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DC9 At Night: Previews
10/10/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
Another weekend is upon us in Dallas, which means more shows to partake in to take your mind off of the utter terror that is Ebola, but mostly because you love music. Ringo Starr, who used...
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DC9 At Night: News
10/10/2014 By Jeff Gage
You may not know the the name Transmission Events, but you sure know the work that they do. Based in Austin, Transmission are the folks behind Fun Fun Fun Fest, the music festival held each...
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DC9 At Night: Best Of
10/09/2014 By DC9 At Night
Punk venues are a little like snowflakes: Each one is different and they're all uniquely special. Well, okay, maybe that comparison will be lost in this part of the country, but the point...
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DC9 At Night: Dallas Observer Music Awards
10/01/2014 By Jeff Gage
Hold onto your butts, Dallas; it's that time of year again. Dallas Observer Music Awards time.
DOMA time has moved back to its latest time of year ever, but we couldn't be more excited...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
09/30/2014 By Amy McCarthy
At the age of 14, most of us were just sitting around and picking our noses while watching Boy Meets World and listening to our N*SYNC albums. Adolescence is usually when most of us do our...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/25/2014 By Jeremy Hallock
Hercules and Love Affair
With Nick Monaco and DJ Red Eye
Club Dada, Dallas
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Hercules & Love Affair, the product of Andy Butler and his ever-changing group of...
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DC9 At Night: Columns
09/05/2014 By Jaime-Paul Falcon
It seems like we've been here before: On Saturday afternoon, Club Dada will be taken over by 13th Floor Music for a "music fest" that includes 15 local bands. As you may recall, a very...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
08/29/2014 By Paige Skinner
It's the Friday before a three-day weekend! We apologize for the exclamation mark, but our excitement is something we're not capable of hiding at this point. Mondays suck, so getting to skip...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
08/29/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
King Camel celebrates its one year anniversary this Saturday at Club Dada. With the anniversary show's stellar lineup, you would that think prior to becoming a promoter, King Camel's Jeff...
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DC9 At Night: Show Announcement
08/12/2014 By Jeff Gage
In the scheme of local music promoters, Ken Welker's 13th Floor Music is a relative upstart. The company itself, based in North Dallas, is barely a year old, and Welker himself has only...
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DC9 At Night: Local Music
08/08/2014 By Jeff Gage
For anyone familiar with the fate of beloved Dallas rock band Spector 45, there are few things that could make the story any more tragic than it already is. Within a few weeks of each other,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/24/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
JEFF the Brotherhood
With Sealion and Not in the Face
Club Dada, Dallas
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The headliner gets the smoke machine. JEFF The Brotherhood is the headliner, therefore, they...
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DC9 At Night: DC9 at Night
07/22/2014 By Matt Wood
Jake Orrall sounds tired. Granted he has a right to be. Jake and Jamin Orrall, better known as fuzzy two-piece JEFF the Brotherhood, have put out seven albums over 13 years, with yet another...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/14/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
Polyphonic Spree
With Sam Lao and Quaker City Nighthawks
Club Dada, Dallas
Saturday, July 12, 2014
A white curtain shrouds the band in anticipation. Ribbons hang around the stage's...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/10/2014 By Matt Wood
To say Tim Delaughter, lead singer of the Polyphonic Spree, has had an enriched music career would be a gross understatement. He's been in two huge Dallas-based bands, recorded more than...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/30/2014 By Eric Grubbs
Deafheaven
With Wreck & Reference and Pallbearer
Club Dada
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Having Deafheaven play the patio at Club Dada seemed like a good idea. It was a breezy, cool (for June)...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/12/2014 By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Black Flag
Elm St. Music and Tattoo Festival, Night 1
Club Dada
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
I do not like punk rock. I do not like what it was, I do not like what it stood for, and I do not...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/04/2014 By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Parquet Courts
With Swearin' and Radioactivity
Club Dada, Dallas
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
About midway through Parquet Courts' blistering set at Club Dada last night a trio of youthful looking...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
05/09/2014 By Darryl Smyers
For over 25 years, Eddie Spaghetti and The Supersuckers have been playing a raw brand of hillbilly soaked rock and roll in just about any venue that would care to book them. Over the...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
12/16/2013 By Darryl Smyers
Any way you look at it, it's been a banner year for local punk/metal band Power Trip. After four years of garnering a solid following, the band got signed to a national label, recorded a...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/21/2013 By Darryl Smyers
Missouri's Ha Ha Tonka is another one of those quality alt-country bands that always seems to grow away from the genre. Led by the talented Brian Roberts, Ha Ha Tonka have evolved into an...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/06/2013 By Darryl Smyers
Incredibly, Japan's Melt-Banana has been making a hell of a noise since 1992. The band's experimental take on punk rock is made even more bizarre by the vocal antics of Yasuko Onuki....
