After Hours with George Quartz, Live!Texas TheatreJuly 39, 2011Better than: watching that Kings of Leon guy throw the world’s least exciting hissy fit and quit the band onstage. If KoL had beat the crap out of each other Brian Jonestown style, it might have been worth it. We think George…
If there was a silver lining to the fact that Kings of Leon had to cut their Friday night set at Gexa Energy Pavilion short because lead singer Caleb Followill was “overheated” (right…), it was this: The band’s promised rescheduled performance set for September 21 was setting itself up to…
MTV has gotten some flack for censorship over the course of its 30 years on the air. The station, in addition to helping proliferate the music video concept, is equally known, it seems, for bleeping words, playing only censored versions of certain videos, relegating racy videos to late-night play only…
Just over a decade ago, when The Deathray Davies got their start, they were sort of a reverse supergroup; just about everyone in the band has since moved on to perform with bigger acts. Lead singer John Dufilho now drums for Apples In Stereo; Jason Garner and Dylan Silvers are…
Since the names of some of Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011’s performers started leaking in mid-July, we’ve been sharing with you the info, a good chunk of which has been fairly exciting — like Odd Future and M83 and, of course, the almighty Slayer, just to name a few of…
Kings of Leon, Band of Horses Gexa Energy Pavilion July 29, 2011 Better than: watching a train wreck. About three songs into Kings of Leon’s set, lead singer Caleb Followill addressed the crowd: “My voice is shot,” he said. “My voice is completely, one hundred percent, gone. But I’m going…
The biggest show this weekend, for better or for worse, is headlined by a group of Followills known as Kings Of Leon. The show will take place tonight at Gexa Energy Pavilion. And, with Band Of Horses as the opening act, we suggest that the tour be called The Bands…
For the past few weeks, the Family Band-ers in Dallas’ Fox & The Bird have been on the road, taking part in their largest tour to date, all of which is meant to promote Floating Feather, the band’s long-awaited debut release, which formally comes tonight with a celebratory performance at…
Just a little more than two months after the announcement that vocalist Taylor Rea and guitarist Rob Bastien were leaving the adored area electronic act Ishi to start a project of their own, the twosome is ready to unveil their new sound.Called Zhora, the group’s sound picks up at a…
ou know this guy, but you don’t usually know his name. Chances are good you’ve heard and seen him. And, uh, it is always a guy. Never a female by my experience.Anyway, right before a band he’s about to see plays their set, he gets a close look at the…
We here at DC9 are deeply entrenched in the local music scene. Among the in-house writers alone, we’ve got at least a collective 60 years of experience in North Texas music.It’s also safe to assume that a good portion of our readers have been going to shows since they were…
Shiner Rising Star 2011: Night One of Round One Love & War in Texas in Plano July 28, 2011So here we are: another year, another opening night for the annual Shiner Rising Star competition. To begin the eighth 13-week season, three Dallas-area acts were brought to the stage of the Plano…
Katy Perry, Robyn Verizon Theater in Grand Praire July 28, 2011 Better than: the petroleum aftertaste of cherry chapstick. A lingering cotton candy scent filled the Verizon Theater last night as four displays beamed the beginning of the Wizard of Oz-inspired story that would thematically tie together Katy Perry’s California Dreams Tour…
Fortune Field’s a pretty new band on the scene, one that combines some rootsy elements with a little bit of a rock influence — and well enough, we’d say, where you should pretty much immediately elevate these dudes to “Local Band to Watch” status in your little black book. Because,…
According to the National Weather Service, Tropical Storm Don is headed for Texas. Although this forecast sounds like something to be happy about — Dallas could use some much-needed rain from Don’s periphery — CBS is reporting that North Texas will most likely see no effects from the storm, as…
On Saturday night at City Tavern, singer-songwriter Madison King will celebrate the release of her pretty highly anticipated debut full-length, Darlin, Here’s to You, which counts among its backing performers such area mainstays as Ryan Thomas Becker, as well as members of The King Bucks, Homespun Remedies and Here in…
The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest’s biggest offering yet. Who’s the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or…
The last time we formally checked in with Air Review was back in April, when the band, in the wake of a similar announcement from Good Records Recordings, passed along the word that they too would be (for the most part) dropping the album concept from their release plans moving…
After a year of playing second-fiddle to a bunch of pop stars, Pitbull is back in business with a new album, Planet Pit, which is an odd name for a planet. It sounds like the name of a Mad Max-like wasteland. To be fair: I credit Pitbull with refining Latin…
Many bands start out with big dreams and big plans. But very few of them even make it to studio, much less get a recording contract. Most bands go at it a few years, play a few bars and then the members go on to other bands or go back…
Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains Dada Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Better than: the Rangers’ performance that night, by a moonshot. Moonface is essentially Spencer Krug’s solo project, the purest distillation of the twisted melodies and lyrical longing we’re likely to hear any time soon from the yelpier of Wolf Parade’s…
Chingo Bling, also known as “The Versace Mariachi” or “El Real Tex Mex,” is one of Houston’s most prominent representatives of the Southern Latino hip-hop community, a character that’s about as down-South Tex-Mex as taco trucks and cowboy hats. And he seamlessly stitches the two into his rap repartee. Chingo,…
