Music

The Dallas-based hard rock four-piece Drowning Pool has a new album due out in April. It’s the band’s fifth studio effort, and this one is called, quite simply, Drowning Pool. Yesterday, the lead single for the album, “Feel Like I Do,” earned its video release–and, sure enough, there it is,…

One of the most inspiring rock documentaries ever, 2009’s Anvil! The Story of Anvil told the sweet tale of singer/guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow, drummer Robb Reiner and the band they refused to quit. Back in the early ’80s, their Canadian metal band had a taste of stardom culminating with a…

The New York City hardcore legends of Agnostic Front definitely still bring it: They’re still as loud and confrontational as always, even with their wrinkles, gray hair and degenerating vision. Well-into-their-50s principals Roger Miret (vocals) and Vinnie Stigma (guitar)—who, inspired by the likes of Black Flag and Bad Brains, formed…

When an all-local bill leads to a sell-out crowd on a cold Saturday night, one usually expects to see a well-established act atop the bill. But that wasn’t the case during Yeahdef’s recent “Fresh Faces” event at Dan’s Silverleaf. In fact, more than 225 people showed up to catch three…

Fact: Guitar legend Johnny Marr is not a vampire looking for youthful blood. He is not having a mid-life crisis. He’s not even a guitarist-for-hire. Fact: The brothers Jarman, now officially eight years into life as The Cribs, did not recruit new member Marr as a calculated way of expanding…

Jonathan Richman is one of the most enigmatic American performers of the rock ‘n’ roll era, both in spite of and because of his devotion to simplicity. Even when Richman was bashing out three-minute proto-punk with the Modern Lovers, there was a naiveté to his work that would only grow…

Here we are, sitting in a church in Denton, watching Sarah Jaffe perform before a no-shit-Sherlock adoring audience—every single pew in the place completely full—and all I’m wondering is how no one ever figured out that a stunt like this would draw a crowd so big that people would be…

From first listen to his debut disc under the name of Analog Rebellion, it’s pretty clear: The 20-year-old, Aledo-based Daniel Hunter is well over his past as PlayRadioPlay!. Gone, after all, is the dream-pop aesthetic that’s drawn the older parts of Hunter’s catalog comparisons to recent Top 40 sensation Owl…

…and for you all who still rock the YouTubes, here’s your link.In this week’s paper, I check in with the artist formerly known as PlayRadioPlay!, Aledo’s Daniel Hunter, to talk about his set-to-be-released-next-week debut under the the moniker of Analog Rebellion. The new album, Ancient Electrons, is a big change…

Originally, tickets for this year’s second go-’round of the NX35 Music Conferette were supposed to go on sale yesterday. A few software glitches go in the way, but more important point is this: Tickets are now on sale, so go get ’em. Four-day passes will set you back only $65;…

Few things say Dallas music quite like Reverend Horton Heat and his demonic blend of rockabilly and punk rock elements. Hell, even when he’s a little hokey, as he was on this past year’s Laughin’ and Cryin’ with the Reverend Horton Heat, he’s still pretty fun.So, too, should be his…

Helsinki-based DJ Tes La Rok was on hand spinning heavy Dubstep bass at the Dub Assembly party Friday night at the Green Elephant, and our nightlife photo crew was out to capture the blissed-out (that’s what bliss looks like?) scene.Saturday night our nightlife crew headed to DJ Jayson Gold’s birthday…

In this week’s dead tree edition of DC9 (out tomorrow in certain hotspots around the Metroplex!), you’ll be able to read Doug Davis’ profile on The Cribs, in which he and band bassist/vocalist Gary Jarman talk about the recent changes in the band’s sound–and namely the recent addition of Smiths…