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Five Rap Albums That Changed the Game in 2012

Five Rap Albums That Changed the Game in 2012

Before the storm of best of lists start hitting the blogs, I wanted to take a second to put aside the artistic merit aspect of the year in review, and take a look at what happened in the cultural landscape of rap music. Some of these albums were really good, some of them were really not, but all of ... More >>

How to Petty-Theft Your Way to Riches Under the Dallas PD's New "Crackdown"

As Eric noted earlier, there's a hilarious kind of stand-off going on these days between Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who says petty theft rates in the city have fallen because of his own tough police work, and Dallas Morning News reporters Steve Thompson and Tanya Eiserer, who proved in a story ... More >>

The Most Exciting (Non-Football) Super Bowl Moments!

TEXANS CELEBRATE AMERICA - Neither of the pre-game patriotic performances achieved Whitney Houston-level kudos, but both were delivered tastefully and capably. Lindale's Miranda Lambert did some nice harmonizin' with her hubby on "America the Beautiful," and Burleson's Kelly Clarkson shared her Nati ... More >>

Coldplay Announces Dallas Tour Date Next Summer

Coldplay, spray painting their way to an arena near you.​Fresh off the release of their fifth studio album, Coldplay have announced a massive world tour  that will make a stop at American Airlines Center on  Friday, June 22. The album in question, Mylo Xyloto -- the band's most unabashed ... More >>

How Many Record Stores Do You Think Exist in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region? Really. Guess.

​Tomorrow, as you now doubt are well aware by now, is the fourth annual official Record Store Day, in which we all get together and celebrate the brick-and-mortar shops that have managed to survive through the economy and the Internet stealing all of the action.But, really, just how bad are things ... More >>

On-the-Auction-Block Blockbuster Thinks Amazon, Best Buy, CVS Are Interested

​Home Media Magazine directs our attention to this Friday filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, where Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 back in September. As we noted last week, Blockbuster's up for sale now, with Monarch Alternative Capital among the interested parti ... More >>

Happy Days Are Near Again For DFW Market? So Insists National Retail Real-Estate Report.

Marcus & Millichap​An old friend of mine was kind enough to forward along the hot-off-the-presses Marcus & Millichap National Retail Report, the must-read amongst real-estaters; insists my pal of the mixed-to-optimistic forecast, it's "a pretty thorough insight into the retail world." In w ... More >>

DPD's New Year By the Numbers

​We close out the holiday with a look at the Dallas Police Department's look at how Dallas spent the New Year's weekend, per a series of stats-filled missives sent out by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse. First, for those wondering whether the threat of a mandatory blood draw works, there were 27 DWI a ... More >>

Ron Natinsky Wonders: If We're Gonna Save Southwest Center, Why Not Valley View, Then?

Sam MertenRon Natinsky​If nothing else, this'll be the last Southwest Center Mall item of the day -- only because there'll be nothing left to talk about till after the council returns from its summer recess. But Ron Natinksky, head of the city council's Economic Development Committee, called Unfai ... More >>

Staff Trax: Kris Kristofferson, The National, David Garza, Fear and Phil Collins

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 >>

The Future Of MP3 Players? Hope Not.

At Tollway and Arapaho, Owner Says Anything's "Better Than What's There Now"

View Larger MapThe northeast corner of the North Dallas Tollway and Arapaho Road is a parking-lot wasteland, thanks, in large part, to that abandoned OfficeMax. For going on two years, Rosebud Properties has been trying to redevelop the land; there was a proposal before the City Plan Commission in A ... More >>

Gig Alert: Wolfmother to Perform Free Acoustic In-Store At Best Buy Within The Hour

​Recently reunited Australian powerhouse hard rock act Wolfmother is in town tonight, performing a show with Heartless Bastards and the thenewno2 at the House of Blues.But, before that, something out of the ordinary: To further promote the release of the band's new album, Cosmic Egg, the Aussies w ... More >>

"What is 'Shack'?" Or: To Whom, Exactly, is RadioShack Marketing Their Bright Idea?

