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DC9 At Night: Dallas Observer Music Awards
10/28/2014 By Jeff Gage
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...
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Calendar: Highlights
Look, everyone will be watching it (this is Dallas, after all), so why not do it in style? The Granada Theater and Do214 host a Mavs season opener watch party. Doors open at 6 p.m. Plus you...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/14/2014 By Eric Grubbs
For most bands, whenever they cut a few records without a founding member, those records are almost forgotten about when that founding member returns to the band. Whether it's Van Halen,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
10/02/2014 By Amy McCarthy
Kacey Musgraves
With John and Jacob
Granada Theater, Dallas
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Kacey Musgraves and I come from similar backgrounds. Musgraves grew up in East Texas, Mineola to be...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
09/26/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
The hottest ticket in town is gonna be Index Fest. There's no doubt about this. The lineup includes Future Islands, Local Natives, Foxygen, the Cool Kids and more. We already gave you a...
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DC9 At Night: Local Music
09/26/2014 By Dalton Kane
Mike Schoder is calmer than a well-fed cat in the 'burbs, but don't let that fool you. There's nothing complacent about him. The owner of the Granada Theater and the adjoining Sundown at...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
09/24/2014 By Neph Basedow
On a rare day off, War On Drugs' frontman Adam Granduciel speaks to me from his Philadelphia home. In the background, clinking kitchen noise can be heard as he prepares his morning coffee...
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DC9 At Night: Local Music
09/23/2014 By DC9 At Night
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 it into the concert...
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DC9 At Night: DC9 at Night
09/16/2014 By Aaron Ortega
"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...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/15/2014 By Jonathan Patrick
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...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
09/15/2014 By Matt Wood
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 past few...
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DC9 At Night: Feature Stories
09/10/2014 By Daniel Rodrigue
Leanne Macomber has always been a nomad. One-half of the New York-based synth-pop duo Ejecta, the one-time Dallas and Denton resident has long led a transient existence. Growing up an Air...
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DC9 At Night: Previews
09/08/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
Collectively, a city sluggishly heads back to to its desk. Welcome to the working week. Your weekend is over, hopefully it was perfectly fun. (Well, unless you watched the Cowboys game.)...
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Calendar: Highlights
Armaggedon
Michael Bay cannot be mocked enough. His films deserve to be taken down with an unrelenting spray of scorn and ridicule and not just because they are among some of the worst,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/21/2014 By Darryl Smyers
The Mavericks
The Granada Theater, Dallas
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Rarely does a band get back together and return to anything close to the form it once had. But judging by their performance...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/18/2014 By Darryl Smyers
For a time in the mid '90s, the Mavericks were on top of the neo-traditional country world. The Miami band featuring the amazing talents of singer Raul Malo scored a hit in 1996 with "All...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
06/24/2014 By Darryl Smyers
The Yardbirds hold a special place in the history of rock and roll. Over the course of some fitful years in the mid- to late 1960s, the band featured the talents (separately) of Eric...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/23/2014 By DC9 At Night
Cut Copy
With Classixx and Nile Delta
Granada Theater
Sunday, June 22, 2014
By H. Drew Blackburn
There comes a point when you go to enough concerts, the pomp and circumstance behind The...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
06/13/2014 By Darryl Smyers
New Jersey's the Front Bottoms is the classic love it or hate it proposition. The duo of Brian Sella and Mathew Uychich play an acoustic-based folk/punk that's very catchy and not a little...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/02/2014 By Jeff Gage
tUnE-yArDs
With Sylvan Esso
Granada Theater, Dallas
Friday, May 30, 2014
Merrill Garbus is a force of nature. From her big, booming voice to her colorful wardrobes and face paint to her...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
03/12/2014 By Darryl Smyers
A lively, multi-generational crowd made it out to the Granada Theater last night to catch pioneering electronic musician Gary Numan. The nearly sold-out crowd was treated to an energetic...
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Calendar: Highlights
Whether you follow football or not is pretty inconsequential when the Big Game rolls around. It’s as much an excuse to drink beer and eat party subs (is that still a thing?) as...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/25/2013 By Darryl Smyers
Austin's Sons of Fathers is the brainchild of David Beck and Paul Cauthen, two guys who were born and raised all over Texas in musical families. After meeting at a park in San Marcos, the...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/20/2013 By Darryl Smyers
Although it's been nearly five years since Idaho indie rockers Built to Spill have released an album, the band continues to be a solid concert draw across the United States. Led by the...
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Calendar: Highlights
Jesse Pinkman pulls up to Walter White’s house, grabs the gasoline tank, pours it all over the inside … and the episode ends. You (mentally or physically) scream “Are you...
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The Mixmaster: Events
09/25/2013 By Jason Yang
This Sunday, the blue-ice alchemy and suspenseful plots of Breaking Bad will come to an end. For five years, fans have watched Walter White metamorphose from a dying high school chemistry...
