Names like Gene Summers and Kim Lenz & her Jaguars are decades apart, but these artists follow a unique style of rockabilly that can only come from the Dallas area.The April 16, 1992 edition of the Observer profiled local rockabilly favorite Ronnie Dawson, who benefited from the genre’s revival alongside…
MusInk 2010 drew some of the region’s finest body artists–it was hosted by Elm Street Tattoo’s Oliver Peck–and most dedicated tattoo lovers. (Cover the left half of your face with a scorpion? That’s dedication.) It was an occasion to have just the right artist do give you that full-chest safari…
1100 Springs, Roger Alan Wade, Lucero & Shooter Jennings at MusInk’s Second nightFair Park Centennial BuildingApril 10, 2010Better than: Watching the Rangers continue to fail to come anywhere near our already low expectations. Seeing a lively crowd enjoying the beautiful weather at the outdoor music stage for MusInk festival, it…
The Big Pink, A Place To Bury StrangersGranada TheaterApril 9, 2010Better than: Tinnitus, but only by a little. Heading into Friday night’s show at the Granada Theater, you had the feeling it was gonna be a special night. Electro-rock act The Big Pink was making its concert debut in Dallas…
Seryn, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon & the Old 97’sFair Park Centennial BuildingApril 9, 2010Better than: getting a forehead tattoo like one of the guys I saw get ink last night. A bringing together of skin and ink wasn’t the only attempted matrimony on the first night of Dallas’ Musink Festival…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 12, 2010…Spike Jonze is reportedly working on a short film with Arcade Fire.Godspeed You! Black Emperor will reunite and curate the UK All Tomorrow’s Parties.A very young and very blond Andrew W.K. got himself slapped with a juvenile restraining order…
Holy crap, it’s a busy weekend. Let’s run it down again, shall we?Tonight’s jam-packed. There’s The Big Pink and A Place to Bury Strangers at the Granada. There’s the Old 97’s kicking off the MusInk Festival deal at Fair Park. Tomorrow night’s even busier: The Buck Pets reunite at Trees;…
This week’s DC9er takes you behind the booth, North of the Dial style, with Denton-based, eclectic party-DJ, Joey Liechty aka Yeahdef. Liechty has been DJing for the past 7 years, and is the founder of ’90s night, one of Denton’s hottest dance nights, bringing people from Denton and Dallas to…
Congratulations are in order (I guess) for Dallas Cowboy linemen Marc Colombo, Cory Proctor and Leonard Davis. When not working in the so-called trenches, those three make up three-fourths of area metal outfit Free Reign (guitarist Justin Chapman’s just some dude, really). And, last night, the group kind of earned…
Yesterday, The Apples in Stereo, which, these days, features Dallas’ own John Dufilho, leader of the Deathray Davies, on drums, released the video for “Dance Floor,” the first single off its soon-to-be-released newest album, Travellers in Space and Time. The fun, quirky video stars, as you’ll see, one Frodo Baggins…
In this week’s Observer, Catherine Downes talks Camera Obscura shop in advance of the band’s Denton stop on Saturday night at Hailey’s. Should be a good one, Downes writes, explaining that the band “was set for nothing less than indie splendor from the beginning.” She gets into specifics, too:Camera Obscura’s…
Folks, do you ever have the urge to read other people’s minds? To find out what is going down in someone’s head like the major motion picture What Women Want? Well, one pop star, Jason Derülo, saves us the trouble and lays his thoughts out in a song. Like most…
After the recent announcement that the Old 97’s will soon be recording new material for an upcoming album, now comes word that a country-rocking contemporary of that act will also be releasing some long-awaited, new material. Thanks to the blog NineBullets.net, our attention is directed towards a post on Slobberbone’s…
Right before his band’s taped, March 31 performance of “Pardon Me,” the title track off the band’s upcoming full-length major label debut, aired as part of Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights’ namesake and frontman updated his Twitter followers a bit on the emotions he…
Yeasayer, JavelinGranada TheaterApril 8, 2010Better than: Staying home and doing laundry, that’s for sure. “Anybody got an extra ticket?!” one Yeasayer fan yelled frantically over a sea of others congregating outside the Granada Theater Thursday night. At 9 o’clock, a lengthy line was wrapped around the edge of the Granada…
Fort Worth’s The Cut*Off has some bad news, folks. In short? Come May 1, it’ll be no more. Writes the band in a note to DC9 HQ:”After many years of playing around town, touring, and recording, we have decided to make May 1st at The Moon the last show of…
In this week’s forest-killing version of DC9, one Cory Graves handles the task of catching us all up to speed on Austin’s Shearwater, which comes to town tomorrow night with Wye Oak and Hospital Ships in tow for maybe the best top-to-bottom bill we’ll see all weekend. Turns out Shearwater…
In this week’s paper version of DC9, I extol the virtues of this weekend’s MusInk tattoo-meets-music ‘splosion at Fair Park, which, in addition to featuring 110+ tattoo artists from around the country, also sees live performances from the Old 97’s, Lucero, Shooter Jennings, Stardeath & White Dwarfs, The Used and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 9, 2010…Punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren is dead.Corin Tucker is going solo… You know, now that she’s not in a band and all.It’s pretty bad when Suge Knight sues you for being too dangerous…
So I had to fire up the old time machine (no, not a hot tub; like Dr. Emmett L. Brown, I prefer my time travel with a little more style…) for this week’s selection. Wasn’t a long trip, though. Just a hop, skip and a couple of days ago. This…
Just a little over a week after fellow Dallasite Erykah Badu went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and wowed the crowds with a beautiful rendition of “Window Seat,” another act from town will appear on show’s same stage. Only, this time, it will be the act’s first-ever national TV gig. Yep,…
Tomorrow night, The Big Pink, whose 2009 debut, A Brief History of Love, made it into my top 10 list of albums from last year, will stop by the Granada Theater for a gig that finds the bombastic duo playing alongside the equally loud A Place to Bury Strangers from…
