You could probably refer to Danny Rush with just about whatever surname you want to at this point. That’s pretty well what he’s started doing. Many know him through his musical exploits in Denton as Danny Folmer, some as Danny Rush, and nowadays he calls himself Danny Diamonds. We just,…
When it comes to live music venues, Dallas has polychromatic shades of bar staffs, from its draft-pouring, quietly rustic bartenders to the sophisticated mixologists with novel ways of concocting a drink. When you frequent a venue often enough, it’s nice to be remembered. This could very well mean you need…
Lily Allen With MR Little Jeans House of Blues, Dallas Monday September 15, 2014 On her first visit to Dallas at the House of Blues, Lily Allen took the stage purple-haired and dressed like a shiny bit of Christmas tinsel. She was surrounded by a backdrop of large baby bottles…
“I always say, with any job you’re in there’s that one question that you have to answer,” explains Chris McDonald, Marketing Manager for the Granada Theater, as he chips crumbs off of an oversized chocolate chip cookie at the front table of Society Bakery on Greenville Avenue. “Like their main…
Coheed and Cambria are currently on tour promoting the reissue of their second album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. They play tonight, September 15, at South Side Music Hall with Thank You Scientist. The New York-based four-piece is playing the record from start to finish, but doing much…
The Black Lips With King Khan & BBQ and PVC Street Gang Granada Theater, Dallas Saturday, September 13, 2014 There’s been a fair amount of talk about rock ‘n’ roll music in the past few months. Whether it’s an unintelligible acceptance speech by Alex Turner or the death sentence handed…
Dia De Los Toadies Festival With the Toadies, Old 97’s, Ume, Quaker City Night Hawks, Pleasant Grove, Somebody’s Darling, Residual Kid, The Longshots and Blank-Men Panther Island Pavilion, Fort Worth Saturday, September 13, 2014 With apologies to the out-of-town artists that performed during Saturday’s Dia de Los Toadies concert at…
Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest IV With Panda Bear, SOPHIE, Ejecta, Doss and Blues Control Granada Theater, Dallas Friday, September 12, 2014 The first song I recall falling in love with was “Kokomo,” the ’88 Beach Boys radio hit. I was four or five and in my mom’s car on the…
The week ahead will have its mundane moments. That’s just a part of life. However, as per usual, we here at DC9 have more than a few ways to spice it up for you with some live music suggestions. There’s the biting satire of Lily Allen, Justin Nozuka’s soulful folk,…
This one might’ve gotten by you last night. It nearly got by us. Thursday night at Twilite Lounge is normally the territory for Good Luck Karaoke, but last night the routine got put on hold and singer-songwriter Madison King played a show instead. Oh, and it was also Rhett Miller’s…
The story of Deep Ellum’s comeback is not a new one, but there is a new neighbor in the form of Red Light Lounge. In the spot on main street that was once Eden Lounge this new offshoot of Lizard Lounge has been throwing one-off events all summer long to…
This Saturday in Fort Worth at Dia de Los Toadies, on a line-up filled with promising talent and proven veterens, there may not be a band that represents the past while pointing to the future as vividly and dramatically as Pleasant Grove does. The five-piece, formed in late 1998 by…
Well, it’s the weekend and it’s been a crazy week. The National Football League has proven itself to be a true shitstorm and foreign affairs, with ISIS and all, aren’t looking so hot. But at least you’ve got music. You’ve worked hard all week and now you can go out…
Record stores all the rage this season. Normally the fall is the time for bands and labels to roll out new albums and promotional tours, but in Dallas it’s the record stores making the moves. Off the Record, which opened a couple weeks ago in Deep Ellum, is a bar…
The lines “M-A-R-S. Mars, bitches,” declare what The Outfit, TX, are shooting for with their current project. It’d be easy to chalk up the reference to the group’s characteristic “cooly fooly space age funk” aesthetic, or even just the song’s title. But it goes a bit deeper than that, because, to…
Isaiah Rashad With the Outfit TX, Blue the Misfit and Buffalo Black, 7 p.m. Thursday, September 11, at Trees, 2709 Elm St., 214-741-1122 or treesdallas.com, $3 In 2013, L.A.-based indie label Top Dawg Entertainment found a new wave of Southern trill in their newest affiliate, Isaiah Rashad. Deep from the…
Face it: You still love the Toadies. Try as you might, you just can’t help getting all the feels any time you hear that opening riff to “Possum Kingdom.” It might as well always be 1993. In fact, more so than you think: This weekend marks the seventh-annual Dia De…
Dallas is going through a bit of a record store renaissance. Over the past year, the vinyl comeback that has been root throughout the music industry has made its presence felt locally, as well. Of the stores opening, including the recently opened Off the Record and the soon-to-be-christened Spinster Records,…
Dallas is home to a significant number of producers and DJs that are well known internationally but mostly off the radar in their hometown. Demarkus Lewis is very much one of those DJs. It’s highly unlikely any other musician or producer in Dallas has more releases under his belt. Lewis…
“We want to write epic songs so that we can do big, epic shows,” says Matthew Vasquez, frontman for Delta Spirit. Speaking from a tour stop in Chicago during a lightning storm, Vasquez says that he is ready to return to Dallas. He gets his wish tonight as his band…
Leanne Macomber has always been a nomad. One-half of the New York-based synth-pop duo Ejecta, the one-time Dallas and Denton resident has long led a transient existence. Growing up an Air Force brat, Macomber lived all over the country before settling in Texas. She’s shuffled through different cities, different states,…
With all of the space given by the local press to the nationwide impact of North Texas musicians on a variety of genres, it’s shocking that so little has been written about the area’s influence on the American hardcore scene. For a musical style that’s all too often written off…
