Tom Waits

Sonic Will Have Corn Dogs For 50 Cents on Halloween

I do it. You do it. We all utter a short string of colorful words when we miss Happy Hour at Sonic. And it's always at 4:08 in the afternoon when all you've had to drink that day is bottle of room-temperature water and maybe some questionable orange juice. It's not supposed to taste carbonated, just ... More >>

Waits Variations: Six Ways of Looking at Tom Waits, Character Actor

The Complete, More or Less, Collection of Covers Performed By St. Vincent

​I hear Pete's gone; wonder if I can be music editor aga ... excuse me, I've just been told: No, no way. Ah. Anyway. Doesn't mean I can't post this playlist that's been sitting on my desktop for way too long: a complete-ish collection of covers performed by St. Vincent, for whom DC9 at Night was q ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Be It In 1976 or 2008, Tom Waits For No Man

​I've taken one spin through Tom Waits's forthcoming Bad as Me, which is every bit as good as they say -- Rain Dogs redux times 10, turned up to 11. Hear for yourself: Anti- Records is streaming the lit-with-a-torch "Back in the Crowd" and the titular trash-can growl. Record's out October 24, whic ... More >>

Oddfellows Chef Brady Williams on Running a Smooth Kitchen and His Bon Iver-Inspired Dish

Kelsey FosterBrady Williams, with visions of a Tom Waits Gumbo dancing in his head.​In part one of our three parter, Oddfellows Chef Brady Williams told us about his icy road to cooking, while part two covered his take on the Dallas food scene. Today we learn a little about how he runs things ... More >>

By Request: Warm Beer, Cold Women and Tom Waits at UT-Arlington In October 1975

Via.​A wishes-to-remain-anonymous Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my profound fondness for early Tom Waits sends warm wishes to one and all and this astounding holiday offering: Waits at Texas Hall on the University of Texas at Arlington campus on October 25, 1975. Which is why a bulk of the se ... More >>

Ladies and Gentlemen, Stephen Sondheim

Photos courtesy the Dallas Indepedent School District​The boy and I were listening to Tom Waits's rendition of "Somewhere" the other day -- over and over and over again, my bad. Still. A personal favorite, has been for years. There's a reason Stephen Colbert gushed over the Broadway great earlier ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Ishi's Taylor Rea Explains Her Inner Appreciation For The Blues

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show. Everyone's favorite wannabe Bangle.​Very few bands can claim to have ever walloped Dallas ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Rapper galleryCat Talks About Loving The Cure, Taylor Swift and Folk

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.​Dallas rapper galleryCat is known for his multi-instrumental live affairs, which often end up ... More >>

His Vision Is Pure

Check Out This Jam: The Apollo Commanders, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, The Preservation Hall Benefit Album, Bottomless Pit, The Organ, Neil Young and The Band of Heathens

Welcome to Check Out This Jam!!!, 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. Also, it's a chance for you readders to get more insight into ... More >>

Mark Growden

Thursday and Friday, January 28 and 29, at Lola's Stockyards, Fort Worth

Gig Alert: The Slab Tonight At The Lounge On Elm Street

​Been interested in Fizzy Dino Pop hip-hop collaborators Sore Losers but haven't caught their live act yet? Tonight's your chance to catch them in Dallas at The Lounge On Elm Street, along with the DC-9-approved Ty City. Also on the bill are Drama Tha King, Madam Ice, Jesse Flamez, John E. Specs a ... More >>

Norah Jones

The Fall (Blue Note)

Playback: The Week (6/20/08 - 6/27/08) In Review

Last Night: Tom Waits at the Palladium Ballroom

Los Lobos To Pass Over Dallas, Play Houston's Texas Music Festival

Tom Waits

Monday, June 23, at the Palladium Ballroom

Scarlett Johansson

Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)

Tom Waits Announces Upcoming Tour, Plays Dallas on June 23

Topless Women and Album Covers

O'Death, Rock Plaza Central, Peter and the Wolf

Thursday, September 27, at the Cavern

The Rounders

Thursday, July 12, at the Double Wide

Gurf Morlix

Saturday, April 14, at the AllGood Café

Tom Waits

Orphans ( ANTI-)

The Country Rapunzel

Man Man

Wednesday, October 11, at Hailey's, Denton

Rebel Yell

Get a dose of rebellion at the Magnolia

Waits Right Here

It's Big Time at the Inwood

Country Teasers, Gorch Fock, Silk Stocking, White Drugs

Thursday, June 1, at the Cavern

Atmosphere

Wednesday, October 26, at Gypsy Tea Room

North Texas New Music Festival

Friday, September 30, throughout Deep Ellum

John Guliak

7 Stories and 13 Songs (Mint)

Tom Waits

Real Gone (Epitaph)

Various Artists

Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk Records)

A Good Buzz

Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes

Holiday Jeer

For a joyous holiday, Christmas sure has some bloody awful music

Ed Harcourt

From Every Sphere (Astralwerks)

The Locust, Erase Errata, Moving Units; the Aislers Set, the Quails

March 14; March 17

Forbidden's Fruits

There's nothing (and everything) Forbidden about free movies and free drinks

Tom Waits

Alice / Blood Money (Anti-)

Blues Valentine

Tom Waits for no one--except guitarist-singer John Hammond

Out There

Tom Waits and John Denver get the tribute treatment

Vent house

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

The weak in rock

The variations of Tom Waits

Or: What do Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and a one-armed pianist have in common?

Out There

Tom Waits for no one

Or: Looking for the heart of South by Southwest

Out There

Out There