The New York Times checked in with St. Vincent yesterday, a day after her sophomore album, Actor, earned its official release–mostly, it seems, because the NYT wants in on the hype, dammit. The piece is mostly a straight up feature profile, with very little color commentary from the article’s scribe…
As I retweeted just moments ago (check out our Twitter-log in the right-hand column on this page…and follow me, too, if ya want), Centro-matic’s got a gig tomorrow night at the Granada Theater with the fine fellows of The Crash That Took Me and Austin’s The Monahans. And while that’s…
For my money, Passion Pit’s “Sleepyhead” (see above video) is the leading candidate for electro dance track of the young year (apologies to Empire of the Sun’s “Walking on a Dream”)–to say nothing of the fact that the band, which stops through town for a gig at the Granada Theater…
That above headline comes at the request of Mike Biggs, the man behind Life in Deep Ellum, who briskly walked past me two weekends ago at the second annual Mokah Music Summit and Showcase and opined as much, expressing his disappointment in the number of people (or lack thereof) who’d…
Pardon if this news is coming a whole 24 hours late–I’ve been out of the office for the past week and spent my morning sifting through stacks of unopened CDs and an inbox filled with press releases. Oh, the joys of the office!But I digress.Regardless of time concerns, it’s worth…
It’s been five years now since Slow Roosevelt decided to end its run as Dallas’ perennial Next Big Thing that never quite was. The band, which for most of its seven-year existence was the go-to choice for the top kinda-metal act in town (according, at least, to the vote counts…
Late last night/early this morning, the Twittersphere was ablaze with TinyURLs linking to the official 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup, which had suddenly been announced some time around midnight.As expected, the headlining acts are straight out the mid-’90s with Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys…
For the last, oh, I dunno, but it seems like forever, The King Bucks have managed to turn the otherwise pretty low-key Monday nights around town into something of a big deal, packing country music and drinking fans alike into Adair’s Saloon at the band’s weekly residency in the ol’…
In this week’s dead tree version of DC9, Observer contributor Eric Grubbs offers up tomorrow night’s Gaslight Anthem/Heartless Bastards show at the Granada Theater as one of our Critic’s Picks for the week. Why? Well, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the…
Wow. This weekend is nuts-o busy, huh? And, really, we’ve already covered most of the big events in advance, so, lucky me, this’ll be a fairly short Good Friday…First, as always, the show’s we’ve hyped already in the blog or in print.On tap for tonight: Man Man, The Boom Boom…
We’ve mentioned the trip-hoppin’, Portishead-soundin’ locals in Shock of Pleasure a few times on here over the past year or so. And though the band continues to leave us scratching our heads by booking gigs to play places like the Mansion on Turtle Creek and the Shops at Legacy in…
For no apparent reason, this month’s Spin magazine–the one with the reunited No Doubt on the cover (see right)–is action-packed with interviews, props and nods to Dallas artists. By my count, there’s six call-outs in total… In the “Songs You Must Hear Now” feature, local hipster-hop duo (and noted DC9…
When reached by phone, Bruce Richardson is a little timid. That’s understandable: Richardson doesn’t want to go down as The Man Whose Complaints Shut Down Good Records’ Party. “I’m just a guy who called and said I had noise coming into my house and followed up on it,” he says…
For more pictures from the event, check out our slideshow.In a town renowned the world over for its high-class strip clubs, it’s actually kinda surprising that more concerts aren’t held in the always super-friendly confines of Manana Drive’ finest business establishments. Because, really, oh how decadent such shows can be.Tuesday…
As space was pretty tight in the print edition this week, I wasn’t able to fit the entirety of my interviews with VEGA’s Alan Palomo or the Granada Theater’s Mike Schoder into the space for my column this week on the Crystal Castles cancellation at the Granada. Below, find the…
As space was pretty tight in the print edition this week, I wasn’t able to fit the entirety of my interviews with VEGA’s Alan Palomo or the Granada Theater’s Mike Schoder into the space for my column this week on the Crystal Castles cancellation at the Granada. Below, find the…
Things were pretty damn close to turning ugly at the Granada Theater last Tuesday night. (Well, as ugly as a crowd of gussied-up hipsters dressed in their American Apparel finest can get, anyway.) At 10 o’clock, some three hours after the doors were supposed to open to a performance from…
Few acts among the crowded local mall-pop scene are as sonically promising as The Secret Handshake. Luis Dubuc’s songs are bouncy, light, danceable affairs, simple and predictable almost to a fault, and unapologetically influenced by nostalgia for ’90s Top 40 pop tunes. His home-production skills are quite impressive too: My…
Hate to do this, folks, as I know I promised that the story would be up today, but I just now got off the phone with Good Records’ Chris Penn, with the Dallas Police Department’s Deputy Chief Vincent Golbeck and with Bruce Richardson, secretary and one of the founding members…
Sooner or later, we’ll probably stop referring to The Orbans as the band formerly known as The Lifters. The above video, shot by Jon Collins’ crew The Apparat (the same people that brought you Doug Burr’s excellent “Should’ve Known” video), should help us get there. Great stuff form Collins, as…
Spent all day Saturday (well, for the most part) at Good Records for the store’s combined 9th Birthday Bash and National Record Store Day Celebration. And, given the at-times cool and at-times brutally humid weather, that kind of marathon was something of a beating. A fun beating, but a beating…
Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram has word today that Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance will see its song “Outside” air on tonight’s episode of MTV’s The Hills. And, actually, that makes perfect sense, wouldn’t you know?This placement further continues the region’s serious pwnage of the drama-filled semi-reality show’s soundtrack, as…
