Our buddy Jesse Hughey gave DC-9 the heads up that Picnic from Dallas’ P.P.T. co-produced Houston’s Coughee Brothaz new disc Waitin Our Turn. The Brothaz are Devin the Dude’s group project these days. While the disc hit bins in September, it just got a nod on Pitchfork. We haven’t had…
If the success of locals-hitting-it-big Fair to Midland means anything, it’s that constant touring and publicity bombardments can sometimes work. Of course, so can dense, smart proggy guitar work. In this case, the combination of all these elements has shoved FTM to the top of the list of what the…
Cheer up, Big Tuck — you’re in Vibe!The latest issue of Vibe, which isn’t online, has a regional round-up of hip-hop’s most happenin’ scenes — and Dallas is included. But it’s good news-bad news stuff — isn’t it always when Vanilla Ice crops up in the second freakin’ graf of…
If you’re into heartbreak and Swedes (and who isn’t?) Jens Lekman headlines the Granada Theatre tonight. Local lovely songstress Sarah Jaffe opens. Do try and make it out. I’ve already plugged the show in our print version but, as somebody once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”…
Found this footage of the Lizard Lounge on YouTube a minute ago (many people have asked why we started this music blog–it’s because it’s a good excuse to surf for goofy videos instead of reading copy on deadline day), and it cracks me up. The whole thing is so dark,…
(Photo illustration by Krissi Reeves)With behemoth machines like Big Buck Hunter and Golden Tee monopolizing our bar fun-time, can you blame a gal for lamenting the days of pinball machines and joysticks? And…and!… the most recent abolition of a classic vending machine by its hi-tech counterpart is, by far, the…
Ever so prolific, our favorite Outkast-ian hip hop star Pikahsso has produced yet another bit of badassery. Check his video with eight versions of the funky Sly/P-Funk sounding jam “Verb.” Eight different versions, each touching on a different genre, each matched by different videos with different directors. Our fave is…
Everything you missed this weekend — or just really want to relive. We really wish we could spend dayssss with Mr. Ian MacKaye. His stories are amazing. The Evens at The Public Trust Ian MacKaye — punk rock legend behind Minor Threat and Fugazi — and his new partner-in-crime Amy…
Yer best options, real quick-like: DallasLovesCash Party 8 p.m., Friday, November 9. Space, 2814 Main St. $5. “Cash is my dog,” very good friend of the Observer Hal Samples just told me on the phone, “She’s been with me the last four years, watching everything.” Yup, Cash has an eagle…
Steer clear of Addison this weekend, because a comedy cold front’s bringing copious amounts of unfunny to the city. Deep Ellum, however, will be covered with a thundercloud unleashing buckets of laughs on the neighborhood. Skies are clear for comedy in Tarrant County, and look out for heavy gusts of…
Jam goes indie: Meet the men of Fight Song. (Melanie Gomez) When we heard a group of indie all-star musicians were going to have a jam performance in Denton, we couldn’t resist. Fight Song features Midlake’s McKenzie Smith, History at Our Disposal’s Jason Reimer and Brian Vandivier, Centro-Matic’s Scott Danborn…
The Subchronicles Crew, GOAT, All-In Clic, Bill$ Clinton 9:30 p.m., Friday, November 9. TomCats Deep Ellum, 2914 Commerce St. Funny, Tomcats–one of the clubs denied a Special Use Permit by the City Planning Commission–is doing the neighborly thing and hosting a canned food drive tonight. You know, as in a…
Regina Spektor House of Blues November 8, 2007 Better than: Watching an indie rock band perform on a college campus. Review: The first Tori Amos album I listened to was Boys for Pele and it was transitory. The first time an adolescent girl hears a woman bleeding and screaming over…
DC-9 can’t resist pondering rumbles between bands or even classical music gangs. In fact, instigating them might even be more fun, but possible lawsuits just didn’t sound like something we wanted to deal with. Thus, in no way do we intend our fantasy fights to cross the line into actual…
You’ve probably heard about southern Dallas rapper Dooney da Priest (real name: Duwayne Brown), who has produced two songs of note in the past couple months. The latest one, “Vote No!,” was Dooney’s foray into politics, a crunk anthem supporting, um, a toll road. Guess writing “Vote no/So the south…
On October 29, local sax great Shelley Carrol was told he would need to fill in the following evening for Marchel Ivery, who was scheduled to play Terilli’s on Greenville Avenue for the second time in October. Carrol was told only that Ivery was ill: He’d been checked into Presbyterian…
DJ Shadow was like the Mozart of sampling,” Mute Math’s keyboardist/singer Paul Meany says earnestly. The New Orleans musician says Shadow sparked his musical interest as a teen and continues to influence Mute Math’s experimental rock sound. “There was a little record DJ Shadow put out called Endtroducing,” he says…
If Northern State’s Julie Potash was bitter, no one would have blamed her. Although All City, the New York-based hip-hop hybrid’s first release for Columbia Records, made Rolling Stone’s list of 2004’s top 50 albums, the relationship between band and corporate master soon soured, preventing Potash and her fellow rhymers…
Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit may all love music, but they don’t make it collectively unless there’s a mammoth payday involved. Maybe that’s why this set, which is being released through a profit-maximizing deal with Wal-Mart, seems more inspired by commerce than art. The…
Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell writes lyrics that are drenched in utopian platitudes (“Lucky ones are we all, till it is over”) and cringe-worthy pillow talk (“When you smile, the sun, it peeks through the clouds”). The group’s weakest songs are ready-made for campfire sing-alongs. Its touring bassist even…
The vast reserves of hate music critics reserve for Blue October can, in all likelihood, be traced back to their adolescence. Nothing angered these smart, socially awkward folks more than being at a high school or even a junior high party, watching as some hapless wanker playing mediocre guitar in…
Even if the age of digital downloads has left album artwork all but ignored, a meaningful theme still sprouts from the title and design of Tegan and Sara’s most recent release, The Con. The novelistic motif inspired by the album’s Moog-infused title track provides a reference for the twin sisters’…
