Captain Incredible

In case you couldn’t tell by the skull and crossed-electric-guitar logo, or by the album title, or by song titles such as “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “Up to Eleven” and “No One Gets Out Alive”—this six-song, 19-minute EP is an abrasive blast of greasy hard rock. And, as genres…

Gig Alert: Sober’s ‘Final Top Notch’ Tonight At The Cavern

Just a couple weeks after the residency’s one-year anniversary party, Sober is pulling up the anchor on his upstairs Thursday night DJ set at the cavern. Tonight’s “Bon Voyage Sober” party marks the final night of DJ Sober’s “Top Notch,” at least as a weekly event, as Sober will leave…

Bridges and Blinking Lights Gets Its Sound in Focus

It’s probably not a surprise to hear that Bridges and Blinking Lights frontman Jake Wilganowski is a restless man. His band’s two records—2007 debut Standing on the Same Stick and the forthcoming sophomore album Heroes, Guns and Snakes—both make the most of their run times, packing an album’s worth of…

Show Announcements: Kessler Theatre Bookings Announced, July Alley Starts Ladies Night, Jimmy Buffett Returns To Frisco And More

Kessler Theatre booking agent Jeff Liles, whom DC9 readers likely remember for his Echoes and Reverberations columns, has been busy Tweeting today about upcoming shows at the restored Oak Cliff theater. So far, the venue’s ReverbNation site has just three dates confirmed: a release party for Josh Alan Friedman’s autobiographical…

Watch: George Quartz — “Butterscotch” (Possibly NSFW)

The Fader already posted the above video version of the woozy synth track “Butterscotch” by Faux Fox frontman George Quartz, but it’s worth sharing nonetheless. Besides, Fader writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd took Quartz at his blog’s word that he’s from Seychelles; someone has to point out that he sure has…

Over The Weekend: Erykah Badu, Jamie Foxx At The Palladium Ballroom

Erykah Badu, Jamie FoxxPalladium BallroomSaturday, February 12, 2010Better Than: Any other All-Star event going on that night–especially considering it was free. It was a night of opposites. Crowd-pleasing pandering and natural creative energy. R&B loverman showboating and organic, funky soul. Jamie Foxx and Erykah Badu may both be Texas-born icons,…

Good Friday: Nouvelle Vauge Postponed, Vic Chesnutt Tribute Canceled, But You’ve Still Got True Widow, Louis Moholo-Moholo, The J.C. Experience, American Werewolf Academy, Baruch The Scribe, Collin Herring and More

Aside from the snow, the big story this weekend is, of course, the NBA All-Star Game and the musicians, celebrities, models, gold-diggers and hookers swarming the city. This week’s cover story tells you why this is such an important weekend for Dallas’ mainstream-leaning hip-hop artists, and the All-Star Guide inside…

Show Announcements: Three Dog Night Coming To Arlington, More

As Three Dog Night’s website boasts, “From 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets.” But just because the band is some four decades beyond its glory days doesn’t mean it isn’t keeping busy. The group–including original members Cory Wells and Danny Hutton…

Watch: Cocky Americans — “Romance Tried To Kill Me”

I think most guys will relate to this video. You know how it is: just when you think you’re over a breakup, she chases you away from band practice, forcing you to leap from an overpass. Then somehow you find yourself in a DART train, pursued yet again into [shudder]…

Hophead: Homebrewing For St. Brigid

I’d like to give a lake of beer to God / I’d love the Heavenly Host to be tippling there for all eternity … I’d sit with the men, the women of God, there by the lake of beer / We’d be drinking good health forever and every drop would…