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I'm a Feminist who Loves Hip-Hop. Rick Ross and Other Misogynists Can't Change That.

Rick Ross is having a rough week. The Maybach Music Group kingpin is currently being crucified by the media & women's interest groups all over the country, for a guest verse he gave on Atlanta rapper Rocko's new single, U.O.E.N.O. Featuring a hook from autotune boy wonder, Future, the song is perfec ... More >>

An Englishman Says Dat Really is Some Good BBQ Up in Lewisville, By Jove.

This week, recently re-documented alien Gavin rolls with the chaps in Lewisville, where he recovers from his Dickey's experience with some deliciousness at Dat's Good BBQ. For those of you who haven't ventured up into the frozen northern reaches of the metro area (it's like how I imagine life is no ... More >>

Where Are The Women in EDM?

By Katie Bain In the past three years, one woman has ranked in DJ Magazine's yearly Top 100 DJs poll. (Lisa Lashes, #75, 2009). The international EDM circuit is dominated by men like Justice, Diplo, Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia, Tiësto, David Guetta and Avicii, and the underground scene is as mu ... More >>

Winston's Supper Club Extends The Weekend For Hip-Hop Fans

See also: 12 of this weekend's best concerts Is your weekly schedule missing another dedicated night to get dressed up for? Cue Winston's Supper Club. Last week, the luxurious London-inspired club snuck in its inaugural SupperClub Sundays with an intimate set from Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, fe ... More >>

Santigold Finds a Balance With Her New Album

Our Anaconda Don't Want None Unless It's Plush Art, Hun

Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this art. It's just so big and so small. It's just, like, opposites, like, a study in "differences in scale and color." < /valleygirl > A vocab word you may have missed on the GRE, "Dimorphism" is a biology term referring to dual variations within a species. There are ... More >>

Beats by Dallas' Own Hip-Hop Doctors

In Defense of... Eminem, Royce Da 5'9" and Bruno Mars' "Ligthers"

Two project albums from prestigious hip-hop duos have been released this summer. Jay-Z and Kanye West, of course, released Watch The Throne last week. But, back in June, there was another: Eminem and collaborator-turned-enemy-turned-friend-once-more Royce Da 5'9" released Hell: The Sequel under th ... More >>

The Top 10 Music Video Vixens of All Time

Jani Lane was 47.​Last night, Warrant singer Jani Lane died alone in a motel room in Los Angeles. He was 47 years old. The news was somewhat puzzling for those who didn't know him. At one time, Lane was on top of the world, with several hits that topped the charts. But Lane also battled an addi ... More >>

Rihanna, J. Cole

Friday, July 8, at the American Airlines Center

Songs For Your Casey Anthony Trial Hangover

​OK, so it wasn't the trial of the century or anything. But with planking beginning to become passe, all the good sports either in their off-season or lockout, and no high-profile Robert Blake/Phil Spector/OJ Simpson murder cases going on, the Casey Anthony murder trial thing provided plenty to c ... More >>

Ten Songs To Get You Through Finals Week

​It's finals week. We know you're burnt out. You're most likely to respond to anything anyone says to you with unintelligible grunts. Your brain is full. So: How to keep motivated while cramming for that communications exam that you had the whole semester to study for, but didn't started getting c ... More >>

The Best Performer of All at This Year's SXSW? Seryn, If You Ask Paste.

Seryn​ Regrettably, we didn't make it out to Paste's Thursday day party featuring North Texas' own Sarah Jaffe and Seryn (fellow North Texans Eisley played the magazine's Wednesday party), and, to hear Paste tell it, boy, did we miss out: The venerable and regrettably now online-only music rag cla ... More >>

Our Final SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: So, Who Do You Think Came Out on Top?

To infinity... and beyond!​Gossip, gossip -- if you've been following our daily power rankings of buzz at SXSW 2011 over the past few days, then you know that, yes, indeed, Kanye West has had it all week long at this year's annual festival in Austin.And, after briefly losing the top slot in our ra ... More >>

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 >>

Listomania: The 15 Best Concerts of 2010

​With apologies to Robert Earl Keen, Devin the Dude, Cake, Hayes Carll and the multitude of also-rans filling up the regional concert calendar in these final weeks of 2010, it's safe to say, I think, that, with Friday night's Wu-Tang show at the Granada Theater, the year in live music effectively ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: A.Dd Explains Its Love For Cee-Lo, Gorillaz and Maroon 5

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.A.Dd ​Local hip-hop duo A.Dd , rappers Paris P and Slim Gravy, has been on our radar ever si ... More >>

Q&A: N*E*R*D's Pharrell Williams Talks Social Commentary, T.I.'s Recent Arrest and Producing The Game's New Disc.

