Music

Cliff Wright from The Orbans passed along the above clip to DC9 HQ yesterday morning–and for good reason. It’s features new song from the promising Fort Worth country-rock outfit, one which will be included on the band’s as-yet-untitled new album due for release in late March, if all goes to…

The latest greatest song from the D-Town Boogie movement? You’re looking at it, folks. Listeners of K104 or 97.9 The Beat will no doubt recognize the song immediately, as its played with regularity on both stations. And now the men behind “Flex,” the Party Boyz, have a flashy Dr. Teeth-directed…

The Fox and The Bird folked up the House of Blues Cambridge Room on Friday night, opening for Bowerbirds, and our photographer Sara Kerens was there to cover the set.You can check out more shots from the show here in our slideshow…

This week, for the first go ’round of our new weekly, online hip-hop battle competition, both of our top performers–JMack and AnonymousCulture–chose to go the a cappella route with their submissions, opting to let the merits of the lyrics stand on their own without a backing beat. Bold move.But last…

​Mardi Gras Texas Style drew thousands of fans to Fair Park on Saturday, for a bill of 20 country acts including the Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Cory Morrow and more. As if you needed an excuse to throw a beer-can necklace over your “Girls Gone Wild Film…

Today marks the first day in which audiences can head on out–or just sit in and click over to iTunes or your digital download store of choice, whatever–and purchase the new Smile Smile disc, Truth on Tape. And, in many ways, the title of the disc explains exactly what can…

This here post is the first edition of what will be a weekly peek at what outside musicians think about the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Each week, we’ll present a conversation with a touring act, and conclude it with a quick word-association game focusing on certain aspects of Big D and…

Last week, Dallas native Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent, duh) released the above video for the third single off her pretty darn awesome, May-released album, Actor, “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood.” And it’s pretty brilliant, too, enlisting the help of Thunderant, the comedy duo featuring SNL vet Fred Armisen…

I think most guys will relate to this video. You know how it is: just when you think you’re over a breakup, she chases you away from band practice, forcing you to leap from an overpass. Then somehow you find yourself in a DART train, pursued yet again into [shudder]…

Can’t imagine that Erykah Badu and Matthew Gray (of Matthew and The Arrogant Sea) really have all that much in common–well, aside from the fact that they’re both from the region, they’ve both more-likely-than-not dabbled in mind-altering substances and they’ve both had the dubious honor of meeting yours truly (surely…

Hey, looks like Bob Sambol’s boys are back: The once Dallas- and now Austin-based The Strange Boys recently announced that the follow-up to its well-received full-length debut, 2009’s …and Girls Club, would see its release February 23. And, to promote the album (called Be Brave), the boys went ahead released…

The Texas Theater in Oak Cliff hosted the Second Annual Dallas Burlesque Festival on Friday and Saturday night, Feb. 5-6. The temperature outside may have dipped into the 40s, but the air in Texas Theater grew thick and sultry as burlesque dancers enslaved their audience. While the production was not…

Oceans rise, rock legends fall, time marches on, and somehow, inexplicably, the Snuggie persists. Almost a year after we covered a Snuggie night at the Quarter Bar for charity, our photographer Gloria Levario headed out to the Snuggie Pub Crawl in Uptown, where a cadre of bar-hoppers braved the cold…

G. Love & Special Sauce played the House of Blues on Friday night, and our photographer Caity Colvard was there to catch shots of the band, the crowd and the souvenir underwear assortment at the merch table.Check out the rest of the shots here in our slideshow…