Spend your whole weekend waiting for, reading and re-reading The New York Times’ Denton article? Well, here’s what you missed (and what you didn’t) around town over the weekend: The “pop punk” quartet LoveHateHero rolled through The Door last Saturday on its current nationwide tour. The band’s melodies feature, “pop-sensibility…
Hey, now! The travel section of yesterday’s New York Times has sweet little profile of the little d in it, and it gets all “Is Denton the Next Austin?” while namedropping a bunch of local acts and even including a media player with songs from Midlake, Sarah Jaffe, The Baptist…
The Whigs, What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Dead Trees and Collin Herring The Loft May 9, 2008 Better Than: Well…the record, in The Whigs’ case. You know, for a town than supposedly views Austin with disdain, Dallas sure supports Austin musicians… It’s fairly well known that both The Black Angels…
Sarah Jaffe sings. (allisonvsmith.com) Mostly local stuff bubbling up as the tops in town this weekend, which is totally cool by us. Each one of the acts we’re mentioning are ones you should be familiar with–one ones you should familiarize yourself with. So how’s ’bout we step it up, ‘mkay?…
What you missed on DC9 this week as you sat around marveling at how much you actually enjoyed Iron Man… – We told you about Strawberry Fields’ move and what it meant for the future of the store’s DIY concerts. – We let you know about a certain icon’s upcoming…
Go ahead and set your iPods to the over-used but somehow still uplifting anthem “Clocks.” Because, ladies and gents, Coldplay’s coming back to town. According to the press release that arrived in our mailbox this afternoon, the “Viva La Vida” tour (same name as the upcoming album which, unfortunately, doesn’t…
The Black Crowes land in Addison. Does Addison have good taste in music? That’s debatable, judging by this lineup, but this weekend’s food and music festival, Taste Addison, has certainly managed to secure some big names for this year’s festival, including Friday performers Switchfoot and Gavin DeGraw and Saturday headliners…
How often do we get mail from bands? Often. How often do we get an actual hand-written letter from a band? Pretty damned rarely. I remember an inspirational greeting card from witty songstress Laura Palmer around last November and Daniel Folmer has been known to keep us updated on new…
Fort Worth singer/songwriter Tim Halperin plays his final area show this Friday at the Chicken Ranch, a club located in the Stockyards. The TCU student will then be off to his hometown of Omaha for a few months to reconnect with his roots. “The guys I used to play with…
Odd that these guys wrote “You’ll Never Make It.” (Chapman Baehler) California’s Pennywise has been playing its brand of working man’s punk for nearly 20 years now, and the members show little sign of slowing down. Even after the 1996 suicide of original member Jim Thirsk, the band soldiered on,…
What Made Milwaukee Famous (Cambria Harkey) We launched a new weekly DC9 feature called Aural Ambush yesterday, in which we hit the streets, armed with an archaic discman, and ask the people of Dallas their thoughts on a song from a band coming through town. Yesterday’s bit focused on the…
This is not the Sloppyworld sound system. This is just a tribute. John Freeman’s had himself a rough 2008 so far, between opening Sloppyworld, perhaps closing Sloppyworld, definitely closing Sloppyworld and trying to scrounge up the money to pay Sloppyworld’s leftover bills. Now, just four months before he heads off…
Mother’s Day’s coming up this week and—just in case you forgot, you miserable excuse for a child, you—Mom should be at the forefront of your mind. You do know Mom, right? The folkish electronic and instrumental duo from Denton whose debut EP, Little Brite, is still selling well (well, as…
OK, so this isn’t really news, per se–anyone who’s been to the Palladium recently has seen this on the venue’s TV screens–but My Morning Jacket, who our sister paper LA Weekly just deemed the “best live band in the world,” officially announced today its upcoming August 23 show at the…
Jesse Hughey wrote up a review of The Lash Outs’ new self-titled disc for this week’s paper, praising the band’s lyricism and enthusiasm within its straight-ahead punk rock approach. Specifically, he name-checks this song, “The Kids Don’t Wanna Dance,” and rightfully so. Check out these lyrics: And when I walk…
Marquise Knox sure doesn’t sound 17… (Peter Newcomb) Elvis T. Busboy and The Blues Butchers, a Dallas cover act, are the ostensible headliners at the Blue Shoe Project’s free festival Saturday, but the real highlight will be Marquise “Big Daddy” Knox from St. Louis. Knox is just 17 years old,…
“Airline’s really taking off, huh?” Ha! That’s funny. (Jason Upshaw) In this week’s paper, you’ll see a flattering review of local indie rock set Airline’s newest release, Farewell Republica. In the write-up, Darryl Smyers call the disc, “detailed, dramatic and not a little dense, this is local music of rare…
The Stars’ improbable run in the Stanley Cup playoffs continues tonight as Mike Modano and the gang head to Detroit for the first game in the western conference finals. Or so I’m told. Last time I really cared about hockey I was trying to make Gretzky’s head bleed. But, hey,…
When TVT Records filed for bankruptcy back in late February, it was easy to figure out what it would mean for artists on the label’s roster, like Dallas’ own The Polyphonic Spree: no more label obligations, monies owed, etc. But the fallout for those owed money by the label, which,…
Akkolyte, Aaron and Stefan Gonzalez’s grindcore duo (the two also perform with their father, Dennis, in experimental jazz project Yells At Eels), offers up a live show that’s about as fun as grindcore can get (it helps that it’s about as loud as any musical duo can get, too), and…
Cover art by Jayme Nourallah. Spoke with Rhett Miller earlier this week for a story about the Old 97’s new disc, Blame It On Gravity, which you’ll see in next week’s paper. In the meantime, head on over to the band’s Myspace page, where someone went ahead and added on…
I haven’t watched a single second of American Idol this season, the show’s seventh, and clearly I’m not alone; the ratings just keep dropping for the reality singing competition that made Burleson’s Kelly Clarkson a star. But area TV viewers did have a reason to watch the Fox reality show…