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DC9 At Night: Commentary
07/26/2013 By Darryl Smyers
With singer David Lowery fronting both Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker (and with both scheduled to play the Granada Theater this Saturday), it is a good time to compare and contrast these...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/11/2013 By Darryl Smyers
For nearly a decade, Alpha Rev has been one of Austin's most dependable alternative rock outfits. Surprisingly, in that time, the band has only released four albums, culminating in the...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
04/10/2013 By Darryl Smyers
Besides being a stellar guitarist, Richard Thompson is a superb songwriter and one hell of a witty dude. Over the course of four decades, Thompson has evolved from an above average,...
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DC9 At Night: Commentary
03/07/2013 By Gavin Cleaver
Eels (no "The," just "Eels") have had a long, storied, interesting, musically adventurous career, but for a lot of people it stopped in 1996. Hell, for a fair amount of people most things...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
02/28/2013 By Doug Davis
It was symbolic in more ways than one. The sweet and skunky smell of high quality weed that hit you upon entering the Granada last night provided a kind of bridge back to the '60s and early...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
02/27/2013 By Deb Doing Dallas and Vanessa Quilantan
Editor: Erykah Badu played a birthday show last night at the Granada. Two of those in the sold-out crowd were DC9 at Night writers Vanessa Quilantan and Deb Doing Dallas, who set up camp on...
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DC9 At Night: Local Music 'Mericans
02/22/2013 By Alan Ayo
Meet Wes McIntyre. Yeah, he works at Granada...for years now. You've probably seen him.
He's been gaining a reputation around the venue as being a pretty awesome human being in general....
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
02/01/2013 By Gavin Cleaver
The Granada put on a rare heavy metal show last night, meaning that their particular section of Greenville was occupied by black clothing and facial hair, a far cry from last Saturday's show...
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Calendar: Highlights
Exciting news broke out a few weeks ago that hedgehog cheerleaders would add to the womb-shaking adorableness of Puppy Bowl. Also, we’re told there’s a football game people are...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/24/2013 By Deb Doing Dallas
I first saw Purity Ring in 2011. Outdoors on a small stage for a 30-minute set was hardly the perfect set-up to see their particular brand of electronic pop, but woo they did it. Their...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/23/2013 By Doug Davis
Last night, Calexico delivered a performance as expansive and dramatic as the Southwestern landscape and people from which the band draws so much of its inspiration. In turn the audience --...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
12/06/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Whether it is with Red House Painters or Sun Kil Moon, the work of Mark Kozelek has always been marked by quiet desperation and a dry, dark sense of humor. A singer/songwriter of...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
12/04/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Over the course of 14 albums and countless cassette-only releases, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats has become one of the best (and busiest) singer/songwriters around. While his songs...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/15/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Whether it's the mind-blowing progressive rock of Yes or the slicker pop stylings of Asia, guitarist Steve Howe has always been a team player. At 65, he's been bending strings with the best...
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Calendar: Highlights
Whether you’re sporting crimson and cream, burnt orange or just whatever you rolled out of bed in, there’s no shortage of parties in honor of the legendary Red River Shootout....
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
10/10/2012 By Eric Grubbs
Chicago's California Wives, featured most recently in a commercial for Sharpie, will grace Dallas on Saturday, when they open for Stars. Jayson Kramer took some time out to share with us...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
09/18/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Early morning interviews are always a risky proposition. When I was told to call Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer for indie darlings The Walkmen, at 9 a.m., I feared either early morning...
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Music: Feature
Over the past eight years, Gorilla vs. Bear has done something not many music blogs are afforded the luxury of: It's transcended its local roots and become a national tastemaker, often...
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Music: Show Preview
When did Eisley get so old? Just a couple minutes ago they weren't even allowed in the clubs they were playing, and now the Tyler five-piece has more records and tours than musicians twice...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
03/09/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Even though country singer Wayne "The Train" Hancock was born in the '60s, he comes across like a man from an entirely different generation. His look, mannerisms and style of music are much...
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Music: Columns
The Grateful Dead sang, "What a long, strange trip it's been" a mere five years into their psychedelic journey. That was 10 years before Christopher Owens, songwriter-guitarist of the San...
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Music: Show Preview
Following the release of his 2011 sophomore album, Era Extraña, psychedelic pop aficionado Neon Indian (Alan Palomo) embarked on a North American tour that will find its way to the...
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Calendar: Highlights
Let's not mince words. Buckethead is one of the best rock guitarists on the market right now. Artists as diverse as Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins and Mike Patton have relied on him to...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
02/21/2012 By Darryl Smyers
Portland's Nurses sound as odd as their moniker. Dracula, the band's 2011 effort and second Dead Oceans LP, upped the ante considerably over former releases with its focus and poise. In...
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Music: Show Preview
Interesting that Beck produced both Stephen Malkmus' latest album, Mirror Traffic, and Thurston Moore's 2011 LP, Demolished Thoughts. The two guitarists always seemed like eternal teenagers...
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Calendar: Highlights
Going to see a concert at the Granada Theater is a fine way to spend an evening. But, there are plenty of folks who remember that, before the proliferation of movie grills and theaters with...
