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…

Smile Smile, which performs tonight at City Tavern, and its song “Beg You To Stay” get a nice little push from the Marc Cuban-owned, Dallas-based HDNet in the above house ad which is currently airing on the high definition cable station, promoting its in-rotation film catalog. Hardly the first time…

Can’t say I know too much about the new-to-the-Internet site WeDentonDoIt.com–well, other than that it promises readers that they’re “basically going to find videos of things we find interesting that happen in our little pocket of the world called Denton, TX,” and that the lone entry on the site beyond…

Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant now has a new band featuring a well-respected female Americana singer, but her name isn’t Alison Krauss.Rather, Patty Griffin has been in the studio with Plant–along with Darrell Scott, Byron House, Marco Giovino and Buddy Miller–as The Band of Joy, which will release the…

In this upcoming week’s print issue of the Observer, you’ll find my takes on three new discs from area outfits well worth your attention–Spooky Folk, Mount Righteous and The Beaten Sea, the first two of which we already provided early tastes of in the form of bonus mp3s. Seems natural…

Surely, that toothsome twosome to the right looks familiar to most Dallasites. They are after all, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, formerly Dallas’ own Emily and Martie Erwin–or, at least, that was the case back when the Dixie Chicks called Dallas home. To this day, they still make up two-thirds…

Even though the band hails from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jettison Never hasn’t a country or southern rock bone in its collective body. Instead, the trio led by brothers Matt and Josh Gilbert mines the modern sounds of Mute Math, Coldplay and Kings of Leon in its search for mainstream success. And,…

Let’s just say that if you were at the Street Jam Saturday night, it was a little… chaotic. Fortunately, our trusty photographers Ray and Peter Lek were there to grab shots of all half pipin’, music playing good times. Also? A little DJ Mutemore and DJ PriestTDiddy thrown into the…

Guitarists from all over tend to cite Stevie Ray Vaughan as their primary influence. He may very well be the “Pride and Joy” of the Dallas area, even if Austin claims him as its own.Back on March 26, in 1987, Michael Corcoran profiled the Dallas blues guitar icon for the…

After midnight on Saturday night, there was still a line to get into the Lizard Lounge for the hyper-taurined Red Bull Thre3Style DJ competition. A good, stunned crowd–possibly from the excess Red Bull–was there to stare intently at the DJ booth as area jocks offered up their talents for judgment…

Somewhere between burlesque and Woodstock was this weekend’s Lollipop Shoppe Rock n Roll Circus at Sons of Hermann Hall. Rolling Stones cover band Black and Blue was the headliner, along with costumed folks ready to dance. See more of Mattie Stafford’s slideshow, which apparently features Sir Silky (above) among others,…

At 3:33 a.m. on Saturday morning (Eastern Time), Erykah Badu debuted the above Matt & Kim-inspired video for her new single, “Window Seat,” on her Web site. The single is the first off her New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh album, which will be released for purchase tomorrow.And,…

Raise your hands if you’re glad you don’t have to drive north or south on I-35 this week to catch a festival? Great! Too bad there’s still plenty to see around the Metroplex this weekend, suckers.No more histrionics–let’s just dive right into your show-going options for the weekend. Starting, as…