DC9atNight and WeDentonDoIt Present: Babar

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’re the kind of acts we think you’re gonna want to know–and right away.Loyal DC9 readers may recognize the members of Denton’s Babar as…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, November 1, 2010

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.Bertell (Houston, TX)…

Over The Weekend: Bad Brains at the Granada Theater

Bad Brains, Spector 45 and Here Holy SpainThe Granada TheaterFriday, October 29, 2010Better than: reliving my punk rock past at home listening to actual records Before a sizable, middle-aged horde, legendary Washington, D.C. punk act Bad Brains put on a formable display of full throttle hardcore while still managing to…

Good Friday: Halloween Weekend Edition

This weekend marks the end of an era: After a five-year run, the most critical critics in North Texas over at We Shot JR are calling it quits. We suspect it’s only a matter of days until the comments on DC9 increase in anonymity and negativity, but, before that happens,…

Bonus MP3: Black Stone Rangers — “Plug It In”

A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we…