Last Night: Slowride at Elm Street Tattoo

SlowrideElm Street TattooOctober 14, 2009Better than: going under the needle. It’d been some time since the fellas in Slowride had played an actual show together–but with an upcoming gig slated at local tattoo artist Oliver Peck’s annual Christmas party and with all members in town (thanks to bassist Rob Marchant’s…

NX35 Gets Things Ready For Year Two

Before last week’s sold out David Bazan show at Dan’s Silverleaf, Chris Flemmons sat at the end of the patio bar smoking a Marlboro Light and sipping on a margarita. He’d just arrived at Dan’s, coming straight from a cocktail party with some city officials. Flemmons was trying to get…

Pinback

Nothing else sounds like Pinback and, for that alone, the San Diego duo deserves a fucking medal. Its wistfully propulsive weaves of articulate bass, understated guitar, beatbox (or beatbox-inspired) grooves and conversing voices come from a place of both contentment and disquiet, at once transmitting optimism’s comforting glow and the…

The Black Crowes

It seems only appropriate that the Crowes’ album of new material, After the Freeze…, was recorded live in front of a select group of fans at ex-Band member Levon Helm’s barn/studio in rural Woodstock, New York. That’s because this effort may be the band’s rootsiest effort yet, with several songs…

Har Mar Superstar

When it comes to lives shows, it’s hard to beat Sean Tillman. Why? Does he have dynamic singing skills and dance moves? Uh, no, not really—but he tries. And it’s the effort he puts into making his stage persona, Har Mar Superstar, real that makes it great. Surely, somewhere deep…

Buddy Guy

“Aww, y’all got to shut the fuck up, now!” he said while playing The Red Jacket in 2002. “Shut the fuck up!” He said it with a smile, sure, but he meant it. Every once in a while—especially in Dallas, I imagine—the younger side of Buddy Guy’s audience gets a…

Vivian Girls Turn And Face The Hype

When Vivian Girls rolls into town this week, the band will be fighting an uphill battle. Sure, many bands that gain instant notoriety in the blogosphere come and go quicker than you can type GorillavsBear. But Brooklyn natives Cassie Ramone, Kickball Katy and Ali Koehler, who come off respectively as…

Colm C’iosoig Returns To Dallas With Hope Sandoval

Colm O’Ciosoig is back to perform in Dallas for a second time this year, but, this time, earplugs won’t be essential equipment to perhaps preserve your hearing. And you almost certainly won’t feel your clothes fluttering in a sonic wind this time around as his band plays a legendary set-closing…

The Double Wide Celebrates Six Years With A Bang

The Double Wide is many things. Ultimately, that’s the charm of the space. There’s the bar itself, where regulars stop by to hang in the authentically Texas environment with its kitschy, trailer-influenced motif. There’s the patio outside—one of the tops in town—with its ample seating (including old toilets lined up…

Mission of Burma

With the release of The Sound The Speed The Light, the Boston post-punk heavyweights in Mission of Burma have now released three times as many albums since reuniting in 2002 as in their initial original lifespan of 1979-’83, which yielded the genre classic Vs. Far from cash-ins, though, the albums…

Karl Blau

Karl Blau’s Zebra might as well have been called Chameleon. From one song to the next, you’ll hear dry folk, acid jazz, bedroom shoegaze, lo-fi pop and all types of me-against-the-world solo production that falls in line with Blau’s history as a Northwest analog guru. According to Blau, an Anacortes,…

Dovetail

The title track to Dovetail’s Love Is War EP opens the band’s seven-song debut quite well, first teasing listeners with quivering violins, then an undulating piano line. After that? Ah, that’s where Philip Creamer’s voice comes into play, effectively setting the tone for the debut EP from this local outfit,…

DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 24: The Rocketboys

…and for y’all who are still stuck on Youtube, take your link.Austin’s The Rocketboys, once upon a time, were known as Homer Hiccolm & the Rocketboys, and, at that point, they were based out of Abilene. That alone, actually, makes them the best formerly-mispelled-October Sky-referencing band ever to come out…

Watch: N’Dambi Performs For The FADER‘s Suite903

Last Tuesday, Dallas-raised and L.A.-based soul singer N’dambi saw the release of her debut Stax Records-released album, Pink Elephant. And, to promote her new release,  the one-time Erykah Badu back-up singer and co-writer stopped on by the offices of the new FADER-run soul music-centric site, Suite903, to perform some intimate,…

Analog Rebellion (formerly PlayRadioPlay!) Announces New Album Details

I perfectly understand Daniel Hunter’s frustration. Really, I do. As PlayRadioPlay!, the Aledo native did get lumped into the mall-punk scene by a lot of people–us here at DC9 included. But, upon going back and listening to the still super-young 20-year-old’s debut, Texas, which was released on Island Records shortly…