Here’s a dirty little secret: The local music rallying cry is the same in every city. “There’s so much talent here!” fans of local bands everywhere whine to the barely listening masses. “If only people would start supporting the scene, then it could grow!” Ugh. Words like that are cloying…
Years from now, when historians look back on the Naughts with abundant curiosity, pondering how, despite numerous advances in technology, the lo-fi aesthetic made such a big comeback, this tour could serve as the main study. It is, after all, an offering up of the sound’s two biggest purveyors—even if,…
Jessi Darlin’s phone cuts in and out. She’s riding in a van that’s driving through the Southern states with her band Those Darlins, in the middle of a tour opening for Dallas favorites the Old 97’s. It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine Rhett Miller and company hanging…
Indie rock has steadily mined and reforged the past’s sonic potential, whether by refashioning ’60s girl-group melodies into shoegaze or adding synthesizers to turn post-punk into danceable electro. Brooklyn, New York, duo Sleigh Bells are one of the first, however, to make the 2000s seem vintage. When they released their…
Novaak have only been around for about a year at this point, but things are already picking up pretty quickly. Initially conceived at South by Southwest in 2010, the idea of Novaak was one that envisioned guitarist Blake Panter and singer Jessi James as an electronic music duo. Beyond that,…
Smell that? It might be the scent of your roommate’s fifth bong rip today. It could also just be Curren$y’s tour bus nearing the Texas state line. As if you didn’t already know that rap music and pot go together like alcohol and Taco Bell, Curren$y has made a career…
Holy crap! We have a shitload of killer shows in our area tonight!…
It’s kind of mind-boggling to think of how Alan Palomo has found time to write and record new music for his side-project-turned-main-gig, Neon Indian. Since blowing up a few years back, the guy’s appeared to be omnipresent, saturating the blogosphere longer than anyone predicted with Flaming Lips collaborations and weird…
Not gonna lie: The first time I heard Freelance Whales’ “Hannah,” with its quirky electronic flourishes, sentimental lyrics and cutesy vocal delivery, I was fairly certain that it was some new Owl City single. And, ever since, I’ve had trouble deciding if that was a good or bad thing for…
A-Trak, Kid Sister, The Gaslamp KillerTreesApril 19, 2011Better than: a rousing game of DJ Hero. There weren’t any grand entrances at Trees last night. Mostly, there were just transitions.And, in many regards, that was fitting. This show, after all, was curated by a DJ — one of the best, actually…
The KillsGranada TheaterApril 19, 2011 Better than: sweating in a real sauna. The early evening rain made for a swampy atmosphere at the Granada last night — entirely appropriate for the greasy sonic assault of The Kills, who played to a packed house of ecstatic fans. On a stage made…
Ever since Lauryn Hill made a brief disappearance from the public eye in 2000, her career has been patchy at best. Her acoustic record in 2002, MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, was met with mediocre reviews, and the Fugees reunion fared even worse. But, aside from her brilliant output in the…
French pop artist Yelle and her band have certainly made an impression in the U.S., what with sugary-pop hits like “Ce Jeu” and accompanying video (see above) featuring the lead singer and band namesake donning a strange variety of attire, from a red- and white-striped bodysuit to possibly the strangest…
Good morning, potheads. Enjoy your wake and bake? Good, good, glad to hear it. We hope your early-morning sesh was, like, “totally killer.”Where were we, you ask?Oh. About that. Well, sorry to “harsh your mellow” and all, but, um, some of us don’t work behind the counter at the local…
Lots of musical action happening this evening. Kinda feels like half of the Pacific Northwest is in town tonight…
Seems the Los Angeles Times wasn’t altogether sure what to make of the performance Dallas’ Own Erykah Badu offered up at Coachella on Saturday; critic Gerrick D. Kennedy, in his review of her set, seemed equally enthralled and annoyed by the neo-soul songstress and current Vibe cover model’s notorious tendencies…
Dallas’ Lisa Loeb is known for a few things — talking “so” all the time, only hearing what she wants to, thinking that she can leave and later realizing that she was wrong, thinking that what she feels is simple — but, most of all, she’s probably known for her…
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended — no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. If you happened into Fallout Lounge on a Friday night a few years ago, chances were good you saw…
Tonight, we start out the week a wee bit on the slow side. Don’t worry, though: Thinks get sufficiently hectic once again tomorrow night. And, hey, there are still a couple of cool local shows tonight…
For over a decade now, Alain Macklovitch has been a prominent name in the DJ world. But winning the Disco Mix Club’s Wold DJ Championship in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy was just the start of what was to come from the guy who performs under the name of A-Trak…
Since posting our call for interns a few weeks back (and, before you ask, yes, we’re still accepting applications), more than a few members of the DC9 faithful have reached out, noting that, though they are not a college student qualified to be our intern this summer, they too would…
By the time 10 o’clock struck along Lowest Greenville on Saturday morning, the line of people waiting to get into Good Records stretched well past the confines of the store’s parking lot — and the music planned to take place over the course of the day within the store hadn’t…
