GWAR Gas Monkey Live, Dallas Thursday, October 23, 2014 In March this year Dave Brockie, better known as an intergalactic barbarian by the name of Oderus Urungus, was found dead of a heroin overdose. For a lot of bands, losing their lead singer and sole remaining original member would be…
Mastodon South Side Music Hall, Dallas Tuesday, October 21, 2014 My wife does a thing with our son to get him to try new food. You remember what it was like being a kid and having a new food forced on you. What is this intruder on the side of…
News reaches us that Lower Greenville’s fanciest coffee shop/bar/place to look at people using Apple products is to branch out to the previously uncool downtown Dallas in a redevelopment on the 1500 block of Elm. When it gets there, it’ll take one look at its new building and notice it…
Two years ago, when I arrived in the States from the UK, I had a very vague idea of what ice hockey was. I was, though, sure that it was one of the most far-fetched sports out there. While most sports are played on the sort of easily accessible field…
I spent last night at the fabulous Texas Theatre watching 20,000 Days on Earth, the new documentary about legendary Australian songsmith Nick Cave. You need to go and see it there before its extremely limited run closes on Thursday, and here is why. First off, it’s not even really a…
Double Wide 11th Anniversary With High on Fire, Roky Erikson, the Derailers and Riverboat Gamblers Double Wide, Dallas Saturday, October 4, 2014 After 11 years of being the Double Wide, it’s surely time for the beloved edge-of-Deep Ellum dive to kick back, stretch those weary limbs, and pour out a…
Videographer Kathy Tran is your guide through the beer and bratwursts of Addison’s yearly Oktoberfest. Many, many beers are contained within…
You can’t go out in Dallas without the threat of valets. Somehow, in one of the most sprawling cities in America, we’ve managed to mess up parking to the extent where valets are legally required, and to get to them you have to drive past the parking spaces they will…
Death From Above 1979, who I will now shorten to DFA, released their debut album 10 years ago. It was, until today, their only album. Much like I enjoy pretending there were no sequels to The Matrix, I’m going to pretend DFA never released a second album as soon as…
Imagine somewhere in Uptown, right in between Oak Lawn and the Arts District, had a gigantic patio, shaded under greenery, full of tables, chairs, ephemera, and a huge covering. You would imagine that place would be absolutely rammed at lunchtime, that to get a table you’d have to know someone,…
This morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry tweeted a photo encapsulating what is no doubt a very special approach to international relations. The picture largely speaks for itself, but let’s ponder some of the major questions…
It’s all very well and good being Scott the Food Critic and having a fancy list of hip and happening Dallas restaurants to go and watch football games. We don’t all get paid to sit in bars and drink craft beers. The rest of us everyday working stiffs have things…
Football-wise, it seems obvious by now that the Cowboys defense is destined to be so incredibly bad, they could use all the help they can get. By this point, you and I are viable candidates for the Cowboys defense, let alone Michael Sam, a man who, physical pending, will arrive…
American football. It’s a real thing. You know it, I know it. We’ve all seen it. The thrills, the spills, the very precise numbering on the field. There was a time when Dallas was America’s center for said thrills and spills. Now it is but a hollow shell of football,…
A quick glance at our comprehensive Dallas concert guide might give you the impression that this month is stuffed with some real crap, metal-wise. Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, Seether; it’s like an endless parade of nightmares that has no place in 2014. So we here at DC9 thought we’d…
Now, we’re not sure if you live on the moon, under a rock, or under a rock on the moon, but you probably noticed Rick Perry handed himself in yesterday to face his indictment on felony charges for abuse of power. If you’ve ever heard of a thing called “Twitter,”…
So, Dallas, that was the summer of our lifetimes. Today marks the day where average temperatures begin to drop, continuing their inevitable decline towards whatever horrors Winter 2014 has in store for us. Let’s not focus on the inevitable entombment of Dallas in ice quite yet, though. Let’s think to…
Last year, first-time Denton festival Oaktopia delivered on content but not so much on attendance. As Aaron Ortega reported in November, the largest crowd was 200 or so, for the mighty Del the Funky Homosapien. You might suppose a festival that drew such a modest crowd last time would scale…
The weird entertainment complex loop at the corner of I-35 and Northwest Highway is one of northwest Dallas’ stranger places to visit. Not quite Bachman Lake, not quite Harry Hines, and not quite Irving, it’s in a vortex all of its own. Technology Boulevard, as this loop is called, is…
Antemasque/Le Butcherettes Trees 8/5/2014 We’ve all had friends who got married to each other. It’s strange when these friends fight with each other. It’s even stranger when these friends get divorced. What side do we take? Who do we support? Who do we boo? When it comes to Texas alt-rock,…
Look, fellow smokers, it’s probably for the best we can’t smoke indoors at shows any more. It was pretty sad for everyone, and dry ice is much less life threatening, probably. If you want to have some of the ol’ tobacco, there are many solutions around Dallas, all of which…
We’ve written elsewhere about what transpired at the Cotton Bowl last night. In short, at some point during a pre-season exhibition game that was charging $50 a head and up, one fan decided to charge the pitch. This happens a lot in sporting events around the world. People run onto…
