Tripping Daisy

KXT's Joe Kozera: "Natalie Merchant Chased Me With A Strawberry"

Joe Kozera is the quiet, modest voice you often hear on KXT 91.7 FM. OK, so everyone on air sounds laid back there, but Kozera takes it a step further. He seems to sound at peace on the air at KXT. As the station takes more time to remain non-profit and commercial free, we caught up with Kozera du ... More >>

Good Records' Chris Penn: "You Can't Roll a Joint On a Digital Download"

Christopher Todd Penn was a just a kid when he was held at knife-point in the bathroom of an Iron Maiden concert. He shouted "NO" and ran for his life, instead of giving up the goods. Later, after relocating to the area, he became more of a Tripping Daisy fan. Then he did merch for them. Now he's ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #59-40

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #100-80

"Between the Hank Williams pain songs And Jerry Jeff's train songs And blue eyes cryin' in the rain Out in Luckenbach, Texas Ain't nobody feeling no pain" - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas" With that introduction, welcome to the first in a five-part series, in which we attempt ... More >>

Love and a 45: Fate Lions Talk Favorite Wax Tracks

Fort Worth five-piece Fate Lions just dropped a new three-song 7-inch and and are celebrating with a show at the Kessler on Friday. With that in mind, I asked guitarist Jerko Dabelic and singer/guitarist Jason Manriquez about some of their favorite 45s growing up. Jason Manriquez Barry Manilow "A ... More >>

Mark Pirro on Finding a Place to Plug In, Other First Show Experiences

Mark Pirro has been around the Dallas music scene for more than two decades as a member of Tripping Daisy, The Polyphonic Spree and currently Menkena. As a preview of The Spree's New Year's Eve show this Saturday at the House of Blues, we wanted to ask him about his first times at shows, including t ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Don Berggren Remembers His Son Wes

​In the wake of Good Records Recordings' relaunch last week, it was interesting stumbling across this 1999 Zac Crain-penned piece about the late Tripping Daisy guitarist Wes Berggren. For more than a decade, much ado has been made about Berggren's untimely death, brought on by a drug overdose. But ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best New Act, Best DJ, Best Rap/Hip-Hop 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 New Act, Best DJ, an ... More >>

An Oral History of the Dallas Music Scene

Some of Dallas' most successful musicians recount the rebirth of its most storied entertainment district: Deep Ellum.

This Week In Dallas Music History: Tripping Daisy Made The Best Record of Their Career

​This week 13 years ago, the members of Tripping Daisy were on the verge of giving birth to Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, the greatest record of their career.In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, Robert Wilonsky visited the TD boys in their sweaty East Dallas rehearsal space, and ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter's Preteen Zenith Project Releases "Sampler" Mashup Of Four New Tracks

​For almost two months now, we've been waiting patiently for the chance to hear some music out of Preteen Zenith's camp -- you know, it being the new band from Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter and Secret Machines member Philip Karnats, and also featuring members of The ... More >>

Good Records Recordings To Re-Issue Tripping Daisy Back Catalog and Unreleased Songs.

​The folks at Good Records sure are having some fun with all the news breaking out of their camp over the past couple of days. But, rest assured, most of it is just that: Fun.That cryptic tweet and Facebook post the store made today? The one about being "a part of history" if you stop by the store ... More >>

Staff Trax: Delorean, Wintersleep, Tripping Daisy, Das Racist, Them and The Boss.

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 >>

The Secret Machines,...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Tuesday, September 29,at the Granada Theater

Echoes and Reverberations: You Shoot, We Score

Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we've been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It's what we do; we're obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thin ... More >>

Video: School Of Seven Bells' "Half Asleep"

School of Seven Bells premiered the video for its song "Half Asleep" over on Pitchfork.tv today, which is relevant a) because the band's 2008 release Alpinisms is great, and b) because the band's guitarist is Dallas ex-pat and former Tripping Daisy, Polyphonic Spree and Secret Machines member Ben Cu ... More >>

Polyphonic Spree's Holiday Extravaganza Haunted by Tripping Daisy

Even amidst the spectacle of the Polyphonic Spree's annual holiday extravaganza show, reminders of Tripping Daisy abound

Dollars for Daisies

Who Says Dallas Observer Music Awards Are Worthless? 'Cause They Ain't.

Shining a "Light" on Some New Spree

Shine On, Golden Warriors

Wait No Longer, Spree Fans

Philip E. Karnats

Pleasesuite Good Records

Shiny Happy People

The Polyphonic Spree is one Big Moment away from stardom. Right?

Dallas Stars

Revisiting the best local albums of 2000

Here and There

Ten from Dallas and England and all points in between

Beginner's Luck

Free to do what he wants, Tim DeLaughter leads his new band on The Polyphonic Spree

Best CD store (new)

Good Records

Hooked on Polyphonic

Tim DeLaughter and Mark Pirro on a Polyphonic Spree

Scene, heard

All the music news that's fit to print, and some that isn't

Out Here

Tripping Daisy

Good to go, part two

Good Records opens for business

Scene, heard

The Immaculates party like its 1999; Bicycle Thief moves On; Tripping Daisy/Centro-matic split; And much, much more

Scene, heard

Bad mouthing good bods; Keeping up with the Buck Joneses; the Broose is loose; Tim DeLaughter speaks; And much more

Across the Bar

Benefits for a Daisy; Drive-In for a Spider Baby

"...and that was Wes"

Friends and family say farewell to Tripping Daisy guitarist Wes Berggren

Tripping Daisy guitarist
found dead

Scene, heard

Centro-matic docs; Daisy Radio rocks; North Texas Music Festival drops; The Groobees cop; And so much more

Tripping over new albums

Daisy makes Good Records

Letters

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Tripping, not falling

The Daisy doesn't need a major label to keep making, and selling, its music

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Gathering steam

Brian Houser hopes that a new album will add momentum to his career

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

Winners take mall

When the readers voted the rock, the Old 97's came away 'big' winners

Grading on a curve

This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?

Good and messy

Tripping Daisy's Firecracker explodes with riches

Plastic explosives

Push the Tripping Daisy and make them come up

Home grown

Are local record labels a springboard to success, or success itself?