(Hal Samples)I don’t know much about Slider Pines — yet — except that, oh, frontman Joey Shanks wrote the band’s new album, Road, Avenue, Railroad while moving back and forth between Dallas and Memphis, where he grew up. (Got that from the bio — and, like, straight from the bio.)…
Explosions in the Sky at Saturday’s Wall of Sound festival. (Travis Awalt) We spent our Saturday in Ft. Worth. Yeah. At a field little cell reception. Was it worth it? Of course! It was the Wall of Sound festival. Our photographer Travis Awalt snapped pictures all day, so hit up…
Max Cady guitarist Jeff shreds on the Double Wide stage Friday night. (Jonathan Finley) “It’s like a freight train of rock,” my friend Nick leans over to tell me. I had never seen Max Cady (rhymes with lady, not caddy as the opening band, Salute, thought) before I got to…
On April 27, 1983, David Bowie was in Las Colinas rehearsing songs for his “Serious Moonlight” tour, in support of his Let’s Dance album. Joining him was that hit record’s lead guitarist: Oak Cliff’s Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was only two months away from releasing his own debut, Texas Flood,…
I had a quick chat with Smile Smile’s co-singer/guitarist Ryan Hamilton, a.k.a. the nicest guy in the world, on the phone to get the skinny on the band’s upcoming CMJ appearance. Turns out, Hamilton and his singing cohort Jencey Hirunrusme don’t know yet with whom they’ll be playing at their…
Welcome to Good Friday, DC-9 at Night’s go-to spot for the lowdown on the weekend’s musical goodness. Each Friday, we’ll post suggestions for your best bets for Friday through Sunday in Big D, Little d and Funky FW. Hopefully, each week you’ll ignore our cheeky little intro, and go straight…
The five guys in Memphis May Fire are surely having a good day. The Dallas hardcore band is officially on the Trustkill Records roster. For the time being, the label as posted a pretty picture of MMF on the opening page of its site with the line: “The most exciting…
Art for Peace and Justice artistic director Dr. Tim Seelig sent me the link to the group’s first music video, “Red State Blues,” featuring local diva, Denise Lee. Fun stuff, but go to the actual YouTube page and check the heated comments…
Station 4 (or S4), Dallas’ biggest gay dance club goes in a different direction tonight from the usual techno/trash disco/Top 40 format. Instead, it’ll be hosting Houston’s DJ Cubanito for one night only as Café con Leche, where “Dallas’ best dance floor goes Latin.” Although, I’m not really sure how…
Club Dada was filled with cubicle drones who looked like they came straight from Chotchkies. I would venture to guess a lot of code went unwritten last night. The geeks gathered to see their king: Jonathan Coulton. You’ve heard the story by now: He used to write software, quit to…
DC-9 at Night has just learned that local group Smile Smile will perform at the esteemed CMJ Festival in New York this year at the Alphabet Lounge on October 17. Details to come. — Jonanna Widner…
Allow me to preface this review by saying every Roots performance I’ve been to has been the best show I’ve ever seen. Last night’s Hip Hop Honors tour kept the trend, but delivered a special dose of showmanship, because the Roots crew wasn’t there to play its own songs. The…
It was a set-up worthy of Sophie’s Choice. The organizers of this year’s Austin City Limits festival, which took place this last weekend, generally did an excellent job, dealing with headliner cancellations, fires and dehydrated sorority girls, but they really gave us a doozy of a decision to make on…
Earlier this year, 50 Cent made millions from an investment in Glaceau Vitamin Water—so much loot, in fact, that he’s bragged about how he “doesn’t even have to rap.” That’s clearly the case on Curtis: 50 is no longer hungry, and it shows. This summer alone, he released five singles…
Somewhere on No Age’s “Loosen This Job,” in the thatch of Randy Randall’s guitar noise and the spiny drum clicks of Dean Spunt, one can just make out Randall’s yelp of “Why are there so many records in my life?” Or so it seems. In a recent interview, Randall revealed…
Lunchroom chat amongst grade-school kids is an anthropological goldmine. The insight into what kids find of utmost, urgent importance could provide a glimpse of the forming future of America. Imagine this conversation in the lunchroom of W.E Greiner Middle School in Oak Cliff (paraphrased, of course). Student One: “Yeah, I…
By the time Low finished their Saturday night encore set at the 2006 Wall of Sound Festival, I never wanted to see another ironic T-shirt or pair of Chuck Taylors again in my life. But almost as much as I needed respite in a hipster-free zone, I was ready for…
Although readers of No Depression would say otherwise, the genre commonly referred to as alt-country never attained the popular status many predicted. Bands like Uncle Tupelo, the Jayhawks and local faves such as Slobberbone created quite a stir more than a decade ago, but sales were marginal, and crossover to…
Singer Sam Prekop’s breathy vocals have anchored the Sea & Cake’s indie rock/jazz fusion over the course of the group’s 14-year career. He and guitar player Archer Prewitt craft a breezy version of adult contemporary on their latest disc, Everybody. Prekop’s Miles Davis cool is on full display as he…
High on Fire plays no-frills, denim-and-leather metal with fundamentalist zeal, an anachronism among extreme music’s endless taxonomy of death, technical death, black, progressive black, doom, avant-doom, grind and/or metalcore. Guitarist Matt Pike’s droning power-chord riffs, ornamented by slash-and-burn solos, are left over from his former band, the stoner/doom legends Sleep…
Louisville, Kentucky’s resident disco-punks VHS or Beta are back with a new guitarist Mike McGill (former member Zeke Buck now plays in noise-gazers People Noise) and a sparkling new album, Bring on the Comets. If the group’s Daft Punk-meets-Duran Duran 2004 breakthrough Night on Fire jolted the post-punk underground out…
Consistency is considered a virtue—but for Richard Thompson, it’s been a drawback too. He was first championed during the late ’60s for his contributions to Fairport Convention, among the most interesting English folk-rock groups of the era, and he saw his star rise again in the ’80s thanks to Shoot…
