Music

Huh? Is that Prince? Why, yes. Yes, it is…

Right about now, over at the Palladium Ballroom, the stage is being set for tonight’s Red Bull SoundClash, featuring Talib Kweli & The Rhythm Roots AllStars and Ozomatli. The two groups spawned from vastly different scenes, but share a similar alternative hip-hop jam–and we were able to watch the two…

Last year, Red Bull brought its first SoundClash event to town, with Erykah Badu squaring off against Shiny Toy Guns in Victory Plaza. It made for a pretty cool event, with the two acts playing on stages set up across from each other and playing covers, then the other artist’s…

When I heard the title of Will.I.Am’s latest single, “Check It Out,” the first thing that came to mind was the Cartoon Network show, Check It Out with Dr. Steve Brule. Similar to the show, this track is wacky and inconsistent…

This year has seen its fair share of fantastic releases from local female acts. Sarah Jaffe has received national attention (and numerous DOMAs) for her latest record, and Dallas’ Ashley Myrick of lalaray and The Beaten Sea has also garnered her fair share of attention locally. So it should be…

With the recent breakups of area favorites Dove Hunter and Bridges & Blinking Lights, the local music scene has suddenly become lacking in the psychedelic Southern rock genre. Enter Pale Horse, whose soul-influenced Southern rock, gritty guitars and emotional lyrics look to fill the void of these two former area…

This promising five-song debut EP doesn’t exactly show off Missile’s versatility. But range is clearly not what this Missile is aiming for. Just as you’d expect from song titles such as “Fighter, “Seein Red” and “Hell Hound,” the Dallas power trio just wants to kick your ass with fast and…

There are those bands that sell silk-screened T-shirts and copies of their latest CDs at shows, about which you can learn more by following them on Twitter or visiting their ReverbNation page. Conversely, there are those that give away cologne and perfume samples or free tape collages recorded on recycled…

The D-Town Boogie is dead. Really. Even those most responsible for the genre’s rise are doing their best at this point to separate themselves from the once-prominent area hip-hop movement. Take, for instance, the GS Boyz, whose “Stanky Legg” became the biggest hit the movement ever saw: That group’s long…

Back in the band’s late ’80s/early ’90s heyday, New York’s Helmet were supposedly the thinking man’s metal band. But with their geeky clothes and cropped haircuts, Page Hamilton and crew were hardly a metal band, thinking or otherwise. What Helmet did was play aggressive post-punk that drew a crowd that…

3D (Robert Del Naja), Daddy G (Grant Marshall) and Mushroom (Andy Knowles), the core members of Massive Attack, have sure made their mark in popular music since budding off from Wild Bunch in 1988. These mixers, backed by an ensemble of guest vocalists, managed to set down a novel sound…

Following September’s release of False Priest, of Montreal’s tenth full-length album, the band is back with what’s reported to be a more elaborate, glittery and flamboyant stage show after touring earlier this year with a setup considerably more reserved than it had for the tour supporting 2008’s (mostly) critically acclaimed…

Wiz Khalifa wants a $100,000. For a single performance. That may sound like a tall order, but it’s not out of the question in the near future for Khalifa. The 23-year-old burgeoning rap phenom is on the come-up. In addition to garnering some impressive accolades—from being featured on the cover…

Even after 33 years, Bad Brains are still one of the most prominent acts in the history of American punk rock. Formed in 1977 by four African-American youths just hanging out in Washington, D.C., the quartet fronted by H.R. (aka Paul Hudson) plied its craft throughout the ’80s, creating a…

Syracuse, New York, is famous for a few things: basketball, the college that has the basketball and, according to my viewing of a recent Syracuse-focused episode of Man vs. Food, hearty American grub. Those pop-rockers with a hint of chamber, Ra Ra Riot, formed there too, and took off during…

Had Brooklyn’s Small Black been recording and releasing material back in the ’80s, critics and journalists would’ve simply labeled the band’s layered, dreamy lo-fi sound as synth-pop or, perhaps, electro-pop. File under: Rock/Pop. In interviews, though, band members have described Small Black’s sound as “Casio dream noise pop” or “not…

What better evening for the renowned dark metal master Danzig to play Dallas than Halloween? On what could well prove to be the last time Glenn Danzig performs in our area, the former Misfits frontman has decided to go out in style. By bringing along as openers four younger bands—most…

What a packed Wednesday evening. And that’s not even counting Your Texas Rangers playing in their first ever World Series game. Crazy, right?…

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…

So, this is a real song. Kind of a jam, too? I’m trying to get The Naptime Shake to cover it–and to add another verse if when Nolan brings the Rangers World Series glory in these coming days. Maybe this public plea will sway their minds? Hope so.Anyway: Claw! Antlers!…