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Music: CD Review
Listening to any effort from Eleven Hundred Springs, including latest Midway, is like having your cool uncle pull out his favorite albums. Matt Hillyer and crew have that old-school country...
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Music: Columns
Jake Orrall, 26-year-old guitarist for Nashville duo Jeff the Brotherhood, is multitasking. Catching him at home in early January, he's juggling interviews while pulling vinyl together for a...
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Music: Show Preview
Master your art and rise to the level of royalty. That's what Erykah Badu did when she assumed the moniker "Queen of Neo-Soul." While many would be satisfied with reaching the peak of a...
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Music: Show preview
German duo Digitalism is slyly making its way into the American electro scene with appearances at both Coachella and the HARD tour earlier this year. Like the offspring of Daft Punk, they...
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Music: Columns
Sean Michael Anderson has been waiting for this moment for a while now. Although he didn't release his first official project until 2008's Finally Famous Vol. 1: The Mixtape — after...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/17/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Guitarist/singer-songwriter Tab Benoit is Cajun to the bone. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but raised in the small town of Houma, Benoit was brought up on a steady diet of Hank Williams,...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
11/11/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
Alabama-raised Jason Isbell has pretty much met, if not exceeded, the expectations of just about any interested party following his departure from the beloved band of southern-rock...
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Music: Columns
The Jayhawks have been through many lineups over the years since their beginnings in the mid-'80s. But if longtime fans were to get their wish for which one they would love to see again, it...
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Music: Columns
Indie-rock fans may be used to seeing a cellist sharing a stage with the drums and guitar by now, but they're definitely not used to seeing one who looks like Alexandra Lawn of Ra Ra...
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Music: Show Preview
The Smoker's Club Tour comes to Dallas this month, featuring two of the most popular names in underground hip-hop.
New Orleans weed-rapper Curren$y has built a large following over the past...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
11/01/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
As we've talked about in recent weeks, the Fort Worth music scene is on top of its game. And, The Burning Hotels are leading the charge, with a newly released self titled LP that has...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/28/2011 By Darryl Smyers
At 72, keyboardist Ray Manzarek has just about done it all. Best known at the keyboardist for the Doors, Manzarek has stayed busy as a performer and producer for the past three decades....
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Music: Show Preview
Los Angeles and San Francisco are tied as America's capitals of sin and triumph — at least for Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers, who fashioned a "soundtrack" for both cities with their...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/24/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Hailing from the small, waterfront town of Anacortes, Washington, The Lonely Forest is a four-piece outfit that specializes in a quirky brand of power pop that is not much different from...
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Music: Columns
Last month, at the Glastonbury festival in the U.K., the members of Battles found themselves in a dressing room next to the current queen of pop radio, and perhaps the polar opposite of...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
10/19/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Very few bands come close to boasting a story like Los Angeles' White Arrows claims. Formed in 2008 by Mickey Schiff, a talented multi-instrumentalist who happens to have been born legally...
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Music: Show Preview
We could sit here and kick around how The Rapture's new album, In the Grace of Your Love, marks a return to music for a band with all sorts of historic importance. Yes, Grace heralds the end...
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The Mixmaster: Street Style
10/03/2011 By Catherine Downes
"My grandma is the woman."Name: Taylor Rea
Location: The Granada Theater
Occupation: Singer in Zhora
Style breakdown: "Knockoff Jeffrey Campbell wedges, roommate's clutch, grandma's...
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Music: Show Preview
At this point, nobody really expects Blondie to upset any new paradigms. In the group's late '70s and early '80s heyday, the Debbie Harry-led outfit set a high standard for an omnivorous New...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
09/28/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
Panda Bear, Silent Diane, BotanyGranada TheaterSeptember 27, 2011Better than: staring into a blinking strobe light while listening to anything else.??In some regards, it's kind of hard to...
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The Mixmaster: Street Style
09/28/2011 By Catherine Downes
"Whatever music I'm listening to is how I look..."Name: Ariel Bender, 30
Occupation: Guitar player in Missile
Location: The Granada Theater
Style breakdown: Thrift store shirt and...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
09/26/2011 By Nic Hernandez
Neon Indian, Com Truise
Granada Theater
September 25, 2011
Better than: a heat wave.?Com Truise and Neon Indian each took the stage of the Granada Theater Saturday night as a pair of...
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Music: Show Preview
Soulfulness can come from unlikely sources. For electronic duo Junior Boys, that means the industrial Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, and the considerable pipes of improbable-looking...
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Music: Show Preview
Fans of Animal Collective member Panda Bear's solo efforts are truly the Justin Bieber fans of the indie universe. While "Beliebers" attended the star's movie Never Say Never 3D and started...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
09/20/2011 By Darryl Smyers
New York's A Place to Bury Strangers has been around for nearly a decade, and, in that time, the band has garnered a solid fan base for its unrelentingly loud slabs of noise. The band's...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
09/19/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Fox & The Bird, Mikldrive
Granada Theater
September 16, 2011
Better than: having my concert hopes dashed due to rain (Sorry, Explosions in the Sky...
