Sara

The Con (Vapor/Sire)

Stevie Nicks, Chris Isaak

Friday, June 1, at Smirnoff

Moon Landing

It's all happening at White Rock

World Turning

With or without Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham goes his own way

Carla Bozulich

Evangelista (Constellation)

Simonized

Rumors spread in Richardson

Calexico

Garden Ruin (Touch and Go/Quarterstick)

Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

Linda Ronstadt and Aaron “AhEeOhAhOh” Neville play the Meyerson

Feel Good Gaithering

Crowe's Songs

Plus: Sleepy Hero History, Tull Tag

Camp Out

Viva Las Vegas with the Caring Friends Follies

Can't Stop

For Fleetwood Mac, making music remains a troubled love affair

Kings of Clubs

The coke-drenched era of nightclubs is over, but now a new group of entrepreneurs is ready to reinvent the scene

Home Coming

The Dixie Chicks' new album won't be out for another month, but we'll tell you why it's worth waiting for

Mary Timony

June 25

Critics' Picks

The Distillers

Out Here

Gropius

Whassup, Kennyman?

You need to talk to MTV's Jesse Camp like he needs another head in his hole

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

You invent the future

How ignoring their past left Fleetwood Mac a band out of time

Events for the week

The language of lite

Everything But the Girl's Ben Watt laments the duo's adult alternative fate