Willie Nelson’s Eight Best Movie Roles

In honor of the Texas hero’s 80th Birthday celebration and legendary 4th of July Picnic, we’re celebrating Willie Nelson Week here on DC9 at Night. Check back for interviews, retrospectives and more. Texas’s greatest treasure, Willie Nelson, has been popping up in films since 1979, playing everything from a no-scruples…

It’s Willie Nelson Week on DC9 at Night

It’s not every state that can claim a musical history as rich in innovators and legends as Texas, from Buddy Holly to UGK to Pantera. But Willie Nelson stands without equal as a folk hero: A man of humble, high-school-football-playing beginnings and a long resume of odd jobs and blue-collar…

Inside the Massive Musical Operation of Fellowship Church

Dallas is home to one of the richest religious music scenes in the country. Over the summer, we’ll be attending services, both big and small, of many denominations, as well talking to musicians, directors and pastors. Inside and outside, Downtown Dallas’ Fellowship Church campus is very modern. It has almost…

Mikal Cronin at Dada, 6/26/13: Review

Have you ever been to a gig in Deep Ellum on a weeknight that started in the daylight? It’s a very disconcerting experience. The sunlight spilling in through the high windows illuminates even the furthest dusty corner of this venerable venue, simultaneously casting attractive evening shadows and lighting up things…

The Nine Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: June 27-July 3

There’s a lot happening in music around here — a lot has happened this week, in fact. In this sprawling metropolitan music scene, with a kaleidoscopic framework of ever-changing people and bands and venues and ideas, a lot happens at once. The only thing we know for sure is that…

The Warren Hood Band Brings its Best Lineup Yet to Dallas

The father was a self-taught fiddler from South Carolina, who moved to Austin with the influential Uncle Walt’s Band in the 1970s. The son studied violin and was selected as a guest soloist of the Austin Symphony while still in high school. Warren Hood, born in 1983, would come home…

Twin Shadow at Granada Theater, 6/24/13: Review

Twin Shadow | Elliphant Granada Theater June 24, 2013 When Ellinor Olovsdotter took the stage on Monday night, she looked like anything except her stage name, Elliphant. Opening for Twin Shadow at the Granada, I was skeptical that she’d fulfill her simple role in the event: To move the crowd…

Randy Rogers Band’s Brady Black is a Fiddler With a Cause

In the past decade, the Randy Rogers Band has rocketed from the smallest stages in Texas to headlining the biggest festivals and causing the biggest lines at Will Call than pretty much any other band currently performing under the massive Texas Country umbrella. Sure, Rogers’ superb songwriting and signature rasp…

The Best and Worst of Electric Daisy Carnival

Josh “CuriousJosh” Reiss If there is any lingering question about the mass popularity of electronic music, one need look no further than Electric Daisy Carnival. We’d be remiss to call EDC the “Woodstock of EDM,” because even one of rock’s most iconic festivals doesn’t hold a candle to the production,…

The Fort Worth Weekly Music Showcase: Recap

If you ever see Ice Eater, pay attention. Partly because the futuristic rock band puts on an incredibly dynamic live show – their relatively early show at Sunday’s Fort Worth Weekly Music Showcase was the most well-received I saw all day. A Weekly staffer got onstage afterward and called it…