In the last year, The River Mouth has refined its sound to such a degree that even the experimental psychedelic rock outfit’s fans, friends or family would be forgiven for not recognizing the band by sound alone. Leaving the jazzier stuff behind, The River Mouth has moved into a deeper,…
As eventful as 2009 proved for Darktown Strutters’ Kara Howell and Wes Darrin, 2010 looks to be an even more impressive year for the now Oak Cliff-based “satanic-disco” duo that’s been playing shows seemingly every few days for the last few months. For starters, the band is in talks with…
Dallas hip-hop producer and DJ Rob Viktum is known as an impeccably tasteful sampler, a beatmaker who uses snippets of half-forgotten soul songs and boom-bap drumbeats for a sound that hearkens to the ’90s Golden Era of rap and ’70s movie soundtracks. And yet he still manages to sound modern…
Last week, the jovial fellas in Eleven Hundred Springs stopped on by our spot dubbed “El Sibil,” bringing with them tales of the road and promises of good times ahead–most notably at the band’s upcoming February 5 performance at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, where the band will be celebrating…
The details behind it, at this point, are pretty vague but, after spreading like wildfire throughout the Internet this afternoon, it’s been confirmed: Fast-rising indie garage rock hero Jay Reatard was found dead at 3:30 a.m. today in his Memphis home. Long-troubled, the musician’s recent Dallas stops were plagued with…
Fair to Midland’s bus may not have rolled nine times as has been previously reported elsewhere–but it did roll one-and-a-quarter times on Saturday afternoon, eventually landing on its side, after a tire on the band’s trailer blew out when the band was driving from Los Angeles to Phoenix for a…
Don’t burn your entire stash on 4/20, because just two days later George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will touch down at House of Blues in Dallas.Bandleader Clinton, as if you needed an introduction, is a true legend of funk. His original group The Parliaments, the subsequent Funkadelic and various combinations…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 13, 2010…Slash claims to have turned down a “seven or eight figure” pay day to reunite with Guns N Roses…to work with Scott Weiland?G-Unit’s Lloyd Banks was released from a Canadian jail after allegedly assaulting and robbing a concert promoter. …
Pardon us for following the progress of Sacramento-based record label Waaga Records so closely–but, hey, they started it by first signing the DC9-approved FUR and then inking Florene, all based on the recommendations of the Sleep Whale fellas. Anyway, the early returns on that front seem to be pretty good:…
…y’know, what with all the drama and all, then you might as well turn in to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. Why? Well, ’cause you might spot a familiar face or two: Justin Pate, keyboardist for Fort Worth’s The Orbans, will be among the the backing players performing in…
The Plush basement hosted Baltimore-based Dubstep DJ Joe Nice on Friday night for a bout of heavy bass, accompanied by Dallas’s Dub Commission crew. We’ve got more shots of the scene around the club from our nightlife photo crew here in this slideshow…
Hey, look: The O’s have a little gift for you. And… well… ah, hell, I’ll just let Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis explain it to ya: As the guys gear up to record their next album and head out on their first European tour, they decided to give something back to…
Seems things have been heating up on the east end of Deep Ellum lately, what with Sons of Hermann Hall’s amped-up bookings of late (Hope Sandoval, the four-night run from the Old 97’s, etc.). And that trend only continues as the lodge hosts a fine triple-bill on Friday night featuring…
Wilonsky swears Roky Erickson was born in Dallas, and, hey, that’s enough of an excuse for me to pass along this fine little bit of news this morning: For the first time in 14 years, the Father of Psychedelic Rock will release an album of new material. The album, called…
Quite the progressive metal conglomeration tonight down in Deep Ellum at the Prophet Bar. Headlining the deal? North Carolina’s Between the Buried and Me. And even though any metal band that takes its name from a Counting Crows song is deducted satanic style points, this appealing quintet has been doing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 12, 2010…Raekwon, Ghostface and Method Man have started a side project… but, need a little help with the name. Maybe, Wu Lite?Somewhere today, Thom Yorke has to be incredibly upset that a member of a boy band is incredibly pissed…
Kinda been an all-over-the-map day here at DC9. Not sure exactly what we’re supposed to make of it, either. All this D-Town Boogie and mall punk news? Plus high schoolers and Willie Nelson? Hey, I guess we had some sort of hand in making this bed. Might as well lie in…
In this week’s upcoming paper, Jesse Hughey talks to local hip-hop producer/beatmaker Rob Viktum about his upcoming release, Progress 2. Be sure to keep an eye out for that story, but in the meantime, some added background: As you’ll hear/see in the above clip, the record’s release is something of…
Hundreds of hormonal teens and adoring parents rocked out to eleven local high school bands at the first annual Texas High School Rock Off at the House of Blues on Friday night.With industry professionals (like our own Pete Freedman) serving as judges, Jonathan Cook of Forever the Sickest Kids and…
Dallas Cowboys offensive linemen Leonard Davis, Marc Columbo and Marc Proctor’s band, Free Reign (which pairs the trio with guitarist Justin Chapman), has announced the released date for its debut EP. The five-song disc from the nu-metal footballers, called (fittingly?) Tragedy, will be released on January 26, via the Australian-based…
We’ve written plenty about A.A. Bondy over the past couple of years. Most recently, Darryl Smyers praised the singer-songwriter for his “relaxed demeanor,” which Darryl finds “says mouthfuls about his confident embrace of all the things that make roots music worthwhile.”High praise, no doubt. But not as cool as this:…
Well, it was bound to happen: Treal Lee & Prince Rick’s “Mr. Hit Dat Hoe” had been pretty much everywhere around town for the past couple of months. And, now, of course, there’s a video to go with it. This weekend, the duo behind the hit about one of the…
