This Will Destroy You

Matthew Hittle of Auxiliary Voice Talks Seeing Van Halen, Playing Extreme's "More Than Words"

Auxiliary Voice's Matthew Hittle has had an interesting ride, musically. Long before he formed the ambient post-rock band with Justin Young, he had to deal with living in a house where secular music was hard to find. Hittle recently sat down with us and talked about his first musical experiences and ... More >>

This Will Destroy You

Friday, December 21, at Granada Theater

Seven of the Best Concerts in DFW This Apocalyptic Weekend, December 21-23

This Will Destroy You, True Widow, The Angelus Friday, December 21, at Granada Theater, $19-$30 Texas' cinematic rock group This Will Destroy You will headline a show at Granada this apocalyptic weekend with local stonegaze band True Widow and dark folk ensemble The Angelus. The San Marcos foursome ... More >>

Five of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Buke and Gase, Deftones, This Will Destroy You and More

Buke and Gase Saturday, October 6, at City Tavern, $7/$10 An NPR favorite, Brooklyn duo Buke and Gase will be folkin' it up with Fox and the Bird and Roberto Moreno this weekend. All I'm going to say is that there will be handmade ukulele instruments involved. 'Nough said.

Justin Young: "We Played This Place Called Club Nowhere in Fort Worth, That Was Opened By the Bouncer From the Apollo"

At some point in the near future, Justin Young might end up playing in every active band in Dallas. He recently filled with Menkena while also finding time to play with J. Charles and the Trainrobbers, Auxiliary Voice, Arm Tha Homeless and the beloved Hall & Oates cover band, The Rich Girls. Just a ... More >>

Shelby Lynne at the Kessler and the Best of Your Weekend

Shelby Lynne​It's kind of hard to look the other way when you see that Shelby Lynne's coming to Dallas, and the Kessler Theater of all venues. Should be a great, intimate place to catch a handful of the country star's hits.That's just the start.We already mentioned Daniel Hart at El Sibil on Satur ... More >>

Foster The People, Eisley and This Week's Show Announcements

Foster The People​If you're thinking, "If I hear 'Pumped Up Kicks' one more time, I'm gonna pull a gun on someone and make them outrun my bullets," then you should definitely not read on. The band responsible for the song, Foster The People, has strategically planned to start selling tickets to it ... More >>

[DARYL] Reunion at Sons of Hermann Hall, and This Weekend's Best Shows

Daryl at Sons of Hermann Hall​There are lots of big shows this weekend, and the one about which much ado has been made is the [DARYL] reunion at Sons of Hermann Hall tonight. Since the band broke up several years ago, members have continued playing around town in various other capacities. Tonight, ... More >>

DOMAXXIII: Announcing Your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Winners...

Stephen MaskerErykah Badu headlined last night's DOMAXXIII. More photos in our slideshow: Scenes from the 2011 Music Awards ​Another year, another Dallas Observer Music Awards season down the drain. Gotta say, though, this year's season felt especially epic. Many thanks to the Toadies, the Old 97' ... More >>

Astronautalis Finds Different Chart Success

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Group Act, Best Blues Act, Best Hard Rock Act

​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 Group, Best Blues and Be ... More >>

My Morning Jacket and Guns N' Roses Top a Good, Solid List of Show Announcements

My Morning Jacket​On the heels of an incredible performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival last weekend, My Morning Jacket have announced that they'll be taking their show on the road. And, thankfully, since they skipped North Texas on the first leg of their Circuital album tour, they'll be ... More >>

New Kids on the Block Had a Lot of Hits -- But They Didn't Leave A Mark on Ume's Eric Larson

This is Ume. That's Eric in the back.​Ume might be an Austin-based trio, but they play Dallas enough that it would be easy to think they're based here. They last came through in late July, opening for Mission of Burma. They'll be back on Thursday, September 29, at Trees in support of their recent ... More >>

Listen to This Will Destroy You as You Stare Into Brad Pitt's Eyes Watch The Moneyball Trailer

This Will Destroy You​Last time we spoke with This Will Destroy You -- back in May, as the band was preparing the release of its newest full-length, Tunnel Blanket -- the cinematic post-rock band admitted to us its very clear aspirations. After having helped score the film Where Soldiers Come From ... More >>

Tony Edwards Wants To Help Build Your Band's Brand With His Growing Street-Team Company

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Tony Edwards​Tony Edwards was almost certainly a hummingbird in a past life. He darts, moves, and ... More >>

John Congleton Puts The Paper Chase To Bed

The Homegrown Fest Bore Some Nice Fruits

Notes on The Second Homegrown Festival. Plus: Video of Neon Indian Debuting A New Song.