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/17/2013 By Darryl Smyers
In 1997, Nick Urata and his band DeVotchKa began playing background music for local burlesque dancers in Denver. Soon the band's unique combination of Eastern European folk music and indie...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
09/12/2013 By Darryl Smyers
In just two short years, Australia's Gold Fields have gone from a relatively obscure new-wave influenced dance pop band to the precipice of something much bigger. When the band's full length...
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Calendar: Highlights
Hemming together Dallas’ radical fringe is a Deep Ellum legacy. It takes balls for a community to create and perform on its own terms, just a DART stop away from the meticulously...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/28/2013 By Jaime-Paul Falcon
The last time I saw Ty Segall I was lifting him into a crowd of people so he could surf along to the sounds of the Jesus and Mary Chain, he had a grin on his face and a air of "fuck it,...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
01/23/2013 By Eric Grubbs
The Atomic Tanlines received plenty of praise last year with their blend of punk, free jazz and soul. The Denton-based five-piece sat down with us at the Waffle House where they started to...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
05/11/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Back in the '90s, Canada's Memoryhouse were one of those bands you would never expect to release an album on Sub Pop. But over the past decade, the Seattle-based label has diversified so...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
04/11/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Moving from Tennessee to London proved fairly easy for Nathan Nicholson of The Boxer Rebellion. After losing his mother in 2000, he hightailed it across the pond and quickly formed a...
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Music: Show Preview
And here's another local fest celebrating its fifth year. Parade of Flesh's 12-hour Bro Fest serves as a come-down for those returning from SXSW, and you will no doubt see many folks...
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Music: Show Preview
This Welsh septet arrived four years ago on the coattails of similarly energetic U.K. bands (Bloc Party, The Go! Team), blending clamor with sweetness. "You! Me! Dancing!," off their 2008...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
01/31/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Matt Pryor's main gig is fronting The Get Up Kids, but every year or so, he decides to go the sensitive singer/songwriter route and bring a few friends along, including Bayside's Anthony...
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Music: Columns
As leader of The Hold Steady, Craig Finn has never been at a loss to find ways to pepper his musical odes to youthful indiscretions and offbeat characters with a dose of lyrical holy water....
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Music: Show Preview
Christmastime's a real mindfuck, ain't it? Songs get stuck in your head whether you like it or not (currently playing: Wham's "Last Christmas"), you're forced to drink eggnog and eat...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
11/18/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
Real Estate, Big Troubles, Lonesome GhostDadaNovember 17Better than: Hanging out with Moz and them.?In some strange turn of events, mellow new jersey buzz band Real Estate have become a...
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Music: Show Preview
Psychedelia has roared back into the lexicon of the musical masses in the last couple of years. Whether it's the stoner sounds of The Black Angels or Tame Impala, the more pop and...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
10/24/2011 By Laura Mann
45 FestDadaOctober 21, 2011Better than: lots of Deep Ellum shows during Frankie and Adam's formative years. Deep Ellum is picking back up. Although it may never be what it once was, it's...
