Hey gang. It’s been a busy last couple weeks in the art department–thanks to editor Freedman for jumping in last week in my stead. Now I’m happy to return this week with quite the specimen for our weekly selection.Brought to us by the multi-talented Andrew Shepherd (for whom you know…
Earlier this week, SMU alum Astronautalis and longtime DC9 fave DJ Fishr Pryce joined forces to release a new, pay-what-you-want mixtape called DANCEHALLFLOORSOUND!!! I’d try to explain it, but over on the mix’s download site, Astronautalis describes for us what the tape is:A mixed tape (in the contemporary sense of…
Fine. It’s Christian rap. Whatever. But here’s the thing about the 10-piece hip-hop supergroup known as DeepSpace5: They’re pretty damn legit, having moved over 100,000 discs since its first release in 1998, and having shared the stage with the likes of KRS-One, Atmosphere and MF Doom. Check the above video,…
When outsider troubadour Mark Growden rolled through the region back in January, Jesse Hughey previewed the show–quite excitedly, I might add. Wrote Hughey:Mark Growden creates the kind of rich, evocative, cabaret-noir-Americana that thousands of Tom Waits imitators would give their porkpie hats to be able to write. Continue reading…Or, in…
When we caught up with former Secret Machines- and UFOFU-er Benjamin Curtis at Austin City Limits this past fall, the current School of Seven Bells member gave us some insight into the sophomore release his band was working on at the time:”It’s a bigger sound,” he said. “It’s also a…
Tonight, at 1111 Studio (1111 Dragon Street), Hoyotoho will release its debut album, Brutal Beauty, an album we hipped you to a few weeks back now. Anyway, as the above clip shows, the event’s being promoted as a “videopera,” whatever that is. Looks pretty interesting, though. It all starts at…
People keep commenting on our post about Edgefest 20 from early last month, saying that a) I apparently didn’t give the Deftones, Neon Trees and the Crash Kings enough credit, and b) that Phoenix sucks. Not to start a flame war with anonymous commenters or anything, but here’s my response:…
Drive A is a relatively new rock quartet with solid punk leanings. Led by appropriately snotty lead vocalist/guitarist Bruno Mascolo, Drive A hails from Los Angeles and is happy to harken back to the classic hardcore punk days of Orange County when bands like Black Flag and the Adolescents were…
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.Meat LoafHang Cool…
America gave up 33 million votes last night. I’m not sure who I would’ve swapped Big Mike for to keep him out of the Bottom Three, but I would’ve definitely put Aaron Kelly in there instead of Fort Worth’s Casey James. The B3 announcement came relatively quickly in the show, after…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 29, 2010…From the home office in Sioux City, Iowa: Dave Letterman starts a record label.GZA is following suit with his Wu-mates and plans to release his sequel to Liquid Swords.The Flaming Lips Steven Drozd has been hospitalized with an undisclosed…
Trees, once hailed as one of the meccas of Dallas live performance, has yet to return to its former position of glory in its latest incarnation. But Friday night’s Rusko show, brought to you by local promoter Feezy Duz It, definitely lends credibility to the venue, bringing the club its…
Owen Pallett, formerly known as Final Fantasy, released Heartland, his first album under his own name, early this year. And not without anticipation. Before Heartland’s January release Pallett hadn’t dropped a full-length album since He Poos Clouds in 2006. But now, with a new extensive full-length in tow, Pallett is…
Speaking from his home on a chilly day in Minneapolis, electronic musician Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh is as enigmatic as his music. On this day, he’d just as soon talk about his unusual name as his latest release, Tommy. “My name is next to impossible to live up to,”…
After four straight kicks in the band nuts from Pitchfork.com’s notoriously fickle reviewers, Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken has learned to roll with the punches. “From our very first record and everything we’ve put out since, they’ve pretty much just ripped us a new one on all those reviews,” he says…
Vinnie Paul Abbott is a guy who knows what he wants and how to get it. “When I walk into a strip bar,” says the Arlington native, “I don’t want to have a bunch of stupid strobe lights in my face and a bar girl bugging me.” Rather, the iconic…
As French folk singer Yann Tiersen and his band run through a sound check a few hours before headlining the Granada Theater last Thursday night, Doug Burr, one of Tiersen’s two local openers, sits out in the theater, Tiersen’s band’s tweaks and spurts of play loudly reverberating throughout the room…
Denton’s Andy Bostick, of Andy’s Bar fame, once threw a bone to a stray. It’s been following him around ever since. Try as he might, he just can’t seem to shake the little sucker. Its name is Metal. “We get 100 e-mails a week from metal bands wanting shows,” Bostick…
Since 1992, KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge has been throwing its annual (and sometimes more often than that) Edgefest extravaganzas around town, bringing together massive bills like, well, radio stations should. Unfortunately, recent galas have been somewhat underwhelming, pairing one somewhat decent headliner with the dregs of modern rock radio (See:…
…and for ye relics of the YouTubes, here’s your link…Alright, everyone: No more jokes or discussions about Spooky Folk’s name–especially now that the band’s explained its origins in the clip above, the 15th installment of our DC9 Live at El Sibil series. We tend to agree: It’s original idea–an accidental…
In case you haven’t heard what we’ve been saying, oh, all year now: It’s high time you listened to Analog Rebellion, the new project from Aledo’s 20-year-old wunderkind Daniel Hunter (formerly known as PlayRadioPlay!). This week, after having released both his Analog Rebellion debut (Ancient Electrons) and an old B-sides…
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…
