Local band Home by Hovercraft has a flair for the dramatic. You hear it in their music’s melodious swelling and Seth Magill’s resonant vocals; It comes across in their live shows with the use of unconventional instruments, i.e. clogging as percussion; and last year, the band wrote and performed in…
Growing old means letting go. Love fades and friends move away. The people closest to you — mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, the whole nine — they depart this earth. And the places we visit, our old haunts, they come and go as well. Concert venues, much like restaurants,…
Tonight sees one of DFW’s favorite bands, Spooky Folk, play a release show for their sophomore album Youth Is A Notion, a follow-up to their much-acclaimed self-titled album from 2010. With various band members residing in different parts of the country, it’s become a rare treat to catch the band…
Dallas-based Idol Records has long been a lighthouse for fans of local music. For the uninitiated, Idol’s roster of past and present artists is a great resource for anyone looking to get acquainted with some of the great rock bands to emerge from North Texas in recent times. In the…
Everybody has a story about Trees. It could be about one of the legendary punk shows from Deep Ellum’s quote-unquote golden years. It could be about Kurt Cobain. Or it could be from any number of nights spent there since the venue reopened five years ago. Regardless, those memories are…
One month ago, Matt Zoller Seitz visited his father Dave Zoller in Dallas after hearing his father had suffered a stroke. At the time, Zoller, a renowned jazz pianist, feared he may not be able to play piano again, but after a strong recovery he has not only returned to…
Katalyst has been a staple in the local drum and bass scene since the late ’90s. Originally a death metal and punk drummer, his migration to the high-tempo breaks of drum and bass was a logical artistic progression. For the second installment of our new DC9 at Night mixtape series,…
We’ve now officially got our first taste of August. Between the weather and activities, it was a pretty perfect first weekend of the month. However, now that Monday is here, you might as well saddle up because there’s only looking forward at this point. So start planning ahead because this…
August is officially here. This means we’re one step closer to the kids being back in school and the Texas Rangers being put out of the misery they call the 2014 season. But before we get to all that, how about we indulge in a little weekend fun? These are…
The tragic beauty of local music is that even though it is often better than what is commercially available, the market has not yet realized its worth. That means that you’re often able to hear incredible acts for dirt-cheap, even free. The city’s country bars do a pretty good job…
As PARTYNEXTDOOR sadly reported on the opening track of his new project; the summer is over. It won’t physically feel that way for us down here in North Texas until about early to mid October, but that magical haze is fading away now. Everyone’s going back to school. Football practice…
Rick Eye, one of the newest members of Bukkake Moms, remembers the first time he played with the band he joined in 2013. Fans tend to throw all sort of crazy things to performers while they’re on stage. That night Eye got to experience objects getting thrown at him, but…
It’s hard to believe that Peter Murphy is touring behind his tenth studio album as a solo artist since his genre defining original band Bauhaus split up. I actually saw him quite a few times in the 90s’. Back then he would not play any songs from his old band…
We here at DC9 at Night are always on the lookout for fresh talent. Naturally, that means seeking out new music and the folks who make it. But it’s more than that, too. It also means finding new writers to add to our roster of contributors. We always welcome interested…
Wanz Dover, local DJ, musician, walking music encyclopedia and DC9 at Night contributor, is curating a new weekly mixtape series that will feature mixtapes and interviews with local artists. For the first installment, he spoke with Dragonlazer. The duo of John Baugh and Allen McDonald have been staples in the…
The formula for the Denton music scene is no accident: cheap rent and plentiful venues make for a perfect melting pot for bands to pop up all over the place. Whether it’s a house or dive bar show, there’s somewhere for you to perform. If you either live in Denton…
Even if you weren’t a Tori Amos fan in the mid-to-late ’90s, the odds are good that you knew a few of us who were. Our Kool-Aid dyed hair and witch-length skirts helped visually amplify our hormonal angst to the surrounding world. As did our notebooks — scribbled with words…
Born Myra Ellen Amos, singer/songwriter/composer Tori Amos changed her name at 18 and embarked on a three-decade-long musical journey that has been fascinating to say the least. Amos’ music can be filled with as much pretension as beauty, but it is always interesting. After a few neo-classical releases, Unrepentant Geraldines,…
Country music in the 1980’s offered some of the same arguments many types of country music fans still have today. What is and is not “country”? Can pop-country and traditional country coexist peacefully on one radio dial? Can the sheen of Kenny Rogers’ gloriously manicured beard ever be more powerful…
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been to more than a few concerts already over the course of the week. And hey, maybe you need a night off or two to recover from all the fun you’ve had on nights when you’ve still had work the next day. Then again,…
Starting Friday the Quebecois carnival group Cirque Du Soleil takes over the American Airlines Center with their tribute to the life and music of Michael Jackson with THE IMMORTAL tour. The Texas leg of the tour is the last in the U.S. for the company, as they will cap off…
When Bobby Patterson, a legend of Dallas soul music, decided to call his new album I Got More Soul, he wasn’t kidding around. If you ask him, he really does have more soul. More of everything, in fact. “More soul for your ear hole. More soul than more soul. More…
