Nitzer Ebb, //TENSE// Granada Theater November 23, 2010 Better Than: stomping the night away at the Lizard Lounge. With the strobe light pulsing around him and his bandmates furiously pounding the drums behind him, Nitzer Ebb’s lead vocalist Douglas McCarthy’s body convulsed like a man being electrocuted. The crowd danced,…
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin House of Blues Cambridge Room November 23, 2010 Better Than: Watching old clips of Boris Yeltsin. When I walked into the Cambridge Room at the House of Blues to see Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, two things were immediately obvious: there weren’t a…
Welcome to a new feature here on DC9 called 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. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow have (save for a couple years apart)…
It’s hard to argue with Charlie Brown: Thanksgiving is here, man (paraphrased). Over on our on food blog, City of Ate, the writers are counting down to Thanksgiving with odes to their favorite T-Day foods. DC9’s thinking: why can’t we join in on the fun? After the jump, we’ve constructed…
Apparently no one, NO ONE, cares about their health these days. Including Kanye West…
Quite the array of shows we have this evening before the day before Turkey Day. Bruno Mars at South Side Music Hall Peter Gene Hernandez, aka Bruno Mars, was supposedly born in Hawaii, but I have my doubts. The Hawaiian Health Authority refuses to provide a bona fide copy of…
There’s been a lot of uncertainty about the future of Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater ever since its owners filed for bankruptcy last summer. For a while there, it looked like Bank Of America was going to purchase and remodel the historic theater–and they had every right to, seeing as the…
School Of Seven Bells are still going strong despite the recent departure of their third member Claudia Deheza. They just announced an upcoming tour with Interpol, which kind of brings the band back to their origin. See, as Alejandra Deheza explained in a recent article in the Observer, the members…
Welcome to a new joint venture between DC9 at Night and the folks at We Denton Do It aimed at introducing local audiences to up-and-coming acts they may have missed during recent stops through town. They’re the kind of acts we think you’re gonna want to know–and right away, as,…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Aaron Neville…
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is just like any other touring indie band trying to make a name for itself in the current American musical landscape. They are not very well known, nor do they have the drawing power of more well known indie groups like Matt & Kim…
When you have bodily assets that everyone likes to see, you should flaunt them. I mean, every guy and girl on McKinney Avenue does, so that means it’s cool, right?…
As usual, Monday evening’s musical registry isn’t exactly overflowing with shows, especially being a holiday week and all. But there are still a couple of things worth checking out. Hosannas, Darktown Strutters and Florene at City Tavern Although our own Darktown Strutters are listed as the headliners for this triple…
In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, rockabilly legend the late Ronnie “The Blond Bomber” Dawson shared an excerpt from the autobiography that, unfortunately, never saw the light of day.The piece that he was kind enough to share with us back in 2000, is the story of…
Better than: Seeing the Flatlanders at the Wyly or the Granada, where they’ve played their last two shows. The ballroom at the Sons of Hermann Hall is their natural element, as dusty and real as the colorful West Texas characters that populate the band’s best songs. The silver-haired hippies that…
The gods of rock were most pleased this Sunday night. Roger Waters lit up the American Airlines Center with spectacles of epic proportions in the name of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and we had our photographer Roger Caldwell there to geek out with a camera. So, just in case you…
Black Mountain, Black Angels Kessler Theater November 20th, 2010 Better than: seeing Laser Floyd while sober. For those lucky to get into the sold out Black Mountain/Black Angels show, they witnessed probably one of the best shows of the year. Yes, it was that good…
Kurt Vile & The ViolatorsCity TavernNovember 19, 2010Better than: Revisiting the Nightmare This was sooo much better. Forced to relocate from what would have been a triumphant re-opening of Club DaDa to City Tavern (thank you, ponderous permitting process of our local government), Kurt Vile and the Violators delivered an…
Social Distortion, Lucero and Frank Tuner House of Blues – Dallas, TX November 20, 2010 Better Than: A show that Frank Turner wasn’t opening. Saturday night at the House of Blues, the social skills of Mike Ness and his crew of rockabilly punks were anything but distorted. Orange County’s timeless…
The Dresden Dolls The Granada Theater November 19, 2010 Better Than: Watching a midnight screening of Cabaret at the Granada, which, hey, might not be that bad of an idea… Amanda Fucking Palmer – as she introduced herself to the crowd earlier in the night -perched herself on the balcony…
Sure, a onesie in your favorite band merch section of it’s web site is a sign the band’s audience is getting older. But, there’s one thing that says “I’m a grown up” more than buying baby clothes…..
Certainly not the biggest, but the most notable show coming to town is Heavy Make-Up at The Kessler Theater on Friday night. The group features Edie Brickell, fellow New Bohemian Kenny Withrow and Spin Doctors drummer Aaron Comess. This improvisational band is certain to recall the old days when Brickell…
