When local artists receive coverage from national press, we usually give little more than a thumbs up and keep on moving. But the past few days has seen an exceptional number of Dallas-based acts in the news. So, on that note, here’s a little grab bag for you:Today, The Orbans’…
Raised in Oklahoma, but now a resident of Dallas, Greg Reichel is the best kind of alt-country songwriter, one who enjoys both the old-school, rural soul of Townes Van Zandt and the snotty genius of Ryan Adams.Reichel released his debut album back in 2007 and he’s been skimping and saving…
Memoryhouse, Twin Sister, SLEEP ∞ OVERThe LoftAugust 25, 2010 Better than: ironing out the kinks of that new Windows XP installation. Each of the two non-Texan touring bands who took the stage last night at The Loft have enjoyed a busy summer of touring the United States, with Memoryhouse even…
Chromeo, Holy Ghost!Palladium BallroomAugust 25, 2010Better Than: Hearing a Dallas DJ drop Chromeo on a very suspecting crowd in some dingy club. Before the band even stepped out onto the stage at the Palladium Ballroom last night, the crowd was chanting “Chro-me-o-ooh, Chro-me-o-ooh.” On stage, giant glowing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 26, 2010…How can using auto-tune not unfairly reflect a singers talent in a singing competition?How awesome must your watch be if your family thinks you would kill yourself because someone stole it?Is the Contra cover girl mad because her picture…
You have to hand it to The Toadies for their ability to capitalize on a 16-year-old record. None of their other efforts have aged as well as Rubberneck, but they’ve managed to maintain a strong fanbase—strong enough, at least, to draw about 5000 diehards to a remote location in Texas…
It’s hard to dislike Titus Andronicus. Even if you’re not a fan of main man Patrick Stickles’ distinctly Conor Oberst-aping vocals, it’s nearly impossible not to get swept up in the band’s momentum, a flurry of classic bar-band bravado and strident indie-rock. Their debut album, The Airing of Grievances, may…
You hear it, but you can hardly believe it. “C’mon,” you think to yourself. “There’s no way he just sang that.” But, alas, there it is, just 50 seconds into the ninth track on Meat Loaf’s new album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear. And he freakin’ belts it: “I can barely…
Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ annual Free Week is an entire week of free shows with different local (and sometimes non-local) bands. It’s the venue’s way of kicking off the new school year and welcoming the influx of tens of thousands of students who will repopulate Denton into the thriving little…
Known for their hybrid mix of alt-country and post-grunge, Athens’ Dead Confederate created quite a critical buzz with the release of Wrecking Ball, the band’s 2008 debut full-length. That album’s bipolar cacophony had many folks comparing the band to both Nirvana and My Morning Jacket. Although that’s a lot to…
Temperatures will probably still hover around 100 degrees by the time Green Day and AFI roll into town, but make no mistake: Their fans will still come out in droves. Busy these days promoting their 21st Century Breakdown album as their Tony-award-winning musical continues to play on Broadway and their…
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…
Frisco is turning into quite the rock ‘n’ roll city thanks to the folks at Lochrann’s Irish Pub & Eatery and Spune Productions. Spune began booking Thursday night shows at Lochrann’s a few months back, offering Frisco(ans?) a chance to see the area’s best bands without having to drive 20…
Last year, when Rooney came through town for a gig at the Granada Theater, we learned that the Los Angeles-based band actually had some close ties to Dallas. Drummer Ned Brower, an SMU alum, considered the late Carter Albrecht a mentor of his and was so struck by Albrecht’s death…
For the past five years, WeShotJR, for better or worse, has been a fairly prominent player in the local music scene, be it for its authors’ secret identities, for its even-more anonymous commenters’ rantings or for its honest, if oftentimes harsh, criticisms and opinions.When it launched in January of 2006,…
Tomorrow night, Hot Hot Heat, surely one of the bigger names in the early ’00s rock revival explosion not named The Strokes or Franz Ferdinand, comes through Dallas for a date at The Loft. The tour comes in support of the band’s new release, Future Breeds, which finds the band…
If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with “Fuck You,” which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, “California Isn’t Big Enough (Hey There Girl),” a song that finds the 62-year-old singing, quite…
Dallas native and Lincoln High School graduate Chris Bosh may be breaking the bank these days as “that other guy who went to the Miami Heat,” but the guy who saw his stock rise more this NBA offseason than any other player (maybe in the history of the league), still…
It looks like this week’s edition of Show Announcements could have been written in 1995 thanks to two big shows coming to town. On Friday, October 22, a newly reformed Bush will be passing through town at the Palladium Ballroom. And I’m sure everyone over at Kirtland Records is more…
Yesterday, while our servers were down, we received a press release from the JoBros camp featuring the above video showing the boys tromping around town showing “their favorite hangouts around Dallas.” It starts with an MTV Cribs-style tour of their house, and then the boys hit the road. The first…
What a week: Between Heart on Monday night and Meat Loaf on Thursday, we might have to break out our Van Halen t-shirts and the Hall & Oates tapes just to get into the mood.Billy Idol added himself to the mix last night for a jam-packed show at the Palladium…
Our influential pals over at Gorilla Vs. Bear, along with their co-helmed with Weekly Tape Deck label, Forest Family Records, have quite the treat coming to The Loft tonight in the form of a ridiculously buzz-worthy triple-bill featuring Ontario’s Memoryhouse, Brooklyn’s Twin Sister and Austin’s SLEEP∞OVER. But the three new-to-the-scene…
