Cheapwads unite! Rent’s due soon and Mavs tickets cost money, so it’s time to skimp other places. What follows are suggestions for keeping your music expenses down and your endorphins up. Wolff 6 p.m., Monday, October 29. Good Records, 1808 Greenville Ave. Free Well, shit, since rock is taking a…
In a perfect world, incredible bands with outstanding live shows and ceaseless work ethic become superstars of their own merit. Black Tie Dynasty is creating this world, one day at a time. In the cloistral confines of a black couch in a hallway at Arlington’s Universal Rehearsal, we dig deeper…
It’s a common issue. You want to go to a show but you gotta eat first. For some it’s an energy issue and for others it’s all about the drink base. Whatever the reason, you’re sure as hell not going to pack a sandwich (not that it’s uncool or anything,…
Whilst doing a little MP3 blog trolling over the weekend, we stumbled across a pleasant surprise: The night after DC-9 Park fave St. Vincent joined the likes of Peter and the Wolf, Doug Burr, Tame…Tame and Quiet and other notables at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, music blog…
Local rap group P.P.T. is in the running for a trio of 2008 Grammy nominations and now the members are just waiting for the final tally of votes to hear if they move on to the next round. So, are the nominated or not? It’s little bit confusing. That’s because…
Hey, quick scoop for ya’ll: The following is an exclusive press release from Dada/Bocatinta mistress Amanda Newman: “The Happy Bullets have new bandmates and a new music video. Joshua Warr (J.D. Whittenburg) is now on bass and James Porter (The Tah Dahs) is the new drummer. They’ll be making their…
Poet Michael McConnell becomes Draknastula at Dan’s Silverleaf. (Melanie Gomez)If you’re a little hungover, suffering from the early flu bug (damn near everyone in our office has dealt with it already) or just bummed to be sitting at your desk, DC-9 is happy to help you relive the weekend. Pre-Halloween…
Despite having an intermission during his SMU performance, we still love Ryan Adams. (Matthew Blake) We walked into the Ryan Adams concert at McFarlin Auditorium an hour late last night. It was like walking in on the middle of a film people were having trouble following, and two clumsy girls…
In preparation for the Boys Like Girls and Forever The Sickest Kids show tomorrow night at The Rockyards in Fort Worth, we came across this video from the tour. Watch Jonathan from FTSK perform “Heels Over Head” with Boys Like Girls. We’d put money (not much, we’re music writers) that…
The Rocket Summer just got word its video for “So Much Love” is going to premiere on MTV’s TRL next Wednesday, Oct. 24. The video is only slated to show once, but then fans can bring it back. In a MySpace post the band (a.k.a. Bryce Avary) posted its excitement:…
Best bets, bitches! Modern Til Midnight with St. Vincent, Peter & the Wolf, Sleeping States, Doug Burr, Tame…Tame and Quiet and Mom 6 p.m. tonight, Oct. 19. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St.). $15. Hmm…need we tell you about St. Vincent, our native daughter who is currently…
Fort Worth’s Oh, Sleeper is ready to release its Solid State debut When I Am God all weekend. CD release parties are scheduled tonight in Fort Worth (at The Door), Saturday in Wichita Falls and Sunday in Waco. We’re hitting up tonight’s show. To get in the mood for the…
Guess proves in his latest video, “Bounce 4 Me,” that all that is needed for an indie rap video is dancing chicks, pimped-out rides and a bunch of available friends. The video, also featuring Young Bleed, is the latest by Dallas-based label FhatCity Records. What could have been another throwaway…
The members of Boys Like Girls live at home in the suburbs with their parents and write vague, emotionally charged songs sugarcoated with precision pop hooks. Add Martin Johnson’s wavering, pained voice, a requisite ambiguous name, and producer Matt Squire (Panic! At the Disco), and the band fits emo to,…
The Sulphur Springs/Denton-based quintet Fair to Midland holds the platypus-rare distinction of sounding like pretty much no one else in rock music today. Consider a track such as the newly released single, “Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes,” from the band’s debut album, Fables From a Mayfly, released this past…
It’s a damn good thing the Deathray Davies rock the way they do; otherwise, they would be eclipsed by their own side project, and we’d have to say the phrase “Sparklepussy Barbie” all the time. As in, “Hey, didja see Sparklepussy Barbie last night?” and, “Bye, Mom! I’m off to…
As a Croatian-American electro-funk DJ with a powerful thirst for liquor and trouble, I knew I’d like Gogol Bordello from the moment I heard about the group. The act’s pulsing Mediterranean sound and sljivovica-drenched stage presence have found eager listeners from around the globe. Gogol centers around frontman Eugene Hütz,…
I wasn’t planning on writing anything on Annie Lennox’s concert that took place last Sunday at McFarland Auditorium. I figured I’d just keep it my dirty little secret; something known only to me and the gay guy who went with me. I dunno—even though for the most part I find…
Earlimart makes the kind of music that keeps you company when you’re feeling the most alone. That doesn’t mean the group’s latest LP, Mentor Tormentor, sounds lonely. Rather, it makes you feel better in the by-yourself times. It does such a good job, however, you want everyone you know to…
The music on 2006’s Everything All the Time, Band of Horses’ breakthrough CD, could serve as the soundtrack for the originality versus inspiration debate. There was nothing novel about the disc, with most ditties overtly recalling assorted expressionistic, guitar-driven predecessors. Yet the tunes were so passionately performed that they frequently…
More than two decades into the Melvins’ career—Kurt Cobain, a close friend of drummer Dale Crover, acted as sometime roadie and even once tried out for the bass slot—one looming question still abounds about the Seattle group: What are they? Punk? Grunge? Alternative? Metal? Avant-garde? Or some unholy, sludgy mishmash…
The track “Halloween” on Matt Pond PA’s last album, Several Arrows Later, could have been the apt pinnacle for this band that has often been called “autumnal.” In the anthem-like refrain, Pond laments, “Pardon the intrusion. Could we leave before it gets bad? I might smash up all the windows…