Danny HurleySeryn's Trenton Wheeler. For more of Danny Hurley's shots from the event, check the slideshow.​In this week's print edition of the Observer, we'll have more -- much, much more -- on this past weekend's Homegrown Music and Art Festival in downtown Dallas' Main Street Garden Park. But, f ... More >>

The Second Homegrown Festival Pulls A Nice Crop

HomeGrown Festival Announces Set Times, Free Shuttle Service to Saturday's Event

HomeGrown's getting all futuristic on our asses.​Some cool news coming out of the HomeGrown Music and Art Festival's pipeline today -- and not just the performance schedule, which, you'll see after the jump, finds the day starting off a little bit country and ending off a lot electronic.The second ... More >>

At This Will Destroy You's First Show, A Fan Offered To Sing For The Band "For Free"

​These days, This Will Destroy You have their hands full. With good reason, of course: Today marks the arrival of their newest LP, Tunnel Blanket, an album that finds the band growing even darker and denser and, somehow, even bigger than their epic offerings have showcased to date. Meanwhile, the ... More >>

Three Shows Worth A Damn in Dallas Tonight

Tonight's top touring shows put a serious emphasis on all things heavy.

This Will Destroy You Goes Darker

Neon Indian To Debut New Material at the May 14 Homegrown Festival in Downtown Dallas

Discovering new music is fun, ain't it?​ Given the news we shared with you back on 4/20 (nyuck, nyuck), perhaps this shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Nonetheless, thanks to a post on Neon Indian's Facebook page, we can now confirm it: The band will be debuting new material from their upcoming ... More >>

HomeGrown Music and Art Festival Replaces Riverboat Gamblers With Seryn and Larry Gee

​Some news to pass along this morning on the fast-approaching HomeGrown Music and Art Festival front: After including The Riverboat Gamblers in its initial lineup announcement back in March, the band is now officially off the bill, having backed out due to a scheduling conflict. No matter: Local m ... More >>

Good Friday: Record Store Day, Lil' Wayne, and The Rest of A Busy Weekend of Shows...

Record Store Day!​Tomorrow marks one of our favorite days of the year: Record Store Day. If you're still undecided on how to spend your day, check out our Record Store Day breakdown for more information. We'll make the rounds, but, more than likely, we'll park it at Good Records, which seems to ha ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To The Homegrown Festival on Saturday, May 14

Perhaps you recall the folks behind the Homegrown Festival's attempts at viral video promotion for their inaugural deal last year? Well, no surprise, they're at it again this year, as you can see in the clip above, which stars festival co-hosts Grant Jones of the festival-performing Grant Jones &am ... More >>

The Funniest April Fools' Day Pranks In The Local Music Scene

This Will Destroy You calls it quits?​Everybody loves a good prank on April Fools' Day. Everybody, that is, except the person on the receiving end of said prank. Which is to say the people like us here at DC9 HQ, who spend our days looking for pertinent local music news and information to pass alo ... More >>

Show Announcements: Here We Go Magic, The Books, This Will Destroy You, The Death Set, I Love Math, Widespread Panic, Selena Gomez, Devin The Dude, Cinderella, Dolly Parton & More!

Here We Go Magic​Last time Here We Go Magic came to town, it was as the odd-fitting support on a tour with Dr. Dog. And on the night of their performance, Here We Go Magic stole the show from the Beatle-esque roots rockers, despite Dr. Dog's overpowering light show. Sure, Here We Go Magic's record ... More >>

Neon Indian, School of Seven Bells, Riverboat Gamblers and Slobberbone To Headline 2011 Homegrown Music and Arts Festival on May 14

Neff ConnerA scene from last year's inaugural Homegrown Music and Art Festival.​After a successful launch in May of 2010, the open-air, downtown Dallas-hosted Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will return again in 2011, this time taking place on May 14, and once again at Main Street Garden. And th ... More >>

Neon Indian Guitarist Ronnie Gierhart Leaves Band, Starts New Ronnie Heart Project

Ronnie Heart​Neon Indian, for all intents and purposes, has always been an Alan Palomo-helmed project -- at least in the studio. In live settings, however, Palomo's always relied on some help. Turns out, though, that he's lost a big part of his backing team this week. Neon Indian's flashy guitar p ... More >>

Good Friday: Moondoggies, Ume, The O's, Sarah Jaffe, The Cool Kids, New Science Projects, Chris Johnson, The Virgin Wolves, Menkena, Bob Schneider, 30 Seconds To Mars & More!

Moondoggies​Despite having a terrible name, Moondoggies' brand of Americana and alt-country is surprisingly good -- so good that, last month, the Seattle quartet's song "What Took So Long" was featured as NPR's song of the day. While drawing some comparisons to Fleet Foxes, their four-part har ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To See This Will Destroy You, Ume and The Boom Boom Box Tonight at the Granada Theater

In this week's paper, Doug Davis gets pretty gaga over Austin's Ume, whose spastic, churning blend of punk and thrash has been earning the band all sorts of accolades of late, thanks in no small part to the contributions of magnetic frontwoman and bona fide guitar heroine Lauren Langner Larson, who ... More >>

The Biggest Local Music Stories of 2010

Show Announcements: This Will Destroy You, Boom Boom Box, Trace Adkins, Megafauna, Fizzy Dino Pop, Hoyotoho, Anders Osborne, Joe Satriani, Sundress, Colour Revolt, More!

