There was still bubble wrap on the rafters and plastic over the doorway at the 3619 Greenville Avenue last night, but it was still easy to see what the newest bar from some familiar faces will become. “It’s just a neighborhood bar with snappy background decor,” says owner John Kenyon…
We here at DC9 At Night are excited for Friday. In partnership with The Granada Theater, we’re bringing you a showcase including some of the most exciting voices in Dallas’ hip-hop scene. Everyone’s favorite Nawfside duo, A.Dd+ will headline the bill with support from Blue The Misfit, Sam Lao, -topic,…
Yesterday, a deadline loomed. La Rondalla, a free after-school music program for students in Oak Cliff and Dallas, was running out of funding options, and a Kickstarter campaign spearheaded by founder Dennis Gonzalez was still shy of its goal of $15,000. But with time winding down, the meter tipped north…
What are you waiting for, Dallas? We’ve got a throwback teenybopper pop star, a sampling of some of the best local hip hop this city has to offer, one of the heaviest metal bills we’ve seen in a good while, and Deep Ellum’s first arts and music festival of 2014…
Another quiet week early in 2014 nevertheless features a few great shows, including Nashville goofballs Royal Bangs on Thursday at Club Dada, a heavyweight metal bill at Lola’s Saloon and our own hip-hop showcase at Granada Theater (not featured below, for obvious reasons). The Mother Hips Thursday, January 9, Dan’s…
Yesterday, an announcement was made that The Toadies’ major label debut, Rubberneck, will be reissued in April on Kirtland Records. Remastered for CD and vinyl with five unreleased bonus tracks, this is obviously a pretty big deal for longtime fans of the band. The band will head out on an…
This music blog takes its name from the opening line of Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Dallas,” a song written in the early ’70s and recorded most famously by his trio with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, The Flatlanders. Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night? On Monday, after…
Friday, Friday, Friday! The North Texas Hip-Hop Showcase, presented by us here at the Dallas Observer, brings heavyweights under the bright lights at the Granada Theater. In addition to -topic (pictured above), the show will feature Blue, The Misfit, Sam Lao, Lord Byron, Jaeson Green, AV the Great and your…
Los Angeles’ Bad Suns formed in 2012 and have quickly made commercial inroads via a couple of nice EPs produced by Eric Palmquist. Blending post punk influences from the late 80’s with a modern indie sensibility, the band is capable of channeling both The Clash and The Cure. From his…
Some things are just timeless: among them a fine wine, a François Truffaut picture and seeing ’80s pop princess Tiffany perform in a shopping mall. This Thursday, the seminal bubblegum one-hit wonder will hit Lewisville’s Vista Ridge Mall. If you were born before 1990, you probably remember the music video…
When you walk into Books & More in north Denton, everything about the tiny-looking used-media shop comes as a surprise. “When I first went there, they had a bunch of comic books, I was a kid, and the lady there let me work there,” says Charles Wright, 22, a customer…
In August, DC9 at Night joined with Globe Trek Productions to create a series of videos of musicians (almost all North Texans) busking in the businesses and streets of Dallas. So far, we’ve featured 19 musicians, and we have plenty more in the pipeline. But before we head into a…
As we near the end of our coverage of the year that was, we’ve gathered the votes (over 300) on the finalists for North Texas Album of the Year. Among those featured were remarkable statements from new bands (like Radioactivity’s self-titled release), and Midlake’s Antiphon wasn’t the only surprisingly forward-looking…
Two days, 12 hours in, and I feel like a stuck balloon. No energy drink can pull me from the oppressive blankness that clouds my mind. I lie in a broken, noodle-like mass on the floor outside of the main stage, searching for restful escape in an iPhones’ application folder…
Well folks, we’ve got a slow show week upon us. Which makes sense, considering we’re all taking our Christmas trees down and recovering from all the holiday hoopla that has taken over our day-to-day lives for the last couple of months. Though quantity may be low, quality is high. Between…
Every generation has an underground music scene that only an elite group of fans and the NSA know of. In the ’60s, psychedelic music, for example, exploded onto the hippies’ counterculture scene with music by The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. (And let’s not forget the Velvet Underground.)…
The eleven alternative weeklies of Voice Media Group are responsible for a tremendous amount of music writing: This year, we produced thousands of pages of printed stories and tens of thousands of blog posts. We’re proud to present the very best of that work in the second annual Voice Media…
It’s the quietest week of the live music year, with everyone nursing a New Year’s Eve hangover and preparing for the spring album release bonanza. You can still find plenty to keep your nights full, though, with a hometown show from blues titan Lance Lopez and some promising punk. Riverboat…
We here at DC9 at Night are extremely saddened to report the passing of Benjamin Curtis. Last night in New York, Curtis lost a year-long battle with cancer at the age of 35. Though a native Oklahoman, Curtis was a Dallas resident and treasured member of the local music scene…
“I feel like we’ve been abandoned in the Universe of all forces of good and they’re just watching us self-destruct,” says X frontwoman, Exene Cervenka from her Seattle hotel room. “It’s saddened me because I really thought something would have come around and said ‘Nonononono, these people are all going…
Two blocks away from the Dallas Convention Center for Lights All Night, and that rumbling, white noise roar of a crowd pre-concert is already audible.The colossal sonic happenings inside – thousands of feet removed, and buffered by countless layers of stone and steel – vibrate the downtown concrete architecture both…
It’s getting to be time to focus on 2014: A year we think will be a good one in North Texas music. Here are 12 of the artists and bands we expect to be on everyone’s year-end highlight roundups this December. See also: Five Local Rappers to Watch in 2013…
