Music

Speaking of new music videos, the Dallas contingent of Young Money Entertainment, Lil Twist, has a mew one for his Bow Wow-featuring song called “Lil’ Secret,” which pretty much follows the same formats as most of the old Bob Wow video’s before he dropped the “Lil” from his name. Which…

Rose’s Pawn Shop is an alt-country outfit hailing out of Los Angeles that boasts a couple of quality Americana albums, including the recently released Dancing on the Gallows. But there’s a local tie, too: Local singer/songwriter, and former Dallas Observer Music Award winner Kristy Kruger has toured with Rose’s Pawn…

School of Seven Bells’ sophomore effort, Disconnect from Desire, earned its release last month after the early leaking of two singles from the disc, “Babelonia” and “Windstorm.” It’s the latter of those two early leaks that’s earned the official single release treatment from band management, though, with the release of…

When retailers and critics began singing the praises of digital media—namely the newly en vogue compact discs in the mid-1980s—vinyl began its slow descent into the background, fading into virtual obscurity around 1991. Or so mainstream labels and retailers would have you believe. Despite its dwindling availability, vinyl never stopped…

The Vermont trio Happy Birthday has been one of 2010’s bands to watch thanks to its fusion of lukewarm punk with raw, twee pop and the occasional ’60s harmony. Its ramshackle brand of lo-fi pop is less straightforward than it sounds, however, thanks to towering power chords and scorching drums…

Crowded House have been rushing about playing and promoting Intriguer, their follow-up to 2007’s Time on Earth. And rightfully so, because, well, Time may have been printed with the Crowded name, but it was—and bassist Nick Seymour concurs—truly a Neil Finn solo album that reunited the band in the studio,…

For any musician, trying to come up with a foolproof formula for success is folly. Pick up your guitar one day, and everything flows effortlessly. The following day, nothing sounds right, no matter what you do. One album might utterly capture your musical essence; the next might fall flat. You…

The recent hip-hop trend of paradigm-shifting MCs continues with the big-top arrival of B.o.B, whose The Adventures of Bobby Ray debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in April. There has been something preordained about his rise, but it’s been an intermittent ascent for Atlanta’s Bobby Ray Simmons…

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…

We’ve made no secret of our approval of either Cleburne’s Fungi Girls or Vermont’s Sub Pop-approved Happy Birthday here at DC9. So, yeah, of course we’re looking forward to tomorrow night’s show at The Nightmare, which finds the two bands sharing what we’re thinking is the best-looking bill in an…

Just a few weeks ago, Dallas native Brandon Curtis and his band The Secret Machines were playing at our Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase outdoor stage. The trio wore black as their psychedelic drones pretty much obliterated the audience. The heat from the afternoon sun took care of the rest…

I always thought it would be kind of a great idea for a band to only play break-up or reunion shows. Think about it: You can get a lot of people to come to your last concert. And, likewise, when your band gets back together.But it won’t last long before…

Seems Dorrough doesn’t think you have enough money–which is to say that you definitely don’t have as much as he has. Or, for that matter, as much as Mark Cuban has. The Dallas Mavericks owner–who just may soon own Your Texas Rangers, too–makes a quick appearance in an alternate take…