The Dillinger Escape Plan

Top Show Announcements: Rihanna, Fitz & the Tantrums, Robert Plant and More

Pop stars try not to make a habit of canceling shows on their highly-anticipated tours, but it certainly happens. When it happens to me (the ticketholder), I blast it on social media, stow my ticket away in a trinket box and sulk for about a week. Then it's back to life as usual, until one magic mor ... More >>

The Worst Supergroups Of All Time

A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high ... More >>

Why Are there So Many Douchebags at Dallas Shows? A Simple Guide to Etiquette

It occurs to me that, at Dallas gigs, there are a greater than average number of people who I would politely refer to as rapscallions. That is, they seem determined to waste the time, energy, and patience of the average gig-going person like me or you with a series of tiresome antics. None of these ... More >>

True Widow Signs to Legendary Label Relapse Records

News spread pretty quickly on Tuesday afternoon when a press release went out with the following words: "True Widow Signs With Relapse Records." Relapse, the renowned label that's best know for releasing classic records by Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Baroness, might sound like an odd c ... More >>

Fang Island - Dada - 8/16/12

Fang Island, Adebisi Shank, Spacebeach Dada Thursday, August 16 It was West Nile aerial spraying night, so my wife warned me not to go out, but I was rewarded with one of the best shows of the year. As planes buzzed above, the band joked about the situation. "I guess we arrived just in time," said ... More >>

Into It. Over It's Evan Weiss Talks Being Fed Bullshit, Plus Five Warped Tour Recommendations

If you've seen No Room for Rock Stars, a recently-released documentary on the Warped Tour, it might be hard to imagine someone like Evan Weiss fitting in. Weiss, the mastermind behind Into It. Over It, isn't a tatted-up singer in a metalcore band who's missing his daughter back home. He isn't drivin ... More >>

Between the Buried and Me

Kaleidoscopic prog-metal goes conceptual

Looking Back at The Best and Worst Lineups Seen In Warped Tour's 17 Years Of Existence

​The Warped Tour has always had a lot of bands and a lot of different bands. Sure, you're not going to see these bands end up on any Pitchfork best-of, but the tour doesn't exactly play to people who decree most things in life as "meh," either.Even in its first few years, you could see a hardcore ... More >>

Last Night: Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Le Butcherettes at Verizon Theatre

Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Le ButcherettesVerizon TheatreJune 6, 2011Better than: watching a Triunfo del Amor marathon. Rachel ParkerDeftones: more in the slide show​As strong a set as the Deftones performed to a packed Verizon Theatre last night, it was difficult to overlook an un ... More >>

Manic Monday: Five Awesome Shows To Get Your Week Started Off Just Right.

Quite the extra busy start to the week we have here. Gotta be something for just about everyone music wise this particular evening...

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 >>

Staff Trax: The Philistines Jr., Typhoon, Kylesa, Amy Cook and Fences

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 24: DJ Redsean

​His popular weekly dance party known as Disqo Disco may be dead now, but Sean Humphrey, who also serves as the frontman of local electro act Sydney Confirm, still spins lively sets around town under his stage name of Redsean.In both his band and in his DJ sets, Humphrey draws a great deal of infl ... More >>

Staff Trax: Beat Connection, Spinnerette, The Mavericks, Coheed & Cambria, Killing Joke

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ou ... More >>

Staff Trax: Crystal Castles, Galaxie 500, BrakesBrakesBrakes, Christina Aguilera Covering John Lennon and The Bouncing Souls.

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Over the Weekend: The Vans Warped Tour at Superpages.com Center

Van's Warped TourSuperpages.com CenterJuly 3rd, 2010Better than: last year's Warped date. Alexander FloresWe already showed you the fans. Now check Alex's slideshow of Andrew WK and the rest of Warped's bands.​Thank you, Hurricane Alex. Were it not for your rain and wind, the thousands of folks at ... More >>

After Warped Tour, It's Off To The Double Wide.

Band List Finalized for the Dallas Stop of the Vans Warped Tour

​On July 3, the Vans Warped Tour makes its stop in Dallas. I attended last year and, besides having to spend $4 on a bottle of water and nearly passing out a couple of times, I had a great time. Last year, there was several old-school punk and hip-hop bands sandwiched between a lot of emo acts. Th ... More >>

OK Go Moves Past The Labels

Over The Weekend: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Darkest Hour, Iwrestledabearonce, Animals as Leaders at the Granada

The Dillinger Escape Plan, Darkest Hour, Iwrestledabearonce, Animals as LeadersGranada TheaterMarch 20th, 2010Better than: driving three hours north and wondering what kind of trainwreck might occur at the Stone Temple Pilots' show at WinStar Casino... Dillinger Escape Plan​The Dillinger Escape Pl ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs to Tomorrow Night's Dillinger Escape Plan at the Granada Theater

For 13 years now, Dillinger Escape Plan has been doing its pretty brutal math-core thing. But the band's only put out three albums over that time span--not exactly an impressive number, especially for a band that revels in a genre predicated by counting. Alas, the band will up that ante next week as ... More >>

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 >>

Show Announcements: Alicia Keys and Ray Davies Plan Local Stops, And Bon Jovi Adds Second Dallas Date

We had bikini pics of Ray Davies and Bon Jovi too, but trust us, you didn't want to see them. ​Alicia Keys will be performing with Shakira and Usher at the NBA All-Star Game on Valentine's Day, but that won't be her only North Texas stop this year. On Friday, April 2, the songstress will perform a ... More >>

Listen and Learn: Protest The Hero

Metal and Hardcore Lexicon

Dillinger Escape Plan, Dysrhythmia

Wednesday, July 19, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Dillinger Escape Plan, Hella

Sunday, November 27, at Trees

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Dillinger Escape Plan

Friday, October 22

Lamb of God

Ashes of the Wake (Epic)

It Took Some Time

Why Morrissey is newly hip among bands that sound nothing like him

God Bless America

To Lamb of God, the New American Gospel is "pure American metal"

Pyramid Songs

Nile is the sole practitioner of "Ithyphallic Metal." Grab a dictionary.

Big Riffs

Cave-In finds Rock and Roll on Jupiter and brings it back to Earth