Upon first listen to Landmarks, the debut full-length from the Dallas-based Air Review (and one of the discs reviewed in this past week’s paper) it’s easy to see how someone might, at first, toss off the band as just another middle-of-the-road modern rock act with a serious case of Radiohead…
It’s been ten days now since Los Campesinos! rolled through town for a gig at the Granada Theater, and in the wake of that show, the above video of frontman Gareth shopping at Good Records popped up on the ol’ Youtube. Specifically, Gareth was on the prowl for 7” records…
We’ve hardly hid how impressed we are by the lineup at this year’s Dia de Los Toadies festival, which, in addition to the namesakes, will also feature The Secret Machines, Ben Kweller, Bowling For Soup, Eleven Hundred Springs and The Boom Boom Box out at Rough Creek Ranch in Glen…
The Fun Fun Fun Festival’s web site has yet to update itself with this, but if our friends over at GorillaVsBear are to be believed (UPDATE: Fun Fun Fun Fest’s Twitter stream confirms lineup), then that above image is the official, full, complete lineup for the 4th Annual Fun Fun…
On Thursday, September 24, Dallas’ own The Polyphonic Spree will perform a free concert at the Palladium Ballroom, as part of Southern Comfort’s national underCOVER concert series. Oddly enough, the opening act on the bill will be Public Enemy’s DJ Lord, who, says the presser, will be “mashing up old…
Last week, we offered you a bonus mp3 from the disc, but, today, Dallas-based producer Rob Viktum’s new EP, Aight, New Drink, was posted, in its entirety, as a free download on the web site Rappers I Know. You can go ahead and get a copy by clicking right here…
The folks at the Granada Theater must’ve been pleased as pie on Friday night, having sold out of tickets for its fifth anniversary celebration an all.Of course, it helps that the venue had some local favorites on the bill to help draw in the crowds: Openers Danny Balis and Macon…
Old 97’s, Telegraph CanyonBass Hall, Fort WorthAugust 21, 2009Better than: a night at the opera. Make no mistake: The crowd came to Bass Hall–some dressed in their operahouse best, others in more dive bar attire–for the Old 97’s. And though they’d sure get the Old 97’s–to the tune of a…
Feels like this week has flown by, but maybe that’s because I’m back in the saddle again here at DC9. Which means, yep, it’s on me again to put together your weekend show list. So, without further ado, here it is. First, the show’s we’ve already brought to your attention–and…
Should be quite the celebration tonight on Lower Greenville as the beloved Granada Theater celebrates its fifth anniversary tonight with a powerhouse bill headlined by a reunited Slobberbone and featuring two other local favorites, Macon Greyson and Danny Balis, both of which will be hocking new discs at the show…
Psych-folk fans should be freaking out–and rightfully so–about tomorrow night’s show at The Loft, featuring Woods, Denton’s own Matthew and The Arrogant Sea, and Sweden’s Dungen, the last of which Observer contributor Andy Tennille geeks out on in this week’s paper. In particular, Tennille extolled the virtue’s of Dungen’s latest,…
The folks at Pitchfork have taken the week of from reviewing new music–although, to their credit, they’ve been quite busy with another entertaining task: Counting down the top 500 tracks of the ’00s. (Sidenote: The locally based Gorilla Vs. Bear blog also released its favorite tracks and albums of the…
The late-night tweets came fast and furious from area MCs and radio personalities alike, each relayed with a certain tone of shock.The surprising word was spreading fast: Earlier in the evening, at approximately 10 p.m., Dallas urban radio personality Nate Quick passed away, apparently due to liver complications. According to…
According to a press release that apparently went out to every media outlet in the world today, Dallas’ own Norah Jones has a new album coming out in November–her fourth overall, and first in two years. After the jump, the press release in full, since it features some Jones quotes…
In this week’s print edition, Observer contributor Doug Davis talked shop with indie rock chanteuse Natasha Khan, or, as he puts it, “the wildly creative force behind Bat for Lashes.” It’s a great interview, explaining the British Khan’s love/hate relationship with America, and how that relationship helped shape the idea…
Ticket re-sale web site StubHub announced its annual “Most Rockin’ City of the Summer” list this morning, and, according to its numbers, Dallas, is the No. 7 most rockin’ city in the U.S. of A. this season. Or, for those of you playing at home, three spots up from last…
Paul McCartneyCowboys StadiumAugust 19, 2009Better than: a competitive round of Rock Band: Beatles, to say the least. Download: For more pictures from last night’s show, check Patrick Michels’ slideshow from the night.For the first hour or so of Paul McCartney’s set at Cowboys Stadium last night, the show had a…
Fans of Air Review’s swamp-cum-bombast single, “Chasing Corporate” will be taken somewhat aback by the opening track of this impressive, heavily Radiohead-influenced debut. Because, rather than continue along the radio-friendly path of the undoubtedly catchy, clap-along single, album-opener “Exodus” finds Air Review flexing its vocal harmony muscle. Instruments swirling with…
It’d be easy to lump Trey Johnson’s solo work in with his earlier efforts as the frontman for Sorta. That old familiar voice, after all, in all its vulnerable, heartfelt glory, still bounds about—and, with this record coming via Johnson’s name and not Sorta’s, that shining, delightful beacon gets placed…
It’s fitting, perhaps, that the first sound heard on the new Telegraph Canyon record, The Tide and the Current, is the faint whisper of a buzzsaw churning in the distance, humming behind the introductory piano chords of opening track “Into the Woods” as the song teases its audience with an…
…and for the Luddites still rockin’ the Youtube, here’s your link.This week’s installment of DC9 in Space starts with a tandem swig of beer, features maybe a few too many one-liners from King Buck keys man Chad Stockslager, and ends with a performance of “Tethered,” one of the many fine,…
Our ears were burning, so we went ahead and checked out what our counterparts at the Observer’s sister paper in Houston, the Press, was up to on its music blog lately. And, sure enough, it’s all Dallas all the time down in H-Town these days.(OK, not really, but two posts…
