Kelly Clarkson

This Week's Top Show Announcements: Depeche Mode, Crystal Castles, Cyndi Lauper, The Jonas Brothers and More

Hell. Yes. I've always heard that Depeche Mode is a thrilling live band, and since they're touring with lo-fi electro duo Crystal Castles, that gives you one more reason to pee-pee in your electro-loving pants. I figured DM was sure to spring a tour announcement on us at some point, but I didn't thi ... More >>

The Granada's Julie Garcia: "It's About the Camaraderie Music Creates"

See also: Damon K. Clark knows Dallas jazz See also: The Kessler's Melissa Hennings shoots your favorite bands Julie Garcia, publicist for Granada Theater and Sundown, got her start in morning radio. From '99 to '07, her job was largely to manage Kidd's Kidds, the charity helmed by the Kraddick ... More >>

The Best and Worst Performances of Last Night's Grammys

Five Best Performances 1. Jennifer Hudson Grammy host L.L. Cool J had a hard enough job presiding over a celebration undercut by tragic circumstances, and he achieved a perfect, almost pastor-like tone from the get-go. But Miss Hudson's musical tribute to Whitney Houston - a subtly searing but stil ... More >>

News and Notes: [Daryl] Reunites, ZZ Top Gets Covered, Badu Gives Birth (Kinda) and More!

That two-year-old listening to KKDA-104.5 FM K104 in Dallas (local tie!) in the clip above is cooler than all of us. But we've got some cool news to share about some artists with local ties -- among them Erykah Badu, ZZ Top, Kelly Clarkson, [Daryl], Teenage Cool Kids and Big hud -- so that's a start ... More >>

The Conversation: Is Playing Other People's Songs Respectable?

Dallas disco cover band Le Freak​A well-timed cover can be just the thing to take a band's live performance from good to great. But if the execution of the song is off, it could blow the whole set. On the flip side, although playing a cover is a risky move, sometimes the rewards can make an artist ... More >>

53 Years Into The Billboard Hot 100's History, A Look At Every Dallas Song To Make The Chart

Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Launched in 1958, the chart combined statistics gleaned from both radio airplay and sales of individual singles to determine a single's popularity. Today, the Hot 100 chart is topped by LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" -- proo ... More >>

Music Video Monday: Demi Lovato, Fungi Girls and Gaston Light Each Release New Clips...

It's been about a month since we wrote off Colleyville's Own Demi Lovato, saying that she'd been officially overtaken as Disney's top starlet by her BFF, Grand Prairie's Own Selena Gomez. Last week, though, Lovato struck back. Well, not really. But she did release the music video for her new single ... More >>

2011 NBA FINALS GAME 4 -- Mavericks 86, Heat 83: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Could tell something wasn't right with Dirk Nowitzki early in the second quarter. He didn't look good on the bench. Peaked even. Towel over head. Two warm-up jackets draped over him. Gulping liquid out of two water bottles. Not involved in coach Rick Carlisle's huddle. Then at half ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Erv Karwelis Has Kept Idol Records Going For 18 Years At This Point

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 scene move.Erv Karwelis​You know who needs a serious set of stones? The person who chooses to run an independ ... More >>

Dallas Native Ryan Cabrera Is Back, Promises Press Release Promoting Ryan Cabrera

Ry-guy​ Ryan Cabrera is a dude who was born in the Dallas area who used to date Ashlee Simpson and got signed to her father Joe Simpson's management company and made something of a blip on the national pop culture radar in 2004, when his song "On The Way Down" started blowing up Total Request Live ... More >>

Q&A: Mike Watt Talks The Minutemen, The Stooges and How The Hell He Ended Up On A Kelly Clarkson Album.

If known only for his work with the legendary trio known as The Minutemen, bassist Mike Watt would still have his place in rock 'n' roll lore. But even after that band disintegrated following the death of singer/guitarist D. Boon, Watt pressed on and formed another acclaimed trio: Firehose. And, whe ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Stryper at Trees, Eli "Paperboy" Reed at The Loft, 500 Miles to Memphis at La Grange and Eddie Spaghetti at the Aardvark

Things slow down just a bit tonight as SXSW gets fully underway tonight down in our state capital. Still, there are certainly some viable musical options available this evening for the discerning listener.

Let's Not Complain About Super Bowl Weekend.

Mixin' It Up at The Mix? Station's New Morning Man Will Broadcast From Los Angeles.

​KDMX-FM (102.9, The Mix) hasn't been on my radar since ... well ... um, ever? Till about 24 minutes ago I didn't even know its format. Oh, I see: "Variety From The 90's 'Til Now," meaning Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Snow Patrol, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Colbie Caillat ... and The Verve and Shawn Co ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson? Check. Lyle Lovett? Check. Martha Plimpton? Che ... Wait, What?

