Amy Winehouse

The Grammys are Good for Something, at Least: Dallas Record Stores Get a Sales Bump

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. CD Source owner Lance Price says the Grammys still seem to be effecting who is rising to the t ... More >>

Rufus Wainwright: "If You're Getting Only Good Press, Something's Wrong"

Rufus Wainwright's music is hard to categorize. It's not really pop music because too often it lacks the kind of simple catchy hooks that make for great radio fodder. He composed an opera and has set Shakespearian sonnets to music, but you can't really define him as a classical composer. Across all ... More >>

Whoa, Rufus!

The Best of SXSW Music: Friday 3/16/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music editors have selected t ... More >>

Duran Duran's Roger Taylor Tells Us Why He Wishes He'd Kept His '80s Wardrobe

Let's be real: If you've never heard of Duran Duran you clearly haven't been paying attention for the last three decades. Love 'em or hate 'em, the supergroup wrote some of the most memorable songs of the '80s: "A View To A Kill," "The Reflex" and "Hungry Like The Wolf" are only a few of the many so ... More >>

Last Night at ACL: Coldplay Plays All the Hits and The Others, Too.

Coldplay AMD Stage -- Austin City LimitsSeptember 16, 2011 Better than: waiting for Coldplay to release a Greatest Hits album. Coldplay​It would be a pretty hipster thing to say that the Coldplay show at Austin City Limits Music Festival on Friday was cheesy and overly sincere. But you won't actu ... More >>

Jack Daniel's Whiskey: "It's My Party and I'll Break the Record If I Want To."

JackDaniels.comSeven reasons to break a record.​Today the folks from the Jack Daniels Distillery are celebrating Jack's 161st birthday by attempting to break seven Guinness World Records -- a tribute to Old No. 7. The official birthday bash is in New York City, but the festivities will involv ... More >>

The Problem With... Lady Gaga's "You and I"

You know what sucks about waking up late in the morning? Pretty often, the only thing that's on TV is The View. As a dude, this is a bit shameful to admit, but I actually keep the TV on ABC to watch the show. The View, as you know, supposedly offers insight into what women talk abou ... More >>

Nine Musicians Whose Deleted Tweets We'd Love To Peruse With Undetweetable

​Here's the thing about musicians: Many of them are loud, messy, and opinionated. Social media has given them yet another outlet for their rantings and ravings, and we, as fans, eat it up whenever our favorite musicians go on Twitter and mouth off.  This is, tweets are deletable. Always have ... More >>

Amy Winehouse, RIP

Ten Picks for The #heatlockerroomplaylist

There's no crying in basketball. Unless we're talking about the Miami Heat.​ Those poor, poor Miami Heat players just can't catch a break. First, they lose the NBA Finals. Then they become the laughingstock of Twitter -- for the second time this week, actually. Back on Tuesday, you may recall, the ... More >>

Black Lips, Vivian Girls

Wednesday, April 27, at The Loft

Listomania: What Scents Would Be Most Appropriate For The Future Perfumes and Colognes of Today's Biggest Music Icons?

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

Which Musicians Will Die in 2011?

Staff Trax: Mark Ronson & The Business Intl., Quadron, Balkan Beat Box, Two Cow Garage and Tim Kasher

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Tomorrow Night at the Palladium Showroom

Between Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson and others, it's tough to necessarily simply credit Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings as the sole proponents behind the whole Motown/soul revival thing that remains prevalent even eight years after the band released its debut full-length Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones ... More >>

The Budos Band

Sunday, August 22, at the Granada Theater

Today In Music News: Winehouse In A New Band, Diddy Throws A Rager And George Michael Can't Drive

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 7, 2010...Why would anyone be dumb enough to start a band with Amy Winehouse?That Diddy, he knows how to throw a party, no?Looks like George Michael either needs to quit driving completely or get off the drugs.

