The Velvet Underground

Is Adele's 21 the 21st Century Commercial Equivalent to Thriller?

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Fleetwood Mac will be playing in Dallas at the American Airlines Center June 4, and their reis ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: On Lou Reed's 70th, The VU's Other 1969 Dallas Show

​The official version of the Velvet Underground's visit to The End of Cole in the fall of 1969 makes up one of the greatest live albums of all time: 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, though truth is much of it comes from a month-later set at The Matrix in San Francisco. That's the record from whi ... More >>

The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun, True Widow

Saturday, May 21, at The Loft

For Your Easter Sunday Listening Pleasure: R.E.M. Sends One Out to the Grads of SMU

Via.​Speaking of great shows at Moody Coliseum ...Floating out in the ether, all by its unmarked lonesome, is this resonant echo: R.E.M. at Moody Coliseum on November 18, 1987 -- a stop along The Work Tour in support of that year's Document, the band's fifth and final album for I.R.S. Records. I w ... More >>

My First Show: Trashcan Sinatras Recall Seeing The Smiths and The Clash For The First Time and Share Memories Of Their Own Debut, Too.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Trashcan Sinatras​If you were involved with a college radio station in the 1990s, or casually listened to "The Adventure Club" on K ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Hellogoodbye at the House of Blue's Cambridge Room , That 1 Guy at Dan's Silverleaf, Young Prisms at City Tavern and Playlister P at the Double Wide

Tuesday's not quite as busy as last night, but there are still a few interesting events to take in this evening.

For Your Listening Pleasure: The Gourds (and Pogues, Snoop Dogg and VU) at Barleypalooza

​Amazing the things you find when you're not looking for them. Take this morning's accidental stumbled-across, for instance: The Gourds recorded in the old Barley House parking lot on June 1, 1997, during the third then-annual Barleypalooza musical marathon on N. Henderson. (Here's some video, for ... More >>

Today In Music News: Tucker Gives Her Reasons, U2 Enlist Danger Mouse And Kanye Get Diamond Encrusted Teethery

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 22, 2010...Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker gives us the straight dope on her Tea Party support. U2 are venturing into somewhat new musical waters. The band has enlisted Danger Mouse to make a "club" record. Is this their new Pop a ... More >>

Today In Music News: Steve Albini Needs Your Help, Moe Tucker Will Tea Bag You And Kanye Sets Release Date

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, October 5, 2010... Do you want to do your part and help a legendary sound engineer/producer pay his bills? Now you can!Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker supports the Tea Party?After his triumphant performance over the weekend on SNL, Kanye let us k ... More >>

Staff Trax: Matt & Kim, Dutch, Jimmy Eat World, Uncle Tupelo, The Verve, John Cale,

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 >>

Shiny Around The Edges

Denton's Dreaming (Sounds Are Active)

Poster of the Week: Eyes Wings And Many Other Things, Diamond Age and H...N At The Nightmare Tonight

​Haven't heard back yet from Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things about who created this beautiful showbill yet, but I'm guessing it's from someone in the band, as many of their posters have a similar aesthetic. The hazy, shimmery colors in the background and the retro font give it a nice psychedelic ... More >>

Gig Alert and Bonus MP3: Hear Yellow Fever's "Bermuda Triangle" and Catch Them Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf

​One reviewer once described the sound of Austin's Yellow Fever as "haunted house surf music" and although that's a bit cryptic, it's not far off the mark. Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones have been doing their oddball mix of girl group harmonies and Velvet Underground-inspired noise for several yea ... More >>

Yo La Tengo,Times New Viking

Saturday, January 30, at Granada Theater

Top 10 Uses Of Food On Album Covers

As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

The War On Drugs

Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian)

Low

Thursday, October 4, at the Palladium

Sarah Reddington, New Science Projects, Daniel Folmer and Chris Garver

Wednesday, August 15, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio, Denton

Lou Reed

Hudson River Wind Meditations (Gemini Sun)

Oops!

Sometimes we screw up. So sue us.

The Black Angels

Tuesday, February 13, at Granada Theater

Put Your Head on Will Johnson's Shoulder

Coachwhips

Double Death (Narnack)

Alejandro Escovedo, Milton Mapes

Saturday, August 19, at the Granada Theater

The New Year, Shellac

Thursday, June 8, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Imp Of The Perverse

The Occasion

Cannery Hours (Say Hey Records)

Oasis

Don't Believe the Truth (Sony)

Black Lipstick

Sincerely (Peek-A-Boo Records)

Cowboy Junkies

Sunday, August 8

Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico

Le Bataclan '72 (Alchemy Entertainment)

Yo La Tengo

September 20

GoGoGo Airheart; The Warlocks

July 3; June 29 and June 30

Appleseed Cast; Elf Power

June 6; June 10

The Velvet Underground

Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (Polydor)

Yo La Tengo

More than an indie-rock version of the Eurythmics

Vent house

Luna's Dean Wareham is cooler than you are -- just ask him

Bardo Pond

Talking Heads

Stop Making Sense Special New Edition (Warner Bros.)

Out Here

Out Here

Roadshows

Angel's wings

Cowboy Junkies drone and moan toward brilliance

Lou says

The soul of Velvet Underground stares into the Twilight

Roadshows

Deep six: The ungrateful dead

Roadshows

Heart-shaped box

Velvet Underground set charts the still-unknowable

Roadshows

Channel surfing

The 1994 Dallas Video Festival mixes equal parts ineptitude and brilliance