Eric Grubbs

Evan Chronister, who passed away on Monday, pictured in 2012

Evan Chronister's name might not sound familiar to the average participant in the DFW music scene. He didn't play in a band. He didn't put on shows or put out records. He occasionally manned the turntables for the Lollipop Shoppe DJ night and would always create a stack of free mix CDs for it. But when word of his death was traded over texts and Facebook posts on Monday night, many hearts broke. And those hearts weren't just people who live around here.

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Wanz Dover

Jamie Seltzer, known to most around Dallas as JWHO, has been making the rounds around area DJ nights for the past few years as well as doing time with the Love Rich crew. Know for bass-heavy sets that pay homage to house and techno without fully subscribing to their dogma, he manages to ride the fine line of accessibility and underground. He recently partnered up with local vet Michael Todd for a residency they call Ellumental at the recently opened Red Light Lounge in Deep Ellum. JWHO was kind enough to give us a little insight into his process and what makes him tick as a DJ.



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Gavin Cleaver

Teri Gender Bender, for whom two instruments and singing is the very least of her talents.

The Melvins
With Le Butcherettes
Trees, Dallas
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Teri Gender Bender, the lead singer, guitarist and keyboard player of Le Butcherettes, is the most punk person I can imagine. Now, I know there's a lot of deeply tedious discussion about what is and what is not punk, and even on a music blog no one wants to read this discussion. Someone telling you what is punk is in itself not punk. However, here is my thesis: Whatever your idea of punk is, Teri Gender Bender is exactly that thing.

Ms. Gender Bender does not give a solitary fuck what you or anyone else might think, as was evidenced by her antics Tuesday night opening for the Melvins at Trees. These included masturbating on stage, walking like the girl from the Exorcist, dancing like a person whose limbs were being controlled by someone with an uncontrollable twitch, hitting herself repeatedly in the head with a drumstick, and foraying out into the crowd to throw herself into people four or five times her fragile stature.

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Adam Stewart

Dead Flowers bring their own distinctive style to "His Blues"

Last year, Dead Flowers frontman Corey Howe had a pretty bold declaration about his band's future: "I would die if we're not on the road in the next six months." Though the band bought a van and had plenty of shirts, LPs and CDs to sell, they didn't hit the road in 2013.

Howe, who is alive and well and happy to be alive, says the change of heart came from a practical decision. "We decided that it would be better to go on the road with two records and still be a band that nobody knows about than be a band nobody knows about that only has one," he says.

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Ed Steele

Michael Schoder and his Granada team at the 2013 DOMAs. They'll be hosting them this year.

We can't speak for everyone, but we here at DC9 at Night are getting pretty excited about this year's Dallas Observer Music Awards. Voting has been open for just shy of a month now, we've been busy booking the bands that will perform at the DOMA showcase, and the festivities themselves -- the showcase and the awards ceremony -- are quickly approaching. They're just a little less than six weeks away, in fact.

The plans for the showcase (officially the Chevy Music Showcase North Texas Presents the Dallas Observer Music Awards) have been known for a while, with tickets already on sale for the Saturday, December 6 extravaganza. But now we can add another piece of the puzzle: We're thrilled to announce that the awards ceremony will be taking place on Tuesday, December 9 at the Granada Theater.

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On December 13, The Old 97's will perform at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas. That combination alone is enough to make for a pretty cool night. One of Dallas' most beloved bands in one of the greatest rooms our city has to offer will never be an ordinary scenario.

But this particular show will have an even more celebratory tone than most. About four weeks earlier, on November 17, Omnivore Recordings and the Old 97's will release a 20th anniversary double-disc reissue of the group's debut album, Hitchhike to Rhome. Appropriately, the concert on December will see the band play Hitchhike in its entirety, an honor that the record more than deserves. In fact, even without the prospect of the show, there are a lot of reasons to be excited about this reissue. Here are five of them.

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Photo Courtesy Daron Beck

In a new series, Choice Cuts, Jonathan Patrick talks with artists, both local and international, about their favorite records.

Pinkish Black is perhaps the most internationally celebrated of all current DFW acts. Their two LPs, Pinkish Black and Razed to the Ground, were critical darlings, garnering near-unanimous praise throughout the music press. This Friday, the duo (Jon Teague and Daron Beck), alongside Unconscious Collective and Curse, plan to put on one hell of a Halloween show at Fort Worth's The Chat Room. In anticipation of Friday's affair, we caught up with Beck, who plays keys and sings for Pinkish Black, to discuss his favorite records.

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Mike Brooks

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians reunited in Oak Cliff over the weekend

North Oak Cliff Music Festival
With Edie Brickell, Seryn, South Dallas Funk Revue, Kat Edmonson, David Garza Trio, Fox and the Bird, Sarah Hickman, Meiko and Emily Elbert
Lake Cliff Park, Dallas
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Families are so uncool. So are old people, and so are people who listen to old music. If any of those opinions sound right to you, then you probably weren't among the attendees at Saturday's North Oak Cliff Music Festival, held at Lake Cliff Park and presented by the folks at the nearby Kessler Theater. "Family friendly" was decidedly the name of this fest's game, but it's a role that was also well-executed.

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Nicholas Zalud

Florida Georgia Line (with shirts on) playing in Houston earlier this year

Jason Aldean
With Florida Georgia Line
Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Ebola causes you to leak fluids from your body's orifices and bleed internally until your body starts to slowly shut down. Then you die from a combination of low blood-pressure and organ failure. If you have the misfortune of being an American who catches this vile disease, the media will ruthlessly invade your privacy and reveal every minute detail of your life to the public. This is a horrid fate for anyone unfortunate enough to catch this terrible malady.

And I would gladly endure it all so long as I never again have to suffer the experience of sitting seven rows back from the stage while Florida-Georgia Line and Jason Aldean gleefully danced on the grave of one of the most purely American forms of art to the tune of cheers from 9,999 very intoxicated people.

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Courtney Scholari

Baring Teeth are one of Dallas' most forward-thinking metal bands

With the 26th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner -- in fact, voting is open right now at musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com -- we're looking to spend the next several weeks taking the opportunity to highlight some of the nominees for this year's awards. And when we say that these artists are the "Best," don't just take our word for it: We polled 150 local music experts to pull together the nominees this year, so they come on pretty good authority.

Today we're highlighting the best in class for local metal bands. These five acts run the gamut for the genre, from the most technical varieties to doom, thrash, sludge and goth. Each one is pushing the envelope for what metal can be, and each stakes a worthy claim to be called the best in North Texas.

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