Music

Who says concerts need to rock? Low-key acoustic shows can be just as moving as big-time rock extravaganzas, and the Granada Theater will prove it at this show, when it plays host to Balmorhea, Doug Burr and Bosque Brown. Local folk songsters Bosque Brown and Doug Burr shouldn’t need introduction…

Shortly after the breakup of Marked Men, Mark Ryan began working on a solo project. He started multi-tracking guitar and vocal parts and assembling them into songs over which he would then get either Greg Rutherford of High Tension Wires or Mike Thorneberry, formerly of Marked Men, to lay down…

Artists—or musicians, to be more specific—have never been ones to worry themselves too much over the rules and preferred guidelines of corporate America. Sure, the thought of being able to pay one’s bills by practicing the craft that brings the artist joy is a reasonable and enviable goal. But in…

Blah blah blah, Deep Ellum’s back, blah blah blah blah blah. Blah. Listen: We know you’ve heard it before. We know we’ve said it before. No apologies, though. Because—look out—we’re about to say it again. And maybe this time it’ll register. Consider this: Just over a year ago, back in…

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we’ve been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to…

Earlier today, Steve Jobs unveiled “Ping,” a new social media platform within iTunes. We think it’s going to really take off–as well as solidify Apple’s burgeoning reputation as the future Cyberdyne systems. In this light, we propose a few apps that Jobs could-have possibly unveiled today (or perhaps, might in…

Singer-songwriter Paul Eason grew up in Houston, went to college in San Marcos and, predictably, ended up in Austin to ply his musical craft. We won’t hold that against him.And, judging by the quality of Eason’s country/folk, it’s difficult to begrudge the guy his choice of cities. Clearly influenced by…

Just because we’re barely on the other side of the triple digit heatwave doesn’t mean that it’s too early to start thinking about Christmas, right? The folks over at Trees don’t think so, at least. They’ve gone ahead and announced the first Christmas show of the year: A performance from…

August was a real scorcher–which meant that some of the best parties and concerts in Dallas happened after-hours and were occasionally NSFW. (Science tells us that it’s cooler without clothes on.) So, on that note, after the jump, we’ve provided links to all those night moves slideshows–with photos by Roderick…

Pretty much everything about Tum Tum’s new mixtape, from its above album art to its title, Purp Kobain, is indeed a reference, in some way or another, to the late Kurt Cobain. Hell, there’s even a song called “Kourtney Love,” a surprisingly tender ballad about tragic love. But, aside from…

We’ve already had a lot of things to say about Frisco’s inaugural Oysterfest on Saturday, September 25. The bill, an impressive mixture of 15 touring and local bands on two outdoor stages at Lochrann’s Irish Pub & Eatery, includes Rhett Miller Bowerbirds, Efterklang, Telegraph Canyon–you get the picture. This thing…

Sarah Jaffe has been out on the road for the last few weeks wowing audiences with the help of local super-musicians Scott Danbom and Robert Gomez. We’re assuming that she’s making fans left and right, but we know for sure that she can add the over-caffeinated host of Seattle’s morning…

Two weeks ago, in the print edition of the Observer, I caught up with The Secret Handshake’s Luis Dubuc in anticipation of his fourth full-length release–and by far his most ambitious. The album, called Night & Day, finds Dubuc trying to shed his mall-punk tag. And it does so in…