Around this time of year, a lot of music websites put up “Holiday Gift Guides.” They’re either earnest, articulate and full of enthusiastic suggestions for interesting items for the music lover in your life, or they’re depressing corporate-sponsored flotsam and stand as a remarkably stark representation of the state of…
North Texas already had more than its share of places to see live music. But it got a few notable additions in 2013, especially in Deep Ellum, where Three Links has wasted no time becoming a fixture and Twilite Lounge started to feel like it had been there for 50…
Millennials, you still do all the drugs and have all the sex, but I have to break it to you: You do not know how to party. And it’s bringing me down. Heading over to what’s supposed to be the “jam,” hosted by 24-year-old “scenesters,” I always hope that there…
In many ways, Denton is DFW’s little Austin, our small slice of “weird.” Its inexpensive living costs and college town environment have made it something of a cultural hotbed, a landscape as readily filled with bohemians as fraternity herds. This unique melting pot of backgrounds and social interests has led…
As a self-respecting female with professional aspirations and a desire to be taken seriously as an individual, it’s become increasingly difficult to identify with American electronic dance music culture without feeling kind of irresponsible. By Kat Bein Six or seven years ago, the playing field was pretty even. We went…
Part of why I write is because I think words are important. They are similar to songs in that the right one in the right place at the right time can absolutely change your life. Words are not meaningless or forgettable, no matter what Depeche Mode might claim. By Jaime…
It’s a Tuesday night, and I am sitting on a yoga mat in the back of a former grocery store in Pittsburgh, spreading my legs as far as they can go. I reflexively turn to see how the woman next to me is managing her dragonfly pose when I realize…
Photo: Erik Hess[Editor’s note: The Door Guy dispenses advice for our sister blog Gimme Noise] The Door Guy. He’s seen and heard it all. Pukes puking. Bros fighting. Liars lying about the guest list to get by him. Drunks falling. Your “Turn up!” is his “Calm down!” Frankly, he hates…
Recently a petition to have GWAR play the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show went live on Change.org. It’s gotten nearly 46,000 signatures, but let’s be honest: Even if it had 46 million, we doubt the NFL would let the costumed metallers perform on its biggest event of the year. (Too…
Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend in Austin. Now in its eighth year, the thing has grown at a remarkable pace: From Spoon to Slayer at the top of the bill in just a few years. Through that expansion, however, FFF has lost none of its charm. If there…
The 2013 Dallas Observer Music Showcase came and went this weekend in eight hours of North Texas’ most interesting music. The unique thrill of this thing is walking from a delicate show by a singer-songwriter to the thrash of a punk band to the beats of an electronic act, on…
This Saturday, Deep Ellum will become a North Texas music family reunion for the Dallas Observer Music Showcase, with 58 bands on eight stages. The lineup ranges from experimental noise bands to hypnotic singer-songwriters. There are rappers playing damn near their first gigs and rock bands returning from cross-country tours…
Lower Greenville is changing faster than perhaps any other single stretch of road in the city. New bars, restaurants and, yes, exceptionally well-branded grocery stores are popping up at a seemingly constant rate. By many measures, it’s a good thing. There are clearly many more people walking on the sidewalks…
Photos by Jim Bricker (except noted)BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA If you want to catch an act in the one and only tented stage at ACL, it’s recommended to do it early in the day or towards the end of the weekend. It always seems to get pretty packed on Saturday…
Austin City Limits debuted a two-weekend format this year. People were clearly ready for it — this past weekend’s installment sold out. The rain cancelled Sunday’s shows, but Friday and Saturday went on as plans. Writer Katie Moulton was there for DC9 at Night, and she took some photos of…
Photo by Julian BajselNote: may not be same sasquatch as quoted below … but come on.Angelica Leicht and Marco Torres report back with the most outrageous sound bites they overheard at Weekend 1 of the 2013 Austin City Limits Music Festival. “I think Bigfoot just copped a feel!” “Um, these…
Photo by Angelica LeichtI just really wanted to use this photo on something.Seeing all the ACL kids running around in the Zilker Park grass, playing football with pierced and tatted dads, or showing off their dancing skills with mom, was a bit of a surprise. By Angelica Leicht But it…
Photo by Julian BajselEditor: Our friends at Houston Press’ Rocks Off music blog are tackling the first weekend of Austin City Limits, and they’re bringing us these dispatches. THE CURE The Cure was one of the acts, if not the act, that I was really looking forward to seeing in…
Taylor Momsen and her Pretty Reckless pals made a stop in Dallas on Friday night on their Going to Hell tour. The band has a new music video now and a sophomore full-length due out sometime next year. They brought with them Heaven’s Basement and Russian band Louna, who would…
Photo by Julian BajselEditor: Our friends at Houston Press’ Rocks Off music blog are tackling the first weekend of Austin City Limits, and they’re bringing us these dispatches. ARCTIC MONKEYS I spent a good part of the mid-’00s torturing every passenger in my car with the Arctic Monkeys’ album Whatever…
Photo by ZeitfixiererFace-to-face battles may soon be a thing of the past.By Jonah Bromwich You enter the room and they’re already there. Some of the names you recognize: Randa the Rhyma (45 wins), Gig@ntic (48 wins), and Novice Raps (53 wins). You’ve checked the boards obsessively, but you’ve only ever…
We here at DC9 fully recommend the restorative power of live music. A good concert can wipe away the doldrums and the frustration and make you feel like a part of something bigger. But sometimes you need the kind of catharsis that only comes from being on the other side…
