October has officially become a beating, dudes. Perennially the busiest month of music in North Texas—thanks, y’know, to standard fall touring schedules and the countless tours that make regional pit stops here en route to Austin-hosted fall music festivals—there’s still more than a week left in this month, and already…

Why someone thought it was a good idea to make cartoon versions of Dorrough and his collaborators on his “Get Big” remix and illustrate them rapping over very literal interpretations of their rhymes’ lyrics, I have no idea. Like the Lord, the Internet works in mysterious ways, I guess. But…

Novaak​ Tomorrow night, the normally alt-country vibes of City Tavern will turn decidedly electronic as the venue hosts a quadruple-bill of three bands that DC9 readers are already long familiar with and a fourth that they’ve likely never heard, but should–and soon. Joining Hoyotoho, Darktown Strutters and Museum Creatures on…

​Tonight marks the start of New York City’s CMJ Music Marathon, a sort of SXSWish deal originally built around the premise of bringing up-and-coming wannabe college radio heroes together for college radio jocks to come have a listen and look-see. Now 30 years into its existence, this year’s festivities certainly…

Wanz Dover, aka Blixaboy​ Continuing along with our promise to stuff you full with free mp3s from promising new local artists this week, we now point your eyes and ears in the direction of Wanz Dover’s new(ish) project, Blixaboy. Dover, local music fans surely know, is hardly a newcomer to…

Danny FulgencioDeftones fans like to boogie.​ Pop quiz, hotshot: Is the above picture a shot of the crowd at the Palladium Ballroom dancing to the Deftones’ performance? Or is it a shot of the fictional city of Zion from the Matrix movies celebrating the fact that Neo brought peace to…

​We’ve done this not once but twice before, so by now you should know the drill. If not, a quick refresher: On November 5, 6 and 7, at Austin’s Waterloo Park, the other fall music festival in the capital city will present it’s biggest–not to mention, we think, its best–lineup…

It’s a tough week to make a case for a rock show–what with some baseball team clogging up most locals’ night-time plans and all–but The Loft’s got a compelling argument tomorrow night when it hosts Frightened Rabbit in its friendly confines. The Scottish indie rock outfit made quite the splash…

Seem the self-proclaimed sex-rockers in local outfit Hello Lover are taking a page from the hip-hop playbook: The band’s got a new disc in the works, and they’re calling it MixTape. The disc will be released in late November, but, earlier this month, the band leaked to YouTube the above…

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 may have missed during recent stops through town. They’re the kind of acts we think you’re gonna want to know–and right away.School of…

Austin’s garage-y White Denim clearly like to have a good time, if the above video for its breakout 2008 hit, “Shake Shake Shake” is any indication. And it’s tough to deny that, upon listen to the band, that there’s a serious sense of urgency and vitality in everything it does,…

Few people have been able to make careers out of as narrow a path as Andrew WK has. The New York-based performer started out as a rocker with an affection for tasty licks and, as you can see above with his first (and kinda last) hit of note, 2001’s “Party…

Women​ In this week’s paper, Daniel Hopkins caught up with Women’s Patrick Flegel to talk about the band’s fast ascent and its continued progression–something, Hopkins learns, that’s been spurred along by the band’s attempts to write songs as it plays upwards of 200 shows a year. Which is fine by…

​ Nothing says British punk rock like a tattered Union Jack, right?…

​In this week’s print edition, Darryl Smyers talks up tomorrow night’s show at The Loft from The Vaselines, who, after bearing an influence over Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in the early ’90s, took a 17-year break after their 1992 compilation release, All the Stuff and More…, before Sub Pop released another…

Now there’s more people for Lil Wil to be pissed off with: The University of Wisconsin. By spoofing Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How to Dougie” and turning it into a song about its mascot, Bucky the Badger, called “Teach Me How to Bucky” (see above), Wisonsin student rap troupe…