Music

It’s appropriate that Chucky Sly’s long-awaited debut album is titled The Unseen Mechanism—the local MC has excelled under the radar for much more than a decade and a half. He moved here in 1991 from Germany, but since, he’s consistently operated with the singular task of creating exceptional music. “When I…

It honestly doesn’t feel like it’s been more than a year since the music editor of my hometown alt-weekly asked me to “think over” whether or not I wanted to take over the column covering the Denton music scene. I mean, someone in my shoes, who’s been reading the music…

Looking at an extended hiatus from The Foo Fighters, bassist Nate Mendel considered a couple of options. He considered playing again with The Fire Theft, a band he was in with vocalist/guitarist Jeremy Enigk and drummer William Goldsmith, or Sunny Day Real Estate, the acclaimed band he played in alongside…

Seems every year, right around this time, we start to notice the same thing: the abundance of impressive shows on the upcoming concert calendar. This year’s no different. In fact, this week alone is just straight-up bonkers good. The biggest names are, well, kinda huge: Sunny Day Real Estate, Kings…

Though its heyday has passed, the legacy of the psych-pop collective Elephant 6 has been preserved through classic records by Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo and The Olivia Tremor Control. Off the radar for years, Elephant 6 has recently attached its logo to a few new releases—and now…

It makes sense that New York-based Pacha Massive made its musical mark by mixing the genres of a city that’s a true global center. The then-duo of Dominican-born Ramon Nova and Colombian cohort Maya Martinez debuted to critical acclaim with All Good Things, introducing the world to their irresistible, bilingual…

This week’s featured poster is for Saturday’s Handsome Kitten show with Intelligence, PVC Street Gang, Fungi Girls and Video. It’s a Parade of Flesh show, yes, but this isn’t as grim or frightening as the usual Von Dada and Heimer Brothers pieces. For some reason, I like how the light…

Tomorrow night in Fort Worth, Telegraph Canyon extends its impressive summer into what it hopes will be an equally successful fall by hosting the official release of both the CD (which has been made available at shows, but not officially put in stores and whatnot till now) and the LP…

Ben Folds returned to the Meyerson Symphony Center last night to accompany the DSO in a night of classed-up favorites and a few new tunes.Conductor and pianist Rei Hotoda led the orchestra beside Folds at the piano. The old Ben Folds Five tune “Smoke” came up early in the night,…

Although Stephen Kellogg can be a bit overly earnest for his own good, he and his band, The Sixers, are quite capable of creating a version of heartland rock that would make John Mellencamp proud. Although most of band members hail from Northampton, Massachusetts, the sound they produce is of…

…and for those stuck on Youtube still, here’s your link.You might recognize a few familiar faces in the crowd at last week’s DC9 in SPACE taping with The Beaten Sea–namely, the members of The Fox & The Bird, who themselves stopped by SPACE a few weeks back, which makes sense,…

In last week’s dead tree version of DC9, I chatted up Polyphonic Spree leader Tim DeLaughter about the resurgence of his Good Records Recordings label, which, after a three-year absence in terms of releases, is returning to the market in a big way with upcoming releases scheduled from the Spree,…

In last week’s DC9 in SPACE installment, Dem Southernfolkz dropped by our loft space to talk about their writing process, but also to hype up the then-upcoming release of their free-to-download, four-song EP, Something To Hold On To.Well, this week, over at the band’s sharply revamped Web site, as promised,…

Lorin Ashton, the lone member of the freeform electronic project known as Bassnectar, describes his music as “omni-tempo maximalism.” But before you scream WTF and dismiss Ashton as a self-obsessed loon, you might want to check out his impressive way with buzzes and beeps. Bassnectar’s electronics are a wash of…

The award-winning Canadian quartet Billy Talent has been around (under one moniker or another) since 1993. In all that time, though, the band has only managed to release three proper albums, making one wonder just how hard is it to make a punk rock record. There is no denying the…