We here at DC9 have heard the joke about how the arts and culture center of Dallas is called Fort Worth. It’s a good one!But, much as we love Dallas, we’ve gotta admit: There’s an almost preternatural amount of good music coming out of Cowtown these days. Bands like Calhoun,…
Walking through the mall in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, Andrew Wetzel of the metal band Attack Attack! sounds a bit winded over the phone as he makes his way to a semi-quiet place to talk. After composing himself, though, the drummer was more than happy to discuss with us…
More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Haigis,…
Four days after 19-year-old Argyle native Andrew Graf died after attending Electric Daisy Festival at Fair Park, another family is stepping forward to share the story of 22-year-old Jesse Morales, who they say died due to similar circumstances in the wake of 2010’s inaugural event. Family members say Morales, a…
Yesterday, city officials announced that they had slapped Electric Daisy Carnival organizers Insomniac Events with seven citations for their event in Fair Park on Saturday night — two for overcrowding, two more for failure to obtain a count of occupants, and three for obstruction of justice.Today, after having released a…
In August, the Granada Theater, which has for four years in a row now earned the title of Best Live Music Venue in our annual, reader-voted Dallas Observer Music Awards, will celebrate its seventh year under the watch of owner Mike Schoder. And, considering that the people who run venues…
After the City of Irving’s drawn out and expensive mayoral election, the results are in, showing Beth Van Duyne the victor with 57 percent of the vote.Van Duyne ousted the incumbent Herbert Gears, whose largest talking point was the proposed Irving Entertainment Center, which will include 11 restaurants and a…
The numbers are in: Ticket sales place the number of people at Fair Park for the Electric Daisy Carnival on Saturday night at somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000. At 11 p.m., the last headcount taken estimated that some 21,000 had already passed through the gates.These numbers fall pretty much in…
By 1 a.m. this morning, at least one attendee at Saturday night’s Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park had been declared dead. At least another two dozen had been hospitalized.After a first year in Dallas that had been deemed a “phenomenal event” by city officials, the second Dallas installment of…
A Soulquarians reunion? Almost! Tomorrow night, after an affair last night that saw NBA champion/Mavericks guard JJ Barea and even Miss Universe stopping on by Rio Room for DJ Klever’s set (Mavs Championship Party Tour 2011 is the best!), the posh Uptown spot will host another pretty massive deal.Tomorrow night…
It was just a month ago when we started down a trail that lead to Preteen Zenith, Tim DeLaughter’s new act. The item that perked our ears up? Well, it was the announcement of a free Polyphonic Spree show that will take place tonight as Late Nights at the Dallas…
Sons of Hermann Hall is old. Really old. One hundred years old, to be exact. In a city famous for disposable architecture, Sons stands as one of the last reminders of a bygone era. It’s the last remaining wood structure in downtown Dallas, too. Attending a show there is like…
So pumped for the Electric Daisy Carnival this weekend, you guys. Already got my outfit picked out and everything. Fur boots? Check. Glowsticks marinating in the freezer? Of course. I’m no amateur.I mean, c’mon. Diplo? Paul Van Dyk? Skrillex? All in Fair Park of all places? And the City’s cool…
The proposed Irving Entertainment Center has been in a state of limbo for some time now, but a new chapter of the story will begin after this Saturday, when Irving voters return to the polls for a runoff vote.As currently planned, the Irving Entertainment Center will house 11 restaurants, a…
Speaking of takes on other artists’ songs, it seems as if there’s been a recent uptick in remixes around town lately. The best kinds of remixes, too — the local-on-local variety. And, this week in particular, we’ve come across two pretty killer examples of such.Hit the jump for the details…
Can you smell it? That intoxicating blend of corporate America, young Hollywood and mall food courts wafting around town today — that’s from one Selena Gomez, who is indeed back home in Dallas today, promoting the two fairly major projects on her immediate horizon, her FOX studio film called Monte…
After a year and a half spent working as talent buyer for the Gilley’s Complex on South Lamar, focusing on South Side Music Hall, The Loft and the Jack Daniel’s Saloon, Kris Youmans has announced today the formation of his own, independent talent buying agency. In addition to shows at…
Speaking of awesome free parties, we here at DC9 have one of our own for you to indulge in this week, too. On Thursday night, our monthly Locals Only! series returns to the Jack Daniel’s Saloon at Gilley’s on South Lamar Street. And our guests this week are two of…
Well, we’ve known for a while now that the 2011 Vans Warped Tour will be kicking off right here in Dallas at the end of the month — on Friday, June 24, to be exact — at Gexa Energy Pavilion and its surrounding parking lots.We’ve known, too, that, the day…
It hasn’t been very long since The Boiler Room in Deep Ellum closed down, but we’ve just received word that it is being reopened by someone with quite a bit of history with Deep Ellum. Drowning Pool bassist Stevie Benton and a few other investors have just purchased the place,…
With Coachella and Bonnaroo now past us, it’s safe to say that we’re officially smack dab in the middle of summer music festival season. Unfortunately, this being Texas and all, and that meaning that it can get pretty warm around these parts, the well is rather dry as outdoor festivals…
For two years now, Juan and Oscar Salinas, the Dallas-based production duo known as Play-N-Skillz, have publicly and repeatedly claimed that they had never received payment for their work on the 2009 Grammy-winning T-Pain and Lil Wayne collaboration, “Got Money,” from Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III release. Yesterday, they took…
