The definitive music critic poll, Pazz & Jop, has just released its 2013 rankings. Started in 1971 by The Village Voice, the poll collects year-end rankings from hundreds of writers — this year there were 457 voters. Kanye West won the album category for the fourth time, while Daft Punk’s…
As trendy food-trucks and high-class chocolate descend on Lowest Greenville, at least one older business can still be seen with a crowded patio on most warm nights. The Crown & Harp isn’t much, just a small room and a shotgun bar below it, but the concert calendar just gets more…
The rock musical On the Eve debuted last year to so much acclaim you could barely get seats at its Magnolia Lounge run. The musical is back, with shows at Theatre 3 from January 16 to February 9. It’s the story of…well, it’s complicated. But we love it — here’s…
On Friday night, some of most focused, purposeful artists of any genre or even medium took to the temporary boxing ring at the Granada. Anchored by a generous set by A.Dd+, the hip-hop duo we’d take in a heavyweight matchup against just about anyone, the evening offered a glimpse at…
Earlier this week, we told you about our North Texas hip-hop showcase prize package, which includes (among other things) the best seats in the house at the big event tonight at the Granada. That event, again: Six of the area’s best hip-hop artists, plus singer Jaeson Green and DJ Jay…
There was still bubble wrap on the rafters and plastic over the doorway at the 3619 Greenville Avenue last night, but it was still easy to see what the newest bar from some familiar faces will become. “It’s just a neighborhood bar with snappy background decor,” says owner John Kenyon…
This music blog takes its name from the opening line of Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Dallas,” a song written in the early ’70s and recorded most famously by his trio with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, The Flatlanders. Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? On Monday, after…
Friday, Friday, Friday! The North Texas Hip-Hop Showcase, presented by us here at the Dallas Observer, brings heavyweights under the bright lights at the Granada Theater. In addition to -topic (pictured above), the show will feature Blue, The Misfit, Sam Lao, Lord Byron, Jaeson Green, AV the Great and your…
In August, DC9 at Night joined with Globe Trek Productions to create a series of videos of musicians (almost all North Texans) busking in the businesses and streets of Dallas. So far, we’ve featured 19 musicians, and we have plenty more in the pipeline. But before we head into a…
As we near the end of our coverage of the year that was, we’ve gathered the votes (over 300) on the finalists for North Texas Album of the Year. Among those featured were remarkable statements from new bands (like Radioactivity’s self-titled release), and Midlake’s Antiphon wasn’t the only surprisingly forward-looking…
The eleven alternative weeklies of Voice Media Group are responsible for a tremendous amount of music writing: This year, we produced thousands of pages of printed stories and tens of thousands of blog posts. We’re proud to present the very best of that work in the second annual Voice Media…
There’s one week until Lights All Night, and co-founder Scott Osburn is sick. It always happens this way, right when you can ill afford time spent laying around, recuperating, foggy from medicine. Things are ramping up quickly now. They’re already working on the massive, elaborate staging inside the Dallas Convention…
Merry Christmas, or a belated Happy Hanukkah or a Festive Flight of the Spaghetti Monster or whatever it is you do to break up the winter. We at DC9 at Night will be celebrating by not being on the Internet for a couple days. Your regularly scheduled DFW music news,…
Nothing says Christmas like the members of Unconscious Collective, in body paint and loin cloths, bashing through elaborate improvisations. That was Chad D’s 14th Annual Toy Drive and Cancer Benefit, this year expanded from one very boisterous Libertine to four stages on Lower Greenville. There was hip-hop at the Bottle…
Last week, we asked you to tell us your favorite albums of 2013. We got over 400 nominations, and the results are in: Below, you’ll find the DC9 at Night readers’ ten favorite North Texas albums of 2013. We’ll be telling you our own favorites in the next week or…
By now you are aware that St. Vincent’s self-titled fifth album comes out in February and that she’ll play a hometown show at House of Blues Friday, March 14. Well, tickets are on sale as of this morning. I don’t know if this is a situation where you need to…
“I had this spot on my neck. I thought it was a pimple or something,” says composer Curtis Heath. It wasn’t big — just 1.2 millimeters across. But it didn’t go away for a couple months, and his girlfriend insisted he get it checked out. The dermatologist told him it…
This week’s most unconventional show was not at a house in Denton or a taqueria somewhere. It was in Preston Hollow, where Dallas lawyer Lisa Blue-Baron booked Journey and Styx for her Christmas Party. Her neighbors are either very tolerant or very far away (probably that one), because the Blue-Baron…
Beyoncé is somewhere near her eighth outfit of the night, and the fabric of this one is made to look like so many brass pipes. She’s singing “Crazy in Love,” which is appropriate, because no one has ever resembled a human horn section as much as Beyoncé on “Crazy in…
Spillover Music Festival, Parade of Flesh’s annual festival featuring of some of the best bands at SXSW with 1000% less nonsense to deal with, has just announced the first portion of its 2014 lineup. Featured bands include pop shit-starter Ty Segall, Sup Pop’s Dum Dum Girls, Minneapolis rapper Astronautalis and…
The past twelve months have been unusually good ones for North Texas music. Major-label bands like Midlake, The Polyphonic Spree and The Baptist Generals produced new records. Debut efforts put the likes of Lord Byron and Sam Lao squarely on the radar, and plenty of bands somewhere in between made…
Update, 9:00 a.m. OK, fair enough — seems pretty bad out there. Not that I would know, since my plan for today includes extra pairs of socks and not a whole lot else. At this point, just assume whatever show you were going to tonight is cancelled, except Kanye West…
