Robert Schneider’s world moves at light speed. He thinks a lot of things. He says a lot of things. With very little prodding, the frontman for Apples in Stereo talks at length about mathematics, about brainwaves, about frequencies. Your head spins just trying to keep up with his many favorite…
The last time Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti came through town, the audience at Denton’s Hailey’s Club was revved up and equally surprised by the West Coast freak folker’s supercharged performance. He ran around the stage, inspiring the crowd to stage dive, mosh and make other various celebratory rock ‘n’ roll…
A rather low key collection of shows highlight this hump day evening. Choose wisely…
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we’ve been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to…
Some two months after the initial announcement that City Tavern owner Josh Florence and a crew of investors had signed a lease on Club Dada and hoped to have the venue open near Halloween, the venue’s opening has been delayed due to what Florence calls “red tape” and misinformation received…
The story of Ben Kweller has been documented pretty relentlessly around these parts–from forming the band Radish at the age of 12 to signing with Mercury Records at 16 after being hailed by critics as “the next Nirvana” to then following his girlfriend to New York where he’d end up…
Just a few days ago, the formerly Dallas-based and currently Brooklyn-dwelling Fieros (nee The Valentines) debuted the above music video for the song “One Woman,” from the band’s finally released debut full-length, which comes courtesy of the Japanese label, This Time Records. The video, as you can see, stars one…
For astute music fans in the North Texas region, the name Monotonix has become quite familiar. In the last couple of years, the Israeli garage-punk trio has made a few stops here, including a 2009 NX35 slot that got the ball rolling pretty hard on their Metroplex buzz. Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
Long hailed as one of the untouchable patriarchs in the storied past of hip-hop royalty, producer, DJ, and vinyl archivist DJ Shadow has been responsible for some of the most innovative music that the genre has seen over the course of his nearly 20-year career. These days, having not released…
Last Summer, 102.1 KDGE The Edge did some indie fans a solid by booking Phoenix and Metric in the middle of a mostly butt-rock lineup at Edgefest 2010. But at this year’s How The Edge Stole Christmas concert at Verizon Theatre on Saturday, December 4, the folks over at The…
of Montreal, Janelle MonaeGranada TheaterNovember 2, 2010Better than: Glee on acid! All photos by Hal SamplesFor a full slideshow from last night’s concert, click here.Last night, the ascending funky soul diva Janelle Monae served as the opener for seasoned psych funk ravers of Montreal in one of the more compelling…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 3, 2010…Finally Kanye admits that he’s basically a child. But, a child that has an awesome sense of fashion.Weezy released a letter preceding his release from prison stating he was never “scared, worried, nor bothered” by his prison sentence. But,…
Another Tuesday rolls around and it’s another intriguing collection of musical options. A great night to drown those baseball sorrows…
Well, at least one local will be participating at South by Southwest in the coming spring.In anticipation of its 25-year anniversary, SXSW has just just released its earliest performer announcement in history, and, alongside acts like A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, Designer Drugs, El Guincho, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, Small…
Looks like Lower Greenville is about to get a new live music venue–at least on Monday nights. The Libertine has just announced plans to host free concerts from local acts every Monday night. The night will be called “The Hang Up.” Huh. Wonder where they got that idea… Anyway, the…
Tonight’s show at the Granada Theater should prove a pretty wild one as of Montreal comes to town with collaborator and hot-as-the-sun R&B freak Janelle Monae in tow–and not just because of the funky music fans can expects, or the general party atmosphere that tends to ensue at of Montreal’s…
In this past week’s paper, I muse on the state of Dallas hip-hop, something I’d been thinking about rather frustratingly for some time now–until, that is, I finally caught Sore Losers’ live show on a bill at The Nightmare on Sunday, October 24. There, backed by the band HelloeARTh, Sore…
Not too long ago, we passed along word of Norah Jones’ next release, a compilation of collaborations she’s taken part in over the course of her career called …Featuring. Among the songs included on the disc? A cut from Jones’ near-anonymous slowcore and punk side-project, El Madmo.In the above clip,…
We’d been suspecting this for a while now, but, according to a press release sent out by Kemado Records this morning, now it’s official: The New York City-based label home to The Sword and Saviour, and formerly to acts like The Soft Pack, Dungen, Marissa Nadler and Langhorne Slim, has…
Massive Attack, Thievery CorporationPalladium BallroomMonday, November, 1 2010Better than: Seeing the Rangers lose in Arlington. A dense, late- to mid-20s crowd at the Palladium was treated to two sets of complementary ensemble groups on the Day of the Dead. As legends of the trip-hop world, Thievery Corporation and Massive Attack…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 2, 2010…Sure, Kim Kardashian is hot, but, being hot doesn’t mean you’re a singer, right?You know you’ve made it when Cracker Barrel is distributing your new album! Since her acting career didn’t quite take off the way she had hoped,…
Busy way to start the work week–and on a night when the Rangers face World Series elimination, no less…..
