See also: Bonnaroo Thursday See also: Bonnaroo Friday Do not, under any circumstances, forget to bring earplugs to a Mogwai concert. Thank the concert gods I didn’t learn this lesson the hard way during their Saturday evening set at Bonnaroo, having just bought a pair from some high-schoolers raising money…
Bryce Avary, the man behind The Rocket Summer, has been doing his project for more than a decade now. On the heels of his latest record, Life Will Write the Words, he returns to Dallas on Friday, with States and The Scene Aesthetic. En route to San Diego from Las…
Are you experiencing Festival Fatigue yet? Too bad. One more all-day-er has been announced for the summer: In addition to Toronto and Brooklyn, Chicago-based punk circus Riot Fest is expanding its reach to Dallas on September 22 at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Rise Against, Descendents, Municipal Waste, Andrew W.K., NOFX and…
Chris VictorioBy Christopher Victorio and Ben Westhoff See also: Coverage of EDC 2011 We love you, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas. In fact, here are five reasons why you rule the roost. But my oh my, you dance funky. We’re not saying we’re any better; truth is, we’re utterly captivated…
See also: Who’s that girl in the Sarah Jaffe video? See also: It’s Friday the 13th, watch this Angelus video See also: The premiere of Mind Spiders’ “Wait For Us” I came across this video last night, for Beck’s “Pay No Mind,” which I hadn’t seen in about 18 years…
We here at the DC9 at Night HQ are so excited for the El-P/Killer Mike/Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire/Despot show at the Granada Theater on Thursday, June 21, we paired up with them to make a whole night of it. To celebrate the show and the official beginning of summer, we’re doing…
See also: The problem with Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” is one of those songs that tricks you. You only have to hear it once to know all the words. Not just the chorus, ALL OF THE WORDS. Who knows where you even…
See also: DC9 at Night’s coverage of last year’s EDC Organizers of the second annual Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas declared the three-day party a success , despite high-winds that cut its marquee night short on Saturday. Promoters say a whopping 115,000 people were in attendance on the final…
H20 Music Festival Cotton Bowl Saturday, June 9 See also: Scenes from the H20 Music Festival I stood at the entrance of the “House That Doak Built,” watching Dallas Fire and Rescue workers help a middle-age Hispanic lady onto a stretcher, and I couldn’t help but think about how much…
Gillian Welch Majestic Theatre Saturday, June 9 In this week’s paper, Gillian Welch let us know what the live show might be like, when she described her recording process to us. “My favorite sound on Earth is the sound of voices and instruments combining in the air. We let it…
See also: Thursday night at Bonnaroo 2012Saturday or Sunday seemed unlikely to top Friday, with Lake Highlands girl St. Vincent and the sensory overload of Radiohead’s headlining set. Even the day leading up to those shows offered plenty of good stuff, as long as long as one didn’t give the…
Christopher VictorioEDC ravers[Update at 2:48 a.m]: Also see: – Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival 2012: Day One – Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival: More From Day One – Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival 2012: Day Two EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out…
Calivn Harris.Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around…
Don’t come to Bonnaroo if you aren’t a people person, especially if you are tent camping. It’s a game of Russian roulette, whether you end up next to a party bro tent blaring dubstep at 3 a.m., a family with a crying infant, acoustic-guitar man, tantric orgasmic couple or a…
Kaskade.See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being held…
Steve Angello / FacebookIn early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM’s music “fake shit” and said they “do not play house music” — as in, real house music. On…
Fun Fun Fun Fest, which is set for November 2-4 at Auditorium Shores, will be releasing their lineup next month, and we’ve already got a few guesses as to who might be on the list. In the meantime, you can enter to win tickets by guessing who you think will…
A stack of Ten Hands pics literally shot out of the filing cabinet the other day while thumbing around in the Observer photo vaults. The photos highlight the local band throughout their decade-long run, from the mid-’80s through the mid-’90s. We reached out to Ten Hands’ frontman, Paul Slavens, and…
Christoph KostlinPaul van Dyk by Andy Hermann Electronic dance music (you know, EDM) is the hottest thing going right now. But to you, it still all sounds like “oontz, oontz, oontz” — except Skrillex, who sounds like “wom, wom, wom.” Right? Fear not. You don’t have to be a kid…
See also: Wayne Coyne talks about how he asked Erykah Badu to collaborate. See also: The new Erykah Badu/Flaming Lips Video (is very, very NSFW). As the dramatic tension of the Erykah Badu/Wayne Coyne Twitter “feud” escalated last night, I started thinking about the question of collaboration and consent. When…
In preview of the release party for debut EP Into the Sea, tonight at Bryan Street Tavern, we asked local trio Blackstone Rangers to give us a few of their favorite summer songs. Not necessarily songs about summer, but ones that they associate with the season. Derek Kutzer, guitar Weezer,”…
As my Mixmaster companion Jamie Laughlin and I were driving to lunch today, Prince’s “Purple Rain” came on the radio. We both looked at each other and threw up a fist when the breakdown came, that part when Prince starts ecstatically screeching like only he can. And there is the…
