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People keep commenting on our post about Edgefest 20 from early last month, saying that a) I apparently didn’t give the Deftones, Neon Trees and the Crash Kings enough credit, and b) that Phoenix sucks. Not to start a flame war with anonymous commenters or anything, but here’s my response:…

We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Meat LoafHang Cool…

America gave up 33 million votes last night. I’m not sure who I would’ve swapped Big Mike for to keep him out of the Bottom Three, but I would’ve definitely put Aaron Kelly in there instead of Fort Worth’s Casey James. The B3 announcement came relatively quickly in the show, after…

Trees, once hailed as one of the meccas of Dallas live performance, has yet to return to its former position of glory in its latest incarnation. But Friday night’s Rusko show, brought to you by local promoter Feezy Duz It, definitely lends credibility to the venue, bringing the club its…

Owen Pallett, formerly known as Final Fantasy, released Heartland, his first album under his own name, early this year. And not without anticipation. Before Heartland’s January release Pallett hadn’t dropped a full-length album since He Poos Clouds in 2006. But now, with a new extensive full-length in tow, Pallett is…

Speaking from his home on a chilly day in Minneapolis, electronic musician Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh is as enigmatic as his music. On this day, he’d just as soon talk about his unusual name as his latest release, Tommy. “My name is next to impossible to live up to,”…

After four straight kicks in the band nuts from Pitchfork.com’s notoriously fickle reviewers, Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken has learned to roll with the punches. “From our very first record and everything we’ve put out since, they’ve pretty much just ripped us a new one on all those reviews,” he says…

Vinnie Paul Abbott is a guy who knows what he wants and how to get it. “When I walk into a strip bar,” says the Arlington native, “I don’t want to have a bunch of stupid strobe lights in my face and a bar girl bugging me.” Rather, the iconic…

As French folk singer Yann Tiersen and his band run through a sound check a few hours before headlining the Granada Theater last Thursday night, Doug Burr, one of Tiersen’s two local openers, sits out in the theater, Tiersen’s band’s tweaks and spurts of play loudly reverberating throughout the room…

Denton’s Andy Bostick, of Andy’s Bar fame, once threw a bone to a stray. It’s been following him around ever since. Try as he might, he just can’t seem to shake the little sucker. Its name is Metal. “We get 100 e-mails a week from metal bands wanting shows,” Bostick…

Since 1992, KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge has been throwing its annual (and sometimes more often than that) Edgefest extravaganzas around town, bringing together massive bills like, well, radio stations should. Unfortunately, recent galas have been somewhat underwhelming, pairing one somewhat decent headliner with the dregs of modern rock radio (See:…

…and for ye relics of the YouTubes, here’s your link…Alright, everyone: No more jokes or discussions about Spooky Folk’s name–especially now that the band’s explained its origins in the clip above, the 15th installment of our DC9 Live at El Sibil series. We tend to agree: It’s original idea–an accidental…

In case you haven’t heard what we’ve been saying, oh, all year now: It’s high time you listened to Analog Rebellion, the new project from Aledo’s 20-year-old wunderkind Daniel Hunter (formerly known as PlayRadioPlay!). This week, after having released both his Analog Rebellion debut (Ancient Electrons) and an old B-sides…

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…

In this week’s paper (out now in some places, tomorrow at others and online soon), Catherine Downes tackles the topic of Owen Pallett, the artist formerly known as Cloud Strife Final Fantasy. Tomorrow night at the Granada, Pallett comes to town in support of his January-released debut under his new…

When Dawes came through town last month, they left the packed house at The Cavern in awe of their freewheelin’ classic rock revival. We gave the show a great review, and got all giddy when Lance Yocum over at Spune Productions just announced that they’ll be coming back on July…

Skate rap icon Lupe Fiasco, who, if nothing else, might boast the coolest name ever, rolled through the House of Blues last night. And with him? Atlanta rapper B.o.B., who, last week, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with his song “Nothin’ On You”–just as predicted by…

Between Bro Fest and South by Southwest, we fell head over heels for Kelley, Jessi and Nikki Darlin, the sisters-in-fake-last-name who make up Those Darlins (along with, fine, drummer Linwood Regensberg, the lone male member of the quartet). Not hard to see why: These spitfires put on a hell of…

First of all, the Idol Gives Back episode raised more than 45 million dollars for children’s aid in the US and the world over. And that’s pretty snazzy. Last night, only four weeks from announcing a new American Idol champ, the remaining contestants were mentored last night by someone who…