A spitting, snarling, unbridled Nick Cave stalked McFarlin Auditorium last night, displaying the same unmatched punk fury he’s been doling out since The Birthday Party. Audience members got abused. Cave thrust his crotch everywhere. He sung particularly intense lyrics directly into the faces of people in the front row, leaning…
Tanqueray-and-chronic time is fast approaching, but you’ll need to arm yourself with all the important details before setting off for our sold-out St. Patrick’s Day Concert on Saturday, headlined by a little rapper named Snoop Dogg. Here are the answers to your many questions. Got more? Ask them in the…
The tech crew is rushing around to get things started. Some of them are on the floor, frantically trying to get the fog machines going, and others are hanging from the ceiling checking the ginormous speakers from above. The fog begins to fill the stadium and the lights begin to…
Although it may appear that many of your friends are at South by Southwest this weekend, battling crowds and struggling to find solutions to basic things like parking, eating and peeing, there is still much fun to be had on your own turf this weekend. This spring weather is a…
Editor: We have so many questions in Austin. Here are 50 of them. 1. Will I like the pedicab costumed as The Hulk if he gets angry? 2. Are we all really just in New York? 3. Is this t-shirt rad? 4. Do you want to get some ‘za, which…
SXSW is not a music festival so much as it is an experiment in excess. If Coachella is a glass of water that keeps getting bigger until it more resembles a kiddie pool, then SXSW is a flood with a neglected cup somewhere in the middle. The natural result is…
Photos by Craig HlavatyWell, you actually are missing really good pizza.Awwwww, I know it is a shame you aren’t here with us at SXSW in Austin. I can only imagine the aching and longing in your heart for walking aimlessly and standing in long lines for no reason, and sweating…
Update, 3:12 p.m. And it’s sold out! See you all Saturday. Original post follows… Long Beach’s finest will grace the stage at the Energy Square Parking Lot in two days, and he will not be alone. Fewer than 200 tickets remain for the show as of this writing. So if…
For the past three years, Spring Break in the state of Texas has been a frantic, music-fueled experience. 2009 brought us the first year of what is now commonly referred to as “festival season”, when Chris Flemmons brought a budding young fest called NX35 to Denton. The idea? A small…
We here at the Observer are seeing to it that St. Patrick’s Day in Dallas will be a deeper, hazier shade of green this year. After the annual Greenville Avenue parade this Saturday, our St. Patrick’s Day Concert in the Energy Square parking lot will be headlined by the quintessential…
Best Coast Tuesday, May 28, at Granada Theater, $24 L.A.’s surf-pop duo Best Coast blew up on everyone’s radar in 2010 when they were one of the most blog-worthy bands around after releasing their debut LP Crazy for You. Then, last year they had an equally as powerful follow-up with…
You’re going to South by Southwest, right? Or you’re already there? One of those things is bound to be true. Well, we here at DC9 have got some advice for you, and we’ve managed to format it all into the style of commandments, because one of our favorite things to…
A Vampire Weekend fan prepares to scale a fence during “Horchata” and rage.Before I take any trip to Austin and SXSW, I always take more than a few days to peruse the schedule and check out a few of the hundreds of names on the roster and read their bios…
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. Chelsea Light Moving takes the number one spot at Good Records and Atoms for Peace is…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. We call it Street Style. See also: The Street Styles of 2012 Name: Stephanie Cabazos Age: 23 At 35 Denton to see: Shannon and the…
Hard to believe that it’s been over three decades since John Flansburgh and John Linnell first started playing music as They Might Be Giants. What started as two nerds and a drum machine has slowly evolved into a multi-media company with two distinct divisions: indie rock and children’s music. Speaking…
Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we’ll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. This week’s top choices include Marjorie Owens’ lulling poster spotlighting the Invasion of artists at The Crown…
Canadian band, Dragonette has had a big year so far. The electro-pop act has been nominated for a Juno award (a Canadian music award, for those not familiar with music on-goings north of the border), they’ve scored some serious commercial publicity by recording the theme song to “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood”…
The time has come. We are officially knee-deep in festival season. On top of that, all of the best shows happen in the springtime, when the weather is best, which means that we won’t get a break until we’re running on fumes, with our little engines barely puttering into summer…
Yes, we were there for the music, but if you weren’t a local, you were also had a town to explore. The Denton trip is a short one, but for a Dallas lady like me it’s generally just for a show. Maybe from the window at Paschall’s I can sit…
In a reversal of the popular bumper sticker, singer-songwriter Andrew Combs was born and raised in Texas, but got out as quick as he could. Seven years removed from his Red River exodus, the change certainly seems to have been a good one for the Dallas native. Along with the…
The new currency of big festivals is electricity. You, might, if you wanted to make a terrible pun, say it is the current-cy. No, keep reading. It gets better, I promise. A few years back, we all had cell phones that could seemingly hold a charge forever. The trade off…
