Earlier this month, in a review of Delmore Pilcrow’s sophomore release, Keep An Eye, Kelly Dearmore got to the heart of the band’s sound right at the start of his take:If The Strokes are considered a garage-rock band, and Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears are regularly labeled as a…
There’ve been grumbles coming from Denton ever since Midlake announced that their upcoming June 5 performance would be happening in Dallas at the Palladium Ballroom rather than somewhere in the band’s hometown.The grumbles got even louder when the ticket price was revealed–$25, after fees. And that’s before you count the…
In last week’s show announcements post, we made a big to-do about Christina Aguilera’s forthcoming album, Bionic, and the tour she has planned to support it. Well, in a press release we received yesterday, Aguilera’s people informed us that the tour has been pushed back to 2011–although no dates have…
Yesterday, over on his The Boca Libre blog, budding videographer, Oak Cliff resident and Kid Robot employee Josh Obama posted the above, beautifully presented clip, which Obama is calling his first official documentary short. It’s not a bad first go, either: Featuring the long-revered-around-town DJ Sober, the short goes “behind…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 26, 2010…U2 have had to postpone all of it’s North American tour because Bono had emergency back surgery. It’s hard on the ol’ back to carry around that much pompousness, no?Screaming “DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM” doesn’t help much…
Maybe you already follow @DC9atNight on Twitter. Maybe you don’t. You should though. For obvious, mostly awesome reasons. But, whatever. That’s not the point of this post. Rather, this is: If you’ve been following @DC9atNight intently, you probably also already know about the new Twitter account we’ve got up and…
Speaking of new music videos, the above one from local emo-rock outfit This Is The Good Fight for its song “Broken Hearted” was released last week. It’s a pretty entertaining clip shot around various Dallas locales–but, I’ll warn you, if you’re one of those kids who got seizures while watching…
Sometimes, simplicity’s the best way to go. Case in point: pretty much any song in THe BAcksliders’ catalog. That’s hardly a knock on the band either–THe BAcksliders’ straightforward, often Badfinger-influenced songs are something of a breath of fresh air in the local scene, which has seen something of a dearth…
Some may remember Roger Hoover from his former band, The Whiskeyhounds, which drew quite a bit of press while releasing two albums of earnest alt-country–a band that was essentially just Hoover and whoever he played with. But with his new project, The Magpies, Hoover has created a dynamic that is…
Boston-based indie band, Clem Snide has been on the verge of breakthrough for almost two decades. If you’ve ever watched an episode of NBC’s, Ed, or spent anytime in a Starbucks, chances are you’ve heard a variety of their “art-country” tunes.It’s been an up-and-down ride: Their career has been riddled…
of Montreal, Noot d’ NootGranada TheaterMay 24, 2010Better than: the last show I saw at Granada. Quite the spectacle last night from of Montreal at the Granada Theater. Not quite a repeat of the band’s highly theatrical 2008 show at House of Blues, but, still, the Athens, Georgia-based band put…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 25, 2010…Slipknot’s bass player has been found dead. Limp Bizkit canceling their summer tour because they are not an “amphitheater band” is code for “not selling enough tickets.”Our long national nightmare is over, Paula Abdul is returning to television!…
On Friday night, the trusty Lek Brothers checked out Cantina Dallas for some psychedelic dance music. The occasion? Dub ’til Dawn, with James Meadows, Josh Kynd, Opie, Atum & Aeon. From there, the duo ventured to the Lizard Lounge for DJ Klever (aka Josh Winkler) of Atlanta & B Rich…..
Seeing 40 concerts in 40 different cities over the course 40 consecutive nights. Sound cool? Sure does. While such a trip would be an unrealistic fantasy for most of us, former senior writer from Paste Magazine, Steve LaBate and his good friend, filmmaker Scott Sloan, decided that they would turn…
Quite the coup this week for the Oak Cliff-based Kara Howell and Wes Darrin–better known ’round these parts as Darktown Strutters–who found themselves namedropped by The Big Pink’s Milo Cordell in a blog post written for influential UK music magazine NME. Seems Darktown made quite the impression on Cordell when…
It’s hard to believe how “cutting edge” Club Clearview (R.I.P.) was striving to be in the early 1990s. Because plopping down $80,000 for a virtual reality machine and a re-model in the middle of a recession? That sure seems like a bold move on the part of then-Clearview owners Jeff…
In this week’s paper, Daniel Rodrigue catches up with founding of Montreal member Bryan Poole and gets to the nitty gritty of the band’s dynamics behind enigmatic frontman Kevin Barnes.”It’s not a normal band now,” Poole concedes. “It’s not a democratically creative band. It’s Kevin’s band. They’re his ideas. They’re…
Laura Marling, Smoke FairiesThe LoftMay 23, 2010Better than: trying to make sense out of any finales that were on TV last night. Let me just say it right up front: Laura Marling is an amazing talent. The native of the “quite beautiful” countryside of Hampshire, England is now 20 years…
Vanilla IceMay 21, 2010TreesBetter than: watching Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader? reruns while loaded up on whippets. Friday night, all the popular kids you wished you knew in high school but who never left whatever crappy suburb you’re from found a babysitter, got dressed up for their bimonthly big…
Over on Unfair Park, Wilonsky–who is a better man that I, clearly–spent his Sunday morning recapping his thoughts on Saturday’s Homegrown Music and Arts Festival at Main Street Garden Park. No need to fully re-hash the thing in this space, then? Probably not. But, still, there remain a few pictures…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 24, 2010…Nothing says I loved this place like recreated an absolutely disgusting bathroom. We Are Scientists offer up it’s advice on how to be an awesome music blogger. Those crazy-ass members of the Westboro Baptist Church are at it again…
This weekend’s concert calender is pretty heavy on local acts–thanks, especially, to the inaugural Homegrown Music and Arts Festival on Saturday at the Main Street Gardens Park in Downtown Dallas. Homegrown’s stacked bill is almost certainly the highlight of the weekend, thanks to scheduled performances from Jonathan Tyler & The…
