Music

John Congleton knows his new band, The Nighty Nite, sounds very much like his old band The Paper Chase. He’s OK with that. Mostly because, far as he’s concerned, it should sound similar. Nothing has changed in his songwriting process. Aside from the name, the only difference between his old…

Oh, how fast we forget. Just the other, night, I was hanging out at a bar on Henderson when I ran into a local musician and, as things tend to do when I run into local musicians, we started talking about local music. Him being from Denton and all, we…

Make no mistake: Dallas is very much an EDM-heavy town. Credit the folks behind the Electric Daisy Carnival for noticing. Last year, the electronic music festival, launched 15 years ago in Southern California, expanded to include Dallas as a home for one of its handful of annual parties held across…

It’s hard to believe that Two Knights were just seniors in high school last year. Now recent graduates Miles DeBruin and Parker Lawson are poised to become staples of the local scene with their first-ever tour and the release of their latest, the Quilt Chamberlain EP, which was recorded by…

On the surface, Parallel Play is nothing more than a run-of-the-mill string band—just your average quartet with a banjo, a guitar, a stand-up bass and drums. But there’s more to the group’s latest effort, The Floor’s Made of Lava!, than one might initially suspect. Here, simple folk and bluegrass numbers…

Over its multi-decade history, Little Feat has undergone a tangled trajectory. Founded by guitarist Lowell George, a former member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, Little Feat evolved from two earlier outfits, the Fraternity of Man and the Factory. Fusing rock, blues, country, boogie and R&B, songs like “Willin’,” “Dixie…

Located just southeast of the square in downtown Denton, Simone Lounge is a new bar that is carving out a niche for itself among the more established music venues in the area. Part restaurant, part bar and part art gallery, Simone’s goal, according to owner Sebastian Urschel, is to provide…

Just last month, former Rilo Kiley guitarist and co-songwriter Blake Sennett released his third album with the band The Elected. Called Bury Me In My Rings, it’s the band’s first release since 2006. But the disc’s shimmering West Coast pop rock does more than mark Sennett’s return to the side…

Tonight’s total lunar eclipse is quite the astronomical phenomenon, with totality lasting over an hour. Unfortunately, though, if you’re in North America, you won’t be able to see it. The eclipse will only be visible in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Thanks to the wonders of…

Three days removed from Your Dallas Mavericks beating The Evil Miami Heat on their home court to clinch the NBA title, and it’s still not a great time to be Lebron James, despite what he may go around telling people in press conferences.A new song written for The Chosen One…

Speaking of Billboard, local darling Sarah Jaffe has herself received a little love from the folks behind the trade magazine’s website this week. The nod comes courtesy of the site’s recurring “Marshup Mondays” feature, for which Jaffe visited the Billboard offices to play a cover of Robyn’s “Hang With Me.”…

It’s no surprise that basketball is reigning king around town these days — a fact clearly not lost on Dallas rapper Dorrough, who, in the wake of the Mavericks clinching a trip to the NBA Finals in late May, released a Mavericks-centric version of his new single, “Bounce Dat.”This week,…

If you sat around yesterday waiting for Arrows and Anchors, the new Fair to Midland album, to go on sale, you no doubt ended up disappointed. The three-years-in-the-making album from the area progressive metal act has seen release was pushed back once more, this time to July 12. No worries,…

This week’s show announcements are likely the strongest we’ve seen all year, and, to start it off, we have the legendary post-punk act Mission Of Burma. The band, which broke up in 1983, has been reunited since 2002, putting out what some say is their most impressive work yet. And,…

On Saturday night, as you no doubt already know, John Congleton’s new band, The Nighty Night, made their live Dallas debut with a performance at the Double Wide. It was quite the stirring display, too — about which we’ll have plenty more in this week’s print edition of DC9. We’ll…

After stopping off at the LIV nightclub in Miami Beach on Sunday night (where Mark Cuban reportedly dropped $110,000 on drinks), the Dallas Mavericks and the Larry O’Brien Trophy continued its whirlwind tour last night, as NBA Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Brian “The Custodian” Cardinal and…