It may not seem like it, but N*E*R*D has been around for almost 10 years now, playing their genre-defying style of urban crossover rock. Featuring Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley, the band brings its experiences from the mega-successful Neptunes and puts it into a unique rock experience ... More >>

Today In Music News: Ben Harper And Dhani Harrison Join Forces, Lennon Fans Go Too Far And Kanye And Jay-Z Join Forces

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 31, 2010...Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison turn their mutual love of skate boarding into a new band.People are either idiots or they just really love to buy John Lennon memorabilia. Either way, a toilet isn't worth $15,000.Kanye says he and ... More >>

Watch: Dorrough feat. Yo Gotti -- "Hood Chick Fetish"

Speaking of new music videos and, uh, fetishes, the biggest rapper going in Dallas released a new music video this weekend for the song "Hood Chick Fetish," from his Gangsta Grillz mixtape and, one assumes, from his upcoming sophomore release, Get Big, from which we've already seen the title track i ... More >>

Today In Music News: Dre/Hova Collab Hits The Web, People Love Them Some Drake And Thurston Moore Decides To Be Cool

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 17, 2010...The Dr. Dre/Jay-Z "collabo" has leaked to the interwebs.  From the sounds of it Dre has been listening to a lot of Paul van Dyk lately.Is Drake really "riot worthy?" Apparently some people think so...Thurston Moore is workin ... More >>

P.O.S., Astronautalis, Dessa

Saturday, February 27, at Hailey's Club, Denton

The D-Town Boogie Positions Itself For A Big Score This All-Star Weekend

Norah Jones, Other North Texans (Including Neon Indian, Who'll Also Play Fallon Thursday Night) Named to 2010 Bonnaroo Lineup

​ All day yesterday, (via Twitter) Bonnaroo went ahead and announced its lineup for this year ordeal, which will take place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee, and it's a pretty impressive lineup featuring the likes of Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Dave Matthew Band, Kings of Leon and the Flaming Lips, w ... More >>

Which Musicians Will Kick the Bucket in '10?

Tracklist: The Local Hang With Playlister P, Vol. 4

This comes up when you google "local hang." Go figure.​Kind of a crazy night last night at The Libertine for the fourth go 'round of the once-a-month local music love-fest we're still calling The Local Hang with Playlister P. It featured the biggest crowd we've seen to date, for one. And it was a ... More >>

Today In Music News: Jay-Z Digs The Ting Tings, There Are Only Two Good Bands Left in The UK And Ladytron Readies a "Best Of"

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 11, 2009...At least Jay-Z has good, cross-genre taste when it comes to picking music for his new label: He's signed the Ting Tings to Roc Nation.Looks like there are only two great bands left in the UK: Kasabian and The Arctic Monkeys.&n ... More >>

Top 10 Uses Of Food On Album Covers

As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

Today In Music News: Whitney Due In September, The Grammy's Lose Polka, and Jay-Z Schedules A Release

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 5, 2009... Middle-age moms everywhere have reason to say "hell to the yes" today: Whitney Houston will release her long-awaited comeback album in September. Time to put down your squeeze box: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ... More >>

Today In Music News: The Zune Lives, Jay-Z Gets Closer To Sony, and Chris Brown Wants Us To Know...

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... What do you do when your competition has about 90 percent of the market? You make your product link to the Xbox. Yep, Microsoft isn't ready to give up on the ol' Zune yet; it will launch the Zune HD in the fall. Looks like ... More >>

Today in Music News: Jeff Ament Is Still Alive, Kanye Blogs Against Twimposters, Stringer Bell Gets Musical

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 14, 2009... Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and another employee of the band were attacked outside of a recording studio in Atlanta. I guess this ruins their chances of ever recording in Detroit. When Kanye blogs, people listen. After railing ag ... More >>

Today In Music News: Mandy Moore Getting Fleet? Jay-Z Walking On A Bar Tab? Downloading Getting Serious?

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 20, 2009...Already the world's oddest pairing of famous people, it now seems Ryan Adams' indieness is rubbing off on new wife Mandy Moore, who says she wants to work with Fleet Foxes on a new record.What's better than going bar-hopping with Ja ... More >>

Today In Music News: Beyonce v. The Secret Service, A J.J. Fad Reunion?

Your daily dose of music news for Thursday, January 22, 2009... Even the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday couldn't keep Beyonce from goin' all diva on the Secret Service's ass. It seems the building her hubby Jay-Z was rehearsing in for his inauguration concert was part of a five block, no ... More >>

The Rap Up: Rage Almighty's Force For Change

Music for the Eyes

A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

The Roots, Lupe Fiasco

Monday, February 19, at Gypsy Tea Room

T.I.

Saturday, January 13, at the Majestic Theater

Jay-Z

Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella)

Cred Sheet

Stuff you need to know to avoid musical ostracism

Beyoncé

B-Day (Sony)

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Worlds Apart (Interscope)

Kanye West

The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)

Wake Up!

A year-end rant or rave for the rap music industry

Panjabi MC

Beware (Sequence)

N.E.R.D. Alert

Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams plan for the revenge of the N.E.R.D.

Miracle Grow

Plus: Shout Out of the Week...; Needless Things

Nas

God's Son (Columbia)

N.E.R.D.

In Search of N.E.R.D. (Virgin)

Summer suns and some aren't

Going steady with the singles of the summer