The Dallas sons and current Austin residents in The Strange Boys are making two stops in North Texas this weekend as they head north and east out of Austin to launch their summer tour. Tomorrow night, you can catch the fellas at Rubber Gloves up in Denton.But tonight, a special…
Back in mid-April, there existed, if only for a moment, a glimmer of hope for Dallas’ ever-struggling cultural scene: District 14 councilmember Angela Hunt, on a trip to the Pacific Northwest, gleefully updated her Twitter status to share a litany of pleasant experiences she’d had with the public transportation, parks…
Last week, at our weekly, Wednesday night DC9 in SPACE taping, the duo of Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Don Sandlin, otherwise known as RTB2, stopped by SPACE Studios for an intimate, low-key, 40-minute-or-so performance for a pretty good sized crowd, actually. It all made for a grand time–Becker’s attempts to harness his in-performance animation,…
Passion PitGranada TheaterJune 2, 2009 Better than: Staying home and watching a cartoon or puppet show with a character whose voice sounds like Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos’ vocals. In today’s fast-moving indie music climate, hype so often outdoes form, disappointment has seemingly become act after act’s cliched finish. This is, for…
A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began–somewhat quietly, I admit. Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were…
Perhaps you recall this Unfair Park item from early last month about the efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theatre in Oak Cliff? Well, either way, point is: It’s still happening. And former DC9 contributor Jeff Liles is a big part of that resurrection, helping to spearhead the process. But, beyond…
Someone at MTV sure must like Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance, ’cause, on Sunday night, the fellas in the band saw not one, but a whopping two songs played on the season finale of the channel’s not-quite-reality show, The Hills: “Out of My Hands,” which got some early airplay in…
Not too much to be had on ye ol’ Youtube today as far as this past weekend’s offerings of live music is concerned. Maybe it’s ’cause, y’kniow, it maybe wasn’t the greatest weekend ever for live music? Maybe. Alas, next weekend’s looking much better. But more on that as the…
Heard this above song, called “I Got It,” on K104 over the weekend. It’s the new single from Dallas’ own Big Hoodboss and it comes with some major help courtesy of verses from D-Town Boogie superstars Lil Wil and Tum Tum. Apparently, it’s just the latest single off Big Hoodboss’…
Over the next few months, Erykah Badu will slowly but surely move her home recording studio–filled with a blend of cutting edge and vintage hardware and equipment–from its current home location to its future one within the confines of the South Side on Lamar building just south of downtown. The…
Kim Lenz, who Rolling Stone once praised by claiming that, “if Elvis had been a woman, he probably would have sounded just like Dallasite Kim Lenz,” may have relocated from our fair city to the left coast in recent years, but it’s still worth noting that, in just a few…
Matthew Gray, the Matthew in Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, is up to some real interesting things of late, not the least of which include his efforts with his Bee’s Fifth Collective and the music he’s been creating with his new, solo project with an ever-evolving, rotating cast of additional…
Bear with the local music scene this weekend as it prepares for what should be a pretty emotional span of shows. But it’s all very well-deserved, mind you, so don’t get too distracted amongst all these feelings. Things will be especially trying on Thursday night at the Granada Theater as…
Yep, we’ll be doing this again, right here. Won’t tell you who’s playing, though. You’ll have to stop by yourself if you wanna see. It’s gonna be awesome, though, as always. That’s a promise. Tonight’s taping is set to kick off at, oh, about 9:30 or so. See you there?(Many,…
Although it has already been posted elsewhere, after the jump, you’ll see a press release from the folks at Etc. Etc., detailing their stance and thoughts on why their Saturday night party at the 1800 Lear St. warehouse was busted up by the Dallas Police Department and the Texas Alcoholic…
It’s not often that a Swedish folk singer makes her way to our area. And, sadly, tonight is not going to be the exception. Violinist/singer-songwriter Theresa Andersson has canceled tonight’s gig at AllGood Café–as well as her entire tour–due to a throat infection.And actually, although born on the Swedish island…
Paste Magazine’s been a big supporter of the DFW music scene in the past year or so, specifically dolling out the praise to a number of Denton bands. So on that note–and, yes, maybe we should have mentioned this earlier–may we direct your attention to the campaign to save the…
Over on Unfair Park at the moment, Wilonsky’s got the low-down on the latest project from Tim DeLaughter and Julie Doyle, a children’s musical and visual affair called Wee See–a development which certainly must come as a shock to anyone familiar with the Polyphonic Spree’s dark, NC-17 musical stylings. Says…
…why, just do what any responsible truth seeker would do, and turn to Wikipedia. That’s what one Friend of DC9 did at 12:40 a.m. on Monday morning/Sunday night. And here’s what he found: “Wilco had Jay Bennett killed because he was suing them.” Seriously–he took a screen grab of the…
Starting, oh, in about an hour and a half now at 6 p.m. at Bryan Street Tavern (which promises to host regular live music shows any day now), friends of Carter Albrecht’s will gather to host a listening party for Albrecht’s posthumously released album Jesus is alive…and living in London…
Another weekend, another flurry of Youtube videos showing you what you could have seen this weekend around the ol’ Metroplex…Day 26 on Thursday, May 21, at House of BluesP. Diddy’s modern-day boy band Day 26, stars MTV’s Making the Band, stopped through town late last week for a show at…
Since we’ve already directed your attentions to one new music video from an act with area ties, really, what’s another at the start of the work week? (Welcome back, by the way.)This one comes from former UFOFUer and Secret Machine member Benjamin Curtis’ new Brooklyn-based project, School of Seven Bells,…
