Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Sales Power of In-Store Performances

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. CD Source owner, Lance Price, saw a combination of new releases and classic albums creep towar ... More >>

The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One

Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix's set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found out that members of the ... More >>

No, Seriously, Is Daft Punk Playing Coachella?

This is, so far, the burning question of this Coachella, being asked everywhere from the campsites to the press tent. Even though the French dance-punk duo officially squashed the rumors, not many people seem to be buying it. At least, not since last night. Just before Yeah Yeah Yeahs took the ... More >>

Rock Band DLC Shuts Down: How A Geek Sport Briefly Became A Party Phenomenon

Rock Band is over. Well--kind of over. It's been "over" in the people-who-wouldn't-otherwise-touch-a-Playstation-caring-about-it sense since a few months after Beatles Rock Band came out, but now it's "over" inasmuch as after April 2, when "American Pie" will be released (nice timing), developer Har ... More >>

The 12 Best Things About SXSW 2013

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you only the greatest moments from last week's SXSW madness. Here are the 12 best shows and moments we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need t ... More >>

The Nine Worst Things About SXSW

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you dispatches from the SXSW madness. Here are the nine worst things we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need the Help -The 50 Commandments of ... More >>

Pterodactyl's All Time Top Five Brooklyn Bands ***Venue Change!***

In this week's paper edition of DC9 at Night, Chris Parker effectively details the sonic evolution of Brooklyn's Pterodactyl. In fact, when describing the splendid craziness that is the band's recently released third album, Spills Out, as "still somewhat woolly with subtle spiky slashes of guitar ... More >>

In Defense of My Chemical Romance: 10 Bands That Look Emo, But Aren't.

My Chemical Romance​You know the look: Checkered sneakers, skinny pants, that forlorn gaze through a cascade of floppy bangs. Emo kids are easy to spot. Or are they? Can you tell that a band is emo by the way they look? In this week's paper, we talked to My Chemical Romance guitarist Frak Iero a ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Year of the Tiger -- "Heart of Steel"

​Tonight marks the start of New York City's CMJ Music Marathon, a sort of SXSWish deal originally built around the premise of bringing up-and-coming wannabe college radio heroes together for college radio jocks to come have a listen and look-see. Now 30 years into its existence, this year's festiv ... More >>

Beach House Grows Into A Teen Dream

Our Critics List Their Fave Discs of '09

Year in Review: 2009's Best Proves the Stars Are Shifting in Latin Music

It's been a year of surprises in Latin music. Reggaetón continues fading, albeit slowly, and the industry's mainstays aren't garnering the attention they used to. Case in point: Don Omar's summer release iDon (no relation to your phone), which remained quiet after its first single, "Virtual Diva." ... More >>

Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Made the Best of a Rainy Saturday at ACL.

ACL '09: Eddie Vedder Knows How To Play A Tambourine (Or: So That Wasn't Just Some Drunk Guy On Stage With Kings of Leon?)

First things first: Pangs of regret fill our hearts this morning at DC9--which, consider that today is Saturday, sounds about par for course. But, alas, today we have reason beyond our undiagnosed manic depression: Specifically, we missed the above seemingly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch o ... More >>

ACL '09 in Photos: The Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Dr. Dog and More from Friday Onstage

Photos by Patrick MichelsThe Avett Brothers share a family moment Friday afternoon.​Along with Pete's takes on some of Friday's biggest sets here at ACL, we already brought you shots of Phoenix, Raphael Saadiq and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- so before we head on out for another day in the front row (fo ... More >>

ACL '09: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sparkle Our Imaginations And Karen O Gets Crazy.

Photos by Patrick Michels Almost as magical as when Merle Haggard spits onstage.​Dressed like a character belonging more to Pan's Labyrinth than anything of the natural world, Karen O led the Yeah Yeah Yeahs through a fantastical, epic performance at Zilker Park last night.And it was all th ... More >>

ACL '09: School of Seven Bells Starts Day One Off On A High Note--And Offers Us Some Details On its Next Release.

Sorry if this post comes off as a little, I dunno, off. As I write this in the ACL press tent, Daniel Johnston's giving an on-air interview to my right, School of Seven Bells is giving a web chat interview to my left, and Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights are talking up a print report ... More >>

Does ACL Actually Hurt Dallas?

Neon Indian hits the national scene

The Future of Used MP3 Sales

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

It's Blitz! (Interscope)

Waging War on the Digital Jukebox

Architecture in Helsinki, Glass Candy, Panther

Tuesday, November 13, at Hailey's, Denton

Celebration, Fog, Dragons of Zynth

Saturday, November 3, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Is Is (EP) (Artist Records)

Y Control?

Karen O and cohorts put on a hell of a show. Too bad they were so nice about it.

Pretty Girls Make Graves

Elan Vital (Matador)

Rainer Shine

Caithlin De Marrais makes the best of Catastrophe

Music Mentor

Casual music listeners shouldn't suffer from the boredom of radio and MTV

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Show Your Bones (Interscope)

The Beatdown

If you wanna hear Denton's best-kept national dance secret, then get to the Party

Morningwood

Morningwood (Capitol)

Year of the Concept

After Green Day, expect more American idiots

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Plus: The Glasgow School, History Lesson

Image Enhancements

Follow your intuition to Psychic Drive-In

Bright Eyes

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning/ Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)

Too Sexy for Their Rock

Fashionable retro rock has jumped the shark. Here’s why.

Return of the Chipmunk

Harpist Joanna Newsom: strange, hypnotic, dark, bizarre and absolutelygodawful

TV on the Radio, the Wrens and the Panthers

March 21

The Fiery Furnaces

February 7

Playing Favorites

Local musicians pick the tops

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

November 17

The Heavenly States

The Heavenly States (Future Farmer)

Kodak Moment

Thanks to sticks and Strokes, Longwave's Steve Schlitz doesn't have to move back to Rochester just yet

Calla

May 31

The Gossip

Movement (Kill Rock Stars)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Fever to Tell (Interscope)

Les Savy Fav, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Ex Models; Hella

November 11; November 7

The Dishes

July 26

The Machines Are Winning

Secret Machines have conquered NYC. Sort of.