Mike SimpsonThis Will Destroy You​This Will Destroy You has always been kind of a polarizing band, whether for its ear-piercing doomgaze or the offensive onstage antics that were on full display at last year's NX35 Music Conferette. But its jaw dropping dark take on post-rock has garnered some rec ... More >>

This Will Destroy You to Tour With Deftones

​Early in the morning on the Fourth of July, Alex Bhore, drummer for Dallas' This Will Destroy You, tweeted, "I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE GOING ON TOUR WITH DEFTONES." Kind of surprising, considering the last time they played in Denton, it seemed like the band was in the middle of a melt-down (thin ... More >>

Picture Show: Homegrown Music & Arts Fest, Up Close and Personal

Kevin TodoraCareful, This Will Destroy You​Over on Unfair Park, Wilonsky--who is a better man that I, clearly--spent his Sunday morning recapping his thoughts on Saturday's Homegrown Music and Arts Festival at Main Street Garden Park. No need to fully re-hash the thing in this space, then? Probabl ... More >>

Giveaway: Two More Pairs of Tickets To This Weekend's Homegrown Festival

We've talked plenty about the Homegrown Music and Art Festival in recent weeks, touching base on the fine-looking lineup (featuring Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Telegraph Canyon, This Will Destroy You, Ishi and 10 others) and the fact that, if you buy your tickets at their advance price ... More >>

Good Friday: Homegrown Festival, Annuals, Will Johnson, Wynonna, Vanilla Ice, Sundress, The Glitch Mob and others...

​This weekend's concert calender is pretty heavy on local acts--thanks, especially, to the inaugural Homegrown Music and Arts Festival on Saturday at the Main Street Gardens Park in Downtown Dallas. Homegrown's stacked bill is almost certainly the highlight of the weekend, thanks to scheduled perf ... More >>

By the End of the Month, Main Street Garden Should Look a Little More, Ya Know, Alive

For no good reason, I was wondering earlier this afternoon whatever became of DowntownDallas's plan to fill up Main Street Garden's fountain, which, we discovered at the end of March, wouldn't be operational more than a two hours a day due to the fact Park and Rec's all tapped out. So I called Kourt ... More >>

Announcing The Initial Lineup For The Inaugural Homegrown Music and Arts Festival

A different kind of homegrown.​Had your fill of local festivals lately? Well, too bad, because here's another one for you--and it's quite a doozy. On Saturday, May 22, at the Main Street Gardens in downtown Dallas, the City Tavern and DowntownDallas will present the Homegrown Music and Arts Festiv ... More >>

National Record Store Day Celebrations

Saturday, April 17, at Good Records and Bill's Records

Good Records Announces Its Record Store Day Lineup, Bill's Records Adds Jason Castro To Its Same-Day Bill

​April 17 marks the annual celebration of Record Store Day, your chance to give thanks to your local brick-and-mortar, or, as has been the case for the past few years in Dallas, your chance to catch some pretty solid live bands on the store's dime. And while many area stores are participating in t ... More >>

Gig Alert: Dustin Cavazos With Donovan Jones Live At Mokah Tonight

​As Pete let you know back in September, Dallas indie skate-hop MC Dustin Cavazos made his very promising The Shelly EP a free download. So maybe you can return the favor by checking him out live at Mokah Coffee Bar in Deep Ellum tonight, whaddya say? The Scuba Team Go member's solo efforts are de ... More >>

Yesterday at NX35: This Will Destroy You at Hailey's

Spike JohnsonThis Will Destroy You and a bottle of Jameson.​Band: This Will Destroy YouVenue: Hailey'sTime: 11:30 p.m.On Thursday night at NX35, This Will Destroy You tried its best to live up to its name. As the crowd at Hailey's slowly grew with semi-drunk, bearded fans, so did the anticipation ... More >>

Four Locals Look To Shine Bright at SXSW

This Will Destroy you Sets Out To Make A Name For Itself In One Way Or Another

Over the Weekend: The Octopus Project, This Will Destroy You and Ume at the Granada Theater

The Octopus Project,This Will Destroy You, UmeGranada TheaterMay 23, 2009Better Than: Watching three exuberant non-Texas bands trying to have some fun on a Saturday nightThe Octopus ProjectThree Texas bands delivered well-crafted, wildly diverse music to an appreciative audience at the Granada on Sa ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tomorrow Night's Octopus Project, This Will Destroy You and Ume Show At The Granada

In this week's print edition of DC9, Observer contributor Doug Davis checks in to hype up tomorrow night's The Octopus Project, This Will Destroy You and Ume bill at the Granada Theater tomorrow night, saying that the show "showcases a trio of excellent Texas bands that bring shoe-gazing--leavened ... More >>

Octopus Project, This Will Destroy You, Ume

Saturday, May 23, at the Granada Theater