Music

If it seems like you’ve seen a lot of Jeff Beck the last few years, that’s because you have. After decades of lengthy periods away from music, broken up by sporadic releases or tours, Beck seems to have finally come to enjoy being back in the spotlight. It’s curious, too,…

During his time fronting Soundgarden, Chris Cornell helped to pioneer the grunge sound of the early ’90s that brought national attention to the Seattle scene. As a member of Audioslave, he was part of the first American rock band to ever perform an open-air concert in post-revolutionary Cuba. As a…

With his deep-voiced delivery, rough-hewn honesty and laid-back swagger, rapper Freddie Gibbs offers the perfect amalgam of his Midwest roots and latter-day L.A. residence. As Gibbs’ single “The Ghetto” declares, he was raised in “the ghetto, the ghetto-ghetto” (in case there was any question) of Gary, Indiana, where corrupt law…

Some bands content themselves with girls. Their songs are a predictable patter of love and heartache, finding, losing or leaving their beloved to music driven by commensurate conventionality. Akron/Family are the other end of the spectrum. Their songs dig toward the core of human experience and spirituality—not with a shovel,…

Not a bad selection of shows for a Wednesday night, especially if you’re into poppy punk or prime Americana…

We’ve been high on fresh-faced local garage-punk upstart Soviet since, well, pretty much the second we first heard of them. And our appreciation of the band’s aggressively slackerish approach has only increased in the weeks since, bolstered by the band’s fiery, and sometimes confrontational, live displays since upgrading to a…

​Last time Here We Go Magic came to town, it was as the odd-fitting support on a tour with Dr. Dog. And on the night of their performance, Here We Go Magic stole the show from the Beatle-esque roots rockers, despite Dr. Dog’s overpowering light show. Sure, Here We Go…

In the paper version of DC9 that will be distributed around town later today, Daniel Hopkins takes a long, hard look at Child of Calamity, the two-years-in-the-making debut, full-length release from folksy local roots rocker Kirby Brown, who will celebrate the release of his new disc on Friday night at…

Not a lot going on this Tuesday evening. Just five really cute bands rolled into one long show…..

Today’s a proud one for me, as — finally! — my likeness has been immortalized in music video form, courtesy of an anonymous YouTuber who goes by the username “DallasOdserver” and whose interests include “Exposing Pete Freedman and everything bad about Dallas Texas [sic].” The point of the above video?…

Seems the Sisters Dupree in Eisley were especially busy two weeks back at Austin’s South by Southwest Music Conference: In the days since that ordeal, not one but two sites have posted videos of sisters Chauntelle, Sherri and Stacy performing private, acoustic takes of their new song “Better Love,” off…

Just a couple of interesting musical options this Monday evening as the music conferences have been all packed up and put away until next year…

With the international pop star and fashionista known as Rihanna currently being found glitzing up the cover of the April issue of Vogue, and stopping through Dallas for a gig at the American Airlines Center on July 8, we here at DC9 figured it high time to give the performer’s…