Huh? Is that Prince? Why, yes. Yes, it is…

The D-Town Boogie is dead. Really. Even those most responsible for the genre’s rise are doing their best at this point to separate themselves from the once-prominent area hip-hop movement. Take, for instance, the GS Boyz, whose “Stanky Legg” became the biggest hit the movement ever saw: That group’s long…

So, this is a real song. Kind of a jam, too? I’m trying to get The Naptime Shake to cover it–and to add another verse if when Nolan brings the Rangers World Series glory in these coming days. Maybe this public plea will sway their minds? Hope so.Anyway: Claw! Antlers!…

Eight years removed from its breakout album, Austin’s …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is still riding high off the success of its 2002 release, Source Tags & Codes, the disc that thrust the band into indie rock superstardom, thanks to near-universal praise and acclaim. The…

As a fellow Syracuse University alum with some connections to the band, I may be a little biased in the matter, but, listen, there’s a lot to like about the SU-spawned Ra Ra Riot, whose endearing chamber pop thrust the band out of the college basement circuit and into the…

We’ve shared more than a few Analog Rebellion tracks with DC9 readers over the course of the past year. Can’t help it, really. Dude just keeps putting out tracks that make our black, Pixies-loving hearts jump–and at a startling pace, too. Even though the artist formerly known as PlayRadioPlay! has…

Will Smith progeny Willow Smith joined teen heartthrob Justin Bieber on stage the other night so the two could dance–you guessed it–the Dallas-spawned Dougie together. And, just like that, the D-Town Boogie movement has officially jumped the shark. But, hey, that’s good news for me, because that’s what my column…

Booker T. Washington High School’s own Norah Jones stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to perform “Chasing Pirates” from last year’s The Fall with The Roots and to promote her upcoming release, …Featuring, which serves as a collection of collaborations she’s offered up over the course of…

The New York-based, Berkeley-formed We Are Scientists have been around for a decade at this point, although, really, their big break didn’t come until 2005 when the band released With Love and Squalor, which included its biggest hit to date in “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt.” The consummate “big in…

Longtime local music fans should recognize Andy Young’s name. He was the drummer for the Bella Union-signed Lift to Experience, the iconic area shoegaze outfit that came to prominence in the early ’00s during Denton’s space rock era. These days, though, Young’s working on a new, ’70s-leaning psych-pop project called…

Things are gonna get real down and folky tomorrow night at the Kessler Theatre in Oak Cliff, as three fine locals–Bosque Brown, The Fox and The Bird and Kristy Kruger–join in to form a bill also featuring Denver’s Paper Bird.But there’s more than folk at play here: Each of the…

We didn’t make it to Superpages.com Center last night for Maroon 5, OneRepublic and Ry Cuming. Must’ve slipped our minds. But, hey, ace photographer Rachel Parker did! And she took some great shots of the night, too! And we took those photos and re-appropriated them into a slideshow about the…

A couple weeks back, friend of the program Josh Romero was out on the town with some friends, waling out of the Dallas World Aquarium, when a street musician going by the name of Big Horn caught his eye.”I didn’t know the guy at all,” Romero says. “He was just…

Yesterday on DC9, Daniel Hopkins caught up with Gareth Campesinos, frontman for the Welsh eight-piece indie pop-punk outfit Los Campesinos!, to talk about the band’s most recent release (Romance Is Boring), the differences between U.S. and U.K. audiences (there are plenty) and what it’s like touring as an eight-piece (not…

Is it fire? Is it hands? Is it hands caught in a fire? Yes…

Denton four-piece Manned Missiles, as you can see in the above photograph, has long been bubbling up in the Denton house party scene, and, finally, the band’s got some new recorded music to show for it. Recently, the band released a new song called “Cut The Lights,” the most melodic…

No, the Denver-based, Elephant Six-associated Apples in Stereo are not locally based. They’re from Denver. We already said that.But the band does boast a major local connection: Local musician/all-around good dude John Dufilho, frontman for local long-timers The Deathray Davies and I Love Math, is the band’s drummer. And, though…