No one doubts what Rhett Miller, when he’s on, is capable of. Surely, the stalwart songs he penned for the Old 97’s back in the day are plenty proof of his top-notch abilities. But, alas, there’s his solo work—no doubt poppier fare than his 97’s stuff—and, you know, the fact…
Five-piece Fort Worth indie pop rock act Calhoun really doesn’t get the credit it deserves—which is saying a lot, considering how it walked away from this year’s Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards with wins in both the Best Songwriter and Best Song categories—and at least one prominent figure in the…
The year was 1982. The place was Studio D, a warehouse on Main Street. This is one of the only known photos of The Holy, taken sometime in October of ‘82 when the band was opening for Social Unrest. Ahhhh, those punk rock days of youth. Actually, various members of…
Not too long after discovering (OK, with some help) that Matthew JC and the Allstars, was the new favorite band of all CBS 11 employees comes this: Oak Cliff-based blues band Bona Fide Blues is a finalist in Advertising Week’s “Battle of the Ad Bands.” The band, made up of…
Noah Bailey said it quite well in the Night & Day section of this week’s paper: “Carlos Santana, for better or worse, is a legend.” For better or worse, indeed. And, yes, along those same lines, we have an offer: Two tickets to tonight’s Santana gig at Superpages.com Center–VIP parking…
Normally, I’d gloss over a cancellation like this, but c’mon, that joke was too easy to pass up. Per the press release: “Live Nation has announced that due to complications from Hurricane Ike, this Saturday’s 3 Doors Down concert featuring Hinder, Finger Eleven and American Bang at The Superpages.com Center…
We’re still hyping The New Year. You listen to it yet? (Allison Smith) Maybe the, I dunno, four or so posts here on DC9 over the past two weeks have clued you into the fact that we’re pretty big fans of The New Year here in the office. Or maybe…
So, New Monsoon hits the Granada tonight…is it too soon for an Ike joke? Actually, don’t answer that. (Jim Anderson) Spoke with the publicist for San Francisco-based jam band New Monsoon about two weeks ago, and she was kind enough to let us know that the band would be taping…
Cool video, right? That’s from These Are Powers, the Brooklyn-based band headlining the Parade of Flesh show at the Lounge tonight that Daniel Rodrigue wrote about for this past week’s paper. And, if you’re not headed to the Ratatat show at the Granada tonight, really, you could do much, much…
Speaking of Dallas hip-hop, Money Waters has just posted a couple of new videos for songs off his 2006 Swalhaggin (by the way, isn’t it about time for a follow-up?). Both directed by Mike Tinglin, “Can’t Live Without ‘Em” and “Submissive” each takes a look at sexual politics. Maybe that’s…
Many thanks to the folk’s over at Marc Ecko’s somewhat new magazine, Complex, for cluing us into the sure-to-be most embarrassing act to come out of the DFW area in some time. In all sincerity. Let’s meet him, shall we?…
Ain’t a stain on Big Tuck. Or the girls either, for that matter. This time, as a few other area blogs have already pointed out, it’s The Fader who checks in on the topic, giving ’bout 2,000 words or so to the cause. For the most part, it’s just a…
So, uh, Louis XIV, huh? Guess so… When’s The Reverend playing? Maybe you’re like me, and maybe you check Pollstar from time to time to see if there’s any shows coming through town that you might’ve missed. And maybe, a few weeks back you saw that Louis XIV was scheduled…
Sorry for the very, very late notice on this one, but I just found out about what seems like a pretty sweet deal going on tonight. According to this blog, Motown-like crooner Raphael Saadiq is apparently going to be in town tonight and stopping by Glo Lounge to host a…
Speaking of concerts in Dallas in the ’70s, I just stumbled upon this live soundboard recording of a Led Zeppelin’s May 18, 1973 performance at the Memorial Auditorium–but you’ll need to be a bit torrent downloader to get it. I know nothing about this show, other than that John Paul…
…Gary Thrain, bass player for Uriah Heep, got electrocuted during a gig at SMU’s Moody Coliseum. According to this Web site, here’s how it went down… …bassist Gary Thain, ordinarily very calm and even subdued, suddenly started seemingly dancing and jiggling around wildly on the right side of the stage…
…so much so that it hired the area band to write a song for its new promo spot (or so says Uncle Barky). I’ve never seen/heard these guys before, so I have no idea if this information is accurate. But, at the very least, it’s pretty amusing. And it could…
Spoke with Chris Penn down at Good Records last week. I called wondering if anyone from that fine store was going to be attending the Noise in the Basement Indie Record Store Convention in Baltimore next week. “We’re part of a coalition called AIMS [Alliance of Independent Media Stores] and…
So if you read Pete’s post on Friday, you know it was going to be a pretty interesting weekend. Was it? Well, dude, if you can remember it, you weren’t really there. Sure, Houston was putting on a hell of a show but it’s safe to say Dallas gave Ike…
Wow. Busy day today, huh? Anyway, there’s lots going on this weekend. And, actually, we’ve told you about a lot of it already. Tonight, there’s Grandmaster Flash spinning at Ghostbar, the Street Dogs show at House of Blues and the Dr. Dog show at Lola’s in Forth Worth. On Saturday,…
I was all ready to hype Deep Snapper’s next gig, September 24 at the Bar of Soap, but, umm, looks like it ain’t happening after all. Mark Carter of Madison Partners, longtime landlord for BoS owners Charlie and Tanna Gilder, told Robert Wilonsky that he changed the locks Tuesday after…
Matt Bauer’s a freakin’ hero. (Mikael Kennedy) Our own Daniel Rodrigue wrote about Oklahoma’s Evangelicals in June, and if you caught their show at Club Dada then you know they’re certainly worth checking out tomorrow night at The Cavern. The real draw, however, may be the spare, lovely Appalachian folk…