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The Mixmaster: The Master List
10/21/2011 By Elizabeth Bair
It seems like only yesterday we were gearing up for corny dogs and carnival rides, but now it's time to bid farewell to Big Tex and the State Fair of Texas. If you haven't made the trip to...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
10/21/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
It's been nearly a year since the devastating news of Frankie Campagna's suicide rattled the Dallas music community. Only three months later, when the wound was still fresh, Campagna's...
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Calendar: Highlights
Many of our most brilliant artists and musicians are also among our most damaged; the very passions that inspire their works can also lead to deep depression, addiction or suicide. But not...
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The Mixmaster: Street Style
10/17/2011 By Catherine Downes
"I just learned how to tie a bow tie in the last year, so I've started collecting bow ties."
Name: Angelo Gonzales
Occupation: Front man in Gallerycat
Location: Dada
Style breakdown:...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
10/14/2011 By Pete Freedman
Dawes, Blitzen TrapperDadaOctober 13, 2011Better than: another Dawes show. Oh wait!? So: Another Dawes show. "We've been looking forward to this one for a while," Dawes frontman Taylor...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/11/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kevin Devine is such an avid fan of the New York Mets that he named his first band Miracle of 86 in honor of that baseball club's surprising victory overthe...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
10/10/2011 By Pete Freedman
Toro y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bass Drum of DeathDadaOctober 7, 2011Better than: heading out to any of the Red River Rivalry-related events taking place around town this weekend.?Well...
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Music: Columns
It's only taken the internet a decade or so to almost singlehandedly cripple the record industry: The rise of Napster in 1999 brought about a surge in peer-to-peer file sharing, and with it...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/04/2011 By Darryl Smyers
BRAIDS' members are young -- all four members are in their (very) early 20s -- but the Canadian band is already earning quite a bit of critical buzz for their cool and collected, and...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/29/2011 By Doug Davis
Gang Gang Dance, Venus X and Shane
Dada
September 28, 2011
Better than: not paying attention and missing something clever.?
Sly is the word that best sums up last night's show at Dada, which...
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Music: Columns
Lizzie Bougatsos, singer and percussionist for genre-defying New York-based band Gang Gang Dance, is an artsy girl with lots of high-profile New York scenester friends. So maybe it should...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/15/2011 By Pete Freedman
Smith Westerns, SundressDadaSeptember 14, 2011Better than: High School Musical.?There are times when the five members of Chicago's Smith Westerns very much look their age -- like, just two...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
09/13/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Best known as the leader of the psychobilly outfit Tiger Army, Nick 13 took a bold step by releasing a solo album of traditional, old-school country back in June. No longer content to...
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Music: Show Preview
They're pegged as glam-rock at times — perhaps because of the prominent use of organ or the way the melody of "All Die Young" seems to echo "All the Young Dudes" — but,...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
08/29/2011 By Doug Davis
Handsome FursClub DadaAugust 27, 2011
Better than: getting all hot and bothered for nothing!?
The Handsome Furs are hot. Hotter even than the 100-plus degree evening air in Deep Ellum.They...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/26/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Burning Hotels, Air Review, HoyotohoDada
August 25, 2011
Better than: trying to replicate something from that Man vs. Food marathon.
You'd think a show that almost ran until 12:30 on a...
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Music: Show Preview
Formed in 2006, the Handsome Furs have released three albums, each one a bit more seedy that the last. The recently issued Sound Kapital is by far the darkest and most depraved of the band's...
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Music: Columns
Soft-spoken to a fault, Jimmy Tamborello comes across like some kind of computer nerd who's checking out porn, afraid of waking his parents.
A shy, friendly kind of guy, Tamborello makes...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
08/18/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
A year ago, nine days before he was to turn 31, Dallas musician Ace McNeely tragically passed away after falling off a cliff following a performance in Austin.McNeely's death hit the Dallas...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/15/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Big Business, Torche, Thrones
Club Dada
August 12, 2011
Better than: 10 million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey
Big Business was the third and final band to take the stage at...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
08/10/2011 By Darryl Smyers
He's just 30 years old, but alt-country singer-songwriter Javi Garcia has the world weary soul and voice of someone in their 50s. As such, even though the New Braunfels native has only been...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
08/09/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Welcome to My First Show,
where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever
attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.Torche is not a band out...
