EasyAim on Flickr Only… well…The pills are vitamins, and the whiskey is mostly to lubricate Martin’s throat for the many quavering high notes to come. “It’s pretty exciting back here, right?” cracks drummer Will Champion, who spends most of his pre-show time playing a PlayStation 3 soccer game. “It’s just…
Allison V. Smith Let’s put a short guy in there for some perspective on all this height.You may recall a while back when we previewed the upcoming release from Dallas’ own Americana/Alt-country group Eastwood by offering up the band’s “Right Place, Wrong Time” as a free download. Well, now the…
OK, game time, kids: How many obscure ’80s references can I fit into one blog post about Duran Duran canceling its Nokia Theatre gig tonight? Let’s see…Double Trouble, gang! In the span of about two minutes, we just got word from both the booking agent of the Nokia Theatre (AEG…
Deerhunter, Times New Viking, Nite JewelThe LoftDecember 1, 2008Better than: Going to Vietnam, only to return with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Get it, movie buffs?) Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, with bells on. (Mikey Harris)With the bitter cold, little advertising and a post-holiday Monday for a booking date, the odds were stacked…
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright’s song “Cemetery Street” aired approximately 17 minutes into last week’s episode of MTV’s faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the esteemed company of fellow…
Here at DC9 this week, we took Pete’s cover story to heart, especially this dig DJ Drop takes at folks in night clubs who try out the D-Town Boogie dances: “You can tell the people that are doing it right off YouTube. They’re doing it right off the instructions.”To those…
A handful of DJ sets around town last weekend gave us a chance to burn off the turkey calories and blow off steam after battling with family around the dinner table.The Lek Brothers were out there Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday nights, and bring us these party sets:Our early weekend set…
OK, so the time of year specifically celebrating ritual turkey slaughter has come and gone and we’re all the groggier for it.However, it’s Monday now, and the time has come to shake off that holiday feeling and wade back into the everyday weekday life. And what better way to do…
Los Angeles band Woven play an interesting mixture of electronica and rock. Though they explore a wide variety of sounds, they generally combine unique, dark electronic textures and heavy two-drummer percussion into straightforward poppy rock songs. After the band’s 2003 album, 8 Bit Monk, Woven left Interscope. That was the…
If you can overcome the dreary weather, Black Friday shopping exhaustion and post-Thanksgiving hangover, there are a few noteworthy shows to choose from this weekend. First, a reminder of what we’ve already mentioned. Tonight, you can catch Gojira, 36 Crazyfists, In Flames and All That Remains at The Palladium Ballroom;…
As if the free mixtape he offered earlier this month wasn’t enough, Anonymous, a.k.a. rapper Anttwon Thames from the Greedy Grove, has leaked another track, SupaPowers. In fact, he promises another next week. If he’s offering all this for free but still holding onto his best stuff for the album,…
Little Joy, The Dead Trees, Cocky Americans The Lounge on Elm Street November 26, 2008Better than: Brown gravy on mashed potatoes. (We’ve also got a little video from the show after the jump)The first thing that comes to mind about The Lounge on Elm Street is intimacy. The small, boxy…
Heavy, slow, dark. Repeat. That’s the formula True Widow sticks to like tar for the entirety of its eponymous debut CD. The 10-track slab of growling guitars and plodding drums stretches on for an hour, but the songs run together so soon that the band could have repeated the first…
In both her physical worlds and her musical worlds, Jolie Holland has always been a bit of a drifter. A Houston native who spent a while in the Bay Area, she recently packed up and headed east for Brooklyn and, in the process, tweaked her sound toward a more country-rock…
Her Pinkness likely had no idea that The Stooges used Fun House as the moniker for a genius 1970 album—but the fact that this possibility can’t be entirely ruled out demonstrates why she’s several cuts above the average popster. She’s grown increasingly confident with each passing album, and if “So…
Life can be tricky for metalheads who turn to heavy music to galvanize their conscience. If that sounds like a stereotype, admit it: Plenty of metal bands play into the meathead/douchebag/sociopath thing and do it with pride. Gojira isn’t one of those bands. But Gojira doesn’t simply spew pointed political…
Electric Touch, the eponymous debut album by the Austin-based four-piece that has the pleasure of touring with fellow Austinite Charlie Sexton’s reunited Arc Angels for this short Texas-wide jaunt, reaches a level of sophistication to which most new(ish) bands can only aspire. In opener “Love in Our Hearts,” lead singer…
Hard to believe that it has been nearly 30 years since Duran Duran created such a stylish, erotic buzz with the single “Hungry Like the Wolf” and its accompanying video. As a horny youngster, I relished fantasizing about nubile, young island girls stalking me as they did the dude in…
Speaking from a tour stop in the remote town of Poema, Colorado, Shara Worden, leader of the neoclassical pop ensemble My Brightest Diamond, comes across like the cool big sister who’s seen it all. The daughter of a National Accordion Champion father and a classical organist mother, Shara Worden is…
Everyone shits. Honestly. And everyone has fucked-up things they hide. I show mine with a sense of humor. So wrote Bradford Cox in a blog post last year, and his words—particularly that last sentence—hold the key to Deerhunter, the Atlanta noise-rock quintet he fronts. But first, a bit of exposition:…
Housed in the century-old Wright Opera House building on Denton’s Town Square, Recycled Books stocks, hands down, the town’s most comprehensive collection of local band and artist compact discs, cassette tapes and vinyl records. A second-hand bookshop in the vein of an independent Half Price Books, Recycled is filled with…
The Rosebuds are in something of a precarious spot. “We’ve been in a band all these years, and Under the Radar wants to do a feature on our band, and I think, ‘Great, it’s taken six years to get in a magazine called Under the Radar. Maybe in seven years…