​As we told you Monday, today's the big day that RadioShack rebrands itself as "The Shack." And the Fort Worth-based electronics company opted to launch the re-launch with a Web site featuring some dude in San Francisco yukking it via a video feed with some other dude in New York. And they're both ... More >>

The Other North Pole: A Washington Post Writer's Book About Christmas in Frisco

 This is probably a way-too-early heads-up, but I just opened the afternoon mail to find a copy of Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, due on bookshelves 'round November 12 -- just in time for all your gift-giving needs. And, trust me, those living up in Collin and Denton counties ... More >>

In Dallas, Best Buy Gets in Used-Game Game

So says this morning's blog entry from Best Buy's chief marketing officer, Barry Judge, who notes we're one of two markets in which the big box will dip its toe in the video-game trade-in business, a la Grapevine-HQ'd Gamestop. KioskMarketplace tips us to the entry, which reads, in full:As we contin ... More >>

What Happens When You Kill Your TV

Kimberly ThorpeThere are about 219 Victory Park jokes to be had here. So, have at it.At noon today in Victory Park, a group of enviro-activists dressed for Halloween dropped to the concrete to rather dramatically mark the end of analog television. The switch from analog to digital television was sup ... More >>

Dallas Cowboys Show Off Their Big New TV

Jerry Jones invited his friends in the media out to the Cowboys' new digs in Arlington yesterday, to show off the enormous new video board that'll hang 90 feet over the field (just 90 feet!).On the way out to check out the screen, we got to snap some photos inside the new stadium, and you they're a ... More >>

Cowboys' New Video Board is Big. But Is It High Enough?

While the Dallas Cowboys held this week's minicamp at their temporary home (Carrollton's Standridge Stadium), their new home is about to become a really cool home. Cowboys Stadium will today officially debut as the world's biggest media room. This afternoon owner Jerry Jones wi ... More >>

Vinnie Paul Abbott Came to Rock Best Buy, and Totally Succeeded

Most nights, try shouting, "Can I get a hell yeah?!" in a Best Buy and all anyone will give you is a mean staredown from the washing machine aisle.When it happened Thursday night at the store along LBJ Freeway, though, with a whole line of Dimebag Darrell fans waiting to meet the late Pantera founde ... More >>

Vinnie Paul To Sign Copies Of The New Dimebag Darrell Book At The LBJ Freeway Best Buy On Thursday

The new Dimebag Darrell Abbott book/DVD He Came To Rock earns its release today with the claim that it's the first book about the legendary Pantera guitarist's life (a fact that certainly can't sit too well with a certain other Dimebag biographer...), and, unlike the other upcoming book about the ... More >>

The Latest Chinese Democracy Release Rumor Launched In Dallas, Apparently

Wrestlemania Infects Local Best Buy

Jammin'

The HOB hosts a faux Marley

Will Rock Band and Guitar Hero Save Us?

Are rocker videogames the new MTV—and will they help us save the music universe?

Bad Santa!

Claus gets down with your pets

Halo 3: Dallas Finishes the Fight

How Would Jesus Invest?

Super Size Your Super Bowl

Bad Day on Black Friday

Radio Uh-Oh

Tower Toppling? They Say No.

Is Radio Shack a Best Buy?

Getting Retarded

Why two of the catchiest acts in America should die slow, painful deaths

Foo Fighters

In Your Honor (Epic)

Best Radio Show With the Worst Reception

The Good Show, KTCU-FM (88.7)

Suburban Slickers

In the big sky of Southlake, there's a couple of good restaurants

Advance Screening

Pssst, wanna see a movie that isn't out yet...legally?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Allison Moorer

Miss Fortune (Universal South)

Sick, Not Twisted

Moments of brilliance are few and far between in this year's Spike and Mike

Best computer store

Best Buy

Slipped discs

Are Virgin and Tower really the enemy, or can the indie stores fight back?

Let's play four

The Flaming Lips release four new CDs--and one new album

Romance novel

The Green Romance Orchestra's fans drag them into the limelight

Letters

Letters

Accidental Deaths

Wars between the electronics giants are killing Dallas' independent music stores

Out with the new wave

VVV Records closes its doors after 17 years