The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif The Palladium Showroom Saturday, July 24, 2010Better Than: staring at Lady Gaga fans. On their third visit to the Dallas area, The New Pornographers finally got to be a headliner. (See more photos in Hal Samples’ slideshow.) Given the size of the Palladium…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 26, 2010…Other than winning Celebrity Apprentice, it hasn’t been Bret Michaels’ year. His tour bus was pulled over last week and was busted for pot.The only thing that can keep Kings of Leon from finishing a show is being pooped…
Phosphorescent, Shiny Around the Edges and Dallas Family Band The Kessler, Dallas July 23, 2010 Better Than: Navigating the freak show that was the second night of Lady Gaga’s stint in D-Town. Friday night at The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff might has well have been diversity night. With an…
Two weeks back we featured Left/Right on our weekly DJ profile, DC9er. However, due to a busy schedule the DJ/producer wasn’t able to send over an exclusive mix. Instead, he sent us an excellent mix that he’d already released. Well, this week, Left/Right sent along his new DC9-exclusive “Day Mix”…
The big show this weekend almost didn’t happen. A few weeks ago, the entire blogosphere stopped down to report that Phosphorescent’s van, with all of their gear, had been stolen in Brooklyn. Things weren’t looking good for the tour that was scheduled to start only a few days later, but…
Celebrating seven years as a night to dance to mod, R&B, soul, and reggae from the ’60s, The Smoke is the closest thing to a Northern Soul all-nighter in Dallas. Once housed at Avenue Arts in Fair Park, its DJs have called Sons of Hermann Hall their home for the…
You were probably all excited to hear that Guided By Voices are reuniting with the classic lineup for The Hallway Of Shatterproof Glass Tour, but were dismayed to see that Dallas wasn’t on their tour itinerary. Which is not to say that GBV aren’t worth a drive to Austin for…
Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. “I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music.” Wrubel says,…
For this episode of Aural Ambush, we brought a bit of Chicago to our friends at Recycled Books on the historic downtown Denton square with the track “Solid Ground” from Illinois boys Maps & Atlases. The song, featured on their latest LP, Perch Patchwork, which dropped late last month, impressed…
It appears that Maroon 5 is coming back this fall with a new album. Maroon 5 was at their height with two tracks in 2004, “This Love” and “She Will Be Loved.” Both songs had taken their toll on us as we heard them for a couple of years after…
Have we mentioned yet how stoked we are about tonight’s Phosphorescent show at The Kessler? Oh yeah, I guess we have. Writes Noah W. Bailey in this week’s print supplement to DC9: …Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck is that rare musician almost everyone can agree on, whether they’re pretentious indie-rockers or stubbornly…
John Iskander, aka Parade of Flesh, is celebrating his birthday this weekend with two great lineups featuring some hilariously violent band names and a hilariously violent poster at the fittingly named Nightmare (2810 Elm St., known until recently as the Lounge on Elm). Friday night features a crushingly heavy lineup…
7-Eleven and its cold-blooded broham, the Slurpee, have been looking for America’s next great rock band with a nation-wide Battle of the Bands. The competition has been narrowed down to 12 finalists, one of which is Arlington’s News Team Assemble. The alt-rock foursome, which apparently has indeed seen Anchorman once…
In a presumed attempt to prove that they do, in fact, deserve the recent MOJO award for “Best Live Act,” and, uh, the even more recent Dallas Observer Music Award for Best Indie Rock Act, Midlake has announced yet another world tour. This time they’ll be visiting three continents (North…
Let’s get right to it. Thursday night, July 22nd, Lady Gaga and Semi Precious Weapons played the American Airlines Center for the first night in Dallas. These are the costumed fans who lined up to enjoy the show (see the full list after the jump).Also, see photos of the Gaga…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 23, 2010…A former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent is suing Simon Cowell for what basically amounts to Cowell hurting his feelings.Original hipsters Pavement feud with Pitchfork.The Dixie Chicks are recording again! Oooooh, with Steve Martin…
Good Records’ Kevin Sears created this beautiful gig poster for Friday’s show at the lovely Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. It’s a show we’re quite excited about, of course, so it’s great to see such a cool flyer promoting it. Making it even more interesting a bill is a late…
There are a lot of musical acts other than Lady Gaga playing our area this evening. But for those wanting to slow things down a bit after the hectic pace set by the Dallas Observer Music Awards, I can’t think of a better change of pace than Kentucky’s Anchor in…
The last time that Tegan And Sara were in town, they played a surprisingly brilliant set to a sold-out crowd at the Palladium Ballroom. They’ve booked another, bigger tour with fellow mixed-up-teen sensation, Paramore, which will make a stop at the Verizon Theatre on Friday, September 10.But, to make things…
We’ve been doing a lot of talking about the critically acclaimed — and frankly, badass — new record from School Of Seven Bells, Disconnect From Desire, which was just released on Tuesday, July 13. The above interview piece features Dallas’ own Ben Curtis and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza…
Tim Halperin, Fort Worth pop-rock pianist currently wrapping up his Sorority Tour (kudos on that idea, cute-talented-young-singer boy), has just posted a pretty creative video for “She Runs” off his 2009 EP, Make or Break. The video, directed by Jonathan Combs and Joe Childress, was filmed in one continuous dolly…
Silversun Pickups, Against Me!, The Henry Clay People The Palladium Ballroom Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Better than: playing “Lazy Eye” on Guitar Hero at home. The crowd that came out to Silversun Pickups’ headlining set at the Palladium seemed like a cross-section of people who have seen 30 Seconds to…
