Air Review’s debut album, Landmarks, came seemingly from out of nowhere in 2009 and immediately proved this band as Dallas’ most ready-for-arenas outfit — and not just because of the bombast packed in to every single note on that disc. No, this five-piece is one that painstakingly prepares its live…
Best Coast isn’t Bethany Cosentino’s first foray into music — before starting her most recent project, the 23-year-old flirted with the major label circuit when her teenage singer-songwriter material caught their ears, and, a few years later, she started Pocahaunted, which has released a whole slew of albums since forming…
Not only is it for a good cause, but, hey, check out that lettering!…
Garland-raised country starlet LeAnn Rimes is only 28, but already, she’s lived a life–a full half of it, even, since she became the first country act to win a Best New Artist Grammy in 1997 as just a 14-year-old. In more recent years, her personal life has become tabloid fodder–which,…
A few weeks back, we passed along word of a new St. Vincent-sampling track from Kid Cudi. The song, called “Maniac,” which also features rapper Cage, samples Dallas native Annie Clark’s “The Strangers” (off her 2009 release, Actor) and is set to be included on Cudi’s new album, Man On…
Robert Schneider’s world moves at light speed. He thinks a lot of things. He says a lot of things. With very little prodding, the frontman for Apples in Stereo talks at length about mathematics, about brainwaves, about frequencies. Your head spins just trying to keep up with his many favorite…
Some two months after the initial announcement that City Tavern owner Josh Florence and a crew of investors had signed a lease on Club Dada and hoped to have the venue open near Halloween, the venue’s opening has been delayed due to what Florence calls “red tape” and misinformation received…
Just a few days ago, the formerly Dallas-based and currently Brooklyn-dwelling Fieros (nee The Valentines) debuted the above music video for the song “One Woman,” from the band’s finally released debut full-length, which comes courtesy of the Japanese label, This Time Records. The video, as you can see, stars one…
Well, at least one local will be participating at South by Southwest in the coming spring.In anticipation of its 25-year anniversary, SXSW has just just released its earliest performer announcement in history, and, alongside acts like A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, Designer Drugs, El Guincho, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, Small…
Looks like Lower Greenville is about to get a new live music venue–at least on Monday nights. The Libertine has just announced plans to host free concerts from local acts every Monday night. The night will be called “The Hang Up.” Huh. Wonder where they got that idea… Anyway, the…
Tonight’s show at the Granada Theater should prove a pretty wild one as of Montreal comes to town with collaborator and hot-as-the-sun R&B freak Janelle Monae in tow–and not just because of the funky music fans can expects, or the general party atmosphere that tends to ensue at of Montreal’s…
In this past week’s paper, I muse on the state of Dallas hip-hop, something I’d been thinking about rather frustratingly for some time now–until, that is, I finally caught Sore Losers’ live show on a bill at The Nightmare on Sunday, October 24. There, backed by the band HelloeARTh, Sore…
Not too long ago, we passed along word of Norah Jones’ next release, a compilation of collaborations she’s taken part in over the course of her career called …Featuring. Among the songs included on the disc? A cut from Jones’ near-anonymous slowcore and punk side-project, El Madmo.In the above clip,…
We’d been suspecting this for a while now, but, according to a press release sent out by Kemado Records this morning, now it’s official: The New York City-based label home to The Sword and Saviour, and formerly to acts like The Soft Pack, Dungen, Marissa Nadler and Langhorne Slim, has…
Just a few minutes ago, the Old 97’s posted to their web site a whole slew of free downloads–not of new songs, mind you, but of old ones. Or, more accurately, of the demos for old songs, all of which Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond recorded as the band geared…
Welcome to a new joint venture between DC9 at Night and the folks at We Denton Do It, aimed at introducing local audiences to up-and-coming acts. They’re the kind of acts we think you’re gonna want to know–and right away.Loyal DC9 readers may recognize the members of Denton’s Babar as…
On Friday morning, Vibe posted a length piece on Erykah Badu well worth the time if you have it–because, as part of the magazine’s online “Full Clip” series, it’s mostly just Badu on Badu, with the Dallas R&B star explaining her motivations, headspaces and conflicts with each and every album…
London’s Johnny Flynn released his debut album, A Larum, in 2008 when he was just 24-years-old — although you’d never guess it. Though credited as a release from Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, that disc saw Flynn at the far and away front-and-center, his flair for traditional British folk…
A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we…
Some bad news earlier this week for Transmission Entertainment, the folks behind Austin’s ever-expanding Fun Fun Fun Fest: Devo had to back out of its engagement because of an injury. Promoters are promising replacement acts in their stead, though, and already, they’ve announced one we here at DC9 very much…
It’s been widely reported already that Burleson’s Own Kelly Clarkson, who is currently toiling away on her fifth studio effort, will be singing the national anthem tomorrow night in Arlington as the Texas Rangers host the San Francisco Giants for Game Three in the World Series. And, hey, that’s interesting…
We showed you the original song’s video. We gave you a free download link for the star-studded remix. We showed you the cartoon video for that remix. Oh, like we weren’t gonna show you the remix’s official video now that it’s been released? C’mon now. Check it out above.Then wonder…
