The Sex Pistols

The Ten Greatest Texas Punk Bands

With D.R.I. coming to Trees last night, we at DC9 thought it might be opportune to look at some of the legendary punk bands that have claimed Texas as their home. These days, D.R.I. is better known as a metal act, but when they began life way back in 1982, Kurt Brecht and crew were a classic hardcor ... More >>

Ten Fall Concerts You'd Be Crazy To Miss

Ten of the Best Fall Concerts

See also: Six of the summer's best concerts With this recent open-window weather comes the pitter-patter of the fall concert season, tugging at our sleeve and asking us to pleeeaaase hold it. There's plenty to teethe on in Dallas over the next three or four months, including bigger festivals like ... 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 >>

Chuck Ragan on The Revival Tour: "This Is the Original Way Families and Communities Used to Share Music Together"

Chuck Ragan returns to Dallas tonight with the fifth annual Revival Tour, and the co-frontman of Hot Water Music will share the stage with Dan Andriano from Alkaline Trio and Tom Gabel from Against Me!, as well as Mississippi songwriter Cory Branan. In the midst of remodeling the bathroom in his Nor ... More >>

Megadeth's Dave Ellefson Talks About Christianity and Lady Gaga

After leaving Megadeth in 2002 and bringing a lawsuit against Dave Mustaine in 2004, very few people thought original bassist Dave Ellefson would ever appear with the band again. Yet, behind the scenes, over a period of six years, Mustaine and Ellefson were both rediscovering Christianity and havin ... More >>

3 Doors Down's Chris Henderson Saw 3 Doors Down Before He Was Even In The Band

3 Doors Down​Love 'em or hate 'em, 3 Doors Down have been around since the mid-'90s, with five albums in their canon. They're currently touring on last year's mega-selling Time of My Life, but you can still hear songs on the radio from their debut album. Led by vocalist (and the band's original dr ... 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 >>

Good Friday: True Widow Album Release, Descender, Destroyer, DEVO, Arlo Guthrie, Salt-N-Pepa, Murs, Nervebreakers, REO Speedwagon, Dashboard Confessional & More!

True Widow​This weekend is a pretty big one -- if anything because of the True Widow show at Double Wide on Saturday night. That's right, they'll be celebrating the release of their sophomore album As High As The Highest Heavens and From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth. Get there earl ... More >>

Bad Brains' Punk Legacy Remains Untarnished

The Buzzcocks Talk Punk's Past and Future

Q&A: Drive A's Bruno Mascolo Talks Green Day, Emo and Los Angeles' Punk Rock Legacy

Drive A​Drive A is a relatively new rock quartet with solid punk leanings. Led by appropriately snotty lead vocalist/guitarist Bruno Mascolo, Drive A hails from Los Angeles and is happy to harken back to the classic hardcore punk days of Orange County when bands like Black Flag and the Adolescents ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Karen Finley and the Delicate Art of Disgust

In the summer of 1986, the Theatre Gallery was all about confronting the established aesthetic sensibilities of the comfortable arts patron. Basically, we loved to shock the shit out of people. Our venue existed to raise the bar on outrageousness and freedom of expression. Example: One of our ... More >>

North of the Dial

Ageless Spirit

No Age's sound isn't quite punk—but that's still the simplest way to describe the band's attitude

Will Rock Band and Guitar Hero Save Us?

Are rocker videogames the new MTV—and will they help us save the music universe?

Steve Reich

Phases

Gimarc Has Another Alternative

Looking at America

Flogging Molly's Dave King left Ireland for a career in rock, but he couldn't escape his roots

Great Men

Gang of Four return, and all pretenders should watch their arses

The Young Dudes

The Strange Boys are inexperienced and raw. Thank God.

Letters

Sounds of Liberty for All

Seventies punk band T.S.O.L. refuses to fade away

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Creep Thrills

The attraction of Thrillvania is horrifying

The Negro Problem

More flamboyant than Liberace, Turbonegro has come to reclaim the States

Ad-libbing on Tokyo Time

Sofia Coppola and her cast get Lost in Translation

Freaks and Geeks

Is electroclash already over or just getting started?

Triumph of the Wilco

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart pushes pop propaganda

Straight Outta Left Field

The Dallas Morning News says N.W.A. was "militant." The real answer? N.O.

Record Players

Forget the Gloria Record's past. Just Start Here.

Pop is Dead

Hip-huh? Antipop Consortium doesn't expect you to get it at first.

Tiger Trap

With so many other things to ask Le Tigre about, who's got time for music?

Bad Ideas, Inc.

The Bone rocks The Merge right off your FM dial

Out & About

Joan Jett

Night moves

The Mekons join forces from both sides of the pond to bring forth a new album

Handsome Dan

Dan "The Automator" Nakamura loves hip-hop -- but he loves music more

Cheers for Spears

A "rock star" writes an open letter to Britney Spears

I, somebody

Three decades later, the Residents are still anonymous -- and still butchering sacred cows

Art-pop explosion!

Go Metric USA makes pop music for smart people

Reef's herbal remedy

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

Out There

Shooting craps

U2 takes over the world--and turns it into a commercial

Don't call it a comeback

The Descendents renew their quest for ALL

Proud papa

A first album is born, among other things

Let's get rocked

Def Leppard tries to change its musical spots

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

Or: Rock and roll isn't dead, it just doesn't smell bad

Off the record

After seven wacky years, 14 Records prepares to close its doors

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor

UFOFU and your mother

From New York to Dallas comes a classically trained punk-pop band