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Sweatin’ It Out With the Justice League!

This, in case you have not heard, is the "Summer of Justice." Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in between the Summer of Love, the "Summer of '69," The Summer of George and The Summer of My German Soldier, a sadly forgotten Kristy McNichol vehicle from 1978. The...
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Centro-matic, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea

There aren't too many bands that can do what Centro-matic has done in the last 12 years. Where most successful bands ramp up and then burn out, Centro-matic has steadily flown under the radar of the mainstream for the duration of its career. Will Johnson is the obvious driving force...
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Fair Park Needs a Million Bucks Worth of Work

The Park and Rec board's meeting at the Dallas Zoo today -- appropriate, since the highest-priced item on today's agenda involves the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, scheduled to reopen in September as The Children's Aquarium at Fair Park under the privately operated auspices of Dallas Zoo Management Inc. per...
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Bonus MP3: J. Paul Slavens – “Abigail”

J. Paul Slavens is about as well-known and well-respected a commodity as there is in the DFW music scene. He's been kicking around the Metroplex for nearly 25 years, playing with bands like the much-heralded Ten Hands or the more experimental Chameleon Chamber Group. But he might have become even...
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Hentai Improvising Orchestra

While it's a loaded word, the ever-evolving Fort Worth experimental combo Hentai Improvising Orchestra claims a neutral and non-pornographic meaning for the Japanese word hentai: metamorphosis or transformation. With no bandleader, refusal to practice and a revolving cast of participants improvising on a wild range of instruments (some of which...
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Mav’s First Round Pick Dominique Jones May Be The Answer, But The Team Must First Deal With Hard Questions Raised By Dirk Nowitzki’s Free Agency.

When you awoke Thursday morning, something probably felt weird. It should've, because—barring a last-minute contract agreement—for the first time since the spring of 1998 Dirk Nowitzki isn't a Dallas Maverick. After a 12-year career, the greatest player in the history of the franchise is a free agent. As of Wednesday...
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DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 13: Menkena

While we're at it, here's your YouTube link too.Jimmy Menkena knows as well as anyone how satisfying it can be to let loose screaming and just wail on the guitar onstage. By the time he moved to Dallas in 2006, he'd already done that, in a past life in a...
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Video Game Overinflated for Big Screen

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time's story hinges on a dagger that can rewind time, a narrative conceit that doubles as a taunt to those who endure this cacophonous, frivolous adaptation of Ubisoft's Arabian Nights-themed video-game series. Bruckheimered to the hilt with the same rollicking period-piece cheesiness that typified...
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Astronautalis Releases A Pay-What-You-Want Mix with DJ Fishr Pryce

Earlier this week, SMU alum Astronautalis and longtime DC9 fave DJ Fishr Pryce joined forces to release a new, pay-what-you-want mixtape called DANCEHALLFLOORSOUND!!! I'd try to explain it, but over on the mix's download site, Astronautalis describes for us what the tape is:A mixed tape (in the contemporary sense of...
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The Lost Toadies Record Finally Earns Its Release

In theory, Clark Vogeler joined the Toadies at just the right time. It was 1996 when he got his invite—only a month after the breakup of his former, locally adored band, Funland. "It was a pretty perfect situation," the guitarist says over the phone from his home in Los Angeles...