In Death by Microphone, local Brit and barbecue blogger Gavin Cleaver attends stand-up comedy classes at the Dallas Comedy House and reports back for our amusement and education. Check back next week to revel further in his failure. It’s all in the preparation, you know? You can’t just stand on…
Sometimes a brisket-loving expatriate Brit just needs a taste of home, so we’ve sent our Englishman in BBQ Sauce on a trek to sample Dallas’ version of cream tea. We hope Anglo-American relations will withstand the stress. Deep down, I knew that Maudee’s, with its understanding of appropriate tea and…
Generation Y’s teenage favorites Nine Inch Nails announced their reformation on Monday after four years apart. I say “reformation” and “apart”, but really it’s just Trent Reznor and whoever plays with him, so that should actually read “Trent reformed with himself after four years of not being Nine Inch Nails”…
The WWE’s weekly Monday-night extravaganza rolled into Dallas yesterday. It was, as you’d expect, the typical ridiculous collection of men in mind-blowingly tight shorts trying to wind up the crowd (“You’ve got as much chance of beating me as Tony Romo has of winning a Super Bowl”), lowbrow insanity (a…
You know how some bands are just fun? They’re not especially musically great or anything, but they’re born entertainers. Well, Electric Six are one of those bands. Featuring some of the best stage banter I’ve heard since, well, since Devin Townsend, these guys pretty much conquered Dada in a way…
Dave Lombardo, founding member of living legends Slayer, just left the band after being in them essentially forever. According to his Facebook page, there has been some accounting drama, which is pretty much the opposite of the incredibly metal spider bite disease that has kept Jeff Hanneman out recently. Apparently…
I went on a previous trip to Fort Worth where I hit three places in a day, but against everyone’s better advice I ignored Angelo’s Bar-B-Que, on the wonderfully named White Settlement Road. On Saturday I put that right. Why couldn’t they just drop the White from White Settlement Road?…
In Death by Microphone, local Brit and barbecue blogger Gavin Cleaver attends stand-up comedy classes at the Dallas Comedy House and reports back for our amusement and education. Check back next week to revel further in his failure. The showcase thing, in which I’m actually appearing in front of an…
Puscifer, fronted by Tool and A Perfect Circle’s Maynard James Keenan, have just released the adorably named EP Donkey Punch The Night. On it, there is, for some reason, a cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” You might be expecting Maynard to do something a bit industrial with it, but no, it’s…
Cream Tea. It’s very important to British people. That’s why I capitalized each of the two delightful words that make it up. It’s also extremely straightforward. Upon possession of English Breakfast Tea (which we just call “tea”) and acquisition of a scone (I’m not sure what level I need to…
We go to a lot of gigs here at DC9. We don’t write about most of them. We do it because we’ve got an awful lot of local music, across three major cities, to keep tabs on. Now and again, on a trip to catch something we’re keen on seeing,…
Why are Mastodon writing music for the new Monsters Inc. prequel, Monsters University? As this blog’s self-appointed Mastodon Correspondent (the position pays as well as you’d imagine), I have been ordered to conduct an immediate investigation into this somewhat unexpected turn of events, lest we allow any Mastodon-related news to…
What’s better than shack barbecue? Nothing. Or so I thought, until I was tipped off about the next level up of ridiculousness: Gas station barbecue. That’s right. Smokie’s is a full-on barbecue restaurant, with a menu that if anything is a little too big, inside a gas station (or a…
In Death by Microphone, local Brit and barbecue blogger Gavin Cleaver attends stand-up comedy classes at the Dallas Comedy House and reports back for our amusement and education. Check back next week to revel further in his failure. There are lots of styles of stand-up comedy, from the surreal to…
Ticket prices are getting a little silly, wouldn’t you agree? The smaller venues are doing a great job of holding them down (it cost me less than a cheap meal for three hours’ of the Melvins and Unsane last year), but at your larger scale venues they long ago passed…
“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” took on entirely new meaning in the UK this week, as it turns out many people had unknowingly fulfilled their declaration of hunger by eating what they believed to be low-quality beef. Predictably, this has led to outrage across the land, as…
In Death by Microphone, local Brit and barbecue blogger Gavin Cleaver attends stand-up comedy classes at the Dallas Comedy House and reports back for our amusement and education. Check back next week to revel further in his failure. After the success last week of appealing to the lowest common denominator…
Many “best of metal” lists recently have overlooked an album which is, in my generally poor opinion, not only worthy of a place on these lists, but the best, most interesting, and most exciting metal album released this millennium. This album is Mastodon’s “Leviathan”. This album has so much going…
Achingly hip Londoners the xx have a two-night stay at The Granada this week, meaning twice as many Dallasites will be swept away by songs from their now-ubiquitous debut album and the recently released Coexist. We’re kind of lucky to get two consecutive shows from one of the world’s hottest…
Editor’s note: What use is having a British contributor if you don’t get him to write about “football”? So less than a week after Brek Shea skulks off to Europe on transfer deadline day, FC Dallas has brought in two signings, at least one of which is a sizeable coup…
The concept of a mobile barbecue food truck, which may appear next to me at any moment in any situation, is a health danger on a par with snakes, shoddily constructed buildings and being fired out of a cannon into the sun. Especially snakes. I really hate snakes. Previously, I…
A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high…
