Hercules & Love Affair at Club Dada, 9/24/14

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…

The Can’t-Miss Shows to Catch at Index Festival

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…

The Best Places in Dallas to Go When You’re Stoned

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,…

The Phuss Bounce Back from Recent Turmoil with On the Prowl

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…

Party Static is Dallas’ Most Wildly Fun Band

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,…

Granada Theater’s First 10 Years: Our Favorite Memories

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…

Single Wide to Celebrate Birthday with Typically Trashy Flair

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,…

Centro-matic to Call It Quits After December Tour

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…

The Best Concerts in Dallas This Week 9/22 – 9/26

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…

Best Concerts in Dallas this Weekend 9/19 – 9/21

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,…

Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt Hits Deep Ellum This Sunday

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…

Jacob Furr Celebrates Life in the Wake of Devastating Tragedy

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…

Busking with the Toadies: A Video Tour in Downtown Dallas

“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…

Can Oaktopia Become a Destination Festival in Denton?

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 –…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with DJ Boxx

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…