Hercules and Love Affair With Nick Monaco and DJ Red Eye Club Dada, Dallas Wednesday, September 24, 2014 Hercules & Love Affair, the product of Andy Butler and his ever-changing group of collaborators, no longer have the electro-disco pop sound that made such a bold impression on their self-titled 2008…
There are more music festivals in Dallas at any given moment than there are Tumblr blogs about One Direction or goldfish in a Petsmart. Yes, another festival is happening this weekend, but you should absolutely be paying attention to this one. What more can you ask for than a festival…
On a rare day off, War On Drugs’ frontman Adam Granduciel speaks to me from his Philadelphia home. In the background, clinking kitchen noise can be heard as he prepares his morning coffee (“French Press,” he specifies). The 35-year-old songwriter hardly needs the caffeine; he’s excitedly loquacious as he speaks,…
Texas may not be Colorado, but hell, that’s never stopped us from being awesome. That’s just kind of a rule of thumb for life in general, but it’s particularly appropriate when it comes to, you know, marijuana. Getting high. Baked. Stoned. Keyed. Whatever the hell lingo you happen to prefer,…
Even if the Phuss “Don’t Feel Good,” they really ought to. You see, they’ve had to deal with some real emotional whiplash over the past few months. Early in the summer came the exciting news that they had signed to New York label Magnetic Eye Records, who would be releasing…
It’s now been a couple of years since Dallas-based folk-rocker Ronnie Fauss delivered his debut full-length record for New West imprint Normaltown Records, 2012’s I Am the Man You Know I’m Not. That album won him national acclaim from notable outlets such as Vanity Fair and the New York Times,…
Party Static light up a room. With their five members carousing on stage and their scuzzy, nonsensical music, they’re a band who truly lives up to their name. There’s the locked-in, simple rhythm section of Billy Kuykendall and Alex Mitchell. There’s the fuzzy riffing of Brett Michael Strawn. And then,…
This month, the Granada Theater is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a music venue. It was then that Michael Schoder bought the then-movie theater and transformed it into the concert venue we know and love today. To help mark the occasion, we decided to pull together our favorite memories from…
When iconic dive bar and live music venue Double Wide opened its doors at the convergence of Fair Park and Deep Ellum over a decade ago, the model trailer home, a paragon of irony, quickly became a favored hangout. Its success prompted owner Kim Finch’s decision to expand the franchise,…
Yesterday afternoon social media started to fill with laments when word trickled out that one of North Texas’ most lauded and best loved artists, Centro-matic, would be calling it quits after their upcoming December tour. The group’s fervent fan base is sure to make their 14 remaining dates as a…
Oaktopia Festival With Neon Indian, Immortal Technique and more Denton Friday, September 19 and Saturday, September 20, 2014 For a line-up that didn’t really move the needle much, Oaktopia sure as hell brought out the kids. Which is a fantastic thing if you were a venue who could charge people…
This is the last full week of September. Soon enough it’ll be October, then Halloween, then Christmas and then 2015. Time flies so spend it wisely, like by going to shows in North Texas. There’s yet another music festival, a rock legend at the American Airlines Center, free shit at…
You probably love Spotify, lest you’re an old-school rock dude, like Thom Yorke, or believe the Internet is evil (well, it kind of is). The ease and wide-ranging catalog is the equivalent of having Christmas everyday for music enthusiasts. Unless we have a cool dad or mom, most of us…
And now we have the whole picture. Lights All Night Fest has been slowly rolling out the details of its fifth-annual, year-end dance music bash to be held at Dallas Convention Center on December 26 and 27. Last month it unveiled the headliners, which were no slouches as far as…
Well, it’s the weekend once again. We here at DC9 hope you powered through the week and that you’re looking for some relief. We want you to go to some bars and have a few drinks. We want you to pregame beforehand. (That’s just being fiscally responsible.) But most importantly,…
Want to contribute to a good cause while also getting a sweet hookup on some concert tickets? Sure you do. For the third year running, the folks at Fun Fun Fun Fest are hosting a scavenger hunt in Deep Ellum as a way to preview the upcoming festival (it takes…
Folk singers are storytellers. The best ones are able to take the most simplistic subject matter and make it ache with beauty. The great ones can also take life’s greatest complexities and unanswerable questions and present us with a new, relatable vision with which we can view such big-picture wonderings…
Frank Edwards is a busy man these days. Earlier this month, for the second time this summer, rumors began to circulate that his bar, July Alley in Deep Ellum, was set to close. The reported closing date has come and gone, and yet Edwards still seems like a man burning…
“Hello, we’re the Toadies.” So says Vaden Todd Lewis in one of his few between-songs remarks in the latest installment of Globe Trek Productions’ Busking series. Appropriately, it comes after he and the boys have finished playing a cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” — just in case there was…
Last year, when Dentonites Matt Battaglia and Corey Claytor set out to bring local bands together for an Oak Street music fest, there was no one who could have predicted what the small, five-stage festival would grow into in just one year. This year’s incarnation of their young festival –…
Since mid-spring, Chicago and Dallas resident DJ Boxx and his partner Jasmine Holt have been hosting Deep Inside, a monthly residency at Crown & Harp of the deepest, funkiest and most authentic house residencies in the city. More than just an admirer of the birthplace of house music, DJ Boxx…
I’m standing in Danny Rush’s house in Denton sipping a beer, occasionally taking a swig from a bottle of Old Granddad and admiring a collection of country music star paintings he commissioned from local artist Clay Stinnett. There are Freddy Fender, Hank Snow, Hank Williams and Gary Stewart, all done…
