When a 16-year-old Charlie Sexton released his debut, Pictures for Pleasure, way back in 1985, most predicted that the singer-songwriter was on his way to major stardom. Tall and handsome, Sexton parlayed his early acclaim into a cameo appearance in the hit film Thelma and Louise. But, oddly, Sexton’s striking…
Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, the two DJs collectively known as Utah Saints, are the antithesis of prolific. Though the pair has scored numerous movie and television themes and remixed songs for artists as diverse as Blondie, Hawkwind and The Osmonds (!), they’ve only managed to release two albums since…
After a hiatus of three years, Dallas promotions collective Nice People last month resurrected Knowledge, its regular series of hip-hop concerts. The first go-round kept the spotlight squarely on Dallas. For this second edition, though, Nice People’s reach is extending to bring some Austin musicians to town—though there are still…
If you’ve been to a show in Denton or seen a Denton band recently, there’s a good chance you’ve also seen the work of visual artist and printmaker Nevada Hill. Hill’s intricate, hand-drawn images can be seen on record covers and posters for bands such as Record Hop, Dust Congress…
Bedford’s Chris Rivers has just released his second effort, New Meaning to Lonesome, a CD that thankfully continues the singer’s old-school devotion to hardcore honky-tonk of the Haggard/Jennings variety. Eschewing mullet and trenchcoat, Rivers makes country music the old-fashioned way: with more fiddle and less bombast. For going on two…
Denton’s Fishboy is playing a free show tonight at J&J’s Pizza. But, please, hold the anchovy jokes (although, J&J’s does have a fresh supply for tonight’s show though…we phoned to check.) Fishboy, just off a recent East Coast tour promoting the new album Albatross: How We Failed To Save The…
Looks like DC9 commenter Gaby was spot-on about the exchange between Thom Yorke and his heckler on Sunday night. Here it is: (Thanks, Gaby.) –Pete Freedman…
Note: Technical difficulties meant we never got Mount Righteous’ Dispatch yesterday. We’ll make that up now, posting the last two days of Mount Righteous updates in one post. The morning after our show in Santa Fe was spent at a music shop browsing through trombones. With the hopes that the…
Baboon strikes at the jugular. Here’s some make-your-day news: Baboon just sent out a Myspace bulletin alerting fans to the fact that it has digitized the cassette recordings of its first-ever release, 1992’s ed Lobster. And, even better, the band’s giving the raw, punk-influenced 8-track cassette-recorded album (on which Centro-matic’s…
…minus the second guy from the right. Summertime is nearly upon us and that can mean only one thing: The annual parade of rock and roll has-beens coming through our area. What’s worse is that most of these bands are missing key members, so fans are paying big bucks to…
The Tomorrowpeople of yesteryear. (Stephanie Bohn) You could tell something was different at The Double-Wide on Saturday night. The crowd was better dressed. Older, too–that’s true. Mostly, though, they were excited. You could sense the anticipation in the air on the Double-Wide’s patio. These people–The Angelus, be damned–were here to…
Club Dada’s front facade. Club Dada’s added a staff member: Ben Tapia. Tapia, who has been booking acts to the City Tavern for the past year or so (and will continue to do so), will help Dada co-owner Amanda Newman in booking local bands to Dada’s stage. Newman will continue…
If (like a few of the DC-9 writers) you weren’t lucky enough to go to the Radiohead show Sunday night, we’ve tried to help you imagine how magnificent it was with Merritt’s review and a slideshow. But we realize that reading the review really just left people dying to see…
Interested in joining in the big party this Saturday at the House of Blues for Forever The Sickest Kids’ CD release? Well, I’ve got a pair of tickets for the big show up for grabs. Shoot me an e-mail with “Forever The Sickest Kids Tix” in the subject and your…
…or so Black Tie Dynasty bassist Blake McCorquodale said at Saturday night’s Tomorrowpeople show. No slight to the Black Tie Dynasty guys, but I’m guessing, after hosting a few bigger name in-game performances already, Stars management wasn’t exactly expecting to make it this far in the series… –Pete Freedman…
Jonny Greenwood last night at Starplex. (Michael Insuaste) My checking account is empty. My ears are still ringing. My stomach and head are arguing over who’s in more pain from last night’s excesses. But if Radiohead were playing anywhere within a five-hour drive tonight, I’d seriously consider applying for a…
The radio program Texas Music Matters on KUT in Austin had The Old 97’s in studio for a performance last week and the powers that be behind the show at least partially used that gig as an excuse to talk some Dallas music. And that’s where I come in to…
St. Vincent’s got a different kind of 401k. (CLASH Magazine) …OK, not really. But Dallas-bred singer-songwriter Annie Clark does make that joke in this lengthy New York Times Magazine piece about (inset epic reverberating voice-over) “The Return of the One-Man Band!” The piece, written by John Wray for yesterday’s NYT…
We first fell in love with Mount Righteous after the band wowed us with their performance at Good Records’ eight birthday bash. Since then, we’ve taken in their debut disc, When The Music Starts, and we’ve interviewed 10 of the band’s 11 members for an upcoming story on the disc’s…
Radiohead, Liars Superpages.com Center May 18, 2008 Better Than: Name something. This was better. Download: Scope the 16 pictures our photographer Michael Insuaste snapped during the show. Thom Yorke amid the chamber of lights at Sunday’s show. (Michael Insuaste) I don’t really understand how it’s done, how such a feat…
We first fell in love with Mount Righteous after the band wowed us with their performance at Good Records’ eight birthday bash. Since then, we’ve taken in their debut disc, When The Music Starts, and we’ve interviewed 10 of the band’s 11 members for an upcoming story on the disc’s…
We first fell in love with Mount Righteous after the band wowed us with their performance at Good Records’ eight birthday bash. Since then, we’ve taken in their debut disc, When The Music Starts, and we’ve interviewed 10 of the band’s 11 members for an upcoming story on the disc’s…
