Isaiah Rashad With the Outfit TX, Blue the Misfit and Buffalo Black, 7 p.m. Thursday, September 11, at Trees, 2709 Elm St., 214-741-1122 or treesdallas.com, $3 In 2013, L.A.-based indie label Top Dawg Entertainment found a new wave of Southern trill in their newest affiliate, Isaiah Rashad. Deep from the…
“We want to write epic songs so that we can do big, epic shows,” says Matthew Vasquez, frontman for Delta Spirit. Speaking from a tour stop in Chicago during a lightning storm, Vasquez says that he is ready to return to Dallas. He gets his wish tonight as his band…
Do It for Durrett Benefit Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth Monday, September 8, 2014 Even if you don’t religiously follow the Texas Rangers, it’s impossible to miss the mark that Richard Durrett left on the Dallas media landscape. In the years that he spent cutting his teeth at Texas Christian…
Collectively, a city sluggishly heads back to to its desk. Welcome to the working week. Your weekend is over, hopefully it was perfectly fun. (Well, unless you watched the Cowboys game.) But there is plenty more to be had by seeing live music. As per usual, a few great shows…
Brad Paisley Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Friday, September 5, 2014 Brad Paisley and I go back. Way back. As in he followed me on Twitter a little more than a year ago. So it’s not exactly BFF-status, but I’ll take what I can get. After the follow, my life got…
Aretha Franklin Winspear Opera House, Dallas Saturday, September 6, 2014 Tuxedos and glittering, fancy dresses were the preferred attire Saturday night at the Winspear Opera House. And no, the well-heeled in attendance were not there to see a production of Wagner. Soul music queen Aretha Franklin was in town for…
Drake vs. Lil Wayne Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Sunday, September 7, 2014 Cards on the table, I think Drake is shit. For the life of me I can’t see the appeal, and it’s not for lack of trying. I’ve peered inside the music, taken a few strolls, and always came…
A great thing about holiday weekends is that they bleed into the next week, just a little bit. Yes, you’re thrown out of whack treating a Tuesday like it’s a Monday and that’s weird — it throws off your workplace vertigo. But, your week is only four days long and…
As the summer winds down, September usually sees the kick-off of proper concert touring season for the fall. When it comes to electronic music, this month is no exception. With a big-name indie dance act like Hercules and Love Affair rolling through town alongside a Chicago house veteran like Gene…
Buffi Jacobs came from a classical background. She’s played in rock bands and collaborated with musicians and artists of all stripes. She even spent this summer on and off tour. But now, after all those years of work, Jacobs has a new project, one that pulls together all those disparate…
Islands With TEEN, 7 p.m. Thursday, September 4, at Dada, 2720 Elm St., dadadallas.com, $12-$14 For better or worse, this is the type of future Zappa saw for pop, a contraption as regressive as it is disarming, music as sour candy. Rising from the ashes of cult act the Unicorns,…
Jeff Liles, the talent buyer at the Kessler Theater and resident local music aficionado, has been promising a big headliner for the third-annual North Oak Cliff Music Festival. Well, this is a big one, and has plenty of significance for Oak Cliff, too. Edie Brickell, who was born and raised…
Hey, country fans, ready to see some shows? As always, there are many great rootsy acts that will swing through North Texas throughout September, so get ready to gas up the truck, fill the flask and put some miles on those tires. Here are most can’t-miss shows of the lot,…
Oh, Free Week. It’s officially September and school is back into full swing for UNT and TWC up in Denton. Fortunately, Rubber Gloves is doing its part to help ease the dread by hosting its annual Free Week festivities to promote local Texas music and make the kids forget about…
Inside of the half-empty Clearfork Music Festival in Fort Worth this past Saturday, it was impossible to not wonder what exactly constitutes a true festival. Any view of the festival grounds at Panther Island Pavilion from one of the slightly elevated spots of the land provided a view of a…
Grouplove and Portugal. the Man With STRFKR South Side Ballroom, Dallas Saturday, August 30, 2014 If there’s one thing Dallas/Fort Worth does right, it’s long weekends. Venues, cities, promoters, party throwers and citizens — they all tend to seize on the idea and go all-out to throw the wildest shows…
A quick glance at our comprehensive Dallas concert guide might give you the impression that this month is stuffed with some real crap, metal-wise. Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, Seether; it’s like an endless parade of nightmares that has no place in 2014. So we here at DC9 thought we’d…
We don’t even know if the term “festival” has much meaning around these parts any longer. It gets thrown around like so many of Tony Romo’s practice balls during training camp and seems to now apply to any concert that has more than two artists and has at least a…
King Camel celebrates its one year anniversary this Saturday at Club Dada. With the anniversary show’s stellar lineup, you would that think prior to becoming a promoter, King Camel’s Jeff Brown was already a fixture and popular guy around Dallas’ music scene. But that isn’t exactly the case. Sure, Brown,…
It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend! We apologize for the exclamation mark, but our excitement is something we’re not capable of hiding at this point. Mondays suck, so getting to skip them is kind of great. (Besides, we’ve already chronicled our love for Sunday fun days.) This weekend is…
Bilal 8 p.m. Friday, August 29, at Dada, 2720 Elm St., dadadallas.com, $25-$30 Fun fact about critically acclaimed neo-soul singer Bilal (born Bilal Sayeed Oliver): He was discovered in his teens by none other than the drummer of the Spin Doctors. Did you also know that the band that would…
OneRepublic With Christina Perri and Jamie Scott Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Tuesday, August 26, 2014 It was a typical midsummer show at Gexa Energy Pavilion last night as pop stars OneRepublic hit town. Even late into the night, it was hot — temperatures hung in the 90s — and the…
