Music

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…

Listen: We probably won’t be doing giveaways to the free, Thursday concert series at Lochrann’s in Frisco forever. After all, the shows are free. But so long as Spune Productions, the coordinators behind the event, keeps making it worthwhile for us to send our readers to head up there and…

So, uh, this above music video came out today. I pretty much don’t understand a single thing about it–or how in the world Pat Summerall got involved. But, hey, I guess I’m not Forever the Sickest Kids’ target demo…

Tonight, at the House of Blues, Dallas-based super-producers Play-N-Skillz will perform a set as part of a bill its sharing with Bone Thurs-N-Harmony and Play-N-Skillz’s own G4 Muzik-signed artist, Inertia.Seems the similarly Dallas-based Inertia has been the major focus of the brothers Salinas for the past few months–ever since the…

My all-time favorite music list is riddled with bands that started out being a little too weird and “out there” for me. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti is on that list of bands. The band started off sounding like a slightly out-of-tune AM radio to me, but the blissed-out melodies enticed…

It’s a big week in Idol World. Tonight marks the almost annual star-studded Idol Gives Back charity episode, and, no matter how hard-hearted you are, you have to admit that the show is an emotional, feel-good, do-good piece of prime-time. Celebs of every level will grace the stage and screen…

Local Natives is turning out to be kind of a big deal. I know this for a few reasons. 1) The band was originally booked to play The Cavern when it scheduled its Dallas appearance for later this week, but now the show will take place at the much-larger Sons…

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 four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.The 5…

In this week’s paper, Mark Schectman takes a listen to The Burning Hotels’ sophomore effort, Novels. And he likes what he hears. Writes the man:There can never be enough catchy pop-punk songs about relationships sung by guys in tight pants. Continue reading…He writes other things, too–that too many of the…

In this week’s print edition, Saby Reyes-Kulkarni takes a look at tonight’s Todd Rundgren show at Trees. Writes Reyes-Kulkarni:With his soaring voice and arena-rock fluency, Todd Rundgren seemed destined for hit-after-hit superstardom when he released his third album, the entirely self-recorded Something/Anything, in 1972.Looking back, though, it was clear that…

Three things present at Record Store Day at Good Records–beards, BBQ and a despondent. chicken-suited man. On this rainy Saturday afternoon in the Good Records parking lot, the National Record Store Day mood was calm, for the most part. Not much explosive cheering to be had when you’re throwing down…

It was just two Saturdays ago that Dallas’ alternative rock crew The Buck Pets reunited for a release show at Trees to release their rarities album, RARES (and unreleased).The reunion was a long time coming, since it had been 15 years since the band released the rushed and disappointing album…

After stopping by some Record Store Day festivities on Saturday (expect a slideshow from Good Records’ celebration soon), I hopped on over to the House of Blues to take care of some last-minute reporting on Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, subject of the cover feature in this week’s up-and-coming…

Some of Texas’s very own Dubstep DJs were present at the Dubstep Assembly’s lineup on Saturday. A rain-dazed crowd loosened up at the Green Elephant for Jimmy B, Royal Highnuss, Mundo and Mad Classy Crew. See the rest of the Lek Brothers slideshow here…