Thanks in part to the benevolent gaze of previous tourmates My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog’s status as Philadelphia’s lo-fi-loving motley crew has been rising steadily in recent years. Last month’s well-received release of We All Belong just might extract the group from the underground for good. Grander production techniques and…
“Hentai Lacerator create the type of hardcore Slimer would create if Slimer could do such a thing. It’s not thrash, it’s not grindcore and it’s not noisecore. But it’s definitely all three.” After reading this sentence on Cincinnati threesome’s Web site, we realized we couldn’t do a better job of…
I caught MC Router a while back at Club Dada for a much-hyped “nerdcore” show, which I had been anticipating with sweaty pits and baited breath, only to be disappointed. It wasn’t Router herself; it was the company she keeps. Fort Worth’s Router, who was recently profiled in the Fort…
What’s your favorite two-piece act? The White Stripes? Death From Above 1979? Donny and Marie? After this show, it might be the Portland duo Helio Sequence: singer/guitarist/harmonica player Brandon Summers and drummer/keyboardist Benjamin Weikel. On the pair’s 2004 album, Love and Distance, main man Summers revealed he’d gotten over his…
They say the Lord works in mysterious ways, and he sure chose an interesting prophet in Billy Joe Shaver, who once famously sang he grew up “pickin’ cotton, raisin’ hell and balin’ hay.” Shaver’s religious philosophy can perhaps best be summed up in the lyric “If you don’t love Jesus,…
Thanks to the Diplo-inspired popularity of “favela booty beats” among U.S. audiences, there’s a certain expectation of unhinged rhythmic fire and verbal violence when it comes to Brazilian hip-hop, especially the type emerging from the slums of Rio de Janeiro. This multifaceted compilation from the upstart, “socially conscious” Verge label…
So I’m drifting around Half Price Books last night because I like to, you know, read books, and flipping through the music writing section (Dude—how many books can there be about punk? I mean, we get it!), when I happily stumble upon a copy of George Gimarc’s Post Punk Diary,…
Boy/Girl 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. Good Records (1808 Greenville Ave.). Free. L.A.’s aptly named duo Boy/Girl hate comparisons to the White Stripes, and it’s understandable why: Aside from the gender breakdown of the band, the similarities are few. Sure, the girl (Lisa Cusack) plays drums while the boy (Eric…
We were happy to see Pitchfork give the Polyphonic Spree a shout-out today, noting the Dallas band’s new single, a remix of “We Crawl,” off Tim D, et al’s latest disc The Fragile Army. — Jonanna Widner…
Dallas-based Deaf Pedestrians were played on prime time Tuesday night. The band’s song “Hail to the Geek” was featured in the new episode of the CW’s “Beauty and the Geek” (yeah that show with hot, but dumb women and socially awkward men). We’re happy for the Pedestrians. We’re scanning YouTube…
Fort Worth’s smartest, most animated, most illin’-est* hip-hop crew P.P.T. just sent out the video to its latest single, “Down South Girl,” from the group’s Idol Records release Tres Monos in Love. Waco hip-hop band Strange Fruit Project lent a huge hand to P.P.T. by producing the video and appearing…
Our much-loved locally-owned venue the Granada Theater just gave us even more reason to want to kiss owner Mike Schoder’s hemp shoes. The following is a MySpace bulletin sent via the Granada’s new MySpace page: How much do your friends care about you? Do you really know who your friends…
We weren’t able to take our cameras into Saturday night’s Timbaland show. Luckily, YouTube poster williamlanier uploaded footage of the better part of the show. Enjoy. — Chelsea Ide…
Strutting for the troops. (Travis Awalt)When Dallas band ChalkLign e-mailed us about the Operation Rock the Troops fashion show, we couldn’t resist. What can we say? We love benefit shows and fashion. Our photographer Travis Awalt hit up the Saturday night, Oct. 13, event at Firewater. He made sure to…
Scion hosted Timbaland in a free concert last night at the Palladium Ballroom, and the people came out in force. The floor was increasingly crowded throughout the night (although the place is so big, the back area was still an easy walk through). A surprising spectrum of people showed up…
As far as music goes this weekend, there are more sure things than you’d find backstage at a Kid Rock show. Let’s take a look at some of the best bets for the next few days: The Vibrators w/The Heart Attacks, Dead City Shakers and Last of the Interceptors Club…
Sigh. We here at DC-9 would feel remiss if we didn’t post the just-breaking info about Kelly Clarkson’s new tour. And, rather than try to slather a thick layer of sarcasm on what really is already a parody, we figured we just be straight about it. So, Clarkson, according to…
Radiohead In Rainbows (Self-distributed) Conventional in every sense, save for how it was released: over the Internet, pay what you will, gratuities graciously accepted. It’s been a week since Radiohead’s smash-and-grab sale, and aside from wrecking the music biz with a disco ball and gold chain, all’s right with the…
Wow. I just stumbled upon a video of Dallas underground — way underground — MC Jimbo Jenkens flexing his crazy free-style skills. Aside from the rap itself, my favorite part is the occasional flash of the rake on the garage wall. According to his MySpace page, Jenkens is a poet,…
The Bat Mastersons’ Byron Lord and David DiPietro are welcoming guitarist Darrin Robinson (The Mumbles) into the group. The trio is rehearsing new tunes and, we’re told, will start playing shows in the Dallas area in the next few months. The Bat’s format isn’t going to be changing, though. The…
Rhino Records, that label I love to hate because they keep reaping the benefits of nostalgia by releasing expensive, retrospective box sets of, like, every genre you could think of, has released the self-explanatory Heavy Metal Box. I haven’t heard it, and probably won’t, but over at PopMatters.com Adrien Begrand…
Because we made you wait all the way until Thursday for a steal of the week, we figured we better double-up. So, here are the two best shows of the week for those who only order from the dollar menu. Lions, Record Hop, Tah-Dahs Double Wide (3510 Commerce St.). 9…
