Yo La Tengo

Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 2-8

Ringing in your first week of May is a week of music that's as diverse as it gets. We've got everything from Rodriguez, the legendary musician and subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugarman, to the Dwarves, a group of disgusting punk badboys. Get a taste for them by watching cli ... More >>

Chelsea Light Moving is This Week's Top Sell in Dallas Record Stores

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. Chelsea Light Moving takes the number one spot at Good Records and Atoms for Peace is still ma ... More >>

Wilco's Solid Sound Festival Features Dallas' The Relatives

Wilco has just announced the lineup for their Solid Sound Festival, to be held June 21 to 23 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and amidst the Yo La Tengo's and Neko Case's is West Dallas' own funk and gospel heroes The Residents. See also: -Watch: Long-Lost Dallas Funkers The Relati ... More >>

Toro Y Moi Tops This Week's Dallas Record Store Charts

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. Yo la Tengo and Tame Impala are still doing well this week; however, new to the mix and top se ... More >>

Yo La Tengo, A$AP Rocky and Deftones: This Week's DFW Bestsellers

This is not your everyday Bilboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you what bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. This week's sales at CD Source reflect some of Dallas' upcoming shows: P!nk's Truth About Love T ... More >>

Five Dallas Music Venues We Wish Were Still Open

In any major city, musical venues come and go. Some closures are well-deserved: bad sound, weak promotions, etc. But other times, a place shutting its doors is a kick in the teeth for any local music fan. Here is my list of five long-gone musical establishments I wish were still open. Agora Ballroo ... More >>

DC9 at Night's Favorite Summer Songs

The summer I bought The Breeders' Last Splash on cassette at the mall was the summer I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid, and woke up with ants on my pillow. It was the summer I lost my grandfather, though my mother swears that was him making our lights flicker every once in a while. It was the summer I sp ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Ralph White at Dan's and Mechanical People at Poor David's

Just a couple of interesting musical options this Monday evening as the music conferences have been all packed up and put away until next year.

Tonight, Tonight: Sans Soleil, Terminator 2, Sunnybrook and Eyes & Ears at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

With all the Super Bowl parties now over and various venues still in the process of being cleaned up, there's only really one option this Monday evening. But it features a nice collection of locals, so if you're willing to hang out in Denton for the night, it's a pretty nice one.

Staff Trax: The Philistines Jr., Typhoon, Kylesa, Amy Cook and Fences

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 >>

Bonus MP3: Gray, the New Black -- "I Don't Wanna Be With You"

Gray, the New Black, in shades of gray.​After Mike Hamilton and Alan Uhler moved to Dallas from Michigan in 2009, it took the pair little time to hook up with James Alvarez and form Gray, the New Black. The band has been busy playing around the area and recording songs for its debut full-length th ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Yo La Tengo, Times New Viking at the Granada Theater

Yo La Tengo, Times New VikingGranada TheaterJanuary 30, 2010Much better than: staying home watching the Mavericks lose to the Blazers.Will Von BoltonClick here for a slideshow from Saturday night's show.​A sold-out crowd got out of the cold weather and into the warm confines of The Granada Theater ... More >>

Yo La Tengo,Times New Viking

Saturday, January 30, at Granada Theater

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To Saturday's Granada Theater Show With Yo La Tengo and Times New Viking

For a whopping quarter of a century now, Hoboken's Yo La Tengo has existed comfortably at or near the top of the indie rock heap, showcasing an ever-changing aesthetic that, at various times in the band's career, has seen the band touching on various psych-, garage-rock and shoegaze styles. In this ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Rural Alberta Advantage Show at The Cavern

In this week's paper, Annie Zaleski extols the virtues of the Toronto-based Rural Alberta Advantage, comparing the three-piece to everyone from Yo La Tengo to The Mountain Goats and Arcade Fire to Neutral Milk Hotel. Heady company indeed. Continues my esteemed colleague from St. Louis:As might be e ... More >>

The Rural Alberta Advantage

Saturday, December 12, at The Cavern

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Popular Songs (Matador)

John Peel's Dallas Sessions

​Waaaay back in May '07 I wrote about the late, great John Peel -- the Liverpudlian who made a stopover in Dallas in the early 1960s before becoming "The Most Important DJ in Rock History," per the subtitle of the book by and about the great man behind, natch, The Peel Sessions. That olden Unfair ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Kill The Dance Floor -- "Stare"

​Last year, brothers Mick and Raul Espinoza were plying their new wave craft under the moniker Mahteo. They even recorded a pretty cool debut album, The NuWave Republic. Although that record mined the classic '80s influences of Joy Division and The Cure a little too blatantly, it nevertheless had ... More >>

My Brightest Diamond Feels Good Covering Nina Simone.

No, nothing will ever, ever compare to this, the original version of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good". Nothing.And yet, somehow, this new cover of the song (via) from one-time Dallas resident Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) is a pretty decent effort in its own right--and certainly worth a liste ... More >>

Deerhunter

Microcastle (Kranky)

Yo La Tengo Is Not Afraid Of MS, And They Will Beat Its Ass

Hot Chip is keenly aware and danceably fun

Why SXSW When You Can NPR?

Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan Offers a Different Take on His Band's Sound

This time through town, Yo La Tengo is going all acoustic

Au Revoir Simone, Oh No! Oh My!, Sidney Confirm

Wednesday, August 29, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Having It All

The members of Yo La Tengo produce consistently great records from a stable marriage. What's up with that?

All-Star Balloting

Signing Off

Staggering Statistics

All of This and More (Shake It)

Evangelicals

So Gone (Misra)

Pegasus Now

Careless Loveseeds (self-released)

Dirty on Purpose

Wednesday, August 9, at Hailey's

Sonic Youth

Rather Ripped (Geffen)

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball videogame. Really.

The Wrens, Jim Yoshii Pile Up, Hogpig

Saturday, August 27, at Hailey's

The Jim Yoshii Pile Up

Pick Us Apart (Absolutely Kosher)

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Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 (Matador)

Jad Fair, Mandarin, The Theater Fire

Friday, January 14, at Rubber Gloves

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September 20

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Summer Sun (Matador)

Dump

That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? (Shrimper Records)

Yo La Tengo

More than an indie-rock version of the Eurythmics

Hijinks at Trees

Long-overdue debuts

Scene, heard

Bluh; Pleasant Grove in Germany; The Early Line; Trees turns 10; Rubber Gloves gets wet; And so much more

Scene, heard

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

My heart's reflection

Genius plus love still equals Yo La Tengo

Girl trouble

Rock and roll is still a man's, man's, man's, man's world

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad