Back in March, when The Soft Pack and Those Darlins joined forces to take part in Parade of Flesh’s post-SXSW Bro Fest bill at the Double Wide, we kind of geeked out–not to mention the fact that we openly pondered how so fe2w made it out to the show. These,…
As if you needed more reason to start following Sarah Jaffe, our friends at You+Media, which includes have posted the above clip, the second installment of the web channel’s “Downbeat Dallas” series, which features DC9’s own Daniel Hopkins as its host. Filmed at Jaffe’s Sons of Hermann Hall CD release…
Let’s get this right out of the way from the jump: The new album from the Old 97’s, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, is the best thing the band has done in years—since the ’90s, even. When you consider that the band’s been around for coming up on two decades…
Just two years ago, when Brooklyn-based dance-punk duo Matt & Kim stopped through town, they did so with a gig at Fort Worth DIY space 1919 Hemphill. Last year, when the band returned, it did so with a gig at the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room. And, this weekend, when…
Last time soul revivalist Mayer Hawthorne came through the region, it was back in March for a gig at The Loft as he and his band, The County, stopped off along its travels to SXSW in Austin. Tomorrow night, he returns to The Loft, and under similar circumstances: Hawthorne, this…
The punk rockin’ Denton ex-pats in the Riverboat Gamblers are no strangers to the folks at Spin–not, at least, since the music mag vaulted the band from small regional clubs and the pages of Alternative Press and into the limelight by naming the band one of the best live acts…
In tomorrow’s print issue of DC9, I take a long hard look at the Old 97’s eighth studio release, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, which earns its release on Tuesday, October 12. And I find, as we’ve been saying since we first heard the disc back in August, that it’s…
Well, last night, as promised, we indeed celebrated the one-year anniversary of The Local Hang at The Libertine, with some help from top-notch local performers The O’s, Leg Sweeper, Spector 45 and A.Dd+.Our one regret? Not bringing ear plugs. You’d think by now we’d know that Leg Sweeper and Spector…
We interrupt your normal stream of unbiased local music coverage for a brief, fairly biased notice.Tonight at The Libertine (2101 Greenville Ave.), the local music love-fest called The Local Hang, where yours truly plays strictly local music all night long for a crowd of fervent supporters, will be celebrating its…
Oscar and Juan Salinas, better known as Dallas’ Own two-time Grammy-winning superproducers Play-N-Skillz, hosted a pair of MTV producers in their Deep Ellum studios on Friday evening as a group of eager young Latinas lined up for the chance to join the brothers on on their recently announced, in-development MTV…
Hate Kanye West all you want. But we here at DC9 think he’s the biggest rock star around. Everything about him–from the narcissism to the award show interruptions to the free downloads to the fashion obsessions and the online Twitter rants–just makes him all the more polarizing in the eyes…
The Burning Hotels’ Chance Morgan just passed along the above alluring clip, which is set to a brand-spankin’ new, New Wave-ish track from the Fort Worth-based post-punkers. The real interesting thing about the video and song, though, is that, well, they’re both kind of spur of the moment deals. Confused?…
The past couple of months have found us talking a lot about the new, upcoming release from the Old 97’s, The Grand Theatre, Volume One. And we’ve been lavishing that sucker, which is due out on October 12, with all sorts of praise.Rightfully so, we think. The disc, as we’ve…
A sideways poster? What the what? You mean every poster doesn’t have to be vertical? What kind of crazy world are we living in? One that embraces chillwave, of course…
Fun fact about last night’s Guided by Voices show at the Palladium Showroom: Not only was it the tour kick-off for that classic lineup, but it’s also the last time we’ll ever see a show in the Showroom.Well, under that name, at least.Effective immediately, the room will now be known…
Maybe you remember back in September of last year when Red Bull hosted its first Soundclash event in Dallas, with guests Erykah Badu and Shiny Toy Guns competing for the attendees’ attention out at their free show in Victory Plaza? Yeah? Maybe? It was a good time, to be sure,…
I’m not usually one to get too nostalgic—not for local music, at least. There’s already a debilitating amount of those types around town as is. You know them—those who glorify our town’s past while unwittingly spitting in the face of the metroplex’s ridiculous talent level at the moment. They’re same…
Quite the treat tonight down at the Palladium where Robert Pollard and the rest of his classic Guided by Voices lineup are reuniting and kicking off their U.S. tour for one of just two dates the band will play before performing at Matador Records’ 21st anniversary party in Las Vegas…
Sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady, known as “Coco” and “Rosie,” respectively, were born in the States, but didn’t start their musical project CocoRosie until they were living in Paris–which probably explains the overall baroque nature of their somewhat creepy freak folk, which certainly boasts an alluring quality, as you can…
Back in March, the last time we passed along a track for download from A.Dd+’s debut mixtape, When Pigs Fly, we announced with great anticipation that the disc was “due out in the next few weeks.” Now, almost six months after the fact, the disc is looking more and more…
Once upon a time–a whole 14 months ago–if you were in the suburbs and listening to music, chances were you were listening to mall punk.These days, though, that’s a little different, thanks to the efforts of the folks in Frisco, Carrollton and Grand Prairie.But lest you thought that spelled the…
Yesterday, you’ll surely remember, we posted a quick Q&A with Ratatat’s Evan Mast in advance of tonight’s show at the Palladium Ballroom, where the band is performing in support of its new album, LP4 (see the official music video for lea single “Drugs” in the above embed). In our interview,…
