Band: EvangelicalsVenue: Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio Time: 12:20 a.m. The streets of Denton were humming last night and venues filled–Jupiter House Coffee on the Square even received a ticket from the fire marshal because its crowds were too big. But, despite a good lineup including eccentric Norman, Oklahoma-based indie rock…
Last week’s DC9er brought you behind the booth with disco-guru Schwa, but, this week, we’re going to slow it down a notch and coast into the atmosphere with 24-year-old, Denton-based DJ Five Easy Pieces. With an extensive music background not limited to spinning tracks, Five Easy Pieces, a.k.a. Nick Amendola,…
With endless amounts of downloadable mp3s stacking up on trendy well-clicked blogs and DJ equipment only a tab away on Amazon, it seems everyone and their cousins’ cousins can be, and , well, is a “DJ” these days. But there’s just a certain something, a je ne sais quoi–call it…
Tonight, on the eve of Johnny Cash’s birthday, the Lakewood Bar & Grill welcomes audiences to the fourth annual Johnny Cash Bash, a show complete with an assorted mix of local and national acts all paying tribute to the legendary man in black. The five acts on the bill will…
Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche has already taken home a Grammy in his native country, and thanks to his growing appeal among a high-brow, NPR-listening crowd, it seems like it’s only a matter of time before he wins one stateside. Lerche released his first “mature” pop album, Faces Down, in 2001…
At some point after Islands released its debut album Return to the Sea in 2006, the band stopped sounding, well, fun. The shift in Islands’ musical course is an easy one to chart: It happened after drum-man Jamie Thompson abruptly left later that year, announcing his decision to leave the…
The Horrors, Crocodiles, The Burning HotelsGranada TheaterSeptember 25, 2009Better than: the last time The Horrors played the Granada. If fans of The Horrors’ more theatrical, debut album, Strange House, came out of The Granada before the band strutted back on stage to perform its 15-minute encore, those fans might’ve left…
Broken Social ScenePalladium BallroomAugust 7, 2009Better than: The last time I caught Broken Social Scene in Vancouver. Check out photos from the show in our slideshow here.When Broken Social Scene frontman and co-founder Kevin Drew fell ill earlier this year, the band was left with no choice but to back…
Last year, at our 20th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards, there was a distinct theme of tradition behind all the festivities. And rightfully so: 20 years is indeed a long time. Countless great acts have passed through and risen up in Dallas during that time period. But there’s just something…
Nylon Magazine Summer Music Tour Featuring Patrick WolfGranada TheaterJune 30, 2009 Better than: Sitting at home reading Nylon. Maybe. Check out our slideshow from the show, too.London-born multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf definitely wasn’t shy last night at the Granada Theater, as he gallivanted around the stage playing a good mix of…
SantigoldHouse of BluesJune 18, 2009 Better than: Watching this guy. Check out more photos from the show in our slideshow.Santigold, the artist formerly known as Santogold (whose real name is Santi White), stopped by House of Blues last night to deliver a scorching performance on the latter half of her current…
Peaches, Drums of DeathGranada TheaterJune 12, 2009Better than: the last show I was supposed to review for DC9. It’s fitting that the most climactic moment of Peaches’ nearly two-hour set at the Granada came before her two encores, as she finished her main set by launching into her breakthrough electro-clash…
Ethan Kath and Alice Glass of the Toronto-based electronic duo Crystal Castles allegedly took their band’s name from She-Ra: Princess of Power’s castle. Which makes sense because, y’know, stealing their name from the 1983 Atari arcade game of the same title, well, that would be too obvious. And, actually, little…
Tapes n’ Tapes, Wild Light, Les AmericainsClub DadaFriday, January 30, 2009 Better Than: Watching Ghostbusters on the big screen at the Inwood? Maybe. Download: We had a couple photographers at this show, so expect a slideshow by Monday. Before the Minnesotan indie-band Tapes ‘n Tapes started its set, and as the group…
In early August 2006, Death From Above 1979 fans were left devastated as the presumptive murmurs of the band’s split transpired into cold, hard fact. Fortunately, former DFA bassist and synth-man Jesse F. Keeler still had some creativity of his own left. In 2005, Keeler hooked up with AL-P (Alex…
If fluorescent green could be conveyed through sound—and was then shaken up with throbbing beats, electric synths and haunting vocals—it would sound like Australian electro duo The Presets. The pair, Julian Hamilton (keyboard/vocals) and Kim Moyes (drums) may have met at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but rest assured, neo-classical…