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Music: Show Preview
For a group that specializes in smile-inducing string-band music that organically forces the heart to dance along with the feet, it's natural that the Carolina Chocolate Drops would choose...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
09/06/2011 By Noah W. Bailey
Drive-By Truckers, Centro-maticGranada TheaterSeptember 2Better than: "Freebird."?In the Drive-By Truckers documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, a young female fan jokes that she...
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Music: Reviews/Previews
Last year's The Big To-Do was Drive-By Truckers' most hard-rocking album since 2001's Southern Rock Opera. On it, the Athens, Georgia, group told tales of four-day drinking binges, courtroom...
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The Mixmaster: Fashion
09/01/2011 By Jenny Block
Vitaminwater may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about fashion, but Tuesday night at the Granada, it was the the inspiration for a number of local designers and the...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
08/08/2011 By Doug Davis
SiaGranada TheaterAugust 7, 2011
Better than: watching someone with a gift trying to make it seem like work.?
I don't know if Sia has been bestowed the nickname "The Voice." She...
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Music: Columns
They're the odd couple of indie dance, two Germans with disparate gifts that unite to create a balance of throbbing beats and glimmering melodies.
Fair-haired Jens Moelle, who's a little...
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Music: Show Preview
Sia Furler, known simply as Sia, is a force of nature that seems to have somehow magically popped up in several of the more interesting cultural phenomena of the past decade.
It was Sia you...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/25/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
Gorilla Vs. Bear FestivalGranada TheaterJuly 23, 2011Better than: being in a confined space where an actual gorilla and an actual bear are fighting.?On Saturday night at the Granada Theater,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/25/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Mission of Burma, Ume and Tre Orsi
Granada Theater
July 24, 2011
Better than: watching the new episode of Breaking Bad, because you can't DVR a live concert.The Granada Theater was...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
07/25/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
Tim DeLaughter and his new band Preteen Zenith made their live performance debut on Saturday night at the Granada Theater, where over 1,000 music fans converged for the first ever Gorilla...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
07/22/2011 By Cory Graves
Eels, SubmarinesGranada TheaterJuly 21, 2011Better than: being mistaken for a terrorist at an airport.
From frontman Mark Oliver Everett's dramatic entrance after his band had already begun...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/22/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Boston's Mission of Burma is one of those legendary post-punk outfits that seemingly pop into just about every up-and-coming band's list of influences. The bands two main songwriters,...
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News: Featured Stories
Chris Cantalini is generally a pretty unassuming presence. But he's a little jumpier today, a little restless, and for good reason. He's got a lot on his mind.
Thirty-three years old,...
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Music: Columns
Two years after Beck released the massive hit single "Loser" in 1994, Mark Oliver Everett's Eels project exploded in turn with "Novocaine for the Soul." And thus began a long line of...
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Music: Show Preview
Mission of Burma's original go-'round was incredibly short; there exists only an EP and a full-length to show for the band's four-year run from 1979 to 1983, plus a 1985-release of live...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/21/2011 By Cory Graves
For the four-year period between 2005 and 2009 Mark Oliver Everett didn't release any new material with his alt-rock outfit Eels. But it didn't mean he was resting on his laurels. Quite the...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
07/19/2011 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.Roger Miller sings and...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
07/15/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
Kasey Chambers has certainly been an artist on the go as of late. Until earlier this week, that is.
On Wednesday afternoon, while on tour with her family in tow, the Australian star's bus...
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Music: Show Preview
Australian treasure Kasey Chambers had the proverbial golden road laid in front of her in 1999, as her debut The Captain caught fire in her native land as well as in the United States....
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
07/12/2011 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.When he isn't recording,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/24/2011 By Pete Freedman
Girl Talk, The Cool KidsGranada TheaterJune 23,
2011Better than: sweating to the oldies.?Greg Gillis is not an aerobics instructor. But perhaps the man behind the ever-popular Girl...
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Music: Show Preview
The air will be thick with pheromones, both secreted and synthetic. The floor will be soaked in sweat, beer foam and spilled Red Bull. And this whole spastic scene will seem like total Top...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
06/23/2011 By Darryl Smyers
At 64, Joe Ely is the elder statesman of Texas music. For over three decades, Ely has continuously released some of the most influential country-rock and folk albums around, inspiring and...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
06/21/2011 By Pete Freedman
In August, the Granada Theater, which has for four years in a row now earned the title of Best Live Music Venue in our annual, reader-voted Dallas Observer Music Awards, will celebrate its...
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Music: Show Preview
Over its multi-decade history, Little Feat has undergone a tangled trajectory. Founded by guitarist Lowell George, a former member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Little Feat evolved...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
06/14/2011 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.Tony Harper has been...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
06/06/2011 By Pete Freedman
Eisley, The Narrative, Christie DuPreeGranada TheaterJune 4, 2011Better than: the band's Good Records in-store performance a few months back.Two-thirds of the way through Eisley's 70-minute,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
06/06/2011 By Eric Grubbs
Face to Face, Strung Out, Blitzkid, The Darlings
Granada Theater
June 5, 2011
Better than: punching a hole in your TV after the Mavericks' game.Face to Face didn't hit the stage until late...
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Music: Show Preview
Although not as well known as, say, Green Day or Blink-182, two other bands that emerged at about the same time, California's Face to Face were always the truest of that bunch to the spirit...
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Music: Show Preview
Countless musicians have been derided for appealing to the masses. But—here's where things get tricky—good pop music isn't especially easy to write. Unless you're Peter, Bjorn &...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
05/31/2011 By Darryl Smyers
The Twilight Singers, Margot & the Nuclear So and So'sThe Granada TheaterMay 30, 2011Much better than: sitting around waiting for the damn NBA Finals to get going.?While many folks...
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DC9 At Night: My First Show
05/31/2011 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.For those disappointed...
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Music: Columns
Although it's been more than a decade since former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli was hospitalized in Austin after an altercation with a bouncer, the current leader of The Twilight Singers...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
05/23/2011 By Chelsea Upton
Portugal. The Man, Telekinesis, Unknown Mortal OrchestraGranada TheaterMay 20, 2011Better than: trying to put on your own laser show.Die-hard fans lined the front of the stage for Friday...
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Music: Show Preview
There may be no more difficult question to answer in modern music than the tricky "What does Portugal. The Man sound like?"
You could try by pointing to the alt-country twang on radio hit...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
05/17/2011 By Pete Freedman
Last week, you may recall, we passed along word that our friends over at Gorilla Vs. Bear are going all legit and everything and throwing an honest-to-goodness music festival at the Granada...
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Music: Columns
With his thick Scottish accent and humorous remarks, Stuart Braithwaite, leader of the post-rock instrumental band Mogwai, comes across as a likeable rogue. Considering that his band's stock...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
05/11/2011 By Pete Freedman
Well, we thought this would be the case, and, turns out, we were right: Tim DeLaughter's new band will indeed make its debut at the Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival taking place at the Granada...
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DC9 At Night: DFW Music News
05/10/2011 By Pete Freedman
Hey, remember back in February when Tim DeLaughter confirmed a whole bunch of rumors to us? Namely, that he was starting a new band, and also that he'd be releasing new Polyphonic Spree...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
05/09/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
Editor's Note: This review was written by Jenny Block
Brett Dennen, Dawes
Granada Theater
May 7, 2011
Better than: Hula hooping in your front yard on the first day of summer vacation, sun...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
05/06/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
Fiery-haired Californian Brett Dennen looks like he could be an up-and-coming protégé of Justin Beiber's -- but, at this point in his career, he's actually rather seasoned veteran. With four...
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Music: Show Preview
Christopher Mercer, better known as dubstep purveyor Rusko, isn't really interested in drawing connections between electronic beats and the spaced-out sounds of Jamaican dub. He just wants...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
05/05/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
California folk-rock act Dawes has had a whirlwind couple of years. Since abandoning the more hard-charging rock vibe they boasted before the departure of former co-songwriter Blake Mills,...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/25/2011 By Pete Freedman
Sleigh Bells, CSSGranada TheaterApril 22, 2011Better than: sticking around for the headliner, apparently.? Perhaps it was to be expected given the circumstances at the Granada Theater on...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/25/2011 By Darryl Smyers
The Psychedelic FursGranada TheaterApril 24, 2011Better than: the last three times I saw the Furs.?Seeing that this was the third time in less than two years that the Psychedelic Furs have...
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Music: Columns
Indie rock has steadily mined and reforged the past's sonic potential, whether by refashioning '60s girl-group melodies into shoegaze or adding synthesizers to turn post-punk into danceable...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/21/2011 By Catherine Downes
Cut Copy, Foals, Holy Ghost! and The Naked & FamousGranada TheaterApril 20, 2011Better than: going to see Foals and Cut Copy headline separate shows. Last night was a serious...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/20/2011 By Doug Davis
The KillsGranada TheaterApril 19, 2011
Better than: sweating in a real sauna.?The early evening rain made for a swampy atmosphere at the Granada last night -- entirely appropriate for the...
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Music: Columns
Alison Mosshart confesses to being in a very good place at the moment. It's late March, and, after countless delays, her band The Kills will finally be releasing their fourth full-length,...
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Music: Show Preview
Cut Copy has taken a step back in time with their latest release, Zonoscope—but not in a lame, copycat kind of way. While the band has progressed in its antics, image and status in the...
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Music: Show Preview
Musicforthemorningafter, the recently reissued debut effort from singer-songwriter Pete Yorn, still sounds as fresh today as it did a decade ago.
