The Clash (Band)

The 50 Commandments of SXSW

You're going to South by Southwest, right? Or you're already there? One of those things is bound to be true. Well, we here at DC9 have got some advice for you, and we've managed to format it all into the style of commandments, because one of our favorite things to do is pretend we're angry Gods. Or ... More >>

Evan Chronister Talks About His Love of Rush, Seeing the Sex Pistols in Dallas

Evan Chronister is a local music enthusiast, a masterful mix CD maker, and an avid blogger. He can talk your ear off about seeing legendary bands in their prime, but his first show is something he's never forgotten: Rush. In honor of Rush playing the American Airlines Center tonight, we caught up wi ... More >>

Gary Myrick on Working With Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and Big Audio Dynamite

Born and raised in Dallas, Gary Myrick found his greatest success after moving to California and forming The Figures. In 1980, Gary Myrick & The Figures released a self-titled album that featured the new wave hit "She Talks in Stereo." The song, along with another Myrick original, ended up in the mo ... More >>

Jimmy Menkena: "I Thought The Beatles Wrote Every Single Kind Of Music."

We praised Menkena when their debut album, With You I'll Travel, came out last year. But the lineup has changed since then, and now features prominent members of The Polyphonic Spree, The Demigs and The Felons. In advance of their free show at The Foundry on Saturday with Fort Worth's The Cush, we a ... More >>

Tom Morningstar Quit Music to Become Painter, but He Still Loves The Dallas Music Scene

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people more behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth local music. ​Tom Morningstar's art can be seen adorning the walls of a few Gaston-area spots of Deep Ellum: The Elbow Room, Big-E's Convenience Store (killers tacos there, by the way), ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Cover/Tribute Act, Best Label, Best Producer

​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 Cover/Tribute Act, B ... More >>

Over The Weekend: My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive, The Architects at House of Blues

My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive and The ArchitectsThe House of BluesMay 21, 2011(Just Barely) Better Than: Staying home and watching the Mavericks beat the Thunder.Sara KerensMy Chemical Romance's Gerard Way. For more pictures from the performance, check out the slideshow.​New Jersey's alt-rock ... More >>

Bonus MP3 Q&A: Occult Detective Club Shares New Song "C'mon Levi," Explains How The Political Climate Shapes Its Songwriting

Occult Detective Club​Occult Detective Club may have started as the solo side-project of Secret Bangs' Alexander Anguiano, but once Secret Bangs officially dissolved and Anguiano devoted more time and energy to crafting his catchy garage-punk songs, it quickly became apparent that this new projec ... More >>

Listomania: The 15 Best Concerts of 2010

​With apologies to Robert Earl Keen, Devin the Dude, Cake, Hayes Carll and the multitude of also-rans filling up the regional concert calendar in these final weeks of 2010, it's safe to say, I think, that, with Friday night's Wu-Tang show at the Granada Theater, the year in live music effectively ... More >>

Listomania: Ten Songs That Love the Beatles

Apple's HomepageGood News, Everyone!​This morning, a headline on CNN read, "Beatles come to iTunes." Innocuous enough, yes, but, gosh, where the hell else are you going to buy music from (arguably) the world's biggest band? At Best Buy? Apple's official announcement (the above pic is from their ho ... More >>

Last Night: Gorillaz and N.E.R.D at the Verizon Theatre

Gorillaz, N.E.R.DVerizon Theatre, Grand PrairieOctober 20, 2010Better than: an evening spent watching the Cartoon Network.Roger CaldwellDamon Albarn, triumphant at last night's Verizon Theatre show. For a full slideshow from last night, click here.​Shame on anyone who expected a cartoon-ish displa ... More >>

Come On, Get Happy! We've Found 50 Local Bars That Will Help You Do Just That.

The Buzzcocks Talk Punk's Past and Future

Over The Weekend: Erykah Badu, The Cannabinoids and Shiny Toy Guns' Soundclash at Victory Plaza

The Cannabinoids feat. Erykah Badu and Shiny Toy GunsVictory PlazaOctober 16, 2009Better Than: a Texas-OU tennis match. Check out photos from the show here in our slideshow. Continuing the time-honored tradition of competition between Texas and Oklahoma, fans at Victory Plaza were treated once aga ... More >>

An Arresting Development as Police Drummer Finishes Concerto for D'Drum and the DSO

Stewart Copeland​Maybe you missed this when we posted it the first time around -- back in, um, June 2007, when the Police played the American Airlines Center. So, from March '79, here's the band performing (kind of) "The Yellow Rose of Texas" at the original Palladium. (Can't believe that link's s ... More >>

The Flatlanders' Legendary Careers Keep Growing

The Nervebreakers Prove Old Punks Never Die

They just re-form their legendary local acts to play around town every 15 years or so

Retirement Rock

Seniors jam in Young at Heart

Ted Leo/Pharmacists

Hearts of Oak (Lookout)

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Give a Little

Area benefits look to raise money for cats, kids and a music man, too

Bad Ideas, Inc.

The Bone rocks The Merge right off your FM dial

Dreamland

Jon Dee Graham almost gave up on music; good thing it didn't give up on him

Night & Day

April 1-7, 1999

Night & Day

January 21 - 27, 1999

Great men

Gang of Four made magic out of the mundane, turned funk to punk, and died for your sins

Mose's better blues

A trip to Long Island reveals an Allison wonderland

Honey's not dead

The Jesus and Mary Chain love rock and roll, again

Letters

Third time's a charm

If the rock Fitz, then Dylan Silvers will wear it

Out There

Freedom of choice

Ben Folds Five: a revolution in genre-bending

Reef's herbal remedy

Another sign of the end of the Brit-pop invasion?

Out There

Town and country

Whiskeytown and No Depression pour into town

Beercan boys

Pop punkers Pansy Division love sex, so they sing about it. A lot.

It was a very good year

1996 lived up to its predecessor while presaging great things to come

Welcome to Wally's world

True songs from the mayor of Pleasantville

Out There

Out There

Out Here

Big balls

For those about to rock, we salute AC/DC

Roadshows

The Dr. is out

Dre and Snoop Dogg, the boys who cried wolf, cancel yet another Dallas show

Out Here

Giddy-up!

Bronco Bowl owners gallop toward New Year's opening date

Roadshows

The offspring

Dallas' punk bands resurrect the spirit of the '70s

Trio of one

Shabazz 3 prepares to take Dallas' best hip-hop above ground

Mekons, you Rhett

A rock great lends his support to the Old 97's