Perhaps you, like the rest of us, had questions when watching Sarah Jaffe’s beautiful, if somewhat confusing, debut music video for her song “Clementine.” Questions like, say…”Hey, where was this shot anyway?””Why is Sarah’s nose bleeding at the end?””Is that Will Johnson?””Wouldn’t it be funny if Glen Farris fell during…
After a fairly crazy couple of years (and one gnarly van crash) since the 2007 release of their breakthrough, Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True, Sulphur Springs’ Fair to Midland has finally announced details about its upcoming fourth full-length release — and a new…
In this week’s paper, I catch up with the Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider — and interesting guy, to be sure — who, in addition to founding the Apples and the ridiculously influential Elephant Six collective, has recently become a darling on the mathematical speaking circuit and has, as you…
Perhaps you read Kelly Dearmore’s earlier recap of Friday night’s Monotonix show at The Loft and thought to yourself, “Hey, I wonder if there’s more to the story about the drunk woman who went to town on the drum kit before Monotonix took the stage.”Well, you’re in luck! There is!…
I kept repeatedly asking myself the same question on Sunday: “Why can’t Dallas do something like this?” Seriously: It’s high time Dallas music fans let their Austin friends couch-surf for a change — we certainly owe them for all the times we’ve drank their beer, smoked their pot, eaten their…
Delorean, Lemonade, FloreneHailey’s ClubNovember 5, 2010Better than: blowing the fuse at your own home, maybe. It’s your sound problems, Delorean! Something’s gotta be done about your sound problems!…
Deerhunter, Best CoastGranada TheaterNovember 5, 2010 Better than: forgetting that Deerhunter are shoegazers at heart “You win some and you lose some” said Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox as he ended an impromptu solo jam taken when his bandmates and crew tried to work through equipment problems early in their set…
DJ ShadowHouse of BluesNovember 5, 2010 Better than: sitting at home watching In Tune and On Time again. Anyone who has seen a DJ Shadow show — of any sort — knows what to expect at this point: Shadow playing his sampler, drum machine and turntables at the same time,…
Monotonix, Joan of Arc, J. Roddy & The BusinessThe LoftNovember 5, 2010 Better than: going to a concert and not getting a trashcan thrown in my direction. A Monotonix concert took place at The Loft in Dallas on Friday night. But to only use the term “concert” to describe this…
Welcome to The Daily Fail. Every morning you will see this post and I will pick out things that I see as, well, a big fail. So, I look forward to you either agreeing with me, or, more than likely, disagreeing. Either way, it should be fun. See the first…
The weather is perfect, with a cool breeze, bright sunshine and plenty of shade everywhere. Only complaint in that department is the clouds of dust kicked up by the thousands of festivalgoers, which explains the popularity of dust masks and bandanas worn bandit-style. With so many people in shades, hats…
Oh, the decisions. As was the case last year, Fun Fun Fun’s Saturday schedule forced some hard choices; today’s toughest might be Washed Out and Deerhunter’s simultaneous sets, thought there are plenty of other conflicting sets. But one of the things that makes Fun Fun Fun great is that the…
How about a couple sentences each on some of the more noteworthy acts I’ve seen so far? No? Well, it’ll have to suffice for now…Antlers: Sweet Moog and Korg keyboards and swooshing guitars. Great atmospheric slacker-psych rock. Devin The Dude: The sly, ever-charming MC held it down on the Blue…
As cool as the lineup for Fun Fun Fun Fest today and tomorrow may be, the Friday night kick-off party was clearly for the nerds–former and current. Chris Hardwick was intended to be the warm-up act for “Weird Al” Yankovic, but from my vantage (outside on the sidewalk, due to…
This weekend’s concert calender is abnormally full to the brim, but the show we’re maybe most excited about is Ben Kweller and Rhett Miller’s Cystic Fibrosis benefit concert at Granada Theater. Two of the biggest local indie rock and alt-country stars will play separate sets, but, as was mentioned in…
Three years ago, Hunter Vaughan was just your average 17-year-old raver who frequented Dallas’ nightclubs (when permitted inside) with the sole objective of having a good time. As Vaughan became more aware of the scene around him, though, he started keeping his eyes and ears out for local resident DJs,…
Mike Herrera is best known as the vocalist and bassist for MxPx, a punk rock act from Bremerton, Washington, that gained a substantial following in the mid-’90s. Although each member of MxPx was a Christian, the band never identified itself as a Christian punk band, and, after eight solid efforts…
Air Review’s debut album, Landmarks, came seemingly from out of nowhere in 2009 and immediately proved this band as Dallas’ most ready-for-arenas outfit — and not just because of the bombast packed in to every single note on that disc. No, this five-piece is one that painstakingly prepares its live…
Los Angeles’ The Aggrolites are a reggae band that formed in 2002 as a combination of Vessels and the Rhythm Doctors. Starting out, they performed the duties of backing band for reggae icon Derrick Morgan. But after being satisfied with that venture, the band decided work more together and they…
Marget & The Nuclear So and So’s have been making their signature indie folk chamber pop since 2005, and although they have garnered critical acclaim and respect for their songwriting from us, they haven’t been so successful financially. Considering that they’re a seven-piece band that rides a self-bought school bus…
Best Coast isn’t Bethany Cosentino’s first foray into music — before starting her most recent project, the 23-year-old flirted with the major label circuit when her teenage singer-songwriter material caught their ears, and, a few years later, she started Pocahaunted, which has released a whole slew of albums since forming…
Israel’s Monotonix have been known around these parts to throw crazy concerts that really do demonstrate just how crazy the Middle East can actually be. And we at DC9 have loved it, going as far as to calling the trio’s live shows “one of the best.” But that doesn’t mean…
