Sarah Jaffe, Seryn, Jonathan Evan ClarkGranada TheaterSeptember 11, 2010Better than: Jaffe’s CD release show at Sons of Hermann Hall back in May.There still remain a sign or two of her youth and inexperience–like when, just a few songs in to her headlining slot at the Granada Theater on Saturday night,…
In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we turn our eyes back to September 12, 1991, which was a big week for the Reverend Horton Heat. He and his band were preparing to embark on a tour of Russia and Scandinavia that they were calling the “Arctic…
We did this once before to big results, so, as promised, here it is again: The fifth incarnation of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, this year taking place at Waterloo Park on November 5, 6 and 7 and featuring the likes of Weird Al, among many others, is looking like…
The first 50 people in line for Tegan and Sara’s in-store on Friday, September 10, got to meet the adored duo. But plenty others waited for the chance–and early, too. Good Records’ Chris Penn reports that people were lining up at the Greenville Avenue record store as early as 5…
Autolux, Golden PandaThe LoftSeptember 10, 2010Better than: waiting six years between albums. The distinctive, spectacular drumming of Autolux’s Carla Azur is enough to draw a crowd. Consider, too, though, the elegant mystery of this credit for her work with Joe Henry on the album Fuse: “Carla Azur appears like the…
Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Music Festival with Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Hellyeah, more… Superpages.com Center September 10, 2010 Better than: expected, but not as good as watching the Rangers sweep the Yankees Hot, humid air filled seemingly every crevice of Superpages.com Center as the behemoth known as the Rockstar Energy Drink…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 13, 2010…Jay-Z is helping out Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith as they seek total entertainment domination. Is the world ready for a Klingon opera?Phil Collins revealed he has to tape his drumsticks into his hands to be able to actually…
This weekend is stuffed with some pretty big shows, but the biggest one coming to town this weekend might be Saturday’s Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Music Festival at Superpages.com Center with Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, our own Hellyeah and many more.Maybe getting all jacked up on repackaged Mountain Dew and listening…
His popular weekly dance party known as Disqo Disco may be dead now, but Sean Humphrey, who also serves as the frontman of local electro act Sydney Confirm, still spins lively sets around town under his stage name of Redsean.In both his band and in his DJ sets, Humphrey draws…
It’s only taken seven months, but Midlake finally went ahead and released a music video for a song off of its The Courage of Others LP. Over on Stereogum this afternoon, the band premiered the above video for “Ruler, Ruling All Things,” a clip directed and shot by frontman Tim…
For the fourth year in a row now, the folks at Third String Productions are ringing in the return of the school year with its annual September to Remember affair, which grabs a whole bunch of mall-approved pop-punkers (a good chunk of which, it should be noted, are local) and…
Saturday night should be a pretty special one at the Granada Theater, with Sarah Jaffe returning home to Dallas after yet another tour of our fair nation, and finding herself sharing a date with her friends in another promising young Denton folk upstart, Seryn. Sure, it’s a bill that many…
If you’re his neighbor, you already know his name. If you’re everyone else, you know him as the inventor of sex. He’s Trey Songz, y’all. And he wants to rock!…
The Superpages.com Center is pretty busy this weekend. Rockstar Energy Drinks’ UPROAR Fest featuring Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold is tonight, the JoBros and Demi Lovato take over the place on Sunday, and, on Saturday, Dave Matthews Band on Saturday will have things running amok.Here’s the thing about the Dave Matthews…
Well, this week, we weren’t able to occupy our usual spot at the judges table for last night’s eighth and final week of the first round for the Shiner Rising Star contest. This was an unfortunate absence, too, as this week’s event took place at the Southern Junction in Rockwall,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 10, 2010…The fact that Marilyn Manson likes to play dress up isn’t a surprise. But the fact that he like to dress up like Kenny Powers from HBO’s Eastbound & Down, well, that is. Wouldn’t have figured him for a…
Lots of great posters to choose from this week… but it’s tough to beat out an original design commissioned from the dude who created The Crow…
New York electro duo Designer Drugs has a knack for turning out excessively danceable bangers, although their biggest hits have come from the remixes they mix in among their of original tracks. Their most popular remix? Mariah Carey’s “Lovin’ U Long Time.” These days, the New York scenesters are taking…
Well, we’re just swelling with pride and joy this afternoon–and for good reason. It looks like we could be on the verge of finally seeing the long-discussed Stevie Ray Vaughan statue finding a place in Dallas, which (despite Austin’s claim on him and SRV statue of their own) is indeed…
21-year-old area singer-songwriter Emily Elbert’s no stranger to local music fans, having performed her fair share of gigs at Opening Bell and the Kessler Theater in recent years since picking up the guitar at age 15. She’s no stranger to the Internet either: Her jazzy, acoustic take on Michael Jackson’s…
In this week’s paper, Doug Davis catches up with Autolux’s Greg Edwards to talk about the shoegaze-y Los Anegeles-based band’s return to the spotlight with the recently released Transit Transit, the band’s sophomore release and its first after six full years of absence. It’s a fine release, Davis explains. But,…
Hopefully our incessant bugging you about Dorrough, Dondria and Lil Twist this summer hasn’t fallen on deaf ears.Because, whether or not DC9 readers are paying attention, plenty of others are when it comes to these three. In fact, on Tuesday, the trio combined for the fifth time to pull of…
