Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #59-40 The Spotify playlist for songs #79-60 79. Lift to Experience, “Falling From Cloud 9” From one of the best albums of any North Texas act in recent history, “Falling From Cloud 9” is one of the more accessible songs on 2001’s The…
The Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Best Texas songs, #59-40 “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…
If loud noises and capricious amounts of alcohol could scare off the evil spirit of Friday the 13th, then the stage at LaGrange was a safe place. The Von Ehrics and Sleepin’ Rattlers took the floor with Les Pauls popping like firecrackers, and a crowd that was more than willing…
by Aaron Hillis Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there’s something wilder–or at least, more directly stimulating and pure–about Jonathan Demme’s live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking Heads show (and David Byrne’s oversized suit…
by Chris Kornelis See also: All of the arguments about digital music, summarized In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence…
Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, Casey Donahew, Reckless Kelly, Bart Crow, Brandon Rhyder and more converged on Lone Star Park, as part of Saturday’s Wolfdance 2012, 99.5 FM’s Red Dirt jam. Here are some of the sights…
For the $100 you spent at Coldplay, here is what you could have done Friday night: Dinner and live music from the food trucks on Main Street: $7 Cold IPA at Double Wide before the crowds hit: $4 plus tip RTB2, Sealion and the Whiskey Folk Ramblers at LaGrange: $8…
Fifteen years ago this month, the Old 97’s released their major label debut, Too Far to Care. Last week, frontman Rhett Miller released his latest solo record, The Dreamer. Darryl Smyers and Eric Grubbs sat down and talked about the legacy of Too Far to Care, and whether or not…
Christoph KostlinPaul van Dyk by Andy Hermann Electronic dance music (you know, EDM) is the hottest thing going right now. But to you, it still all sounds like “oontz, oontz, oontz” — except Skrillex, who sounds like “wom, wom, wom.” Right? Fear not. You don’t have to be a kid…
by Chris Gray Sci-fi fans across the world were saddened when prolific author Ray Bradbury died Tuesday, Wired magazine reported. The typewriter-loving Bradbury was 91 and lived in Los Angeles. Bradbury was best-known for writing that set the standard for post-WWII science fiction such as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles…
Look, Wilson Phillips, I am only human. I obviously surrender to your three-part harmonies, I find your lineage fascinating and there is no greater song to pair with the unbelievable acoustics of my shower than “Hold On.” But over the years you also taught me a thing or two as…
In honor of the recent 20th anniversary reissue of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power, two music writers sat around a kitchen table and talked about it. One is clearly older than the other one. Eric Grubbs: When that record came out in 1992, what do you remember, aside from grunge…
Drake Gexa Energy Pavilion Wednesday, May 16 Q: How Many Writers Does It Take To Review a Drake Concert? In the span of Drake’s set last night, I felt alternately excited, flummoxed and bored, which is sort of the trajectory of the first month or so of a doomed relationship,…
Using the Schrodinger equation, in conjunction with a quantum harmonic oscillator to efficiently fuse two non-sentient objects together, we here at DC9 at Night have created a giant-ass list. Please be cautious when reading, as prolonged exposure can lead to headaches, extreme diaphragm tension, and heavy-genitals syndrome. And so, we…
Welcome to Dear Audra/Dear Hunter, where Audra Schroeder and Hunter Hauk correspond through a series of dramatic letters about pop culture that flummoxes us, like we’re Marlene Dietrich and Noël Coward. Dear Audra, I don’t know if I can handle it again. I’ve been seeing headlines to the effect of…
Timothy NorrisDrum roll, please… Individual results may vary.We’ve just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Dallas concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We’ve also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the right hand…
by Craig Hlavaty The Texas Music Office, a division of the Office of the Governor, announced Friday the creation of the Live Music Grant Program, funding free concerts across the state. But don’t get all excited yet. This is the Texas guv’ment we are dealing with, after all, so there…
by Nicole Pajer We were strolling through the Coachella grounds last weekend, trying not to trip over passed out people, when we encountered this fella. We weren’t sure if it was the headdress (are people really still wearing those?), the dance moves, or the combination of both, but he coaxed…
Meranda CarterSee also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage by Rebecca Haithcoat One assumes that thousands of people shouting, “I guess that cunt getting eaten” in unison has never happened at Coachella before. Yet you could hear just that yesterday during Azealia Banks’ set; it was afternoon, and most of us weren’t…
At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They’ll employ almost anything in this quest — but mostly drugs. Some of the folks below have taken too many, some are badly in need of a buzz, but all are our favorite awkward Coachella…
These three bands have been rolling around Texas on a mini-tour: They just got in from Beaumont, did last night’s show in Denton, spent a couple hours in their own beds, then off to Abilene. The Toadies/Phuss collaboration goes beyond this small tour, as Toadie Vaden Todd Lewis helped produce…
Waaaay back before the twin forces of 35 Denton and SXSW happened, we at DC9 had the idea to snap photos of what was in fans’ bags, to see what people brought with them to festivals and hopefully not come off as creepy purse-peepers. The idea came to me years…
