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The Dram made our list of the best bar staffs in Dallas
When it comes to live music venues, Dallas has polychromatic shades of bar staffs, from its draft-pouring, quietly rustic bartenders to the sophisticated mixologists with novel ways of concoc...
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The Sheezus herself at a recent tour stop in Miami
Lily Allen
With MR Little Jeans
House of Blues, Dallas
Monday September 15, 2014
On her first visit to Dallas at the House of Blues, Lily Allen took the stage purple-haired and dressed like a shi...
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"I always say, with any job you're in there's that one question that you have to answer," explains Chris McDonald, Marketing Manager for the Granada Theater, as he chips crumbs off of an oversized chocolate chip cookie at the front table of Society B...
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Coheed and Cambria are currently on tour promoting the reissue of their second album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. They play tonight, September 15, at South Side Music Hall with Thank You Scientist. The New York-based four-piece is playing ...
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The Black Lips: a little older, a little wiser, still pretty rowdy
The Black Lips
With King Khan & BBQ and PVC Street Gang
Granada Theater, Dallas
Saturday, September 13, 2014
There's been a fair amount of talk about rock 'n' roll music in the p...
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The Toadies on Saturday Night in Fort Worth.
Dia De Los Toadies Festival
With the Toadies, Old 97's, Ume, Quaker City Night Hawks, Pleasant Grove, Somebody's Darling, Residual Kid, The Longshots and Blank-Men
Panther Island Pavilion, Fort Worth
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Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest IV
With Panda Bear, SOPHIE, Ejecta, Doss and Blues Control
Granada Theater, Dallas
Friday, September 12, 2014
The first song I recall falling in love with was "Kokomo," the '88 Beach Boys radio hit. I was four or five and in my...
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The week ahead will have its mundane moments. That's just a part of life. However, as per usual, we here at DC9 have more than a few ways to spice it up for you with some live music suggestions. There's the biting satire of Lily Allen, Justin Nozuka'...
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Rhett Miller celebrated his birthday in style Thursday night at Twilite Lounge
This one might've gotten by you last night. It nearly got by us.
Thursday night at Twilite Lounge is normally the territory for Good Luck Karaoke, but last night the ...
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Red Light Lounge doesn't just bring a new club to Deep Ellum; it brings a rooftop patio, too
The story of Deep Ellum's comeback is not a new one, but there is a new neighbor in the form of Red Light Lounge. In the spot on main street that was once...
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Pleasant Grove are preparing to release their first album in a decade -- after they play Dia De Los Toadies Fest
This Saturday in Fort Worth at Dia de Los Toadies, on a line-up filled with promising talent and proven veterens, there may not be a...
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Well, it's the weekend and it's been a crazy week. The National Football League has proven itself to be a true shitstorm and foreign affairs, with ISIS and all, aren't looking so hot. But at least you've got music. You've worked hard all week and now...
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Spinster Records is taking shape in Oak Cliff
Record stores all the rage this season. Normally the fall is the time for bands and labels to roll out new albums and promotional tours, but in Dallas it's the record stores making the moves. Off the R...
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Local singer Kirk Thurmond sees a racial divide holding back the R&B scene
Everybody loves to see somebody from their city or town "make it." That's more or less a subjective thing, "making it." Essentially, whenever an artist manages to get the a...
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Ken Bethea, pictured in 2013 during recording sessions for the Old 97's "Most Messed Up"
This weekend, the Old 97's take part in Dia De Los Toadies Festival at Panther Island Pavilion in Fort Worth as the Toadies wrap up their 20th-anniversary c...
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The Outfitx, TX has got this shit under control
The lines "M-A-R-S. Mars, bitches,"declare what The Outfit, TX, are shooting for with their current project. It'd be easy to chalk up the reference to the group's characteristic "cooly fooly space a...
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The Toadies topped off the Homegrown Festival at Main Street Garden Park last May
Face it: You still love the Toadies. Try as you might, you just can't help getting all the feels any time you hear that opening riff to "Possum Kingdom." It might a...
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Josey Records is about to become the next new Dallas record store
Dallas is going through a bit of a record store renaissance. Over the past year, the vinyl comeback that has been root throughout the music industry has made its presence felt local...
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Dallas House Master Demarkus Lewis
Dallas is home to a significant number of producers and DJs that are well known internationally but mostly off the radar in their hometown. Demarkus Lewis is very much one of those DJs. It's highly unlikely any...
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Spoiler alert: we didn't ask Delta Spirit about their rad sweaters
"We want to write epic songs so that we can do big, epic shows," says Matthew Vasquez, frontman for Delta Spirit. Speaking from a tour stop in Chicago during a lightning storm, V...
