Dallas’ Prism Cloud Meld Classical Music and Indie Rock on Golden Star

Prism Cloud, like innumerable bands, started in a garage. But instead of plunking around on guitars haphazardly and figuring it out themselves, they pulled from experience with a different genre: classical music. With this approach, Collin Pollitt and David Sanchez use their broadened perspective to manipulate a seemingly straightforward subset…

Cosmic Trigger Have Mastered the Art of Riff-Centered Stoner Rock

Tyrel Choat’s fingertips surged with power when he first pulled a riff out of an electric guitar. His older brother taught him the monstrous riff from Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf,” and when he figured it out himself, he acquired a scorching propensity for riff writing that never burnt out. When…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with JWHO

Jamie Seltzer, known to most around Dallas as JWHO, has been making the rounds around area DJ nights for the past few years as well as doing time with the Love Rich crew. Know for bass-heavy sets that pay homage to house and techno without fully subscribing to their dogma,…

Announcing the Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony

We can’t speak for everyone, but we here at DC9 at Night are getting pretty excited about this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards. Voting has been open for just shy of a month now, we’ve been busy booking the bands that will perform at the DOMA showcase, and the festivities…

Crown & Harp Looks to Class Things Up with a New Renovation

Change is in the air these days at Crown & Harp. It may get by the casual visitor of the Lower Greenville club, but the differences are easy enough to see nonetheless. Long-time Monday night DJ Tony Schwa, the man behind Cool Out, has shifted to the weekly dance night…

Can Josey Records Become Dallas’ Iconic Record Store?

The space is huge. And the clean black-and-whites, slick concrete floor, and pristine aesthetic make it seem even larger. For reference: It’s not inconceivable that a shout or frisbee might fail to bridge the room wall-to-wall. It smells like fresh woodwork and feels, only in the very best sense, like…

She Banshee is a High-Functioning Group of Denton Misfits

The land of dead musical dreams, or shall we say karaoke night, which is known for its rivers of Fireball whiskey and secondhand smoke has been the wellspring for many an idea. Those ideas –say, bands — can often be short-lived or ill-advised, but there’s one cluster of loud, fuzzy,…

DJ Space Chase Spreads His Turntable Gospel from Denton to Cambodia

Eight months ago, Chase Dugger was staring down the other side of graduation. The recent UNT graduate and long-time Denton dance scene fixture had already achieved much, including his own residency in the much beloved Andy’s Bar. Titled “Subsonic Indulgence,” the weekly featured Dugger and friends’ mixes of dance, EDM…

Party Static Debut “Poor Baby,” a Song About Cats

2014 has been a hell of a year for Party Static. They have played shows all over Dallas with local and national bands, even holding their own when sharing a stage with the Coathangers, for crying out loud. They’ve also been nominated in two categories for this year’s Dallas Observer…

DC9 at Night Mixtape with Red Eye

Red Eye is the epitome of a Dallas DJ staple. Over the past few decades he has always been a constant in Dallas DJ scene with well regarded resdidencies at the legendary Club One to his current haunts at Beauty Bar and It’ll Do Club. Somehow he still finds time…

Blue, the Misfit Gets “Wild” on Exclusive New Track with Sam Lao

It’s good to be Blue these days. Blue, the Misfit, that is. Perhaps the hottest rapper in North Texas right now, the MC and producer otherwise known as Brandon Blue has been having a big year in 2014, starting with a buzzed-about Kendrick Lamar collaboration (“Drugs on the Schoolyard”) and…

The Relatives’ Rev. Gean West Needs Help with His Medical Bills

Despite his advanced age at 78,Gean West continues to play shows with the same frenetic pace that made Peacock Records owner Don Robey compare a young West to James Brown. That’s not all he does, either. In addition to performing with the Relatives, West leads a congregation, performing duties as…

Denton’s Corporate Park Proves Industrial Music Still Matters

Industrial music is relevant all over again. Amidst the music industry’s infatuation with retro sounds, revivals and the general rehashing of old ideas, industrial is once again positioned as a music that matters — an older strand that has taken on new meaning. As the continued effects of industrialization steadily…

Four Dallas Beats Producers You Need to Hear Now

When it comes to genres that have been allowed to flourish in the age of the online music cloud, few have risen to greater prominence than future sounds, better known to most as beats culture. An all-encompassing, chimeric blend of electronic, hip-hop and soul, beats takes DJs and producers of…

Erykah Badu Earns Less Than $4 Busking in New York City

Looks like you can’t win ’em all, Erykah. Back in the summertime, local R&B star Erykah Badu went viral when crashed a local TV news telecast in New York City, playfully trying to steal a kiss from a reporter who had no one idea what kind of celebrity he was…

Denton’s Felt & Fur are “Open to New Persuasions of Weirdness”

Felt & Fur’s practice space plays home to a myriad of peculiarities. It’s in an upstairs nook at Denton’s premiere combination business: Sprockets Bike Shop and NV Cupcakes. It’s painted baby blue and has a strangely low ceiling. Oh, and it used to be the daycare for a church that…

Lily Taylor Uses Her Voice to Build a Musical Universe

Last month, Dallas-based songbird Lily Taylor released her debut album, The Ride, for local indie label Pour Le Corps. The album explores a haunting and dramatic mood within the parameters of a minimalistic and bare bones sound world. This is not one of those easy to categorize albums. It’s a…