Hophead: Samuel Adams Utopias Stretches The Definition of Beer

Jesse Hughey​It's not carbonated. It is aged for years in a variety of barrels, served in 2-ounce pours at room temperature, contains 27 percent alcohol by volume (54 proof, in other words) and carries suggested retail price tag of $150 for a 24-ounce bottle. And it's beer. The 2009 version of Sam ... More >>

Today In Music News: Soulja Boy Gets Cuffed And Stuffed, Amy Winehouse Looks For A Fresh Start and Har Mar Superstar Has An Interesting Side Gig

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 12, 2009...Soulja Boy was arrested for obstruction of justice while filming a music video at an abandoned house.Amy Winehouse figured the best way to get a fresh start on her music career was with breast augmentation. Here's a novel idea: Ho ... More >>

Today In Music News: Kanye and Lady Gaga Tour Gets Canceled, Flava Flav Wants Back On TV And Amy Winehouse Raps

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 1, 2009... How sad: The Kanye West/Lady Gaga tour has been canceled. I hear someone tried to tell 'Ye the tour was canceled, but was interrupted by Taylor Swift. Flava Flav is shopping a series where he goes back to high school to rec ... More >>

Grapevine Uncorked

LehtMoJoe Lets It Ride For His Debut CD Release Show

Boyz Will Be Boyz

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

What It Was Like: Chin Chin, Silversun Pickups, Amanda Blank, Thunderheist, Headlights, Asobi Seksu

Pete Freedman Thunderheist gets things moving at Club De Ville.Act: Chin Chin, a group of would-be yacht rockers from BrooklynWhere: Club De VilleWhat It Was Like: Trying to figure out if the whole thing was a joke or not, really. The band's blue-eyed soul sound was a little hokey, and no do ... More >>

Yesterday at NX35: Lydia and PlayRadioPlay! at Rubber Gloves

BANDS: Lydia and PlayRadioPlay! VENUE: Rubber GlovesTIME: 10:30pm After prying myself away from Billy Roy's One Man Show on the Square, I grabbed a bite to eat. Then off to Rubber Gloves it was. And, actually, the atmosphere inside the venue was stifling. Walking from the bar into the performan ... More >>

After Four Grammy Nominations—and Two Wins—Adele is Just Figuring Herself Out

Today In Music News: Duffy Goes Diet, Discs Get Leaked, Chris Brown Could Get In More Trouble

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 23, 2009... Duffy has been named the new face of Diet Coke. If only Amy Winehouse could've kept her shit together... It must suck to have an eagerly awaited album coming out: Both U2's new album, No Line On The Horiz ... More >>

Today In Music News: Hear New Eminem, Save Amy Winehouse, See Jane's Addiction And Smile At Kanye's Karma.

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 8, 2009... The alleged final version of Eminem's Dr. Dre-produced, "Crack a Bottle" has hit the world wide interweb. It features Fitty and Dre, each contributing a verse. The reclusive rapper even takes a jab at himself in reference ... More >>

Our annual Death Pool: Which artists will croak in '09?

Who should fear the reaper this year?

Nikka Costa

Saturday, October 11, at The Loft

The Summer After

The Summer of Love got all sorts of coverage on its 40th Anniversary. So where’s the love for 1968?

The Halftime Report

With six months X'd off of the calendar year, we look back at the best music of the year—and wonder which albums we'll remember come December

Weekend Roundup: Summer Meltdown, True Colors Tour

Duffy

Rockferry (Mercury)

Minnelli Vanilli

Liza sings for Bass

Black Joe Lewis Bringing His Blues and Soul Sound to Dallas

Last Night: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at Granada Theater

Good Friday: The Lash Outs, Record Hop, Tree Wave, Bluesfest

Soul Chanteuse Sharon Jones' Time Has Arrived

She is the songstress Amy Winehouse wishes to be

Handicapping the Grammys with a Foo Fighter

Rock Star Resolutions

It's time for some dastardly rockers to change their ways

Everybody Back in the Pool

Who in music will join the Choir Invisible this year? Let's bet.

Diagramming Modern English

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

Siouxsie

Mantaray (Decca Records)

Bettye LaVette|Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

The Scene of the Crime (Anti- Records)|100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)

Suck Suck Suck

Our guide to naming your band

Ne-Yo

Friday, July 6, at House of Blues

Amy Winehouse

Back to Black (Island)