The Decemberists

Laura Gibson Talks Finding Good Tex-Mex, Valentine's Day and Her Good Buddy Colin Meloy

Although Laura Gibson's engaging and challenging music owes as much to jazz as it does to any notion of folk. La Grande, her recently released sophomore effort, is a collection that laces those sounds with a bit of atmospheric rock. Just waking up before the long drive from Marfa to Austin, and in ... More >>

Pay to Play, or: So You Think You Can Do a Better Job of Programming KXT (For an Hour)?

​I was in the KERA studios earlier this week, the guest of station contributor and Friend of Unfair Park Rawlins Gilliland as he bravely plowed through a 10-hour marathon pledge drive on behalf of the station. We did our segments in the KXT studios, where, for the first time, I met afternoon-show ... More >>

Dance the Tears Away

News and Notes: Seryn Gets More Paste Love, Will Johnson Gets NPR'd and Much, Much More

Stand up and take a bow, Seryn.​Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year's best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton's Own Seryn's album, This Is Where We Are. The baroque ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Decemberists at the House of Blues

The Decemberists, Other LivesHouse of BluesApril 29, 2011 Better than: sitting in your bedroom, reading Melville, and wondering what it might be like to love someone as much as you love the sea. Mattie StaffordDecemberist frontman Colin Meloy ​Friday night's "sold out" show at the House of Blues ... More >>

The Decemberists Enjoy Stardom On Their Own Terms.

Other Lives Believes in Albums, Not Bands.

Other Lives​It'd be easy to pigeonhole Oklahoma music as solely focused on red dirt country (see: Cross Canadian Ragweed) or dust-bowl folk (see: Woody Guthrie) were it not for the contributions made by the likes of the Flaming Lips, Evangelicals, Starlight Mints and Stardeath & White Dwarfs i ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Busiest Wednesday Ever?

Holy crap! We have a shitload of killer shows in our area tonight!

Tonight, Tonight: Crosby and Nash at Verizon, Danielson at The Loft, Volbeat at House of Blues, Marina & The Diamonds at the Granada and Tartufi at Hailey's

What a great hump-day musical lineup we have this evening. Definitely something for everyone in this list of goodies...

Tonight, Tonight: Astronautalis at Club Dada, The Extraodinaires at Rubber Gloves, Diafanes at La Grange and The Royal Heist at Lola's

As is typical for this time of the year, SXSW backwash results in a nice slew of bands hitting our area tonight...

Show Announcements: Fleet Foxes, Decemberists, Beth Orton, Rusko, Ray Price, Adele, Maps & Atlases, Delorean, Dashboard Confessional, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Dokken, Wilco, Ricky Martin, Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan and More!

Fleet Foxes​Two years ago, Fleet Foxes blindsided indie-rock fans with a self-titled debut record full of four-part harmonies and folk songs that were both melancholy and triumphant. The self-made record, which was done on a shoe-string budget, went on to sell over 300,000 records worldwide.  ... 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 >>

The Happy Bullets

Hydropanic at the Natatorium (Self-released)

Robyn Hitchcock

Saturday, April 4, at the Granada Theater

Today In Music News: Smashing Pumpkins Loses Drummer, Tool To Headline Lollapalooza, M.I.A. Is Two Years Older and Trick Daddy Has Lupus

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 24, 2009...Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has left the Smashing Pumpkins for unspecified reasons. Mr. Corgan I'm looking in your direction.Maynard James Keenan is taking some time off from wine-making to join Tool in headlining Lollapalooza along ... More >>

SXSW In Pictures, One Day at a Time

Patrick MichelsWhile most of the DC-9 crew enjoyed SXSW's offerings at a safe distance from the stage, note-taking and reflecting on the music, some of us did battle up by the stage to get concert shots, throwing elbows and telephoto lenses.We've got a handful of band photo slideshows, along with so ... More >>

Dallas Doings At SXSW: Brandon Curtis Produces BLK JKS, Shara Worden Joins Decemberists

We already mentioned that Dallas native and Secret Machine Brandon Curtis produced the new record from BLK JKS, an act that hopes to bring South African rock 'n' roll to the international forefront. (We'll have a review of that band's performance at Mohawk's Patio last night up shortly...) But ... More >>

What It Was Like: The Decemberists, The Avett Brothers, Heartless Bastards

Patrick MichelsThe DecemberistsThis was the big, obvious event of the night -- a packed yard at Stubb's, plenty of production from the NPR-backed show, and no huge surprises. Just a few great live acts we all know, proving they deserve it.Band: The Decemberists, Wednesday night at Stubb'sWhere: Stub ... More >>

What It Was Like: Pete Tong, Late of the Pier, Peter Bjorn & John, Angus & Julia Stone, School of Seven Bells, Zee Avi

Pete Freedman School of Seven Bells' Benjamin Curtis at Buffalo Billiards.The first night of SXSW saw four pretty major draws around town--Echo and the Bunnymen at Emo's; The Decembrists at Stubbs; St. Vincent, Department of Eagles and M. Ward at the Central Presbyterian Church; Peter Bjorn & ... More >>

Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships, The High Strung

Wednesday, October 15, at The Loft

The Decemberists' Colin Meloy Tries His Hand at American Soul

R.I.P. No Depression

Darcy, Uba and Fracas

Thursday, January 3, at Hailey's

Norah Jones Kicks Off New ACL Season

Czech Mix

You want eclectic? We got your eclectic.

Urizen, Sonata Artica

Wednesday, September 12, at the Ridglea Theater, Fort Worth

The Rapture, Shiny Toy Guns

Thursday, May 17, at the Granada Theater

Frog Eyes

Thursday, May 10, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Independence Day

What's indie rock? Who cares? Here are 10 great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition.

Mt. Eerie, Thanksgiving

Thursday, December 7, at Rubber Gloves, in Denton and Metrognome Collective, in Fort Worth

The Decemberists

Wednesday, October 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Guitars in a Van--That's Quite the Gamble

Evangelicals

So Gone (Misra)

Flying Squirrels

Jay Ryan rocks the pencil

Flying Squirrels

Jay Ryan rocks the pencil

Various artists

To: Elliott, From: Portland (Expunged)

A Pack of Mutts

Need a little alt in your country? These ten don't.

Rain or Shine

We drove to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in ponchos, but we left wearing surgeon's masks

The Decemberists, Sons and Daughters

Thursday, September 22, at Ridglea Theater

Flotation Toy Warning

Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (Misra)

Robert Deeble

Sunday, June 19, at Gypsy Tea Room

The Decemberists

Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)

The Arcade Fire

Funeral (Merge)

The Chemistry Set

The Chemistry Set (Rising Music)

Odds & Ends

Pleasant Grove needs a drummer, the Oasis of Hope needs your support,and Tom Heinl needs a cigarette

The Misfits

The fantastic, the majestic...the Decemberists

It's a Whole New Funky Government

Breaking the candidates down, musically

Come Together

Local bands unite!

From Me to You

A mix CD for 2003

The Decemberists

Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)