Anyone with a crush on Luis Dubuc, a.k.a. The Secret Handshake, may want to pre-order the new Secret Handshake disc through SmartPunk. By requesting the disc, One Full Year, be at your door on Sept. 25, you’ll get a bonus signed poster of Dubuc. DC-9 hasn’t heard the new disc…
Last night’s The National and St. Vincent show drew hundreds of people down to the Granada. As promised, our photographer Melanie Gomez hit up the show. Her pictures will make you feel like you were there, and help prep for St. V’s ACL performance this weekend. — Chelsea Ide…
Sometimes, words aren’t enough. We know. If you’re aching to see what the first day of Austin City Limits was like — and not just the fire — hit up our slideshow. We snapped pictures of your favorite bands — from Pete Yorn to M.I.A. to Kaiser Chiefs (pictured) –…
Spoon managed to bore us at Austin City Limits. (Merritt Martin) Best moments of ACL Day One, in order of awesomeness: 5. Goddamn, the hot dogs are good. All burnt on the outside and juicy on the inside. 4. Beer ain’t too expensive. Four bucks for a small. 3. The…
So, before we get into the thick of it, let’s talk about the fires, shall we? Yesterday, the fest kicked off with, um, a near the AT&T stage where Pete Yorn was performing. Sources say it was a combination of the 90+ degree heat and the high grease factor of…
We’re headed out to the Austin City Limits festival this weekend, and before seeing any bands, we’ve got big news. There is a massive fire at the festival. Our writers can see an overwhelming plume of smoke from their car on I-35. Reports say several propane tanks exploded at a…
For this week’s paper version of DC-9, I interviewed the National’s frontman Matt Berninger. Now, it’s no surprise that an experienced lyricist like himself would offer up good answers, but Berninger wins for Best Answers Off the Top of One’s Head (like, ever) and, possibly, Most Eloquent Interview 2007. Unfortunately,…
The Cure has rescheduled its Dallas tour date at American Airlines Center to June 6, 2008. If you’re already snagged tickets, thinking you’d see them in 2007, the venue will be honoring your tickets at the show next year. Those who feel a little cheated for having to wait almost…
Swedish metal band Arch Enemy is known for having a female lead singer who growls like a dude. Or so I thought. Walking into the band’s Thursday night show at the House of Blues in downtown Dallas, a bald-headed 20-something man told me, “Don’t bother. There’s some chick on stage,…
Tonight, the Pleasant Grove boys continue with their Thursday night residence gigs at the Double Wide under the moniker of Pleasant Grove Preservation Society. Joining them is JD Whittenburg and the Observer’s own Noah W. Bailey with his band The Naptime Shake (which includes two current and one former member…
Welcome to DC-9 at Night, the Dallas Observer’s new music blog. A little background about our raison d’etre: We began this endeavor by asking ourselves the following question: Why does Dallas need yet another contribution to the already overloaded music bloggery that exists concerning our fair burg? Our answer? Well,…
Just give us the highlights, Scott. There won’t be a red carpet per se, but if you want to ooooh and ahhhh at the most swank of Dallas sports dignitaries all dressed up with somewhere to go, Tuesday is the night and The Fairmont Hotel is the place. It’s the…
Apparently, Cubes ain’t content just dancing with the stars. Tomorrow, our favorite billionaire will announce a new show on his cable network called HDNet Fights, which isn’t much different than the Friday Night Fights show the network has already been airing. The main difference is that instead of relying on…
Do you like to dress up in costume and dance around for kids? If so, and you’re not currently enrolled in an educational institution at which the top grade level is “12” or lower, you may be creepy. (Birthday party clowns are no exception, as anyone who, like me, is…
If you remember the alt-country “explosion” of the mid-1990s, then you probably recall the twangy swamp pop of Misissippi’s Blue Mountain. Maybe you saw the band open for Son Volt at the Sons of Hermann Hall back in ’95 (where the group actually fulfilled a request for “Freebird”) or, perhaps,…
In this week’s Buzz, I update you on the case of the painfully adorable Jacob Cato, adopted son of Tracy and Kelley Cato of Corinth. I first wrote about the Catos back in June 2006, when they found out they might be forced to give up their new son because…
This week, the so-called “Leprechaun Bandit,” 27-year-old Richard Earl Kemp of Fort Worth, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of bank robbery. He faces up to 40 years in prison, where he’s sure to get plenty of ridicule from bank robbers who thought ahead and ended up with…
Cas Haley, the second place finisher on America’s Got Talent, swears he’s happy he didn’t finish first. Otherwise he’d have been ground in the gears of ye ol’ reality TV machine. Turns out, No. 2 is a pretty sweet victory anyway: This morning on the Ticket’s Dunham & Miller show,…