Even Yorn himself thinks so: "That record...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/14/2011 By Catherine Downes
Marina and The Diamonds, IshiGranada TheaterApril 14, 2011Better than: seeing Marina and the Diamonds a year from now, after touring with Katy Perry, when she's playing to sold-out...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
04/14/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Lanky and perhaps too good-looking for his own good, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn was both blessed and cursed by having a successful debut album. Back in 2001, when he released...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
04/12/2011 By Pete Freedman
The Raveonettes, TamarynGranada TheaterApril 11, 2011Better than: quoting the raven nevermore.? After a hazy, ethereal opening set from the San Francisco-by-way-of-New York-based, Mexican...
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Music: Columns
Sune Rose Wagner, the singer and guitarist who makes up half of Denmark's biggest rock 'n' roll export, The Raveonettes, is stuck in a hotel in Copenhagen.
He moved to New York seven years...
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Music: Show Preview
You know Todd Snider. He's the inveterate joker cracking wise from the back of the classroom. Or, as he describes himself in his satirical broadside "Conservative Christian, Right Wing,...
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DC9 At Night: Local Music 'Mericans
03/22/2011 By Alan Ayo
Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans,
where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those
who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who
make the...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
03/21/2011 By Catherine Downes
Peter MurphyGranada TheaterFriday, March 18, 2011Better than: Staying in and watching The Hunger.Blue lights blinded the packed crowd at Granada Theater on Friday night as the King of Goth...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
03/18/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978. Within a couple of years, the duo had grown into a quartet and released "Messages," the first of several...
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Music: Show Preview
DeVotchKa went from being Dita von Teese's burlesque backing band to the Billboard-charting, most-popular-gypsy-rock-band-in-America that they are today in large part thanks to the movies....
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
03/10/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
Traditional country music champion Marty Stuart hasn't been a major force on the Billboard country charts for some time now. But don't confuse that absence as a sign of Stuart having slowed...
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
03/07/2011 By Daniel Hopkins
The Walkmen, The Head and The Heart, SerynSaturday, March 5, 2011Granada TheaterBetter than: sitting at home listening to great vintage records.?Looking at the members of The Walkmen during...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
03/04/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Just back from the band's first tour of Europe, Seattle's The Head and the Heart are currently making their way across the U.S. opening up for The Walkmen. Interestingly, the two acts...
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Music: Columns
For a 6-4 guy who spends most of his time crammed in a row of a 15-passenger van, Hamilton Leithauser sounds surprisingly jovial on the phone. Perhaps it's because his band, The Walkmen, is...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
02/21/2011 By Catherine Downes
Red Bull THRE3STYLE DJ CompetitionGranada TheaterFebruary 19, 2011Better than: sitting at home watching friends try to play DJ Hero 2.Saturday night's Red Bull-sponsored DJ battle at the...
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Music: Show Preview
Among the many gems to be gleaned from Michael Azerrad's stellar Our Band Could Be Your Life, the chapter that really made the tome required reading was the section that covered the...
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DC9 At Night: Show Reviews
02/14/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
The Sword, Garuda, Eagle ClawGranada TheaterFebruary 12, 2011Better than: dealing with the ramifications of a water-pipe burst at my house. Thanks, Snowpocalypse!?The Granada Theater in...
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Music: Columns
Heavy metal can be fun. And in Austin, a metal band shredding its way not only through the city but also around the world is indeed having fun.
The Sword, led by vocalist and songwriter...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
02/01/2011 By Lance Lester
It's not often that, when you call up a band for an interview, the conversation gets kicked off by the interview subject asking the interviewer what to do with a vegetable that "looks like...
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Music: Show Preview
In spite of having been around for five years—a lifetime for some indie bands—Tokyo Police Club have managed to sustain a devoted fan base with their jangly garage-rock style....
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DC9 At Night: Last Night
01/25/2011 By Nic Hernandez
Best Coast, Wavves, No Joy
Granada Theater
January 24, 2011
Better Than: Being separated from your best friend/cat.
Over the past year, the relationship between Nathan Williams and Bethany...
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Music: Columns
Guitar shredding used to a males-only club. But Lauren Langner Larson, the blonde pixie guitarist and vocalist of the Austin alt-rock trio Ume (pronounced ooo-may) is working hard to change...
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Music: Columns
So much for the Southern California sun.
The rain has been pouring for days, clogging the freeways and prompting tornado warnings. But here at Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino's home in...
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DC9 At Night: Interviews
01/18/2011 By Darryl Smyers
Joe Satriani is considered by many to be one of the best guitar players in the world. Although excluded from Rolling Stone's list of the top 100 guitar players of all time, Satriani has...
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When asked about being omitted from Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the top 100 guitarists of all time, legendary axeman Joe Satriani offers his own blunt assessment of the magazine's omission:...
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Hayes Carll is probably the pre-eminent thinking-man's Texas musician of his generation. He's rowdy and rockin' enough to impress the ballcap-clad yee-hawers, but thoughtful and witty enough...
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There's something refreshingly unassuming about Devin Copeland's chosen stage name, Devin the Dude.
The same thing can be said for his music: Devin's songs aren't filled with tales of...
