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Echoes and Reverberations: Without You, I'm Nothing

By Jeff Liles
Dec 11, 2009

"Well, I was passing by a pawn shop in an older part of town, something caught my eye and stop and turned around / I stepped inside and then I spied in the middle of it all, was a beat up old guitar hanging on the wall / 'What do...
Echoes and Reverberations: Decadent Dub Team, Fracturing the Mash-Up

By Jeff Liles
Dec 4, 2009

The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the early '80s, the dark fortress was reinvented as a squatter's...
Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

By Jeff Liles
Nov 27, 2009

It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our JFK Bermuda Triangle. Our local...
Echoes and Reverberations: "The War Across The Alley"

By Jeff Liles
May 1, 2009

[Editor's Note: This is the last time we'll be running Echoes and Reverberations as a regular feature here on DC9. Will we see future installments? Don't know yet. But in the meantime, a big thanks to Jeff Liles for the past 30 installments of the series. It's been fun.] When...
Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

By Jeff Liles
Apr 17, 2009

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incense...

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