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Music: Show Preview
There's a sweetness and innocence to Avi Buffalo that's as indebted to leader Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg's tender age as it is the lilting indie pop he makes.
The 20-year-old Long Beach,...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
08/02/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.Chance Morgan and Matt...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/28/2011 By Jesse Hughey
Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains
Dada Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Better than: the Rangers' performance that night, by a moonshot.Moonface is essentially Spencer Krug's solo project,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/27/2011 By Pete Freedman
Jessica Lea Mayfield, Ferraby Lionheart and The Naptime ShakeDadaJuly 26, 2011Better than: the movie Lionheart.?Jessica Lea Mayfield's career has something a storybook feel to it, given that...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/25/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Jessica Lea Mayfield is only 21 years old, but her songs feel like they've been around much longer than that. Dark and heartbreaking, Mayfield's songs have a weight missing from many...
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Music: Show Preview
Jessica Lea Mayfield was 19 when she released her 2008 full-length debut, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt. The album expanded upon the dark, claustrophobic emotions of 2005's White Lies EP,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/24/2011 By Jason Manriquez
The Rosebuds, Other Lives
Dada
June 23, 2011
Better than: a fried onion at an Aussie-themed steak house.?The Rosebuds have what every other band worth its salt wants: Charisma. Sheer, raw...
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Music: Columns
If there's one thing that Twitter has very clearly accomplished since its 2006 creation, it's that the social networking site has created a growing number of people very comfortable with...
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Music: Columns
Just last month, former Rilo Kiley guitarist and co-songwriter Blake Sennett released his third album with the band The Elected. Called Bury Me In My Rings, it's the band's first release...
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Music: Show Preview
The Bosun's Locker in London might become a pilgrimage-worthy mecca for fans of some of today's rising indie-icons. While the acoustic-intensive and tearfully sensitive Mumford & Sons have...
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Music: Show Preview
Times New Viking is another recent example of a band that's realized that it can be pretty fun to fully utilize the expensive studio amenities that its record label is providing.
Following...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
05/31/2011 By Cory Graves
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.DadaMay 27, 2011Better than: making a left turn, and then a left turn, and then a left turn...?It speaks to the power of the Internet/new music business model when a...
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The Mixmaster: Street Style
05/27/2011 By Catherine Downes
Holly Dodson, 23. Singer in Parallels. Dada in Deep Ellum.
"I'm wearing a cape from Etsy. I love vintage. I totally wish I had my mom's wardrobe from the '70s."
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Music: Columns
You can draw a couple of conclusions upon hearing the band name Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Firstly, that they are probably punk rockers, as punk bands like Abe Vigoda, Burgess Meredith, Ronald...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
05/25/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo CanlasDadaMay 24, 2011Better Than: Sitting in a bathtub at home with a dog and a baby both trying to eat each other.?First, there was a crash, followed by a...
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Music: Columns
Luke Temple sounds like he's in the middle of an afternoon party—as he talks over the phone, his sentences are cut off with background laughter and shouts of glee.
In reality, he's...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
05/04/2011 By Chelsea Upton
Tobacco, Beans
May 2, 2011
Club Dada
Better than: any joke I can make about getting cancer.
To say that Tobacco, who also performs as the frontman for electronic group Black Moth Super...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
05/02/2011 By Doug Davis
Joan As Policewoman, The New Mary Jane, Jessie FryeClub DadaApril 29, 2011Better than: superstars seen from great distance, and police from up close.?Sometimes, expectations get exceeded....