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Music: Show Preview
Band of Heathens is technically from Austin, but the band comes off like it might have spent a great deal of time in New Orleans learning the rich mixture of sounds that mark that city's...
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Music: Columns
The morning after playing a party for his high school graduation, Josh "Reverend" Peyton woke up with severe pain in his hands. Doctors thought that Peyton, who had been playing guitar for...
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Music: Columns
To hear U-God, one of the eight surviving original members of the legendary New York-based Wu-Tang Clan, tell it, the hip-hop collective's current 26-date tour of the United States is no big...
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Music: Columns
Justin Townes Earle is one tough sonuvabitch.
He's lived homeless on the streets of Nashville, been addicted to crack and heroin, and hung out with "killers and prostitutes." And all before...
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Music: Columns
While some acts emerge full-grown and spend a career exploring variations on a theme, the more intriguing trajectories often belong to those bands that spend their lifetimes in a variety of...
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Music: Columns
Pianist/singer Amanda Palmer (or Amanda Fucking Palmer to her fans) is having a great fucking day.
It's the Friday of Halloween weekend—just hours before her final performance as the...
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Music: Show Preview
While it might be a tad blasphemous to proffer that an offshoot of Canadian musical collective Broken Social Scene contains any one voice that should be heard more frequently than the others...
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Music: Columns
It's difficult to think of another indie-pop record in the past 20 years as influential and surrounded by romantic lore as Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 masterpiece, In the Aeroplane Over the...
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Music: Show Preview
Andy Warhol and The Dandy Warhols share more than just a similar name: Both artists have a history of having their art used in advertising. From The O.C. to Good Will Hunting to Mythbusters,...
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Music: Feature
Robert Schneider's world moves at light speed.
He thinks a lot of things. He says a lot of things.
With very little prodding, the frontman for Apples in Stereo talks at length about...
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Music: Columns
Let's get to the heart of the matter up front: Is Deerhunter a band, or just another tool for the prolific songsmith Bradford Cox?
"The band dynamic is really strong," says Moses Archuleta,...
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There is a group of musician elite, whose members stand out as totally different, clearly following a muse that is unseen and unheard by others. They make music on their own terms,...
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Music: Columns
Even after 33 years, Bad Brains are still one of the most prominent acts in the history of American punk rock. Formed in 1977 by four African-American youths just hanging out in Washington,...
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Following September's release of False Priest, of Montreal's tenth full-length album, the band is back with what's reported to be a more elaborate, glittery and flamboyant stage show after...
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Syracuse, New York, is famous for a few things: basketball, the college that has the basketball and, according to my viewing of a recent Syracuse-focused episode of Man vs. Food, hearty...
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The Thermals often get saddled with the "punk" tag, but that's a bit of a misnomer.
Sure, the band has plenty of buzzing up-tempo anthems at their disposal, and they've been known to pair...
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Wales seven-piece Los Campesinos! jam-pack about as much youthful exuberance as you can imagine into their shambling indie rock. Shouting more than singing over the rest of his band,...
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Music: Show Previews
Considering that this show has been sold out for well over a month, Friday night's performance by The xx hardly needs a recommendation. Thankfully, the major buzz surrounding this trio from...
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It began with a grooving, hazy track called "Deadbeat Summer," and there's no telling where it may end. Dallas' own Neon Indian stand as the chief of chillwave, an upstart subgenre that...
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The most impressive and distinctive quality to Raul Malo's latest solo record, Sinners and Saints, isn't that he basically operated as a one-man band during the recording of the...
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Jamie Lidell was in a period of laid-back bliss during the summer of 2009 when his friend Beck Hansen called. Seems Beck also had some down time, and was wondering if Jamie would be...
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Miami Horror's music sounds vaguely familiar because it should; the brainchild of Benjamin Plant, the Melbourne, Australia-based act's music is unabashedly backwards-looking, gleefully...
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Leon Russell and the Abominable Snowman appear to have a lot in common. Both are legendary. Then too, there's that physical similarity—Russell's flowing white hair and massive beard...
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Who says concerts need to rock? Low-key acoustic shows can be just as moving as big-time rock extravaganzas, and the Granada Theater will prove it at this show, when it plays host to...
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The Budos Band records for Daptone, so they often get lumped with the "soul revival" crowd, the house that Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson built and that is providing a nice retirement fund...
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Music: Columns
For any musician, trying to come up with a foolproof formula for success is folly. Pick up your guitar one day, and everything flows effortlessly. The following day, nothing sounds right, no...
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Rather than simply providing an aurally impressive set for audience members, The Octopus Project does their fans one better by working to create a unique experience for onlookers. Blindfold...
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Music: Reviews/Previews
Whether or not you believe The Hold Steady is the greatest bar band in the world, expect to see a spectacle when the Minneapolis four-piece comes to town—the kind of no-nonsense...
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Music: Columns
The opening riffs of Free Energy's lead single, the self-titled "Free Energy," sounds strangely familiar. But it's not a Cheap Trick deep cut. Nor is it a Thin Lizzy cover either.
