The long, strange trip of Oklahoma psychedelic troopers the Flaming Lips appeared to have reached a fresh threshold with the nearly concurrent late 2009 releases of Embryonic and the band’s complete reworking of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Both albums fundamentally dealt with the relative nature of…
Abe Vigoda’s fourth full-length effort, Crush, finds the Los Angeles-based band moving away from its “tropical punk” past and slipping toward a more electronic-studded, synth-soaked sound that’s a little darker and a lot dancier than its past releases. It’s one of those albums that reveals a major quantum shift in…
Getting typecast as “that St. Patrick’s Day band” could be a terrifying prospect. But whereas some respond to such designation by playing down certain hackneyed elements of their culture as an attempt to avoid becoming cliché, Los Angeles’ Flogging Molly, whose combination of the traditional elements of Celtic music with…
Like a tidal wave of Sunny D, a rash of lo-fi beach pop bands has flooded the musical landscape over the past couple of years. Endlessly hooky, hopelessly poppy and undeniably likable, bands such as Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Smith Westerns and Wavves have also flooded year-end “Best Of”…
Emerging from his local Starbucks, former Police drummer Stewart Copeland is characteristically humble when discussing his work as a classical composer. “It’s all about the production ensemble, D’Drum,” Copeland says, referencing the five-piece local percussion ensemble that will serve as the core performers in his percussion concerto, “Gamelan D’Drum,” which…
Despite the terrible weather, there is still a bunch of shows to look out for on this hump day evening — two of which are even taking place in the same building…
This whole “Super Bowl” thing has been pretty unavoidable this year — and, for obvious reasons, infinitely more so in these parts than in years past. Then again, with media all over the place, thousands of out-of-town-guests, and an alleged 100,000 hookers (or not) converging in the metroplex this week…
Speaking of local hip-hop bigwigs trying to make the most of Super Bowl weekend, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas production duo Play-N-Skillz released to iTunes yesterday its new single, a song scheduled to come on the brothers Juan and Oscar Salinas’ upcoming EP release, Alter Egos. Here’s the thing, though: The song,…
We’ve already made a couple mentions of tonight’s impressive bill at The Loft, which finds two experimental acts on vastly different ends of the spectrum sharing a bill, simply due to the convenient fact that they both happen to be in town on the same night — this isn’t a…
A while back, we stumbled upon a news brief that, buried deep within its telling, made mention of the fact that soundscape provocateur Flying Lotus had been confirmed to direct an upcoming music video for Dallas’ own Erykah Badu. Can’t say for sure at this point if that much ist…
Last year, local hip-hop purveyors talked at length about the importance of having a big presence around town during the weekend of the Cowboys Stadium-hosted 2010 NBA All-Star Game. And, lest there was any doubt, these same artists are at it again this year.But, this time around, they appear to…
Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Datahowler, mad processor of decades of international culture, has a lot on his mind. Born Ross Edman (and formerly using the moniker Objectiv One), he has managed to push himself into…
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. Don Cento is a familiar face around town, given his time as a keyboardist with Chomsky and as a…
Once again, not too hopping an evening as far as music goes, considering it’s Super Bowl week and all. But tonight’s shows are especially solid — or, rather, there’s one that is. Turns out Free Energy has canceled its show at the Loft tonight. Still, sweet video from them we’ve…
Before the sleet made the roads look like a scene from The Mighty Ducks, legendary crunkmaster and rapper Lil Jon held a Super Bowl week kickoff party last night at Zouk. This, of course, is the first of many parties to come this week — all of which you can…
Aside from a few tweets and a Show Announcement post that came before this show was moved from Saturday, April 9, to Thursday, April 7, we kind of glossed over the announcement that Band of Horses would be coming through the region for a stop at the Verizon Theatre as…
It’s not often that, when you call up a band for an interview, the conversation gets kicked off by the interview subject asking the interviewer what to do with a vegetable that “looks like an old lady’s finger.” And yet, when I recently caught up with Tokyo Police Club drummer…
Denton/Fort Worth band Eaton Lake Tonics sent out a press release this morning announcing that, “after 1,240+ beers, 20 some-odd hissy fits, 6 years, 4 LPs, 2 EPs, 0 deaths and 200+ live performances,” they’ll be calling it quits.The band, whose members most recently included Tony Ferraro (Fate Lions, Matthew…
Yesterday, the final chip fell in place, as the NFL announced that Lea Michele, who plays the powerfully voiced and annoyingly chipper Rachel Berry on the FOX series Glee, has been confirmed to open the inside-Cowboys Stadium Super Bowl performances with a rendition of “America the Beautiful,” before Christina Aguilera…
A nice little treat this morning, courtesy of the folks at Sleepover Shows, who, like so many others on the Internet today, film artists in intimate settings, playing their songs for the camera. But this assortment of clips, actually, is a bit different: In addition to performances of “Clementine” and…
George Quartz is no stranger to obscure, oddly alluring music videos made with odd ’70s and ’80s stock film footage — we’ve a number of such clips from the oddball pop performer here on DC9 in the past. No surprise then, that, for his most recent clip, which goes with…
Despite the fact that it’s Super Bowl week, tonight’s musical options are a bit limited. Stay tuned, though: Things get pretty busy in the coming days…..
