Denton’s The River Mouth Finds Its Voice

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,…

Darktown Strutters Steps Up Its Game

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…

Rob Viktum Looks To Cambodia, Sees Progress

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…

DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 5: Eleven Hundred Springs

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…

Night Moves: Hello, My Eyes Are Up Here

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…

Listen: Doug Burr — “Mirror Ball”

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…

Bonus MP3: Rob Viktum — “12.25.78”

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…

Picture Show: Texas High School Rock Off at the House of Blues

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…

Watch: Treal Lee & Prince Rick’s “Mr. Hit Dat Hoe”

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…