It just...
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Unlike many of their peers who rode New Wave to fame in the early '80s only to end up as dusty, record-store memories, the Psychedelic Furs are still alive and touring. Thank John Hughes for...
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Ordinarily, an album released in 2010 bearing the title Genuine Negro Jig might raise a couple of eyebrows, but the Carolina Chocolate Drops—who did that very thing back in...
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Music: Columns
Folk troubadour Josh Ritter isn't all that concerned with baring his soul for all to see. He knows that sharing his personal thoughts on love isn't a path toward writing a song that's...
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Music: Show Previews
There's a great deal that's confusing about Miike Snow, not the least of which is the fact that the Stockholm-based band uses that enduring symbol of redneck superstition, the jackalope, as...
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Hailing from Houston, Devin Copeland, aka Devin the Dude, has been offering up his unique brand of rap for nearly 20 years. In that time, little in his music or delivery has...
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Music: Columns
With of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes in Los Angeles, hard at work on False Priest, the band's follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2008 album Skeletal Lamping, and his band set to head...
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Music: Show Preview
The Besnard Lakes are more than a band whose name kind of looks like "Barenaked Ladies" if you look at it really fast. They're also a four-piece from Montreal, centered on husband Jace Lasek...
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Music: Columns
For the past few months, whenever an OK Go video appears between performances on the Granada Theater's video screen to promote the band's upcoming show at the venue, people cheer. The...
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There aren't too many bands that can do what Centro-matic has done in the last 12 years. Where most successful bands ramp up and then burn out, Centro-matic has steadily flown under the...
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Owen Pallett, formerly known as Final Fantasy, released Heartland, his first album under his own name, early this year. And not without anticipation.
Before Heartland's January release...
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One of the reasons that the movie Amelie was so engaging (besides the beguiling performance of Audrey Tatou) was the soundtrack composed by Yann Tiersen. His offering was a compelling...
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Music: Columns
Baltimore duo Beach House revels in large, lush sonic compositions, joining a select handful of bands in the post-rock era—Cocteau Twins, Galaxie 500, Mazzy Star—that expertly...
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Music: Columns
Chris Keating is effusive, having just returned home to Brooklyn for a few days from a European tour. But he seems a little shocked when he's reminded that he and his bandmates in Yeasayer...
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The word "subtlety" doesn't really factor into any description of The Big Pink. To begin with, the London duo produces an oversized, forceful sound between its two members, shamelessly...
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Music: Columns
It sounds like an aperitif on the menu for the finny diners that tend to hang out just beyond the white sandy beaches of South Florida. But, turns out, the name Surfer Blood actually applies...
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Blues drummer/songwriter Doyle Bramhall has seemingly always had an affinity for great Texas blues guitarists.
Considering his childhood garage jam sessions with Dusty Hill and Billy...
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Music: Feature
Bryce Avary doesn't really look all that happy, which is pretty weird because, let's face it, Bryce Avary is supposed to be happy. Or so anyone who's taken a listen to the 27-year-old...
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Music: Feature
Last time I saw Akron/Family multi-instrumentalist Dana Janssen, he was coursing across a homemade Slip 'N Slide made from a large piece of linoleum found by the curb in front of a frat...
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If rock 'n' roll started in America and the British perfected it, then where does that leave the Swedes? If The Soundtrack of Our Lives' new album, Communion, is any indication of the...
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Call it kitsch if you must, but the French ensemble Nouvelle Vague has found an affable niche reimagining rebellious punk, post-punk and New Wave anthems as breezy bossa nova...
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As if being the son of legendary alt-country godfather Steve Earle wasn't pressure enough, young singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle also bears the name of the late, great Townes Van...
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Like a healthy tan or acting natural, Ohio trio Times New Viking is an oxymoron. The group is abrasive yet warm, chaotic but crisp, sweet and sour. It's Modern Lovers consulting Swell Maps...
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Nowhere in music will one find a band as artfully odd as The Residents. Hailing from San Francisco (by way of Louisiana) and cloaked in anonymity, the band has produced a massive number of...
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Music: Columns
Fact: Guitar legend Johnny Marr is not a vampire looking for youthful blood. He is not having a mid-life crisis. He's not even a guitarist-for-hire.
Fact: The brothers Jarman, now...
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Music: Columns
Success has fractured many brotherly relationships. Just ask Oasis, The Kinks or The Black Crowes.
But acoustic rockers The Avett Brothers aren't stressing over their recent, mammoth...
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After playing in every band on every label on every song in the Nashville music scene (a fuzzed-out execution showcased on 2008's Matador Records singles comp), 2009's Watch Me Fall...
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After label troubles nearly derailed the promising careers of Clipse, the Virginia-based hip-hop duo is set to make a bit of a comeback: Til the Casket Drops, the group's first album since...
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Music: Column
Hope springs eternal: Yes, the Gypsy Tea Room is closing. No, things don't look good for Deep Ellum; one problem is most of the poor souls who run clubs—or who have tried to run clubs,...
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