Joan Wasser is a multi-instrumentalist who has contributed to the songbooks of some of the more singular artists of the past decade. Among those who have tapped Wasser for her virtuosic work on violin and string arrangements: Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Antony and the Johnsons, Elton John and the Scissor…
A fairly packed Wednesday night of music awaits the discerning listener who wishes to venture out this evening. Oh, and Charlie Sheen will be winning with tiger blood at the AAC tonight, too…
Just last night, the great Willie Nelson was in town to perform a gig at the Morton H. Meyerson Center and raise funds for LaunchAbility, a Dallas-based organization that provides services to assist both children and adults with developmental disabilities. Good guy, that Willie, doing some good here in the…
Yesterday, we caught up with Jared Swilley, bass player for Atlanta’s The Black Lips, to talk about the band’s upcoming, sixth studio release, as well as a number of other things, in advance of his band’s performance alongside Vivian Girls tonight at The Loft. And, promised Swilley, yes, you can…
Back in August of 2009, the uptown ultralounge known as Suite closed down its operations — and rather suddenly, you may recall. But the club’s Travis Street location wasn’t vacated for too long: Back in February of this year, the space was up and running once more during Super Bowl…
At least one good thing came out of Dallas garage punk duo Leg Sweeper’s appearance at Good Records’ Record Store Day party a few weekends back — the fact that Parade of Flesh’s John Iskander was able to use the performance for the bulk of the above live performance music…
She’ll take on the big stage at Gexa Energy Pavilion (nee Starplex, a million other names) on August 4, but, last night, the unavoidable pop star known as K-E-Dollar Sign-Ha! stopped by the House of Blues in Dallas last night, playing before a jam-packed crowd for a show that sold…
With only about a month until Death Cab For Cutie releases their seventh album, Codes And Keys, it’s a good time to ask yourself: “What would Zach Braff do?” Easy answer: He’d buy tickets for their upcoming concert. Death Cab, as they’re known by those “in the know,” have recently…
We tried — really — but to no avail. We weren’t getting into the not-so-secret garage show the Foo Fighters played in Dallas last night. It came as part of the Blackberry-backed promotional tour where the band is playing their fan’s garages in celebration of their new album, Wasting Light,…
Well, that secret Foo Fighters show? We tried like the dickens to find out where it was. No luck. Band’s publicist said she had no idea herself — just that it’s somewhere in Dallas.And, if Twitter is to be believed, we got started kind of late in our inquiries –…
Could there be two more disparate acts playing Dallas than the two we’ve got tonight?…
Atlanta’s The Black Lips formed as teenagers, right before the turn of the millennium. Just a year or two later, while still in high school, the punk-influenced, retro-obsessed four-piece started touring. And they’ve never really looked back. Seemingly more comfortable on the road than at home, the band’s pretty much…
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended — no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Chuck Ragan may be best known as one of the frontmen of Hot Water Music, but for the past…
Two weeks ago today, the Foo Fighters released their seventh studio album, Wasting Light, a disc that has fans going bonkers and critics continuing to hail the band as one of the great rocks acts of its generation.Deservedly so: Recorded in Foo leader Dave Grohl’s garage — despite the band…
[Editor’s Note: On Thursday night, Ben Westhoff, a frequent contributor to our print edition and a sometime contributor here on DC9, will be stopping by Cliff Notes in Oak Cliff for a reading and signing session to promote his new book, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the…
The pretty slim musical pickings on this evening after Easter just got slimmer, as tonight’s scheduled free gig from Danny Balis at Bar Belmont has been postponed until next week. Still, there’s at least one interesting show going on that’s worth your while. Plus, there’s some serious drama attached to…
Lots of news coming down the pipeline today on the local music video front, as two longtime area favorites debut new music videos and a third act — once a local, then not a local, and now a local once more — gets a little shine in the form of…
Back in 2009, Hey Dillon (The Last Great DJ), a documentary produced by the McKinney-based The Good Fight Motion Pictures and focused on KHYI-95.3 FM The Range disc jockey Brett Dillon, premiered and made its way around the region. The narrative — independent radio’s David facing off against corporate radio’s…
Some news to pass along this morning on the fast-approaching HomeGrown Music and Art Festival front: After including The Riverboat Gamblers in its initial lineup announcement back in March, the band is now officially off the bill, having backed out due to a scheduling conflict. No matter: Local music obsessives…
This week in 1996, Unfair Park’s Own Robert Wilonsky got down to brass tacks with Texas singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked, whose career was unexpectedly started a decade earlier.In the story, Wilonsky retells the somewhat widely known story of Shocked’s hijacked beginnings. “She recorded the songs on a fan’s weak-batteried Walkman only…
The Psychedelic FursGranada TheaterApril 24, 2011Better than: the last three times I saw the Furs. Seeing that this was the third time in less than two years that the Psychedelic Furs have played Dallas, it was somewhat of a surprise to see a full house packed in at the Granada…
Sleigh Bells, CSSGranada TheaterApril 22, 2011Better than: sticking around for the headliner, apparently. Perhaps it was to be expected given the circumstances at the Granada Theater on Friday night — Sleigh Bells, who couldn’t be hotter at the moment but only have 35 minutes of material, had to tour with…
