DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 22: DJ INDO

DJ INDO, born Ricky Roe, grew up with music as an integral part of his life, and it was his love for music, alongside inspiration from his father and brother, that led him to DJ. When he first got started, nearly four years ago, DJ INDO explored a wide variety…

Last Night: Cyndi Lauper at House of Blues

Cyndi LauperHouse of BluesAugust 11, 2010Better than: staying home and watching American Idol: Blues Edition. Looking spry and awkwardly fashionable, pop icon Cyndi Lauper hit the stage last night at House of Blues looking to educate her fans about the value of the blues.”I’ve been wanting to make this new…

Dead Twins

Polarized, the new record from Dead Twins, comes off as a collection of songs from a group of guys who know exactly who they are—hungry veterans. The band’s members have been immersed in the Dallas rock community for a long time now, playing in notable bands Mermaid Purse and The…

Beauxregard

Beauxregard is clearly band that looks to the past for musical inspiration. But figuring out just what era is informing the band’s music is where things get tricky. By comparison, their excellent 2008 EP, When Balloons Were Sleeves, was a relatively straightforward ’80s New Wave synthpop homage, despite the operatic…

Jermaine Dupri Protégé Dondria Readies Her Debut

Three years ago, Sachse resident Dondria Nicole was a YouTube sensation, pulling in hundreds of thousands of views for the R&B covers she sang, recorded on her computer and posted to the Internet. Two years ago, then 19 years old, she was primed to be the Next Big Thing, plucked…

Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos

Drinking beer in the afternoon, playing low-stakes poker with good friends, tubing on the Guadalupe—Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos have the innate ability to provide the perfect soundtrack to all these activities. Theirs is great music to be played while you’re doing pretty much anything other than listening—because…

Something Corporate

During Something Corporate’s original time as a band—roughly the years between 1998 and 2004—they never received their proper due. The piano-driven group didn’t quite fit in with prevailing trends (although they were on then-pop-punk mecca Drive-Thru Records and toured with bands in the genre) and vocalist/ivory-tickler Andrew McMahon’s lyrics were…

A.A. Bondy Questions His Folk Tag

These are the questions of our time: Should Pete Rose be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Who, in fact, did let the dogs out? Was the Gilded Age really gilded—or even a real age, for that matter? What’s the true definition of folk music? A.A. Bondy might not…