M. Ward, high off the success of his She & Him collaboration with Zooey Deschanel, his performance on Letterman last night and his just-released new album, will be stopping through town on Sunday, March 15, to play the 300-or-so-capacity Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. Tickets go on…
As Observer contributor Aaron Jentzen mentioned in this week’s paper (and as Noah Bailey and I discussed in last week’s podcast), the latest Swedish dance-pop sensation, Lykke Li, will be bringing her funky, subdued beats and her delicate, subdued vocals to the Granada Theater tomorrow night to perform what many…
Must be good to be Pitchfork Media. Reviewing records whenever you want, writing overblown reviews that go over most readers’ heads, applying arbitrary numbers to your reviews (even if they don’t seem to match up well with the actual written words of said reviews), not really reviewing an album at…
Surely, I wasn’t the only one who watched the NBA All-Star game festivities this past weekend. But did anyone else notice how often the Dougie and the Stanky Legg dances popped up over the course of the coverage? So much for waiting till next year’s game for legitimacy, I guess…Check…
Yep. And you said so, according to this 72-page study from a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which surveyed radio listeners in six markets, including DFW, only to find that they’re all dissatisfied with what they’re hearing. It’s not that hard, folks. Really, it isn’t. Just play more…
The Happy Bullets brought in a whole bunch of friends to Space on Friday night in its attempt to break a world record/shoot a music video for its new single “Fuck Yeah, I’m In Love With You”. Giggle Party was there; The King Bucks were there, too. And so were…
OK. First off, sorry if this is coming a little late in the day and if our descriptions of these shows are a little shorter than usual. A couple unanticipated developments (like the SXSW complete schedule announcement, for instance) got us a little derailed this afternoon. But enough handcuffing. Onto…
Every year at SXSW, our parent company, Village Voice Media, hosts a day-party concert filled with enticing national names. This year will be no different, I’m told, although the lineup card for this year’s show hasn’t yet been announced. We’ll let you know as soon as it is. That said,…
This afternoon, SXSW unveiled its complete lineup of acts booked to play this year’s festival. It’s a lengthy list, and, honestly, it’s kinda a bitch to troll through, unless you’re looking for something specific. So we did the dirty work for you, hunting down the complete list of DFWd acts…
We’ll be there, documenting the Happy Bullets’ new video shoot for a slideshow you can expect to see here on Monday, I bet…
The Captain’s Dead blog, which, let’s face it, is about as good a source on Centro-matic as any thanks to its incessant fanship of the band, has an awesome bootleg available for yourdownloading pleasure of frontman Will Johnson (pictured above) performing solo at a recent Dan’s Silverleaf gig. In it,…
I’d be lying if I said I totally “got” The Secret Handshake, the widely regarded indie/dance emo-pop project of Dallas’ own Luis Dubuc. One the one hand, I don’t really see what makes him so different from the throngs of other like-minded acts around town, or why he’s gotten so…
Yep, that’s a young pre-97’s Rhett MIller in the video from 1987, posted above–just part one of a two-part Hi-Res Diner interview (part deux is after the jump) Dragon Street Records’ David Dennard posted to Youtube last week. It’s a continuation of this performance, which we showed you last month.In…
The now-Austin-based (and formerly Dallas-based–frontman Ryan Sambol and his brother, bass player Phillip, are the sons of Bob’s Steak and Chophouse owner Bob Sambol) lo-fi garage rockers The Strange Boysare getting all prepped for the March 24 release of its debut LP, The Strange Boys…And Girls Club. And, as a…
The Damaged Good$ deal at Fallout isn’t the only fairly awesome, free show kickin’ around Dallas tonight. In fact, if you pace yourself, you’ll be able to catch some of the region’s finest for a good six hours straight tonight. (OK, with some breaks thrown in.) Start your night off…
Buried in an otherwise mundane press release received this afternoon about Ozzy Osbourne’s plans to hit the recording studio this summer to co-produce his tenth studio record comes a bit of bad news for area metal fans hoping that Ozzfest would return to Pizza Hut Park in Frisco in 2009:”Ozzy…
Given the amount of hoopla surrounding the red-hot local production duo of Play-N-Skillz lately–the abundant MTV coverage, the Grammys pre-party, etc.–the brothers Salinas (Juan and Oscar) had plenty of confidence heading into Sunday night’s Grammy Awards–maybe too much, considering how, last week, before the awards show, Juan (aka Play) promised…
In this week’s installment of the DC9 at Night podcast, Noah Bailey, Jesse Hughey and I tackle some serious, serious local music issues, like the Slobberbone reunion, the hopefully not-so-meager prospects of the upcoming NX35 festival in Denton and Black Tie Dynasty’s breakup.We also talk more on The Me-Thinks latest…
It’s fitting, perhaps, that Kevin Costner and his band, Modern West, played Dallas last week. The guy’s starred in a few movies, like Field of Dreams. And a few others, I think. But let’s keep the focus on Field of Dreams—or, more specifically, on that one line from that movie…
Welcome to This or That, the weekly segment here on DC9 where we stream an unmarked song and ask, simply enough, “Is this [POP BAND X] or just another crappy local band?” Why? Because we don’t think you’ll be able to tell the difference between the real thing and the…
If, by chance, you happen to be in Austin this weekend and you find yourself suddenly homesick for Dallas, well, here;s one way to get your fix: Attend the live-recording of Sarah Jaffe’s performance for Austin PBS affiliate KLRU’s new Austin City Limits web-specific show called ACL Stage Left. Jaffe…
Fans of bombastic area power pop/psychedelic rock act The Orange might have some trouble spotting the band on any area venue’s upcoming show calendars.Mostly because, um, The Orange has been peeled. Which is to say that it’s done with.Well, partially. “As far as The Orange goes,” frontman Scott Tucker wrote…
