Earlier this week, Kelly Dearmore showed you a video of Austin up-and-comers Sons of Fathers playing an acoustic song outside the Granada Theater. The Frisco-based video company, Globe Trek Productions, responsible for the video actually produced three in conjunction with Homegrown Music and Arts Festival last weekend. The other two…
In this week’s music feature, Gavin Cleaver gets up to speed with Whiskey Folk Ramblers. They just released an excellent sophomore album, The Lonesome Underground, which you can buy on their website. It’s been a long time coming for the band, which has lost members and engineers and still, as…
It was the summer of 2011, and the Whiskey Folk Ramblers were looking for some new direction. Wanting to keep a tight pace with recording their third album, The Lonesome Underground, the Whiskey Folk, a six-strong collective who’ve tasked themselves with bashing out the sort of songs you’d expect to…
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. In 2000, a 15-year old Gavin persuaded his dad to buy him a ticket to see the Smashing Pumpkins on their farewell tour. They were to play the cavernous NIA in Birmingham, England. Gavin had not been to see many concerts before. In…
It was an emotional night for more than a hundred who gathered for Denton’s folk-pop quintet Spooky Folk’s farewell show at Dan’s Silverleaf on Monday night. The beloved five are putting their live shows on hiatus so that singer Kaleo Kaualoku can marry and move to Denver at the end…
OK guys, this week is a little skimpy on the announcements, but rest easy knowing that so many good summer, fall and Justin Timberlake concerts have already been announced. What upcoming concert are you most excited for? See you in the comments!…
We here at DC9 at Night talk about music pretty much constantly. We talk about it every weekday on the blog you’re reading and once a week in the pages of the Dallas Observer. If you enjoy talking about music as much as we do, and can also express those…
Jukeboxes serve a simple yet critical role in bars everywhere. They can help you cope after a breakup, relax you after a long day of work, remind you of what you love most or fire you up and give you something to dance to. A jukebox used to be the…
Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Nation tour came to Cowboys Stadium, bringing the DFW Chapter of said Nation to Arlington for a day of drinking, flag waving and camaraderie. Massive country tours don’t get any better than this in 2013 — Kenny’s undercard includes unlikely superstar/brilliantly odd songwriter Eric Church, the…
Update, 5/13: As of 11:30, or an hour and a half into the regular on-sale, there are still plenty of tickets available. Our searches included hits for tickets nearly on the floor, toward the back of the arena, for $197 (!!) and some at the lowest price point, which is…
Homegrown Festival brought a solid crowd to Main Street Garden Park on a perfect Saturday. That crowd was unlike your typical concert-going group. Even for a music festival, there were a disproportionate number of kids in attendance. That’s by design: Those under 10 got in for free and the day…
The beatmakers, producers and DJs in Dallas are busting the local music scene wide open. We here at the Observer wanted to showcase that talent through mixes made by the best in the business, especially for DC9 at Night. So stream, download and share the mix with your friends. Relive…
Saturday in Dallas was a day you could choose to paint in the starkest possible contrasts, if that’s your thing. Two big gatherings cut from an extraordinarily different cloth were happening within a relatively pleasant fifteen-minute stroll of each other, and how often do you get to travel from one…
This weekend, Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will gather some of the area’s biggest and most interesting bands at Main Street Garden Park. This year, the lineup is once again all Texans, after the festival’s organizers decided they were losing the focus of the thing by expanding beyond the state’s…
When speaking of North Texas country music collective Chapter 11, we’re not using the term “collective” lightly. The project, dreamed-up by Sherman-based producer and engineer Dustin Hendricks, who’s worked with such greats as Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and even metal giants Hellyeah, isn’t a traditional band by any means. It’s…
Every community has its movers and shakers. Some are more outwardly apparent and get the social accolades, while some go unmarked by much of the community that they impact. Musician, college professor, sound engineer, poet and Denton resident Chris Hughes is of the latter category — motivated by making good…
We’ve got some pretty awesome shows happening in your city this week, and you wanna know what else? Of the twelve concerts listed below, some of the musicians in these bands have be involved in some crazy antics, including the following: 1. Got his/her eye pissed into by a bat,…
Last year at the annual Homegrown Music and Art Festival, director and producer Josh Florence noticed something out of place. The sun was beating on the Dallas skyline at Main Street Garden, which was filled with Dallasites and visitors alike. Hayes Carll’s romantic rockabilly sound enraptured the crowd. Everything seemed…
Here’s the thing about Ted Nugent — it doesn’t matter what you think about him. Yeah, his insane political statements are moronic at best, but his shtick is so thoroughly thought out that he manages to be a punchline and ideologue and a hero, to some all at the same…
Yesterday we unleashed the beast of information that is Justin Timberlake coming to town. For those of you who are fans and who haven’t yet heard, commence pants-shitting. Now on to other business! Let’s not forget about Alpha Rev, Devin the Dude and more; specifically Josh Groban, who has been…
This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we’ll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. CD Source owner, Lance Price, saw a combination of new releases and classic albums creep toward…
Last night in Dallas there was a man seemingly composed entirely of hips, the James Brown of Americana-folk, Mr. Father John Misty. He glided across the stage of the Granada Theater crotch-first, the first man to perfect the penis-led moonwalk. It was as if he was made only of the…