Courtesy FOX BroadcastingMartha Plimpton on Raising Hope​So, we know who's throwing out the ceremonial first pitches tomorrow and Saturday. Well, John Blake, Texas Rangers spokesman, just sent over the final list of scheduled performers for World Series Games Three and Four. No surprises on the li ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson? Check. Lyle Lovett? Check. Martha Plimpton? Che ... Wait, What?

Courtesy FOX BroadcastingMartha Plimpton on Raising Hope​So, we know who's throwing out the ceremonial first pitches tomorrow and Sunday. Well, John Blake, Texas Rangers spokesman, just sent over the final list of scheduled performers for World Series Games Three and Four. No surprises on the list ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson Isn't The Only Area Singer Scheduled To Perform The National Anthem For A Playoff Game Tomorrow Night...

Doug Burr​It's been widely reported already that Burleson's Own Kelly Clarkson, who is currently toiling away on her fifth studio effort, will be singing the national anthem tomorrow night in Arlington as the Texas Rangers host the San Francisco Giants for Game Three in the World Series. And, hey, ... More >>

Houston Press Writes Blog Post Saying Dallas Music Sucks, Presumably Because There Was No Interesting Houston Music News To Report.

​Listen: I'm not one to get into too many Internet flame wars. Especially not inter-city ones. (We've got plenty of petty bullshit to put up with here, thanks.) But, OK, since these dudes think I should say something about the post written yesterday by our pals at the Houston Press music blog call ... More >>

Staff Trax: Crystal Castles, Galaxie 500, BrakesBrakesBrakes, Christina Aguilera Covering John Lennon and The Bouncing Souls.

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 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Friday, April 2010

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Kris Allen (Conway, Arkansas)Kris AllenThe 2009 American Idol "winner" s ... More >>

Selena Gomez Becomes The Latest North Texan on The Kinda Impressive Lilith Fair Tour Lineup.

Past her prime already?​Another month, another North Texan gets added to the kinda impressive Lilith Fair tour lineup...Yep: Today comes the news that Grand Prairie's own Dis-kid, Selena Gomez (who our sister paper down in Houston is already pegging as past her prime at just 17 years old), has bee ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To Rooney At The Granada Theater Sunday

​Rooney is more than just an O.C.-guest-appearance-making, perfume-commercial-scoring powerpop group from L.A.--the band also has a local connection.And no, I'm not referring to the band's opening slots on Jonas Brothers and Kelly Clarkson tours. Rather, as Darryl Smyers writes in this week's prin ... More >>

A Shriek and a Shuffle For the Good Times, As Twicon Comes to a Close

Patrick MichelsThe Volturi Masque Ball capped off Twicon Saturday night.​To see more of the ball, the cast panel, and the rest of the con from a safe distance, check out our Twicon slide show.Thousands of Twilight fans formed a sea of flashing cameras and upraised cell phones at the Twicon cast Q& ... More >>

Whattup, Colleyville: Demi Lovato's Here We Go Again Tops The Billboard 200

​As expected, Colleyville's own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato's debut disc, Don't Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs sold in its first wee ... More >>

A Salute to Those About to Hard Rock, At the Far End of Victory Park

Patrick MichelsThe decor recalls great moments in Texas music history. Also, that time Kelly Clarkson sang at a Cowboys game. The Hard Rock Cafe is finishing up its preparations for a soft opening next week, but invited press to take a look around their new digs today, at the south end of Victory Pa ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: You Shoot, We Score

Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we've been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It's what we do; we're obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thin ... More >>

Let's Talk

After a Year on the Job, Our Music Editor Looks Back

10 Questions: Arnold Wayne Jones

We always thought Jones, food critic for the Dallas Voice, was a little on the strange side. After all, he selected a college not on the strength of their football program, but of their law school. After graduation from the University of Virginia (and all the exams one must endure to enter the legal ... More >>

DOMA XX: Best Country/Roots Act Nominees

Romo to Owens to Witten

Patriot Acts

Proof that George Bush doesn't have a monopoly on luvin' the U.S. of A.

Pre-bridal Blowout

Ginuwine takes care of this Bachelorette Party

Tony Romo Rocks. So We Hear.

Romo's Got Underwood(?)

America's Extreme

Cowboys tiptoeing line between super and stupor

Dejá Dance

Newest DDR: Same game, fresh set list

Game Won

Fore Play

Lord Byron hosts Dallas' biggest swingers party

Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Aloha

Tuesday, March 14, at the Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Our critics' top 10 albums

Navel-Gazing

Your Government at Work

Odds & Ends

Fry Street Fair returns to Denton; Braidy Bingham is a teen titan; and Lizard Lounge offers reward for burglary information

Long-View

Mercury (Columbia)

Fresh Meat

Local music police welcome a new chief

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative

EdgeFest/KISS-FM´s Party on Sunday

May 17 and 18

2002 Revealed

An aging Buzz finds little to celebrate in the year gone by. What did you expect?

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott