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Six of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Tum Tum & Big Tuck, Sufjan Stevens and More

Tum Tum & Big Tuck, A.Dd , Dustin Cavazos, DJ Sober vs. DJ Q Thursday, November 8, at Dada Tickets for this show, which promoters Top Shelf Shows and dCc are calling "The Day Dallas Stood Still," have yet to go on sale. If it wasn't enough that Dallas rap legends/former Dirty South Rydaz Tum Tum and ... More >>

10 Top Acts With Dual Drummers

Tonight, The Melvins will perform at Trees. While perusing the Internet in search of photos, I realized the band has two drummers. I thought about how pointless and excessive it is to actually employ two drummers to support a band, but then I considered how powerful the result can be. Two drummers s ... More >>

Doomtree's Group Think at Dan's Silverleaf

Deb Doing DallasP.O.S. ​Doomtree Dan's Silverleaf Tuesday, February 7 In a year spent throne-watching, Doomtree's 2011 release, No Kings, was an interesting comment on hip-hop's climate. Excessive in its own right, the Minneapolis collective has no less than seven official collaborators contr ... More >>

The Conversation: Lead Singer Stage Behavior, How Much is Too Much?

Mick Jagger, the ultimate frontman​Make no mistake; there is a big difference between a run-of-the-mill lead singer and a bona fide frontman. Huge, really. Not just anybody has the magnetism required to convince 20,000 people at the American Airlines Center to raise their hands above their heads a ... More >>

St. Vincent Releases Strange Mercy Track List and Cover Art, Announces Kessler Theater Gig

Tina TyrellNew St. Vincent press photos day! Yay!​Back in early June, we passed along the word that Dallas native Annie Clark, known to most by her stage name of St. Vincent, had set a September 13 release date for her highly anticipated third LP, the locally recorded, John Congleton-produced Stra ... More >>

St. Vincent Sets Sept. 13 Release For Third LP, The John Congleton-Produced Strange Mercy

St. Vincent​Two years after the release of her sophomore (and breakout) album, Actor, the Dallas-born guitar heroine Annie Clark, who performs hauntingly gorgeous music under the name of St. Vincent, has just announced that her third full-length album, Strange Mercy, will be released via the 4AD ... More >>

Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert

Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Unwed Sailor at Club Dada and Steve Miller at House of Blues

Besides Hayes Carll continuing his North Texas tour of clubs (tonight's stop is at The Aardvark in Cowtown), there are a couple of other interesting musical options also going on tonight.

Abe Vigoda, Wild Nothing, Soft Environmental Collapse

Saturday, February 5, at Sons of Hermann Hall

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 >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Nic Hernandez Celebrates Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy For Overshadowing His Image

In this week's paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers' choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn't run all of our writers' lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we're doing just that, right here.​Resident hip-hop head Nic Hernand ... More >>

A Very Indie Christmas: Ten Songs To Conquer Your Parents' Karen Carpenter Blues

Bring a little rock to your Christmas.​There are few things more refreshing on Christmas morning than wheeling the dial and finding an original Christmas song. Or, at least, one that is not by Mariah Carey. Our parents have to be sick of it too. They just have to be. The frustrating thing is that ... More >>

Last Night: Chiddy Bang, Vonnegutt at Trees

Chiddy Bang, Vonnegutt TreesDecember 2, 2010Better than: going to an actual SMU party.Chiddy Bang​Lest there remained any question as to whom the music of Chiddy Bang is meant for, the Philadelphia-based, indie rock-sampling hip-hop duo provided the answer at Trees last night.Or maybe it's more ap ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Freelance Whales and Miniature Tigers at the Loft

Freelance Whales​Some people have wild stories on how they became band members. Others just grew up together. And some, like Freelance Whales, meet each other on Craigslist.And sometimes, that can make for the best results. Freelance Whales' electro-pop debut album, Weathervanes, has garnered mass ... More >>

Magic Kids

Friday, November 5, at The Cavern

Last Night: Sufjan Stevens at McFarlin Auditorium

Sufjan StevensMcFarlin AuditoriumOctober 21, 2010Better Than: The times my parents would drag me to McFarlin Auditorium to watch ballet.Sufjan Stevens​Sufjan Stevens had his work cut out for him on Wednesday night at SMU's McFarlin Auditorium: He had the daunting task of convincing everyone in the ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Sufjan Stevens at McFarlin Auditorium, Gorillaz at the Verizon Theatre, The Script at the House of Blues and The Summer Set at the Prophet Bar

Sufjan Stevens​Quite the packed hump day evening we have tonight. Lots of cool choices...

Show Announcements: Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, Yells At Eels, Video, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Wolf Parade, Will Johnson, More.

Denny RenshawSufjan Stevens​Sufjan Stevens didn't get too far in his attempt to write an album for each state in the US. Of the 50, he completed two--and then he kind of disappeared for a few years after the release of his Christmas album in 2006. Maybe if he hadn't put more than 20 songs on each ... More >>

Yann Tiersen

Thursday, April 22, at the Granada Theater

Good Friday: Danielson, Black Eyed Peas, Dokken, Faster Pussycat, Venus Flytrap, Robert Deeble, Josh Alan Friedman, Mark Growden, Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, B.J. Thomas, Shannon McNully, Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter, Off With Their Heads

​With Pete down in Austin attending to all things SXSW, it falls to me to come up with some show recommendations for our area. And there's a lot of stuff going on. Tomorrow brings a Dillinger Escape Plan show to The Granada Theater, and Sunday is especially busy with 97.9's Car Show in Fair Park ... More >>

Akron/Family Gets Wild and Free

Listomania: A Sountrack for Your Swine Flu Sickness

So, lately, pretty much the only thing on the minds of, well, everyone seems to be ways of refraining from getting any small strain of any sort of sickness--especially the infamous H1N1. Those who haven't been infected, pat yourself on the back and keep soaking up the Purell. Those who weren't so lu ... More >>

Today In Music News: Leona Lewis Gets Punched, Editors Gets Googled And Sufjan Stevens Gets Contemplative

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 15, 2009...Leona Lewis took a right hook to the dome--for literacy--when a "fan" punched her in the head at a book signing.Care to know what the Editors are up to in London? Check out their very own Google Earth.Sufjan Stevens is contempl ... More >>

Today In Music News: Bright Eyes Retires, Sufjan Gets His Movie On and RZA Get Philosophical

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 23, 2009... Conor Oberst is allegedly retiring his Bright Eyes moniker. I would like to suggest a new name: George Taylor. Sufjan Stevens is set to release a CD/DVD set for his movie The BQE. No word yet on a set of wings coming w ... More >>

Gig Alert: Matthew Gray, Baruch The Scribe, The Fox & The Bird and Angel Lenora at The Hydrant in Denton Tonight... For Free

This looks to be a grand weekend for shows in Denton, with an excellent bill at The Hydrant tonight kicking off the weekend one day early. If you haven't been to a show at The Hydrant yet, then this should be a great bill to catch. The two-story coffee shop/venue is a block off the Square, and it ha ... More >>

St. Vincent, Pattern Is Movement

Thursday, June 18

St. Vincent

Actor (4AD)

What It Was Like: Efterklang, Alela Diane, Camera Obscura, Dark Meat, Megafaun

Patrick MichelsEfterklang under a tent at the French Legation MuseumBand: EfterklangWhere: Other Music Party at the French Legation MuseumWhat It Was Like: Seven people from Copenhagen playing ornate pop combining violin, trumpet and flute with glitchy electronics. Closer "Cutting Ice to Snow" start ... More >>

Andrew Bird, Haley Bonar

Sunday, March 22, at the Granada Theater

My Brightest Diamond Feels Good Covering Nina Simone.

No, nothing will ever, ever compare to this, the original version of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good". Nothing.And yet, somehow, this new cover of the song (via) from one-time Dallas resident Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) is a pretty decent effort in its own right--and certainly worth a liste ... 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 >>

St. Vincent and the Lord Vishu

Sufjan Stevens / Vince Guaraldi

Songs for Christmas Singalong (Asthmatic Kitty) / A Charlie Brown Christmas (Fantasy)

The Best Song Around "These Days"

Steve Reich

Phases

The Scene, Heard

Festivus for the Rest of Us

No need for ACL--there was plenty to see within Dallas city limits

Really, Nobody Wants Free Flaming Lips Tickets? Shame.

Sufjan Stevens

Wednesday, September 13, at the Lakewood Theater

Uganda Get Outta This Place

Ducats in the Cradle

Odds & Ends

At this week's Dallas Video Festival, local audio gets the spotlight treatment

Which Voice?

Weekend Christian concerts approach the cross from opposite sides

Sufjan Stevens

The Avalanche ( Asthmatic Kitty)

Handsome Famile

Daniel Smith sets sail

Gorilla vs. Bear vs. Dallas music

Year of the Concept

After Green Day, expect more American idiots

Our critics' top 10 albums

Heading Out

A prayer journal reveals life on the other side of Korn

Sufjan Stevens

Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)