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The Baptist Generals' "Fly Candy Harvest" Official Video Premiere

The Baptist Generals' Jackleg Devotional to the Heart comes out in a little less than a month via Sub Pop. It will be the Denton band's first record in ten years and it is exactly as masterful as you'd expect. Want proof? "Fly Candy Harvest," the video for which you can see for the first time right ... More >>

The Coathangers

Friday, August 3, at Bryan Street Tavern

13 of This Weekend's Best Shows: Neil Halstead, The Coathangers, KISS and more

Neil HalsteadSaturday, August 4, at Good RecordsOnce the lead singer of one of the loudest and dreamiest shoegaze acts, Slowdive, Neil Halstead has somehow found himself far away from the style he once perfected. After a decade of playing country pop in Mojave 3, he's now strumming solo, in preview ... More >>

Vinnie Kircher of Jaill On Driving To Denton And Not Puking

Milwaukee-based trio Jaill comes back to Dallas at Bryan Street Tavern this Friday, with the Coathangers and Sealion, in support of their latest album, Traps. We caught up with singer Vinnie Kircher last week while the band was in the middle of an eight-hour drive, and he shared plenty about the fi ... More >>

Ten Awesome Show Announcements: Father John Misty, A$AP Rocky, New Order, Deerhoof and More

Father John MistyTuesday, October 16, at House Of BluesJosh Tillman's debut as Father John Misty, Fear Fun, is already penciled in many music critics' 2012 best-of lists. Reports about his May show at Sons of Hermann Hall were excellent. We can only expect this show to be just as solid.

Evan Abeele of Memoryhouse Talks Sub Pop, Hockey and Philip Glass

Back in the '90s, Canada's Memoryhouse were one of those bands you would never expect to release an album on Sub Pop. But over the past decade, the Seattle-based label has diversified so much that just about anything goes, including the dream-pop of Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion. Driving through ... More >>

Dallas Distortion Music, Turning Common Ground Into Community Action

Jacuzzi Boys

Saturday, September 24, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

Avi Buffalo

Friday, August 5, at Dada

Denton Ex-Pats Fergus & Geronimo Debut Killer New Song In Daytrotter Session

Johnnie Cluney for DaytrotterFergus and Geronimo, illustrated.​I'll be perfectly honest with you guys: I kind of hated the debut full-length from Fergus & Geronimo. Unlearn, in my eyes, was far too jokey, far too hokey and far too wannabe Zappa-esque. Live, it fared better, but, on record, it ... More >>

Listomania: Four Folk Acts To Follow in 2011

​Let's get this out of the w​ay from the jump: No, none of these acts are from Texas.But each has one thing in common: They're each releasing good music--right now. And, while 2010 saw handfuls of folk artist make headlines with either debut or breakthrough albums of excellent caliber (from Swed ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes, Fungi Girls

Thursday, August 5, at The Nightmare

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets to See Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes and Fungi Girls Tomorrow Night at The Nightmare. Also: A Free Copy of Happy Birthday's Self-Titled Debut.

Abby BanksVermont's hardest to google band.​We've made no secret of our approval of either Cleburne's Fungi Girls or Vermont's Sub Pop-approved Happy Birthday here at DC9. So, yeah, of course we're looking forward to tomorrow night's show at The Nightmare, which finds the two bands sharing what we ... More >>

Fergus & Geronimo Get Signed To Sub Pop Imprint Hardly Art

Fergus & Geronimo​Denton favorite, blog favorite and DOMA-nominated Fergus & Geronimo, was just signed to Hardly Art for its upcoming release. Hardly Art is an imprint of the powerhouse indie Sub Pop label, and has had several notable bands, like The Postal Service, Fleet Foxes, and Beach ... More >>

What It Was Like: Baptist Generals, Red Red Meat, Mark Sultan, Herman Dune, Justin Townes Earle, The Tallest Man On Earth, Dinosaur Jr.

Noah W. Bailey The Baptist Generals' Chris Flemmons at the Sub Pop Showcase.Band: Baptist GeneralsWhere: Sub Pop Showcase at Radio RoomWhat It Was Like: If you're ever seen the Baptist Generals play one of their "rug shows" then you know what a special experience these all-acoustic sets can b ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

In next week's paper, we'll unveil our national package on the best music of the year (the following week, we'll tackle the best in DFWd music). But, as a teaser, here's our paper's contribution to the national package: Noah W. Bailey's picks for the best Americana/folk releases of '08. Picking the ... More >>

Green River Ordinance Signs With EMI/Virgin

Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, not to be confused with Mark Arm and Stone Gossard's recently reunited Sub Pop band, will release its major label debut early next year on EMI/Virgin, according to a press release from EMI music. Out Of My Hands, the follow-up to the band's independent 2006 re ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To Fleet Foxes At Lola's On Friday

Hair Gel Hurts?

From gasoline to guitar picks, musician necessities get hit by high oil prices

Jeremy Enigk, Sarah Jaffe, Omoreka

Thursday, August 28, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage

Biting Back

Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson takes the time to critique the critical responses to his band's new release

Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)

Rogue Wave

Saturday, January 26, at Hailey's in Denton

Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

Wolf Eyes

Human Animal (Sub Pop)

Band of Horses

Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)

Wolf Eyes

Saturday, October 8, at Hailey's

Kinski

Alpine Static (Sub Pop)

Comets on Fire, The Double

Friday, July 1, at Hailey's

Rogue Wave, Helio Sequence, Voxtrot

Saturday, June 25, at Hailey's

Centro-matic

Saturday, February 19, at the Aardvark

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Pitchfork's Progress

The Internet's most popular music site comes of age--and gets in trouble

Around Hear

The best in local music

The Fire Theft, Hot Hot Heat, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Fiction Plane, the Jealous Sound

The Fire Theft, Hot Hot Heat, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Fiction Plane and the Jealous Sound perform March 12 at Trees.

Distress Signal

The Baptist Generals want to make a happy album. They just can't.

The Ties That Bind

The Top 10 musical ties of 2002

Generals Knowledge

Sub Pop set to release Baptist Generals disc

What's Mine

Former Velocity girl Sarah Shannon strikes out on her own

Tahiti 80

Unnecessary but a hell of a lot of fun

Faith, no more, no less

Sunny Day Real Estate's Jeremy Enigk is comfortable with his spirituality. Are you?

Holiday road

Three good bands + one great tour = rock-and-roll fun

Roadworn and weary

The Supersuckers get in the van to prove they're the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world

The freed band

After more than a decade, Sebadoh is on its own again and starting over

Feel his pain

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli is the unsexiest sexy mutha you'll ever meet

Honey's not dead

The Jesus and Mary Chain love rock and roll, again

Out There

Sells like teen spirit

Hype! dreams and other bull about grunge, Seattle, and Sub Pop

He stole the soul

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli exposes his big Black heart

Noise annoys

Compilation of "experimental music" skirts the line between art and nausea