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Things can get a little fuzzy sometimes when you're the Phuss
Even if the Phuss "Don't Feel Good," they really ought to. You see, they've had to deal with some real emotional whiplash over the past few months. Early in the summer came the exciting...
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Ronnie Fauss' new track, "Eighteen Wheels," features the Old 97's Rhett Miller
It's now been a couple of years since Dallas-based folk-rocker Ronnie Fauss delivered his debut full-length record for New West imprint Normaltown Records, 2012's I Am ...
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The members of Party Static, looking as normal as can be
Party Static light up a room. With their five members carousing on stage and their scuzzy, nonsensical music, they're a band who truly lives up to their name. There's the locked-in, simple ...
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Granada Theater's iconic marquee has lit up with concert dates for a decade now
This month, the Granada Theater is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a music venue. It was then that Michael Schoder bought the then-movie theater and transformed i...
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The Single Wide's narrow confines have taken on a vibrant new life these past three years
When iconic dive bar and live music venue Double Wide opened its doors at the convergence of Fair Park and Deep Ellum over a decade ago, the model trailer ho...
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Centro-Matic playing the Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase in 2011.
Yesterday afternoon social media started to fill with laments when word trickled out that one of North Texas' most lauded and best loved artists, Centro-matic, would be callin...
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Lance Price is preparing to say goodbye to his beloved record store, CD Source
It was 10:20 on Friday night when I found out. I had just left the Meyerson when I looked at the clock: 10:00. "Just enough time." The new Aphex Twin album had just d...
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The crowds showed up for Oaktopia in Denton over the weekend
Oaktopia Festival
With Neon Indian, Immortal Technique and more
Denton
Friday, September 19 and Saturday, September 20, 2014
For a line-up that didn't really move the needle much, Oa...
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Tycho
With Christopher Willits, 7 p.m. Monday, September 22, at Granada Theater, 524 Greenville Ave., 214-824-9933 or granadatheater.com, $24
Tycho makes the type of music you might hear in a Zach Braff movie. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl twirls her ha...
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Call us naive, but we doubt these kids are listening to jazz music
You probably love Spotify, lest you're an old-school rock dude, like Thom Yorke, or believe the Internet is evil (well, it kind of is). The ease and wide-ranging catalog is the eq...
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Listen, bro, there's no reason to flip us off. Just enjoy Lights All Night, OK?
And now we have the whole picture. Lights All Night Fest has been slowly rolling out the details of its fifth-annual, year-end dance music bash to be held at Dallas Co...
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Well, it's the weekend once again. We here at DC9 hope you powered through the week and that you're looking for some relief. We want you to go to some bars and have a few drinks. We want you to pregame beforehand. (That's just being fiscally responsi...
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Participants from last year's scavenger hunt get down to some serious business
Want to contribute to a good cause while also getting a sweet hookup on some concert tickets? Sure you do. For the third year running, the folks at Fun Fun Fun Fest are...
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If you build it, will they come? Denton music fans attending Oaktopia in 2013
In the fall of 2011, I got a gig as an in-house scribe for 35 Denton. It wasn't paid, save for a complimentary wristband to the four-day festival (which is damn near a ...
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Folk singers are storytellers. The best ones are able to take the most simplistic subject matter and make it ache with beauty. The great ones can also take life's greatest complexities and unanswerable questions and present us with a new, relatable v...
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Frank Edwards has owned July Alley for nearly a decade
Frank Edwards is a busy man these days. Earlier this month, for the second time this summer, rumors began to circulate that his bar, July Alley in Deep Ellum, was set to close. The reported ...
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Vaden Todd Lewis and the Toadies played downtown Dallas last Thursday
"Hello, we're the Toadies." So says Vaden Todd Lewis in one of his few between-songs remarks in the latest installment of Globe Trek Productions' Busking series. Appropriately, ...
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Oaktopia is set to grow exponentially this year compared to 2013 -- and could be even bigger in 2015
Last year, when Dentonites Matt Battaglia and Corey Claytor set out to bring local bands together for an Oak Street music fest, there was no one w...
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Since mid-spring, Chicago and Dallas resident DJ Boxx and his partner Jasmine Holt have been hosting Deep Inside, a monthly residency at Crown & Harp of the deepest, funkiest and most authentic house residencies in the city. More than just an admirer...
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Danny Diamonds in thoughtful repose (when not visiting a cabaret)
I'm standing in Danny Rush's house in Denton sipping a beer, occasionally taking a swig from a bottle of Old Granddad and admiring a collection of country music star paintings he co...
