Morrissey @ Palladium, Friday, April 10 The Smiths, largely due to Morrissey’s emotionally-fueled lyrics, are credited with bringing a fragile side to alt-rock in the early-’80s. But make no mistake, dude ain’t afraid to make a statement! The Moz has been stirring controversy, causing feuds and taking hard-nosed stances for…
A longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill — Dusty’s big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as “The Anti-Clapton” — died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I’ve found online is his obituary…
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti played Hailey’s in Denton Saturday night, with Vivian Girls and Fight Bite onstage ahead of them.Hal Samples was there, and we’ve got the proof in our slideshow here…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 13, 2009…Regardless on where you fall on the like/dislike scale of Chris Cornell’s new album, I think this song is something anyone can appreciate. The free download is a song written by a cancer-stricken Cornell fan from Texas, who lost…
MorrisseyPalladium BallroomFriday, April 10, 2009 Better Than: Watching 24 Hour Party People that you have recorded on your DVR. Check out more photos in our slideshow.The crowd that showed up for Morrissey last night at the Palladium served as a tribute to the longevity of the man’s career. People from every age…
Happy Good Friday, everyone! Wait–is this a happy holiday? Hell if this Jew knows. Oh well. Onto the weekend!First, the shows we’ve already hyped…Tonight, the big ‘un is happening over at the Palladium, where the legendary Moz is set to croon the masses at around 8:30 or so. Not feeling…
Hailing from Arlington, the four members of The Captive, who’ve been involved in several other local bands prior, now have a debut EP, The Way You Behave, to pimp out. Singer/guitarist Ryan Piper was nice enough to offer up this free MP3 of one of the EP’s best cuts, “The…
Dallas’ The Salutation calls what it does “hip-hop-infused, synth-driven alternative rock.” I don’t know about all that, but vocalist/keyboardist Roland Rangel was kind enough to send along this free MP3 for readers (and listeners) of DC-9 to check out, after the jump…
Maybe you want to hear some great psychedelic garage rock. Maybe you want to be there if frontman Anton Newcombe has yet another onstage meltdown. Or maybe you just like the gig poster. There are plenty of reasons to catch Brian Jonestown Massacre Monday night, and for DC9 readers who…
Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theater. It was a Ramones show on a…
Yesterday, we mentioned an item we came across that said that the members of the New Hampshire-based Wild Light were robbed in Dallas when the band stopped through to play Club Dada. Today, Wild Light multi-instrumentalist Seth Pitman checks in to explain what happened.”Getting robbed in Dallas capped off about…
Los Angeles’ El Ten Eleven is headed back to Dallas for a gig at the Double Wide on Saturday, May 16, and the band is looking for your help. To design a poster, that is, for the gig.Interested? OK, then. First, email the band, and you’ll, in turn, be sent…
About two weeks back now, we told you where you could find yourself a free download of the new St. Vincent single and kinda-title track off her new Actor disc, the song “Actor Out of Work”. Now you can watch the video for the song, as Annie Clark has done…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 10, 2009…What does it take to deflate Kanye West’s ego? Or at least to put it in check? South Park, apparently. After being skewered on the iconic cartoon on Wednesday night, Ye has decided it’s time to back off the…
This week’s featured poster is for the highly anticipated Brian Jonestown Massacre show with The Flavor Crystals at Granada Theater Monday night. Skulls and skeletons are used so frequently in all kinds of graphic design lately that you’re about as likely to see them on a preteen girl’s backpack today…
Because we can hardly even believe it ourselves, we’ve got plenty more photos where this came from, shot at Forever the Sickest Kids’ big homecoming show Tuesday night at the House of Blues.All the shots, by photographer Caity Colvard, are up in this slideshow…
At the beginning of the month, when Good Records announced its lineup for its day-long party in celebration of both the record store’s 9th birthday and National Record Store Day, people no doubt noticed the Cannabinoids’ presence on the bill and wondered–giddily, I’m sure–if Erykah Badu would be joining her…
Well, the image pretty much sums it up, I think…
Back in late January, the Arcade Fire cred-boasting, New Hampshire-based rockers in Wild Light stopped through town to play an opening slot for Tapes ‘N Tapes at Club Dada. It was a pretty good set from the band, even if its high point came quite obviously during the performance of…
Baltimore-based soundsmith Dan Deacon’s got himself a reputation for putting on one hell of a crazy live show, as the above photo certainly more than indicates. And his music’s got a fine reputation, too–especially his most recent disc, Bromst, which is earning adoring reviews all across the land. But, turns…
The folks at Life In Deep Ellum are pretty deep into the throes of preparing its second annual Mokah Music Summit and Showcase–or M2S2 for short. This year’s free event, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, will feature 12 local acts, a performance from the students of Zound…
So, yeah, maybe Leslie & The LY’s are a little gimmicky, as the above video shows. But, still, kinda interesting in a bizarre way, no? No? OK. Well, thankfully, on tonight’s Granada bill, Leslie is joined by a couple of other, more traditional veterans of the dance circuit: Stereo Total…
