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…
As we mentioned last week, the virtual grab-bag of fun that is the Rock This Town Music Festival starts tonight at La Grange in Deep Ellum. Aside from their amazing snow cones, tonight’s “Kickoff Party” will feature a movie screening of the ’80s rock-doc Everest Rocks, hosted by its director,…
Some folks may know transplanted Bostonite Luna Matto for her work as a member of The Polyphonic Spree’s chorus. But you may or may not know that Ms. Matto was writing songs long before she entered the Spree conglomerate some four years ago. And, these days, Matto’s own band includes…
J. Paul Slavens, Denton’s goofy improv song and jazz man, is set to release his new full-length album, Alphabet Girls, this Saturday, June 26, at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton. Though Slavens made the album available for digital download earlier this month, Saturday will celebrate the physical release of the disc…
Just the other morning, Vampire Weekend announced that they, along with Beach House and The Very Best, will be coming to the Palladium Ballroom on Wednesday, October 6. Both Vampy and Beach House came through recently, and we gave both performances high marks. So, with the addition of The Very…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 23, 2010…Two tech giants are going head-to-head in the digital music realm.Jenny Lewis is boycotting an Arizona show like she boycotts meeting fans after shows at the Granada.The Game wants you to know that even though his career may be,…
In this past week’s paper, Jesse Hughey gave local Minutemen-adoring trio Deep Snapper’s latest, Pi on the Side, an educated listen and found it to be a melange of “shouted vocals about politics and other nonsense, earworm melodies and breakneck drum-bashing with prominent bass and a heaping helping of distortion…
From the “Ever wonder what happens when local musicians have too much time on their hands?” department today comes the clip above, the most recent promo for the variety show John Pedigo (The O’s, Boys Named Sue) and Chad Stockslager (The King Bucks, The Drams) and put on every now…
It shocked Passion Pit (playing with openers Tokyo Police Club) to see a 3,500 capacity ballroom filled to the brim Monday night. But, as Pete pointed out in his review, the crowd’s energy was even more remarkable. See more of the night’s energetic performance, and bustling crowd, in Andrew Shepherd’s…
So, despite a virtual kick in the gut from Pitchfork, it seems that Denton’s Florene is unfazed. Sure, the above interview was filmed before the music media giant’s slogging, but that didn’t stop up-and-coming Denton bloggers WeDentonDoIt.com from posting the above well-done video to their site yesterday (and, for good…
So the Black Swan’s kind of an awesome Deep Ellum dive located in the old Thin Room spot across from Trees, and, twice a week (every Sunday and Wednesday), the room adds some music to the neighborhood’s already-pretty-full-these-days platter. The first band the Swan ever hosted? That’s an easy one:…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Sugar and Gold…
Passion PitPalladium BallroomJune 21, 2010Better than: seeing Elmo in concert. It was startling, actually–even to the band on stage. “This is one of the biggest audiences we’re playing to on this tour,” Passion Pit, see concert photos in our slideshow frontman Michael Angelakos announced to his adoring crowd somewhere in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 22, 2010…Weezy continues to try and earn his street cred by copping to a plea deal stemming from a 2008 drug bust in Arizona. Good thing he wasn’t an illegal immigrant… no telling what they would’ve done to him.The best…
When this article appeared in the June 15, 1995, edition of the Observer, London Records was just weeks away from releasing Hagfish’s major label-debut, Rocks Your Lame Ass–which also means that the band was just about two years away from being dropped by London Records, and about three years away…
In this past week’s paper, as part of our Homegrown review explosion, Mark Schectman gave the debut EP from former Deadman and Telegraph Canyon chanteuse Sherilyn Segrest a healthy couple of spins to come up with this take on the disc called Through The Night: “This EP takes the listener…
Sad news for those (including me) who were looking forward to catching The Go-Go’s at their Granada Theater show on July 26: Seems guitarist Jane Wiedlin took an awful fall that will require surgery. Here’s the word straight from the band’s website:It is with great regret that the Go-Go’s announce…
Since last summer, Live Nation’s been ramping up their summer ticket sales by offering a promotion known as “No Service Fee June.” A brief reminder: For the entire month of June, Live Nation is kind enough to remove the ridiculous service fees from the already steep ticket prices for their…
As currently stands, there’s shows booked out until October 7 at Fort Worth’s long-running Ridglea Theater–but that all could change real soon. Our friends at the FW Weekly report this morning that, in the near future, the venue could be sold off–and turned into a bank. Turns out that’s one…
So, the first Dallas foray for the Electric Daisy Carnival was kinda crazy on Saturday night–to the tune of 18,000 attendees, actually, according to one on-site police officer I spoke with at Fair Park on Saturday night. In this week’s paper, I’ll get more into my thoughts on the event–and,…
So hot right now: Fashion designer Elia De Leon showed off her new clothing line, Rebirth, for the Rockin’ The Runway event on Friday, June 18, at Plush. DJ Pollux spun the tunes for the, uh, runway models dancing on the bar. See more from this night of models in…
Concrete Blonde, Jim BiancoGranada TheaterJune 18, 2010Better than: listening to Bloodletting on CD, sad to say. The recent trend of bands performing shows and planning them around an entire album has become quite the rage these days. It’s gotten almost absurd: The fan-friendly phenomenon has grown to the point where…
