While it might be a tad blasphemous to proffer that an offshoot of Canadian musical collective Broken Social Scene contains any one voice that should be heard more frequently than the others (an inherently capitalist suggestion), plenty of Stars fans (this writer included) feel that Torquil Campbell should play Oates…
Despite having a band name that’s as awkward as it is long, Springfield, Missouri’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s blend of melodic indie rock and hopeful, catchy songwriting has gotten them kudos from pretty much every source of music press imaginable. And it’s easy to see why: Songs such…
Their members may be spread all over the metroplex, but Deep Snapper is still one of the more prolific bands associated with the Denton music scene. Sure, none of the members actually resides in Denton, but the band’s ties and identity are firmly fixed to the town—and for good reason…
Punk rock, perhaps more than any other musical style in recent times, has evolved into a multi-pronged and tough-to-define assault. What began as a vehicle for the principles of incendiary, raging youth has become, in many cases, an outlet for hoodie-wearing adolescents who have just graduated from the Tiger Beat…
Pianist/singer Amanda Palmer (or Amanda Fucking Palmer to her fans) is having a great fucking day. It’s the Friday of Halloween weekend—just hours before her final performance as the master of ceremonies in the American Repertory Theater’s acclaimed two-month production of Cabaret in her hometown of Boston. In two days,…
Black Mountain may be hirsute hippies with a groovy melodic touch, but they’re not so stoned that they’ll pass up an opportunity to knock you on your ass. They’re reminiscent of My Morning Jacket, only with Jethro Tull and Blue Cheer overshadowing Neil Young’s influence. And, like Jim James, Black…
I dare anyone to find an odder assortment of acts than the package coming through the region tonight…
A nice coup today for the folks at the recently re-branded 35 Conferette up in Denton: Today, the four-day early-March 2011 festival announced the addition of Mavis Staples to its lineup.Staples, renowned for her work through the ’60s and ’70swith her family band the Staples Sisters, recently popped back up…
New York Magazine, for reasons we’re not wholly aware of, went ahead and caught up with Erykah Badu this week, just to find out why she’s so goddamn funk — a fair question, always, I guess.In response, Badu created the magazine a playlist of her favorite funky jams — 14…
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. Austin four-piece The Octopus Project hits up the South Side Musical Hall…
Stefon Alexander, better known by his stage name P.O.S., is a rapper, singer and founding member of the hip-hop collective known as Doomtree. And that nine member group of MCs, producers and DJs is currently out on tour together for the first time. Featuring the talents of P.O.S., Dessa, Cecil…
It’s no secret that Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino wished that Nathan Williams, the stoner behind Wavves, was her boyfriend. She got her wish, too. And, now, the two are taking their much publicized relationship on road, presumably leaving a trail of smoke in their wake. Best Coast, Wavves, and…
Wolf Parade, Ogre You AssholeGranada TheaterNovember 16, 2010Better than: finding out after the fact where the opening band got their name. Maybe the band was oblivious to the muddy sound that buried the vocals. Or maybe it just didn’t matter to them if the audience could hear the words because…
Billy Corgan, you still don’t fucking get it do you? It’s been almost 20 years since you first picked a fight with Stephen Malkmus and Pavement because you were mentioned in “Range Life.” At least rappers, most of the time, they squash their beefs, mostly because the public forgets why…
We have ourselves a busy little evening of music on our hands tonight. If you can’t find something cool listed here, you don’t deserve to go out…
Speaking of promising local hip-hop upstarts who are taking their sweet time releasing their next album, in-house DC9 favorite A.Dd+ is in the throes of a fundraising effort so it can finally get around to releasing its long-anticipated Picnic-produced debut full-length, When Pigs Fly. And, like Green River Ordinance and…
We’ve been hip to local rapper Ty City for some time now, just waiting on something — anything — from the local rapper, who talks a big game about his promising future. But aside from the sole track posted to his MySpace page, we’ve yet to get anything of the…
This morning, a headline on CNN read, “Beatles come to iTunes.” Innocuous enough, yes, but, gosh, where the hell else are you going to buy music from (arguably) the world’s biggest band? At Best Buy? Apple’s official announcement (the above pic is from their homepage) did, however, make the staff…
In this week’s paper, Hannah Levin lays down some serious praise to Wolf Parade, placing the band’s 2005 release, Apologies to the Queen Mary, in the esteemed company of Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 opus, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, exclaiming that Wolf Parade’s work is likely as close as…
Just last week, we shared a new video focusing on Denton’s folk-loving five-piece Seryn and joked about the band’s long-anticipated debut release, which, a couple times now, has seen its release pushed back for who knows what reasons. But today comes news that, finally, the band has settled on a…
The legality concerns and artistic merit of Greg Gillis’ mashup work as Girl Talk leaves plenty to be debated, but this much is certain: His work sure is popular. Yesterday, Gillis released a new mashup album called All Day as a free-to-anyone-who-wants-it download, and, as his fans flooded to the…
It’s been years since Josh T. Pearson’s so-called heyday, when Lift To Experience’s blistering guitar assault overwhelmed the eardrums of concert-goers and his scarecrow-like frame stood nearly as tall as the ceilings of area clubs.There are many tall tales of what he’s done since then, living off of the legend…
