Meltdown Music Festival, the enormous EDM festival happening this Saturday, has just announced a venue switch, from QuickTrip Park in Grand Prairie to LaGrave Field in Fort Worth. In a release posted on the fest’s web site, organizers cite fewer restrictions on sound and the opportunity to go later as…
Erykah Badu is saying new things into a microphone, and, as these things usually go, our week is vastly improved for it. The new song is the lead single from Janelle Monae’s forthcoming sophomore record, and Prince should maybe consider folding up his parts and going home. Listen to “Q.U.E.E.N.”…
April 20 might be the biggest music day in North Texas this year. We have Untapped Fest in Fort Worth, Har Mar Superstar will turn Bryan Street Tavern into the area’s best dance party and Dada will have some of the best local hip-hop in the area. 4/20 is also…
Editor: In last week’s music feature, Christian McPhate began his search for a guitar. Not just any guitar, but his Trigger, his missing part. In that story, he went north to our weird music utopia, Denton, and came away with nothing. Here, he tries his hand in Dallas. I’ll start…
Whether solo or in Uncle Tupelo or Son Volt, singer/songwriter Jay Farrar has created a canon of alt-country and Americana music that may be unrivaled. Brooding and intense, Farrar’s songs chronicle the darker side of human emotions and like his songs, Farrar isn’t the most upbeat guy on the block…
Rihanna has postponed tonight’s Dallas show because of illness — she did the same for last night’s Houston show. Live Nation is instructing fans to keep their tickets for an as-yet-unscheduled replacement date. Those seeking refunds should go to the point of purchase. The full announcement from the company is…
British Sea Power’s new record Machineries of Joy is out this week, and it’s everything you’d hope for from one of the most underappreciated and upbeat indie rock acts of the last few years. Marking ten years since their debut The Decline of British Sea Power, Machineries of Joy beguiles…
Besides being a stellar guitarist, Richard Thompson is a superb songwriter and one hell of a witty dude. Over the course of four decades, Thompson has evolved from an above average, British folk rocker to a legendary guitarist plying his craft across several genres. Speaking from a tour stop in…
Phil Ramone, who died Saturday following an aneurysm, produced an astonishing number of albums it’s not cool to enjoy. Wikipedia helpfully provides a category full of them. He was in on Rod Stewart’s first pop standards album; he did the Sinead O’Connor album after the one Sinead O’Connor album; he…
For anyone whose grown-up in the Metroplex, Billy Bob’s Texas is as synonymous with this region as the Dallas Cowboys, Six Flags Over Texas or Reunion Tower are. Since opening in the equally iconic Ft. Worth Stockyards in 1981, the cavernous space has been the go-to spot for Country stars…
The internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about, so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super-pissed about, having…
Since winning Best Rock Act at the 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards, The Breakfast Machine has been in the process of recording their newest album; which will be released in the next couple of months. Until then, they are releasing exclusively here on DC9 at Night a video for their…
Back in the mid ’80s, you couldn’t find a more fun experience than catching Southern Culture on the Skids. Rick Miller’s psychobilly/surf rock creation could turn even the most modest of crowds into a seething, food throwing collection of fools that seemed to feed on the music’s trailer park charm…
Denton death-synth duo Vulgar Fashion is about as enigmatic as it comes. If you’re scouring their website or Facebook profile for a crisp, straightforward shot, you’ll turn up empty-handed. The only real way to see and experience them–Julie Mckendrick and Andrew Michael, who fantastically go by the stage names Kubic…
When Soul Asylum hit it big with 1993’s “Runaway Train,” the band itself may have been as surprised as anyone. This natty little punk band from Minneapolis was now playing arenas and enjoying all the accoutrements that go along with such success. Problem was Soul Asylum were never really cut…
Rock Band is over. Well–kind of over. It’s been “over” in the people-who-wouldn’t-otherwise-touch-a-Playstation-caring-about-it sense since a few months after Beatles Rock Band came out, but now it’s “over” inasmuch as after April 2, when “American Pie” will be released (nice timing), developer Harmonix will shut down the downloadable content pipeline…
Kellychristinephoto.comWhere the weed at?This week the Golden, Texas native Kacey Musgraves finally releases her eagerly-awaited debut album, Same Trailer, Different Park. Indeed, it’s fitting that she’s from a town named Golden, as the new album is but the most recent example of some serious Solid Country Gold that’s come from…
This would have surprised me no matter who had turned it up, but there was a special irony in learning that illegal music downloads “aren’t hurting the music industry” from a beleaguered print magazine’s free-news arm: Illegal downloads aren’t hurting the music industry, new study claims | ti.me/10371Ow (via @timeculture)—…
If known only for being a member of The Buggles, keyboardist Geoff Downes would still have a place in rock history. “Video Killed The Radio Star” was the first video played on MTV way back in 1981. But Downes’ greater commercial success came as a member of Asia and Yes…
Greg Richling, bassist for The Wallflowers, was pretty happy when Jacob Dylan called him and decided to get The Wallflowers back together in 2011. It had been over six years since the band had recorded and Dylan’s solo career had brought him some of the best accolades of his career…
The Pixies’ first reunion produced one song–Kim Deal’s “Bam Thwok”–and a bunch of chances for people who were born between Surfer Rosa and Tromp le Monde to see them live for the first time, and was thus low-risk-enough to be almost universally popular. Now a possible Pixies re-reunion is on…
The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards were handed out on Thursday, March 13, and though it was happening right in Austin I’ll forgive you for not noticing. In any case I’m not sure how you can have an awards show at SXSW without handing out a prize for Least Essential Social…
