Buddy Guy, Buddy Whittington, Jim Suhler, The Rick Kelly Band, othersBedford Blues & BBQ FestivalSeptember 4, 2011 Better than: sitting outside and soaking in the blues when the summer hasn’t ended. As a stiff breeze blew the last remnants of excessive heat from the area, legendary bluesman Buddy Guy headlined…
Drive-By Truckers, Centro-maticGranada TheaterSeptember 2Better than: “Freebird.” In the Drive-By Truckers documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, a young female fan jokes that she often wears diapers to DBT shows, just so she won’t miss any of the show waiting in a bathroom line. That might sound crazy at most concerts,…
In the past, Labor Day has unofficially marked the end of the hot summer. But, this year, the heat will continue. There are some Labor Day parties this weekend, though, that will offer a chance to cool down and catch some good bands. The Double Wide, for instance, has their…
Earlier this week, Denton musician Jessie Frye accomplished quite the feat. She, like so many other area artists before her, had taken to Kickstarter to raise funds for her art — in this case, money to help produce her first-ever music video. She figured she needed $1,000. So she asked…
About a year ago, before tragedy twice struck the much-adored area greaser-punk three-piece Spector 45, first with frontman Frankie Campagna on New Year’s Day and then again in March with bassist Adam Carter, the band had been approached about having their music used in an upcoming TV ad promoting the…
Spune Productions head Lance Yocom is moving rather swiftly down the road to recovery after he mysteriously fell ill in Flagstaff, Arizona, last month. It took a few weeks of intense testing for doctors to discover the Yocom was suffering from severe pneumonia. As such, for over a month, Yocom…
The hits just keep on coming this week and the fall concert calender keeps getting beefier and beefier: Wilco, the inspiration for countless terrible area bands and a handful of decent ones, has announced today that it will be returning to North Texas on November 29 for a gig at the Fair…
DiploRio RoomSeptember 1, 2011Better than: watching the movie Rio, I assume. Still, it was a price many were willing to pay nonetheless to catch a two-hour DJ set from one Thomas Pentz, who performs and produces under the name of Diplo. In the electronic world, he’s a bona fide superstar, regular…
Active Child, Com Truise The Prophet Bar September 1, 2011 Better than: doing then homework at the local coffee shop There’s a stark difference between electronic music that is made for partying and electronic music that is made for listening. Last night at The Prophet Bar that difference was evident…
The Dodos, The Luyas The Loft September 1, 2011 Better than: rummaging through your closet for Star Wars merchandise to put in a bonfire. As soon as The Loft opened last night — a little after 8:30 — the very long line waiting in the downstairs bar got some relief. Most…
Illustrator and former musician Wes Freed has a pretty good gig these days: He’s the exclusive artist for the Drive-By Truckers, which explains why he’s the guy behind the above poster promoting the band’s Austin and Dallas performances with North Texas’ Own Centro-matic this week. He does their posters, their…
One year after showing up on the red carpet in a dress made of raw meat, pop singer Lady Gaga arrived at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards dressed as a man, and she remained in character throughout the duration of the show.Most critics agree that the performance was Gaga’s…
Got a couple of interesting and pertinent show announcement notes to pass along today, outside of our usual Wednesday sharing.The biggest of them is, indeed, quite big: Two years after playing Dallas’ Palladium Ballroom, Morrissey is returning to town for a gig at Southern Methodist University’s much-smaller McFarlin Auditorium on…
Now that the calendar has official turned to September and the back-to-school fervor is over, we’ve come upon that special time once again when big-box retailers to start rolling out their Halloween merchandise. Since we here at DC9 love Halloween, we think it’s never too early to begin planning that…
In spite of what I think of some rappers, the truth is that most of them have something to contribute to the scene. Kanye brings good production chops and high class. Eminem has tight alliterative flows. And Drake… well, he’s Canadian, which has to count for something, I imagine. To this…
Earlier this week, when Meric Long of the San Francisco-based band The Dodos told us about some of his earliest concert-going experiences, our Eric Grubbs noted that the band “plays folk, but with a kick to it.” Give their Live from Akropolis, Prague album a listen, as well as their…
At 75, guitarist Buddy Guy remains as nimble of a string-bender as he was when his career started over 50 years ago. And what a career it’s been: Eric Clapton calls Guy the greatest player ever, and, clearly, Guy has influenced generations of blues guitarists. He still makes great albums, too: Living…
Selena Gomez Gexa Energy Pavillion August 31, 2011 Better than: hearing your 12-year-old sing lyrics about probing aliens and ménage a trois. To the sounds of screams the likes of which I’ve never heard before, the lights went down at 8:22 at Gexa Energy Pavillion last night. When they came…
On Fort Worth band Burning Hotels’ eponymous release, we meet a band moving in a different, far more focused direction than showcased on previous efforts. A lineup change and name change (no more “The”) in late 2010 sparked the new direction, then displayed in the form of a video art…
There’s little doubt that the area’s country scene is dominated by honky-tonkers of the male persuasion. Dallas’ Madison King is looking to make a dent in that equation. Judging by the sterling results of her debut full-length, Darlin, Here’s To You, it’s clear that she’s got the chops to do…
The young brats in Sealion certainly have a good thing going at the moment. On the one hand, they’ve a solid buzz surrounding their live show on the chit-chat circuit. On the other hand, an even bigger batch of good news — a devoted early fan base, one that filled…
Charlie Park has been a volunteer DJ at KNON-FM 89.3 The Voice of the People on and off since 1983, the first year of the station’s existence. At that time, KNON was housed in the upper level of a big, creaky white house on the corner of San Jacinto Street…
