My Jerusalem – Shake The Devil (official video) from My Jerusalem on Vimeo.Over the Weekend: My Jerusalem, Aaron Barker, Bad Design Bryan Street Tavern November 18 Better than: driving to Iowa, covered head-to-toe in OSU gear, expecting a blowout victory. In the middle of My Jerusalem’s 12-song set on Friday…
There are lots of big shows this weekend, and the one about which much ado has been made is the [DARYL] reunion at Sons of Hermann Hall tonight. Since the band broke up several years ago, members have continued playing around town in various other capacities. Tonight, they’ll be joined…
If known only for his guitar playing and production work with Dwight Yoakam, singer/songwriter Pete Anderson would still be a legend in both the country and alt-country genres. There is much more to Pete Anderson than the stellar licks on such Yoakam hits as “Guitar, Cadillacs” and “Streets of Bakersfield.”…
It’s been a few years since [Daryl] has played live, but the band is back, for at least a show tonight at Sons of Hermann Hall. You might have seen their members in other bands, like Dylan Silvers and Beau Wagener with The Crash That Took Me or Jeff Parker…
Better than: Staying home and watching the Morrissey: Live in Dallas DVD Morrissey crooned the lyrics of The Smith’s “I Know It’s Over” to a packed SMU McFarland Auditorium last night “…tonight is just like any other night” he sang, as three security guards escorted a shirtless man up the…
Real Estate, Big Troubles, Lonesome GhostDadaNovember 17Better than: Hanging out with Moz and them. In some strange turn of events, mellow new jersey buzz band Real Estate have become a party band. Never mind that their latest release Days is a breezy, melancholy offering with a handful of surprisingly big…
Many music fans in Dallas know guitarist Bugs Henderson for his influence on the international blues community. In this week’s paper edition of DC9 at Night, local blues musician and historian Jim Suhler talked about how Eric Clapton and the late Freddie King would go see Bugs Henderson perform when…
The Winter Night Lights series at Rio Room is the staff’s attempt to bring edgier, more underground (for lack of a better word) DJ’s to town. At least edgier and more underground than the Vegas-style top 40 or electro house sets that can typically be heard at Rio Room on…
Austin-based My Jerusalem hits Dallas tonight, a night crowded with great shows. Seems like everyone is stuffing the good pre-Thanksgiving concerts into one night. My Jerusalem plays a special folky orchestral pop that isn’t precious or twee, and it’s not something to miss. With a new album in the works,…
Corey Taylor is one busy dude. Not only does the guy front two metal bands, Slipknot and Stone Sour, but Taylor somehow founds time to write an autobiography and do a quick stint as a guest lecturer at Oxford. Seven Deadly Sins, Taylor’s unconventional memoir, came out this summer and…
In this week’s paper edition of DC9 at Night, Chris Parker effectively details the sonic evolution of Brooklyn’s Pterodactyl. In fact, when describing the splendid craziness that is the band’s recently released third album, Spills Out, as “still somewhat woolly with subtle spiky slashes of guitar lingering beneath the surface,…
Looks like Rolling Stone has a jump on Rhett Miller’s new live covers album The Interpreter: Live From Largo. The record is set to be released November 22, but you can listen to the entire thing on the Rolling Stone site.Just a word of warning, there are no original songs…
This week’s selection for Poster of the Week, created by Daniel Hughes, comes to us from Parade Of Flesh, who are promoting tonight’s Real Estate show at Dada. The reason it was selected? Pretty simple, really…
Guitarist/singer-songwriter Tab Benoit is Cajun to the bone. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but raised in the small town of Houma, Benoit was brought up on a steady diet of Hank Williams, George Jones, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. It’s no wonder that Benoit’s songs echo the influences of…
Last Night: The Jayhawks, Jolie Holland Granada Theater November 16 Better than: rummaging through closets for dubbed copies of Crossroads episodes. Looking only at The Jayhawks’ set list from last night, you could think the show was more for a hardcore fan than a casual one, but the power of…
They’re spiritual kin of the Butthole Surfers, which is to say wild-eyed freaks bent backward at the psychedelic altar of mind-expanding drone, gritty cacophony and sputtering industrial beats. If there were a soundtrack for America’s financial meltdown and the ensuing recession, Indian Jewelry could have scored it. Formed in Houston…
This Saturday, a presentation of Rob Buttrum’s mixed-media abstract paintings that has been in the works since early in the year will be held at the Meme Gallery — a small gallery space attached to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. Four acts will play as part of the exhibit (though on…
If albums were rated by simply how badass they are, Tiny Darkness, the debut record from Dallas-based Darstar, would rate a five-out-of-five bottles of Jack Daniel’s. The urgency of the fuzzed-out and bombastic collection bursts from the speakers, as does the brazen lack of concern for any who may be…
It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, that’s crap. Ripping someone off is merely the easiest way to tip the cap to an influential artist. In the spirit of inventively paying tribute to one of the great acts in pop history, Dallas dream-pop act Little Black…
It may be one of the most important landmarks in blues music, but 508 Park Ave., just down the street from Dallas City Hall, is in shambles. What once was a stately building where blues legend Robert Johnson famously recorded on June 19 and 20, 1937, now has boards on…
The Smiths were undoubtedly one of the most important English bands of the ’80s, and while the band dissolved in 1987 after a five-year run, frontman Steven Patrick Morrissey, better known as just Morrissey, grew to become one of the most significant music icons of the 20th century. Pegged as…
Brooklyn trio Pterodactyl just keep getting better. Their 2007 self-titled debut showcased a squalling math-rock act that combined the disjointed angularity of Don Caballero with the noisy atonality of early Sonic Youth. The largely instrumental album was more intriguing than particularly enjoyable, though their live show tapped vibrancy and dynamism…