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Music: Columns
Joan Wasser is a multi-instrumentalist who has contributed to the songbooks of some of the more singular artists of the past decade. Among those who have tapped Wasser for her virtuosic work...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/21/2011 By Chelsea Upton
Titus Andronicus, Soviet, Fight AmpClub DadaApril 20, 2011Better than: missing any of the number of shows that were going on last night.The name Titus Andronicus, taken from a Shakespearean...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
03/22/2011 By Nick Rallo
And then there was BRO FEST.For those who had SXSW hangovers that were too sharp, or got stuck in the biblical nightmare that was traffic on I-35 (where are you Third Man Records truck?),...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
03/21/2011 By Daniel Rodrigue
Toro y Moi, Cloud Nothings, IshiClub DadaMarch 19, 2011Better than: rushing halfway across downtown Austin to cram into an at-capacity venue, club or the ever-popular Fader Fort for a rushed...
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Music: Feature
Every year around March, the spillover effect from Austin's South By Southwest music festival sends hundreds of underground bands through North Texas. Which is good news for those whose...
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Music: Show Preview
So-called supergroups are often less than super. But the reality is there's nothing wrong with an intriguing collection of stars joining forces to be a "really good-group."
Middle Brother,...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
03/16/2011 By Daniel Rodrigue
Chaz Bundick's chill. But he's not that chill. Or so the 24-year-old from Columbia, South Carolina, and the man behind the Toro y Moi moniker is hoping to prove with his latest "organic"...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
02/25/2011 By Pete Freedman
Lucero, Robert Ellis & The Boys and Somebody's DarlingClub DadaFebruary 24, 2011Better than: recent shows at Club Dada, at least sonically.?Some 90 minutes into their Thursday night set...
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Music: Columns
Thirteen years ago, Lucero were just four drunk punks with a Southern-rock edge who hailed from Memphis, Tennessee.
In 2010, Lucero, well, still comprise four drunk punks with a rock 'n'...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
02/11/2011 By Pete Freedman
It appears as if Parade of Flesh's John Iskander has finished the lineup for his annual, formerly called South by South Flesh, post-SXSW bash, Bro Fest. Indeed: After starting to leak...
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Music: Feature
It's only natural to envy those who seem to excel at anything they attempt. Whether it's in work, in sports, an ollie axel stall 270 flip out, whatever—these people win at life with...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
01/20/2011 By Pete Freedman
A little over a week ago now, we passed along the early-announced list of performers scheduled to play the 2011 version of Parade of Flesh's now-annual post-South by Southwest bash, Bro...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/17/2011 By Daniel Rodrigue
Datahowler, Gallery Cat, Damaged Good$, Hoyotoho
Club Dada
January 15, 2011
Better than: staying home to "avoid all the crazies on the road" while your friends have a ball celebrating the...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
01/11/2011 By Pete Freedman
Speaking of festivals that aim to squeeze a little North Texas shine out of SXSW's excess, Parade of Flesh has announced today another round of acts booked to play his annual post-SXSW bash,...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
01/10/2011 By Pete Freedman
Lost in all the shuffle surrounding last week's memorial event hosted at Club Dada was the fact that the Thursday night show at the venue also served as the venue's grand opening.Dada, you...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/08/2011 By Nick Rallo
As you saw yesterday in Pete's thoughts of Frank Campagna Jr.'s memorial at Club Dada, it was an incredibly moving night. For those that couldn't make it, there are no better words on the...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/07/2011 By Pete Freedman
Frankie 45 Memorial ConcertClub DadaJanuary 6, 2011Better than: a traditional funeral -- so much better.?After losing an adored member of their inner circle earlier this week, the family and...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
01/04/2011 By Pete Freedman
In the days since the news of Frank Campagna Jr.'s death broke on Saturday, the outpouring of support in the community has been fairly overwhelming. Saturday night's gathering at Kettle Art...
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Music: Feature
As a whole, 2010 sure felt like a good year for music, at least as it was happening. There was no shortage of events to attend, new bands to hear or trends to keep watch over.
As it...
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Music: Feature
Blah blah blah, Deep Ellum's back, blah blah blah blah blah.
Blah.
Listen: We know you've heard it before. We know we've said it before. No apologies, though. Because—look...
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