Music

Tomorrow night, Baltimore folk rockers Wye Oak and Cincinnati indie-poppers Pomegranates will join Fort Worth house outfit Shuttle at Lola’s Sixth in Cowtown. Tickets to the Spune Productions show are $8 for everyone–and we do mean everyone, as this is an all-ages show. Everyone, that is, except for one lucky…

Quite a variety of musical happenings this weekend; and it’s a nice mix of national and local fare. First the shows already covered in print or in the blog: Jesse did a nice job hipping you to tonight’s Chalie Louvin/AM Ramblers show in Fort Worth. I initially and erroneously told…

[Editor’s Note: This is the last time we’ll be running Echoes and Reverberations as a regular feature here on DC9. Will we see future installments? Don’t know yet. But in the meantime, a big thanks to Jeff Liles for the past 30 installments of the series. It’s been fun.] When…

Oakland experimental collective Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is bringing its intricate, jarring rock and theatrical performance–costumes, staged play readings and all–to the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth tomorrow night. If you don’t go for the music or for the spectacle, you could at least gawk at the band’s bus or buy…

This week’s featured poster is for Saturday’s 100 Damned Guns, The Atoms and Eastwood show at City Tavern. Three bombs, three bands. Three country-rock and roots bands playing at the one of downtown’s coolest venues Saturday night, to be more precise. I was hesitant to pick this one, but really…

One of the winners just let me know he doesn’t need his pair of tickets after all. That means there’s one pair left. Email me with the subject “Jason Isbell” and it’s yours. Contest over. Congrats to the winner. Poster of the Week will be up shortly…

Call today Giveaway Thursday. Not only does that mean there’s just one day to wait for Hot Fudge Friday, but it also means we’ve got yet more tickets to give away. The Granada Theater has hooked us up with three pairs of tickets to see Jason Isbell and the 400…

Tomorrow night Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin, who sang with late brother Ira as the Louvin Brothers from the 1940s until the band’s 1963 breakup, will perform at Lola’s Stockyards in Fort Worth. Thanks to the fine folks at Spune Productions, we’ve got a pair of tickets to…

By now you’ve probably had it up to here with our coverage of Eleven Hundred Springs. Thanks to fiercely loyal fans, the country band swept nearly every 2008 DOMA category for which it was eligible, even snagging bass player Steven “DJ Burlap” Berg best DJ. If you’re a die-hard fan…

Doug has a rundown of Tuesday night’s show at the Granada here, which you might have caught on DC9 yesterday.Just to draw things out a little, though, we’re sharing shots of the show with you this morning — a slideshow of Gaslight Anthem and the Heartless Bastards’ sets at the…

It’s been five years now since Slow Roosevelt decided to end its run as Dallas’ perennial Next Big Thing that never quite was. The band, which for most of its seven-year existence was the go-to choice for the top kinda-metal act in town (according, at least, to the vote counts…

“Thanks,” Aaron White says to the crowd gathered in the living room of Dust Congress’ Nick Foreman. “We’re The Make Believers, and that was our last song,” White’s remarks, which could be dismissed as everyday post-performance banter, carry a dual meaning: Though no one acknowledged it during the Saturday afternoon…

On the long-out-of-print 1998 Criterion Collection release of This Is Spinal Tap—the only DVD version of the 1984 film on which Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer provide commentary as themselves, not their shaggy alter-egos—the trio offered generous insight into the band’s origins, which date back exactly 30 years…

In 2000, the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? set events in motion that were unprecedented at the time: All of a sudden, there was a revival of old-timey string band music. People, it seemed, just couldn’t get enough of mountain music and traditional folk songs from Appalachia. Four years…

A band as bizarre, diverse and complicated as Sleepytime Gorilla Museum couldn’t be expected to travel in any normal vehicle. So it’s only proper that once the band pulls up to New York’s Bowery Ballroom, the usually stoic NYC passersby stop, point and stare. These are pedestrians who don’t blink…

2009 marks 15 years since Cake debuted Motorcade of Generosity, an album that carved the band a niche with its low-key style and quirky lyrics. To celebrate, the band’s re-releasing Motorcade ahead of a new, yet-to-be-named record. Back when Motorcade came out, Cake frontman John McCrae was too cool for…

Third time’s a charm. Things tend to happen in threes. Yadda yadda yadda. Whichever dictum you prefer, it seems to ring particularly true with the Los Angeles-based new wave pop-rockers in Shiny Toy Guns. There are three words in their name, sure, but that’s kiddy stuff. The band’s founding members,…