Satan’s Playlist

“Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood.” —Vincent Price, “Thriller” We know there’s nothing like a sugar buzz to cause cranial confusion and a depressed decision-making faculty. Oh, sure, give us 14 Stella Artois and…

Funky Big J Rocks the Party

It’s Friday night. The Cavern is packed for the Fresh party that happens once a month. The room seems oddly bright for 11 p.m. on a party night, illuminating the flushed, pleased faces that float just above a layer of gauzy ciggy smoke. You can see all this from the…

Opposites Attract

It all began with a pile of wires and cables, configured onstage in what looked like a visual manifestation of every preposition, as they snaked about, above, across and around amp heads and keyboards, effects modules, samplers and mixers, plugged into speakers and drum machines, synthesizers and microphones. Vintage this…

Kid Rock

It’s lucky for Kid Rock that he’s an egomaniacal dipshit, because otherwise his music would be about as memorable as a Molly Hatchet eight-track sans “Flirting With Disaster.” Still, the former Mr. Pamela Anderson’s good-humored salutes to his own cocksmanship—not to mention his skill at Xeroxing classic boogie—can’t entirely offset…

Neil Young

Neil likens Chrome Dreams II, with its mix of Crazy Horse-style guitar thunder and mellow country rock, to After the Gold Rush. In other words, it’s the kind of album Young could make in his sleep by now. Recorded with pedal steel/dobro player Ben Keith, bassist Rick Rosas and drummer…

DJ Vadim, Abstract Rude, Yarah Bravo

DJ Vadim may get less attention these days than when he was cranking out abstract/breakbeat productions back in the ’90s, but his music grows more interesting and globally minded with every release. After several solo instrumental hip-hop discs that aligned him with DJs Krush, Cam and Shadow, the Soviet-born, London-raised,…

Money $hot (CD release), Dirt & Earthy Vibes

An unusual and interesting local bill that features some playfully obnoxious metal and an electronica-fueled tribute to Cream. Money $hot are a typically sexist metallic mess, all testosterone and no brains, but hell, that’s what’s made Motorhead great. Paying homage to Judas Priest, Queen and AC/DC, Money $hot is three…

Secret Handshake, Family Force 5

If someone said to you, “Hey, you should totally check out the Secret Handshake. They’re, like, ambient electro-emo,” what would you do? You’d want to throw up into your Emily the Strange lunchbox, right? Well, the truth is: The band’s not as bad as you’d expect. The tunes are just…

Phosphorescent

What is it about these indie folksters using pseudonyms? Samuel Beam goes by Iron and Wine, and Will Oldham has recorded under Bonnie “Prince” Billy and various Palace monikers. Then there’s Matthew Houck, who’s been recording and performing as Phosphorescent for the past seven years. Fittingly enough, Houck’s latest effort,…

Om

To think of a pilgrimage is to think of a progression, or even a procession—a steady, continuing path to somewhere over the horizon, even if it’s a road to nowhere. Pilgrimage is a very apt title for the third effort by Om, the duo of Al Cisneros and Chris Haikus,…

The Cult

As stand-in singer with the surviving Doors (godawfully rechristened Doors of the 21st Century at first, then the much better Riders on the Storm) on their tour a couple of years back, Cult lead singer Ian Astbury finally got to indulge his deep-seated Jim Morrison fantasies to the hilt. It…

Steal: Wolff, Mom, Sticky Buns

Cheapwads unite! Rent’s due soon and Mavs tickets cost money, so it’s time to skimp other places. What follows are suggestions for keeping your music expenses down and your endorphins up. Wolff 6 p.m., Monday, October 29. Good Records, 1808 Greenville Ave. Free Well, shit, since rock is taking a…

Black Tie Dynasty Bring Constant Pop Fluidity

In a perfect world, incredible bands with outstanding live shows and ceaseless work ethic become superstars of their own merit. Black Tie Dynasty is creating this world, one day at a time. In the cloistral confines of a black couch in a hallway at Arlington’s Universal Rehearsal, we dig deeper…

Barley House’s Cheesy Tots Leave Us Gooey

It’s a common issue. You want to go to a show but you gotta eat first. For some it’s an energy issue and for others it’s all about the drink base. Whatever the reason, you’re sure as hell not going to pack a sandwich (not that it’s uncool or anything,…

See St. Vincent’s Modern Art Show

Whilst doing a little MP3 blog trolling over the weekend, we stumbled across a pleasant surprise: The night after DC-9 Park fave St. Vincent joined the likes of Peter and the Wolf, Doug Burr, Tame…Tame and Quiet and other notables at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, music blog…

P.P.T. and BTD May Be Up for Grammys

Local rap group P.P.T. is in the running for a trio of 2008 Grammy nominations and now the members are just waiting for the final tally of votes to hear if they move on to the next round. So, are the nominated or not? It’s little bit confusing. That’s because…

Happy Bullets Pick up New Members

Hey, quick scoop for ya’ll: The following is an exclusive press release from Dada/Bocatinta mistress Amanda Newman: “The Happy Bullets have new bandmates and a new music video. Joshua Warr (J.D. Whittenburg) is now on bass and James Porter (The Tah Dahs) is the new drummer. They’ll be making their…

Weekend Recap: Draknastula, Albrecht, Modern Art

Poet Michael McConnell becomes Draknastula at Dan’s Silverleaf. (Melanie Gomez)If you’re a little hungover, suffering from the early flu bug (damn near everyone in our office has dealt with it already) or just bummed to be sitting at your desk, DC-9 is happy to help you relive the weekend. Pre-Halloween…

Review: Ryan Adams Sends Our Panties to China

Despite having an intermission during his SMU performance, we still love Ryan Adams. (Matthew Blake) We walked into the Ryan Adams concert at McFarlin Auditorium an hour late last night. It was like walking in on the middle of a film people were having trouble following, and two clumsy girls…

Video: Boys like both Girls and Forever the Sickest Kids

In preparation for the Boys Like Girls and Forever The Sickest Kids show tomorrow night at The Rockyards in Fort Worth, we came across this video from the tour. Watch Jonathan from FTSK perform “Heels Over Head” with Boys Like Girls. We’d put money (not much, we’re music writers) that…